BBC SO - Watching brief: Stephen Hough on Brahms, Phil Hall on Tippett
Graeme Kay
Producer, Speech and Classical Digital Hub, BBC Audio
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Tonight at London's Barbican Hall, and live on BBC Radio 3, the BBC Symphony Orchestra will perform the world premiere of Jonathan Lloyd's new balls (a Royal Philharmonic Society Elgar Bursary Commission), Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2 - one of the great pinnacles of the classical repertory - and Michael Tippett's Symphony No.1.
We asked tonight's concerto soloist, Stephen Hough, to introduce the Concerto.
BBC SO Artist in Focus Stephen Hough gives his insights into Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2.
And our regular blogger, the Orchestra's sub-principal viola Phil Hall, first encountered the music of Tippett as a student; here, Phil talks about the advice on interpretation which he received from the composer, and explains what to look out for in the Symphony.
BBCSO violist Phil Hall on Tippett's First Symphony.
