A concert live from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
Kathryn Stott (piano), BBC Philharmonic. conductor Gianandrea Noseda
Bernstein Overture: Candide
Barber Adagio for strings
Gershwin Piano Concerto in F
8.15 Twenty Minutes
Poet Dana Gioia explores the life and writing of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , once one of the most widely read writers in the English speaking world, whose works included Poems on Slavery and The Song of Hiawatha. He met Dickens in London and the American provided inspiration to Dvorak's ninth symphony. Some of Longfellow's later work was affected by the tragic death of his wife in a domestic fire.
8.35 Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World)