Live from the St Magnus Festival in Kirkwall, a midsummer concert featuring the first performance of the Violin Concerto by Peter Maxwell Davies Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conductor Andre Previn soloist Isaac Stern (violin) The concert is given in Britain's most northerly cathedral, a magnificent red sandstone building begun in the 12th century and dedicated to the island's patron saint St Magnus.
7.50 Sally Magnusson sets the scene in Orkney and talks to Peter Maxwell Davies
8.0 Part 1
Mendelssohn Overture:
The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Maxwell Davies Violin
Concerto (commissioned by the RPO to celebrate its 40th anniversary)
8.50* During the Interval
Sally Magnusson looks at the other festival events and how the Orkney landscape and history have inspired a rich literary tradition.
9.10* Part 2
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis Mendelssohn Scherzo , Nocturne and Wedding
March (from A Midsummer Night's Dream) Sound RON ALLAN
Lighting JAMES MAIDEN Producer MIKE NEWMAN
(Concert mounted with the support of The Scottish Post Office Board)
A simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3 from 8.0 pm
(concert only).
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