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Composer of the Week John Adams

BBC Radio 3
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The main work in today's programme, Harmonielehre (1985), was composed after a creative crisis in the composer's life, and its three movements were inspired respectively by a dream about a flying ocean tanker, by the Arthurian legend of King Anfortas, and by the medieval theologian Meister Eckhardt. Alwynne Pritchard introduces the music in conversation with the composer.
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conductor Edo de Waart
China Gates
Alan Feinberg (piano) Harmonielehre San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conductor Edo de Waart

Contributors

Unknown:
Meister Eckhardt.
Introduces:
Alwynne Pritchard
Conductor:
Edo de Waart
Source: Radio Times

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