29/09/2008

Martin Handley presents a performance of Michael Tippett's profoundly moving oratorio A Child of our Time, an eloquent expression of man's inhumanity to man during the Second World War, given last month at the Edinburgh International Festival.

Nicole Cabell (soprano)
Jane Irwin (mezzo)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
John Tomlinson (bass)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

Followed by a look into the BBC Edinburgh Festival archives from 1968.

Schubert: Trio in E flat, D929.

Isaac Stern (violin)
Leonard Rose (cello)
Eugene Istomin (piano).