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Live from the Barbican, Julian Anderson

LIVE - from The Barbican Hall in London. Presented by Catherine Bott. The BBC Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Oliver Knussen, with a programme very much inspired by Emily Dickinson's poetry, rendered by soprano Claire Booth and mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley: Copland's setting of her verses in Eight Poems, and Julian Anderson's Heaven is Shy of Earth, a world premiere of the revised work, critically acclaimed when it was premiered in 2006. Opening the concert though is Sean Shepherd's Wanderlust, an exhuberant tour de force for orchestra. JULIAN ANDERSON: Heaven is Shy of Earth (World premiere of revised work) Claire Booth soprano Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Oliver Knussen conductor.

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First Broadcast26 Nov 2010
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