Radio 3 in Concert

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Radio 3 in Concert: Pictures at Exhibitions at the Aldeburgh Festival

Pictures at Exhibitions at the Aldeburgh Festival

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The BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth in Mussorgsky and Knussen.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra premieres Oliver Knussen's Cleveland Pictures, performs two ravishing Mussorgsky scores, and Martin Owen is soloist in Knussen's dreamlike Horn Concerto.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra gives the UK premiere of Oliver Knussen's Cleveland Pictures, performs two ravishing Mussorgsky scores, and Martin Owen is the soloist in Knussen's dreamlike Horn Concerto. 

Mussorgsky's brilliant translation of paintings into music in Pictures at an Exhibition have inspired others to take similar approaches, including the late Oliver Knussen, doyen of the Aldeburgh Festival and much-loved conductor-composer associate of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. We are treated to the posthumous UK premiere/1st pubic performance (and a second performance as was his whim!) of his piece interpreting pictures and objects seen at the Cleveland Museum of Art, from Goya and Gaugin to Fabergé. Knussen worked on it from the 1990s until 2008, but it remained unfinished at his death in 2018.

Live from Snape Maltings 
Presented by Martin Handley 

Mussorgsky (arr. Stokowski): A Night on the Bare Mountain
Knussen: Horn Concerto 
Knussen: Cleveland Pictures (UK premiere and 1st public performance) 
1. Portail avec Penseur (Façades and lake with Rodin)
2. Calabazas (Velasquez)
3. Dans les vagues (Gauguin) [fragment]
4. Two Clocks (Tiffany/Fabergé)
5. St Ambrose (Goya)
[6. Don Quixote (Masson) – not performed, only exists as sketches]
7. The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons (Turner) [fragment]

19.50  Interval [off CD]

Helen Grime: Three Whistler Pictures 
i) the Little Note in Yellow and Green; ii) Lapis Lazuli; iii) Violet note 
Claremont Trio  

Plus Martin Handley talks live to Zoë Martlew about Oliver Knussen, the man and his music. 

20.10 
Knussen: Cleveland Pictures (2nd public performance) 
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel)

Martin Owen (horn)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

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