BBC Symphony Orchestra
Live from Bedford School Hall Part One
Wednesday 18 May 2005 19:30-20:20 (Radio 3)
Part 1.
Live from Bedford School Hall.
On 30th July 1941 the BBC Symphony Orchestra travelled by special train from its previous wartime billet in Bristol to its new temporary home in Bedford. The orchestra was to stay there until the end of the War in 1945, giving regular concerts at the Corn Exchange and Bedford School.
Sixty years on, the Orchestra makes a welcome return visit. Presented by Paul Guinery.
Playlist:
Stravinsky: Danses Concertantes
Britten: Les Illuminations
Claire Booth (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
[Continues at 8.40pm after Twenty Minutes]
