5/5. Donald Macleod concludes his series of programmes featuring the music of Elizabeth Maconchy in the week that marks the centenary of her birth. Joined in conversation by composer Nicola LeFanu , Maconchy's daughter, Macleod explores the work of this brilliant composer who described her music as "an intellectual art, a balanced statement of ideas, an impassioned argument"; sentiments perhaps nowhere more forcibly articulated than in her cycle of 13 string quartets, the tenth of which is aired today.
Have You Seen but a Bright Lily Grow
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) Proud Thames London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley
Sun, Moon and Stars Tracey Chadwell (soprano), Pamela Lidiard (piano)
String Quartet No 10 Mistry Quartet Epyllion Raphael Wallf isch (cello),
South West German Chamber Orchestra, conductor William Boughton Repeated at 8.45pm