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Wagner and His World - 3. Meyerbeer and Palestrina

Composer of the Week Donald Macleod explores how Wagner first cherished, then rejected, Meyerbeer's influence.

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Glasgow Tectonics Festival 2013 Episode 1

1/3 Highlights from the 2013 Tectonics Festival in Glasgow: Alvin Lucier and Iancu Dumitrescu.

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Glasgow Tectonics Festival 2013 Chiyoko Szlavnics, Alvin Lucier, Iancu Dumitrescu

2/3 From the 2013 Tectonics Festival: Chiyoko Szlavnics, Alvin Lucier and Iancu Dumitrescu.

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    Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics

    Artists, musicians and composers introduce fifty key pieces of classical music composed between 1950...

  • Blog: Sunken Garden

    Synopsis highlights, production pictures, video clips and tweets from Radio 3's transmission of 'Sunken Garden' by Michel van der Aa, with a libretto by David Mitchell, on Saturday 6 May 2013.

    • 3 May 2013 15:25:26

      Radio 3 Hear and Now – Sunken Garden
      Sunken Garden, the latest stage-work by Dutch composer Michel van der Aa, sets a libretto by prize-winning novelist David Mitchell about a film-maker whose search for two missing persons leads him to a liminal place between life and death. Mixing live performance with pre-recorded film and holograms, it has been described by its creators as an 'occult mystery film-opera'.
       
      Tom Service introduces a performance from the world-premiere run, given in April by English National Opera at the Barbican Theatre in London.
       
      On Radio 3 this Saturday at 10pm. Join the conversation #ENOgarden 

    • 4 May 2013 20:08:22

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    • 4 May 2013 20:31:20

      What connects the disappearance of a software engineer, a neurotic film-maker and a gullible patroness of the arts? Find out tonight on Radio 3 at 9.50pm. Join the conversation #ENOgarden

    • 4 May 2013 20:40:34

      A 3D Film opera on Radio 3? Find out more tonight at 9.50pm #ENOgarden

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