SPONSORED: CD Spotlight. On Buoyant Form - Orchestral music by Andrew Downes, heard by Roderic Dunnett.
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SPONSORED: CD Spotlight. Uncommon Piquancy - Music for two cellos, heard by Howard Smith.
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VIDEO PODCAST: Women Composers - Our special hour-long illustrated feature on women composers includes contributions from Diana Ambache, Gail Wein, Hilary Tann, Natalie Artemas-Polak and Victoria Bond.
William Sterndale Bennett, born in Sheffield, England, on 13 April 1816 was praised by Felix Mendelssohn for a piano concerto written at the age of 16, and later befriended Robert Schumann. A succession of administrative posts - professor of music at Cambridge, later principal of the Royal Academy of Music – did not minimise his output or success as a composer. He died in London on 1 February 1875.
An Outstanding Evening - Bill Newman listens to American pianist Rorianne Schrade
Ensemble. Compact and Imaginative - Judith Bingham's 'Shakespeare Requiem' receives its first performance, heard by Patric Standford