Description | Off-air recording: BBC Radio 3, 11:30, 90 mins. In the final programme of this series discussing influential choreographers of British Ballet, David Bintley looks at the work of Frederick Ashton. Includes performances of: Bach/Walton/Philip Lane's Sleepers Wake! The Saviour is Born Today (from The Wise Virgins); Franck's Symphonic Variations; Mendelssohn's Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream (from The Dream); Henze's Divertissement (from Ondine, Act 3). |