Live from the City Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne. The Northern Sinfonia's pairing of Schoenberg and Haydn brings together two of the most progressive voices in European classical music in unfamiliar guise. Schoenberg began the second chamber symphony in 1906, completing it in 1939, towards the end of his life. His Suite in G, composed for a college string orchestra in 1934, is also a strikingly tonal work. Haydn's keyboard concerto in D of 1784 relates more to the symphonic concerto style of the young Mozart than to the concerto grosso models of Haydn's other early concertos.
Anne Quef felec (piano), Northern
Sinfonia, conductor Mario Venzago
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 2 Haydn Piano Concerto in D, H XVIII 11
8.30 Twenty Minutes: Making it New
In the last of his series about the impact of the literary magazine on 20th-century culture, James Campbell discusses the role of the avant-garde.
8.50 Schoenberg Suite in G
Haydn Symphony No 95 in C minor