Live from their new London home at the Barbican, the opening concert of the BBC
- Symphony Orchestra's new season.
Charles Mackerras , celebrating his 75th birthday this autumn, conducts orchestral showpieces by Janacek and Bartok, and is joined by Pamela Frank for a performance of Dvorak's charmingvioilin concerto. Plus the European premiere of a new work by Harrison Birtwistle.
Pamela Frank (violin), conductor Charles Mackerras
Birtwistle Sonance Severance 2000 (first European performance)
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
8.30 Twenty Minutes: Book of the Month An extended review of one of the month's most interesting new publications. From Ezra Pound and WH Auden to
Seamus Heaney and Andrew Motion , Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry, a new anthology edited by WN Herbert and Matthew Hollis , brings together more than a hundred years of poetic manifestos from British, American and Irish poets.
8.50 Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor
Janacek Sinfonietta