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06/08/2016

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, BBC Symphony Orchestra: Australia

With the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Australian music, and Betsy Jolas at 90.

Brett Dean conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Australian composers. Plus the Berlin Philharmonic in a celebration of composer Betsy Jolas's 90th birthday.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Brett Dean conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Australian composers, from a concert recorded in April at Maida Vale studios.

Plus the latest in Hear and Now's series of Modern Muses, with the Australian-born composer Kate Moore and cellist Ashley Bathgate, and Betsy Jolas's 90th birthday is celebrated with the premiere of her latest work commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic.

Meale: Clouds now and then
Thomas Meadowcroft: Peacemaker Tattoo
Lisa Illean: Land's End (European premiere)
Georges Lentz: 'Caeli enarrant ...' III

Thomas Meadowcroft (Revox)
Anthony Pateras (Revox)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Brett Dean (conductor)

Betsy Jolas: A Little Summer Suite (World premiere)

Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle (conductor)
by kind permission of the Berlin Philharmonic

Brett Dean: Engelsflügel (European premiere)
Anthony Pateras: Immediata* (European premiere)

*Thomas Gould (violin)
Anthony Pateras (Revox)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Brett Dean (conductor).

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