Radio 3 in Concert

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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The best concerts from across the UK and Europe. Available to listen online for 30 days

Experience the best concerts from across the UK and Europe. Available to listen online for 30 days

Radio 3 in Concert: Burlesque at BBC NOW

Burlesque at BBC NOW

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Burlesque at BBC NOW

BBC NOW and conductor Fiona Monbet transport us to 1920s and modern-day Paris.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor/composer Fiona Monbet perform Ibert, Satie, Tailleferre, Milhaud and Bernstein before the World Premiere of her piece Faubourg 23.

Fiona Monbet joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for a much-anticipated second collaboration.  Monbet, an Irish-French musician, combines her skills as conductor, composer, and violinist in the world Premiere of her work Faubourg 23, for which she and the orchestra are joined by her quartet.  Fusing classical, folk, and jazz, the piece incorporates Musette, Django Reinhardt and Josephine Baker.

The build up to that piece takes us to post-WWI Paris; Jacques Ibert’s suite of music which he compiled from his surreal incidental music to the theatrical farce ‘The Italian Straw Hat’, Erik Satie’s beautifully eccentric ballet and dance-hall parody which he wrote for Jean Cocteau, and Darius Milhaud’s Le Bœuf sur le toit, which gave its name to the Parisian nightclub which became the favourite haunt of the cutting-edge artists of the Paris scene.  Also on the bill are Tailleferre’s delightful Petite Suite, and Bernstein’s evocation of 1940s New York in the three dance episodes which he extracted from the first musical he wrote for Broadway – On The Town.

Presented by Linton Stephens.  Live from BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff.

Ibert: Divertissement
Satie: La belle excentrique
Tailleferre: Petite Suite
Milhaud: Le Bœuf sur le toit, Op 58
Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
Fiona Monbet: Faubourg 23

Fiona Monbet (conductor/violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Auxane Cartigny (Piano)
Zacharie Abraham (Double Bass)
Philippe Maniez (Drum Kit)

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