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Angela Rippon introduces the St Thomas Wake:

Foxtrot for orchestra by Peter Maxwell Davies and talks to him about this entertaining and unusual piece, in which a jazz band rubs shoulders with a symphony orchestra and an Elizabethan Pavane is transformed by the sounds of 1920s dance music.

The programme begins with Alfred Brendel as soloist in a work equally original in its departure from tradition - Beethoven's

Piano Concerto No 4 in G. BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conducted by Sir Charles Groves

Sound GRAHAM HAINES Lighting BILL JONES

Producer RODNEY GREENBERG

(Part of the concert given on 9 August)

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Season
31
Episode
5
Air Date
21/Aug/1977
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Angela Rippon introduces the St Thomas Wake:

Foxtrot for orchestra by Peter Maxwell Davies and talks to him about this entertaining and unusual piece, in which a jazz band rubs shoulders with a symphony orchestra and an Elizabethan Pavane is transformed by the sounds of 1920s dance music.

The programme begins with Alfred Brendel as soloist in a work equally original in its departure from tradition - Beethoven's

Piano Concerto No 4 in G. BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conducted by Sir Charles Groves

Sound GRAHAM HAINES Lighting BILL JONES

Producer RODNEY GREENBERG

(Part of the concert given on 9 August)

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