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Claude Vivier's Lonely Child

Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics by BBC

Jun 23, 201215:22Music

The soprano Barbara Hannigan celebrates Claude Vivier’s profoundly moving work for soprano and orchestra, Lonely Child. Vivier conceived the piece as one single melody, with the entire orchestra "transformed into a timbr...

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Claude Vivier's Lonely Child is an episode from Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics by BBC. The soprano Barbara Hannigan celebrates Claude Vivier’s profoundly moving work for soprano and orchestra, Lonely Child. Vivier conceived the piece as on...

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Published Jun 23, 2012, 15:22 long, audio available.

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The soprano Barbara Hannigan celebrates Claude Vivier’s profoundly moving work for soprano and orchestra, Lonely Child. Vivier conceived the piece as one single melody, with the entire orchestra "transformed into a timbre", to create "great beams of colour". Writer Paul Griffiths explains how Stockhausen, Gregorian chant and the traditional music of Bali all contributed to this composer’s distinctive soundworld.

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Published Jun 23, 2012 and 15:22 long