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BBC Concert Orchestra - Julia Wolfe

Duration:
2 hours, 30 minutes
First broadcast:
Thursday 11 October 2012

Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

Presented by Fiona Talkington

As part of the Ether Festival at the South Bank Centre in London, Fiona Talkington presents a concert of music by Julia Wolfe, a founder member of the New York group Bang on a Can currently celebrating their 25th anniversary. Percussionist Colin Currie joins the BBC Concert Orchestra to play a brand new BBC commission written specially for this concert and there's a rare chance to hear nine bagpipe players in Wolfe's LAD.

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart
Colin Currie (percussion)
Red Hot Chili Pipers

Julia Wolfe:Tell Me Everything; Cruel Sister

INTERVAL

Julia Wolfe: LAD; riSe and fLY - new commission.

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