Performance on 3 - Halle Orchestra/Mark Elder

Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given by the Halle Orchestra under conductor Mark Elder in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. They perform Vaughan Williams's A Pastoral Symphony, an elegy for the dead of the First World War, Mozart's late Piano Concerto No 22, followed by another war-themed piece, Strauss's Metamorphosen, a work for 23 solo strings mourning the destruction of Germany in the Second World War. Nadine Livingston (soprano) Cedric Tiberghien (piano) Halle Orchestra Mark Elder (conductor) Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat, K482 Strauss: Metamorphosen Plus Composing Today: Nominations from the 2008 British Composer Awards in the sonic art category by Ed Hughes, Terry Mann and Janek Schaefer. Patrick Nunn: Transilient Fragments Maria Oldak (violin) James Baillieu (piano) Judith Bingham: Fantasia (from The Lost Works Of Paganini series) Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin) Jonathan Pitkin: Con spirito Kerry Young (live piano) + disklavier Terry Mann: Piece II: Childhood (from The Bells of Paradise) Bells linked by recorded environmental sounds Ed Hughes: Auditorium Sussex Downs Youth Orchestra Film Sountrack [middle bit] Janek Schaeffer: Vinyl PianoTrio (from Extended Play) Michael Jennings (piano) Simon Hewitt Jones (Violin) Thomas Hewitt Jones (cello)