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Radio 3,30 Nov 2013,45 mins

Robert Levin, Hartmann, Balint Andras Varga

Music Matters

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Petroc Trelawny presents. An interview with American forte-pianist virtuoso and scholar Robert Levin about the classical tradition of improvisation; also, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, the man and his music, 50 years after his death; and Hungarian music agent Balint Andras Varga talks to us about his book of memoirs, including interviews with composers, From Boulanger to Stockhausen.

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