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Charles Wuorinen

Annie Proulx

Shirley Apthorp

Anastasia Belina-Johnson

Stephen Kovacevich

David Pountney

Music Matters: Brokeback Mountain, Andre Tchaikowsky

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01/02/2014

Brokeback Mountain, Andre Tchaikowsky

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Brokeback Mountain, Andre Tchaikowsky

Tom Service talks to the creators of the new opera Brokeback Mountain.

Tom Service talks to the creators of the new opera Brokeback Mountain, based on the novel by Annie Proulx and explores the life of Polish composer and pianist Andre Tchaikowsky.

Tom Service visits the Teatro Real in Madrid for the premiere of a new opera by composer Charles Wuorinen and author and librettist Annie Proulx and asks them how they went about adapting Proulx's best-selling novel 'Brokeback Mountain' for the opera stage. Hotfoot from the first night Tom will be reviewing the production with music critic Shirley Apthorp. Polish composer and pianist André Tchaikowsky is the subject of a new book by Anastasia Belina-Johnson, Tom talks to the author as well as pianist Stephen Kovacevich and opera director David Pountney about this fascinating yet complex musician.

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