Elizabeth Maconchy - ACE157.5

Maconchy on contemporary music, some of which she likes, but some she believes to be very poor. Family in the garden. She’s particularly interested in the work of her daughter, Nicola, and her son-in-law, David Lumsdaine. Maconchy trying a piece at the piano with her daughter. Nicola LeFanu saying that she had only recently realised that it was often considered odd for a woman to be a composer. Talking about her mother playing partly completed pieces to her. Music for Strings (1983) which LeFanu says is structured quite differently to previous works. Images of Wells Cathedral where the piece is being played by the Wells Cathedral Chamber Orchestra Rodney Bennett says that Maconchy composes "practical" music as she understands the mechanics of playing the instruments she writes for. The youth orchestra and more Music for Strings.