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Performance on 3: Stravinsky, Britten, Sibelius, Debussy

Performance on 3: Stravinsky, Britten, Sibelius, Debussy: Episode 1: Part 1

Stravinsky, Britten, Sibelius, Debussy

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Episode 1: Part 1

Part 1 BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, Stravinsky, Britten, Sibelius, Debussy, Part 1

The BBC Philharmonic conducted by Ludovic Morlot perform music by Stravinsky and Britten.

From Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Steven Osborne (piano) and BBC Philharmonic under Ludovic Morlot. Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat (Dumbarton Oaks). Britten: Piano Concerto.

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The BBC Philharmonic performs 20th century classics in a live concert from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester with the young French conductor Ludovic Morlot, who made an exciting debut with the orchestra last year.

While Stravinsky was still living in Europe, he received a commission from America for a chamber work, which became his Bach-inspired concerto, Dumbarton Oaks. Another composer looking to the USA was the young Benjamin Britten, who wrote his piano concerto the year before his American sojourn, and it is a work full of directness, agitation and intensity of expression. Britten was the soloist at the premiere, and tonight Steven Osborne takes the solo role in a work for which he has already received critical acclaim.

Two nautical works follow. The fluidity of Debussy's score is a tribute to the infinite variation of the waves, while Sibelius, writing to an American commission like Stravinsky, conjurs up a mysterious mythological underwater world.

Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat 'Dumbarton Oaks'
Britten: Piano concerto

19.55 - Interval

Sibelius: Oceanides, Op.73
Debussy: La mer

Steven Osborne (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
conductor Ludovic Morlot.

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Ludovic Morlot conducts the he BBC Philharmonic in a concert of 20th-century classics

The BBC Philharmonic performs 20th-century classics in a concert from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester with young French conductor Ludovic Morlot. He made his debut with the orchestra in 2009

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