Afternoon on 3 - Composer-Conductor-Performers - Episode 2

Composer-conductor-performers Across the centuries leading musicians, at home and abroad, have demonstrated their versatility in fulfilling dual roles as composers-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 Hamilton Harty, Charles Villiers Stanford, Felix Mendelssohn and the contemporary British conductor-composer Stephen Barlow - all in recordings by Ulster Orchestra. Harty: Concerto for piano and orchestra Hugh Tinney, piano Ulster Orchestra Jane Glover, conductor 2.35pm Stanford: Symphony No. 4 in F major Ulster Orchestra Vernon Handley, conductor Stephen Barlow: Nocturne for clarinet, strings and marimba Emma Johnson, clarinet Scott Foster, marimba Ulster Orchestra Stephen Barlow, conductor 3.40pm Mozart: Piano concerto no. 25 in C major, K503 Shai Wosner, piano Ulster Orchestra David Porcelijn, conductor 4.20pm Mendelssohn: Incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream Ulster Orchestra Stephen Barlow, conductor.