Performance on 3 - BBC Symphony Orchestra: Penderecki Celebration

BBC Symphony Orchestra: Penderecki Celebration Presented by Petroc Trelawny. The 75th birthday of Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki is celebrated with the first UK performance of his latest symphony. Titled Songs of Transcience, it is a large-scale setting of German poems by Goethe and others on the theme of man's destruction of nature. Brahms's Bach-inspired final symphony completes the programme. Heidi Grant Murphy (soprano) Agnieska Rehlis (mezzo-soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone) BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor Penderecki: Symphony No 8 (Lieder der Verganglichkeit) (UK premiere).