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BBC Concert Orchestra - Milhaud, Satie, Porter, Le groupe des Six

Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, BBC CO/Keith Lockhart. Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toit. Satie: Parade. Porter: Within the Quota. Le groupe des Six: Les Maries de La Tour Eiffel.

Presented by Alistair McGowan

Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in surrealist ballet music from Paris in the 1920s, narrated and presented by Alistair McGowan.

Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le Toit (1919)
Satie Parade (1917)

Interval music - Jean-Michel Damase: Piano Concerto No 2
Ashley Wass (piano), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates

Cole Porter: Within the Quota (1923)
Le Groupe des Six: Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel (1921).

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Thu 2 Oct 201419:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Part 1

    • Darius Milhaud

      Le Boeuf sur le Toit (1919)

      Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.

    • Erik Satie

      Parade (1917)

      Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.

  • Interval

    • Jean‐Michel Damase

      Piano Concerto No 2

      Performer: Ashley Wass. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Yates, Martin.
      • Jean-Michel Damase: Symphonie, Piano & Flute Concertos.
      • Dutton.
      • CDLX7309.

  • Part 2

    • Cole Porter

      Within the Quota (1923

      Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.

    • Le Groupe des Six

      Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel (1921

      Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart. Performer: Alistair McGowan. Performer: Kevin Eldon.

  • Post concert

    • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

      Suite from Naïs (selection)

      Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Brüggen.
      • Jean-Philippe Rameau - Orchestral Suites: Naïs & Zoroastre.
      • Glossa.
      • GCD921106.

Credit

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Broadcast

  • Thu 2 Oct 201419:30
    BBC Radio 3

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