Cheltenham International Festival of Music
Tommy Pearson introduces the opening concert of this year's festival, live from
Cheltenham Town Hall. It marks the start of Martyn Brabbins 's term as the festival's artistic director and includes the final orchestral commission from Julian Anderson as composer-in-association with the CBSO. Victoria Mullova (violin),
CBSO, conductor Martyn Brabbins
Julian Anderson Eden (first performance) Bartok Violin Concerto No 2
8.20 Twenty Minutes: Bricks and Brothels
Regency Cheltenham boasts a genteel air. But poet and resident Alison Brackenbury explores another side of the town, introducing from its streets new poems she has written that reveal sometimes hidden aspects, including prostitution, murder and.... engineering. The poems are read by Susan Jameson and Richard Katz.
8.40 Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony