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Takemitsu, Larcher

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Kazuki Yamada leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Takemitsu and Thomas Larcher.

From the Barbican in London, Kazuki Yamada conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Takemitsu: Requiem for string orchestra. Thomas Larcher: Concerto for violin and orchestra.

Live from London's Barbican Centre
Presented by Martin Handley
Kazuki Yamada, winner of the 2009 Besançon Conducting Competition, makes his much anticipated BBC Symphony Orchestra Barbican debut with a strikingly imaginative combination of works spanning just over a century of music. The 30-year-old's programme opens with Takemitsu's Requiem for string orchestra (1957) and includes the UK premiere of Thomas Larcher's beautiful Violin Concerto, written for Isabelle Faust and first performed by her in 2009. 

Takemitsu Requiem for String Orchestra 
Thomas Larcher Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (UK premiere)

Isabelle Faust (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada (conductor).

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Kazuki Yamada conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Takemitsu, Larcher and Rachmaninov

Kazuki Yamada, winner of the 2009 Besancon Conducting Competition, makes his much anticipated BBC Symphony Orchestra Barbican debut, leading works by Takemitsu, Thomas Larcher and Rachmaninov

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