Cheltenham Festival 1998
From Tewkesbury Abbey.
Introduced by Chris Wines .
Thomas Trotter (organ), Nina Rautio (soprano), Alice Coote (mezzo),
Arthur Davies (tenor), Matthew Best (bass), BBC Philharmonic,
Leeds Philharmonic Chorus, conductor
Richard Hickox Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast)
Michael Berkeley Organ Concerto
8.10 Ivor Gumey
Poet PJ Kavanagh explores
Gloucestershire poet Ivor Gurney 's powerful and neglected work written during the First World War, and his subsequent years in an asylum. Reader David Goodland.
8.30 Janacek Glagolitic Mass