From the Royal Festival Hall, London, a concert continuing me endless Parade season. Music by Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle - two composers from the Manchester group who are both in their sixties - is preceded by a short, punchy opener by Thomas Ades.
Michael Berkeley has arranged two love scenes from Birtwistle's imaginative opera to a text by Russell Hoban , The Second Mrs Kong , to form a concert suite for three singers and orchestra. The
Maxwell Davies piece is his taut fifth symphony, completed on the Orkney island of Hoy in January 1994 and premiered at that year's BBC Proms. Valdine Anderson (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo), Peter Bronder (tenor),
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins
Ades These Premises Are Alarmed
Maxwell Davies Symphony No 5
8.05 Anglophiles
Foreign-born artists and thinkers choose their favourite examples of British achievements in the postwar arts. With Philip Dodd.
8.25 Birtwistle/Hoban, arr Berkeley Love Cries (The Second Mrs Kong )