Mairi Nicolson introduces the first of this year's Music
Live 97 orchestral concerts from
Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier ,
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Gillian Weir (organ)
Walton Crown Imperial
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
8.10 A View from the Bridgewater
In the first of two programmes Gillian Clarke reads a poem anticipating the move from her usual rural home in Wales to the city centre of Manchester where, during the week of Music Live 97, she is poet-in-residence at the Bridgewater Hall.
8.30 Bizet Suite: Carmen
Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ)
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