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Radio 3,21 mins

Series2016

Proms interval talks: Sir Henry Wood and Rachmaninov's Third Symphony

BBC Proms

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Conductor Benjamin Pope visits the Royal Academy of Music to see the Proms founder Sir Henry Wood's own copy of the score of Sergei Rachmaninov's Third Symphony. He meets Professor Raymond Holden to discuss the relationship between conductor and composer, and to find out what we can learn from this score today.

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