with John Amis featuring
Walton's Viola Concerto in rehearsal and performance by the London Symphony Orchestra leader MICHAEL DAVIS conductor Mark Elder Nobuko Imai (viola)
From the Barbican's new concert hall, home of the LSO, comes a new style of musical presentation. In the last of three informal Sunday afternoon concerts with young people especially in mind, JOHN AMIS gives an illustrated talk about Walton's Viola Concerto as an introduction to a performance by the young Japanese virtuoso, NOBUKO IMAI.
Tomorrow is Sir William Walton 's 80th birthday.
Lighting HUBERT CARTWRIGHT Sound vic GODRICH
Executive producer HUMPHREY BURTON
Director BRIAN JOHNSON
This series of Lecture Concerts is sponsored by the Ladbroke Group