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Afternoon on 3: Arvo Part Total Immersion

Afternoon Concert: Arvo Part Total Immersion: Episode 1

Arvo Part Total Immersion

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Arvo Part Total Immersion, Episode 1

Music by Arvo Part played at the Barbican, London. Including Magnificat; The Deer's Cry.

Music by Arvo Part played at the Barbican, London: Magnificat; The Deer's Cry; Fur Alina; Spiegel im Spiegel; Stabat mater. Plus works by Delius, Rautavaara, Bridge and Sibelius.

The first of 3 concerts from last Saturday's Arvo Part Total Immersion festival held at the Barbican in London. In today's programme a mixed choral and instrumental concert by musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, conducted by Eamonn Dougan.

To follow, a recent concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Storgards featuring the UK premiere of a work for cello (Truls Mork) and orchestra by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara - "Towards the Horizon". - a concert that concludes with Sibelius' 5th Symphony

Arvo Part: Magnificat 
Guildhall New Music Ensemble
Eamonn Dougan (conductor)

Arvo Part: The Deer's Cry 
Guildhall New Music Ensemble
Eamonn Dougan (conductor)

Arvo Part: Fur Alina 
Erdem Mısırlıoǧlu (piano)

Arvo Part: Spiegel im Spiegel 
Pablo Hernan (violin)
Erdem Mısırlıoǧlu (piano)

Arvo Part: Stabat mater 
Jenavieve Moore (soprano)
Elisabeth Desbrulais (mezzo-soprano)
Gethin Lewis (tenor)
Alexandra Lomeiko (violin)
Luba Tunnicliffe (viola)
Leo Melvin (cello)
Guildhall New Music Ensemble
Eamonn Dougan (conductor)

Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden from 'A village Romeo and Juliet'
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Storgards (conductor)

Einojuhani Rautavaara: Towards the horizon 
Truls Mork (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Storgards (conductor)

Bridge: The Sea 
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Storgards (conductor)

Sibelius: Symphony no. 5 in E flat major Op.82 
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Storgards (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Arvo Part Total Immersion

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Concerts given at the Barbican in London for the Arvo Part Total Immersion festival

Series of concerts given at the Barbican in London as part of the Arvo Part Total Immersion festival

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