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BBC Radio 3Mon 23 Feb 2009 19:00 BBC Radio 3
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With Aled Jones. With singing from The Songmen plus a focus on jubilee celebrations.
Duration: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Presented by Catherine Bott.
French pianist Alexandre Tharaud plays music by Chopin, Couperin and Ravel at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. In this experimental programme he alternates movements from Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin with some of Couperin's original pieces for the harpsichord.
Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op 28
Couperin: Pieces de clavecin (No 6)
Ravel: Prelude (Le Tombeau de Couperin)
Couperin: Pieces de clavecin (No 5)
Ravel: Fugue (Le Tombeau de Couperin)
Couperin: Pieces de clavecin (No 12)
Ravel: Forlane (Le Tombeau de Couperin)
Couperin: Pieces de clavecin (No 13)
Ravel: Rigaudon (Le Tombeau de Couperin)
Couperin: Pieces de clavecin (No 18)
Ravel: Menuet (Le Tombeau de Couperin)
Couperin: Pieces de clavecin (No 14)
Ravel: Toccata (Le Tombeau de Couperin)
Couperin: Pieces de clavecin (No 6)
Encore: J.S. Bach: Andante from concerto for keyboard (BWV 979). Transcription by A. Tharaud.
Followed by A Century in Sound: Brian Newhouse presents the first part of a centenary celebration of the Minnesota Orchestra.
Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No. 3, Lent et grave, arranged for orchestra by Claude Debussy
Minnesota Orchestra
Eiji Oue, conductor
REFERENCE RECORDINGS, 2002
Mon 23 Feb 2009 19:00 BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3Mon 23 Feb 2009 19:00 BBC Radio 3
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