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Hear and Now: Heiner Goebbels, Alexander Goehr

16/02/2013

Heiner Goebbels, Alexander Goehr

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Heiner Goebbels, Alexander Goehr

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group perform works by Heiner Goebbels and Alexander Goehr.

Presented by Robert Worby. Birmingham Contemporary Music Group perform Heiner Goebbels's Walden and Alexander Goehr's Duos.

Robert Worby introduces a recording of Heiner Goebbels' Walden, inspired by the American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau's account of his two year woodland retreat in a cabin near to Walden Pond in Massachusetts. This is a new version of the work created for Ensemble Klang and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, with Keir Neuringer as the narrator. Plus Alexander Goehr's Duos, for two violins, performed by members of the BCMG.

Alexander Goehr: Duos
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Heiner Goebbels: Walden
Ensemble Klang; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Keir Neuringer (narrator).

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