9 October 2005
Sunday 9 October 2005 16:00-17:45 (Radio 3)
When an 11-year-old Benjamin Britten heard Frank Bridge's orchestral portrait The Sea, he was 'knocked sideways' by it, he later recalled. Here's a chance to hear the piece that later sowed the seeds for some of Britten's greatest work.
Plus, requests for an entrancing miniature from John Cage, and a BBC archive performance of Malcolm Binns as soloist in Liszt's Rhapsodie Espagnole, arranged for piano and orchestra by Busoni.
Duration:
1 hour 45 minutes
Playlist
TORELLI: CONCERTO GROSSO, Op 8, No. 12
Mariana Sirbu / Antonio Perez / I Musici
Philips 432 118-2, T 1-3
LISZT arr BUSONI: RHAPSODIE ESPAGNOLE
Malcolm Binns / BBC Philharmonic / Edward Downes
BBC archive recording, 1986
SCHUBERT: IMPROMPTU in Eb, D 946, No. 2
Alfred Brendel
Philips 438 703-2, CD 2, T 6
DELIUS: WALK TO THE PARADISE GARDEN from A VILLAGE ROMEO AND JULIET
LSO / Anthony Collins
Decca 470 375-2, CD 2, T 2
POULENC: CHANSONS GAILLARDES
Pierre Bernac / Francis Poulenc
Ades 14.114-2, T 18-25
MENDELSSOHN: KONZERTSTUCK for clarinet, basset-horn & orchestra
Sharon Kam / Johannes Peitz / MDR Symphony Orchestra / Gregor Buhl
Berlin Classics 0017792BC, T 17-19
JOHN CAGE: IN A LANDSCAPE
Amy Shulman (harp)
Bridge Records BCD 9041, T 18
BRIDGE: THE SEA
Ulster Orchestra / Vernon Handley
Chandos 8473, T 6-9
