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Hear and Now: Goehr, Birtwistle, Maxwell Davies

Goehr, Birtwistle, Maxwell Davies

10/08/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Goehr, Birtwistle, Maxwell Davies

Works by Goehr and Birtwistle, and Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King.

Ivan Hewett introduces a performance from the Buxton Festival of Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King, plus other works from the 1960s by Goehr and Birtwistle.

Ivan Hewett is joined in he studio by writer and broadcaster Paul Griffiths to introduce one of the most celebrated British compositions of the 1960s, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King, in a performance given last month at the Buxton Festival by baritone Kelvin Thomas and the Music Theatre Wales Ensemble, conducted by Michael Rafferty.

The programme also includes two other important British works from the '60s, Alexander Goehr's Pastorals (performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra) and Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Tragoedia (performed by the Melos Ensemble).

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