Sarah Walker introduces a concert of four first performances given by the City of London Sinfonia and conductor Richard Hickox at last weekend's
Playing in the New festival at London's Barbican Centre. The concert begins with a new work selected earlier in the day at a workshop organised by the Society for the Promotion of New Music, and is followed by Diana Burrell 's Dunkelhvide Manestraler.
During the interval, Sarah Walker talks to Richard Hickox about the dozens of new British works commissioned by the City of London Sinfonia over its 25-year history. The concert then concludes with John Tavener 's The
Hidden Face and Barry Guy 's Concerto for Orchestra (Fallingwater). Producer Philip Tagney