BBC Symphony Orchestra
The BBCSO's new season at London's
Barbican begins with a Finnish flavour as principal guest conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste gives the first performance of a new work by Magnus Lindberg. Presented by Paul Guinery. Marjana Li povsek (mezzo), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste Sibelius Tapiola
Magnus Lindberg Concerto for Orchestra (BBC Commission; first performance)
8.30 Twenty Minutes: Hunter Thompson Music By Judith Hermann , translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo and abridged by Doreen Estall. Read by Mia Soteriou. Hunter Thompson lives in a seedy, nohoper hotel in New York. Just before
Easter, something finally happens. (R)
8.50 Mahler Liederaus Des Knaben
Wunderhorn
Sibelius Symphony No 6