British Music Focus
"The most thrilling experience of my musical life". That's how the British composer Alistair Hinton felt about the first recording of his biggest work - the amazing String Quintet. It took him eight years (on and off) to write - and no wonder: it lasts almost three hours, and two of those hours are the finale, a huge song-cycle that launches a soprano soloist on a voyage of self-discovery through the power of music. Alistair Hinton joins Andrew McGregor to introduce this first complete broadcast.
Sarah Leonard (soprano), Jagdish Mistry and Marcus Barham-Stevens (violins),
Levine Andrade (viola), Michael Stirling (cello), Corrado Canonici (double bass)
Alistair Hinton String Quintet