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Hear and Now: Huw Watkins

Huw Watkins

09/07/2016

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Huw Watkins

Composer Huw Watkins talks to Tom Service about his chamber and orchestral music.

Huw Watkins discusses his chamber and orchestral music with Tom Service. Includes Anthem, Speak Seven Seas, Remember, Three Welsh Songs, Partita and Double Concerto.

Tom Service talks to composer-performer Huw Watkins ahead of his fortieth birthday as they listen to a wide-ranging programme of his chamber and orchestral music from the last decade, recorded at a portrait concert earlier this year. Plus, in Modern Muses, Krzysztof Penderecki and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter discuss a 30-year musical and personal friendship which, among other works, has generated Penderecki's Violin Concerto No. 2 'Metamorphosen'. 

Huw Watkins: 

Anthem 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Garry Walker (conductor)

Speak Seven Seas
Robert Plane (clarinet)
Philip Dukes (viola)
Huw Watkins (piano)

Remember
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Garry Walker (conductor)

Modern Muses: Krzysztof Penderecki and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter

3 Welsh Songs 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Garry Walker (conductor)

Huw Watkins:

Partita 
Lesley Hatfield (violin)

Double Concerto
Philip Dukes (viola) 
Josephine Knight (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Garry Walker (conductor).

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