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Mark Heron

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Francesca Chiejina

BBC Philharmonic

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Radio 3 In Concert

Radio 3 In Concert: Concert

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Radio 3 In Concert
Mark Heron conducts the BBC Philharmonic in this live broadcast from Salford, joined by soprano Francesca Chiejina

We open the programme with a miniature by a teenage Erich Korngold, written more than a decade before he moved to America in the 1930s and which includes a lyrical section that looks ahead to his time scoring movies for Hollywood.

While Korngold was finding what we might now consider an "American sound" by accident, a young Aaron Copland was exploring jazz as a way of reflecting his native America, which informs his "Music for Theater" from 1925. The remaining works in this concert all date from the mid-1940s.

Like Korngold, Ulysses Kay's catalogue contains much music for the silver screen, and we hear a suite that he drew from "The Quiet One", a documentary in which a deprived and excluded child in Harlem is celebrated and championed; now over seventy years old, it's a movie with a theme that's bang up to date.

Francesca Chiejina joins the orchestra for Barber's haunting "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" and a rarely heard Barber miniature commissioned for radio broadcast completes the programme.

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Radio 3 In Concert by Various, From (2021/2021), Conductor Mark Heron

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