Performance on 3 - Aldeburgh Festival 2009 - BBC SO/Benjamin

Radio 3 at the Summer Festivals. Petroc Trelawny presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor/composer George Benjamin performing works by Debussy, Ravel and Benjamin at the 2009 Aldeburgh Festival. Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra George Benjamin (conductor) Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune Julian Anderson: Shir Hashirim Carter: Three Occasions Benjamin: Duet for piano and orchestra (UK premiere) Ravel: Piano Concerto for the left hand Followed by a focus on celebrated historical recordings made at the Aldeburgh Festival. With highlights of the famous recital given in 1989 at The Snape Maltings, Snape, by American pianist Murray Perahia, including Beethoven's 32 Variations for Piano in C minor and Schumann's Carnival Jest from Vienna. Britten: Still Falls the Rain, op 55 Peter Pears (tenor) Barry Tuckwell (horn) Benjamin Britten (piano)