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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 3: Sound Frontiers: Working with Maurice Sendak

Oliver Knussen (1952-)

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Episode 3: Sound Frontiers: Working with Maurice Sendak

Sound Frontiers: Working with Maurice Sendak

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Oliver Knussen (1952-), Sound Frontiers: Working with Maurice Sendak

Donald Macleod focuses on Oliver Knussen's long-time friendship with Maurice Sendak.

Donald Macleod focuses on Oliver Knussen's long-time friendship with Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of the famous children's book Where the Wild Things Are.

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.

Today, they focus on Oliver Knussen's long-time friendship with Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of the famous children's book, Where the Wild Things Are.

Songs and a Sea Interlude, Op 20a
Claire Booth, soprano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Higglety Pigglety Pop! Op 21: First interlude and scenes 4-5
Cynthia Buchan, mezzo soprano (Jennie)
Lisa Saffer, soprano (Baby)
Rosemary Hardy, soprano (Rhoda / Baby's Mother)
Christopher Gillet, tenor (Cat)
London Sinfonietta
Oliver Knussen, conductor

Where the Wild Things Are, Op 20: Scene 6 "The Wild Rumpus"
Lisa Saffer, soprano (Max)
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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