Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. Walton's centenary is celebrated with a suite from his score for a BBC radio play, written in the 1940s by the poet
Louis MacNeice. This journey to the new world prefaces Dvorak's setting of the traditional devotional poem about the Virgin Mary 's vigil at Christ's Cross. Presented by John Shea.
Susan Chilcott (soprano), Catherine Wyn -Rogers (mezzo), Paul Charles Clarke
(tenor), John Tomlinson (bass), London
Symphony Chorus, BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, conductor Richard Hickox
Walton, arr Christopher Palmer Suite: Christopher Columbus
Dvorak Stabat Mater Repeated Tuesday 2pm