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Afternoon on 3: Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave

Afternoon Concert: Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave: Episode 1

Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave, Episode 1

Katie Derham with music by Musgrave, Mantovani, O'Farrell, Debussy, Fort and Beethoven.

With Katie Derham. Chausson: Soir de fete. Musgrave: Rorate coeli; Green. Plus music by Mantovani, Anne-Marie O'Farrell, Debussy, Anthony Fort and Beethoven.

Katie Derham presents a week of programmes, before Ravel Day on Friday, featuring performances from the Thea Musgrave 'Total Immersion' weekend. The weekend was hosted by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers at The Barbican last month. There's also music by Chausson, Debussy, Beethoven and the UK Premiere of Mantovani's Concerto for Two Pianos. Plus new pieces for choir and organ which have been developed in workshops during the last year by the BBC Singers, in partnership with Choir and Organ magazine.

2pm
Chausson
Soir de fête
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Fabien Gabel (conductor)

2.15pm
Thea Musgrave
Rorate coeli
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)

2.30pm
Bruno Mantovani
Concerto for Two Pianos (UK premiere)
François-Frédéric Guy (piano)
Varduhi Yeritsyan (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Fabien Gabel (conductor)

2.55pm
Anne-Marie O'Farrell
Skimming Stones
BBC Singers
Matthew Hamilton (conductor)

3pm
Debussy
Three Nocturnes
Women's Voices of the BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Fabien Gabel (conductor)

3.25pm
Thea Musgrave
Green
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

3.45pm
Anthony Fort
Firewalk
James McVinnie (organ)

3.50pm
Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Fabien Gabel (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave

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Programmes featuring performances given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers at the Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave weekend at the Barbican in London

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