Radio 3 In Concert: Total Immersion - Philip Glass At 80

Marin Alsop conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at the Barbican in an all-Glass programme, including the UK premiere of his Concerto written for renowned piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque.

As a young violinist, Marin Alsop led the orchestra in the first recording of Glass’s The Photographer, and has long championed the influential Minimalist’s music. She also conducts Itaipú, Glass’s choral homage to the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, and the prelude to the opera Ahknaten about the Egyptian pharaoh.

Glass: Prelude from Akhnaten
Glass: Double Concerto for Two Pianos & Orchestra (UK Premiere)
Glass: Itaipu

Katia Labèque (Piano)
Marielle Labèque (Piano)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (Conductor)

Presenter: Andrew McGregor
Producer: Ann McKay

File is mp3, 150 minutes, 320 kbps