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Composer of the Week: Percy Grainger

BBC Radio 3
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5: The Lonely Desert Man - an Australian Visionary
In the final programme of the week, Penelope Thwaites explores Percy Grainger 's involvement with early music in conversation with Andrew
Lyle, including his arrangement of La Belle Aronde; and with world music, including his orchestration of Debussy's Pagodes and his own Eastern Intermezzo for tuneful percussion. Finally, a performance of his spectacular ballet The Warriors, in a recording by the Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.
Repeated next Friday at 12 midnight

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Penelope Thwaites
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Percy Grainger
Conducted By:
John Eliot
Source: Radio Times

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