Composer of the Week - William Alwyn - Episode 4

William Alwyn (1905-1985) 4/5. During the 1950s Alwyn's home and professional life had become so stressful that in the early 1960s he suffered a nervous breakdown. Donald Macleod looks at some of the chamber music Alwyn wrote during those difficult years and introduces a work dedicated to the man who was perhaps more influential on Alwyn's career than any other – Sir Henry Wood. Fantasy-Waltzes: Nos 1, 2, 3 and 6 John Ogdon (piano) Overture (Derby Day) London Philharmonic Orchestra William Alwyn (conductor) String Trio Members of the Quartet of London Concerto grosso No 3 City of London Sinfonia Richard Hickox (conductor).