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Composer of the Week:Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-94)

on BBC Radio 3

1/5. Elizabeth Maconchy has been described as one of the most substantial composers these islands have yet produced, and was a hugely influential, and radical, voice in British
20th-century music. Donald Macleod begins a week-long survey of her work to mark the centenary of her birth.
String Quartet No 5 Bingham Quartet
My Dark Heart Jane Manning (soprano),
Lontano, conductor Odaline de la Martinez Clarinet Concertino No 1 Thea King , English
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Producer Lyndon Jones Repeated at 8.45pm
RT DIRECT: Elizabeth Maconchy Complete Quartets (3 CDs), with the Hanson Quartet, Bingham Quartet and Mistry
Quartet, is available for F12.00 including p&p. To order please send a cheque, payable to Selections to: [address removed], or call the orderline on [number removed] (national rate), or visit www.selections.com/rtdirect Quote ref [number removed]. UK delivery only

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth MacOnchy
Music:
Donald MacLeod
Soprano:
Jane Manning
Unknown:
Thea King
Conductor:
Barry Wordsworth
Producer:
Lyndon Jones
Unknown:
Bingham Quartet

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