Afternoon Performance

BBC NOW performs Dvorak and Barber

Wednesday 4 May 2005 14:00-15:40 (Radio 3)

Edward Seckerson presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performing a series of compositions with an American feel.

The bill includes Barber's School for Scandal Overture, Dvorak's 9th Symphony, and the soprano theme continues with Susan Gritton as soloist in Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915, his nostalgic look back at an American childhood.

Duration:

1 hour 40 minutes

Playlist:

Barber: The School for Scandal Overture
Garry Walker (conductor)

Hoddinott: Harp Concerto, Op 11
Catrin Finch (harp)
Garry Walker (conductor)

Bridge: Coronation March
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Barber: Knoxville Summer of 1915
Susan Gritton (soprano)
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Dvorak: Symphony No 9 in Em, From the New World
Garry Walker (conductor)