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Live from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester - 2. Mahler

Radio 3 Live in Concert Mark Elder conducts the Halle in Mahler's Symphony No 1.

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New Music by Young Composers

Duration:
1 hour, 30 minutes
First broadcast:
Saturday 12 May 2012

Ivan Hewett presents new music for orchestra by young composers, including works developed through "Embedded" residencies with the BBC Symphony Orchestra:
Yuko Ohara: Kaleidoscope
Laura Bowler: Irresistible Demands Of The Flesh
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Garry Walker

and from an LPO Debut Sounds concert:
Emily Wright: Incantation
Erik Flores: Foliage
London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Clement Power

Plus in this week's Hear And Now Fifty, Gillian Moore advocates George Benjamin's At First Light, a chamber orchestral score of "extraordinary detail and skill"; while Paul Griffiths describes the significance of the work as a benchmark for British composing.

Music Played

6 items
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • Yuko Ohara Kaleidoscope (World Premiere)

    Performers: BBC Symphony Orchestra

  • Laura Bowler Irresistable Demands of the Flesh (World Premiere)

    Performers: BBC Symphony Orchestra

  • Image for Emily Wright

    Emily Wright Incantation

    Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Lutoslawski Jeux Venetiens

    Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Erick Flores Foliage

    Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Image for George Benjamin

    George Benjamin At First Light

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