Against all the odds, the boys were invited backstage to the Ivors Composer Awards. Tune in to hear them try almost too hard to brand themselves the Ant and Dec of the classical music world. Also – the late, great Victoria Wood in this week’s analysis of Franz Schmidt’s Fourth Symphony, not before some flagrant Handelian recycling.

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Music referenced:
’Pizzicato’ from Delibes’s Sylvia
Sometimes Voices by Alex Paxton, performed by HYPER DUO
CATAMORPHOSIS by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko
Caroline Kraabel’s London 26 and 28 March 2020: Imitation: Inversion
River (O Nodi Re) performed by Zoe & Idris Rahman
Martin Iddon’s Lampades, performed by Jack Adler-Mckean
Sarabande from Act 3 of Handel’s Almira
‘Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa’ from Handel’s The Triumph of Time and Delusion
‘Lascia ch'io pianga’ from Act 2 of Handel’s Rinaldo
Franz Schmidt’s Symphony No. 4 performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony under Paavo Järvi

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