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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

Kate Molleson

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Oliver Knussen (1952-)

Composer of the Week: Oliver Knussen (1952-): Episode 1: Sound Frontiers: Early Notoriety

Oliver Knussen (1952-)

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Episode 1: Sound Frontiers: Early Notoriety

Sound Frontiers: Early Notoriety

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Oliver Knussen (1952-), Sound Frontiers: Early Notoriety

Donald Macleod explores Knussen's early steps towards the composer he would become.

Donald Macleod explores Knussen's early steps towards the composer he would become, encouraged by others such as Benjamin Britten and Leonard Bernstein. Part of Sound Frontiers.

As part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, London, Donald Macleod presents special editions of the long-running series that began life just three years before the launch of the 'Third Programme' in 1946. Donald invites celebrated British composer Oliver Knussen to join him live at the Radio 3 pop-up studio to discuss a life and career that spans nearly all of Radio 3's seven decades.

In their first programme, they look at Knussen's early steps toward the composer he would become, encouraged by the likes of Benjamin Britten and Leonard Bernstein.

Hums and Songs of Winnie-the-Pooh Op.6
Lisa Saffer, soprano
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Oliver Knussen, conductor

Frammenti da "Chiara" Op.19
BBC Singers
Simon Joly, conductor

Symphony No.2 Op.7
Elaine Barry, soprano
London Sinfonietta
Oliver Knussen, conductor.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Composer Oliver Knussen joins Donald Macleod to discuss his life and career

Donald Macleod invites composer Oliver Knussen to join him at the Radio 3 pop-up studio at the Southbank Centre in London to discuss his life and career

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