with Susan Sharpe.
Fairest Isle
1.00 BBC Festival of Brass
Paul Hindmarsh presents eight concerts of British brass band classics, recorded in the Concert Hall of New Broadcasting House, Manchester.
Today's programme is played by British Open Champions the BNFL Band, conductor Richard Evans.
Judith Bingham Four Minute Mile
John McCabe Salamander
Michael Ball Cortege Russell Gray (cornet)
Percy Fletcher An Epic Symphony
Philip Sparke Harmony Music
2.00 Schools Playtime
2.15 Time to Move
2.35 Ghostwriter
2.45 Le Club
3.00 Advance Guard: 5: 1931-35
Six programmes in which Martin Cotton surveys the early festivals of the International Society for Contemporary Music.
The first festival held in Britain features a classic combination: Constant
Lambert's Music for Orchestra with Webern's Symphony and Gershwin's An American in Paris.
Belshazzar feasts in Amsterdam, and Florence welcomes the young Benjamin Britten, but political events in Germany cast a lengthening shadow.