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Aldeburgh Festival 1991

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

London Sinfonietta;
London Sinfonietta Voices conductors Oliver Knussen and Harrison Birtwistle
Sarah Leonard (soprano) Mary King (mezzo), live from the Snape Maltings. Birtwistle Ritual
Fragment (1990) Stravinsky Three
Japanese Lyrics; Three Songs from William Shakespeare (1953)
Birtwistle Four Songs of Autumn; Four Poems byjaan Kaplinski
(Aldeburgh Festival commission: world premiere)
8.40
Sir Harrison Birtwistle talks to
Anthony Burton.
9.00 Birtwistle
Meridian (1971)

Contributors

Conductors:
Oliver Knussen
Conductors:
Harrison Birtwistle
Soprano:
Sarah Leonard
Soprano:
Mary King
Unknown:
William Shakespeare
Talks:
Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Unknown:
Anthony Burton.
Source: Radio Times

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