A concert recorded last week at the Barbican
Concert Hall, London. Introduced by Catherine Bott. A passionate choral plea for peace, and an idyll by an English composer who was to die in the First World War join the symphony Sibelius wrote in 1915. Michael Nyman 's new work sets texts written by Iraqi poet Jamal Juma , who was conscripted to the Iraqi army in the first Gulf War. BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Storgards Butterworth A Shropshire Lad
Michael Nyman A Handshake in the Dark Schoenberg Friede auf Erden Sibelius Symphony No 5