Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. Martin Handley presents Schoenberg's account of the Holocaust and Alexander Goehr 's latest commission, which casts a modern glance at Handel. The concert concludes with Vaughan Williams 's choral symphony - a setting of words by Walt Whitman and a tribute to the late Romantic choral tradition.
Joan Rodgers (soprano),
Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Sanford Sylvan (narrator), Trinity College of Music
Chamber Choir, Philharmonia Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Schoenberg A Survivor from Warsaw, Op 46 Goehr.... a second musical offering (GFH 2001) (BBC commisson, first performance)
8.15 Twenty Minutes
American poet Dana Gioia talks to
Kevin Jackson about the poetry of Walt Whitman.
8.35 Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony (Symphony No 1)
Repeated next Wednesday 2pm