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Programme for Sounding the Century: A Complete Record of Radio 3's Nationwide Broadcast Festival of 20th-century Music

Date16 Feb 1997-4 Nov 1999

DescriptionWorks performed:
Britten: Billy Budd; Britten: The Turn of the Screw; Britten: Paul Bunyan; Britten: Peter Grimes; Britten: Nocturne; Britten: Death in Venice; Britten: Six Metamorphoses after Ovid; Britten: Curlew River; Britten: The Burning Fiery Furnace; Britten: War Requiem; Britten: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge; Britten: Prelude and Fugue for Strings; Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes; Britten: Les Illuminations; Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes: A Time There Was...; Britten: Diversions; Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem; Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Britten: Canadian Carnival; Britten: Ballad of Heroes; Britten arr. Mitchell and Cooke: Suite from The Prince of the Pagodas; and various other works by Schoenberg, Debussy, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Berg, Walton, Prokofiev, Tippett, Holt, Ligeti, Martinu, Stravinsky, Ravel, Poulenc, Strauss, Mahler, Sibelius, Gershwin and more
Venue:
Snape Maltings Concert Hall; Barbican Theatre; Shaftesbury Theatre; Bridgewater Hall; and various other venues, Snape, England; London, England; Manchester, England; and various other places
Performers:
Various, including Sir Colin Davis (conductor); Richard Hickox (conductor); Heinz Holliger (conductor/oboe); Simon Halsey (conductor); Kent Nagano (conductor); Daniel Harding (conductor); Osmo Vanska (conductor); Joan Rodgers (Governess/soprano); Vivian Tierney (Miss Jessel); Jane Henschel (Mrs Grose); Ian Bostridge (Peter Quint); Robert Tear (tenor); Susan Gritton (soprano); Nicole Tibbels (soprano); Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano); Simon Keenlyside (baritone); Andrea Gruber (soprano); Leah-Marin Jones (mezzo-soprano); Thomas Randle (tenor); Mark Padmore (tenor); Francis Egerton (tenor); Henry Moss (tenor); Peter Coleman-Wright (baritone); Adrian Clarke (baritone); Jeremy White (bass-baritone); Hallé Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; City of Birmingham Touring Opera; London Sinfonietta; Orchestra of Saint John's Square
Further information:
This is a complete record of every concert in the Sounding the Century series of 20th century music concerts broadcasted by BBC Radio 3 which ran from 1997 into 1999: as such, some of the listed peformances took place in 1998 or 1999, but are still record

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