Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. A three-part Prom, opening with the UK premiere of a work by Takemitsu.
Nexus
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Takemitsu From me flows what you call Time
8.05 Richard Osborne reflects on Richard Strauss's life-long veneration of the composer he admired above all others.
8.50 Mozart Piano Concerto No 19 in F (K459)
8.05 A Composer and His Public
A talk given by Sir Michael Tippett in 1954, a few months before the premiere of The Midsummer Marriage. (Rpt)
9.05 Tippett Ritual Dances (The Midsummer Marriage)
Strauss Daphne (closing scene)