Sarah Walker introduces Seance by James Wood , which brings together the occult, as soloists question the souls they wish to contact. This performance by the New London
Chamber Choir and the Critical Band was given at the recent Oxford
Festival of Contemporary Music. Plus Gerard McBurney 's Desire, a colourful, theatrical piece based on paintings and poems in a book published by the Tate Gallery. The
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group are conducted by Mark Elder , and the texts are read by Simon Callow.
Producer Jeremy Hayes