Composer of the Week - John McCabe (1939- ) - Episode 1

Donald Macleod meets British composer, pianist, writer and critic John McCabe, who performs in the studio and discusses his life at the age of 70. McCabe plays his own recent Study No 7 (Snowfall in Winter), introduces a Merseybeat-influenced work for recorder and strings, and discusses his early years growing up in Liverpool and working with John Barbirolli's great Halle orchestra. Study No 7 (Evening Harmonies: Hommage a Dukas, 2000) John McCabe (piano) SPECIALLY RECORDED Variations on A Theme of Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1964) Halle Orchestra James Loughran (conductor) EMI CDM7631762, Trs 13-19 Domestic Life (1969/2000) John Turner (recorder) Royal Ballet Sinfonia Gavin Sutherland (conductor) WHITE LINE CD WHL 2143, Tr 6 Concerto Funebre (1962) Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola) Orchestra Nova George Vass (conductor) DUTTON CDLX 7186, Tr 3.