Afternoon on 3 - Barber/Schuman Centenary - Episode 2

Penny Gore presents a week of programmes celebrating the centenary of Samuel Barber and William Schuman. The Curtis Institute in Philadelphia was founded in 1924 by the daughter of media magnate Cyrus Curtis, with advice from Stokowski and Josef Hoffmann. A 14 year old Samuel Barber enrolled as a student in that first year. In today's programme we can hear two of Barber's most popular works: the Overture "School for Scandal" and "Knoxville - Summer of 1915", as well as the less well known 2nd Symphony, which Barber wrote in 1943 when he was serving with the Army Air Corps - and specially recorded for the programme by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with conductor Baldur Bronnimann. We can also hear 2 graduates from the Curtis Institute- violinist Hilary Hahn in Dvorak's Violin Concerto, and pianist Jonathan Biss playing Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata. 2.30pm Barber: Overture School for Scandal BBC Philharmonic Vassily Sinaisky, conductor 2.40pm Dvorak: Violin Concerto Hilary Hahn, violin BBC Philharmonic Gianandrea Noseda, conductor 3.10pm Barber: Knoxville Summer of 1915 Ruby Hughes, soprano BBC Concert Orchestra Johannes Wildner, conductor 3.25pm Beethoven: Sonata for Piano Op.57 "Appassionata" Jonathan Biss, piano 3.45pm Barber: Symphony No.2 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Baldur Bronnimann, conductor William Schuman: New England Triptych BBC Philharmonic Clark Rundell, conductor.