From Studio 1, Birmingham. Vaidine Anderson (soprano) and inomas Ades (piano) perform songs by Samuel Feinberg , Nikolai Roslavets and Arthur Lourie , and Gyorgy Kurtag 's Requiem for the Beloved.
THE THIRD AT 50
8.05 Readings from the Archive
An opportunity to hear archive recordings of three great 20th-century writers. 2: Two Little Girls (excerpt)
In 1964, Elizabeth Bowen introduced and read from her novel-in-progress, a typically sharp comedy of manners about friendship.
8.25 Solo piano music by the mysterious Russian composer Alexei Stanchinsky , including his second sonata; and by his contemporary Stravinsky, including some unpublished, early miniatures. The concert also includes the first broadcast of a song-cycle by Jonathan Powell called The Silver Age, and ends with four songs by Rachmaninov.