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Composer of the Week: Robert Simpson

BBC Radio 3
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4/5. Musicologist Hans Keller once remarked of Robert Simpson that "the fearless, artless integrity of the man becomes a matter of course, hardly worth mentioning: there is no more substantial compliment in art of life."
Today Donald Macleod and Stephen Johnson discuss Simpson's epic Ninth Symphony, one of the truly great works of recent years. Symphony No 9
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley
Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Musicologist:
Hans Keller
Unknown:
Robert Simpson
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Stephen Johnson
Conductor:
Vernon Handley
Source: Radio Times

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