Episode 3
Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present highlights from the 2014 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, including the premiere of James Dillon's Sabat Mater Dolorosa.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce further highlights from the 2014 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival including a major premiere from this year's composer-in-residence, James Dillon.
Dillon's new piece is a setting of the Sabat Mater Dolorosa interspersed with Julie Kriseva's commentary on the poem, Herethique de l'amour, creating a large-scale meditation on the idea of lamentation.
James Dillon: Stabat Mater Dolorosa (World Premiere, co-commissioned by BBC Radio3 and hcmf//)
London Sinfonietta
BBC Singers
Ilan Volkov (conductor).
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James Dillon
Stabat Mater dolorosa
Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Ilan Volkov. Choir: BBC Singers.
Broadcast
- Sat 13 Dec 201423:00BBC Radio 3
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