BBC CO/Hazlewood

Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given in the Queen Elizabeth hall in which BBC Concert Orchestra and Charles Hazlewood explore issues of chance in music. The programme includes a new piece by 12 composers who have had an association with the BBC Concert Orchestra, where each composer writes one minute of music. The order of composers is determined by the roll of a die and each composer sees the last 12 bars of the previous composer's section and then continues the piece at their will.

Also featuring:

Mozart: A Musical Dice Game
Schnittke: Moz-Art a la Haydn
Matthews: To Compose Without the Least Knowledge of Music
Ives: The Unanswered Question
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes

Followed by music by past winners of the RPS awards, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2009.

Tchaikovsky:
Was I not a little blade of grass?
Joan Rodgers – Singer 1997
Roger Vignoles
Hyperion CDA66617 Track 9

Elgar: Organ Sonata
Thomas Trotter, organ
Instrumentalist prize, 2001
REGENT REGCD256
Tracks 1-4