Hear and Now - Purcell Weekend - Arrangements of Purcell

As part of BBC Radio 3's Purcell Weekend, Robert Worby presents a concert given at St Luke's in London, featuring two world premieres as well as an array of works by leading composers who have arranged or written new music inspired by Purcell's Fantasias. Huw Watkins (piano) London Sinfonietta Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor) George Benjamin: Fantasia VII Oliver Knussen: Upon One Note Colin Matthews: Fantasia XIII Michael Zev Gordon: The Impermanence of Things - for piano and ensemble (world premiere) Elliott Carter: A Fantasy about Purcell's Fantasia on One Note Steve Martland: One Note Fantasy James Saunders: either/or (world premiere) Peter Maxwell Davies/Purcell: Fantasia on One Note.