Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Della Jones (mezzo)
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Colin Carr (cello)
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Peter Maxwell Davies

Mozart is less prominent in this season of Proms. Here one of his shorter works - a memorial piece composed in 1785 for two fellow masons - precedes conductor Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's own Black Pentecost of 1982, commissioned by the Philharmonia and written in response to the threat of uranium mining in the Orkneys. It offers a bleak vision of a community destroyed for financial gain.

Mozart Masonic Funeral Music (K477)
Peter Maxwell Davies Black Pentecost

8.25 Anthony Burton talks to Peter Maxwell Davies about his approach to interpreting music and conducting, not just his own compositions, but the music of earlier great composers.

8.45 Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme
Beethoven Symphony No 8 in F