BBC Symphony Orchestra
From the Barbican
Centre, London, two or Ives's most original vocal works and two symphonies. Requiring vast forces on- and off-stage, the fourth symphony poses "the searching questions of What? and Why?".
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor
Andrew Davis
Chorus master Stephen Jackson
Assistant conductor
Laurent Philippe
Andrew Ball (piano)
Harvest Home Chorales
Symphony No 2
8.25 Ives in His Place
The vast soul that o'er him planned: Charles Ives in Concord
Michael Oliver examines the importance to the composer's musical imagination of Emerson,
Thoreau and the other New
England transcendentalists.
8.45 General William Booth
Enters into Heaven; Symphony No 4
A concert sponsored by Land Rover.
Next concert tomorrow 7.30pm