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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: 惭茅尘辞谤颈补濒别
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.