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Hear and Now: Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze

29/03/2014

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Hans Werner Henze

A concert in celebration of the music of German composer Hans Werner Henze.

Tom Service present a concert given at the BBC's Maida Vale studios in celebration of German composer Hans Werner Henze. Oliver Knussen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale studios in February, a concert celebrating the music of the late Hans Werner Henze, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen. The programme includes one of the German composer's very last works, Ouverture zu einem Theater, his poetry-inspired Liebeslieder featuring cellist Anssi Karttunen as soloist, his orchestral fantasy Los Caprichos, named after Goya's etchings of the same name, and a set of pieces for two pianos by four younger composers, written in tribute to Henze on the occasion of his 75th birthday in 2001. Presented by Tom Service in conversation with Oliver Knussen.

Hans Werner Henze: Lucy Escott Variations
Jan Philip Schulze (piano)

Hans Werner Henze: Los Caprichos

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Two Portraits
Kenneth Hesketh: Netsuke Fragments
Detlev Glanert: Enigmatic Landscape
Robert Zuidam: Music for Two Pianos
Richard Utley, Huw Watkins (pianos)

Hans Werner Henze: Liebeslieder
Anssi Karttunen (cello)

Hans Werner Henze: Overture zu einem Theater

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor).

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