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Companion programme to Hear and Now, offering more of the best new music

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Pre-Hear: Niccolo Castiglioni

09/02/2013

Niccolo Castiglioni

BBC Radio 3 - Pre-Hear, Niccolo Castiglioni

Music by Niccolo Castiglioni for piano, choir and orchestra.

Music by Italian composer Niccolo Castiglioni for piano, choir and orchestra, with Sarah Nicolls, Schola Cantorum Stuttgart and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen.

Rarely-heard music by the Italian composer Niccolo Castiglioni (1932-1996). Four works, variously for piano, choir and orchestra, featuring Sarah Nicolls, Schola Cantorum Stuttgart and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen.
Castiglioni's music is influenced by his early fascination with the spare, focused and exquisite works of Anton Webern. His mature works retain an element of transparent purity but there are other influences from the European avant-garde of the 50s and 60s together with a innate Romanticism and lyric sensibility.

Inizio di Movimento, for piano
Hymne, for twelve voices
Dulce Refrigerium, for piano
Apreslude, for orchestra
(see also Hear and Now tonight: Knussen conducts the BBC Symphony in his own music).

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