BBC Symphony Orchestra
Samuel Beckett's centenary
Monday 20 March 2006 19:30-21:05 (Radio 3)
As the Barbican Centre celebrates the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth, Martin Robertson joins the BBC SO for Mark-Anthony Turnage's saxophone concerto, based around Beckett's monologue Rockaby. Plus Joseph Swensen conducts two great works by Sibelius and Nielsen's life-affirming Fourth Symphony.
Duration:
1 hour 35 minutes
Playlist:
Sibelius: En Saga
Turnage: Your Rockaby
Nielsen: Symphony No 4, The Inextinguishable
Martin Robertson (saxophone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Swensen (conductor)
