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Composer of the Week: Robert Simpson

BBC Radio 3
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For Robert Simpson , symphonic music is "the supreme challenge". To celebrate the composer's 75th birthday, Stephen Johnson explores the many facets of what symphonic music means to Simpson, and arrives at a portrait of one of the great individuals in the music of the late 20th century.
1: Beginnings and Reversals String Quartet No 1 Delme Quartet Symphony No 2
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley Repeated from last Monday

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Robert Simpson
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Stephen Johnson
Conductor:
Vernon Handley
Source: Radio Times

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