Performance on 3 - London Philharmonic/Alsop

Presented by Ian Skelly Mark Anthony Turnage's new work is both a Texan soundscape and a meditation on the death of model Anna Nicole Smith. Like Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Philip Glass's new concerto marks each season of the year and is performed tonight by the violinist for whom it was written - Robert McDuffie. The concert ends with a work which became a huge hit in the 1990s and one of the few works by a living composer to top the classical charts - Gorecki's Third Symphony. It is a slow and sorrowful work in which steadily moving string chords underpin a soaring and sublimely expressive solo soprano. Mark Anthony Turnage - Texan Tenebrae (UK premiere) Philip Glass - Violin Concerto no.2 'The American Four Seasons' (European premiere) Górecki Symphony 3 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' * Robert McDuffie (violin) Joanna Wos (soprano) * London Philharmonic Orchestra Marin Alsop (conductor) Followed by more from this weeks focus on "American Originals". Tonight, a BBC recording of the Szymanowski Quartet performing 'Musica Celestis' the slow movement of a string quartet by Aaron J.Kernis.