From the Barbican Hall,
London. The ECO is joined by their principal guest conductor in a programme of 20th-century classics, from Stravinsky's vibrant Suites to Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht.
Conductor Heinz Holliger (oboe), Robert Tear (tenor)
Stravinsky Suites Nos 1 and 2; Piece for Solo Oboe
Britten Nocturne
8.15 After Ovid Contemporary poets including Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney read versions they have recently made of stories from Metamorphoses, among them
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus and The Death of Orpheus.
8.35 Britten Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for Solo Oboe
Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht (1917 7 version)