Radio 3 in Concert: Total Immersion: Anders Hillborg

Andrew McGregor presents a concert recorded at London's Barbican in which the BBC Symphony Orchestra performs music by Anders Hillborg. It is easy to immerse oneself in music as seductive as that of Anders Hillborg - the Swedish maverick with a background in pop and electronics. The climax of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion series is this concert, in which large-scale, spectral canvases full of detail and playfulness will mesmerise listeners. While some of Hillborg's works are traditional Nordic nature landscapes built on spatial breadth and filmic atmosphere, his clarinet concerto Peacock Tales is less abstract and more immediate, tailored to the theatrical and communicative flair of soloist Martin Fröst. There are two UK premieres, with Carolin Widmann the soloist in Violin Concerto No 1, and Through Lost Landscapes is brand-new work co-commissioned by the BBC. Anders Hillborg: Fanfare; Eleven Gates; Beast Sampler; Concerto for Clarinet - Peacock Tales: Millennium Version. 8.25 Interval - Anders Hillborg talks to Andrew McGregor about his life and music. 8.35pm Anders Hillborg: Violin Concerto No 1; Through Lost Landscapes (BBC co-commission, UK premiere). Carolin Widmann (violin) Martin Frost (clarinet), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)