Post by Slinger on Mar 4, 2019 13:27:57 GMT
Delia Derbyshire's sweeping electronic score is just one of the works featured in this year's Ten Pieces season.
It's joined by Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and a newly-commissioned work by film composer Hans Zimmer.
The aim of the season is to illustrate that classical music is a "living, ever-evolving art form".
The 10 chosen works span every era of classical music, based around the theme of "trailblazers".
Among the composers being showcased are Florence Price, who was the first African-American woman to be recognised as a symphonic composer; and Polish musician Grażyna Bacewicz, who wrote defiant, subversive music in occupied Warsaw during World War Two.
The full 10 works in this year's Ten Pieces are:
Zimmer, whose film scores include The Lion King, True Romance, The Dark Knight and Gladiator, is writing a brand new theme for the season - in recognition of the fact most people's first exposure to orchestral music comes in the cinema.
"I am honoured to have been asked to create a piece for BBC Ten Pieces Trailblazers series," he said.
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It's joined by Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and a newly-commissioned work by film composer Hans Zimmer.
The aim of the season is to illustrate that classical music is a "living, ever-evolving art form".
The 10 chosen works span every era of classical music, based around the theme of "trailblazers".
Among the composers being showcased are Florence Price, who was the first African-American woman to be recognised as a symphonic composer; and Polish musician Grażyna Bacewicz, who wrote defiant, subversive music in occupied Warsaw during World War Two.
The full 10 works in this year's Ten Pieces are:
- Hans Zimmer - Earth
- Ravi Shankar - Symphony, Finale
- Delia Derbyshire - Doctor Who Theme
- Antonio Vivaldi - Winter from The Four Seasons
- Grażyna Bacewicz - Overture
- Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
- Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas brasileiras No 2, Little Train of the Caipira (finale)
- Florence Price - Symphony No. 1 in E Minor (3rd movement)
- George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
- Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No 5
Zimmer, whose film scores include The Lion King, True Romance, The Dark Knight and Gladiator, is writing a brand new theme for the season - in recognition of the fact most people's first exposure to orchestral music comes in the cinema.
"I am honoured to have been asked to create a piece for BBC Ten Pieces Trailblazers series," he said.
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