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Radio 3 in Concert: Celebrating the Aldeburgh Festival

Celebrating the Aldeburgh Festival

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The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Oliver Knussen, at the 2018 Aldeburgh Festival.

Oliver Knussen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Copland, Feldman and, with pianist Huw Watkins, Philip Cashian's The Book of Ingenious Devices, at 2018's Aldeburgh Festival.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Oliver Knussen at the 2018 Aldeburgh Festival. Works by Americans Aaron Copland and Morton Feldman, and the world premiere of British composer Philip Cashian's piano concerto, The Book of Ingenious Devices, with soloist Huw Watkins.

Oliver Knussen: conductor, composer, teacher, inspirer - a figure loved by musicians and audiences everywhere. Sadly this was Olly's last concert with the BBC SO: he died just three weeks later, a huge loss to the musical world. In this concert we hear him talking about the works by Feldman and Copland, including his choice of interval music.

Aaron Copland's ballet music for Appalachian Spring is probably his most popular creation. Suffused with tender melodies, Shaker tunes and rhythmic energy, this work by an immigrant originally from Lithuanian captures the radiant pastoral side of the American dream like no other. In contrast, Copland's Music for a Great City, first performed in London, displays Copland's more muscular modernist sounds which fitted the 1961 film - Jack Garfine's Something Wild - for which is was first written: a dark, psychological drama about a young woman experiencing extreme violence in New York. 

Philip Cashian's piano concerto shows off the virtuosity of its soloist, composer-pianist Huw Watkins. Also in the mix, American Morton Feldman's Structures, an intriguing, beautiful essay in sound from 1962.

Recorded at Snape Maltings Concert Hall on Saturday 16th June 2018
Presented by Martin Handley

Copland: Music for a Great City 
Philip Cashian: Piano Concerto No.2: The Book of Ingenious Devices (world premiere)

C. 8.15
Interval
Copland: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson (a selection chosen by Oliver Knussen)
1: Nature, the gentlest mother 
2: There came a wind like a bugle 
5: Heart, we will forget him 
6: Dear March, come in! 
7: Sleep is supposed to be 
11: Going to Heaven! 
12: The Chariot
Adele Addison (soprano), Aaron Copland (piano)

Morton Feldman: Structures
Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite

Huw Watkins (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor)

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