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A concert live from Studio 1, Maida Vale , featuring three 20th-century works for piano and orchestra. Robert Simpson 's piano concerto, written in 1967, is performed tonight in the year of the 80th anniversary of the composer's birth. From a younger generation, Robert Keeley studied with Oliver Knussen and with Robert Saxton. His Entourages for piano and orchestra, commissioned by the BBC, here receives its first broadcast performance. The concert opens with two versions of Debussy's waltz, and American-born composer George Antheil 's concerto from 1926 completes the programme. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Grant Llewellyn
Debussy La Plus Que Lente (piano version; orchestral version)
Simpson Piano Concerto Raymond Clarke (piano)
Keeley Entourages (BBC commission, first broadcast performance) Colin Stone (piano)
Antheil Piano Concerto (first UK performance)
Michael Rische (piano)

Contributors

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Maida Vale
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Robert Simpson
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Robert Keeley
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Oliver Knussen
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Robert Saxton.
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George Antheil
Piano:
Raymond Clarke
Piano:
Keeley Entourages
Piano:
Colin Stone
Piano:
Michael Rische
Source: Radio Times

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