Afternoon on 3 - Composer-Conductor-Performers - Episode 1

Composer-conductor-performers. Across the centuries leading musicians, at home and abroad, have demonstrated their versatility in fulfilling dual roles as composer-conductors, conductor-performers or performer-composers with great success. In today's Afternoon on 3, Louise Fryer celebrates the accomplishments of figures who have met these criteria, including Sir Edward Elgar, Constant Lambert, William Walton and Gustav Mahler, together with the contemporary British composer-performer Huw Watkins. Featuring BBC Performing Group recordings. Elgar: Froissart - Concert Overture BBC National Orchestra of Wales Tadaaki Otaka, conductor 2.15pm Mahler: Kindertotenlieder Jane Irwin, mezzo sporano BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thierry Fischer, conductor Lambert: Horoscope - suite from the ballet Ulster Orchestra Rumon Gamba, conductor 3pm Huw Watkins: Concerto for piano and orchestra Huw Watkins, piano BBC National Orchestra of Wales Jac van Steen, conductor 3.25pm Martinu: Rhapsody Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Maxim Rysanov, viola Ulster Orchestra David Porcelijn, conductor Walton: Portsmouth Point - overture BBC National Orchestra of Wales Edwin Outwater, conductor 4.10pm Walton: Symphony no. 1 in B flat minor Ulster Orchestra Vernon Handley, conductor.