Beethoven the Revolutionary
From Glasgow City Hall, the BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra and conductor Osmo
Vanska conclude their innovative
Beethoven symphony cycle combining this great music with 20th-century classics. Tonight.
Beethoven's ground-breaking last symphony is coupled with a bold 20th-century Russian symphony which celebrates 1 May 1929.
Presented by Geoffrey Baskerville in conversation with Osmo Vanska and Jonathan Del Mar.
Claire Rutter (soprano), Elizabeth McCormack (mezzo), Adrian
Thompson (tenor), Peter Sidhom (bass), Scottish Festival Singers,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vanska
Shostakovich Symphony No 3 (The First of May)
8.35 A Sound Read
Ivan Hewett presents an interval series reviewing the latest books on music. In this programme, fertility studies specialist Robert Winston and composer Peter Paul Nash discuss books including Composer on the Aisle - a biography of composer Virgil Thompson - and a book by Wagner's great-grandson exposing the family's controversial associations.
8.55 Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)