Prom 47 Part One
Friday 19 August 2005 19:00-19:35 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Thursday 1 September 2005 15:00-16:30 (Radio 3)
From the Royal Albert Hall, presented by Tommy Pearson.
Tippett champion Sir Colin Davis continues this year's centenary celebrations with a work the composer described as a birth to death piece - a lyrical journey from first to last breath. Complementing this, after the interval, Beethoven's symphony Eroica, which culminates in a great celebration of human life.
Duration:
1 hour 30 minutes
Playlist:
Tippett: Symphony No 4
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat,
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)