Stephen Plaistow introduces two recent
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group commissions, an arrangement made specially for them and a virtuoso concertante piece by Birtwistle. Detlev Muller-Siemens
Phoenix
David Sawer
The Memory of Water Muller-Siemens
Tom-A-Bedlam
(instrumental version) Birtwistle
Secret Theatre
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conductors Elgar Howarth and Mark Elder
Producer Jeremy Hayes
(A concert by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group: Tuesday 9.30pm)