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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov perform music from the British and American experimental traditions by Cage, Cardew, Howard Skempton and Morton Feldman.
BBC Proms 2010
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Experimental music of the 1960s and 1970s from American pioneers John Cage and Morton Feldman, and British heroes of the movement, Cornelius Cardew and Howard Skempton, whose music was as individual and inventive as their Stateside counterparts.
John Cage: First Construction (in Metal)
Cardew: Bun No. 1 (London premiere)
Howard Skempton: Lento
Feldman: Piano and Orchestra (London premiere)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Tilbury (piano)
Ilan Volkov (conductor).
Last on
Fri 20 Aug 201022:00
BBC Radio 3
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- Fri 20 Aug 201022:00BBC Radio 3
