BBC Concert Orchestra

With Fiona Talkington, this week showcasing composers and performers as part of ‘1 in 5’, the BBC's focus on disability this month, marking the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act. The BBC Concert Orchestra is the featured orchestra today in a socially distanced studio recording from Alexandra Palace Theatre last month, with Clare Hammond playing the Piano Concerto by Doreen Carwithen. And from the 2018 Arnold Festival former Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart conducts Symphony No 4 by Malcolm Arnold, who suffered with mental health issues for much of his professional life.

Louise Farrenc: Overture No 1 in E minor
Doreen Carwithen: Concerto for Piano and Strings
Franz Schubert: Symphony No 6 in C (Little C major)
Clare Hammond (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Gavin Sutherland

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Jean Francaix: Sept Danses (Les Malheurs de Sophie)
BBC Concert Orchestra wind players, conductor Lev Parikian

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Gustav Holst: Somerset Rhapsody
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Charles Hazlewood

Pauline Oliveros: The Last Time (from Ghostdance), extract
Paraorchestra
Victoria Oruwari (soprano)
Conductor Charles Hazlewood

Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No 4
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart