A week of concerts celebrating disabled composers and performers.
Hannah French presents a concert given in December 2018 by the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Richard Farnes at the Watford Colosseum. Former R3 New Generation Artist Thibaut Garcia is the soloist in Rodrigo's famous guitar concerto; a composer who became virtually blind at the age of three. Ravel, whose Tombeau de Couperin begins the concert, developed aphasia – a language impairment- towards the end of his life, triggered or possibly exacerbated by an accident.
Part of the BBC's focus on disability in November, marking the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act
Producer: Olwen Fischer
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