Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

The Musical Memory Palace

Live from Maida Vale Studios, the Aurora Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon invite you to enter the Musical Memory Palace to explore music by Debussy, Boulez, Ives and Mozart.

Live from Maida Vale Studios, Sarah Walker joins Aurora Orchestra to present a concert devoted memory and music. In the first half, ancient Greece, a much admired flautist and New England are recalled by Claude Debussy, Pierre Boulez and Charles Ives.

After the interval Aurora Orchestra, famous for its feats of memory, turn the tables and ask the audience to do the memorising in a session you will never forget!

Enter the Musical Memory Palace as, with the help of Aurora Orchestra and conductor Nicholas Collon, Grandmaster of Memory Ed Cooke shows you how to memorise the dramatic and complex first movement of Mozart's late, great Symphony No. 40, before the orchestra play the complete symphony. Listeners at home will be able to join in by following online a series of the same mnemonic symbols that the audience is seeing.

Part of Why Music? The Key to Memory, a weekend of live events, concerts and discussions exploring the implications of music's unique capacity to be remembered, produced by Radio 3 in partnership with Wellcome Collection.

Debussy: Syrinx
Boulez: ²Ñé³¾´Ç°ù¾±²¹±ô±ð
Ives: 3 Places in New England

8.25pm Interval
Baritone Peter Snipp describes the difficulties and pitfalls of opera singing, including having to remember all the words at the same time as singing, acting, and coming on and off stage at the right moment.

8.45pm
Mozart: Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550

Jane Mitchell, flute
Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon, conductor.

2 hours, 15 minutes

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Syrinx

    Performer: Jane Mitchell.
  • Pierre Boulez

    ²Ñé³¾´Ç°ù¾±²¹±ô±ð

    Performer: Jane Mitchell. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
  • Charles Ives

    Three Places in New England

    Ensemble: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 40 in G Minor K550

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Chanson Boheme from Bizet's "Carmen"

    Performer: Christof Keymer.
  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Barcarole from Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann"

    Performer: Christof Keymer.
  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Minuet from Mozart's "Don Giovanni"

    Performer: Christof Keymer.

Broadcast

  • Fri 13 Oct 2017 19:45