Towards the Millennium: the Sixties
The third of four programmes in which composers look back at that swinging decade and present a selection of music. Tonight Anthony Payne recalls the period when he found his own voice, partly as a reaction against so much of what was going on at the trendier end of the avant-garde. But the solidly exciting European modernism of Ligeti and Lutoslawski, and the home-grown Lutyens and Maxwell Davies , all made a big impact on him.