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Episode 3

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Last broadcast on Wed, 27 May 2009, 22:00 on BBC Radio 3 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Donald Macleod meets British composer, pianist, writer and critic John McCabe, who performs in the studio and discusses his life at the age of 70.

McCabe talks about his great love of the music of Haydn, one of Radio 3's Composers of the Year in 2009. As well as an excerpt from Haydn's celebrated complete sonatas recording, McCabe performs his own Lamentation Rag, written to mark Haydn's 250th birthday in 1982.

McCabe: Lamentation Rag (1982)
John McCabe (piano)
SPECIALLY RECORDED

Haydn: Sonata No 13 in G, Hob XVI 6 (excerpt)
John McCabe (piano)
LONDON 4437852 Disc 2, Tr 12

McCabe: String Quartet No 4 (1982)
Vanbrugh Quartet
HYPERION CDA67078, Tr 17

McCabe: Concerto for orchestra (1982)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor)
LPO LPO0023, Trs 1-5.

John McCabe On his love for Haydn

John McCabe On Haydn's Piano Sonatas

John McCabe Lamentation Rag

Broadcasts

  1. Wed 27 May 2009
    12:00
  2. Wed 27 May 2009
    22:00

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