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Prom 28: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

From the Royal Albert Hall,London. Ilan Volkov conducts the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in works by Oliver Knussen, Hans Abrahamsen, Luke Bedford and George Benjamin.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ PROMS 2010

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Ilan Volkov, a great champion of contemporary music, conducts music by three generations of British composers alongside a new work by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen, whose Wald (Forest) takes its cue from a theme on the composer's own instrument, the horn.

Oliver Knussen: Two Organa
Hans Abrahamsen: Wald (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ co-commission with Asko Schönberg: UK premiere)
Luke Bedford: Or voit tout en aventure
George Benjamin: Three Inventions

Claire Booth, soprano
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Ilan Volkov, conductor.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Fri 6 Aug 2010 22:15

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