Lunchtime concert by William Conway (cello) and Philip Sharp (piano)

One of Scotland's most distinguished cellists performs a programme of British music spanning just over one hundred years from the First World War to the present day. Frank Bridge's cello sonata is a wonderfully lyrical statement of despair over the futility of war. It finds its echoes some sixty years later in fellow pacifist John Bevan-Baker's punchy Tryptich. Two of Scotland's most exciting composers present different sound worlds with Aileen Sweeney's hypnotic Situ and Stuart MacRae's profoundly eloquent Dark Liquid which shot up the listening charts within one week of its recording release.