From the Royal
Albert Hall , London.
Including a new work from Steve Reich , and two famous scores featuring four pianos.
Melanie Armitstead
(soprano)
Fiona Kimm (mezzo)
Gunnar Gudbjbrnsson (tenor)
Mikhail Krutikov (baritone) BBC Singers
Ensemble Modern, conductor Peter Ebtvos
Anthell Ballet mécanique
7.25 Car Horns, Pile
Drivers and a Wind Chorale
Steve Reich tells Robert
Ziegler how he wrote City Life using sound samples from the New York streets as musical riffs.
Rpt
7.45 Steve Reich City Life; Proverbs (BBC commission; first performance)
8.35 Twentieth-Century Masterworks
In the final programme of the series, composer Steve Martiand talks to Gerard
McBurney about the folk roots of Stravinsky's Les noces and discusses its importance in 20th-century music with Louis
Andriessen.
8.55 Stravinsky Les noces