The Orchestra is Alive and Well Bernard Keeffe with the New Philharmonia Orchestra leader DESMOND BRADLEY
BERNARD KEEFFE shOWS how the orchestra has developed since the days of Haydn and Mozart, and argues that, so far from dying, the orchestra still offers great opportunities for today's composers : with excerpts from Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner, Strauss, Debussy, Webern and Lutoslawski.
Composer JOHN MCCABE discusses his own use of the orchestra and introduces a movement from his First Symphony.
Producer DAVID BUCKTON