The composers
William Alwyn and Elizabeth Lutyens wrote music that was stylistically poles apart: his tonal and romantic, hers serial and iconoclastic. But they shared a lengthy friendship which survives in the many letters they wrote to each other - letters that were by turn humorous, passionate, witty and scurrilous and in which they revealed to each other the ups and downs, the light and the darkness, of their different creative lives. This week. Andrew Palmer introduces four selections he has made from the Alwyn/Lutyens letters, which are read by Tessa Worsley and John Turner. Producer Michael Emery
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