12 March 2007
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Monday 12 March 2007 19:00-20:45 (Radio 3)
Catherine Bott introduces a concert at the Barbican Hall, London.
A passionate choral plea for peace and an idyll by an English composer who was to die in the First World War join the symphony Jean Sibelius wrote just a year into that conflict. Michael Nyman's new work sets texts written 80 years later by Iraqi poet Jamal Juma, conscripted to the Iraqi army during the first Gulf War.
Duration:
1 hour 45 minutes
Playlist:
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Storgards (conductor)
Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad
Michael Nyman: A Handshake in the Dark
Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden
Silbelius: Symphony No 5
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