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Best of British.

Music from the 1940s and 50s. Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings is the oldest work in today's programme. Written during the Second World War at the request of horn player Dennis Brain, it's steeped in the atmosphere of night and evokes both the calmness of sleep and the terror of the darkest hours.

As with so many other composers, Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony is his last. It was premiered in 1958, the same year he died, and although it confused audiences at the time, it has grown in reputation in the intervening years.

And today's programme starts with the third of Britten's Canticles - Still falls the rain, to a text by Edith Sitwell. Alongside tenor - and recent 大象传媒 New Generation Artist - Ben Johnson are pianist James Baillieu and horn player Martin Owen.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

Britten: Canticle III - Still falls the rain Op.55
Ben Johnson (tenor),
Martin Owen (horn),
James Baillieu (piano).

2.10pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 9
大象传媒 Philharmonic,
John Wilson (conductor).

2.40pm
Mathias
Rex Gloriae 4 motets (Op.83)
大象传媒 Singers
Stephen Disley (organ)
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

3pm
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra, Op. 31
Andrew Kennedy (tenor),
Tim Thorpe (horn),
大象传媒 National Orchestra Of Wales,
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor).