Sir Arnold Bax
Thursday 15 March 2007 13:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by Louise Fryer.
1.00pm Lunchtime Concert
Playlist:
Szymanowski Quartet
3/4. From Symphony Hall, Birmingham, the third in a series of concerts focusing on the chamber music of Bartok, Rachmaninoff and Ravel - three very individual composers who were all born within eight years of each other.
Rachmaninov: String Quartet in G minor (unfinished)
Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances, Nos 1-7
Ravel: String Quartet in F
2.00pm
British Symphony Series: Sir Arnold Bax (1883-1953)
Bax: Symphony No 6 in C
BBC Philharmonic
Vernon Handley (conductor)
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge
Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Royal String Quartet
Simon Crawford Phillips (piano)
Bridge: The Sea
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Quilter: 7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op 12
Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Julius Drake (piano)
Adams: My Father Knew Charles Ives
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Adams (conductor)
Bax: Symphony No 7 in A flat
BBC Philharmonic
Vernon Handley (conductor)
