Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Tommy Pearson introduces
Revelations, the first concert in a series featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra with a British soloist performing a contemporary concerto by a British composer.

Tonight virtuoso saxophonist John Harle joins the conductor Robert Ziegler for Christopher Gunning's Thames Serenade in a programme which also features excerpts from classic Hollywood film scores.

John Harle (saxophone), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Robert Ziegler
Nino Rota, arr Robert Ziegler

Fellini Suite David Raskin Theme from "Laura"
Christopher Gunning Thames Rhapsody

8.25 Twenty Minutes: In Tune with the Times
David Huckvale looks at how and why electronic music, atonality, serialism and, perhaps most significantly, jazz all found their way into the soundtracks of movies.

8.45 Bernard Herrmann Overture from "North by Northwest"; A Night Piece (Taxi Driver); Psycho (excerpts)
Leonard Rosenman Rebel without a Cause
(excerpts)