introduces and conducts
Music of the Masters, with the BBC Concert Orchestra leader MARTIN LOVEDAY direct from the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne A programme of popular classics - music that is familiar and tuneful, including Rossini's Overture: The Thieving Magpie, Tchaikovsky's stirring Marche Slave and Elgar's majestic
Pomp and Circumstance March No 4. To provide quiet dignity, there is the popular Romance from The Gadfly by Shostakovich, and the beautiful slow movement from Brahms's Symphony No 3. French composers are represented with two showcases for orchestra, Dukas's famous Sorcerer's
Apprentice and the compulsive rhythm of Ravel's Bolero.
8.20-8.40* Interval
Brian Matthew talks to
Owain Arwel Hughes and finds out more about the working life of a conductor.
Producer BARRY KNIGHT
(Presented in association with Eastbourne Borough Council)