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Sunday Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra - Janacek, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rolf Hind

BBC Symphony Orchestra - Janacek, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rolf Hind

02/12/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Janacek, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rolf Hind

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jakub Hrusa in music by Janacek, Rimsky-Korsakov and Rolf Hind.

BBC SO, Jakub Hrusa - Janacek, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rolf Hind.

Recorded in the Barbican Hall, London

Presented by Katie Derham
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jakub Hrusa, perform music by Janacek and RImsky-Korsakov, alongside a new piece for accordion and orchestra by Rolf Hind.

Janacek (arr. Jilek): The Cunning Little Vixen - Suite (UK premiere)
Rolf Hind: The Tiniest House of Time, for accordion and orchestra (BBC commission: World premiere)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade

James Crabb (accordion)
BBC SO
Jakub Hrusa (conductor)

Fariy-tale and fantasy underpin this BBC SO concert, in which Rimsky-Korsakov's magnificent orchestral evocation of scenes from the Arabian Nights is coupled with music from Janacek's witty and wistful woodland opera. Completing the programme a brand new work from Rolf Hind, specially-composed for accordion virtuoso James Crabb, based on texts and ideas from ancient Sufi poetry.

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