Last Saturday's H&N and now in the iPlayer:
"Tom Service, in conversation with Sir Harrison Birtwistle, presents this Birtwistle Portrait concert, specially recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the London Sinfonietta conducted by David Atherton
Cortège
Five Distances for 5 Instruments
Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum
In Broken Images (UK premiere)
And in the Hear and Now 50, composer, writer and Russophile Gerard McBurney nominates the austere and uncompormising Octet by Galina Ustvolskaya, which changed his ideas of twentieth-century Russian music. And Gillian Moore, Head of Classical Music at the Southbank Centre puts the work into the context of the mid-twentieth century Soviet Union.
Galina Unstvolskaya: Octet Lyn Fletcher, Susie Meszaros, Christopher Tombling, Maya Iwabuchi (violins) Sue Bohling and Margaret Tindale (oboes) William Stephenson (piano) Graham Cole (timpani)."
"Tom Service, in conversation with Sir Harrison Birtwistle, presents this Birtwistle Portrait concert, specially recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the London Sinfonietta conducted by David Atherton
Cortège
Five Distances for 5 Instruments
Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum
In Broken Images (UK premiere)
And in the Hear and Now 50, composer, writer and Russophile Gerard McBurney nominates the austere and uncompormising Octet by Galina Ustvolskaya, which changed his ideas of twentieth-century Russian music. And Gillian Moore, Head of Classical Music at the Southbank Centre puts the work into the context of the mid-twentieth century Soviet Union.
Galina Unstvolskaya: Octet Lyn Fletcher, Susie Meszaros, Christopher Tombling, Maya Iwabuchi (violins) Sue Bohling and Margaret Tindale (oboes) William Stephenson (piano) Graham Cole (timpani)."
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