Complementing last week's "Composer of the Week" the BBC Philharmonic and Martyn Brabbins present a live performance of Robert Simpson's Second Symphony.
With a Beethoven-sized orchestra, Simpson packs a sonic punch. The central movement delights in its exploration of structure and shape.
Steven Osborne joins the orchestra for another piece with an innovative middle movement, Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto, in which the soloist was famously compared to Orpheus taming the wild beasts.
