Afternoon on 3 - Composer-Conductor-Performers - Episode 4

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 Eric Coates, Benjamin Britten and Richard Strauss, together with the contemporary Scottish composer-conductor James MacMillan. Featuring BBC Performing Group recordings. Coates: The Jester at the Wedding - suite from the ballet Ulster Orchestra Rumon Gamba, conductor 2.25pm Strauss: Don Juan BBC Philharmonic Michal Dworzynski, conductor MacMillan: Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis BBC Singers Jonathan Scott, organ James MacMillan, conductor 3.05pm Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major Ulster Orchestra Howard Shelley, soloist/conductor Bridge: Summer: tone poem BBC Symphony Orchestra Rumon Gamba, orchestra 3.45pm Britten: Nocturne for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings Ian Bostridge, tenor BBC Philharmonic Yutaka Sado, conductor 4.20pm Britten: Symphony for cello and orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales Danjulo Ishizaka, cello Edwin Outwater, conductor.