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200 Years of the Royal Philharmonic Society

Episode 5: New Future

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Donald Macleod rounds off this week's exploration of the pieces commissioned and premiered by the RPS during its 200-year history by taking us right up to the 21st century, with recent works by Richard Rodney Bennett and Huw Watkins. Donald is also joined by cultural historian, Leanne Langley to tell the story of perhaps the most significant RPS commission of the early 20th century - Elgar's Violin Concerto - and presents a final masterwork from the middle of the last century: Walton's orchestral showpiece "Variations on a Theme of Hindemith". Show less

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