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Radio 3 in Concert: Mark-Anthony Turnage's Up for Grabs

Mark-Anthony Turnage's Up for Grabs

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Mark-Anthony Turnage's Up for Grabs

Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in a football premiere!

Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, live at the Barbican, in Shostakovich, Stravinsky's Firebird and a world premiere celebrating a famous Arsenal football victory.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ryan Bancroft in music by Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and a world premiere celebrating a famous Arsenal football victory.

On the last day of the 1989 football season, Arsenal and Liverpool, the two teams vying to win the league, played each other. Going into the game the margins couldn’t have been tighter – Arsenal needed to win by two goals to clinch the title. In the final seconds of the match, they did. ‘It’s up for grabs now!’ proclaimed the dumbfounded commentator Brian Moore as Michael Thomas charged through the midfield at Anfield to seal the most dramatic league win of all time.

Leading composer and life-long Arsenal fan Mark-Anthony Turnage supplies the musical alternative to Brian Moore’s iconic commentary, capturing the intense rollercoaster of highs, lows, desperation and elation every sports fan lives and breathes.

Peter Erskine (Weather Report), John Parricelli (Loose Tubes) and Laurence Cottle form a star-studded rhythm section to join the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Turnage’s composition, which combine his personal experiences and memories as an ardent supporter, with musical nods to the likes of goal-scoring hero Michael Thomas and the late David ‘Rocky’ Rocastle, who started in this iconic match, and to whom the piece is dedicated.

Live from the Barbican, London 
Presented by Martin Handley


Dmitri Shostakovich: Festive Overture

Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird – suite (revised version, 1919)

20.05 Interval:
Erik Satie: Sports et divertissements 
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

20.25
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Up For Grabs (world premiere)

Peter Erskine (drums)
John Parricelli (guitar)
Laurence Cottle (bass guitar)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)


After the concert new music from the International Rostrum of Composers 2019

Dinis Kurbanov (Russia):	Khomonia
Members of Choir Capella “Yaroslavia” Dinis Kurbanov (conductor)

Anna Ķirse (Latvia): Radices	
Latvian Radio choir, Kaspars Putniņš (conductor), Anna Ķirse (electronics).

Larisa Vrhunc (Slovenia):	… glass sky, silk …
Nina Prešiček (piano) Larisa Vrhunc (electronics)

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