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20071001Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Live from the Wigmore Hall, London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a concert by the Royal String Quartet.

Shostakovich: String Quartet No 8 in C minor, Op 110

Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op 135

2.00pm

As part of Radio 3's 40th anniversary season, Penny Gore introduces works that have been commissioned by Radio 3 for the BBC performing groups.

Colin Matthews: Renewal

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1

Alban Gerhardt (cello)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Stefan Solyom (conductor)

Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Stefan Solyom (conductor).

With the Lunchtime Concert: the Royal String Quartet perform Shostakovich and Beethoven.

20071015Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Live from the Wigmore Hall, London, introduced by Verity Sharp.

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Sharon Bezaly joins with gamba player Charles Medlam and harpsichordist Terence Charlston in a programme of Bach and Handel, balanced with two small-scale solo works by contemporary Finnish composer Kalevi Aho.

Bach: Sonata in E flat for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1031

Handel: Flute sonata in B minor, HWV 367b

Bach: Sarabande (Partita in A minor, BWV 1013)

Kalevi Aho: 2nd movement (Prestissimo) from Solo III, for solo flute

Bach: Sonata in E for flute and basso continuo, BWV 1035; Polonaise, Menuet, Badinerie (Suite in B minor, BWV 1067)

2.00pm

This week, Afternoon on 3's British Symphony Series focuses on two Welsh composers, William Mathias (1934-1992) and Alun Hoddinott (b.1929). Plus the new debut album of cabaret songs by Schoenberg, Bolcom and Satie by young Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman with the BBC SO.

Mathias: Symphony No 1

BBC Welsh SO

William Mathias (conductor)

Bolcom: Cabaret Songs

Measha Brueggergosman (soprano)

David Robertson (conductor)

Alun Hoddinott: Symphony No 2

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Owain Arwel Hughes (conductor).

Featuring the Lunchtime Concert: pieces by Bach and Handel, plus two works by Kalevi Aho.

20071105Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

More than three decades after their first Lunchtime Concert for BBC Radio 3, the Vermeer Quartet give their last recital at London's Wigmore Hall as part of their farewell tour. Introduced by Verity Sharp.

Schubert: Quartet in E flat, D87

Mendelssohn: Quartet in E minor, Op 44, No 2

2.00pm

A week of programmes showcasing the BBC Orchestras in recent performances at the international Prague Autumn Festival, featuring concerts in the Dvorကk Hall of the Rudolfinum by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and the BBC Philharmonic. Each afternoon we'll also hear an audio postcard recorded on location by Louise Fryer at a famous Prague landmark.

Elgar: Cockaigne Overture, Op 40

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Walton: Concerto in B minor for violin and orchestra

James Ehnes (violin)

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)

Debussy: Nocturnes for orchestra

Ladies of the BBC Singers

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor

Ilan Volkov (conductor).

Featuring the Lunchtime Concert. With the Vermeer Quartet live from the Wigmore Hall.

20071106Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tchaikovsky and the Russians

Recitals recorded at the Perth Concert Hall. 1/4. The Trio Wanderer play music by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov.

Rachmaninov: Two Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op 38; Prelude and Oriental Dance

Raphael Pidoux (cello)

Vincent Coq (piano)

Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50

2.00pm

Dvorကk: Scherzo capriccioso, Op 66

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Britten: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge for string orchestra, Op 10

Brahms: Rhapsody for contralto, male chorus and orchestra, Op 53

Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano)

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op 14

Strauss: Don Quixote

Christian Poltera (cello)

Jac van Steen (conductor).

Featuring the Lunchtime Concert. Tchaikovsky and the Russians: 1/4. The Trio Wanderer.

20071107Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tchaikovsky and the Russians

2/4. Another chance to hear tenor Daniil Shotda, accompanied by pianist Larissa Gergieva, in a recital of Russian song originally given at the Wigmore Hall in 2005.

Cui: Three Songs from Op 57: Desire; The Statue of the Tsarkoye Selo; Ici bas The burnt Letter, Op 33, No 4

Tchaikovsky: The Fearful Minute, Op 28, No.6; We sat together, Op 73, No 1; At Bedtime, Op 27, No 1; Amid the din of the ball, Op 38, No 3

Gliere: O, if my mourning, Op 28, No 3; In an outpouring of kindness, Op 6, No 3

Machavariani: You are full of charming beauty

Rachmaninov: Two songs from Op 14: The isle and How everyone loves you so; Beloved, let us fly, Op 26, No 5; Lilacs, Op 21, No 5; The night is sad, Op 26, No 12; Sing no more, Op 4, No 4; Don't believe, my friend, Op 14, No 7

Daniil Shtoda (tenor)

Larissa Gergieva (piano)

2.00pm

Martinu: The Butterfly that stamped (Suite from the ballet)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Dvorကk: Concerto in B minor for cello and orchestra

Christian Poltera (cello)

Schubert: Quintet in A for piano, violin, viola, cello and double-bass (Trout)

Alina Ibragimova (violin)

Antoine Tamestit (viola)

Luis Cabrera (double-bass)

Martin Helmchen (piano)

Bartok: Concerto for orchestra, Sz 116

Falla: El Sombrero de tres picos (Suite No 1)

Baldur Bronimann (conductor)

Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra, Op 31

Andrew Kennedy (tenor)

David Flack (horn)

Stefan Solyom (conductor).

Featuring the Lunchtime Concert. Tchaikovsky and the Russians.

20071108Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tchaikovsky and the Russians

3/4. Pianist Elisabeth Leonskaya plays Preludes by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky's great Piano Sonata in this recital recorded at the Perth Concert Hall.

Rachmaninov: Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 3, No 2; Prelude in G sharp minor, Op 32, No 12

Tchaikovsky: Sonata for Piano, Op 37

Elisabeth Leonskaya (piano)

2.00pm

Smetana: Haakon Jarl, Op 16

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Shostakovich: The Gadfly (excerpts)

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Britten: Les Illuminations for voice and string orchestra, Op 18

Sally Matthews (soprano)

Enescu: 7 Chansons de Clement Marot for voice and piano, Op 15

Simon Lepper (piano)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Christian Gansch (conductor)

Shostakovich: Symphony No 6 in B minor

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).

Lunchtime Concert. Tchaikovsky and the Russians: 3/4. Pianist Elisabeth Leonskaya.

20071109Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tchaikovsky and the Russians

4/4. In this final concert of Russian music from the Perth Concert Hall, Paul Hillier conducts the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir in a selection from Rachmaninov's All Night Vigil and one of Tchaikovsky's best-loved partsongs.

Rachmaninov: Come, let us worship; Praise the Lord, O my soul; Blessed is the Man; Gladdening Light; Nunc Dimittis; Ave Maria (All Night Vigil, Op 37)

Tchaikovsky: The Legend

Rachmaninov: Blessed art thou, Lord; Magnificat; Gloria in excelsis; Day of Salvation; Hymn to the Mother of God (All Night Vigil, Op 37)

Paul Hillier (conductor)

2.00pm

Massenet: Suite No 3 (Scenes dramatiques)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Elgar: Sea pictures, Op 37

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture

Vasks: 3 Poems by Czeslaw Milosz for countertenor, 2 tenors and baritone

BBC Singers

James Morgan (conductor)

Tormis: Karelian destiny (Runic songs for chorus)

Milhaud: Suite francaise, Op 248 (arr. for small orchestra)

Gershwin: Concerto in F for piano and orchestra

Wayne Marshall (piano)

Vikram Seth and Alec Roth: Songs in time of war

Mark Padmore (tenor)

Philippe Honor退 (violin)

Gareth Hulse (oboe)

Alison Nicholls (harp)

Morgan Szymanski (guitar).

Lunchtime Concert. Tchaikovsky and the Russians.

20071112Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch live from London's Wigmore Hall. The Takacs Quartet, one of the world's leading string quartets, perform a programme of late works by Mozart and Dvorak. The second of his six quartets dedicated to Haydn, the D minor is Mozart's only mature string quartet written in a minor key, while in his 'American' quartet, Dvorak explores the various musical influences of his adopted home.

Mozart: Quartet in D minor for strings, K421

Dvorak: Quartet No 12 in F for strings, Op 96 (American)

2.00pm

This week the British Symphony Series concentrates on the works of Elgar and Walton, in performances by BBC orchestras.

Britten: Concerto for piano and orchestra, Op 13

Steven Osborne (piano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Holst: The Planets, Op 32

Ladies of the RSNO Chorus

Tim Dean (chorus director)

Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).

Featuring the Lunchtime Concert, with the Takacs Quartet performing Mozart and Dvorak.

20071119Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sarah Walker presents a recital live from London's Wigmore Hall. Written for and dedicated to Archduke Rudolph of Austria, the B flat Trio is the most famous and largest in scale of Beethoven's works in this form. The Beaux Arts Trio pair it with a work of much chronological debate, the composer's variations on a theme by Wenzell Müller.

Beethoven: Variations on Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu, Op 121a; Trio in B flat, Op 97 (Archduke)

2.00pm

This week Louise Fryer looks Beyond Brahms, placing his four great symphonies within the lineage of the Austro-German tradition, from the 'pure music' of Mozart and Beethoven, through the programmatic works of Liszt and Strauss to early Schoenberg. So impressed was Schoenberg by Brahms's innovation in harmony and expression that he penned a 1933 essay entitled Brahms the Progressive.

Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op 95

Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68

NDR Symphony Orchestra

Christoph von Dohnကnyi (conductor)

Mozart: Concerto in A for piano and string quartet

Tzimon Barto (piano)

Royal String Quartet

Rameau: Allemande; Sarabande; Gavotte (Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin)

Schnittke: Violin Concerto No 4

Vadim Repin (violin)

Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral)

Christoph von Dohnကnyi (conductor).

Featuring the Lunchtime Concert, with the Beaux Arts Trio performing works by Beethoven.

20071126Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sarah Walker introduces a recital, live from London's Wigmore Hall, by tenor Andrew Kennedy with pianist Julius Drake. The programme includes reflective Faure, powerhouse Strauss, and some lesser-known gems by Ivor Gurney.

Faure: Rencontre; Toujours; Adieu, Op 21; Green, Op 58, No 3; Prison, Op 83, No 1; Nell, Op 18, No 1; Fleur jetee, Op 39, No 2

Ivor Gurney: By a bierside; Severn meadows; In flanders; Even such is time; Tarentella; On wenlock edge

Strauss: Ich trage meine Minne, Op 32, No 1; Sehnsucht, Op 32, No 2; Liebeshymnus, Op 32, No 3; O süsser Mai, Op 32, No 4; Himmelsboten, Op 32, No 5; Heimliche Aufforderung, Op 27 No 3; Wenn, Op 31 No 2

2.00pm

Celebrating all things Scottish in the run up to St Andrew's Day this week. Music inspired by Scotland, performed by Scottish musicians and written by Scottish composers old and new are all included in the mix.

MacCunn: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Mackenzie: Scottish Concerto, Op 55

Steven Osborne (piano)

Wallace: Sir William Wallace (Symphonic Poem No 5)

MacCunn: The Dowie Dens O' Yarrow

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 (Scottish)

Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Fingal's Cave

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

James MacMillan: A Scotch Bestiary

Wayne Marshall (organ)

James MacMillan (conductor)

Chagrin: Greyfriars Bobby

Rumon Gamba (conductor).

Featuring the Lunchtime Concert, with a recital by tenor Andrew Kennedy.

20071127Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Concerts focusing on Radio 3's current batch of New Generation Artists, and their recent recitals at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.

1/4. Cellist Danjulo Ishizaka and pianist Jos退 Gallardo perform two demanding works from either end of the Romantic period

Beethoven: Sonata for cello and piano, Op 102 No 2

Rachmaninov: Cello sonata in G minor

2.00pm

Featuring Scottish music, composers and performers.

Wallace: Prelude to Eumenides

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Mackenzie: Twelfth Night

Eddie McGuire: Hall of Memories

Stefan Solyom (conductor)

Eddie McGuire: Source for Orchestra

Alexander Titov (conductor)

Mackenzie: Burns (Second Scottish Rhapsody)

MacCunn: The Ship o' the Fiend

Trad Scottish, arr. Vaughan Williams: Ca' the Yowes

Stuart MacIntyre (baritone)

BBC Singers

Bob Chilcott (conductor)

Mackenzie: Incidental music from Coriolanus

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture

Maxwell Davies: The Seas of Kirk Swarf

Simon Butterworth (bass clarinet)

Strauss: Don Juan

Stefan Solyom (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features cellist Danjulo Ishizaka and pianist Jose Gallardo.

20071128Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

2/4. Continuing the week of lunchtime recitals from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, Radio 3 New Generation Artist Gwilym Simcock presents a concert of jazz piano music, including some of his own compositions and improvisations.

2.00pm

Featuring Scottish music, composers and performers.

Judith Weir: Vertue

Kim Porter (mezzo-soprano)

Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor)

BBC Singers

Nicholas Kok (conductor)

MacCunn: Jeanie Deans (excerpts)

Jeanie - Janice Watson (soprano)

Effie - Lisa Milne (soprano)

Staunton - Jamie MacDougall (tenor)

Deans - Peter Sidhom (baritone)

Dumbiedykes - Stephen Gadd (baritone)

Constable - Graeme Danby (bass)

Scottish Opera Chorus

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Sally Beamish: Sangsters (Concerto for orchestra)

Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

Thea Musgrave: Poems on the Underground (Set 3: A Medieval Summer)

Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Judith Weir: Natural History

Anu Komsi (soprano)

Stefan Solyom (conductor)

Wallace: The Passing of Beatrice (Symphonic Poem No 1)

Trad Scottish, arr. MacMillan: The Cruel Mother

Stuart MacIntyre (baritone)

James MacMillan: Mairi

James MacMillan: The Quickening

Hilliard Ensemble

City of Birmingham Youth Chorus and Symphony Chorus

BBC Philharmonic

James MacMillan (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features pianist Gwilym Simcock performing jazz piano music.

20071129Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

3/4. From the recent New Generation Artists showcase series at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, the Eb耀ne Quartet perform two works from the German Romantic repertoire.

Brahms: Quartet in A minor, Op 51 No 1

Schubert: Quartet in D minor (Death and the Maiden)

2.15pm

Featuring Scottish music, composers and performers.

Tippett: Fantasia on a Theme of Handel

Steven Osborne (piano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Hovhaness: A Rose Tree Blossoms

Thea Musgrave: Poems on the Underground (Set 2)

Stephen Sametz: I have had singing

National Youth Choir of Scotland

Christopher Bell (conductor)

Poulenc: Gloria

Susan Gritton (soprano)

National Youth Choirs of Scotland and Great Britain

Rodolfus Choir

Eddie McGuire: Calgacus for Orchestra

Robert Wallace (bagpipes)

Takuo Yuasa (conductor)

Mackenzie: Overture (The Cricket on the Hearth)

Poulenc: 5 poemes de Ronsard

Lord Berners: 3 English Songs

Lisa Milne (soprano)

Iain Burnside (piano)

James MacMillan: O Bone Jesu

BBC Singers

Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Tallis: O Nata Lux

James MacMillan: A Child's Prayer

Margaret Feaviour, Micaela Haslam (sopranos)

Nicholas Kok (conductor)

John McLeod: Fling for orchestra

Highland Region Youth Orchestra

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Tippett: Piano Concerto

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Ebene Quartet who perform works by Brahms and Schubert.

20071130Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

4/4. The Aronowitz Ensemble perform two contrasting works at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Tchaikovsky's boldly Romantic sextet Souvenir de Florence and Alfred Schnittke's Piano Quintet of 1976.

2.00pm

Featuring Scottish music, composers and performers.

James MacMillan: The World's Ransoming

James Horan (oboe)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Christoph K怀nig (conductor)

Mackenzie: Benedictus, Op 37 No 3

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

James MacMillan: Cello Concerto

Raphael Wallfisch (cello)

Osmo Vanska (conductor)

Wallace: Creation Symphony in C sharp minor

Stuart MacRae: Violin Concerto

Christian Tetzlaff (violin)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

James MacMillan: Laudi alle Vergine

BBC Singers

Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Robert Carver: Gaude flore virginali

Stephen Cleobury (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Aronowitz Ensemble performing Tchaikovsky and Schnittke

20071203Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a concert live from London's Wigmore Hall by the Arcanto Quartet.

Bartok: String Quartet No 5

Brahms: String Quartet in C minor, Op 51, No 1

2.00pm The Ancients

Recordings of works inspired by ancient, biblical and mythical figures in performances from some of Europe's leading orchestras and ensembles, beginning with a sequence inspired by the Greek myths.

Leonardo Leo: Le Nozze de Iole ed Ercole

Iole - Susanne Bernhard (soprano)

Ercole - Kai Wessel (countertenor)

Alceo and Teseo - Dominik W怀rner (bass)

Neue Hofkapelle Munich

Christoph Hammer (director)

Haydn: Arianna a Naxos

Vesselina Kasarova (mezzo-soprano)

Charles Spencer (piano)

Liszt: Orpheus

Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow

Vladiimir Fedoseyev (conductor)

Stravinsky: Apollon musagete

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Charles Dutoit (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Arcanto Quartet in works by Bartok and Brahms.

20071207Presented by John Shea.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Belcea Quartet and Friends

4/4. Members of the Belcea Quartet are joined by pianists Steven Osborne and Ekaterina Apekisheva, cellist Nataile Clein and double-bass player Stacey Watton to perform chamber music by Schubert at Perth Concert Hall.

Schubert: Sonata in A minor for arpeggione and piano, D821

Natalie Clein (cello)

Ekaterina Apekisheva (piano)

Schubert: Quintet in A for piano and strings, D667 (The Trout)

Corina Belcea-Fisher (violin)

Krzysztof Chorzelski (viola)

Antoine Lederlin (cello)

Stacey Watton (double-bass)

Steven Osborne (piano)

2.00pm

Stravinsky: Concerto for piano and wind instruments

Peter Serkin (piano)

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Herbert Blomsted (conductor)

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor, Op 77

Boris Belkin (violin)

Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

Dvorak: Symphony No 6 in D, Op 60

Bartok: Piano Concerto No 2, Sz 95

Lang Lang (piano)

Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra

Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)

Schubert: Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished)

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Heinz Holliger (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert has members of the Belcea Quartet performing Schubert chamber music.

20071210Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Live from the Wigmore Hall, London, Verity Sharp introduces a concert in which The Gaudier Ensemble perform two of Beethoven's finest early chamber works.

Beethoven: Quintet in E flat for piano and wind instruments, Op 16; Trio in B flat for clarinet, cello and piano, Op 11

2.00pm Ulster Orchestra Summer Invitation Concerts

Mozart, Haydn and Neo-Classicism

Faure: Dolly Suite

Howard Shelley (conductor)

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 1 in B flat

Elizabeth Cooney (violin)

Haydn: Trio in C for keyboard and strings

Ondine Trio

Greg Caffrey: Theophilus in Space (BBC Radio 3 commission)

Hindemith: Symphony (Mathis der Maler)

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No 2

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Richard Armstrong (conductor)

Stravinsky: Symphony in three movements

Yasuo Shinozaki (conductor)

Haydn: Mass in B flat (Schopfungmesse)

BBC Singers

BBC Concert Orchestra

Stephen Cleobury (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Gaudier Ensemble, who perform Beethoven chamber works.

20071217Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Verity Sharp introduces a concert by pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja from the Wigmore Hall, London.

Schumann: Papillons for piano, Op 2

Chopin: Scherzos for piano: No 1 in B minor, Op 20; No 2 in B flat minor, Op 31; No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39; No 4 in E, Op 54

2.00pm British Symphony Series

Throughout the week, Afternoon on 3 focuses on the music and musical enthusiasms of British composer David Matthews. Plus new recordings that mark important anniversaries for other British composers - in this programme it's Elizabeth Maconchy, who was born 100 years ago.

David Matthews: Symphony No 1

Ulster Orchestra

George Vass (conductor)

Ravel: La valse

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Jac van Steen (conductor)

John McCabe: Pilgrim

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Christopher Austin (conductor)

Elizabeth Maconchy: Concertino for piano and string orchestra

Ambache Chamber Orchestra

Diana Ambache (piano/director)

Richard Rodney Bennett: Serenades

BBC Singers

Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

David Matthews: Chaconne

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Debussy: Jeux

Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Grace Williams: Sea sketches for string orchestra

Diana Ambache (director)

Schumann: Symphony No 4

Jac van Steen (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja in works by Schumann and Chopin

20071224Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert given at the Wigmore Hall, London, by German ensemble Trio Jean Paul.

Haydn: Piano Trio in E minor, H XV 12

Brahms: Piano Trio in B, Op 8

2.00pm Bayreuth Ring Cycle 2007

Over the Christmas season, Afternoon on 3 is broadcasting Wagner's entire Ring Cycle, recorded at the 2007 Bayreuth Festival. Wagner's Ring Cycle begins today with Das Rheingold, and continues with one act per day across two weeks into the New Year.

Wagner: Das Rheingold (Der Ring des Nibelungen)

Wotan - Albert Dohmen (baritone)

Donner - Ralf Lukas (baritone)

Froh - Clemens Bieber (tenor)

Loge - Arnold Bezuyen (tenor)

Fasolt - Kwangchul Youn (baritone)

Fafner - Hans-Peter K怀nig (bass)

Alberich - Andrew Shore (baritone)

Mime - Gerhard Siegel (tenor)

Fricka - Michelle Breedt (mezzo-soprano)

Freia - Edith Haller (soprano)

Erda - Mihoko Fujimura (contralto)

Woglinde - Fionnuala McCarthy (soprano)

Wellgunde - Ulrike Helzel (soprano)

Flosshilde - Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano)

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Christian Thielemann (conductor)

Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61

Christine Sch䀀fer (soprano)

Werner Güra (tenor)

Gerald Finlay (bass)

Arnold Schoenberg Chorus

Concentus Musicus, Vienna

Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor).

Including Wagner's Das Rheingold recorded at the Bayreuth Festival.

20071228Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Beethoven Plus

A run of concerts recorded at LSO St Luke's, featuring a complete series of Beethoven's string quartets coupled with masterpieces of the genre by Haydn and Bartok.

8/8. Haydn's Frog Quartet earned its nickname from the rocking motif in the final movement, and it was the last movement of Beethoven's last completed quartet that caused such controversy at the premiere. After a reviewer described it as 'incomprehensible', Beethoven replaced the last movement (later published separately as the Grosse Fuge) with an altogether lighter and cheerier Allegro movement which, arguably, sits uncomfortably after the emotional weight of the Cavatina.

Haydn: Quartet in D, Op 50 No 6 (The Frog)

Beethoven: Quartet in B flat, Op 130

Prazak Quartet

2.00pm Bayreuth Ring Cycle 2007

Wagner: Siegfried (Act 1)

Siegfried - Stephen Gould (tenor)

Mime - Gerhard Siegel (tenor)

The Wanderer - Albert Dohmen (baritone)

Alberich - Andrew Shore (baritone)

Fafner - Hans-Peter K怀nig (bass)

Erda - Mihoko Fujimura (contralto)

Brünnhilde - Linda Watson (soprano)

Waldvogel - Robin Johannsen (soprano)

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Christian Thielemann (conductor)

Buxtehude: Alles was ihr tut mit Worten oder mit Werken

Harmony of Voices

Altapunta Ensemble

Ole-Kristian Andersen (conductor)

Buxtehude: Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BuxWV 207

Byne Bryndorf (organ)

Vaughan Williams: Hodie

Susan Gritton (soprano)

Mark Wilde (tenor)

James Rutherford (baritone)

Berlin Radio Chorus

Berlin State and Cathedral Choir

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin

Simon Halsey (conductor).

Including Act 1 of Wagner's Siegfried recorded at Bayreuth.

20071231Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

As part of the 2007 Music in the Round series, pianist Cedric Tiberghien performs a programme of Spanish-inspired music recorded at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

Ravel: Alborada del gracioso

Debussy: La soir退e dans Granade (Estampes); La serenade interrompue (Preludes, Book 1); La puerta del vino (Preludes, Book 2)

Alb退niz: Almeria; Triana (Iberia)

Falla: Fantasia Baetica

2.00pm Bayreuth Ring Cycle 2007

Wagner: Siegfried (Act 2)

Siegfried - Stephen Gould (tenor)

Mime - Gerhard Siegel (tenor)

The Wanderer - Albert Dohmen (baritone)

Alberich - Andrew Shore (baritone)

Fafner - Hans-Peter K怀nig (bass)

Erda - Mihoko Fujimura (contralto)

Brünnhilde - Linda Watson (soprano)

Waldvogel - Robin Johannsen (soprano)

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Christian Thielemann (conductor)

Bach: Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248 (Cantatas 4-6)

Marie Arnet (soprano)

Tim Mead (countertenor)

Nicholas Watts, Marcel Beekman (tenors)

Markus Werba (bass)

Les Arts Florissants

William Christie (director)

Part: Symphony No 3

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Andres Mustonen (conductor).

Including Act 2 of Wagner's Siegfried recorded at Bayreuth.

20080101Presented by Louise Fryer.

2.00pm Bayreuth Ring Cycle 2007

Wagner: Siegfried (Act 3)

Siegfried - Stephen Gould (tenor)

Mime - Gerhard Siegel (tenor)

The Wanderer - Albert Dohmen (baritone)

Alberich - Andrew Shore (baritone)

Fafner - Hans-Peter K怀nig (bass)

Erda - Mihoko Fujimura (contralto)

Brünnhilde - Linda Watson (soprano)

Waldvogel - Robin Johannsen (soprano)

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Christian Thielemann (conductor)

Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers)

Monika Mauch, Constanze Backes (sopranos)

Markus Brutscher, Hans Jorg Mammel, Wilfried Jochens, Stephan Schreckenberger (tenors)

Kai Wefer (bass)

Ullrich B怀hme (organ)

St Thomas' Choir

Musica Fiata

Georg Christoph Biller (conductor).

Including Act 3 of Wagner's Siegfried recorded at Bayreuth.

20080102Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

As part of the 2007 Music in the Round series, baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Iain Burnside perform a programme of Spanish-inspired songs recorded at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.

Schumann: Der Hidalgo

Wolf: Auf dem grünen Balkon; Dereinst, dereinst, Gedanke mein; Herz, verzage nicht geschwind (Spanisches Liederbuch)

Montsalvatge: 5 Negro Songs

Shostakovich: Spanish Songs, Op 100

Ravel: Don Quichotte a Dulcin退e

2.00pm Bayreuth Ring Cycle 2007

Wagner: G怀tterd䀀mmerung (Prelude and Act 1)

Siegfried - Stephen Gould (tenor)

Gunther - Ralf Lukas (baritone)

Hagen - Hans-Peter K怀nig (bass)

Alberich - Andrew Shore (baritone)

Brünnhilde - Linda Watson (soprano)

Gutrune - Edith Haller (soprano)

Waltraute - Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano)

First Norn - Simone Schr怀der (alto)

Second Norn - Martina Dike (mezzo-soprano)

Third Norn - Edith Haller (soprano)

Woglinde - Fionnuala McCarthy (soprano)

Wellgunde - Ulrike Helzel (soprano)

Flosshilde - Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano)

Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra

Christian Thielemann (conductor)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Andres Mustonen (conductor)

Grieg, arr. Geirr Tveitt: Ballade in G minor, Op 24 (in the form of variations on a Norwegian melody)

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Eivind Aadland (conductor).

Including the Prelude and Act 1 of Wagner's Gotterdammerung recorded at Bayreuth.

20080103Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

From The Crucible in Sheffield, Music in the Round's resident group Ensemble 360 perform two contrasting sextets.

Mendelssohn: Sextet in D for violin, two violas, cello, double bass and piano, Op 110

Poulenc: Sextet for piano and winds

2.00pm Bayreuth Ring Cycle 2007

Wagner: G怀tterd䀀mmerung (Act 2)

Siegfried - Stephen Gould (tenor)

Gunther - Ralf Lukas (baritone)

Hagen - Hans-Peter K怀nig (bass)

Alberich - Andrew Shore (baritone)

Brünnhilde - Linda Watson (soprano)

Gutrune - Edith Haller (soprano)

Waltraute - Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano)

First Norn - Simone Schr怀der (alto)

Second Norn - Martina Dike (mezzo-soprano)

Third Norn - Edith Haller (soprano)

Woglinde - Fionnuala McCarthy (soprano)

Wellgunde - Ulrike Helzel (soprano)

Flosshilde - Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano)

Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra

Christian Thielemann (conductor)

P䀀rt: La Sindone

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Andres Mustonen (conductor)

Schumann: Requiem für Mignon, Op 98b

Christiane Oelze, Anitra Jellema (sopranos)

Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Ans van Dam (contraltos)

Andreas Schmidt (baritone)

Netherlands Radio Chorus

Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic

Jaap van Zweden (conductor)

Schumann: Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, Op 112

Rosa - Christiane Oelze (soprano)

Elfenfürstin, Martha, Müllerin - Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto)

Max - Werner Güra (tenor)

Müller - Hans de Vries (baritone)

Totengr䀀ber - Andreas Schmidt (bass)

Maja Roodveldt, Anitra Jellema (sopranos)

Anjolet Rotteveel (contralto)

Jaap van Zweden (conductor).

Including Act 2 of Wagner's Gotterdammerung recorded at Bayreuth.

20080104Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

From the Crucible in Sheffield in a concert given as part of Music in the Round, violist Lawrence Power is joined by pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips.

Brahms: Sonata in F minor for viola and piano, Op 120 No 1

Sibelius: Malincolia, Op 20

York Bowen: Phantasy for viola and piano, Op 64

2.00pm Bayreuth Ring Cycle 2007

Wagner: G怀tterd䀀mmerung (Act 3)

Siegfried - Stephen Gould (tenor)

Gunther - Ralf Lukas (baritone)

Hagen - Hans-Peter K怀nig (bass)

Alberich - Andrew Shore (baritone)

Brünnhilde - Linda Watson (soprano)

Gutrune - Edith Haller (soprano)

Waltraute - Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano)

First Norn - Simone Schr怀der (alto)

Second Norn - Martina Dike (mezzo-soprano)

Third Norn - Edith Haller (soprano)

Woglinde - Fionnuala McCarthy (soprano)

Wellgunde - Ulrike Helzel (soprano)

Flosshilde - Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano)

Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra

Christian Thielemann (conductor)

J n Leifs: Edda I

Gunnar Guobj怀rnsson (tenor)

Bjarni Thor Kristinsson (bass)

Icelandic Symphony Orchestra

Hermann Baumer (conductor).

Including Act 3 of Wagner's Gotterdammerung recorded at Bayreuth.

20080107Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, Verity Sharp introduces a concert by the Kopelman Quartet.

Shostakovich: Quartet No 1 in C, Op 49

Beethoven: String Quartet in A minor, Op 132

2.00pm British Symphony Series: Cyril Scott

Afternoon on 3 features the symphonies of Cyril Scott, whose work was first championed at the turn of the 20th century by Hans Richter and Henry Wood. Alongside his symphonic works and two of his large-scale concerti, all performed by the BBC Philharmonic, are works by Scott's contemporaries.

Scott: A Festival Overture

Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Shostakovitch: Violin Concerto No 1

Sarah Chang (violin)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Strauss: 6 Lieder, Op 67

Ailish Tynan (soprano)

Llyr Williams (piano)

Scott: Symphony No 1

Korngold: The Sea Hawk (Suite from the film score, Part 1)

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Beethoven: Symphony No 7

Paul Daniel (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Kopelman Quartet performing Beethoven and Shostakovich.

20080108Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

1/4. These performances were recorded at the 2007 Bath Mozartfest and feature works from three different concerts.

Schumann: 3 Romanzen, Op 94

Steven Isserlis (cello)

Melvyn Tan (piano)

Strauss: Das Rosenband; Ruhe meine Seele; Wiegenlied, Op 41a; Einerlei; Waldseligkeit; Schlechtes Wetter; Zueignung

Felicity Lott (soprano)

Graham Johnson (piano)

Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat, K493

Nash Ensemble

2.05pm British Symphony Series: Cyril Scott

Korngold: The Sea Hawk (Suite from the film score, Part 2)

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: 3 Songs from Shakespeare

BBC Singers

Bob Chilcott (conductor)

Scott: Concerto No 1 in C for piano and orchestra

Howard Shelley (piano)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge

James Gilchrist (tenor)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

Beethoven: Concerto in D for violin and orchestra, Op 61

Olivier Charlier (violin)

Douglas Boyd (conductor)

Scott: Three Symphonic Dances, Op 22

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert includes cellist Steven Isserlis at the 2007 Bath Mozartfest.

20080109Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

2/4. Recorded at the 2007 Bath Mozartfest, there are works from four different concerts, given at the Assembly Rooms and the Guildhall in Bath.

Bach/Moscheles: 3 Preludes from The Well-Tempered Clavier

Steven Isserlis (cello)

Melvyn Tan (piano)

Mozart: An Chloe; Das Veilchen; Abendempfindung an Laura; Als Luise die Briefe

Felicity Lott (soprano)

Graham Johnson (piano)

Mendelssohn: String Quintet No 2 in E flat, Op 87

Nash Ensemble

Mendelssohn: Variations concertantes in D, Op 17

Bach: Vor Deinem Thron

Emerson Quartet

2.05pm British Symphony Series: Cyril Scott

Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus Overture

BBC Philharmonic

Paul Daniel (conductor)

Scott: Symphony No 3 (The Muses)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Shostakovich: Preludes, Op 34 (Nos 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 24 arr. for viola and piano)

Lawrence Power (viola)

Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)

Korngold: The Sea Hawk (Suite from the film score, Part 3)

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor

Olivier Charlier (violin)

Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2

Paul Daniel (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert includes the Nash Ensemble at the 2007 Bath Mozartfest.

20080110Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

3/4. These performances were recorded at the 2007 Bath Mozartfest and feature works from four different concerts.

Poulenc: Hotel; Montparnasse; 3 poemes de Louise Lalanne; A sa guitare; Voyage a Paris; Les chemins de l'amour

Felicity Lott (soprano)

Graham Johnson (piano)

Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No 2 in D, Op 58

Steven Isserlis (cello)

Melvyn Tan (piano)

Mozart: Quartet in C minor, K465 (Dissonance)

Emerson Quartet

2.15pm British Symphony Series: Cyril Scott

Scott: Symphony No 4

BBC Philharmonic

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Mozart: Duo for violin and viola, K423

Alina Ibragimova (violin)

Antoine Tamestit (viola)

Korngold: The Sea Hawk (Suite from the film score, Part 4)

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Poulenc: Chansons gaillardes for voice and piano

Jonathan Lemalu (baritone)

Michael Hampton (piano)

Walton: Cello Concerto

Paul Watkins (cello)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Tuomas Ollila (conductor)

Scriabin: Sonata No 9 in F for piano, Op 68 (Black Mass)

Alexander Melnikov (piano)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 (Italian)

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert includes soprano Felicity Lott at the 2007 Bath Mozartfest.

20080111Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

4/4. These performances were recorded at the 2007 Bath Mozartfest and feature works from different concerts.

Barber: The monk and his cat; Sure on this shining night; Promiscuity; Solitary Hotel

Felicity Lott (soprano)

Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: String Quintet in C, D956

Nash Ensemble

2.05pm British Symphony Series: Cyril Scott

Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

BBC Philharmonic

Pascal Rophe (conductor)

Shostakovich: Sonata for viola and piano, Op 147

Lawrence Power (viola)

Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)

Scott: Cello Concerto

Paul Watkins (cello)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Bennett: Songs before sleep for baritone and piano

Jonathan Lemalu (baritone)

Michael Hampton (piano)

Mozart: Symphony No 40

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Ravel: Sheherazade (3 poems for mezzo-soprano and orchestra)

Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Korngold: The Sea Hawk (Suite from the film score, Part 5)

Rumon Gamba (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert includes the Nash Ensemble at the 2007 Bath Mozartfest.

20080114Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Verity Sharp introduces a concert by the award-winning Florestan Trio, who return to London's Wigmore Hall to perform works by Mozart and Shostakovich.

Mozart: Trio in G, K496

Shostakovich: Trio in E minor Op 67

2.00pm Towards Judith Weir

A week of programmes planned in collaboration with composer Judith Weir to complement the Telling the Tale weekend beginning on Friday at London's Barbican and on Radio 3. As well as tasters of Weir's own music, there are her favourite pieces of music that tell stories and works by composers she admires who were inspired by folk music.

Judith Weir: Heroic Strokes of the Bow

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Stravinsky: The Firebird

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Janacek: Piano Sonata

Jonathan Biss (piano)

Holst: St Paul's Suite

Christoph Konig (conductor)

Bartok: String Quartet No 2

Ebene Quartet

Roslavets: Symphony for Chamber Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Florestan Trio, who perform Mozart and Shostakovich.

20080115Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Celebrating the New Generation

Series of recitals given at the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen featuring members, both past and present, of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme.

1/4. Tenor Allan Clayton is joined by pianist James Baillieu for a programme of songs by Holst, Bridge and Judith Weir.

Britten: Canticle 1

Bridge: Go Not Happy Day; Journey's End; A Dirge

Weir: Scotch Minstrelsy

Holst: Persephone; The Floral Bandit; The Dream City; Journey's End; Now in These Fairy Lands

Britten: Sally in Our Alley; The Plough Boy; Oliver Cromwell

2.00pm Towards Judith Weir

Works on the themes of storytelling and the inspiration of folk music.

Humperdinck: Overture (Hansel and Gretel)

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Haydn: Trio in G for keyboard and strings (Gypsy Rondo)

Ondine Trio

Rimsky-Korsakov: Skazka (Legend)

Ligeti: Continuum; Hungarian Rock

Jane Chapman (harpsichord)

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite

Pascal Rophe (conductor)

Bartok: Suite for piano, Op 14

Simon Trpceski (piano)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Sinfonietta on Russian Themes

Janacek: String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata)

Karol Szymanowski Quartet

Holst: The Planets

Shinyukai Choir

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features tenor Allan Clayton and pianist James Baillieu.

20080116Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Celebrating the New Generation

A series of recitals recorded at the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen featuring members, both past and present, of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme.

2/4. The Aronowitz Ensemble perform works by Vaughan Williams, Britten and Bridge.

Vaughan Williams: Fantasy Quintet for 2 violins, 2 violas and cello

Britten: Lachrymae for viola and piano

Bridge: Phantasie trio for piano and strings

2.00pm Towards Judith Weir

Works on the themes of storytelling and the inspiration of folk music.

Judith Weir: My Guardian Angel

BBC Singers

Dominic Wheeler (conductor)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture to The Tsar's Bride

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Holst: I love my love

Bob Chilcott (conductor)

Bartok, arr. Willner: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz 56

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Lesley Hatfield (director)

Ligeti: Romanian Concerto (Finale)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Mozart: 12 Variations on 'Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman', K265

Martin Helmchen (piano)

Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht

Holst: Four songs for voice and violin

Sarah Leonard (soprano)

Marcia Crayford (violin)

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 2

Martin Roscoe (piano)

Janacek: String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters)

Belcea Quartet

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Aronowitz Ensemble in works by Britten and Bridge.

20080117Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Celebrating the New Generation

A series of recitals recorded at the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen featuring members, both past and present, of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme.

3/4. Soprano Eilish Tynan is joined by pianist Christopher Glynn for a recital of British folksongs and settings of the poetry of Shakespeare.

Trad, arr. Kennedy Fraser: Eriskay Love Lilt; The Wild Swan; Dance to Your Shadow

Trad, arr. Britten: Come You Not from Newcastle?; At the Mid Hour of Night; The Salley Gardens; The Last Rose of Summer

Poulenc: Fancy

Sullivan: Orpheus with his Lute

Tippett: Full Fathom Five

Schubert: Who is Sylvia?

Haydn: She Never Told Her Love

Vaughan Williams: Orpheus with his Lute

Dominic Argento: Winter

Dankworth: Our Revels Now are Ended

2.00pm Towards Judith Weir

Judith Weir: Illuminare Jerusalem

Iain Farrington (organ)

BBC Singers

Dominic Wheeler (conductor)

Weber: Overture (Der Freischutz)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Janacek: Violin Sonata

Janine Jansen (violin)

Jonathan Biss (piano)

Sibelius: En Saga

Ulster Orchestra

Tuomas Ollila (conductor)

Bartok: String Quartet No 3

Karol Szymanowski Quartet

Nielsen: Aladdin Suite

Mozart: Der Vogelfanger bin ich ja; Ein Madchen oder Weibchen (The Magic Flute)

Ronan Collett (baritone)

David Angus (conductor)

Ligeti: Sonata for solo cello

Li-Wei (cello)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jac van Steen (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features soprano Eilish Tynan and pianist Christopher Glynn.

20080118Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Celebrating the New Generation

A series of recitals recorded at the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen featuring members, both past and present, of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme.

4/4. Cellist Danjulo Ishizaka is joined by pianist Jose Gallardo for a programme of English music.

Ireland: Cello Sonata in G minor

Bax: Rhapsodic Ballade for solo cello

Britten: Sonata in C for cello and piano, Op 65

2.00pm Towards Judith Weir

A feast of stories and folk music ends this week's series leading up to the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Telling the Tale weekend, focusing on the music of Judith Weir.

Judith Weir: Little Tree

Richard Benjafield (marimba)

BBC Singers

Dominic Wheeler (conductor)

Janကcek, arr. Talich: Suite from The Cunning Little Vixen

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Grainger: There was a pig went out to dig for female voices

Bo Holten (conductor)

Holst: I sowed the seeds of love

Ildiko Allen (soprano)

Jacqueline Fox (mezzo-soprano)

Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Elgar: Cello Concerto

Jian Wang (cello)

Bart k: 8 Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs

Grace Francis (piano)

Stravinsky: Petrushka

4.00pm Folk Tales

An edited broadcast of the concert curated by Judith Weir at LSO St Luke's in London. Delhi-born storyteller Vayu Naidu interweaves magical stories with folk music from around Britain, as a curtain-raiser to the Telling the Tale weekend.

The Lunchtime Concert features cellist Danjulo Ishizaka and pianist Jose Gallardo.

20080121Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Verity Sharp introduces a recital by the Guarneri Quartet, live from the Wigmore Hall, London.

Haydn: Quartet in D, H III 34

Smetana: Quartet No 1 in E minor (From My Life)

2.00pm Youth Orchestras

Beginning a week of concerts by some of the world's leading youth orchestras and choirs, today featuring orchestras from Venezuela and Germany.

Bernstein: Overture (Candide)

Ginastera: Estancia Suite

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No 2

Revueltas: Noche de Encantamiento

Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Simon Bolivar Venezuelan Youth Orchestra

Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 63

Janine Jansen (violin)

Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

Andrej Borejko (conductor)

Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 in C (Leningrad)

Andrej Borejko (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Guarneri Quartet, who perform Haydn and Smetana.

20080122Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Four 'period instrument' lunchtime recitals from The Clothworkers' Centenary Concert Hall at the University of Leeds.

1/4. Trio Goya perform works from the Austrian Classical repertoire.

Haydn: Trio in D, Hob:XV:24

Mozart: Trio in B flat for piano and strings, K502

Haydn: Trio in D, Hob:XV:13

2.00pm Youth Orchestras

A week of concerts by some of the world's leading youth orchestras and choirs. In this programme, music comes from Australia, France and Germany.

Arvo Part: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

Resonanz Ensemble

Ravel: La valse

Australian Youth Orchestra

Lawrence Foster (conductor)

James Ledger: Habits of Creatures

Gorecki: String Quartet No 1, Op 62 (Already it is dusk)

Wagner, arr. Gottwald: Im Treibhaus (Wesendoncklieder)

Schleswig-Holstein Festival Chorus

Mahler, arr. Gottwald: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

Avner Dorman: Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!

PercaDu percussion duo

UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra

Zubin Mehta (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43

Alexey Yemtsov (piano)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36

Lawrence Foster (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features Trio Goya in works by Haydn and Mozart.

20080123Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Four 'period instrument' lunchtime recitals from The Clothworkers' Centenary Concert Hall at the University of Leeds.

2/4. Melvyn Tan gives a performance of 3 works on the fortepiano.

CPE Bach: Fantasia for keyboard, Wq59 No 6

Mozart: Variations on 'Ein Weib ist der Herrlichste Ding

Beethoven: Sonata in C, Op 2 No 3

2.00pm Youth Orchestras

A week of concerts by some of the world's leading youth orchestras and choirs. In this programme, a rare chance to hear Cavalli's opera on the myth of Hercules.

Francesco Cavalli: Ercole Amante

Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists of the Ambronay European Baroque Academy

Gabriel Garrido (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features pianist Melvyn Tan in works by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.

20080124Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Four period instrument lunchtime recitals from The Clothworkers' Centenary Concert Hall at the University of Leeds.

3/4. Quatour Mosaques perform two core works from the German Romantic repertoire.

Mendelssohn: String Quartet No 6 in F, Op 80

Beethoven: String Quartet in B flat, Op 130 (including Grosse Fuge)

2.00pm Youth Orchestras

A week of concerts by some of the world's leading youth orchestras and choirs. Featuring in this programme, concerts from Hamburg and Salzburg.

Kodaly: Dances from Galanta

Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra

Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)

Dvorak: Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 (From the New World)

Monteverdi: Lamento d'Arianna

Schleswig-Holstein Festival Chorus

Locatelli: Concerto grosso, Op 7 No 6 (Il pianto d'Arianna)

Resonanz Ensemble

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 74

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features Quatour Mosaiques, who perform Mendelssohn and Beethoven.

20080125Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Four period instrument lunchtime recitals from The Clothworkers' Centenary Concert Hall at the University of Leeds.

4/4. Soprano Carolyn Sampson and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout perform a mixed repertoire of 18th and early 19th century works.

Herbing: Montan und Lalage (Eine Erzahlung)

Fleischer: An den Schlaf and das Clavier

Wolff: An das Clavier

Benda: Keyboard Sonata No 9 in A minor

Mozart: Das Veilchen

Schubert: Adagio for piano in G, D178; Vedi quanto adoro, D510

2.00pm Youth Orchestras

A week of concerts by some of the world's leading youth orchestras and choirs. Featuring in this programme, concerts from Amsterdam and Lübeck.

Ligeti: Lontano

Debussy: La mer

Benjamin: Dance Figures

Janacek: Sinfonietta

National Youth Orchestra of The Netherlands

George Benjamin (conductor)

Arturo Marquez: Danzon No 2

Oscar Fernandez: Batuque, Danza di negri (Reisado do Pastoreio)

Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor

Simon Bolivar Venezuelan Youth Orchestra

Gustavo Dudamel (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features soprano Carolyn Sampson and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout.

20080128The Lunchtime Concert features music by Wolf, plus Gustav and Alma Mahler.
20080129The Lunchtime Concert features Florian Boesch performing works by Brahms and Strauss.
20080130The Lunchtime Concert features works by Mahler and Brahms.
20080131The Lunchtime Concert features Sara Mingardo performing music by Mahler and Wagner.
20080201The Lunchtime Concert features Monica Groop performing works by Schubert, Berg and Mahler.
20080204Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Direct from Wigmore Hall, London, Sarah Walker introduces Irish soprano Ailish Tynan accompanied by Julius Drake (piano) in a recital including French songs and nine Lieder by Johannes Brahms.

Brahms: Das Madchen spricht, Op 107 No 3; Es traumte mir, Op 57 No 3; Wenn du nur zuweilen lachelst, Op 57 No 2; Ach, wende diesen Blick, Op 57 No 4; Unbewegte laue Luft, Op 57 No 8; Standchen, Op 106 No 1; Da unten im Tale; O kuhler Wald, Op 72 No 3; Vergebliches Standchen, Op 84 No 4

Debussy: Fetes galantes I; En sourdine; Clair de lune; Fantoches

Faure: Three settings of texts by Paul Verlaine: Clair de lune, Op 46 No 2; Spleen, Op 51 No 3; Mandoline, Op 58 No 1

Debussy: Fetes galantes II; Les Ingenus; Le faune; Colloque sentimental

Faure: Three settings of texts by Charles-Marie-Rene Leconte de Lisle: Les roses d'Ispahan, Op 39 No 4; Lydia, Op 4 No 2; Nell, Op 18 No 1

2.00pm South American Week

A week of music celebrating all things South American as performed by the BBC Orchestras, BBC Singers and friends. Music by South American composers features alongside recordings made on tour in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil.

Villa-Lobos: Bendita sabedoria

Celso Antunes (conductor)

Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes for chamber orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Susanna Malkki (conductor)

Ginastera: Panambi, Op 1

Enrique Diemecke (conductor)

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras No 9

Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)

Lindberg: Chorale (based on Bach: Es ist genug)

Bruckner: Symphony No 9 in D minor

Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features music by Brahms, Faure and Debussy.

20080206Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

City of London Festival 2007

The series of concerts from last summer's festival continues with a recital given by another of Radio 3's New Generation Artists in the church of St Mary Aldermary.

Bach: Preludes and Fugues in C; C minor; B flat; B flat minor (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)

Haydn: Sonata in F

Rameau: La Dauphine; Chaconne

Scarlatti: Sonatas in D minor, Kk 213; Sonata in A, Kk 209; Sonata in A, Kk 214

Eduard Kunz (piano)

2.00pm

South American Week

Continuing Radio 3's celebration of all things South American as performed by the BBC Orchestras, Singers and friends.

Mignone: Festas das igrejas

Krieger: Passacaglia for the New Millennium

BBC Symphony Orchestra

John Neschling (conductor)

Villa-Lobos: Ave Maria; Pater noster

BBC Singers

Celso Antunes (conductor)

Ginastera: Concerto for piano and orchestra No 1, Op 28

Rolf Hind (piano)

Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

Piazzolla: Suite del angel transc. for string quartet by Eckart Runge

Artemis String Quartet

Guarnieri: Ave Maria

Santoro: Ave Maria

Escobar: Ave Maria

Ginastera: Lamentations of Jeremiah

Stephen Cleobury (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features music by Bach, Haydn, Rameau and Scarlatti.

20080207Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

City of London Festival 2007

Members of the Aronowitz Ensemble are joined by fellow Radio 3 New Generation Artist Sharon Bezaly in a concert given at the Church of St Bride's, Fleet Street, during last summer's City of London Festival.

CPE Bach: Sonata in A minor for solo flute, Wq 132

Mozart: Flute Quartet in D, Op 25

Beethoven: Serenade in D for flute, violin and viola, Op 25

2.00pm South American Week

Continuing Radio 3's celebration of all things South American as performed by the BBC Orchestras, BBC Singers and friends.

Revueltas: El Renacuajo paseador (ballet suite)

Guarnieri: Abertura concertante

Piazzolla: Las Cuatro estaciones portenas

Ulster Orchestra

Celso Antunes (conductor)

Chopin: Nocturne, Op 27 No 2

Ingrid Fliter (piano)

Granados, orch. de Grignon: 3 danzas espanolas, Op 37

Josep Caballe-Domenech (conductor)

Montsalvatge: 5 Canciones negras

Catherine Bott (soprano)

Palau: Concierto levantino for guitar and orchestra

Fabio Zanon (guitar)

Max Bragado-Darman (conductor)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 18 in E flat, Op 31 No 3

Chavez: Symphony No 5

Moncayo: Huapango

Enrique Barrios (conductor)

Villa-Lobos: Bachiana brasileira No 5

Marquez: Danzon for orchestra No 2

Enrique Barrios (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert includes music by CPE Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.

20080208Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

City of London Festival 2007

As part of the French theme of last summer's Festival, a concert given by Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Psophos Quartet in the church of St Margaret Lothbury.

Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op 20 No 5

Saint-Georges: String Quartet in F minor, Op 14 No 3

Beethoven: String Quartet in B flat, Op 18 No 6

2.00pm South American Week

Continuing Radio 3's celebration of all things South American as performed by the BBC Orchestras, BBC Singers and friends.

Chopin: Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor for piano, Op 66

Ginastera: Danza del gaucho matrero (Furiosamente ritmico...)

Ingrid Fliter (piano)

Ginastera: Ollantay

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Gisele Ben-Dor (conductor)

Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain for piano and orchestra

Martin Roscoe (piano)

David Charles Abell (conductor)

Villa-Lobos: 2 Lendas Amerindias em Nheengatu; Canide Ioune

Cardoso: Os Atabaques da Pombagira

Celso Antunes (conductor)

Ginastera: Harp Concerto

Catrin Finch (harp)

Josep Cabelle-Domenech (conductor)

Chopin: Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58

Ginastera: Popul vuh

Villa-Lobos: Quatuor

Lontano

Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)

Bizet: Carmen Suite Nos 1 and 2

David Charles Abell (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features music by Haydn, Saint-Georges and Beethoven.

20080211Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Direct from the Wigmore Hall, London, Suzy Klein introduces a concert of baroque chamber music for winds.

Emily Beynon (flute)

Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)

Gustavo Nunez (bassoon)

Gary Cooper (harpsichord)

Telemann: Trio Sonata in F for oboe, bassoon and continuo, TWV 42 F10

Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor for flute, oboe and bassoon, RV 103

Attrib. Handel: Trio Sonata in F for oboe, bassoon and continuo

Fasch: Trio Sonata in G minor for flute, oboe and continuo

2.00pm Focus on Berlin

A week of programmes celebrating the best of music-making in Berlin. Alongside performances by the Berlin Philharmonic are chamber music highlights from orchestra members past and present.

Dvorak: Slavonic Rhapsody in D, Op 45 No 1

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Simon Rattle (conductor)

Bartok: Piano Concerto No 3

Helene Grimaud (piano)

Neeme Jarvi

Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody in A, Op 11 No 1

Haydn: Trio in C, H IV1 (London)

Emmanuel Pahud (flute)

Guy Braunstein (violin)

Olaf Maninger (cello)

Borodin: Symphony No 2 in B minor, Op 5

Rameau: Les Indes galantes

German Symphony Orchestra

Emanuelle Haim (conductor)

Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Simon Rattle (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert includes baroque chamber music for winds.

20080212Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

City of London Festival 2007

A second week of concerts given at last summer's festival begins with a song recital in the church of St Andrew by the Wardrobe.

Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone)

Michael Hampton (piano)

Schumann: Dichterliebe

Schubert: Das Fischermadchen; Am Meer; Die Stadt; Der Doppelganger; Ihr Bild; Der Atlas (Schwanengesang)

Bennett: Songs Before Sleep

2.00pm Focus on Berlin

Continuing a celebration of the best of music-making in Berlin, with performances by the Berlin Philharmonic plus chamber music highlights from orchestra members past and present.

Busoni: Sarabande, Op 51 (Two Studies for Doktor Faust)

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Simon Rattle (conductor)

Dvorak: Piano Concerto in G minor, Op 33

Andras Schiff (piano)

Mozart: Flute Quartet in C, K285b

Emmanuel Pahud (flute)

Guy Braunstein (violin)

Ori Kam (viola)

Olaf Maninger (cello)

Bartok: Suite (The Miraculous Mandarin, Sz 73)

Handel: Il delirio amoroso

Laura Claycomb (soprano)

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin

Emanuelle Haim (conductor)

Klengel: Hymn for 12 Cellos, Op 57

The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Delius: Brigg Fair

Simon Rattle (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features a performance of Schumann's Dichterliebe.

20080215Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

City of London Festival 2007

Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Aronowitz Ensemble perform signature chamber works by Faure and Schoenberg in this, the second of their two performances at the 2007 City of London Festival, given at St Giles Cripplegate.

Faure: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 15 No 1

Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht

2.00pm Focus on Berlin

Concluding a celebration of the best of music-making in Berlin, with performances by the Berlin Philharmonic and chamber music highlights from orchestra members past and present.

Bach, orch. Webern: Ricercare a sei, BWV 1079 (Musical Offering)

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Bernard Haitink (conductor)

Berg: Violin Concerto (To the Memory of an Angel)

Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Stephen Hough (piano)

Simon Rattle (conductor)

Rameau: Suite from Hippolyte et Aricie

German Symphony Orchestra

Emanuelle Haim (conductor)

Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D (in four movements)

Mariss Jansons (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Aronowitz Ensemble performing Faure and Schoenberg.

20080218Presented by John Shea.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Direct from the Wigmore Hall in London, Sean Rafferty introduces French pianist Cedric Tiberghien performing works by Chopin and Beethoven.

Chopin: Four Ballades

Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op 111

2.00pm The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and friends

A week of concerts by another of Europe's top orchestras, complemented by other Czech music and Czech performers.

The Czech Philharmonic played Smetana's best-known work when they opened the 2007 Prague Spring Festival, and were joined later by young talented Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel.

Smetana: Ma Vlast

Zdenek Macal (conductor)

Revueltas: Sensemaya

Bartok: Dance Suite

Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

Smetana: String Quartet No 1 in E minor (From My Life)

Kapralova Quartet

Prokofiev: Symphony No 5

Gustavo Dudamel (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features Cedric Tiberghien performing Chopin and Beethoven.

20080219Presented by John Shea.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

City of London Festival 2007

The final week of concerts given at last summer's festival began with a recital from St Andrew's Holborn, by Radio 3 New Generation Artists oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk and the Psophos Quartet.

Britten: Oboe Quartet

Debussy: Quartet for strings in G minor

Alberga: Succubus Moon (world premiere)

Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)

2.00pm The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and friends

The programme interweaves a whistlestop tour through Czech music since Dvorak with a musical recreation of a remarkable journey. Between 1465 and 1467 the Czech nobleman, diplomat and spy Leo of Rozmital made a pilgrimage from Prague to the Spanish shrine of Santiago de Compostela, travelling there and back through most of Europe.

Dvorak: Symphonic Variations

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Anon (Czech): Melos premat hilariter; Jubilo cum carmine

Discantus

Brigitte Lesne (director)

Alla Francesca

Pierre Hamon (director)

Alta

Pierre Boragno (director)

Ostrcil: Impromptu, Op 13

Prague Symphony Orchestra

Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

Binchois: Salve sancta parens

Janacek: Taras Bulba

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Anon (English): Alleluia, a newe work

Kapralova: String quartet, Op 8

Kapralova Quartet

Anon (Spanish): Camini por altar torres; Ensalcemos al Apostol

Martinu: Symphony No 1

Zdenek Macal (conductor)

Anon (Spanish and Italian): Al jorn del Judici (Sybillic prophecy); Fate d'arera

Barton: After the Sunset

Charles Olivieri-Monroe (conductor)

Anon (Czech): Jubilo cum carmine.

The Lunchtime Concert features works by Britten, Debussy and Alberga.

20080220Presented by John Shea.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

City of London Festival 2007: Danjulo Ishizaka and Martin Helmchen perform at St Anne and St Agnes' Church.

Stuart Macrae: Unity

Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jesus, excerpts (Regard des anges; La parole toute-puissante; Regard de la Vierge; Regard des hauteurs)

Franck: Cello Sonata in A (arr. of Violin Sonata)

Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)

Martin Helmchen (piano)

2.00pm Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and friends

Continuing the celebration of Czech music making, the programme explores a French connection, launched by an operetta - Offenbach's satire on the Parisian upper crust.

Offenbach: La vie parisienne

Bobinet, a young dandy - Marc Callahan (baritone)

Raoul de Gardefeu, his friend - Jean-Sebastien Bou (tenor)

Metella, a courtesan - Maria Riccarda Wesseling (mezzo-soprano)

Baron Gondremarck - Laurent Naouri (baritone)

The Baroness - Michelle Canniccioni (soprano)

Gabrielle, the glovemaker - Marie Devellereau (soprano)

Frick, the bootmaker - Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor)

Pauline, the chambermaid - Brigitte Hool (soprano)

Lyon Opera Chorus and Orchestra

Sebastien Rouland (conductor)

Martinu: Overture for orchestra

Zdenek Macal (conductor)

Ravel: Piano concerto for the left hand

Leon Fleisher (piano)

Orchestre National d'Ile de France

Yoel Levi (conductor)

Langlais: Piece en forme libre, Op 18 (world premiere)

Pierre Cogen (organ)

Pavel Haas Quartet

Stravinsky: Violin concerto

Chantal Juillet (violin)

Charles Dutoit (conductor)

Alain: Litanies

Marie-Claire Alain (organ of St James' Basilica, Prague).

The Lunchtime Concert features Danjulo Ishizaka and Martin Helmchen performing Messiaen.

20080221Presented by John Shea.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

City of London Festival 2007

Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Ebene Quartet perform in a concert given at the church of St Bartholomew the Great at last year's festival.

Webern: Langsamer Satz; 6 Bagatelles

Gribbin: Calum's Light (world premiere)

Ravel: String Quartet

2.00pm The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and friends

Continuing the celebration of Czech music making. With Russian music from the Czech Philharmonic, Germans performing Strauss in serious and humorous moods at the 2007 Prague Autumn Festival, and two Czech composers influenced by jazz.

Glinka: Overture (Ivan Susanin, A Life for the Tsar)

Alexander Lazarev (conductor)

Haas: Horse, Cart And Driver (String Quartet No 2, 2nd mvt)

Pavel Haas Quartet

Balakirev, compl. Lyapounov: Piano Concerto No 2 in E flat

Ivan Rudin (piano)

Strauss: 6 Songs: Heimliche Aufforderung; Meinem Kinde; Zueignung; Morgen; Ich wollt ein Strausslein binden; Cacilie

Genia Kuhmeier (soprano)

WDR Symphony Orchestra

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Haas: Wild Night (String Quartet No 2, 4th mvt)

Novak: Capriccio for cello and small orchestra

Petr Nouzovsky (cello)

Czech Chamber Philharmonic

Leos Svarovsky (conductor)

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

Haas: String Quartet No 3

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No 3 in G

Alexander Lazarev (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Ebene Quartet performing Webern, Gribbin and Ravel.

20080222Presented by John Shea.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

City of London Festival 2007

The final of a three-week series of concerts from last year's festival brings together Radio 3 New Generation Artists Alina Ibragimova, Danjulo Ishizaka, Sharon Bezaly and Cedric Tiberhgien. They perform in a recital at the national musicians' church, St Sepulchre-without-Newgate.

Poulenc: Flute Sonata

Hersant: In Black (world premiere)

Phibbs: Flex (world premiere)

Ravel: Tzigane

Alina Ibragimova (violin)

Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)

Sharon Bezaly (flute)

Cedric Tiberghien (piano)

2.00pm The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and friends

Concluding the week-long celebration of Czech music making, with Czech composers inspired by the culture of England, America and their native land. Plus an Italian in Prague with the Czech Philharmonic's rivals, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.

Trojan: Shakespeare's Smile

Petr Vronsky (conductor)

Verdi: Ritorna vincitor (Aida)

Eva Urbanova (soprano)

Marcello Rota (conductor)

Respighi: Pines of Rome

Dvorak: String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American)

Kapralova Quartet

Fibich: Toman and the Wood Nymph

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

Jonathan Nott (conductor)

Dvorak: The Spectre's Bride

Michal Lehotsky (tenor)

Peter Mikulas (bass)

Prague Philharmonic Choir

Zdenek Macal (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features music by Poulenc, Hersant, Phibbs and Ravel.

20080225Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Direct from Wigmore Hall in London, Verity Sharp introduces a recital of songs and duets by the husband-and-wife team of mezzo-soprano Ann Murray and tenor Philip Langridge, who are joined by pianist Malcolm Martineau in a programme taking in works by Barber, Bridge, Moeran and Britten.

2.00pm British Symphony Series: Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony Cycle

Concluding a survey of the symphonies of Master of the Queen's Music Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Plus major choral works by more peers of the musical world, Sir Granville Bantock, Sir George Dyson and Sir John Tavener, and music from this year's Royal Northern College of Music festival of Brass.

Bantock: Omar Khayyam Part 1

Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)

Toby Spence (tenor)

Roderick Williams (baritone)

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Vernon Handley (conductor)

Maxwell Davies: Symphony No 6

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features works by Barber, Bridge, Moeran and Britten.

20080226Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Beginning a week of performances from a series of concerts given at St George's Hall in Liverpool last autumn to mark the city's 800th anniversary. These concerts feature young artists performing British and American repertoire, reflecting Liverpool's long-standing reputation as the gateway to the New World.

Korngold: Fanfare No 1

Onyx Brass Quintet

Goossens: Pastorale et harlequinade

InTriplicate

Ives: The Innate

Alasdair Beatson (piano)

Doric Quartet

Finzi: Let us garlands bring

Simon Bailey (bass-baritone)

Claire Dunham (piano)

Thomson: The plough that broke the plain

Piston: Suite for oboe and piano

Sally Richardson (oboe)

Howells: Violin Sonata No 3 in E minor, Op 38

Jack Liebeck (violin)

Ashley Wass (piano)

Ives: Halloween

Josephine Large (bass drum)

2.00pm British Symphony Series: Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony Cycle

Granville Bantock: Omar Khayyam, Part 2

Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)

Toby Spence (tenor)

Roderick Williams (baritone)

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Vernon Handley (conductor)

Peter Maxwell Davies: Symphony No 7

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor)

Beethoven: Sonata in D for cello and piano, Op 102 No 2

Li-Wei (cello)

Gretel Dowdeswell (piano)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1 in C, Op 15

Cedric Tiberghien (piano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Baldur Bronnimann (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features works by Korngold, Goossens, Ives, Finzi and Howells.

20080227Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Continuing a week of concerts given at St George's Hall in Liverpool last autumn to mark the city's 800th anniversary, featuring young artists performing British and American repertoire that reflects Liverpool's long-standing reputation as the gateway to the New World.

MacDowell: To a Wild Rose

Ashley Wass (piano)

MacDowell: Five Songs, Op 47

Simon Bailey (bass-baritone)

Claire Dunham (piano)

Clarke: Midsummer Moon

Jack Liebeck (violin)

Thomson: Family Portraits

Onyx Brass Quintet

Rawsthorne: Sonatina for flute, oboe and piano

InTriplicate

Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge

Andrew Kennedy (tenor)

Alasdair Beatson (piano)

Doric Quartet

Copland: Corral Nocturne; Hoe-Down (Rodeo)

2.10pm British Symphony Series: Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony Cycle

Bantock: Omar Khayyam, Part 3

Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)

Toby Spence (tenor)

Roderick Williams (baritone)

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Vernon Handley (conductor)

Maxwell Davies: Symphony No 8 (Antarctic)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor)

Barber: Sonata for cello and piano, Op 6

Li-Wei (cello)

Gretel Dowdeswell (piano)

Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge for string orchestra, Op 10

Elizabeth Layton (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert includes works by MacDowell, Vaughan Williams and Copland.

20080228Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

More performances from a series of concerts given at St George's Hall in Liverpool last autumn to celebrate the city's 800th anniversary. These concerts featured young artists, performing British and American repertoire, which reflected Liverpool's long-standing reputation as the gateway to the New World.

Arr. Bantock: Three Negro Spirituals

Onyx Brass Quintet

Copland: Sonata for violin and piano

Jack Liebeck (violin)

Ashley Wass (piano)

Moeran: Ludlow Town

Simon Bailey (bass-baritone)

Claire Dunham (piano)

Barber: Canzone for flute and piano

Claire Fillhart (flute)

Walton: String Quartet

Doric Quartet

2.15pm Large Scale British Choral Works

Dyson: Nebuchadnezzar

Mark Padmore (tenor)

Neal Davies (bass-baritone)

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Richard Hickox (conductor)

Brahms : Sonata No 1 in E minor for cello and piano, Op 38

Claudio Bohorquez (cello)

Martin Helmchen (piano)

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (Eroica)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert includes works by Copland, Barber, Moeran and Walton.

20080229Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Concluding a week of highlights from a series of concerts given in St George's Hall in Liverpool last autumn to mark the city's 800th anniversary. These concerts feature young artists performing British and American repertoire, reflecting Liverpool's long-standing reputation as the gateway to the New World.

Ives: Variations on America

Onyx Brass Quintet

Pitfield: Trio for flute, oboe and piano

InTriplicate

Barber: String Quartet in B minor

Doric Quartet

Bridge: Sonata for violin and piano

Jack Liebeck (violin)

Ashley Wass (piano)

Copland: Old American Songs (excerpts)

Simon Bailey (bass-baritone)

Claire Dunham (piano)

2.20pm British Symphony Series: Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony Cycle

Tavener: The Beautiful Names

John-Mark Ainsley (tenor)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Prokofiev: Sonata in C for cello and piano, Op 119

Christian Poltera (cello)

Pollina Leschenko (piano)

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 1 in D flat, Op 10

Nikolai Lugansky (piano)

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert includes music by Ives, Pitfield, Barber, Bridge and Copland.

20080303Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Direct from the Wigmore Hall, London, Verity Sharp introduces young British violinist Daniel Hope and pianist Sebastian Knauer in a programme of drama and contrast that includes the first violin sonata of Alfred Schnittke, a composer with whom he has had close contact.

Schnittke: Sonata No 1

Mendelssohn: A selection of Songs, arranged for violin and piano

Brahms: Sonata No 3 in D minor

2.00pm BBC National Orchestra of Wales St David's Day Concert

In a recital given on St David's day last year, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform music by compatriots Grace Williams and John Metcalf among others.

Gareth Glyn: Gwylmbsant

Huw Williams (organ)

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Hoddinott: Serenissima

Helen Field (soprano)

Jeremey Huw Williams (baritone)

Mathias: Psalm 150

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Adrian Partington (conductor)

Thomas: Folk Song Suite

Respighi: The Pines of Rome

Metcalf: Mobiles

Gerard McChrystal (saxophone)

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

Williams: Trumpet Concerto

Philippe Schartz (trumpet)

Owain Arwel Hughes (conductor)

Metcalf: Mapping Wales

Lucy Wakeford (harp)

Luke Dollman (conductor)

Williams: Symphony No 1

Owain Arwel Hughes (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features Daniel Hope performing works by Schnittke and Mendelssohn.

20080304Presented by Louise Fryer

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Mendelssohn and Gade

1/4. Series of four recitals from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Feaeturing the chamber music of Mendelssohn and Danish composer Niels Gade, who was strongly influenced by the German composer. Dutch musicians Isabelle van Keulen and Ronald Brautigam play sonatas by both composers as well as by Grieg.

Isabelle van Keulen (violin)

Ronald Brautigam (piano)

Gade: Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 21 No 2

Grieg: Violin Sonata in F minor, Op 8 No 1

Mendelssohn: Violin Sonata in F minor, Op 4

2.00pm British Symphony Series: Havergal Brian

Including BBC recordings of Havergal Brian among composers as part of the ongoing British Symphony Series.

Tchaikovsky: Hamlet, Op 67

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Glazunov: Violin Concerto

Arabella Steinbacher (violin)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Walter Weller (conductor)

Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia

Holt: Witness to a Snow Miracle

Viviane Hagner (violin)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Brian: Symphony No 30

Jason Lai (conductor)

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat, Op 107

Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Dvorak: Symphony No 5

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

Lunchtime Concert: Isabelle van Keulen, Ronald Brautigam play Gade, Grieg and Mendelssohn.

20080305Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Mendelssohn and Gade

A recital given at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow featuring the Gould Piano Trio performing works by Mendelssohn and his Danish contemporary Niels Gade.

Gade: Piano Trio in F, Op 42

Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, Op 49 No 1

2.00pm British Symphony Series: Havergal Brian

Including BBC recordings of Havergal Brian among others as part of the ongoing British Symphony Series.

Schubert: Symphony No 2 in B flat, D 125

Ulster Orchestra

Christian Gansch (conductor)

Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1, Op 26

Jennifer Pike (violin)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Titov (conductor)

Glazunov: Symphony No 5 in B flat, Op 55

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Ives: Three Places in New England

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488

Llyr Williams (piano)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

Brian: Symphony No 5 (Wine of Summer)

Donald Maxwell (baritone)

Nicholas Kok (conductor).

In the Lunchtime Concert, the Gould Piano Trio perform Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D minor

20080306Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Mendelssohn and Gade

Part of a recital series given at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow celebrating the chamber music of Felix Mendelssohn and his Danish contemporary Niels Gade. Pianist Benjamin Frith contrasts miniatures by the two composers with some of their larger works.

Benjamin Frith (piano)

Gade: Five New Aquarelles, Op 57

Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words Book 6, Op 67

Gade: Arabesque, Op 27

Mendelssohn: Fantasie in F sharp minor, Op 28 (Sonate ecossaise)

2.00pm British Symphony Series: Havergal Brian

Including BBC recordings of Havergal Brian among others as part of an ongoing series on the British symphony.

Mendelssohn: Overture (The Hebrides)

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

R Strauss: Duett-concertino for clarinet, bassoon, string orchestra and harp

Robert Plane (clarinet)

Jaroslaw Augustyniak (bassoon)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Douglas Boyd (conductor)

Brian: Symphony No 18

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Lionel Friend (conductor)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 24 in F sharp, Op 78

Cedric Tiberghien (piano)

Hubay: Violin concerto No 2, Op 90

Hagai Shaham (violin)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Ligeti: Melodien for orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No 96 in D, H I 96 (Miracle)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Piano concerto No 3 in D minor

Yan Pascal Tortelier (piano)

Ulster Orchestra

Boris Berezovsky (conductor)

Barber: Dover Beach for voice and string quartet

Ronan Collett (baritone)

Psophos String Quartet.

The Lunchtime Concert features miniatures and larger works by Mendelssohn and Gade.

20080307Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Mendelssohn and Gade

To conclude the series of recitals recorded at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, the strings of New Generation Artists the Aronowitz Ensemble play octets by Mendelssohn and his Danish contemporary Niels Gade.

Gade: Octet for strings, Op 17

Mendelssohn: Octet for strings in E flat, Op 20

2.00pm British Symphony Series: Havergal Brian

Including BBC recordings of Havergal Brian among others as part of an ongoing series on the British symphony.

Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur for electric violin and orchestra

Tracy Silverman (violin)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

John Adams (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Douglas Boyd (conductor)

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, Op 77

Viviane Hagner (violin)

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Brian: Symphony No 3 in C sharp minor

Andrew Ball, Julian Jacobson (pianos)

Lionel Friend (conductor).

In the Lunchtime Concert, the Aronowitz Ensemble perform octets by Mendelssohn and Gade.

20080310Presented by Ian Skelly.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

American pianist Jonathan Biss performs a programme of Beethoven, Schoenberg and Schubert, direct from the Wigmore Hall, London.

Jonathan Biss (piano)

Beethoven: Sonata, Op 90

Schoenberg: Six Little Pieces, Op 19

Schubert: Sonata in A, D 959

2.00pm Lucerne Festivals

A survey of all three Lucerne music festivals from 2007 - the Easter Festival, Summer Festival and Piano Festival - showcasing prominent musicians and conductors from around the world.

Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in D, Op 41

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Grieg: Ballade in G minor, Op 24 (variations on a Norwegian folk song from Valdres)

Juho Pohjonen (piano)

Saunders: Into the Blue

Laboratorium

Jean Deroyer (director)

Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op 35 No 1; Prelude and Fugue in B flat, Op 35 No 6

Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)

Melanie Diene (soprano)

Anna Larsson (mezzo-soprano)

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)

Reinhard Hagen (bass)

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Claudio Abbado (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features music by Beethoven, Schoenberg and Schubert.

20080311Presented by Ian Skelly.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

St George's, Bristol: The Eve of Revolution - Paris

The first in a series of concerts given at St George's, Bristol, exploring the music of pre-revolutionary 18th century Europe. The programme centres on Paris, with music by Francois Devienne, Mozart and violinist Chevalier de Saint Georges, all performed on period instruments.

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Sonata in G for fortepiano and violin Op 1 No 3

Devienne: Quartet in G for flute and strings

Mozart: Violin Sonata in E minor, K 304; Quartet in A for flute and strings

Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Lisa Beznosiuk (flute)

Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin)

Tom Dunn (viola)

Piet Kuijken (fortepiano)

Richard Tunnicliffe (cello)

2.00pm Lucerne Festivals

Continuing a survey of the three Lucerne music festivals from 2007, which showcase prominent musicians and conductors from around the world.

Schubert: Symphony No 5 in B flat

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

Buxtehude: Prelude and Fugue in D, BuxWV 139

Ton Koopman (organ of the Franciscan Church, Lucerne)

Rheinberger: Stabat mater

Barbara Locher (soprano)

Liliane Zurcher (alto)

Bernhard Gartner (tenor)

Peter Brechbuhler (bass)

Lucerne Akademiechor

Franz Liszt Music Academy Chorus, Weimar

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Alois Koch (conductor)

Beethoven: Sonata No 23 in F minor (Appassionata)

Andreas Haefliger (piano)

Mahler: Symphony No 9

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Simon Rattle (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features music from pre-revolutionary 18th century Paris.

20080312Presented by Ian Skelly.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

St George's, Bristol: The Eve of Revolution - London

Continuing series of concerts given at St George's, Bristol exploring the music of pre-revolutionary 18th century Europe. The programme centres on London and features the Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performing music by JC Bach, Mozart and Clementi.

Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment:

Steven Devine (fortepiano)

Alison Bury (violin)

Andrew Roberts (violin)

Ruth Alford (cello)

Anthony Robson (oboe)

Andrew Clark (horn)

Martin Lawrence (horn)

Mozart: Piano Concerto in D, K107 (arr. of Piano Sonata, Op 5 No 2, by JC Bach)

Clementi: Piano Sonata in G minor, Op 7 No 3

JC Bach: Sextet for piano

2.00pm

A production at the Vienna State Opera of Massenet's opera Werther, based on Goethe's story of thwarted love and suicide set against the backdrop of Christmas celebrations in a German town.

Massenet: Werther

Werther - Neil Shicoff (tenor)

Albert - Adrian Erod (baritone)

Charlotte - Vesselina Kasarova (mezzo-soprano)

Sophie ....... Laura Tatulescu (soprano)

Le Bailli - Alfred Sramek (bass)

Schmidt - Benedikt Kobel (tenor)

Johann - Clemens Unterreiner (bass)

Ladies' voices - Vienna State Opera Chorus

Children of the Vienna State Opera School

Vienna State Opera Stage Orchestra

Vienna State Opera Orchestra

Marco Armiliato (conductor)

Taffanel: Andante Pastorale et Schersettino

Aniela Frey (flute)

Francois Killian (piano)

Messiaen: Cinq rechants for 12 voices

Schola Heidelberg

Walter Nussbaum (director)

Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Pekka Kuusisto (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features music from 18th century Europe, by JC Bach and Clementi.

20080313Presented by Ian Skelly.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

St George's, Bristol: The Eve of Revolution - Salzburg

Part of a series of concerts given at St George's, Bristol, exploring the music of pre-revolutionary 18th century Europe. The Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment focus on Salzburg, playing quintets written by a young Mozart, as well as Michael Haydn, the younger brother of Joseph.

M Haydn: Quintet in C, P108

Mozart: Quintet in B flat, K174

Margaret Faultless, Nadja Zwiener (violin)

Jan Schlapp, Martin Kelly (viola)

Sebastian Comberti (cello)

2.00pm Lucerne Festivals

Continuing a survey of the three Lucerne music festivals from 2007, which showcase prominent musicians and conductors from around the world.

R Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Schubert: Mass in G

Luba Orgonasova (soprano)

Christian Elsner (tenor)

Gustav Belacek (bass)

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Schoenberg: Three Piano Pieces, Op 11

Saleem Abboud Ashkar (piano)

Mahler: Symphony No 3 in D minor

Anna Larsson (mezzo-soprano)

Ladies of the Arnold Schoenberg Chorus, Vienna

Tolz Boy Choir

Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Claudio Abbado (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features works by a young Mozart and Joseph Haydn's brother, Michael

20080317Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

In a concert direct from Wigmore Hall, London, New Generation Artist and Radio 3 Listeners' Award nominee Gwilym Simcock performs pieces from his debut album Perception.

Gwilym Simcock (piano)

Phil Donkin (double bass)

Martin France (drums)

Simcock: Perception (excerpts)

2.00pm San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

A week of concerts from the Davies Symphony Hall, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under their music director Michael Tilson Thomas, and an array of guest conductors.

Wagner: Forest Murmurs (Siegfried)

Mahler: Symphony No 10 in F sharp (Adagio)

Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G, Op 58

Jonathan Biss (piano)

Revueltas: La Noche de los Mayas

David Robertson (conductor)

Orff: Carmina Burana

Patricia Petibon (soprano)

Richard Troxell (tenor)

Christopher Maltman (baritone)

San Francisco Girls' Chorus

Pacific Boys' Choir

San Francisco Symphony Chorus

David Robertson (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features Gwilym Simcock performing pieces from his debut album.

20080318Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

LSO St Luke's Beethoven Plus

A new series of concerts given at LSO St Luke's in East London, featuring the complete Beethoven string quartets alongside those by Haydn and Bartok.

1/8. Former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Psophos Quartet launch the series with the third of Beethoven's Opus 18 quartets, considered a defining illustration of the composer's musical development, followed by Bartok's Quartet No 2.

Beethoven: Quartet in D, Op 18 No 3

Bartok: Quartet No 2 in A minor, Sz 67

2.00pm San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra: A week of concerts from the Davies Symphony Hall, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under their music director Michael Tilson Thomas, and an array of guest conductors.

Arr. Conlon: Three Dances based on Oscar Wilde (Schreker, Zemlinsky, Strauss)

James Conlon (conductor)

Zemlinsky: A Florentine Tragedy, opera in one act, Op 16

Kate Aldrich (mezzo-soprano)

Kim Begley (tenor)

James Johnson (baritone)

Varese: Equatorial

Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Mahler: Symphony No 8 in E flat

Marisol Montalvo, Elza van den Heever, Jennifer Welch-Babidge (sopranos)

Elena Manistina, Stephanie Blythe (mezzo-sopranos)

Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor)

Raymond Aceto (bass)

Pacific Boys' Choir

San Francisco Girls' Chorus

Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features Beethoven's Quartet in D, Opus 18 plus a work by Bartok.

20080319Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

LSO St Luke's Beethoven Plus

Continuing a new series of concerts given at LSO St Luke's in East London.

2/8. To compliment their choice of the third of Beethoven's quartets written for Count Razumovsky, the young Italian Cremona Quartet begin their recital with the fourth quartet by Bartok.

Bartok: Quartet No 4 in C, Sz 91

Beethoven: Quartet No 3 in C, Op 59 (Razumovsky)

2.00pm San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

A week of concerts from the Davies Symphony Hall, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under their music director Michael Tilson Thomas, and an array of guest conductors.

Haydn: The Storm

San Francisco Symphony Chorus

Martin Haselbock (conductor)

Ives: Decoration Day

Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1 in C, Op 15

Lang Lang (piano)

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No 99 in E flat

Verdi: Requiem

Christine Brewer (soprano)

Stephanie Blythe (mezzo-soprano)

Frank Lopardo (tenor)

Vitalji Kowaljow (bass)

James Conlon (conductor).

In The Lunchtime Concert are Beethoven's Quartet No 3 in C and Bartok's Quartet No 4 in C.

20080320Presented by Louise Fryer

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

LSO St Luke's Beethoven Plus

Continuing a series of concerts given at LSO St Luke's in East London.

3/8. In their near 30-year career, the Endellion Quartet have earned a reputation of excellence for their performances around the world and in this recital they couple an early quartet by Haydn with the last piece Beethoven wrote.

Haydn: Quartet in D, Op 20 No 4

Beethoven: Quartet in F, Op 135

2.00pm San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

A week of concerts from the Davies Symphony Hall, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under music director Michael Tilson Thomas and an array of guest conductors.

Stravinsky: The Nightingale

Olga Trifonova (soprano)

Paul Groves (tenor)

Catherine Cook (mezzo-soprano)

Tigran Martirossian, Ayk Martirossian (basses)

San Francisco Symphony Chorus

Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219

Joshua Bell (violin/director)

Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex

Stuart Skelton (tenor)

Michelle De Young (mezzo-soprano)

Bruce Sledge (tenor)

Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op 70

Joshua Bell (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features Beethoven's Quartet in F and Haydn's Quartet No 4 in D.

20080321Presented by Louise Fryer

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

LSO St Luke's Beethoven Plus

4/8. In this concert, the Henschel Quartet combine the last of Beethoven's Opus 18 quartets - his first foray into the genre - with Bartok's penultimate quartet, a study in musical symmetry.

Beethoven: Quartet in B flat, Op 18 No 6

Bartok: Quartet No 5 in B flat, Sz 102

2.00pm San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Concluding a week of concerts from the Davies Symphony Hall, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under their music director Michael Tilson Thomas, and an array of guest conductors.

Pickard: The Flight of Icarus

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

Dutilleux: Mystere de l'Instant

Alan Gilbert (conductor)

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54

Shai Wosner (piano)

Strauss: Death and Transfiguration, Op 24

A concert for Holy Week given earlier this week at St Paul's Church, Knightstbridge, London

Bach: O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid (chorale)

Brahms: Prelude and Fugue on O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid

Bruckner: Motets for Passiontide: Christus factus nobis es; Os Justi; Vexilla Regis

Liszt: Via crucis

Stephen Farr (organ)

BBC Singers

Paul Brough (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features Beethoven's Quartet No 6 and Bartok's Quartet No 5.

20080324The Lunchtime Concert features music by Stravinsky, Haydn and Schumann.
20080325The Lunchtime Concert features music by Haydn and Beethoven.
20080326The Lunchtime Concert includes works by Beethoven and Haydn.
20080327The Lunchtime Concert features the Navarra Quartet in quartets by Beethoven and Haydn.
20080328Lunchtime Concert features the Rosamunde Quartet in late quartets by Haydn and Beethoven.
20080331The Lunchtime Concert features works by Mendelssohn and Weber.
20080401The Lunchtime Concert features the Szymanowski Quartet performing Szymanowski and Ravel.
20080402The Lunchtime Concert features Philippe Cassard performing works by Debussy and Scriabin.
20080403The Lunchtime Concert features Eugene Asti playing songs by Debussy, Delius and Stanford.
20080404In the Lunchtime Concert, violinist Jennifer Pike performs violin sonatas by Debussy.
20080407The Lunchtime Concert features the Trio Jean Paul performing works by Haydn and Beethoven.
20080408In the Lunchtime Concert Mark Padmore and Roger Vignoles perform Schubert and Britten.
20080409The Lunchtime Concert features a performance of works on a naval theme.
20080410The Lunchtime Concert features a performance of Schubert's Winterreise.
20080411The Lunchtime Concert includes cabaret songs by Britten, Schoenberg, Poulenc and Satie.
20080414The Lunchtime Concert features a performance of works by Brahms and Schumann.

A special programme of Vaughan Williams recordings, with music including Symphony No 3.

20080415The Lunchtime Concert features the Britten Sinfonia performing a chamber music programme.

A special programme of Vaughan Williams recordings, includes his Fifth Symphony.

20080416The Lunchtime Concert features the Britten Sinfonia performing works by Bach and Brahms.
20080417The Lunchtime Concert features works by Beethoven and Ravel.
20080418Lunchtime Concert: Britten Sinfonia. British Symphony Series: Ralph Vaughan Williams.
20080421The Lunchtime Concert includes a performance of Schubert's Schwanengesang, D957.
20080422The Lunchtime Concert features Joanna MacGregor performing works by Bach and Shostakovich.
20080423The Lunchtime Concert features cellist Truls Mork performing suites by Bach and Britten.
20080424The Lunchtime Concert features the Artemis Quartet performing works by Bach and Beethoven.
20080425The Lunchtime Concert features Ilya Gringolts performing works by Bach and Bartok.
20080428The Lunchtime Concert features a performance of Schubert's Piano Trio in E flat, D929.
20080429The Lunchtime Concert features works by Cui, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov.
20080430The Lunchtime Concert features songs by Borodin, Cui and Mussorgsky.
20080501The Lunchtime Concert features the Aronowitz Ensemble performing Borodin and Glinka.
20080502The Lunchtime Concert features pianist Freddy Kempf performing Pictures at an Exhibition.
20080505The Lunchtime Concert features the Tokyo Quartet performing music by Webern and Beethoven.
20080506The Lunchtime Concert includes a performance of Mozart's Adagio in B flat.
20080507The Lunchtime Concert features a performance of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 4.
20080508Presented by Jonathan Swain.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

A series of concerts from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, with contributions from the festival's Artistic Director Marc Neikrug.

Magnus Lindberg: Duo for cello and piano (world premiere)

Anssi Karttunen (cello)

Magnus Lindberg (piano)

Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A, Op 81

William Preucil, Benny Kim (violins)

Kirsten Johnson (viola)

Eric Kim (cello)

Jonathan Biss (piano)

Plus Ebony and Ivory:

Concertos written for keyboard, oboe and clarinet performed by the BBC Orchestras.

Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D, AV 144

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Stefan Solyon (conductor)

Elgar: In the South (Alassio)

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concerto No 4

Howard Shelley (piano/director)

Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (5 Movements), arr for cello, violin and piano (4th mvt: 3 Dances - Tango, Waltz, Ragtime)

Ilya Gringolts (violin)

Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet)

Ashley Wass (piano)

Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E flat (Romantic)

Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (conductor)

And BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 Finalist - Percussion Category Winner.

The Lunchtime Concert features the world premiere of Lindberg's Duo for cello and piano.

20080509Presented by Jonathan Swain.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

A series of concerts from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, with contributions from the festival's artistic director Marc Neikrug as well as violinist Pinchas Zukerman.

Ravel: La valse

Yuja Wang (piano)

Mozart: Divertimento in E flat, K563

Pinchas Zukerman (violin)

Jethro Marks (viola)

Amanda Forsyth (cello)

Plus Ebony and Ivory:

Concertos written for keyboard, oboe and clarinet, performed by the BBC Orchestras.

Holst: St Paul's Suite

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Maxwell Davies: The Seas of Kirk Swarf for bass clarinet and string orchestra

Simon Butterworth (bass clarinet)

Stefan Solyom (conductor)

MacCunn: Overture (The Ship o' the Fiend, Op 5)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Albinoni: Concerto a 5 in D minor for oboe and strings, Op 9 No 2 (transcr for trumpet by Alison Balsom)

Alison Balson (trumpet)

Baldur Bronnimann (conductor)

Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Francis Edward Bache: Piano Concerto in E

Howard Shelley (piano/director)

Britten: Phantasy for oboe and string trio, Op 2

Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)

Psophos String Quartet

Elgar: Symphony No 2 in E flat, Op 63

And BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 Finalist - Keyboard Category Winner.

The Lunchtime Concert features a performance of Mozart's Divertimento in E flat.

20080512Presented by Louise Fryer.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

The Belcea Quartet perform a recital from London's Wigmore Hall, contrasting two major works of the quartet repertoire - the minature movements of Webern's Op 5 and Schubert's tragic Death and the Maiden.

Webern: 5 Movements, Op 5

Schubert: Quartet in D minor (Death and the Maiden)

Plus Jansons and Friends:

A focus on the work of Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons, who is heard conducting the Bavarian ensembles of which he is chief conductor, alongside other performers he is associated with, including the choir from his homeland, the Latvian Radio Chorus.

Verdi: Laudi alla vergine Maria

Bavarian Radio Chorus (women's voices)

Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Purcell/Britten: Chaconne in G minor, Z 730

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

Okko Kamu (conductor)

Britten: Violin Concerto

Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Part: The Beatitudes

Swedish Radio Chorus

Bjorn Gafvert (organ)

Kaspars Putnins (conductor)

Nielsen: Symphony No 6 (Sinfonia semplice)

Brahms: Alto Rhapsody

Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)

Netherlands Radio Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra

Jaap van Zweden (conductor)

Mahler: Symphony No 5

Mariss Jansons (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Belcea Quartet performing Webern's 5 Movements, Op 5.

20080513Presented by Louise Fryer.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Series of concerts from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, with contributions from the festival's artistic director Marc Neikrug and violinist Benny Kim.

Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A, Op 30 No 1

Benny Kim (violin)

Marc Neikrug (piano)

Arensky: Quartet No 2 for violin, viola and two cellos, Op 35 No 2

Alexander Kerr (violin)

Kirsten Johnson (viola)

Eric Kim, Timothy Eddy (cellos)

Plus Jansons and Friends:

Mariss Jansons conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus performing German music as well as another of Verdi's Four Sacred Pieces.

Weber: Overture (Oberon)

Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber

Verdi: Ave Maria

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Brahms: Gesang der Parzen

Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra

Hartmann: Symphony (L'oeuvre)

Emilio Pomarico (conductor)

Santa Ratniece: Saline

Latvian Radio Chorus

Sigvards Klava (conductor)

Wagner: Prelude and Good Friday Music (Parsifal)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Bernard Haitink (conductor)

Debussy: Nocturnes

Women from the RIAS Chamber Chorus

Valentin Silvestrov: Diptychon

Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde)

Bernard Haitink (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features a performance of Beethoven's Violin Sonata in A, Op 30 No 1

20080514Presented by Louise Fryer.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Highlights from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, with contributions from pianist Bengt Forsberg, the festival's artistic director Marc Neikrug and violinist Pinchas Zukerman.

Reynaldo Hahn: Lyde (Etudes Latines); Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Le plus beau present; L'enamouree; Le printemps

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)

Bengt Forsberg (piano)

Beethoven: Septet in E flat, Op 20

Michael Rusinek (clarinet)

Julie Landsman (horn)

Nancy Goeres (bassoon)

Pinchas Zukerman (violin)

Jethro Marks (viola)

Amanda Forsyth (cello)

Marji Danilow (bass)

Plus Jansons and Friends:

Series looking at the work of Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons, featuring Bruckner's Symphony No 7 performed by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. This is complemented by a Requiem by the 20th century Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti, who was greatly inspired by Verdi.

Verdi: Stabat mater

Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra

Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Pizzetti: Requiem

Swedish Radio Chorus

Latvian Radio Chorus

Kaspars Putnins (conductor)

Brahms: Nanie; Schicksalslied

Oslo Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra

Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)

Xenakis: Synaphai

Jan Philip Schulze (piano)

Roland Kluttig (conductor)

Penderecki: Stabat mater

Bjorn Gafvert (organ)

Bruckner: Symphony No 7

Mariss Jansons (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features songs by Hahn and Beethoven's Septet in E flat.

20080515Presented by Louise Fryer.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Highlights from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, including contributions from pianist Yuja Wang.

Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, KV 546

Orion String Quartet

Debussy: Premiere rapsodie

Chen Halevy (clarinet)

Yuja Wang (piano)

Beethoven: Piano Trio in B Flat, Op 97 (Archduke)

Cho Liang Lin (violin)

Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)

Cecile Licad (piano)

Plus a complete performance of Debussy's only opera, Pelleas et Melisande, from the Champs-Elysees Theatre in Paris.

Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande

Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano)

Jean-Francois Lapointe (baritone)

Laurent Naouri (baritone)

Gregory Reinhardt (bass)

Marie-Nicole Lemieux (mezzo-soprano)

Amel Brahim-Djelloul (soprano)

French National Orchestra

Bernard Haitink (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert includes Debussy's Premiere rapsodie and Beethoven's Archduke Trio.

20080516Presented by Louise Fryer.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Highlights from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, with contributions from artistic director Marc Neikrug and pianist Yefim Bronfman.

Mozart: Serenade in C minor for winds, K388

Alan Vogel, Nathan Hughes (oboes)

David Schifrin, Todd Levy (clarinets)

Steven Dibner, Stephanie Przybylska (bassoons)

Julie Landsman, William Barnewitz (horns)

Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 57

Daniel Khalikov, Giora Schmidt (violins)

Michael Tree (viola)

Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)

Yefim Bronfman (piano)

Plus Jansons and Friends:

With Mariss Jansons conducting Brahms's biggest choral work - his German Requiem. Plus more from Jansons's compatriots the Latvian Radio Chorus as well as a complete concert conducted by Mark Elder, given at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem

Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano)

Michael Volle (baritone)

Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra

Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Penderecki: Agnus Dei

Bjorn Gafvert (organ)

Swedish Radio Chorus

Kaspars Putnins (conductor)

Berlioz: Funeral March for the Death of Hamlet (Tristia); Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans); Overture (King Lear)

Verdi: Te Deum

Netherlands Radio Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra

Mark Elder (conductor)

Respighi: Fountains of Rome

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Boito: Prologue in Heaven (Mefistofele)

Ildar Abdrazakov (bass)

Ilse Eerens (soprano)

Flemish Opera Children's Chorus

Mark Elder (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features a performance of Mozart's Serenade in C minor, K388.

20080519Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Direct from Wigmore Hall, London, Suzy Klein introduces a solo recital given by Korean cellist Han-Na Chang, featuring two technically challenging works for unaccompanied cello.

Bach: Suite No 1 in G, BWV 1007

Kodaly: Sonata, Op 8

Plus Cello Concertos, Variations and Rhapsodies

A series of performances by the BBC orchestras, with a focus on works for cello and orchestra as well as sets of variations.

J Strauss: Napoleon March, Op 156

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Christoph Konig (conductor)

Faure: Masques et Bergamasaques, Op 112

Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor

Daniel Muller-Schott (cello)

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)

Michael Berkeley: Gregorian Variations

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Richard Hickox (conductor)

Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy

Llyr Williams (piano)

Strauss: Don Quixote

Peter Dixon (cello)

Steven Burnard (viola)

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features cellist Han-Na Chang performing Bach's Suite No 1 in G.

20080520Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007

Another chance to hear the opening recital from the Bank of Scotland Queen's Hall Series from 2007's Edinburgh International Festival, with mezzo-soprano Jane Irwin joining the Hebrides Ensemble for music by Mahler and Berio, together with instrumental chamber music by Janacek and Nigel Osborne.

Jane Irwin (soprano)

Janacek: Mladi

Mahler, arr. Edward Harper: Kindertotenlieder

Osborne: Balkan Dances and Laments

Berio: Folksongs

Plus Cello Concertos, Variations and Rhapsodies:

Series of performances by the BBC orchestras, with a focus on works for cello and orchestra as well as sets of variations.

Daniel Jones: Symphony No 12

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

Schumann: Cello Concerto

Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello)

Brahms: Symphony No 1

Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op 9

Simon Trpceski (piano)

Schumann: Symphony No 4

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features mezzo-soprano Jane Irwin performing a work by Janacek.

20080521Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007

Another chance to hear tenor Mark Padmore and chamber ensemble Walking to Lubeck performing a programme of Baroque vocal music in the Bank of Scotland Queen's Hall Series from 2007's Edinburgh International Festival.

Bach: Cantata No 55 (Ich armer Mensch)

Buxtehude: Contrapunctus 1

Bach: Du bist bei mir

Buxtehude: Contrapunctus 2

Bach: Recitative and Aria (Komm, du susse Todesstunde)

Buxtehude: Klaglied; Contrapuctus 3

Bach: Cantata No 82 (Ich habe genug)

Plus Cello Concertos, Variations and Rhapsodies:

Series of performances by the BBC orchestras, with a focus on works for cello and orchestra as well as sets of variations.

Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op 81

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Brahms: Concerto in A minor for violin, cello and orchestra, Op 102

Olivier Charlier (violin)

Alban Gerhardt (cello)

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Haydn: Concerto in C for cello and orchestra, H VIIb 1

Daniel Muller-Schott (cello)

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features tenor Mark Padmore performing works by Bach and Buxtehude.

20080522Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007

Another chance to hear early music chamber ensemble Nachtmusik, led by Eric Hoeprich, in a concert of music by Mozart and Haydn as part of the Bank of Scotland Queen's Hall series from the Edinburgh International Festival 2007.

Mozart, arr Stumpf: Die Zauberflote (excerpts)

Mozart: Selected Duos and Trios from K487, K292 and K410

Haydn: Divertimento in F

Mozart: Serenade in E flat, K375

Plus Cello Concertos, Variations, and Rhapsodies:

Series of performances by the BBC orchestras, with a focus on works for cello and orchestra as well as sets of variations.

Otmar Macha: Variations on a theme and the death of Jan Rychlik

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jakub Hrusa (conductor)

Martinu: Parables

Suk: Pohadka - Fairy Tale Suite, Op 16

Dvorak: Cello Concerto

Sol Gabetta (cello)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Gorecki: Symphony No 3, Op 36 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)

Susan Bullock (soprano)

David Atherton (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features Nachtmusik performing works by Mozart and Haydn.

20080523Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007:

Another chance to hear a recital from 2007's Edinburgh International Festival from the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, featuring Finnish pianist and composer Olli Mustonen giving the UK premiere of the piano version of one of his own sonatas.

Schumann: Scheherazade; Kleine Romanze; Erinnerung; Reiterstueck; Langsam und mit Ausdruck zu spielen; Winterszeit 1 and 2 (Album fur die Jugend, Op 68)

Bach: 15 Three-Part Inventions, BWV 787-801

Schumann: Gesange der Fruhe, Op 133

Mustonen: Jehkin livana

Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 6, Op 82

Plus Cello Concertos, Variations and Rhapsodies:

Concluding a series of performances by BBC orchestras, with a focus on works for cello and orchestra as well as sets of variations.

Brahms: Academic Festival Overture

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Sunwook Kim (piano)

Schumann: Trio No 1 in D minor for piano and strings, Op 63

Ondine Trio

D'Albert: Cello Concerto in C, Op 20

Alban Gerhardt (cello)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Carlos Kalmar (conductor)

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen performing Schumann and Bach.

20080526Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Direct from Wigmore Hall, London, Suzy Klein introduces violinist Andrew Manze and keyboard player Richard Egarr, performing a chamber music programme of music from a later period than usual for them.

Mozart: Violin Sonata in F, K376; Adagio in B minor, K540

Schubert: Duo in A for violin and piano, Op 162

Plus Big Noises from Down Under

Orchestral, chamber and choral performances given in Australia and New Zealand, including a work by Brett Dean, a contemporary Australian composer familiar to British music lovers in Cheltenham, as well as a performance by celebrated young New Zealand-born bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu.

Vivaldi: Concerto in D, RV 564

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Hiro Kurosaki (conductor)

Brett Dean: Amphitheatre

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Oleg Caetani (conductor)

Mahler: Six Lieder - Trost im Ungluck; Revelge; Lob des hohen Verstands; Des Antonius von Padua; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?; Der Tamboursg'sell (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone)

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Matthias Bamert (conductor)

John Psathas: Kartsigar

New Zealand String Quartet

Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Andrew Ford (narrator)

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Frank Nuyts: Old Airs

The Song Company

Roland Peelman (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Hannu Lintu (conductor)

Strauss: Tod und Verklarung

Simone Young (conductor)

Donizetti: Il dolce suono...Ardon gl'incensi (Lucia di Lammermoor)

Sumi Jo (soprano)

West Australian Symphony Orchestra

Sachio Fujioka (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert includes sonatas by Mozart and Schubert.

20080527Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007:

Another chance to hear soprano Kate Royal and mezzo-soprano Christine Rice join pianist Roger Vignoles in solos and duets by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Gounod, Chusson, Brahms and Dvorak.

Kate Royal (soprano)

Christine Rice (mezzo)

Roger Vignoles (piano)

Schumann: Schon Blumelein; Herbstlied; Erste Begegnung; Sommerruh

Mendelssohn: Lied der Zugvogel (duet); Auf Flugeln des Gesanges; Venezianisches Gondellied, Op 19; Pagenlied; Der Mond; Herbstlied

Gounod: D'un coeur qui t'aime; Fleur des bois

Chausson: La nuit; Reveil

Brahms: Zigeunerlieder; Die Mainacht; Unbewegte, laue Luft; Lerchengesang; Standchen

Dvorak: When my scythe was whetted; Ere we part; The modest lass; The Captive; Wedding song

Plus Big Noises from Down Under:

Orchestral, chamber and choral performances given in Australia and New Zealand, including Elgar and Rachmaninov from Jeffrey Tate and Ashkenazy in Sydney, plus an homage to Satie from Melbourne-based pianist and composer Ian Munro.

Verdi: Overture (La forza del destino)

West Australian Symphony Orchestra

Sachio Fujioka (conductor)

Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Jeffrey Tate (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor

Garrick Ohlsson (piano)

Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

Ian Munro: Divertissement sur le nom d'Erik Satie, plagiarist ballet in five acts - for piano and string quartet

Australia Ensemble:

Dene Olding, Dimity Hall (violin)

Irina Morozova (viola)

Julian Smiles (cello)

Ian Munro (piano)

Korngold: Violin Concerto

Joseph Lin (violin)

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Werner Andreas Albert (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features Kate Royal and Christine Rice performing works by Schumann.

20080528Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007:

A recital for Bank of Scotland Queen's Hall Series given by the Tokyo String Quartet, featuring a programme of quartets by Beethoven and Schumann together with a new work by Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach.

Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 18 No 1

Auerbach: String Quartet No 2 (Primordial Light)

Schumann: String Quartet, Op 41 No 3

Big Noises from Down Under:

Series of orchestral, chamber and choral performances given in Australia and New Zealand, with vocal ensemble the Song Company marking the imminent arrival of summer with a sequence including works by Delius, Hindemith and Kate Bush, and Janine Jansen performing Mozart in Sydney.

Edwin Carr: The End of the Golden Weather

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219

Janine Jansen (violin)

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Gianluigi Gelmetti (conductor)

Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri: Concerto in G, Op 1 No 12 (Storm at Sea)

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Hiro Kurosaki (conductor)

The Song Company - Summer

Schein: Die Voglein singen

Anon: Bache Bene Venies (12th century)

Hindemith: Verge; Landsknecthstrinklied

Delius: To be sung on a summer night on the water

Kate Bush: Delius (Song of Summer)

Michel Legrand: The Summer Knows

Paul McCartney: Good Day Sunshine

Sibelius: En Saga

Christian Knapp (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Tokyo String Quartet performing Beethoven and Schumann.

20080529Presented by Penny Gore.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007:

A performance given by David Pyatt and Leon McCawley at the 2007 Edinburgh International festival. It was a tribute to the great horn player Dennis Brain, in whose memory Poulenc composed his Elegie for horn and piano following Brain's premature death in 1957.

Beethoven: Horn Sonata in F, Op 17

Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Op 70; Three Fantasiestucke, Op 111

Poulenc: Elegie for horn and piano

Hindemith: Sonata for horn and piano in F

Chopin: Fantasie in F minor, Op 49

Dukas: Villanelle

David Pyatt (horn)

Leon McCawley (piano)

Big Noises from Down Under:

Series of orchestral, chamber and choral performances given in Australia and New Zealand, featuring more music from Brett Dean, one of Australia's leading contemporary composers, as well as Brahms and Tchaikovsky from Auckland.

Schoenberg: Notturno for violin and strings

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Simone Young (conductor)

Brett Dean: Viola Concerto

Brett Dean (viola)

Francaix: Clarinet Quintet

Catherine McCorkill (clarinet)

Dene Olding, Dimity Hall (violin)

Irina Morozova (viola)

Julian Smiles (cello)

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Bundit Ungrangsee (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Vocalise

Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

Brahms: Symphony No 2

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Matthias Bamert (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features a performance of Poulenc's Elegie for horn and piano.

20080530Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh Festival 2007:

In a concert from Greyfriars Kirk, Cantus Koln and their director lutenist Konrad Junghanel combine Bach's best-loved motet with two early cantatas.

Konrad Junghanel (lute/director)

Bach: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12; Motet (Jesu meine Freude), BWV 227; Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4

Plus Big Noises from Down Under:

Concluding a series of orchestral, chamber and choral performances given in Australia and New Zealand with a performance that has a special place in the history of an iconic building. Puccini's trilogy of one-act operas were performed by Opera Australia 35 years ago in the very first season at the then-new Sydney Opera House.

Puccini: Il Trittico

Il Tabarro:

Nicole Youl (soprano)

Carlo Barricelli (tenor)

Jonathan Summers (baritone)

Graeme Macfarlane (tenor)

Suor Angelica:

Nicole Youl, Hye Seoung Kwon (soprano)

Milijana Nikolic (contralto)

Elizabeth Campbell, Dominica Matthews (mezzo-soprano)

Gianni Schicchi:

Henry Choo (tenor)

Elizabeth Campbell (contralto)

Teresa La Rocca (soprano)

Opera Australia Chorus

Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Andrea Licata (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features Cantus Koln and Konrad Junghanel performing works by Bach.

20080602Presented by Louise Fryer.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Direct from Wigmore Hall in London, Verity Sharp introduces a recital by Argentinian pianist and Radio 3 New Generation Artist Ingrid Fliter.

Haydn: Piano Sonata in E minor

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A flat, Op 110

Chopin: Scherzo No 4 in E; Ballade No 4 in F minor

Plus Venice:

Series of recordings focusing on Venice, with music from around Europe associated with the city. Featuring works by Venetian composers from the 16th to the late 20th century, and composers who visited and were inspired by the city's beauty.

Lo Sposalizio

Part 1: The Procession through the Venetian Lagoon

Part 2: The Holy Mass at San Nicolo

Composers include:

Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli

Guami

Kapsberger

Piccinini

Gussago

Monteverdi

Viadana

Massaino

Choir of the King's Consort

Matthew Halls (director)

Galuppi: Sonata in B flat

Scarlatti: 5 Sonatas; Sonata in A, K322; Sonata in F sharp, K319; Sonata in G, K280; Sonata in C minor, K99; Sonata in D minor, K138

Andrea Bacchetti (piano)

Vivaldi: Sinfonia in G, RV 146; Concerto in B minor, RV 580 (L'estro armonico, Op 3)

Venice Baroque Orchestra

Andrea Marcon (harpsichord/director)

Rossini: Overture (Semiramide)

NDR Symphony Orchestra

Zdenek Macal (conductor)

Rossini: Bel raggio lusinghier (Semiramide)

Elena Mosuc (soprano)

Verdi: Bella figlia dell'amore (Rigoletto)

Carmen Oprisanu (mezzo)

Robert Nagy (tenor)

Alexandru Agache (baritone)

Verdi: E' strano! (La Traviata)

Nicoleta Ardelean (soprano)

Bucharest National Opera Orchestra

Gheorghe Costin (conductor).

In the Lunchtime Concert, pianist Ingrid Fliter works by Haydn, Beethoven and Chopin.

20080603Presented by Louise Fryer.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

The first of four performances from the 2008 Bath International Music Festival, featuring young trumpeter Alison Balsom performing an eclectic programme that ranges from European Baroque music to tango from South America.

Vivaldi: Concerto in D, RV 230

Neruda: Concerto in E flat

Purcell: Sonata in D

Handel: Suite in D

Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre

Falla: 7 Popular Songs

Piazzolla: Oblivion; Libertango

Alison Balsom Ensemble:

Alison Balsom (trumpet)

Magnus Johnston (violin)

Marie Macleod (cello)

Tom Poster (harpsichord/piano)

Plus Venice:

Series of works associated with the city including a performance from Venice's famous opera house La Fenice.

Wagner: Siegfried (Act 3)

Stefan Vinke (tenor)

Greer Grimsley (bass-baritone)

Anne Pellekoorne (contralto)

Susan Bullock (soprano)

La Fenice Chorus and Orchestra

Jeffrey Tate (conductor)

Lizst: Venezia e Napoli

Sergei Kudriakov (piano)

Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2

Venice Quartet

Vivaldi: Cessate omai cessate, cantata, RV 684

Sara Mingardo (mezzo-soprano)

Danish Radio Sinfonietta

Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Alison Balsom Ensemble performing Vivaldi and Piazzolla

20080604Presented by Louise Fryer.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Cellist Adrian Brendel returns to the Bath Festival for 2008, in the company of the Elias String Quartet for a performance of Schubert's late quintet in C, often regarded as the composer's crowning achievement.

Britten: String Quartet No 2 in C, Op 36

Schubert: String Quintet in C, D 956

Plus Venice:

Music by Venetian composers and those associated with the city, including Monteverdi's setting of the Vespers, performed in Speyer Cathedral as part of the Schwetzingen Festival.

Caldara: Sinfonia a quattro No 3 in F minor

Bach Consort

Ruben Dubrovsky (cello/director)

Verdi: 5 Songs (Stornello; Perduta ho la pace; Lo spazzacamino; La zingara; Brindisi - 1st version)

Diana Damrau (soprano)

Stephan Lademann (piano)

Petrassi: Sinfonia, Siciliana and Fugue for string quartet

Petrassi Quartet

Monteverdi : Vespro della Beata Vergine

La Capella Ducale

Musica Fiata

Roland Wilson (director).

The Lunchtime Concert features cellist Adrian Brendel in Schubert's Quintet in C, D956.

20080605Presented by Louise Fryer.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

A concert from the 2008 Bath International Music Festival featuring 2007 Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Aronowitz Ensemble performing music for string quintet including Dvorak's Bagatelles, which feature harmonium instead of the usual piano.

Dvorak: Bagatelles, Op 47

Ravel: Duo 1922

Schumann: Piano Quintet

Plus Venice:

Series of recordings associated with Venice, including a performance of Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress, which was premiered at the city's Teatro La Fenice in 1951.

Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress

Rene Schirrer (bass)

Laura Claycomb (soprano)

Toby Spence (tenor)

Laurent Naouri (baritone)

Hilary Summers (mezzo-soprano)

Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano)

Ales Briscein (tenor)

Ugo Rabec (bass)

Paris National Opera Chorus and Orchestra

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Albinoni: Trumpet Concerto (San Marco)

Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)

Oslo Camerata

Stefan Baratt-Due (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features The Aronowitz Ensemble performing music for string quintet.

20080606Presented by Louise Fryer.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Concluding a series of performances from from the 2008 Bath International Music Festival, with one of the most feted young pianists to have emerged from the Russian tradition in recent years.

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

Haydn: Sonata B minor; Sonata in C

Chopin Mazurkas (Op 33, No 2 in D; Op 33, No 4 in B minor)

Scriabin: Mazurkas Op 3 (G minor; C sharp minor; B minor; E)

Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit

Plus Venice:

To conclude a series of Venetian recordings, the programme features baroque music as well as 20th century pieces by composers with Venetian connections.

Monteverdi: Dixit Dominus

Cavalli: Sonata a tre (Musiche sacre)

Monteverdi: Beatus vir

Monteverdi: Cantate Domino

Cappella Gregoriana di Venezia

Venice Baroque Orchestra

Andrea Marcon (director)

Britten: Sacred and Profane

Danish National Vocal Ensemble

Soren K Hansen (director)

Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor for strings and continuo, RV 157; Concerto in C for strings and continuo, RV 114

Andrea Marcon (harpsichord/director)

Pergolesi: Salve Regina in F minor

Sara Mingardo (mezzo-soprano)

Danish Radio Sinfonietta

Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)

Stravinsky: Petrushka

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Charles Dutoit (conductor)

Petrassi: Nonsense Songs

RTVE Chorus

Josep Vila (conductor)

Vivaldi: In furore iustissima irae - motet for soprano, strings and continuo, RV 626; Concerto in G minor for strings and continuo, RV 156

Maria Espada (soprano)

Andrea Marcon (harpsichord/director).

The Lunchtime Concert features Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) performing works by Hadyn and Chopin

20080609Lunchtime Concert: pianist Till Fellner in works by Mozart, Holliger and Schumann.
20080610Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Series of concerts given at the 2008 Guardian Hay Festival, in which the Psophos Quartet are joined by pianist David Bismuth to perform chamber music of late 19th century and early 20th century Paris.

Lisa Schatzman, Pablo Schatzman (violin)

Arnaud Thorette (viola)

Eve-Marie Caravassilis (cello)

David Bismuth (piano)

Franck: Quintet in F minor for piano and strings

Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano

Plus a series of programmes focusing on performances by the BBC orchestras, with two themes running throughout: concertos for violin and orchestra, and the symphonies of Beethoven.

Bruckner: Overture in G minor

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Rumpf (conductor)

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 1 in D, Op 19

Alina Ibragimova (violin)

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Schubert: Symphony No 3 in D, D200

Francaix: Quintet No 1 for wind

Galliard Ensemble

Ravel: La Valse

Lionel Bringuier (conductor)

Craig Armstrong: Memory Takes My Hands

Lucy Crowe (soprano)

Apollo Voices

Garry Walker (conductor)

Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat, Op 60

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Otto Tausk (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Psophos Quartet in music by Franck and Debussy.

20080611Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Series of concerts given at the 2008 Guardian Hay Festival, in which baritone Thomas Allen is accompanied by Simon Over in a recital featuring songs setting French poetry from the 15th century through to the First World War. All the composers featured were involved with the Societe Musicale Independante.

Faure: L'Horizon chimerique

Debussy: Trois Ballades de Francois Villon

Poulenc: Songs from Poemes de Ronsard

Ravel: Histoires naturelles

Plus a series of programmes focusing on performances by BBC orchestras, with two themes running throughout: concertos for violin and orchestra, and the symphonies of Beethoven.

Berlioz: Overture (Le carnaval romain, Op 9)

Milhaud: Suite Francaise, Op 248

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Dvorak: Symphony No 5 in F, Op 76

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Howard Skempton: The Moon Is Flashing

James Gilchrist (tenor)

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor, Op 61

Philippe Graffin (violin)

Beethoven: Elegischer Gesang, Op 118

BBC Singers

Stephen Betteridge (piano)

Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68 (Pastoral)

James Judd (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features baritone Thomas Allen singing settings of French poetry.

20080612Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Series of concerts given at the 2008 Guardian Hay Festival. The Gould Piano Trio perform a late piano trio by Saint-Saens and one of the earliest of Debussy's chamber pieces.

Lucy Gould (violin)

Alice Neary (cello)

Benjamin Frith (piano)

Saint-Saens: Trio No 2

Debussy: Trio

Plus a series of programmes focusing on performances by BBC orchestras, with two themes running throughout: concertos for violin and orchestra, and the symphonies of Beethoven.

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Dvorak: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 53

Hilary Hahn (violin)

Steve Martland: Summer Rounds

BBC Singers

Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Bob Chilcott: Weather Report

Stravinsky: Orpheus (ballet)

Ulster Orchestra

Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A, Op 92

Howard Shelley (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features the Gould Piano Trio performing a piano trio by Saint-Saens

20080613Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

To conclude a series of concerts from the 2008 Guardian Hay Festival with pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs works by Ravel and Debussy, and a composer they helped to champion - Satie.

Ravel: Oiseaux tristes; Une barque sur l'ocean; Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)

Satie: Avant dernieres pensees No 1 (Idylle); Le piege de la Meduse; Sarabande No 2

Debussy: Reflet dans l'eau; Hommage a Rameau; Mouvements (Images - Book 1); Pour les tierces; Pour les quartes; Pour les sixtes; Pour les octaves (Etudes - Book 1)

Concluding a series of programmes focusing on performances by the BBC orchestras, with two themes running throughout: concertos for violin and orchestra, and the symphonies of Beethoven.

Smetana: Wallenstein's Camp

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Walton: Violin Concerto in B minor

Tasmin Little (violin)

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op 5

Chausson: Poeme de l'amour et de la mer, Op 19

Louise Winter (mezzo-soprano)

Debussy: La mer

Beethoven: Symphony No 8 in F, Op 93

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).

Lunchtime Concert: Pianist Jean Efflam Bavouzet in works by Ravel, Satie and Debussy.

20080616Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

From Wigmore Hall in London, Sarah Walker introduces a recital in which Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley and pianist Julius Drake perform German songs by Grieg and a selection of Schumann's settings of words by Heinrich Heine.

Schumann: Heine Settings

Grieg: 6 Songs, Op 48

Plus The Alps: A week of music with an Alpine connection, featuring orchestral and choral works.

Pfitzner: 3 Preludes (Palestrina)

Suisse Romande Orchestra

Marek Janowski (conductor)

Busoni: Violin Concerto in D

Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)

Schnittke: Violin Sonata No 1

Alissa Margulis (violin)

Polina Leschenko (piano)

Liu Tieshan/Mao Yuan: Dance of the Yao People

China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra

Pang Ka-Pang (conductor)

Martin: In Terra Pax

Catherine Naglestad (soprano)

Doris Soffel (mezzo-soprano)

Charles Workman (tenor)

Christian Gerhaher (baritone)

Ralf Lukas (bass)

MDR Radio Chorus and Orchestra

Hartmut Haenchen (conductor)

Strauss: 4 Interludes (Intermezzo)

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 2

Nikolai Lugansky (piano)

Marek Janowski (conductor).

Lunchtime Concert: Bass-baritone Gerald Finley and Julius Drake (piano) in works by Grieg.

20080617Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Felicity Lott (soprano)

Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Soprano Felicity Lott opens a week of Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts from the 2007 Cheltenham Festival, with a recital from the Pittville Pump Room sourcing French and American pieces. She performs songs by Gounod, Faure, Saint-Saens and Chabrier, as well as works by Barber, Musto, Rorem and Porter.

Gounod: Ou voulez-vous aller?; Le soir; Le temps des roses

Faure: Mandoline, Op 58 No 1; En Sourdine, Op 58 No 2; Green, Op 58 No 3; Clair de lune, Op 46 No 2

Saint-Saens: La coccinelle; Si vous n'avez rien a me dire; Danse macabre

Chabrier: Lied; Tex yeux bleus; L'ile heureuse

Barber: The Monk and his Cat, Op 29 No 8; Sure on this Shining Night, Op 13 No 3; Promiscuity, Op 29 No 7; Solitary Hotel, Op 41 No 4

Musto: Triolet; Litany

Rorem: Early in the Morning; I am Rose; O you whom I often and silently come where you are; Youth, Day, Old Age and Night

Porter: The Physician; The Tale of the Oyster; Night and Day

Plus The Alps: A week of music with an Alpine connection, including orchestral and choral works.

Zbinden: Symphony No 3

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Marek Janowski (conductor)

Brahms: Violin Concerto, Op 77

Julian Rachlin (violin)

Patrick Davin (conductor)

Trad, arr Peng Xiuwen: Fleeing Clouds

China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra

Pang Ka-Pang (conductor)

Martin: Pilate

Malgorzata Panko (mezzo-soprano)

Fabrice Dalis (tenor)

Piotr Nowacki (bass)

Polish Radio Chorus

Camerata Silesia

National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Lawrence Foster (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1 (Winter Daydreams)

Antoni Wit (conductor).

The Lunchtime concert features soprano Felicity Lott singing French and American music.

20080618Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Young Russian-Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg continues a series of Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts featuring performances from the 2007 Cheltenham Festival. Giltburg made his Cheltenham debut in 2005, when he was barely into his twenties, and made such an impression that he was immediately invited back.

Bach, arr Busoni: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 656

Beethoven: Sonata No 28 in A, Op 101

Franck, arr Bauer: Prelude, Fugue and Variation in B minor, Op 18

Rachmaninov: Five selected Preludes, Op 23

Prokofiev: Sonata No 7 in B flat, Op 83

Gershwin: Three Preludes

Plus The Alps: Continuing a week of music with an Alpine connection, including orchestral and choral works.

Bartok: Divertimento

Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

Christoph Poppen (conductor)

Martin: Et la vie l'emporta

Netherlands Chamber Chorus

Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra

Frans Bruggen (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2

Lang Lang (piano)

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

Strauss: Alpine Symphony

Dresden Staatskapelle

Fabio Luisi (conductor).

The Lunchtime Concert features Boris Giltburg (piano) playing Bach, Beethoven and Franck.

20080619Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

A concert from 2007's Cheltenham Festival, with the Florestan Trio performing in the Pittville Pump Room with mezzo-soprano Susan Gritton in a programme featuring piano trios by Haydn and Schubert, as well as Shostakovich's settings of Alexander Blok's poetry.

Haydn: Piano Trio No 1 in E flat, H XV 10

Shostakovich: Seven Romances on Verses by Blok, Op 127

Schubert: Piano Trio no 2 in E flat, D929

Plus The Alps: Continuing a week of music with an Alpine connection, including orchestral and choral works.

Honegger: Pacific 231

Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich

Heinz Holliger (conductor)

Martin: Songs of Ariel

Swedish Radio Chorus

Peter Dijkstra (conductor)

Poulenc: Concerto for 2 pianos

Lilya Zilberstein, Alexander Gurning (pianos)

Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

Christian Zacharias (conductor)

Peng Xiuwen: Flowing Water

China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra

Pang Ka-Pang (conductor)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Act 1)

Cast includes: Ian Storey (tenor), Matti Salminen (bass), Waltraud Meier (soprano), Gerg Grokowski (baritone), Will Hartmann (tenor), Michelle de Young (soprano)

La Scala Chorus and Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim (conductor).

Lunchtime Concert: The Florestan Trio with Susan Gritton in works by Haydn and Schubert.

20080620Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

A concert from 2007's Cheltenham Festival, with highly regarded current Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Pavel Haas Quartet performing a recital in the Pittville Pump Room, featuring music by Mozart, Dvorak and Janacek.

Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546

Dvorak: String Quartet No 12 in F (American)

Janacek: String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters)

Plus The Alps:

Concluding a week of music with an Alpine connection, with the last two acts of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde in a performance given at La Scala, Milan earlier this year. During the interval British tenor Ian Storey talks to Penny about his role in the production.

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Acts 2 and 3)

With Ian Storey (tenor), Matti Salminen (bass), Waltraud Meier (soprano), Gerd Grokowski (baritone), Will Hartmann (tenor), Michelle de Young (soprano), Ryland Davies (tenor), Ernesto Panariello (baritone), Alfredo Nigro (tenor). La Scala Chorus and Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim.

The Lunchtime Concert features the Pavel Haas Trio performing music by Mozart and Dvorak.

20080623Presented by Jonathan Swain.

Including:

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

From the Wigmore Hall, London, a recital by British pianist Imogen Cooper.

Schubert: Impromptus, D899

Bartok: Selection from 14 Bagatelles, Op 6

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 13 in A minor

Plus China Focus: With music by Chinese composer Tan Dun, creator of the award-winning score to the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Tan Dun: Death and Fire

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Muhai Tang (conductor)

Bach: Sonata in A for flute and keyboard, BWV 1032

Sharon Bezaly (flute)

Terence Charleston (harpsichord)

Charles Medlam (viola da gamba)

Judith Weir: Heroic Strokes of the Bow

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5

Till Fellner (piano)

Webern: Langsamer Satz (1905) for string quartet

Szymanowski Quartet

Mahler: Symphony No 4

Lisa Milne (soprano)

Stefan Solyom (conductor)

Part of Radio 3's Focus on China season.

Lunchtime Concert: Pianist Imogen Cooper. China Focus: music by Chinese composer Tan Dun.

20080624Presented by Jonathan Swain.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Highlights from concerts recorded at this year's Aldeburgh Festival. Featuring the Belcea Quartet, pianist Imogen Cooper and double bass player Duncan McTier.

Schubert: String Quartet No 13 in A minor, D804 (Rosamunde); String Quintet, D667 (Trout).

Plus China Focus:

Bright Sheng: Shanghai Overture

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Muhai Tang (conductor)

Bach: Sonata in E minor for flute and continuo, BWV 1034

Sharon Bezaly (flute)

Terence Charleston (harpsichord)

Charles Medlam (viola da gamba)

Berlioz: Overture (Le corsaire)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Beethoven: Violin Concerto

James Ehnes (violin)

Elgar: Serenade for string orchestra

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor

Christoph Konig (conductor)

Part of Radio 3's Focus on China season.

Lunchtime Concert: Aldeburgh Festival highlights. Plus China Focus.

20080625Presented by Jonathan Swain.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Debussy: Sonata in D minor for cello and piano

Janacek: Pohadka (Fairy Tales) for cello and piano (1912 version)

Schumann: Violin Sonata No 3, arr for cello

Kurtag: Four Pieces for solo cello: Hommage a John Cage; Pilinszky Janos: Gerard de Nerval; Arnyak (Shadows); Kroo Gyorgy In Memoriam

Ravel: Deux melodies hebraiques

Poulenc: Sonata for cello and piano

Plus China Focus

Including:

Qigang Chen: L'eloignement

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Muhai Tang (conductor)

Poulenc, arr Lennox Berkeley: Flute Sonata

Sharon Bezaly (flute)

BBC Philharmonic

Baldur Bronnimann (conductor)

Puccini: Preludio Sinfonico

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Roberto Minczuk (conductor)

Korngold: Violin Concerto

Matthew Trusler (violin)

Busoni: Turandot Suite (Scs 1,2,7 and 8)

Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italienne

Bach: Sonata in G minor for flute (or violin/oboe) and keyboard, BWV 1020 (attrib JS Bach, now thought to be CPE Bach)

Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)

Robin Michael (cello)

Gary Cooper (harpsichord)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1

Ingrid Fliter (piano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Benjamin Ellin (conductor)

Part of Radio 3's Focus on China season.

Lunchtime Concert: Steven Isserlis in works by Debussy and Janacek. Plus China Focus.

20080626Presented by Jonathan Swain.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

In a concert given at this year's Aldeburgh Festival, soprano Carolyn Sampson and pianist Jonathan Papp perform rarely-heard songs from Debussy and Poulenc, alongside Britten's settings of Verlaine and Hugo.

Debussy: Ariettes oubliees

Bizet: Adieux de l'hotesse arabe; Ma vie a son secret; La coccinelle

Poulenc: Airs chantes (1927)

Barber: Three songs, Op 45

Britten: Quatre chansons francaises

Walton: Three songs

Plus China Focus

Including:

Musheng Chen: A Dream in the Peony Garden

Yili Shen Kun (opera singer)

Muhai Tang (conductor)

Beethoven: Egmont - incidental music, Op 84

Ulster Orchestra

Josep Caballe-Domenech (conductor)

Beethoven: Concerto No 3 in C minor for piano and orchestra, Op 37

Edward Kunz (piano)

Leonard Bernstein: Halil Nocturne for flute, string orchestra and percussion

Sharon Bezaly (flute)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op 34

Chen Yi: Chinese Folk Songs (Diu diu deng; Mountain Song and Dancing Tune; The Flowing Stream; Spring Dreams)

BBC Singers

Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)

Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante

Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Michal Dworzynski (conductor)

Part of Radio 3's Focus on China season.

Lunchtime Concert: Carolyn Sampson in songs by Debussy and Poulenc. Plus China Focus.

20080627Presented by Jonathan Swain.

With Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Concluding the series of concerts given at this year's Aldeburgh Festival, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs excerpts from Bach's The Art of Fugue interspersed with excerpts from Jatekol (Games) by the festival's featured composer Gyorgy Kurtag.

Plus Focus on China:

Li Huan Zhi: Chinese Spring Festival Overture

Stravinsky: Petrushka

Smetana: Vltava: Ma Vlast

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Smetana: Och, jaky zal!...Ten lasky sen (The Bartered Bride)

Elena Semenova (soprano)

Elgar: Cockaigne Overture

Glazunov: Chant du menestrel

Jian Wang (cello)

Chen Yi: Chinese Myths Cantata

BBC Singers

Gu Feng Ensemble

BBC Philharmonic

Jason Lai (conductor)

John Adams: The Chairman Dances

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1

Jin Ju (piano)

Part of Radio 3's Focus on China season.

Lunchtime Concert: Pierre-Laurent Aimard in works by Bach and Kurtag. Plus China Focus.

20080721Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor opening the 114th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. The concert launches Proms celebrations of the centenaries of Elliott Carter and Olivier Messiaen and features a rich line-up of soloists.

Christine Brewer (soprano)

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

Wayne Marshall (organ)

Royal College of Music Brass

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Strauss: Festliches Praludium

Mozart: Oboe Concerto in C, K314

Strauss: Four Last Songs

Messiaen: La nativite du Seigneur (Dieu parmi nous)

Beethoven: Rondo in B flat for piano and orchestra

Elliott Carter: Catenaires for solo piano (UK premiere)

Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy

Plus Chamber Music:

The first in a series of chamber music performances, featured throughout the Proms season, with Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Ebene Quartet in a recital given last year at the Wigmore Hall, London.

Haydn: Quartet, Op 76 No 1

Ravel: Quartet.

Another chance to hear the BBC SO under Jiri Behlolavek in works by Carter and Messiaen.

20080722Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear a Prom in which violinist Nigel Kennedy made a return to the Proms - after an absence of 21 years - joining the BBC Concert Orchestra and Paul Daniel for Elgar's Violin Concerto. Introduced by Sean Rafferty, the programme begins with The Garden of Fand, one of Bax's so-called 'Celtic twilight' works, and a magical evocation of the sea surrounding Fan's island. Afterwards Andrew Kennedy is soloist in Finzi's setting of Wordsworth's poem about the loss of childhood innocence.

Andrew Kennedy (tenor)

Nigel Kennedy (violin)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Paul Daniel (conductor)

Bax: The Garden of Fand

Finzi: Intimations of Immortality

Elgar: Violin Concerto

Plus Chamber Music:

Britten: Cello Sonata, Op 65

Peter Wispelwey (cello)

Dejan Lazic (piano).

Featuring works by Bax and Finzi, plus violinist Nigel Kennedy in Elgar's Violin Concerto.

20080723Presented by Tom Service.

BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear an orchestral Prom with Parisian musicians playing French blockbusters from the last two centuries, also featuring the Royal Albert Hall's famous organ. They contribute to the celebrations of Olivier Messiaen's centenary with two works with a religious inspiration: one for solo organ and one for a large array of wind and percussion. And they join forces to end the concert with Saint-Saens's famous Organ Symphony.

Olivier Latry (organ)

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

Messiaen: L'ascension, for solo organ; Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3 (Organ)

Plus Chamber Music:

Wolf: 6 songs (Morike lieder for voice and piano)

Christianne Stotijn (soprano)

Joseph Breinl (piano)

Haydn: Quartet, Op 20 No 1

Endellion Quartet.

Another chance to hear a Prom with French music. With Saint-Saens's Organ Symphony.

20080724Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear a Prom featuring conductor Roger Norrington and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra performing key works by three much-loved composers.

The concert begins with Rossini's overture to his opera William Tell, with its brooding prelude for cellos and famous galloping ending, and is followed by Haydn's early C major Cello Concerto, long-thought lost until it turned up in the 1960s. The soloist is young French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, who makes his BBC Proms debut. The programme ends with Elgar's Symphony No 1 in A flat, described at the time of its debut by Hans Richter as 'the greatest symphony of modern times'.

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)

Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR)

Roger Norrington (conductor)

Rossini: William Tell Overture

Haydn: Cello Concerto No 1 in C

Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat

Plus Chamber Music:

Britten: Cello Suite No 3

Christian Poltera (cello).

Another chance to hear a Prom with Rossini: William Tell Overture and Elgar: Symphony No 1

20080725Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear a Proms concert recreating a programme first heard at the Royal Albert Hall in 1958, with works by two great German composers. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is joined by its chief conductor Jiri Belohlavek, who was raised in the European traditions of performing Mendelssohn and Brahms.

Lars Vogt (piano)

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Overture (Ruy Blas); Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat; Symphony No 2 in D

Plus Chamber Music:

Bach: Cello Suite No 1

Christian Poltera (cello).

The BBC SO in Mendelssohn's Overture to Ruy Blas and Brahms's Piano Concerto No 2.

20080728Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear a Prom featuring the BBC Philharmonic and its Conductor Laureate in a programme that includes the first public performance of Arnold Bax's In memoriam Patrick Pearse. Written in memory of one of the leaders of the Irish Easter Rising of 1916, it was only recently found to have been orchestrated. The orchestra is then joined by Yevgeny Sudbin who makes his BBC Proms debut in Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 1, and the concert concludes with Vaughan Williams's challenging Symphony No 4.

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Bax: In memoriam Patrick Pearse

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4 in F minor

Plus Chamber Music:

Messiaen: Vingt Regards Nos 1-10

Joanna MacGregor (piano)

Shostakovich: String quartet No 7

Kopelman Quartet.

Another chance to hear a Prom featuring works by Bax, Rachmaninov and Vaughan Williams.

20080729Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to a Prom with a programme that concentrates on colour, both orchestral and visual, and includes the first Proms premiere of 2008, by Simon Holt, recently appointed 'Composer in Association' with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. There is also Debussy's Nocturnes, his impressionist response to paintings by Whistler, portraying sky, sea and dazzling festivities, as well as Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, with orchestrations by Ravel.

Cantamus Girls' Choir

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Debussy: Nocturnes

Simon Holt: Troubled Light (BBC commission - world premiere)

Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pitcures at an Exhibition

Plus Chamber Music:

Messiaen: Vingts Regards Nos 11-20

Joanna MacGregor (piano)

Faure: Melodies, Op 58

Joan Rodgers (soprano)

Christopher Glynn (piano).

Another chance to hear a Prom featuring a new work by Simon Holt and Debussy's Nocturnes.

20080730Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear a Prom in which bass John Tomlinson joins the City of Birmingham Chorus and Symphony Orchestra in scenes from Boris Godunov and composer Thomas Ades conducts his recent work which explores the idea of 'the ship of the world'. Also on the bill is Prokofiev's fiery first Piano Concerto with soloist Louis Lortie as well as two of the most popular Russian works in the orchestra repertoire.

Anna Dennis (mezzo-soprano)

John Tomlinson (bass)

Louis Lortie (piano)

City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Ades (conductor)

Mussorgsky, rev. Shebalin: A Night on the Bare Mountain

Mussorgsky: Coronation Scene; Boris's Monologue; Death Scene (Boris Godunov)

Ades: Tevot

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 1

Borodin: Polovtsian Dances

Plus Chamber Music:

Brahms: Piano Quartet, Op 60

Johannes Flieder (viola)

Vienna Piano Trio.

A Prom with works by Mussorgsky, Ades, Prokofiev and Borodin.

20080731Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear a Prom celebrating the centenary of the birth of Olivier Messiaen, one of the most inspirational, colourful and influential composers of the 20th century. La transfiguration is a fervent expression of his passionately held Roman Catholic faith, illuminating the moment when Christ was enveloped in light and revealed to his disciples as the Son of God.

Messiaen: La transfiguration de notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ

Gerard Bouwhuis (piano)

Adam Walker (flute)

Julian Bliss (clarinet)

Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello)

Colin Currie (xylophone)

Adrian Spillett (marimba)

Richard Benjafield (vibraphone)

Philharmonia Voices

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC National Chorus of Wales

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Plus Chamber Music:

Dowland: Selection of lute songs

Emma Kirkby (soprano)

Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Schubert: Piano Trio in B flat

Vienna Piano Trio.

With a Prom featuring Messiaen's La transfiguration. Plus Chamber Music: Schubert.

20080801Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear a Prom celebrating the 200th anniversary of Beethoven's Symphony No 5 - premiered in 1808 in Vienna - and Elliott Carter's centenary. David Robertson and the BBC Symphony Orchestra begin with the string orchestra version of the Grosse Fuge from Beethoven's late String Quartet Op 130.

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

David Robertson (conductor)

Beethoven: Grosse Fuge

Elliott Carter: Oboe Concerto

Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor

Plus Chamber Music:

Haydn: Piano Trio H XV 19

Vienna Piano Trio

Korngold: Piano Trio

Purcell: Selection of songs and lute pieces

Emma Kirkby (soprano)

Jakob Linberg (lute).

Another chance to hear a Prom featuring Beethoven's Symphony No 5 and Grosse Fuge.

20080804Presented by Louise Fryer.

With BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear the Halle Orchestra's Prom with their current music director Mark Elder in Vaughan Williams's 8th Symphony, dedicated to the orchestra's then music director John Barbirolli, who premiered the work with the orchestra in 1956. This is followed by George Butterworth's orchestral rhapsody, which is heard alongside some of AE Housman's poems which inspired it. The concert concludes with Bruch's ever-popular concerto, featuring violinist Janine Janson, and Richard Strauss's orchestral portrait of impudent trickster Till Eulenspiegel.

Janine Jansen (violin)

Rupert Evans (speaker)

Tom McKay (speaker)

Mark Elder (conductor)

Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 8 in D minor

Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Plus Chamber Music:

Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht

Vienna Piano Trio

Berio: Folk songs

Britten Sinfonia.

Another chance to hear a Prom featuring works by Vaughan Williams, Bruch and Strauss.

20080805Presented by Louise Fryer.

Including BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear a Prom celebrating Liverpool's relationship with young Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko, in its year as Europan capital of culture. Petrenko teams up with two other young Liverpool-born artists: composer Kenneth Hesketh, who has written a new work for this Prom, and pianist Paul Lewis, who joins the orchestra for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4.

Paul Lewis (piano)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

Kenneth Hesketh: Graven Image (BBC/RLPO co-commission: world premiere)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Plus Chamber Music:

Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew themes

Britten Sinfonia

Stravinsky: 3 Songs

Anna Dennis (soprano)

Schubert: selection of songs

Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano)

Joseph Breinl (piano).

Another chance to hear a Prom featuring music by Liverpool-born composer Kenneth Hesketh.

20080806Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear a Prom featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with their Chief Conductor-designate Donald Runnicles in their first concert of the new season. Beethoven's First Symphony is followed by Mahler's symphony-with-voices Das Lied von der Erde, featuring South African tenor Johan Botha and former Kathleen Ferrier Award-winner Karen Cargill.

Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)

Johan Botha (tenor)

Donald Runnicles (conductor)

Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Plus Chamber Music:

Mozart: Trio in G, K496

Vienna Piano Trio

Mahler: Piano Quartet Movement

Johannes Flieder (piano)

Falla: Harpsichord Concerto

Britten Sinfonia.

A repeat of a Prom, with Beethoven's Symphony No 1 and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.

20080807Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear a Prom in which the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its young associate guest conductor Stefan Solyom celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ethel Smyth's birth. Her unusually scored Concerto for Horn and Violin is dedicated to the founder of the Proms, Henry Wood, and alongside it are Wood's own arrangements of Bach and Rachmaninov, a composer whose work he championed. The concert closes with Rachmaninov's romantic Second Symphony.

Richard Watkins (horn)

Tasmin Little (violin)

Stefan Solyom (conductor)

Bach, orch. Henry Wood: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

Smyth: Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra

Rachmaninov, orch. Henry Wood: Prelude in C sharp minor

Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor

Plus Chamber Music:

The Britten Sinfonia play works by composers from Bach to Peter Maxwell Davies, as well as Bach arranged by Maxwell Davies.

A repeat of a Proms Ethel Smyth celebration, with her Concerto for Horn and Violin.

20080808Presented by Louise Fryer.

Including BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear a Prom in which young violinist Julia Fischer joins the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and its chief conductor for a programme inspired by rustic dances.

Brahms's Violin Concerto ends with a peasant dance, while the third movement of Dvorak's Sixth is a 'furiant' with cross-rhythms. This is preceded by Johan Wagenaar's overture to Cyrano de Bergerac.

Julia Fischer (violin)

Yakov Kreizberg (conductor)

Wagenaar: Overture (Cyrano de Bergerac)

Dvorak: Symphony No 6 in D

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D

Plus Chamber Music:

Stravinsky: Soldier's Tale Suite

Bartok: Contrasts

Britten Sinfonia

Stravinsky: 3 Pieces for string quartet

Kopelman Quartet.

A repeat of a Prom inspired by rustic dances. Including Brahms's Violin Concerto.

20080811Presented by Ian Skelly.

BBC Proms 2008

British composer George Benjamin conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in his first orchestral work Ringed by the Flat Horizon, which was dedicated to his teacher Olivier Messiaen. The concert opens with Messiaen's four meditations on religious themes, L'ascension, and returns to France at its close with popular works by Ravel. German violinist Carolin Widmann makes her Proms debut with Stravinsky's neo-Classical violin concerto. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Carolin Widmann (violin)

George Benjamin (conductor)

Messiaen: L'ascension

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto

George Benjamin: Ringed by the Flat Horizon

Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte

Ravel: Bolero

Chamber Music

Couperin: Pieces de clavecin

Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin (excerpts)

Alexandre Tharaud (piano).

The BBC SO in works by Messiaen, Stravinsky, Ravel and conductor George Benjamin.

20080812BBC Proms 2008

Ian Skelly presents the Ulster Orchestra under its principal conductor Kenneth Montgomery exploring contrasting nationalities in a colourful Proms programme of Irish and Czech music. Works by Irish born composers Ferguson and Stanford are followed by Smetana's Ma vlast and Dvorak's Eighth Symphony. Young Irish pianist Finghin Collins makes his Proms debut in Stanford's Second Piano Concerto. Introduced by Alex Wilson.

Finghin Collins (piano)

Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

Ferguson: Overture for an Occasion

Stanford: Piano Concerto No 2

Smetana: Vltava (Ma vlast)

Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G

Chamber Music

MacMillan: Memento for String Quartet

Callino Quartet

Brahms: Quintet in F minor for piano and strings, Op 34

Barry Douglas (piano)

Callino Quartet.

The Ulster Orchestra in a Prom featuring music by Ferguson, Stanford, Smetana and Dvorak.

20080813Presented by Ian Skelly.

BBC Proms 2008

Leonard Slatkin conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a Prom featuring three diverse composers. Chen Yi's Olympic Fire was commissioned to celebrate the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and to look forward to the London Olympics in 2012.

Winner of the 2001 Van Cliburn Competition Olga Kern plays one of the best-loved works by fellow-Russian Sergei Rachmaninov.

The Prom finishes with two major pieces by Ralph Vaughan Williams: a work for strings commissioned for the New York World's Fair just before the Second World War and a searing symphony apparently inspired by the horrors that conflict brought. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Olga Kern (piano)

Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

Chen Yi: Olympic Fire (BBC commission; world premiere)

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 6 in E minor

Chamber Music

Bach: Preludes and Fugues

Schoenberg: Pieces

Alfredo Pearl (piano)

Plus highlights from Hesperion XXI and Jordi Savall at the 2006 Wyastone Leys Festival.

BBC Proms 2008: Works by Chen Yi, Rachmaninov and Vaughan Williams. Plus chamber music.

20080814Presented by Ian Skelly.

BBC Proms 2008

A jazz-infused concert given at the Royal Albert Hall, London, with works by Gershwin, Stravinsky and Bernstein, plus new compositions by Radio 3 New Generation Artist Gwilym Simcock and Jason Yarde.

Michael Collins (clarinet)

Gwilym Simcock (piano)

Phil Donkin (bass)

Martin France (drums)

Jason Yarde (saxophone)

BBC Concert Orchestra

Charles Hazlewood (conductor)

Gershwin: Strike Up the Band

Gershwin, arr. Jason Yarde: My man's gone now (Porgy and Bess) (BBC commission; world premiere)

Jason Yarde: Rhythm and Other Fascinations (BBC commission; world premiere)

Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto

Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

Gwilym Simcock: Progressions for piano and orchestra (BBC commission; world premiere)

Gershwin: An American in Paris

Chamber Music

Bach: Partita No 1

Martin Helmchen (piano)

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 5

Jacques Loussier Trio

Bach: English Suite No 2

Martin Helmchen (piano).

BBC Proms 2008: Gershwin, Stravinsky, Bernstein, plus new works by Simcock and Yarde.

20080815Presented by Ian Skelly.

BBC Proms 2008

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Rob Cowan.

Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with the first half of the Prom inspired by the sun and nature - Sibelius's Night Ride and Sunrise is followed by two world premieres: Michael Berkeley's Slow Dawn on the rising of the sun and Stuart McRae's Gaudete, a 'life narrative' based on the epilogue from a collection of poems by Ted Hughes and sung by Susanna Andersson. A perennial favourite by Elgar concludes the programme.

Susanna Andersson (soprano)

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Sibelius: Night Ride and Sunrise

Michael Berkeley: Slow Dawn (world premiere of new version)

Stuart MacRae: Gaudete (BBC commission; world premiere)

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Plus:

Janacek: Diary of One Who Disappeared

Toby Spence (tenor)

Graham Johnson (piano)

Highlights from Hesperion XXI and Jordi Savall at the 2006 Wyastone Leys Festival.

Bach: Fugue No 5

Jacques Loussier Trio.

20080818Presented by John Shea.

BBC Proms 2008

Gianandrea Noseda celebrates Puccini's 150th anniversary by conducting the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Singers and an international cast in this concert performance of his one-act opera Il Tabarro. Rachmaninov's powerful First Symphony - only recently recognised for the masterpiece it is following its disastrous premiere - completes the programme. Introduced by Suzy Klein.

Barbara Frittoli (Giorgetta)

Miro Dvorsky (Luigi)

Lado Ataneli (Michele)

Jane Henschel (La Frugola)

Barry Banks (Il Tinca)

Alastair Miles (Il Talpa)

Allan Clayton (A song-vendor)

Katherine Broderick (Young lover)

Edgaras Montvidas (Young lover)

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Symphony No 1

Puccini: Il tabarro (concert performance - sung in Italian)

Chamber Music

Highlights from concerts performed at the Sage, Gateshead, featuring Radio 3 new Generation Artists.

Mozart: Quartet, K421

Chiaroscuro

Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit

Eduard Kunz (piano).

Gianandrea Noseda conducts Puccini's opera Il Tabarro. Plus Rachmaninov's Symphony No 1.

20080819Presented by John Shea.

BBC Proms 2008

A Prom featuring Vassily Sinaisky and the BBC Philharmonic performing Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, the tale of a Princess who seduces the Sultan with her never-ending fund of stories. The great Russian conductor's enthusiasm for all things English is also displayed with performances of Elgar and Vaughan Williams. Introduced by Rob Cowan.

Ashley Wass (piano)

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Elgar: In the South (Alassio)

Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Chamber Music

A selection of lieder by Schubert, Brahms, Mahler and Pfitzner performed by mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn and pianist Joseph Breinl.

The BBC Philharmonic in a Prom featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

20080820Presented by John Shea.

BBC Proms 2008

A Prom in which charismatic young conductor Gustavo Dudamel directs former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Martin Frost and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in a new clarinet concerto by Anders Hillborg, as well as Berlioz's ecstatic and hallucinatory Symphonie fantastique.

Martin Frost (clarinet)

Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

Ravel: La Valse

Anders Hillborg: Clarinet Concerto (Peacock Tales) (UK premiere)

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Plus Chamber Music

Faure: Barcarolles (selection)

Debussy: Preludes (selection)

Louis Lortie (piano)

Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit

Psophos Quartet.

A Prom with Martin Frost (clarinet) and the Gothenburg SO in music by Ravel and Berlioz.

20080821Presented by John Shea.

BBC Proms 2008

Proms favourites Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra return to the Royal Albert Hall in the first of two concerts. The orchestra brings young Israeli and Arab musicians together every summer to work and perform Vienese classics by Haydn, Schoenberg and Brahms. Introduced by Martin Handley.

Ramon Ortega Quero (oboe)

Mor Biron (bassoon)

Guy Braunstein (violin)

Hassan Moataz El Molla (cello)

Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

Haydn: Sinfonia concertante in B flat for oboe, bassoon, violin and cello

Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra, Op 31

Brahms: Symphony No 4

Plus Chamber Music:

A selection of songs by Pfitzner, Schoenberg and Mahler performed by baritone Simon Keenlyside and pianist Malcolm Martineau.

Haydn: Quartet, Op 74 No 3

Chiaroscuro.

A Proms featuring the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Haydn, Schoenberg and Brahms.

20080822Presented by John Shea.

BBC Proms 2008

A Prom featuring the music of Leos Janacek, a recent departure for Pierre Boulez, who galvanises his large orchestra forces with extra brass in the glorious Sinfonietta. They are joined by some 260 voices and organ for the thrilling Glagolitic Mass, while by way of a total contrast. Plus a rare opportunity to hear the Capriccio for piano and chamber ensemble. Introduced by Donald McLeod.

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet (soprano)

Anna Stephany (mezzo-soprano)

Simon O'Neill (tenor)

Peter Fried (bass)

Simon Preston (organ)

BBC Symphony Chorus

London Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Janacek: Sinfonietta; Capriccio; Glagolitic Mass (original version - reconstr. Paul Wingfield)

Chamber Music

Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)

Joanne Lunn (soprano)

David McGuinness (harpsichord)

Sebastian Comberti (cello)

Telemann: Sonata in G minor for oboe and continuo

Bach: Hochster, Hochster, mache deine Gute (Cantata No 51)

CPE Bach: Sonata in G minor for oboe and continuo

Bach: 15 Inventions for keyboard (Nos 1, 4, 6, 8 and 14); Bach: Part 1; Seufzer, Tranen, Kummer, Not (Cantata No 21); Sich uben im Lieben (Cantata No 202)

Plus a selection of Schubert songs performed by baritone Simon Keenlyside and pianist Malcolm Martineau.

Pierre Boulez conducts the BBC SO and Chorus in three works by Janacek. Plus Chamber Music

20080825Presented by Penny Gore

BBC Proms 2008:

A Prom featuring Vaughan Williams's Flos Campi with a solo viola accompanied by orchestra and wordless chorus, prefaced by highly charged words from the Song of Solomon. It is a score that may have been a concealed declaration of love for Ursula Wood, who was to become the composer's second wife.

Well known for his advocacy of British music, Richard Hickox also directs Nigel Osborne's Flute Concerto in celebration of the composer's sixtieth birthday and with a Radio 3 New Generation Artist as soloist. Completing the programme are a Mozart Symphony and Beethoven's Mass in C. Introduced by Louise Fryer.

Sharon Bezaly (flute)

Lawrence Power (viola)

Rebecca Evans (soprano)

Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano)

Thomas Walker (tenor)

Matthew Rose (bass)

BBC Singers

City of London Sinfonia

Richard Hickox (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony No 34 in C, K338

Vaughan Williams: Flos campi

Nigel Osborne: Flute Concerto

Beethoven: Mass in C

Plus Chamber Music:

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 21 in C, Op 53 (Waldstein)

Barry Douglas (piano)

Brahms: Two Rhapsodies for piano, Op 79

Barry Douglas (piano).

A Prom featuring music by Vaughan Williams, Nigel Osborne and Beethoven.

20080826Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2008:

A Prom with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Chief Conductor Ilan Volkov in the second premiere of the season by centenary composer Elliott Carter - a miniature piano concerto performed by Nicolas Hodges.

With Alban Gerhardt as soloist in the challenging Symphony-Concerto by Prokofiev, originally written for the great Russian cellist Rostropovich. The concert ends with Beethoven's idyllic yet dramatic 'Pastoral' Symphony. Introduced by Martin Handley

Nicolas Hodges (piano)

Alban Gerhardt (cello)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Elliott Carter: Soundings

Prokofiev: Symphony-Concerto

Beethoven: Symphony No 6 (Pastoral)

4.00pm Chamber Music

Tavener: Songs of the sky

Charles Daniels (tenor)

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

Julius Drake (piano)

A selection of songs by Bridge, Hughes, Orr, Howells, Ireland and Barber.

Ailish Tynan (soprano)

Barry Douglas (piano).

Prom with the BBC SSO in a premiere by Elliott Carter, plus Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto.

20080827Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2008:

An electro-acoustic Prom with works by some of the biggest names in electronic music. Featuring Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos plango, vivos voco, which merges the sound of the great bell of Winchester Cathedral with the voice of a boy treble, as well as his new commision Speakings, which plays on the musical content of speech and his His Tombeau de Messiaen. The French composer himself is represented by the Concert a quatre, a work completed after his death by his widow Yvonne Loriod, while Edgar Varese - one of the great early pioneers of electronic music - is represented by his tape piece Poeme electronique, and his work for orchestra and tape Deserts. Introduced by Andrew McGregor

Cedric Tiberghien (piano)

Emily Beynon (flute)

Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)

Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Jonathan Harvey: Tombeau de Messiaen

Messiaen: Concert a quatre

Jonathan Harvey: Mortuos plango, vivos voco; Speakings

Varese: Poeme electronique; Deserts.

An electro-acoustic Prom, featuring Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos plango, vivos voco.

20080828Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2008:

A Prom with Jiri Belohlavek conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music from his Czech homeland. With Dvorak's 16 Slavonic Dances, which began life as piano duets before his publisher persuaded him to orchestrate them - to huge success.

Plus Janacek's rarely-heard, semi autobiographical opera Osud (Fate), about the writing of an opera telling the story of the composer Zivny and his lover Mila, both the object of his obsessive love and the subject of his work. Starring tenor Stefan Margita and soprano Amanda Roocroft. Introduced by Donald McLeod.

Zivny - Stefan Margita

Mila - Amanda Roocroft

Mila's Mother - Rosalind Plowright

Dr Suda/Hrazda - Ales Briscein

Konecny - Owen Gilhooly

Ms Stuhla - Ailish Tynan

Ms Pacovska/Fanca/Souckova - Martina Bauerova

Doubek as a child - George Longworth

Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, Op 46

Janacek: Osud

BBC Singers

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Plus Chamber Music:

Schumann: 3 Romances, Op 94

Chen Halevi (clarinet)

Noam Greenberg (piano).

The BBC SO under Jiri Belohlavek in Dvorak's 16 Slavonic Dances and Janacek's Osud.

20080829Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Prom 2008:

Cologne's Gurzenich Orchestra under Markus Stenz makes its Proms debut in a recreation of the 1904 concert in which it introduced Mahler's 5th Symphony to the world. Schubert's songs from the 1904 concert are heard in new orchestrations and Stockhausen's Punkte is included to mark what would have been his 80th birthday. The Prom ends with Beethoven's Leonore Overture. Introduced by Andrew McGregor.

Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano)

Apollo Voices

Markus Stenz (conductor)

Mahler: Symphony, No 5

Stockhausen: Punkte

Schubert, orch. David Matthews: Standchen, D921

Schubert, orch. Manfred Trojahn: Bei dir allein, D866 No 2

Schubert, orch. Colin Matthews: Nacht und Traume, D827

Schubert, orch. Detlev Glanert: Das Lied im Grunen, D917

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No 3.

The Gurzenich Orchestra in their Proms debut perform Mahler's 5th Symphony.

20080901Presented by Penny Gore

BBC Proms 2008

The young star players of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain are conducted by the youngest man ever to be appointed Musical Director of the Royal Opera, Antonio Pappano. There is an American theme to their programme, launched by Frenchman Edgard Varese's hymn to the New World where he went to live, followed by the more reluctant US resident Rachmaninov's last numbered piano concerto, written mainly in New York.

The concert ends with Aaron Copland's all-American Third Symphony, featuring his famous Fanfare for the Common Man.

Boris Berezovsky (piano)

Antonio Pappano (conductor)

Varese: Ameriques

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4

Copland: Symphony No 3

Plus Chamber Music

Elgar: Piano Quintet

Sorrel Quartet

Martin Roscoe (piano).

With BBC Proms 2008: The NYO in Varese's Ameriques, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 4.

20080902Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2008:

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Daniele Gatti perform an all-Russian programme showing his flair for colour and emotional intensity. Prokofiev's ballet score Romeo and Juliet tells the story of Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers with some of his most popular music, while Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony moves from darkness to light, ending with a triumphal march. Introduced by Martin Handley.

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5

Daniele Gatti (conductor)

Chamber Music:

Elgar: String Quartet in E minor, Op 83

Brodsky Quartet.

The RPO Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (excerpts), and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5.

20080903Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2008

With a Prom marking 50 years since the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1958, in a programme with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis. The magical soundworld of the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis for string orchestra is followed by the narrative ballet Job and Serenade to Music, with words by Shakespeare and, according to tradition, featuring 16 leading British singers.

The programme ends with Vaughan Williams's last symphony - the Ninth - which was completed when he was 85 years old. Introduced by Rob Cowan.

Sarah Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton, Sophie Bevan, Rachel Nicholls (soprano)

Allison Cook, Louise Poole, Julia Riley, Catherine Hopper (mezzo-soprano)

Ed Lyon, Joshua Ellicott, Peter Wedd, Nicholas Sharratt (tenor)

Mark Stone, Darren Jeffery, George von Bergen, Tim Mirfin (bass)

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Job - A Masque for Dancing; Serenade to Music; Symphony No 9.

A Prom featuring Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and Job.

20080904Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2008

A concert featuring Susanna Malkki conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra in five works including the UK premiere of Peter Eotvos' violin concerto Seven, written to commemorate the seven astronauts who lost their lives in the Columbia space shuttle tragedy in 2003.

The programme also includes Debussy's Prelude a L'apres-midi d'un faune, Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending and two works by Vaughan Williams's teacher Ravel - the song cycle Scheherezade, featuring mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, and the second suite from the ballet Daphnis et Chloe. Introduced by Christopher Cook.

Akiko Suwanai (violin)

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

Susanna Malkki (conductor)

Debussy: Prelude a L'apres-midi d'un faune

Peter Eotvos: Seven (violin concerto) (UK premiere)

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Ravel: Scheherazade

Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Suite No 2

Plus Chamber Music

Huw Watkins: Partita

Alina Ibragimova (violin)

Britten: Winter Words, Op 52

Robert Murray (tenor)

Malcolm Martineau (piano).

Susanna Malkki leading the Philharmonia in works including Eotvos' violin concerto Seven.

20080905Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2008

Another chance to hear a Prom featuring an orchestra from Norway, a pianist from Russia playing Rachmaninov's grandest piano concerto and a Finnish conductor bringing two pieces from his homeland. Introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Nikolai Lugansky (piano)

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

Magnus Lindberg: Seht die Sonne (UK premiere)

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3

Sibelius: Symphony No 1.

A Prom with the Oslo Philharmonic in works by Magnus Lindberg, Rachmaninov and Sibelius.

20080908Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2008

One of the best known choral works in the repertory is performed at the 2008 Proms. Verdi's Requiem is every bit as popular as his famous operas and Verdi himself conducted the British premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in 1875 to a tumultuous reception.

Here, over 220 voices of the massed choirs of the BBC Symphony Chorus and Crouch End Festival Chorus, an international line-up of soloists and Jiri Belohlavek conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform what the composer called one of his greatest achievements. Introduced by Suzy Klein.

Violeta Urmana (soprano)

Olga Borodina (mezzo-soprano)

Joseph Calleja (tenor)

Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (bass)

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Verdi: Requiem

3.35pm Chamber Music

Music inspired by Italy, by composers from Bach to Nono.

Louis Lortie (piano)

Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op 135

Brodsky Quartet.

Another chance to hear a Prom featuring the BBC SO and Chorus in Verdi's Requiem.

20080909Presented by Louise Fryer

BBC Proms 2008:

Another chance to hear last Thursday's Prom, which for the first part features a nautical theme, as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs music by Welsh composer Grace Williams. A pupil of Vaughan Williams and a friend of Britten, her Sea Sketches catch the different moods of the Bristol Channel, as seen from her hometown of Barry.

Former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Christine Rice sings Elgar's ever-popular Sea Pictures, which is followed by Tchaikovsky's turbulent final symphony.

Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

Grace Williams: Sea Sketches

Elgar: Sea Pictures

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6, (Pathetique)

Plus Chamber Music:

Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat, K493

Muir Quartet

Jean-Phillipe Collard (piano)

Mozart: a selection of songs

Robin Tritschler (tenor)

Julius Drake (piano)4.

BBC Proms 2008: The BBC NOW under Tadaaki Otaka in music by Elgar and Tchaikovsky.

20080910Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2008

A Prom in which the London Philharmonic Orchestra and its chief conductor Vladimir Jurowski mark 2008's centenary of Rimsky-Korsakov's death with his rarely-heard opera Kashchey the Immortal. This is paired with The Firebird by Stravinsky, who was one of Rimsky-Korsakov's pupils. Introduced by Tom Service.

Vyacheslav Voynarovsky (Kashchey)

Tatiana Monogarova (Princess)

Pavel Baransky (Ivan Korolevich)

Elena Manistina (Kashcheyevna)

Mikhail Petrenko (Storm Knight)

BBC Singers

Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Kashchey the Immortal

Stravinsky: The Firebird

Chamber Music

Songs by Beethoven and Russian composers

Robin Tritschler (tenor)

Julius Drake (piano).

BBC Proms 2008: Rimsky-Korsakov's Kashchey the Immortal and Stravinsky's The Firebird.

20080911Presented by Louise Fryer

BBC Proms 2008

A Prom in which celebrated French conductor Stephane Deneve conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in a programme dominated by the theme of the sea. The erotic Bacchus et Ariane Suite No 2 by mariner-turned-composer Albert Roussel opens the concert, which ends with Debussy's famous symphonic sketches, La mer.

In between, there is a performance of Rainbow by Thea Musgrave, who celebrates her 80th birthday this year. The piece charts a musical journey from an approaching storm, through the appearance of a rainbow to a sunny chorale of thanksgiving. And to complete the Proms cycle of Rachmaninov concertos, award-winning pianist Stephen Hough plays the most popular concerto of them all.

Stephen Hough (piano)

Stephane Deneve (conductor)

Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane - Suite No 2

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor

Thea Musgrave: Rainbow

Debussy: La mer

Plus Chamber Music

Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1 (Rasumovsky)

Psophos Quartet.

BBC Proms 2008: The RSNO peform works by Roussel, Rachmaninov and Debussy.

20080912Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2008

A Prom in which the natural world and beyond is explored by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Martyn Brabbins. With Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia Antartica in which off-stage female voices conjure the vast uninhabited wastes of the South Pole.

Notions of clouds, nebulae and dust galaxies built from rhythmic atoms inspire Xenakis's challenging work Pleiades, which reflects on his experience in the Second World War and is performed by two ensembles of young percussion virtuosi. The concert concludes with Holst's The Planets in Holst's, again featuring more ethereal off-stage women's voices in the final movement, Neptune. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

4-Mality

O Duo

Holst Singers (women's voices)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia antartica (Symphony No 7)

Xenakis: Pleiades

Holst: The Planets.

Martyn Brabbyns conducts the BBC SO in music by Vaughan Williams, Xenakis and Holst.

20081226The LSO under Valery Gergiev in a complete performance of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty.
20090723Louise Fryer presents two very different musical meditations on the Passion of Christ, by Haydn and James MacMillan, recorded at the BBC Proms 2009.

Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross

James MacMillan: Seven Last Words from the Cross

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

Renata Pokupic (mezzo)

Andrew Kennedy (tenor)

Darren Jeffery (bass-baritone)

BBC Singers

Manchester Camerata

Douglas Boyd (conductor)

4.00pm

Highlights from LSO St Lukes

Elgar: Quintet in A minor for piano and strings, Op 84

Aronowitz Ensemble.

Haydn: The Seven Last Words. James MacMillan: Seven Last Words. Elgar: Piano Quintet.

20091023Presented by Ian Skelly.

Including a chance to hear the inaugural recording by the BBC Philharmonic of Elgar's The Crown of India - an elaborate masque written in 1912 to celebrate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary as Emperor and Empress of India the previous year. The original orchestration has been lost, so composer and Elgar expert Anthony Payne has reconstructed the music for this recording of a little-known period piece.

Janacek: Concertino for piano and six instruments

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Shai Wosner (piano/director)

Schumann: Concerto in A minor for cello and orchestra, Op 129

Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

Elgar: The Crown of India - imperial masque in two tableaux reconstructed and orchestrated by Anthony Payne

India - Joanne Mitchell

Calcutta - Deborah McAndrew

Delhi - Barbara Marten

Agra - Claire Shearer (soprano)

St George - Gerald Finlay (tenor)

Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Stravinsky: The Firebird - ballet

Thierry Fischer (conductor).

Featuring the inaugural recording by the BBC Philharmonic of Elgar's The Crown of India.

20110113Afternoon on 3 features new recordings from the BBC performing groups, including a concert given last month in Hanley by the BBC Philharmonic. Plus new recordings of Gregson and Foulds from the BBC Concert Orchestra and Howells' Requiem from the BBC Singers.

Presented by Karishmeh Felfeli.

2pm

Smetana: Bartered Bride overture

Yutaka Sado (conductor)

Gregson: Music for Chamber Orchestra

Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

Foulds: Indian Suite

Ronald Corp (conductor)

2.45pm

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no.1 in B flat minor

Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano)

3.25pm

Howells: Requiem

Margaret Feaviour (sop), Margaret Cameron (mezzo) Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor)

Jamie W Hall (bass)

David Hill (conductor)

Gregson: 2 Pictures for String Orchestra

Foulds: Henry VIII Suite

4.10pm

Dvorak: Symphony no.9 in E minor 'From the New World

Yutaka Sado (conductor).

BBC Philharmonic in Smetana, BBC CO in Gregson and BBC Philhamonic in Tchaikovsky.

20110114Afternoon on 3 features new recordings from the BBC performing groups, including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra playing Brahms and Beethoven, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. Plus the BBC Singers with Meyerbeer's Psalm 91.

Presented by Karishmeh Felfeli.

2pm

Rufinatscha: The Bride of Messina - overture

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

2.15pm

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major

Vilde Frang (violin)

Donald Runnicles (conductor)

2.55pm

Beethoven: Symphony no.3 in E flat major 'Eroica

Meyerbeer: Psalm 91; Qui in manu Dei requiescit

Elizabeth Poole (soprano), Rebecca Lodge (mezzo soprano), Christopher Bowen (tenor), Adrian Peacock (bass)

Andrew Carwood (conductor)

4pm

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Act 1

Barry Wordsworth (conductor).

Presented by Karishmeh Felfeli. Including the BBC SSO in music by Brahms and Beethoven.

20110429Today's Afternoon on 3 celebrates the Royal Wedding with a live concert of royal music from Belfast's Ulster Hall. The Ulster Orchestra and conductor Barry Wordsworth are also joined by Irish soprano Ailish Tynan for music by Mozart and Haydn.

Afterwards we return to the world of neglected English composer York Bowen, who died fifty years ago. We'll hear music by Bowen, and by Saint-Saens who called him 'the most remarkable of the young British composers'.

Presented by Louise Fryer

2pm

Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast

Presented by John Toal

Jeremiah Clarke: The Prince of Denmark's March

Britten: Courtly Dances (from Gloriana)

Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate, K165

Bliss: Royal Palaces Music (excerpts)

Wagner: Bridal Chorus (Lohengrin)

Ferguson: Overture for an Occasion

Handel: Let the bright Seraphim (Samson)

Handel arr. Harty: Water Music Suite

Walton: Orb and Sceptre

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Wedding March

Ailish Tynan (soprano)

Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

3:55pm

Britten: 2 Portraits for String Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Bowen: Eventide

BBC Concert Orchestra

John Wilson (conductor)

4.35

Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto no. 1 in A minor

Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)

Susanna Malkki (conductor).

Celebrating the Royal Wedding with a concert live from Belfast by the Ulster Orchestra.

20111007Highlights from the 2011 Lucerne Festival.
20111014Katie Derham presents recordings of unusual arrangements of Liszt, Mussorgsky, Schubert, Debussy and Brahms made at this year's Lucerne Festival.

Mussorgsky (arr. Steven Verhaert): Songs and Dances of Death

Lucerne Festival Orchestra Brass Ensemble

Lutz Kohler (conductor)

Liszt (arr. Heinz Holliger): Nuages gris & Unstern!

SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart

Michel Tabachnik (conductor)

Schubert (orch. Brahms): Memnon, Geheimes & An Schwager Kronos

Hanno Muller-Brachmann (bass-baritone)

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Bernard Haitink (conductor)

Brahms (arr. Jorge Rotter): Serenade No. 1 in D, op. 11

Lucerne Festival Orchestra Ensemble

Daniel Harding (director)

Debussy (arr. Heinz Holliger): Ardeur noire

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra

David Robertson (conductor)

Mussorgsky (arr. Elgar Howarth): Pictures at an Exhibition

Lutz Kohler (conductor).

Katie Derham presents unusual recordings of Liszt, Mussorgsky, Schubert, Debussy, Brahms.

20111031The BBC Philharmonic performs symphonies by Prokofiev, Mozart, Haydn and Brahms.
20111101Louise Fryer introduces a concert of Russian music from the BBC Philharmonic conducted by the orchestra's Conductor Emeritus

Rimsky-Korsakov Overture The Tsar's Bride

Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

with Howard Shelley (piano)

Shostakovich Symphony no. 11 'The Year 1905

Hamilton Harty Tone Poem With the Wild Geese

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Haydn Symphony no 75 in D major (Hoboken 1/75)

Nicholas Kraemer (conductor)

It's the year 1905: the Russian Empire teeters on the brink of revolution. And as crowds of protestors fill St Petersburg's Palace Square, great and terrible events are about to unfold. With its angry trumpets, revolutionary chants and jangling bells, Shostakovich's 11th isn't just one of the mightiest of modern symphonies. It's practically a film score without the pictures, a sweeping panorama of political struggle and human tragedy that leaves the ears ringing and the heart pounding.

For the BBC Phil's Russian Conductor Emeritus Vassily Sinaisky, this music is in the blood: expect him to charge every note with a deeply personal significance. First, though, Sinaisky brings his trademark verve to two very different Russian showstoppers - Rimsky-Korsakov's melodramatic overture, and Rachmaninoff's hugely popular, unforgettably romantic Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Snow on the boots, fire in the soul!

And that's followed by a haunting tone poem by an Irish-born pianist-conductor-composer who died seventy years ago this year.

Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Philharmonic in an all-Russian programme of music.

20111102Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a performance of Bruckner's Symphony No 7.
20120113Katie Derham presents music by Rameau, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky.
20120127Louise Fryer presents music by Cherubini, Gluck and Schubert performed by the period instruments of Les Agr退mens and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra plays Stravinsky.

Cherubini: Overture to 'D退mophon

Guy Van Waas (director)

c.2.05pm

H退rold: Symphony No. 2 in D

c.2.20pm

Gluck: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, and Dance of the Fairies, from 'Orph退e et Eurydice

c.2.25pm

Schubert: Mass No. 6 in E flat, D. 950 52'07

Anne Maistriau (soprano)

Ana Nage (contralto)

Robert Buckland (tenor)

Benoit Giaux (bass)

Namur Chamber Chorus

c.3.15pm

Stravinsky: Sc耀nes de ballet

John Storgards (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Stravinsky: Symphony in C

John Storgards (conductor).

Louise Fryer presents Les Agremens in Cherubini, Gluck and Schubert's Mass in E flat.

20120210Katie Derham introduces the seldom heard Serenade for Orchestra by Jakub Ryba, plus Manfred Honeck conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Dvorak's Stabat Mater. Written whilst Dvorak mourned the death of his daughter, Josefa, and finished following the tragic passing of his two remaining children, the Latin text to which he set the composition tells of the grief of the Virgin Mary at the death of her son, Jesus, as she stands under his cross.

Baritone Thomas Hampson performs Mahler's deeply moving Kindertotenlider with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, traversing the range of somber emotional responses a parent might pass through at the death of a child - from anguish, through fantasy resuscitation, to resignation and transcendence. The text, written as Ruckert attempted to come to terms with the loss of his children to scarlet fever, was set as a song-cycle between 1901-1904 by Mahler who, poignantly, lost his own daughter, Maria, to scarlet fever sometime later.

Jan Jakub Ryba: Serenade for Orchestra

Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra

Vojtech Spurny (conductor)

c. 2.20pm

Dvorak: Stabat Mater Op. 58

Simona Houda-Saturova (soprano)

Marina Prudenska (alto)

Tomကs Cerný (tenor)

Liang Li (bass)

Prague Philharmonic Chorus

Lukas Vasilek (director)

Manfred Honeck (conductor)

c. 3.40pm

Cꀀsar Franck: Violin Sonata in A (dedicated to Eug耀ne Ysaÿe)

Carolin Widmann (violin)

Konstantin Lifschitz (piano)

c. 4pm

Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder

Thomas Hampson (baritone)

Eliahu Inbal (conductor).

Katie Derham presents music by Ryba, Dvorak, Franck and Mahler.

20120321Katie Derham presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra with music by Kancheli, Chopin, and Rimsky-Korsakov, and Neil Brand's music for Alfred Hitchcock's silent movie Blackmail.

Composer Neil Brand talks about his recent orchestral score for Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 silent film Blackmail.- premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with the film at the Barbican Hall, London. Set in London, it's a tale of treachery and murder.

Kancheli: Noch einen Schritt

BBC Symphony Orchestra,

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).

c. 2.10pm

Chopin: Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minor

Khatia Buniatishvili (piano),

Mikhail Agrest (conductor).

c. 2.45pm

Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko (Symphonic Suite)

c. 2.55pm

Neil Brand: Blackmail

Timothy Brock (conductor).

BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Kancheli, Chopin, Rimsky-Korsakov and Neil Brand.

20120323Afternoon on 3's Polish connection continues with music from last year's Warsaw Chopin and his Europe Festival. Howard Shelley performs the Piano Concerto by 19th century composer and pianist Jozef Krogulski, before turning to more familiar music as a conductor - Schubert's Symphony no.3. Plus a programme of Tchaikovsky from the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev.

Presented by Katie Derham.

Krogulski: Piano Concerto

Howard Shelley (piano)

Sinfonia Varsovia

Howard Shelley (conductor)

c. 2.35pm

Schubert: Symphony no.3 in D major

c. 3.05pm

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no.1

Daniil Trifonov (piano)

Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)

c.3.45pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.4 in F minor

Mikhail Pletnev (conductor).

Katie Derham presents music by Krogulski, Schubert and Tchaikovsky.

20120620Live from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and principal conductor Thierry Fischer play Honegger and Stravinsky, presented by Elin Manahan Thomas.

Honegger: Symphony No. 2

2.30pm

Honegger: Cello Concerto

2.45pm

Stravinsky: Symphony in E Flat

Christian Poltera (cello),

BBC National Orchestra of Wales,

Thierry Fischer (conductor).

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales play Honegger and Stravinsky live in Cardiff.

20130211Presented by Katie Derham.

On offer this week a wide and rich selection, mainly a mix of English and French repertoire, as we feature the BBC Symphony Orchestra performing live and in the studio. Also, the BBC Concert Orchestra with two concerts from their American tour this week; some chamber highlights from a recent day at the Barbican Centre in London celebrating composer Oliver Knussen's 60th birthday, and French Renaissance polyphony with the music of Dominque Phinot performed by the BBC Singers.

Today, David Robertson conducts Debussy's La Mer with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sarah Jane Bradley joins the orchestra in a new Viola Concerto by Matthew Taylor. Phinot's lamentations for Easter are followed by another concerto - a version for piano and orchestra of Brahms Violin Concerto with its arranger, Dejan Lazic as soloist under conductor Paul Kildea. More intimate music next with Oliver Knussen's Ocean de terre, for soprano and chamber ensemble, before we end with the Divertimento from Stravinsky's ballet The Fairy's Kiss - based on tunes by his beloved Tchaikovsky.

Debussy: La Mer

David Robertson (conductor)

2.30pm

Matthew Taylor: Viola Concerto, Op. 41(Humoreskes)

Sarah Jane Bradley (viola)

Garry Walker (conductor)

2.50pm

Dominique Phinot: Incipit oratio Jeremaiae prophetae

David Hill (conductor)

3.00pm

Brahms arr Lazic: 'Piano' Concerto No. 3 (after the Violin Concerto)

Dejan Lazic (piano)

Paul Kildea (conductor)

3.40pm

Oliver Knussen: Ocean de terre, Op. 10

Guildhall New Music Ensemble

Olivia Robinson (soprano)

Richard Baker (conductor)

3.55pm

Stravinsky: Fairy's Kiss (Divertimento)

Alexander Vedernikov (conductor).

BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Debussy, Matthew Taylor, Brahms, Knussen and Stravinsky

20130621As part of Radio 3's continuing celebration of British music, Penny Gore presents a concert by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and a major British symphony - the first of what has become a significant symphonic cycle composed by Peter Maxwell Davies, with the composer himself conducting the BBC Philharmonic. Plus Beethoven and Astor Piazzolla.

William Mathias: Anniversary Dances

2.20pm

Daniel Jones: Cello Concerto

Paul Watkins (cello)

2.40pm

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60

BBC National Orchestra of Wales,

Andrew Gourlay (conductor).

3.15pm

Piazzolla (arr. Lenehan): Libertango

Ksenija Sidorova (accordion),

Clark Rundell (conductor).

3.20pm

Peter Maxwell Davies: Symphony no. 1

BBC Philharmonic,

Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor).

Penny Gore presents music by William Mathias, Daniel Jones, Beethoven and Piazzolla.

20130923Julian Lloyd Webber joins Barry Wordsworth and the BBC Concert Orchestra for a concert of English music recorded in June at the National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing, China. There's also music for film across the week, on the theme of adventure, as the BBC continues the Sound of Cinema season; and American music performed by the BBC performing groups. Presented by Katie Derham.

Vaughan Williams: Overture The Wasps

Elgar: Cello Concerto

Walton: Crown Imperial

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Julian Lloyd Webber (cello)

Cynthia Fleming (violin)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth

Braunfels: Scottish Fantasy

Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Johannes Wildner

Chadwick: A Pastoral Prelude

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart.

The BBC CO in music by Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Walton, Britten, Braunfels and Chadwick.

20130924Fiona Talkington in BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff and Fred Child in Saint Paul, Minnesota (host of American Public Media's daily classical music programme Performance Today) present a concert of American music given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Garry Walker. There's also film music from the BBC Concert Orchestra, introduced by Katie Derham, as part of the BBC's Sound of Cinema season.

Thomson: Three Pictures for Orchestra (Wheatfield at Noon; The Seine at Night; Sea Piece with Birds)

Barber: Violin Concerto

Copland: Inscape

Piston: Symphony No 6

Elena Urioste (violin) (Radio 3 New Generation Artist)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Garry Walker

Constant Lambert, arr Philip Lane: Suite from Anna Karenina

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Rumon Gamba.

The BBC NOW performs music by Thomson, Barber, Copland, Piston and Constant Lambert.

20130925Peter Phillips conducts the BBC Singers live in concert from St Paul's Knightsbridge in a concert which continues Afternoon on 3's American music theme this week. And as part of the BBC's Sound of Cinema season there's also film music by Doreen Carwithen.

Casals: O Vos Omnes

Padilla: Missa Ego Flos Campi; Circumdederunt me; Vidi turbam

Billings: David's Lament; When Jesus wept; The Lord is ris'n indeed (Easter anthem)

Eric Whitacre: When David Heard

Billings: Modern Musick

BBC Singers, conductor Peter Phillips

Doreen Carwithen, arr Philip Lane: Boys in Brown Suite

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Gavin Sutherland.

BBC Singers under Peter Phillips in Casals, Padilla, Billings, Whitacre and Carwithen.

20130926Katie Derham presents highlights from the BBC Concert Orchestra's China tour, recorded last month at the National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing. Following this week's themes there's also American music and film music celebrating the BBC's Sound of Cinema season.

Chadwick: Adonais - Elegiac Overture

Converse: Festival of Pan, Op 9

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart

Sibelius: Finlandia

Faure: Elegie

Gounod: Romeo et Juliette - 'Je veux vivre' (Juliette)

Delibes: Les Filles de Cadix

Arnold: English Dances Set 1

Verdi: Rigoletto - 'Caro nome' (Gilda)

Dvorak: Rusalka - 'Song to the Moon' (Rusalka)

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Music of the Night (The Phantom of the Opera)

Saint-Saens: The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2

Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Valentina Nafornita (soprano)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth

Doreen Carwithen, arr Philip Lane: Travel Royal Suite

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Gavin Sutherland

Braunfels: Piano Concerto

Victor Sangiorgio (piano)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Johannes Wildner.

BBC CO in music by Chadwick, Converse, Sibelius, Faure, Gounod, Delibes, Arnold and Verdi.

20140324Introduced by Louise Fryer from the Radio 3 pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre.

Performances from some of the incredible rosta of artists who will be performing there in the coming months including the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Philharmonic with Sir Simon Rattle.

If you're in the area, visit the Radio 3 studio and performance space in the Royal Festival Hall Riverside Caf退 to listen to Radio 3, ask questions and enjoy the special events.

2pm

Verdi

Overture to 'I vespri siciliani

Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

2.15pm

Mendelssohn

Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64

Christian Tetzlaff (violin)

Berliner Philharmoniker

Simon Rattle (conductor)

2.45pm

Respighi

Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome)

Orchestre National de France

Daniele Gatti (conductor)

3.05pm

Schumann

Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54

Martin Helmchen (piano)

Tonhalle Orchestra

Lionel Bringuier (conductor)

3.40pm

Mozart

Serenade No. 9 in D, K. 320 ('Posthorn')

Gotthard Eder (posthorn)

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Gustavo Dudamel (conductor).

Louise Fryer presents music by Verdi, Mendelssohn, Respighi, Schumann and Mozart.

20140325Introduced by Louise Fryer from the Radio 3 pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre.

Performances from some of the incredible roster of artists who will be performing there in the coming months including the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome under Antonio Pappano and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Daniele Gatti

If you're in the area, visit the Radio 3 studio and performance space in the Royal Festival Hall Riverside Caf退 to listen to Radio 3, ask questions and enjoy the special events.

2pm

Prokofiev

Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet Suites, op. 64

Daniele Gatti (conductor)

2.50pm

Sibelius

Pohjola's Daughter, op. 49

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

3.10pm

Rachmaninov

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43

Alexei Volodin (piano)

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Pinchas Steinberg (conductor)

3.45pm

Dvorak

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95 ('From the New World')

Antonio Pappano (conductor).

Louise Fryer presents music by Prokofiev, Sibelius, Rachmaninov and Dvorak.

20140326Introduced by Louise Fryer from the Radio 3 pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre.

Performances performances from some of the incredible rosta of artists who will be performing there in the coming months including Renaud Capu瀀on, Khatia Buniatishvili and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Radio 3 is broadcasting live from a pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre all day every day for the last two weeks of March. If you're in the area, visit the Radio 3 studio and performance space in the Royal Festival Hall Riverside Caf退 to listen to Radio 3, ask questions and enjoy the special events.

2pm

Stanislaw Moniuszko

The Fairytale, concert overture No. 1

Roger Norrington (conductor)

2.15pm

Beethoven

Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, op. 24 ('Spring')

Renaud Capu瀀on (violin)

Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)

2.45pm

Stravinsky

The Rite of Spring (1947 version)

Berliner Philharmoniker

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor).

Louise Fryer presents music by Moniuszko, Beethoven and Stravinsky.

20140328Introduced by Louise Fryer from the Radio 3 pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre.

Performances from some of the artists appearing there this season including the guitarist Milos Karadaglic and pianist Dejan Lazic, plus an exciting live open-air performance of Beethoven 9 from Simon Rattle recorded at the Waldbuhne in Berlin.

Radio 3 is broadcasting live from a pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre all day every day for the last two weeks of March. If you're in the area, visit the Radio 3 studio and performance space in the Royal Festival Hall Riverside Caf退 to listen to Radio 3, ask questions and enjoy the special events.

2pm

Rodrigo

Concierto de Aranjuez

Milos Karadaglic (guitar)

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Yannick N退zet-S退guin (conductor)

2.20pm

Domenico Scarlatti

Keyboard Sonata in E, K. 380

Dejan Lazic (piano)

2.45pm

Poulenc

Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor

Katia and Marielle Lab耀que (pianos)

Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

3pm

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 ('the Choral')

Camilla Tilling (soprano)

Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)

Joseph Kaiser (tenor)

Dimitry Ivashchenko (bass)

Berlin Radio Chorus, Simon Halsey (director)

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor).

Louise Fryer presents music by Rodrigo, Scarlatti, Poulenc and Beethoven.

20170228Verity Sharp presents a week of concerts from 21st-century European concert halls, including Rachmaninov's Third Piano concerto from the Harpa concert hall in Reykjav퀀k with Yan Pascal Tortelier conducting the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.

2pm:

Rachmaninov: Piano concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op.30

Nikolai Lugansky (piano)

Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

c. 2.50pm:

More from the Finish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No.2

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Hannu Lintu

c.3.05pm:

Berlioz: La mort de Cl退op tre

Violeta Urmana (soprano)

c.3.30pm:

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

c.3.40pm:

Wagner: Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene (G怀tterd䀀mmerung)

Conductor Hannu Lintu.

Verity Sharp presents music by Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Berlioz and Wagner.

2017030620170307 (R3)Katie Derham presents The BBC National Orchestra of Wales in British music including women composers in the week of International Women's Day (Wednesday). Ruby Hughes is the soloist in two contrasting works by twentieth century composers which inhabit the tortured minds of heroines from Greek mythology - Phaedra and Clytemnestra. Rumon Gamba sheds new light on two unjustly neglected tone poems in a new recording, and there's music from a recent concert series celebrating composers who have taken bold and fresh approaches to new music, including Michael Nyman's Harpsichord concerto with Mahan Esfahani. Plus an atmospheric nocturne by Morfydd Owen, a promising composer who died tragically young nearly a century ago.

2pm

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

2.20pm

Bantock: The Witch of Atlas

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

2.35pm

Britten: Phaedra

Ruby Hughes (soprano)

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

2.55pm

Rhian Samuel: Clytemnestra

Tecwyn Evans (conductor)

3.25pm

Morfydd Owen: Nocturne

Perry So (conductor)

3.40pm

Charlie Barber: Shut Up and Dance

Clark Rundell (conductor)

3.55pm

Michael Nyman: Harpsichord Concerto

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

4.10pm

Vaughan Williams: The Solent

Rumon Gamba (conductor).

BBC NOW in Britten, Bantock, Rhian Samuel, Morfydd Owen, Charlie Barber and Nyman.

20170314Katie Derham showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. There's a Russian flavour to today's programme with works by Tchaikovsky, and a chance to hear Shostakovich's less well known 2nd Cello Concerto.

2pm

Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

2.15pm

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 126

Alisa Weilerstein (cello)

Rafael Payare (conductor)

2.45pm

Stanford: Prelude - Oedipus Rex, Op.29

2.55pm

Sibelius: Pell退as et M退lisande, Op. 46

Jac van Steen (conductor)

3.15pm

Nielsen: Saga Dream, Op. 39

Christian Lindberg (conductor)

3.25pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13, 'Winter Dreams

Rafael Payare (conductor).

The Ulster Orchestra in music by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Stanford, Sibelius and Nielsen

20170321Penny Gore presents a week of concerts from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota. The orchestra collaborates with a number of leading conductors and soloists, and sometimes performs without a conductor. Today's selection features a concert with the outstanding young violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja.

2pm:

Haydn: Symphony No. 49 in F minor (La Passione)

2.25pm:

Michael Hersch: Concerto for Violin and Chamber Ensemble (Premiere)

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin/director)

2.50pm:

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61

3.35pm:

Frank Martin: Petite symphonie concertante, for harp, harpsichord, piano & double string orchestra

Sivan Magen (harp)

Ilya Poletaev (harpsichord)

Pedja Muzijevic (piano)

3.55pm:

Dvorကk: Excerpts from 'Legends, Op. 59

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in music by Haydn, Hersch, Beethoven, Martin and Dvorak.

20170328Katie Derham continues a week presenting performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers.

2.00pm

Inspiration in Song

Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Singers in the Dubai Opera House at the BBC Proms Dubai for a concert recorded last week. The BBC Singers' programme explores settings of texts dealing with the end of life, the tragedy of war, the imminence of death and the encounter of new love.

Finzi: My spirit sang all day

Judith Bingham: Distant Thunder

Parry: My soul, there is a country; Never weather-beaten sail; There is an old belief (Songs of Farewell)

Mohammed Fairouz: Different Ways to Pray

Judith Bingham: The Drowned Lovers

Stanford: The Blue bird

Delius: To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water

James Burton (conductor)

c.2.50pm

Tippett: Dance, Clarion Air

Joanna Marsh: Arabesques

Tippett: Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time

Gershwin (arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett): By Strauss

Cole Porter (arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett): Every time we say goodbye

3.45pm

Katie Derham continues the afternoon with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Benjamin Britten and Judith Weir.

Britten (completed by Colin Matthews): Concerto movement for clarinet and orchestra

Michael Collins (clarinet and conductor)

4.05pm

Judith Weir: Moon and Star

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

The BBC Singers in music by Finzi, Bingham, Parry, Fairouz, Stanford, Delius and Tippett.

20170404Catriona Young presents performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with a focus on the music of Walton and Beethoven - including highlights from a recreation of the mammoth 4-hour concert in 1808 at which Beethoven premiered several works including his grandly operatic scene and aria Ah! perfido.

2pm:

Beethoven: Ah! perfido - scena and aria, Op.65, for soprano and orchestra

Malin Christensson (soprano)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Rolf Riehm: He, tres doulz roussignol joly

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61

Liza Ferschtman (violin)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

c. 3.15pm:

Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c. 3.45pm

Chausson: Symphony in B flat major, Op.20

Miguel Harth-Bedoya (conductor).

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays music by Beethoven, Riehm, Walton and Chausson.

20170411Penny Gore introduces performances by the BBC Philharmonic including Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky's 'Path退tique' Symphony

2.00pm

Gade: Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.5

John Storgards, conductor

2.35pm

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64

Alina Pogostkina, violin

3.00pm

Bach arr Webern: Ricercar

20170418Katie Derham introduces a mix of European and Latin American repertoire, performed by the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra (Osesp). First, opening the afternoon, Milhaud's La cr退ation du monde, followed by two pieces by Poulenc, his Concerto for 2 Pianos with soloists Eric Le Sage and Frank Braley, and his suite from Les Biches. Then comes Gershwin's An American in Paris, closing this concert conducted by Stephane Deneve. It's followed by the premiere of a piece by the contemporary Brazilian composer Aylton Escobar called A Rua dos Douradores (Litany of Hopelessness), commissioned by the Osesp, and then Sibelius's Symphony No. 6, this time with Osmo Vanska at the helm, conducting the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra.

2.00pm

La cr退ation du monde, Op. 81a

St退phane Deneve, conductor

2.18pm

Concerto for 2 Pianos in D minor

Eric Le Sage & Frank Braley, pianos

St退phane Den耀ve, conductor

2.38pm

Les Biches, suite

3.00pm

3.16pm

Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (Osesp)

Osmo Vanska, conductor

3.35pm

Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104

Osmo Vanska, conductor.

The Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra performs Milhaud, Poulenc, Gershwin, Escobar and Sibelius

20170425Penny Gore presents a week of performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including recent concerts and new studio recordings. Today's programme includes a concert the orchestra gave in February at St. David's Hall featuring Stravinsky's 'Petrushka' and songs from Mahler's 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' with baritone Roderick Williams. Plus the BBC National Chorus of Wales sing Bruckner, Nicola Benedetti is soloist in Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No.2 and a new CD recording of music from the BBC NOW's former Composer in Residence, Mark Bowden.

2pm

Wagner: Overture and Venusberg Music - from Tannhauser

Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Wo die sch怀nen Trompeten blasen; Lob des hohen Verstandes; Revelge; Der Tamboursg'sell)

Stravinsky: Petrushka

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Mark Bowden: Sudden Light

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

c.3.45pm

Bruckner: Ave Maria; Christus factus est; Os justi; Locus iste

Adrian Partington (conductor)

c.4pm

Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 2, Op.61

Nicola Benedetti (violin)

Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

The BBC NOW in music by Wagner, Mahler, Stravinsky, Mark Bowden, Bruckner and Szymanowski.

20170502Catriona Young presents a week of performances and recordings by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with a Beethoven theme running across the week. Today's programme includes a new CD recording of Ravel's Piano Concerto for the left hand, with soloist Steven Osborne. Plus a concert the orchestra gave in March in Glasgow City Halls: Benjamin Appl is soloist in a selection of Schubert songs and John Wilson conducts the orchestra in Korngold's Symphony in F sharp. And today's work by Beethoven is his Fifth Symphony.

2pm

Ravel: Concerto in D major for piano (left hand) and orchestra

Steven Osborne (piano)

Ludovic Morlot (conductor)

c.2.15pm

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op.67

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

c.2.50pm

Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Overture, Op.26

Schubert:

An die Musik, arr. Reger

Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen, arr. Reger

Prometheus, arr. Reger

Du bist die Ruh, arr. Gillmann

Ganymed, arr. Gillmann

Der Erlk怀nig, arr. Liszt

c.3.30pm

Korngold Symphony in F sharp, Op.40

Benjamin Appl (baritone)

John Wilson (conductor).

The BBC SSO performs music by Ravel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Korngold.

20170509Verity Sharp introduces music recorded recently in Switzerland featuring Moret's En Rꀀve, with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter accompanied by the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, under the baton of Alan Gilbert. The orchestra then performs Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande Suite, before Anne-Sophie Mutter returns for Berg's Violin Concerto to end this concert. Also today, Marin Alsop conducts the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, recorded in Lucerne, performing Marlos Nobre's Kabbalah, followed by Grieg's Piano Concerto with soloist Gabriela Montero, and Villa-Lobos's Prelude to his Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4.

2.00pm

Moret: En Rꀀve

Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

Alan Gilbert, conductor

2.20pm

Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande Suite

3.00pm

Berg: Violin Concerto

3.27pm

Marlos Nobre: Kabbalah, Op. 96

Marin Alsop, conductor

3.37pm

Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

Gabriela Montero, piano

4.07pm

Montero: Improvisation on 'Besame mucho' (encore)

4.15pm

Villa-Lobos: Prelúdio, from Bachianas brasileiras No. 4

Marin Alsop, conductor.

Verity Sharp introduces music recorded in Switzerland by Moret, Schoenberg, Berg and Grieg

20170523Today's programme begins with a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic from MediaCityUK, Salford, presented by Tom Redmond. Mark Simpson joins the orchestra for Turnage's Clarinet Concerto - Riffs and Refrains. And there's Russian music by Glazunov and Rimsky-Korsakov. Then it's back to London with Katie Derham for more from this week's featured orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony with music by Langgaard and Falla.

2pm LIVE from MediaCityUk

Walton: 'Touch her soft lips and part ' incidental music to Henry V

Glazunov: Concert Waltz No.1 in D major, Op.47

Mark-AnthonyTurnage: Riffs and Refrains - concerto for clarinet and orchestra

Rimsky-Korsakov: Mlada -Suite from the opera-ballet

Mark Simpson (clarinet)

Franck Ollu (conductor)

c.3.30 back to the studio with Katie

Langgaard: Symphony No. 4 in E flat minor (Lovfald)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

c.3.55pm

Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Steven Osborne (piano)

Ludovic Morlot (conductor).

Live from Salford, the BBC Philharmonic in music by Glazunov, Turnage and Rimsky-Korsakov.

20170530Jonathan Swain presents a week of concerts from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In today's programme Bernard Haitink conducts music by Debussy as well as the towering 7th Symphony of Bruckner. To end Ivan Fischer leads the orchestra in James MacMillan's Trombone Concerto.

2.00

Pr退lude

20170606Katie Derham presents an afternoon of music from the BBC Concert Orchestra, in a concert conducted by Martin Yates from the annual English Music Festival in Dorchester-on-Thames, which included the newly recreated Symphony in C minor by Montague Phillips.

2pm

Vaughan Williams, orch Yates: Henry V Overture (1st performance in orchestral version)

Delius: In a Summer Garden (Original Version)

c.2.25pm

Vaughan Williams, realised Yates: English Folk Dance & Song Society March (1st performance)

Holst: The Mystic Trumpeter*

Stanford: Concert Overture (First performance)

c.3pm

Montague Phillips: Symphony in C Minor (1st performance in reconstruction)

*Ilona Domnich (soprano)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates

c.3.40pm

German: Incidental music from 'Much Ado about Nothing

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor John Wilson

c.4pm

Dankworth: Clarinet Concerto (The Woolwich)

Emma Johnson (clarinet)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Philip Ellis.

Katie Derham presents the BBC Concert Orchestra at the English Music Festival.

20170613Penny Gore presents recordings by the BBC Philharmonic from their home at MediaCity in Salford, including orchestral music by American composers Joan Tower, George Antheil, Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber.

2.30pm

Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No 2

BBC Philharmonic, Clark Rundell (conductor)

Symphony No 5 'Joyous

BBC Philharmonic, John Storgards (conductor)

c.3.00pm

Symphonic Ode

BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (conductor)

Piano Concerto, Op 38

Garrick Ohlsson (piano), BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c.3.50pm

Musorgsky orch, Ravel

Pictures from an Exhibition

BBC Philharmonic, Rory Macdonald (conductor).

The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Joan Tower, Antheil, Copland, Barber and Mussorgsky

20170620This afternoon begins with John Toal presenting a concert given by the Ulster Orchestra live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast with music by Schumann and Sibelius. Verity Sharp then introduces music performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in repertoire by Nielsen and Prokofiev.

Live from Ulster Hall, Belfast

Introduced by John Toal

2pm

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

Michael McHale (piano)

Christian Kluxen (conductor)

c.2.30pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82

Introduced by Verity Sharp

c.3.05pm

Nielsen: Suite from Aladdin

BBC NOW

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.63

Matthew Trusler (violin)

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

c.4pm

Rozsa: Theme, Variations and Finale

Eric Stern (conductor).

With the Ulster Orchestra live, performing music by Schumann and Sibelius.

20170627Penny Gore presents more performances from the orchestra on tour in Spain, Austria, Germany and China.

Today includes a performance of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony recorded in Alicante, and pianist Stephen Hough performing Rachmaninov with the orchestra in Bilbao.

2pm

Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

Stephen Hough (piano), BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c.2.30pm

Beethoven

Piano Concerto no 3 in C minor Op 37

Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c.3.05pm

Symphony no 4 in E flat major 'Romantic

BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor).

The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Rachmaninov, Beethoven and Bruckner in Spain.

20170704Verity Sharp presents a concert from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Plus a new work from the New Music Biennial as part of Hull City of Culture.

2pm:

Ravel: Alborada del gracioso

Conductor Juanjo Mena

2.10pm:

Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Javier Perianes (piano)

2.30pm:

Bruckner: Symphony No.7 in E major

Conductor Manfred Honeck

3.10pm:

Simon Holt: Joy Beast (world premiere)

Mark Simpson (clarinet)

BBC Concert Orchestra

Conductor Andr退 de Ridder.

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs music by Ravel, Falla and Bruckner.

20170711Fiona Talkington introduces a concert recorded by the BBC Singers at this year's St. Magnus International Festival and recordings from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Frank Martin: Mass for Double Choir

Anders Hillborg: Muoayiyoum

Paul Crabtree: At ipse dixit (World premiere)

Peter Maxwell Davies: The House of Winter

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Recorded last month at the St. Magnus International Festival 2017

in St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney

3:00pm

Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op.26

Rachel Barton-Pine (violin)

Andrew Litton (conductor)

3:25pm

Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony

Semyon Bychkov (conductor).

BBC Singers in Martin, Hillborg, Crabtree and Peter Maxwell Davies.

20170912Penny Gore presents a week of concerts with Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. Today's highlight is a performance of Haydn's Creation.

Simon Rattle is one of the outstanding Haydn conductors of our time. In this concert from the 2017 Lucerne Festival he presents Haydn's oratorio The Creation, which combines groundbreaking harmonies, humorous tone painting and powerful choruses to form a spectacular cosmic panorama.

Georg Friedrich Haas: ein kleines symphonisches Gedicht (Swiss premi耀re)

Haydn: The Creation

Elsa Dreisig (soprano)

Mark Padmore (tenor)

Florian Boesch (baritone)

Berlin Radio Choir

conductor Simon Rattle.

Penny Gore presents a week of concerts with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic.

20170919The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Butterworth, MacMillan and Elgar, and is joined by Steven Osborne in Ravel's jazzy, vibrant Piano Concerto in G

Presented by Verity Sharp

2.00pm

Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad

James MacMillan: Viola Concerto

Elgar: Symphony no.2 in E flat, Op.63

Lawrence Power, viola

Richard Farnes, conductor

3.45pm

Lehar: Der Zarewitsch: Wolgalied

Verdi La Traviata: O mio rimorso!; De' miei bollenti spiriti

Ilker Arcayurek (tenor)

Aleksandat Markovic (conductor)

3.55pm

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

Steven Osborne, piano

Ludovic Morlot, conductor.

Verity Sharp presents music by Butterworth, MacMillan, Elgar and Ravel.

20170926Fiona Talkington presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a series of concerts and recordings to continue Afternoon on 3's tone poem theme. Today features tone poems inspired by myths and legends with Sibelius's Tapiola and a specially recorded performance of Saint-Sa뀀ns's final tone poem, La Jeunesse d'Hercule. The 2pm concert is one the orchestra gave at Bangor's Prichard Jones Hall, featuring Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Dvorak's Seventh Symphony.

Janacek: Lachian Dances

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64

Smetana: Overture, The Bartered Bride

Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op.70

Simone Lamsma (violin)

Otto Tausk (conductor)

c.3.40pm

Sibelius: Tapiola - tone poem, Op.112

B Tommy Andersson (conductor)

c. 4.00pm

Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow - idyll for orchestra

Kriss Russman (conductor)

Saint-Sa뀀ns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - symphonic poem, Op.50

Jun Markl (conductor).

Fiona Talkington presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performing tone poems.

20171003Penny Gore presents the Radio France Philharmonic in a series of concerts and recordings launching Radio 3's new Afternoon Concert. Today's 2pm concert features two works which push the boundaries of their forms, Beethoven's Triple Concerto, and Mahler's First Symphony. Plus today's Mozart Piano Concerto is No.22 in E flat K.482 performed by Philippe Cassard, the leading French broadcaster and pianist. Plus choral music by Poulenc from the Radio France chorus.

Beethoven: Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello in C, Op. 56

Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D ('Titan')

Svetlin Roussev (violin)

Eric Levionnois (cello)

Myung-Whun Chung (piano/director)

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

c. 4pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat, K. 482

Philippe Cassard (piano)

Sir Roger Norrington (conductor).

Radio France Philharmonic in Beethoven's Triple Concerto and Mahler's First Symphony.

20171010Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic, with a particular focus on works by Elgar. The 2pm concert includes his First Symphony, along with Richard Strauss's First Horn Concerto featuring soloist Alberto Menendez.

Vaughan Williams: The Wasps, Overture

Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No 1

Elgar: Symphony No 1

Alberto Menendez (horn)

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c. 3.25pm

Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor

Jian Wang (cello)

Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

c. 4.05pm

Beethoven: Symphony No 3, 'Eroica

Ben Gernon (conductor).

The BBC Philharmonic concert series includes Elgar's Symphony No 1.

20171017Penny Gore continues her week of performances and recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Today's programme includes a concert the orchestra gave a fortnight ago at the University of Worcester Arena, performing Britten, Bruch and Dvorak. Plus Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with a specially recorded piece by Saint-Sa뀀ns - his Le Rouet d'Omphale - and concludes with a new release of Elgar's Enigma Variations.

2pm

Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34

Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26

Dvo?ကk: Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)

Hyeyoon Park (violin)

BBC NOW

Kazuki Yamada (conductor)

c.3.35pm

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Le Rouet d'Omphale - symphonic poem, Op.31

Jun Markl (conductor)

Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches - suite in A major

Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma'), Op.36

Andrew Constantine (conductor).

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Britten, Bruch and Dvorak at Worcester.

20171024Jonathan Swain continues his week of performances and recordings by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme begins with the orchestra in concert at the Barbican two weeks ago, with repertoire including the UK premiere of Thomas Larcher's Red and Green, and Bruch's Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra. There's Polish music too - the Orchestra is joined by the BBC Symphony Chorus and tenor Ben Johnson for a new recording of Szymanowski's Symphony no.3, and Tasmin Little is soloist in Karlowicz's Violin Concerto. Plus the Orchestra celebrate Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme with works by Musorgsky and Saint-Saens.

2pm

Larcher: Red and Green (UK premiere)

Bruch: Concerto in A major for Two Pianos and Orchestra

Webern: Six Pieces, Op. 6

Haydn: Symphony No. 45, 'Farewell

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

Samson Tsoy (piano)

Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Szymanowski: Symphony No. 3, Op.27 (The Song of the Night)

Ben Johnson (tenor)

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Musorgsky ed Rimsky-Korsakov: A Night on the Bare Mountain

Michael Collins (conductor)

c.4.10pm

Karlowicz: Violin Concerto in A major, Op.8

Tasmin Little (violin)

Saint-Sa뀀ns: La princesse jaune, Op 30

Pascal Roph退 (conductor).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra in concert at the Barbican plus new studio recordings.

20171031Tom McKinney showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme continues Afternoon Concert's celebration of the descriptive power of Tone Poems, including works by Smetana, Janက?ek and Sibelius, as well as a performance of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 2, Op.61, written towards the end of the composer's creative life.

2pm

Dvorကk: Carnival Op.92

Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 2, Op.61

Smetana: Vltava

Janက?ek: Taras Bulba

Tasmin Little (violin)

Courtney Lewis (conductor)

3.05pm

Dvorak: The Noon Witch, Op.108

Jac Van Steen (conductor)

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

Jennifer Pike (violin)

Rafael Payare (conductor)

4.05pm

Sibelius: Lemmimk䀀inen Suite, Op. 22

3. Lemmink䀀inen in Tuonela

4. Lemmink䀀inen's Return

Sibelius: Tapiola, Op. 112

Courtney Lewis (conductor).

Tom McKinney presents the Ulster Orchestra, playing Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No 2.

20171121Ian Skelly presents concerts featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today, two concerts reflecting the orchestra's desire to bring the best of the classical and the contemporary repertoire to its listeners. In our 2pm concert, recorded in Ayr Town Hall, Fran瀀ois Leleux conducts music from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including Mozart's 'Paris' Symphony, Schubert's 'Tragic' Symphony and Haydn's Trumpet Concerto, and at 3.15pm, for our second concert, we travel from Nuremberg in Germany to the south coast of Australia courtesy of Wagner's Overture to Die Meistersingers, Respighi's Pines of Rome and Christian Lindberg's The Waves of Wollongong.

Mozart: Symphony No 31 in D major, K297 (Paris)

Haydn: Trumpet Concerto

Beethoven: Coriolan: Overture, Op 62

Schubert: Symphony No 4 in C minor, D417 (Tragic)

Mark O'Keeffe (trumpet)

Fran瀀ois Leleux (conductor)

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Overture*

Kalevi Aho: Trombone Concerto

Respighi: Pines of Rome

Christian Lindberg: The Waves of Wollongong*

Jorgen van Rijen (trombone)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Christian Lindberg (conductor)*.

Ian Skelly presents concert performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

20171128Tom McKinney presents concerts from across Europe this week. Today's selection includes Herbert Blomstedt's 90th birthday concert with the Swedish Radio Symphony in Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony, plus the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra with Gustavo Dudamel in Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, the 'Pastoral', recorded at the Prague Spring International Music Festival.

2pm:

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat, 'Eroica

Strauss: Tod und Verkl䀀rung

Wagner: Tannh䀀user Overture

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

conductor Herbert Blomstedt

c.3.35pm:

Smetana: Overture to The Bartered Bride

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54

Jan Lisiecki (piano)

Toronto Symphony

conductor Peter Oundjian

Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F, 'Pastoral

conductor Gustavo Dudamel.

Tom McKinney presents concerts from across Europe, including Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.

20171205Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford, MediaCityUK, featuring David Matthews' tone poem 'A Vision of the Sea' and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with soprano Ruby Hughes. Plus Juanjo Mena conducts the orchestra in Bruckner's Fourth Symphony.

2pm:

David Matthews: Sinfonia

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder

David Matthews: A Vision of the Sea

Ruby Hughes (soprano)

Jac van Steen (conductor)

c.3pm:

Cowell: Hymn, Chorale and Fuguing Tune No 8 (first UK performance)

Lee Reynolds (conductor)

Ginastera: Dances from 'Estancia

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Copland: Statements

John Wilson (conductor)

c.3.30pm:

Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E flat major

Juanjo Mena (conductor).

Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford.

20171212The BBC performing groups live week continues with the BBC Concert Orchestra live from Watford Colosseum, London. Jaime Martin conducts a programme taking in Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme with Dvorak's The Noonday Witch, followed by Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. Then back to Broadcasting House for a recent recording by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, under conductor Martin Yates, of Arnold Bax's symphonic poem Tintagel. The afternoon comes to a close with Beethoven's Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3 in C minor, with Rudolf Buchbinder as soloist, accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Juanjo Mena, recorded recently in Barcelona.

2.00pm Presented by Fiona Talkington LIVE from Watford Colosseum

Dvorak: The Noonday Witch - tone poem

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

Jaime Martin (conductor)

3.50pm - Back to the studio with Jonathan Swain

Bax: Tintagel - symphonic poem

Martin Yates (conductor)

4.10pm

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 37

Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)

Juanjo Mena (conductor).

BBC Concert Orchestra live from Watford Colosseum, London, with music by Dvorak and Bartok

20171226This week Afternoon Concert celebrates the 'Best of 2017' from the BBC performing groups. Today features music from the ballet performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra at Watford Colosseum. Eric Whitacre conducts the BBC Singers in one of his own pieces, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales is joined by Beatrice Rana and B Tommy Andersson for a highlight concert from Hoddinott Hall.

Presented by Jonathan Swain

2pm

Arnold: 'Water' from ballet 'Homage to the Queen

G. Gordon: Les Noces Imaginaires Suite

Delibes ed Wordsworth: Coppelia Suite

Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

c.3.20pm

Eric Whitacre: I carry your heart with me

Eric Whitacre (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Bartok: Hungarian sketches Sz97 for orchestra

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 in C major, Op 26

c.4.05pm

Korngold: Symphony in F sharp, Op 40

Beatrice Rana (piano)

B Tommy Andersson (conductor).

The Best of 2017 from the BBC performing groups.

20180109Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic. Today the orchestra perform Stravinsky's tone poem Song of the Nightingale and music by Rossini and Mozart live at their home in Salford. Plus performances including Saint-Sa뀀ns's First Piano Concerto and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

2pm - LIVE from MediaCityUK, Salford

Rossini: Overture, The Barber of Seville

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat, K271

Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale

Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)

Ben Gernon (conductor)

c.3.15pm:

Roussel: Le festin d'araign退e: symphonic fragments

Claude Vivier: Lonely Child

Katrien Baerts (soprano)

Manoj Kamps (conductor)

c.3.50pm:

George Walker: Lyric for Strings

Clark Rundell (conductor)

c.4pm:

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Piano Concerto No 1 in D major

Louis Lortie (piano)

Edward Gardner (conductor)

c.4.30pm:

Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor

Nicholas Collon (conductor).

20180123Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with Respighi, plus we hear the fruits of the Orchestra's Beethoven Symphony Cycle recorded during a recent tour of North Wales with Principal Guest conductor Xian Zhang, and Soprano Chiara Taigi sings Verdi.

2pm

Overture to La Forza del destino

Quattro pezzi sacri

Ave Maria from Otello

La Vergine degli angeli from La Forza del destino

Tacea la notte placida from Il Trovatore

Sempre libera from La Traviata

Respighi: Pini di Roma

Chiara Taigi (soprano)

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Xian Zhang (conductor

c. 3.45pm

Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat major, Op 60

Xian Zhang (conductor)

c. 4.20pm

Bloch: Voice in the wilderness

Raphael Wallfisch (cello)

Benjamin Wallfisch (conductor).

Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC NOW.

20180130Tom McKinney continues a week of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Today includes a concert the Orchestra gave at the Bath Mozart Festival 2017 with a programme including music by Beethoven and Brahms. There's a new recording of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No 1 with soloist Tasmin Little, and Afternoon Concert's continues with Judith Weir's Natural History, with the soprano Ailish Tynan as soloist.

2pm

Smetana: The Bartered Bride - Overture

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G

Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor

Stephen Osborne (piano)

Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

Tenebrae

Nigel Short (conductor)

c.4pm

Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 1, Op 35

Tasmin Little (violin)

Edward Gardner (conductor)

c.4.25pm

Judith Weir: Natural History

Ailish Tynan (soprano)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Chausson: Viviane Op. 5

BBCSO

Pascal Rophe (conductor).

20180206Fiona Talkington continues a week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme includes a concert of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert which the orchestra gave in Glasgow City Halls under conductor Fran瀀ois Leleux. There's more from a new recording of violin music by British composers, today featuring Kenneth Leighton's Violin Concerto, and the orchestra perform symphonies by Tippett and Brahms.

2pm

Mozart: Symphony No 31 in D major, K297 (Paris) (K300a)

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op 62

Schubert: Symphony No 4 in C minor, D417 (Tragic)

Fran瀀ois Leleux (conductor)

c.2.55pm

Leighton: Violin Concerto, Op 12

Clare Howick (violin)

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

Tippett: Symphony No 2

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.3.55pm

Sciarrino: Allegoria della notte, for violin and orchestra

Ilia Gringolts (violin)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Brahms: Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90

Ilan Volkov (conductor).

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in concert.

20180213Kate Molleson continues her week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers. Today includes a concert the BBC Singers gave at the John Armitage Memorial Festival on the Kent Marshes, with an English programme including a premiere by Tom Harrold and Stuart Beatch. Plus a new recording of Florent Schmitt's Antony and Cleopatra Suite No 1, and Bartok's Two Pictures

2pm

Elgar: Give unto the Lord

Tom Harrold/Stuart Beatch: Vimy Beach (World Premiere)

Howells: Take him, earth, for cherishing

Finzi; Lo, the full, final sacrifice

Rutter; Come down, O Love divine

Tavener: Svyati (O holy one)

Jamie Walton (cello)

Daniel Cook (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Florent Schmitt: Antoine et Cl退op tre Suite 1

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

c3.50pm

Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon

Grace Rossiter (conductor)

c.4.00pm

Schumann: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, 'Rhenish

c.4.35pm

Bartok: Two Pictures

Gergely Madaras (conductor).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers at the John Armitage Memorial Festival.

20180226The BBC Concert Orchestra is Tom McKinney's featured orchestra this week, starting today with a concert they gave just over a week ago at the Watford Colosseum with their new Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey, including the UK premiere of Joseph Turrin's Hemisphere, commissioned for the wind, brass and percussion of the New York Philhamonic.

Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge

Joseph Turrin Hemispheres (UK premiere)

Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Bramwell Tovey

3.25

Sherwood Double Concerto

Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin)

Joseph Spooner (cello)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor John Andrews

4.00

Cowen Symphony No 5

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor John Andrews.

with Tom McKinney. The BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Bramwell Tovey in concert.

20180227with Tom McKinney. The BBC Concert Orchestra and their conductor laureate Barry Wordsworth are joined by soprano Susan Bullock in a concert of British and American music, recorded last month at the Watford Colosseum and presented by Ian Skelly.

Holst: A Somerset Rhapsody, Op 21

Britten: The Salley Gardens; La Belle est au jardin d'amour; O Waly, Waly; Fileuse

Holst: Japanese Suite, Op 33

Copland: Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo

Kern/Hammerstein:'Bill' from Showboat

Sondheim: 'Losing My Mind' from Follies

Copland: El Sal n M退xico

Susan Bullock (soprano)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth

3.35

Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands

Brighton Festival Chorus

4.10

York Bowen: Symphonic Fantasia

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley.

BBC Concert Orchestra and Barry Wordsworth in a concert of British and American music.

20180228with Tom McKinney. The BBC Philharmonic and their Principal Guest conductor Ben Gernon perform live from their home in MediaCity, Salford, including the UK premiere of Bernard Rands' Concerto for English Horn and orchestra with soloist Gillian Callow. Presented by Tom Redmond.

Beethoven Overture, Leonore No 2

Mozart Symphony No 31 in D (Paris)

Debussy orch. Colin Matthews La terrasse des audience du clair de lune; Feux d'artifice

Bernard Rands Concerto for English horn and orchestra (UK premiere)

Anna Clyne Masquerade

Gillian Callow (English horn)

BBC Philharmonic, conductor Ben Gernon.

with Tom McKinney. A live concert from the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Ben Gernon.

20180301John Osborn heads the cast as impoverished, lovelorn soldier Lorenzo, in pursuit of notorious bandit Fra Diavolo in this performance of Auber's once very popular three-act comic opera. More than mere justice is at stake, as Diavolo steals the dowry of Lorenzo's fianc退e Zerline, who is then destined to marry old Francesco against her will.

Auber: Fra Diavolo

Fra Diavolo - John Osborn (tenor)

Lord Rocburg - Roberto de Candia (baritone)

Lady Pamela - Sonia Ganassi (mezzo-soprano)

Lorenzo - Giorgio Misseri (tenor)

Zerlina - Anna Maria Sarra (soprano)

Math退o - Alessio Verna (bass)

Giacomo - Jean Luc Ballestra (bass)

Beppo - Nicola Pamio (tenor)

Rome Opera Chorus

Rome Opera Orchestra

Rory Macdonald (conductor)

4.15

Damase: Flute Concerto

Anna Noakes (flute)

BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates

4.40

John Alden Carpenter: Krazy Kat (jazz pantomime)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart.

Auber's comic opera about notorious bandit Fra Diavolo and his nemesis, lovelorn Lorenzo.

20180306Jonathan Swain introduces more recordings of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today: Martyn Brabbins conducts Debussy, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, and John Wilson conducts the music of Richard Rodney Bennett.

2pm

Debussy: Pr退lude

20180313Kate Molleson introduces more concert performances from the BBC Philharmonic, including Beethoven's third piano concerto with soloist Pavel Kolesnikov and Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony.

c.2pm:

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 37

Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony in B minor, Op 58

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

c.3.35pm:

James MacMillan: Fanfare Upon One Note

Magnus Lindberg: Ottoni

Clark Rundell (conductor)

c.4pm:

Mozart: Flute Concerto in G major, K313

Adam Walker (flute)

Jamie Phillips (conductor)

c.4.30pm:

Ligeti: Ramifications

David Greilsammer (conductor)

c.4.40pm:

Kodaly: Dances of Galကnta

Rory Macdonald (conductor).

Kate Molleson introduces more concert performances from the BBC Philharmonic.

20180320Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme includes the World Premiere of a trumpet concerto by the Venezuelan-Spanish composer Giancarlo Castro and concludes with Bart k's colourful 5-movement Concerto for Orchestra.

2pm

Elgar - Introduction and Allegro Op. 47

Dvo?ကk - Cello Concerto Op. 104

Sibelius - Symphony No. 4 Op.63

Johannes Moser (cello)

Jac van Steen (conductor)

3.35pm

Giancarlo Castro -Trumpet Concerto (World Premi耀re)

Pacho Flores (trumpet)

Piazzolla - Winter in Buenos Aires

Pacho Flores (flugelhorn)

Bart k - Concerto for Orchestra

Rafael Payare (conductor).

20180403Penny Gore introduces more live concert recordings featuring the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, including a symphony by Schubert and a rarely heard work for soloists, chorus and orchestra by Hindemith.

Schubert: Symphony No 8 in B minor, D759

Hindemith: When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd; a requiem for those we love

Gerhild Romberger, contralto

Matthias Goerne, baritone

RIAS Chamber Chorus

Christoph Eschenbach, conductor.

Penny Gore introduces more recordings featuring the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.

20180410From the band's beginnings as the Western Studio Orchestra in the Assembly Rooms Cardiff's City Hall, through the orchestra's adventurous tour in what was, then, East Germany, to its enduring three decade-long partnership with Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka, Kate Molleson celebrates the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th Anniversary with a week of Afternoon Concerts that explore the orchestra's role in Welsh musical life and beyond. Kate continues her journey through the orchestra's history with a concert performed shortly after the opening of its new home at St David's Hall in Cardiff, and we hear a recording of Elgar's first symphony from the Schauspielhaus in Berlin - part of Conductor Laurate Tadaaki Otaka's relationship with the composer that would see him awarded the Elgar Medal.

Jean Sibelius - Finlandia Op.26

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op.18

Hoddinott - Welsh Dances - Suite no. 1 Op. 15

Elgar - Variations on an original theme ('Enigma') Op. 36

Shura Cherkassky (piano)

BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra

Owain Arwel Hughes (conductor)

c. 3.15pm

Elgar - Symphony No. 1 in A flat major Op. 55

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor).

Kate Molleson celebrates the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th anniversary.

20180417Tom Redmond presents performances including Beethoven's first piano concerto and Sibelius's second symphony. Lawrence Power is the soloist in Walton's Viola Concerto. Plus music by Grieg and Bizet.

2pm:

Grieg - Peer Gynt, Suite no 1

Beethoven - Piano Concerto no 1

Sibelius - Symphony no 2

Martin Roscoe (piano)

BBC Philharmonic

Clemens Schuldt (conductor)

c.3.35pm:

Walton - Viola Concerto

Lawrence Power (viola)

Ben Gernon (conductor)

c.4pm:

Bizet - Carmen (selection from the suites)

Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).

Today including concertos by Beethoven and Walton, and Sibelius's second symphony.

20180424Georgia Mann continues a week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme begins with a concert centred around Nielsen. Soprano Denise Beck and the Danish String Quartet join the strings of the orchestra for a sequence of songs and miniatures before the composer's more familiar violin Concerto and Symphony no. 3. Plus Simon Callaghan is soloist in a new recording of the Piano Concerto by Bernhard Scholz.

2pm

Nielsen Polka in A major

Nielsen: Jens Vejmand

Denise Beck (Soprano) and Julia Lynch (piano)

Trad. Fem f倀r, fire geder

Nielsen: Tit er jeg glad

Danish String Quartet + BBC SSO Strings

Trad. Minuet nr 60

Danish String Quartet + BBC SSO Strings and Oboe

Nielsen: Forunderligt at sige

Trad: Dronningens Cotillion

Nielsen: Som en rejselysten fl倀de

Nielsen Concerto Op.33 for violin and orchestra

Nielsen Symphony no. 3 Op.27 (Sinfonia espansiva) [with S and Bar soloists]

Henning Kraggerud (violin)

Benjamin Appl (baritone)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

c.3.45pm

Rachmaninov Vocalise (Op.34'14), orch. composer [orig. for voice & piano]

Tommy Smith (saxophone)

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Scholz Concerto in B major Op.57 for piano and orchestra

Simon Callaghan (piano)

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Nielsen in Glasgow City Halls.

20180514Penny Gore presents a week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, beginning today with a concert the orchestra gave in Perth Concert Hall. We open with two of the poems from Smetana's mighty & evocative Ma vlast (My country); firstly Vltava, the composer's musical portrait of the river running through Prague, followed by Šarka, the tale of a warrior maiden burning for revenge. David Kadouch is the soloist in Chopin's 2nd piano concerto and the concert ends with Dvorak's 4th symphony in which we can hear his distinctive compositional style really coming into its own. Plus highlights from the orchestra's recent European tour with violinist Nikolaj Znaider.

2pm

Smetana: Ma vlast [My country] - Vltava & Sarka

Chopin: Piano concerto no. 2 in F minor Op.21

Dvorak: Symphony no. 4 in D minor Op.13

David Kadouch (piano)

Matthias Pintscher (conductor)

c.3.40pm

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes Op.33a

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major Op.77

Nikolaj Znaider (violin)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor).

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert in Perth performs Smetana, Chopin & Dvorak.

20180515John Toal introduces the Ulster Orchestra in concert live from Ulster Hall in Belfast featuring the dazzling young clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe as soloist in Copland's concerto and Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony. After which we return to this week's featured ensemble, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, performing Mahler's mighty 7th symphony and the world premiere broadcast of John Croft's 'Lost songs' and Round for Orchestra by the Canadian composer Cassandra Miller.

2pm

Copland: Concerto for clarinet, strings, harp and piano

Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 3 in A minor Op.56 (Scottish)

Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)

Roderick Cox (conductor)

c.3.05pm

Mahler: Symphony no. 7

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

c.4.25pm

John Croft: Lost songs for electronics and solo voice - World premiere

Cassandra Miller: Round (for Orchestra)

Juliet Fraser (soprano)

Ilan Volkov (conductor).

The Ulster Orchestra performs Copland & Mendelssohn live from Ulster Hall in Belfast.

20180626Tom McKinney presents more performances from the BBC Philharmonic, including the UK premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Horn Concerto and symphonies by Beethoven and Copland.

2pm:

Wagner - Rienzi, Overture

Wolfgang Rihm - Horn Concerto (UK premiere)

Weber orch. Berlioz - Invitation to the Dance

Beethoven - Symphony no 7 in A major Op 92

Stefan Dohr (horn)

Ben Gernon (conductor)

c.3.20pm:

Copland - Symphony no 1

John Wilson (conductor)

c.3.45pm:

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto no 2 in C minor Op 18

Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano)

Yutaka Sado (conductor)

c.4.20pm:

Alwyn - Fortune is a woman (music from the film): Prelude

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

c.4.25pm:

Webern - Five Pieces Op 10

Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)

c.4.30pm:

Mendelssohn - The Fair Melusina

Frederic Chaslin (conductor)

c.4.40pm:

Copland - Letter from home

c.4.45pm:

Berlioz - Roman Carnival Overture

Andrew Litton (conductor).

Tom McKinney presents more performances from the BBC Philharmonic.

20190521Hannah French introduces recordings made at Radio France's new Broadcasting House and at the historic Th退 tre des Champs-Elys退es.

Today the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Mikko Franck and the principal conductor-designate of the Berlin Philharmnic, Kirill Petrenko. Also today, Evgeny Kissin joins the Orchestre National de France and conductor, Emmanuel Krivine for Liszt's First Piano Concerto. And the afternoon ends with a real rarity, an orchestral reconstruction of Debussy's early Symphony in b minor L.B. (1880).

Berlioz: Grande fꀀte chez les Capulet, from 'Romeo and Juliet, op. 17

Hector Berlioz: La mort d'Oph退lie, op. 18/2, from 'Tristia

Chausson: Po耀me, op. 25

Ravel: Tzigane

Martin Matalon (1958) - Rugged (Premiere)

Anna Tifu (violin),

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikko Franck, conductor

followed at approx 3pm by :

Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead, op. 29, symphonic poem

Scriabin: Po耀me de l'extase (Symphony No. 4), op. 54

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

and at approx 3.45pm

Richard Strauss: Don Juan, op. 20

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat, S. 124

Evgeny Kissin (piano)

Orchestre National de France, Emmanuel Krivine (conductor)

Debussy: Symphony in b minor L.B. (1880)

Concerts from the BBC performing groups and orchestras from across the world.

20200323Tom McKinney presents a week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including a series of works by the celebrated composer Grace Williams.

Berlioz Le Carnaval Romaine Overture, Op. 9

Elgar Cello Concerto, Op. 85

Natalie Clein (cello)

Joubert An English Requiem

Neal Davies (bass)

April Frederick (soprano)

Three Choirs Festival Chorus

Three Cathedral Choirs Boy Choristers

Adrian Partington (conductor)

Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral

Grace Williams Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

A week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

20200324Tom McKinney presents a week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including a series of works by the celebrated composer Grace Williams.

Humperdinck Hansel und Gretel (overture)

Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Bernard Herrmann Psycho suite

Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel) Pictures from an Exhibition

Jaume Santonja (conductor)

Grainger: The Warriors

Richard Hickox (conductor)

Birmingham Symphony Hall

Strauss Tod und Verklarung

Kazushi Ono (conductor)

Grace Williams Symphony No 2

Owain Arwel Hughes (conductor)

Mahler Ruckert Lieder

Ruby Hughes (Soprano)

Jac van Steen (conductor)

A week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

20200325Tom McKinney presents a week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including a series of works by the celebrated composer Grace Williams.

Beethoven Coriolan Overture, Op. 62

Bartok Piano concerto No. 3, Sz. 119

Llyr Williams (piano)

Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Grace Williams Ave Maris Stella

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Adrian Partington (conductor)

BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff

A week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

20200326Opera Matinee: Gounod's Romeo and Juliet from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

From the Royal Opera House's 2010 production, French specialist Daniel Oren conducts Charles Gounod's version of the Shakespeare eternal lovers, Rom退o et Juliette, as they fight against hatred and intolerance before paying the ultimate price... The lovers' passionate liaison unravels magnificently through the most romantic duets, but this opera by the composer of Faust, is much more than that as the many rich ensembles and characters make for a compelling musical spectacle, true to The Bard's best dramatic intentions. This revival production by Nicolas Jo뀀l, not seen in a decade, features a cast led by Piotr Beczala and Nino Machaidze in the title roles.

Cast:

Rom退o - Piotr Beczala (tenor)

Juliette - Nino Machaidze (soprano)

Mercutio - St退phane Degout (tenor)

Tybalt - Alfie Boe (tenor)

St退phano - Ketevan Kemoklidze (mezzo soprano)

Duke of Verona - Simon Neal (bass)

Count Paris - ZhengZhong Zhou (baritone)

Fr退re Laurent - Vitalij Kowaljow (bass)

Count Capulet - Darren Jeffery (baritone)

Gertrude - Diana Montague (mezzo soprano)

Gr退gorio - James Cleverton (baritone)

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Royal Opera House Chorus

Daniel Oren, conductor.

20200327Elizabeth Alker concludes a week of music making by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Brahms Violin Concerto in D major Op.77

Dvorak Symphony no. 9 in E minor Op.95 (From the New World)

Clemens Schuldt (Conductor)

Aleksey Semenenko (Violin)

D'Indy Lied Op 19

Lawrence Power (viola)

Thierry Fischer, conductor

Bloch Baal Shem 3 pictures from Chassidic life: Vidui & Nigun

Raphael Wallfisch (cello)

?ukas Borowicz (conductor)

Concluding a week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

20210216Penny Gore introduces performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with music by Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Franz Schmidt in a new recording of his Symphony No. 1, Sibelius, Bridge, Alwyn, Sally Beamish and Dukas.

2.00pm

Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74

Conductor Joseph Swensen

3.05pm

Franz Schmidt: Symphony No. 1, Op. 9

Conductor Jonathan Berman

2.55pm

Sibelius: Tiera

The Brass Section of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Conductor Edward Hodgson

Bridge: Threads

Conductor Richard Hickox

3.15pm

Alwyn: Pastoral

Sally Beamish: Under the wing of the rock (‘Viola concerto No 3')

Lawrence Power, viola

Conductor Douglas Boyd

3.35pm

Dukas: La Peri

Conductor Jac van Steen

Music by Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Schmidt, Sibelius, Bridge, Alwyn, Sally Beamish and Dukas.

20210316This week features performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme begins with a spotlight on the brass section with music by Arnold, Tippett and MacRae. Then Thomas Dausgaard conducts the orchestra in Mahler's 7th Symphony and Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin.

Presented by Georgia Mann

2pm

Arnold Symphony for brass, Op.123

Tippett Praeludium for brass, bells and percussion

MacRae Stirling Choruses for brass ensemble

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

c.2.30pm

Haydn Symphony No 88 in G major H.1.88

Mahler Symphony No 7

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

c.4.10pm

Bartok The Miraculous Mandarin - pantomime Sz.73

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices

With music by Arnold, Tippett, Haydn, Mahler and Bartok.

20210615Tom McKinney continues his week of live and recorded performances by the BBC Philharmonic with music by Beethoven, Bart k, Stravinsky, George Antheil, York Bowen and Alfredo Casella.

B退la Bart k - Romanian Folk Dances

John Storg倀rds (conductor)

George Antheil - Nocturne in Skyrockets

Igor Stravinsky - Danses concertantes

B退la Bart k - Divertimento for strings

Ludwig van Beethoven - Romance for violin & orchestra No.1 in G, Op.40

John Storg倀rds (violin /director)

York Bowen - Symphony No.2 in F major

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Alfredo Casella - Italia

Gianandrea Noseda (condcutor)

BBC Philharmonic with performances of Bart\u00f3k, Antheil, Stravinsky, Beethoven and Casella

20210914Ian Skelly introduces recordings from this summer's Salzburg Festival, including Kristian Bezuidenhout playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No.25 and more from Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata. Also, Robin Ticciati conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in the music of Brahms. there's music by Florence Price from the Basel Sinfonietta and more from the Astor Piazzolla Quintet. Plus recordings from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

Anna Clyne: Rewind

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andre de Ridder

Music by Giramo

L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (from the 2021 Salzburg Festival)

Price: Ethiopia's Shadow in America

Basel Sinfonietta, Jessica Horsley

Villa-Lobos: Choros 10; Uirapuru

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sakari Oramo

c.3pm

Brahms: Serenade No. 1 in D, op. 11

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Robin Ticciati

Works by Piazzolla

Astor Piazzolla Quintet (from the 2021 Rheingau Festival)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K. 503

Kristian Bezuidenhout, piano

Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg, Antonello Manacorda (from the 2021 Salzburg Festival)

Kristian Bezuidenhout plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 25 in Salzburg.

20210921This week, Afternoon Concert features the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin performing Brandenburg concertos by Bach and symphonies by Beethoven. Today's programme also includes the BBC Singers performing music by Part and Finzi, and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra with Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Including:

Coates: Wood Nymphs - concert valse

BBC Philharmonic

Part: Nunc Dimittis

Ellie Slorach (conductor)

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049

c.3pm

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 36

Bernhard Forck (conductor)

Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite

Alexander Liebreich (conductor)

Finzi: Lo, the full final sacrifice

Thomas Trotter (organ)

David Hill (conductor)

c.4.15pm

Weinberg: Symphony no.2, Op.30

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla (conductor)

Beethoven's Second Symphony and Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite from Prague.

20210928Penny Gore with the best classical music performed by BBC ensembles and orchestras across Europe.

Mozart's 34th is today's symphony from The Netherlands. Also, a Scottish overture from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, a chamber arrangement of music from Handel's Giulio Cesare, and Schumann's cello concerto with soloist Daniel Müller-Schott, plus sacred music by Praetorius, Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite, Beethoven's Grosse Fugue for piano four hands, and Britten's Violin Concerto with Tasmin Little.

Including:

Lamond: Overture: Aus Dem Schottischen Hochlande, Op.4 (From the Scottish Highlands - overture)

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Handel: Suite from 'Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17' - arr. J.G. Pisendel for 2 oboes, 2 flutes, strings, bassoon and continuo

Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis

Vကclav Luks, harpsichord and direction

Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129

Daniel Müller-Schott, cello

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Manze, conductor

c.3pm

Mozart: Symphony No. 34 in C, K. 338

Philharmonie Zuldnederland

Hartmut Haenchen, conductor

Praetorius: Gelobet und gepreiset, from 'Polyhymnia Caduceatrix et Panegyrica

Cardinal Complex, ensemble

Jonas Gassmann, conductor

Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Joshua Weilerstein, conductor

Beethoven: Grosse Fuge in B flat, op. 134, for piano four hands

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo

Andreas Grau, piano

G怀tz Schumacher, piano

Britten: Violin Concerto, Op. 15

Tasmin Little, violin

BBC Philharmonic

Edward Gardner, conductor

Schumann's cello concerto, plus music by Handel, Mozart and Praetorius.

20211005Tom McKinney with the best classical music performed by BBC ensembles and orchestras across Europe.

Saint-Saens' `Egyptian` is today's Romantic piano concerto highlight - with Bertrand Chamayou in sparkling form. Also, Ravel's Mother Goose ballet from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Dvorak's Symphonic Variations from Brno, piano music from Haitian composer Ludovic Lamothe and Sibelius' 7th Symphony from the KBS Symphony Orchestra. Plus, there's Baroque vocal music from Capella Marianna in Prague and a highlight from last year's London International Festival of Early Music.

Including:

Bartok: Rumanian Folk Dances

BBC Philharmonic

John Storgards (conductor)

Ravel: Ma m耀re l'oye (ballet)

John Wilson (conductor)

Luython: Missa basim Caesar vive!

Vojtech Semerad (conductor)

c.3pm

Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No.5, Op.103 `Egyptian`

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Orchestre National de France

Emmanuel Krivine (conductor)

Gibbons: Grand Pavan

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

Dvorak: Symphonic Variations, Op.78

Brno Symphony Orchestra

Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)

Ludovic Lamothe - Danza No.3

C退lim耀ne Daudet (piano)

c.4.25pm

Sibelius - Symphony No.7 in C, Op.105

Christoph Koenig (conductor)

Bertrand Chamayou plays Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto No.5, and music by Bartok and Sibelius

20211012Ian Skelly with specially recorded performances from earlier this year featuring orchestral masterpieces from Berlin, early music from Holland and Britten from Glasgow.

Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, and the Berlin Radio SO play Mozart's Jupiter Symphony. There's Bach from Holland Baroque, and the first of this week's visits to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow.

Including:

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, fantasy overture

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Kirill Petrenko, conductor

JS Bach: Trio Sonata No. 2 in C minor, BWV 526

Verdonck: Ave gratia plena

Benedictus

20211019Penny Gore introduces new recordings by the BBC SSO, as Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the orchestra Elgar's Brahmsian first symphony and Little music by Tippett. Plus Purcell from Germany's La Folia Baroque Orchestra, Antje Weithass plays Dvorak, the BBC Philharmonic plays Malcolm Arnold, and music by Daniel Kidane.

Also, the world premiere broadcasts of short Radio 3 commissions for BBC orchestras. Pieces by Sun Keting, Elaine Agnew and Oliver Leith.

Including:

Purcell: Dido's lament (orch. Version), from Dido & Aeneas

Matthias Bamert, conductor

Purcell: Overture and excerpts from 'King Arthur, Z. 628

Anna Prohaska, soprano

Julia B怀hme, contralto

Richard Resch, tenor

Nikolay Borchev, baritone

Robin-Peter Müller, violin and conductor

Arnold: Concerto for Oboe and Strings, Op. 39

Jennifer Galloway, oboe

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Brahms: 16 Waltzes, Op 39

Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, piano

Zhang Zuo, piano

Daniel Kidane: Woke

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo, conductor

c.3pm

Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A-flat major, Op. 55

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Sun Keting: A Cave of One's Own

BBC Singers

Jasdeep Singh Degun, sitar

Nicholas Chalmers, conductor

Elaine Agnew: Hold

Ulster Orchestra

Jac van Steen,conductor

Oliver Leith: Swirl Procession

Anthony Weeden, conductor

Dvorak: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53

Antje Weithass, violin

Residentie Orkest The Hague

Antony Hermus, conductor

Tippett: Little music for string orchestra

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC SSO in Elgar and Tippett

20211026Ian Skelly continues his afternoon selection of recordings from Denmark, which includes the Danish National Symphony Orchestra performing Dvorak's first great symphonic success. Daniil Trifonov is the piano soloist in Shostakovich's Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, and there's music by Debussy, Chopin and Luis de Narvaez.

Including:

Debussy: Suite Bergamasque

- Prelude

- Clair de Lune

Alice Sara Ott (piano)

Luis de Navarez: Veynte y dos diferencias

Hopkinson Smith (lute)

c.3pm

Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No 6 in D

Petr Popelka (conductor)

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 1

Daniil Trifonov (piano)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Gustavo Gimeno (conductor)

More music making for the afternoon from Denmark.

20211102Penny Gore continues her focus on Felix Mendelsohn's symphonies with a performance of No 5, the 'Reformation' Symphony, with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Andres Orozco-Estrada.

The Ulster Orchestra play Alphons Diepenbrock's Elektra Suite, and JS Bach's Cantata 102 comes from the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Soprano Camilla Nylund sings Strauss' Four Last Songs with the Orchestre National de France, and the Belinfante Quartet perform music by Hildegard of Bingen and Henriette Bosmans.

And as part of this week's series of short pieces by living composers performed by BBC orchestras, the Ulster Orchestra present music by Calliope Tsoupaki and Charlotte Bray.

Including:

Bellini: Capuleti ed i Montecchi - overture

BBC Concert Orchestra

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Alphons Diepenbrock: Elektra suite

Charlotte Bray: When Icebergs Dance Away

Jac van Steen, conductor

JS Bach: Herr, meine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben, Cantata BWV 102

Terry Wey, alto

Patrick Grahl, tenor

Tobias Berndt, bass

Windsbach Boys' Choir

Martin Lehmann, conductor

c.3pm

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107, ‘Reformation

Andr退s Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Hildegard of Bingen: O Virtus Sapientiae

Henriette Bosmans: String Quartet

Wagner: Overture to 'Tannh䀀user

Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), AV 150

Camilla Nylund, soprano

Karina Canellakis, conductor

Haydn: Keyboard Sonata in G, Hob. XVI:39

Christian Zacharias, piano

Calliope Tsoupaki: Maestrale 2011

Andres Orozco-Estrada conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in Mendelssohn's Fifth.

20211109Penny Gore presents a selection of music from the BBC performing groups and European Broadcasting Union. As Jordi Savall celebrates his eightieth birthday, we'll hear a performance of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo performed by his Concert des Nations at the Opera Comique in Paris, staring Marc Mauillon and Luciana Mancini. Plus music by Liszt, and Kodaly's Dances of Galanta from a recent concert by the BBC Philharmonic.

Presented by Penny Gore

Monteverdi: L'Orfeo, favola in musica in five acts, SV 318

Musica/Euridice - Luciana Mancini (mezzo-soprano)

Orfeo - Marc Mauillon (baritone)

Messaggera - Sara Mingardo (contralto)

Speranza/Proserpina - Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano)

Appolo - Furio Zanasi (baritone)

Caronte/Plutone - Salvo Vitale (bass)

Pastore I/Spirito II - .Victor Sordo (tenor)

Ninfa - Lise Viricel (soprano)

Pastore II/Spirito IV - Gabriel Diaz (countertenor)

Pastore III/Spirito I/Eco - Alessandro Glangrande (countertenor)

Pastore IV/Spirito III - Yannis Francois (bass-baritone)

La Capella Rial de Catalunya

Le Concert des Nations

Jordi Savall (conductor)

c.4pm

Liszt Piano Concerto no.1 in E flat major, S.124

Nelson Freire (piano)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Fabio Luisi (conductor)

Kodaly: Dances of Galanta

Roderick Cox (conductor)

Music by Monteverdi, Liszt and Kodaly.

20211116Tom McKinney with the best classical music performed by BBC ensembles and orchestras across Europe.

Tom continues his focus on great Romantic symphonies this week with Brahms's Fourth - Karina Canellakis conducts the Orchestre Nationale de France in a performance recorded in Saint-Denis in June. There's also Kodaly from The Ulster Orchestra, Renaissance music performed by the Youth of La Capella Reial de Catalunya, new music by Peteris Vasks from the Vale of Glamorgan Festival, all alongside music by Beethoven, Bach, Britten, Mahler and Rudolf Karel - his Nonet, composed in the concentration camp of Terezin.

2pm

Paul Dukas - Fanfare from La P退ri

RTVE Symphony Orchestra

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Zoltan Kodaly - Dances of Marossz耀k

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Claudio Monteverdi - Lagrime d'amante [Madrigals', Book VI, SV.111]

Jove Capella Reial de Catalunya

Lu퀀s Vilamaj  (conductor)

c. 2.30pm

Ludwig van Beethoven - Romance for violin and orchestra No.2 in F major, Op.50

Chloe Hanslip (violin)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

JS Bach - Toccata in D, BWV.912

Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

c. 3pm

Johannes Brahms - Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op.98

Karina Canellakis (conductor)

Benjamin Britten - Russian Funeral March

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c. 4pm

Peteris Vasks - Cantabile

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Geoffrey Patterson (conductor)

Frederic Chopin - Nocturne in B flat minor, Op.9'1

Frederic Chopin - Nocturne in E flat, Op.9'2

Alice Sara Ott (piano)

Gustav Mahler - Wo die sch怀nen Trompeten blasen / Das irdische Leben [Des Knaben Wunderhorn]

Gustav Mahler - Ich atmet' einen linden Duft / Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen [Rückert-Lieder]

Golda Schultz (soprano)

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi (conductor)

Rudolf Karel - Nonet

Gergely Bodoky (flute)

Viola Wilmsen (oboe)

Stephan M怀rth (clarinet)

Karoline Zurl (bassoon)

Bora Demir (horn)

Marina Grauman (violin)

Annemarie Moorcroft (viola)

Mischa Meyer (cello)

Christine Felsch (double bass)

Karina Canellakis conducts the Orchestre Nationale de France in Brahms's Fourth Symphony.

20211123Gustavo Gimeno conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky's sublime ballet, plus performances by Francesco Piemontesi and a second helping of one of the first operas ever written, Portrayal of the Soul and the Body by Emilio de' Cavalieri.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Dvorak: Legend no. 2

Ulster Orchestra

Jac van Steen, conductor

Liszt: Vallee d'Obermann

Francesco Piemontesi, piano

Emilio de' Cavalieri: Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo: Act Two

Vox Luminis

Lionel Meunier, conductor

c.3pm

Stravinsky: Apollo

Gustavo Gimeno, conductor

Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op.24

Haydn: Symphony No.40 in F

BBC Philharmonic

Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

Marco Betta: Citt

20211130Presented by Penny Gore, with live performances from around Europe and recordings from the BBC's orchestras

Today, Ariane Matiakh conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Pastoral symphony, and Pekka Kuusisto joins the orchestra for Bryce Dessner's thrilling Violin Concerto. From the Confidencen Opera Festival in Sweden, Olof Boman leads a performance of John Blow's short 1683 opera. Plus John Wilson and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert music from Britten's opera Peter Grimes.

Including:

Beethoven: Triumphal March from Tarpeja WoO.2a

Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

Bryce Dessner: Violin Concerto

Pekka Kuusisto (violin)

Ariane Matiakh (conductor)

Schumann: Nachtlied, op. 108

Camerata Salzburg

Monteverdi Choir

Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

c.3pm

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F, op. 68 ('Pastoral')

Britten: 4 Sea Interludes & Passacaglia, from 'Peter Grimes

John Wilson (conductor)

Blow: Venus and Adonis

Ida R䀀nzl怀v (mezzo, Venus)

Bernt Ola Volungholen (baritone, Adonis)

Rupert Enticknap (countertenor, Cupid)

Confidencen Opera & Music Festival Orchestra

Olof Boman (conductor)

John Blow's 1683 opera in Sweden and Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony in Frankfurt.

20211207This week features live and recent concert performances by the BBC performing groups. Today's programme includes the BBC Philharmonic recorded last week at Leeds College of Music with a programme including Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Then to the BBC Singers with a concert which combines Bach chorales with contemporary vocal music.

Presented by Tom McKinney

Including:

Rachmaninov: 6 Duets Op.11 for piano 4 hands

Zhang Zuo & Louis Schwizgebel (piano duo)

c.2.30pm

BBC Philharmonic, recorded in November at the Leeds College of Music

Hildegard of Bingen (arr. Tom Coult and Daniel Pioro): O ecclesia, for violin and string orchestra

Edmund Finnis: The Centre is Everywhere

Caroline Shaw: Punctum

Vivaldi: Four seasons

Daniel Pioro (violin/director)

c.3.45pm

BBC Singers, recorded this month in Copenhagen

Ed Frazier Davis: O Magnum Mysterium

JS Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599

Paul Manz: E'en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come

Emily Hazrati: Drop down ye heavens from above

Ghislaine Reece-Trapp: Alleluia! A New Work is Come on Hand

JS Bach: Gottes Sohn ist kommen, BWV 600

Jan Sandstr怀m: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

Brahms: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

Hilary Campbell: Ave Maria

JS Bach: Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 611

Lucy Walker: There is no rose

William Harris: Faire is the heaven

JS Bach: Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her BWV 700 (C Major)

Stephen Farr (organ)

Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)

The BBC Philharmonic perform Vivaldi in Leeds, and the BBC Singers go on tour in Denmark.

20211214Fiona Talkington continues this week's theme of music inspired by Maeterlinck's play, Pelleas and Melisande, with a performance of Debussy's celebrated opera of the same name, recorded at Rouen Normandie Opera.

Debussy: Pelleas and Melisande

An opera in five acts

Cast:

Ad耀le Charvet (mezzo-soprano) M退lisande

Huw Montague Rendall (baritone) Pell退as

Nicolas Courjal (bass) Golaud, Pell退as' half-brother

Jean Teitgen (bass) Arkel, King of Allemonde

Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano) Genevi耀ve, mother of Golaud and Pell退as

Anne-Sophie Petit (soprano) Yniold, Golaud's son

Richard Rittelmann (baritone) Doctor and Shepherd

Dijon Opera Chorus

Rouen-Normandie Opera Orchestra

Pierre Dumoussaud, conductor

The Rouen-Normandie Opera Orchestra perform Debussy's Pelleas and Melisande.

20220104Penny Gore presents another afternoon of unique recordings from the BBC orchestras and from around Europe. Today, Daniil Trifonov continues the week's focus on Rachmaninov piano concertos, Thomas Hampson sings Mahler in Berlin, and Alan Gilbert conducts Nielsen's 'Inextinguishable' Symphony at Kiel Castle.

Also, just before 3pm throughout the week, New Year New Music: Radio 3 presenters share the newest music that means the most to them.

Including:

Mahler: Excerpts from 'Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen' and 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Thomas Hampson, baritone

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Karina Canellakis, conductor

JS Bach: Viola da gamba Sonata in D minor, BWV 1023

Antje Weithaas, violin

Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord

c.3pm

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op. 18

Daniil Trifonov, piano

NDR Elbphilharmonie

Alan Gilbert, conductor

Suk: Scherzo Fantastique, Op.25

Ulster Orchestra

Jac van Steen, conductor

Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, op. 29 ('Inextinguishable')

Nielsen at Kiel Castle, and Daniil Trifonov plays Rachmaninov.

20220111This week Afternoon Concert celebrates Beethoven concertos with a different one each day at 3pm - today it's Piano Concerto No 4 with the late Nelson Freire and the St Petersburg Philharmonic. Plus there's music inspired by Beethoven by Jorg Widmung, Brahms from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and more from Ensemble Correspondances at the Schwetzingen Festival.

Presented by Penny Gore.

c.2.15

Schoenberg: Verkl䀀rte Nacht (Transfigured Night), op. 4

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Karina Canellakis (conductor)

c.3pm

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op.58

Nelson Freire (piano)

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

c.3.30

Jorg Widmann: Con brio

Jorg Widmann (conductor)

c.3.50

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op.90

Ryan Wigglesworth

c.4.25

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Motet pour les tr退pass退s, H. 311

S退bastien Dauc退 (conductor)

c.4.35

Ruth Gipps: Jane Grey - fantasy for viola and string orchestra, Op.15

Scott Dickinson (viola)

Teresa Riveiro Bohm (conductor)

Nelson Freire plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with the St Petersburg Philharmonic.

20220118Presented by Ian Skelly, with a selection of music for the afternoon from around Europe and from BBC ensembles, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing Ana Sokolovic's spectacular Ringelspiel for orchestra. Marin Alsop conducts Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite Scheherazade at 3pm, and the music of Robert Schumann features twice - the cello concerto in St Petersburg and the Italian soloist Enrico Dindo, and chamber music with the cellist Manuel Fischer-Dieskau at Romania's George Enescu Festival. Plus Steven Osborne playing Shostakovich with the Ulster Orchestra.

Including:

RR Bennett: A Farewell To Arms

BBC Singers

Jessica Cottis, conductor

Ana Sokolovic: Ringelspiel for orchestra

Geoffrey Paterson, conductor

R Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129

Enrico Dindo (cello)

St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

Yuri Termikanov, conductor

c.3pm

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Marin Alsop, conductor

R Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, op. 70

Manuel Fischer-Dieskau, cello

Cyprien Katsaris, piano

Maconchy: Nocturne

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

c.4.20pm

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102

Steven Osborne, piano

JS Bach arr. Stevan Kova? Tikmajer Goldberg Variations with Sch怀nberg in background

JS Bach arr. Victor Kissine Aria, from 'Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Kremerata Baltica/Lettonica

Gidon Kremer, conductor

Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite based on One Thousand and One Nights.

20220125Penny Gore with performances from the BBC ensembles and music from around Europe. Today, the Baroque group Arcangelo perform works by Bach, Telemann and Handel. Also, Tchaikovsky's Liturgy of St. John's Chrysostom with the Latvian Radio Choir and Brahms' first symphony with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Karina Canellakis. In the mix today as well, the Ulster Orchestra with Respighi's The Birds and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Yasushi Akutagawa's Triptyque.

Including:

JS Bach: Prelude, from Partita No. 3 in E, BWV 1006

St退phanie-Marie Degand, violin

Respighi: Gli Uccelli - The Birds

Michael Collins, conductor

Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, op. 41

Sigvards K?ava, conductor

c.3pm

Brahms: Symphony 1 in C minor, Op 68

Karina Canellakis, conductor

Telemann: Trio Sonata in D minor, TWV 42:d3

Jonathan Cohen, director

Yasushi Akutagawa: Triptyque

Yatuka Sado, conductor

Handel: Süsse Stille, sanfte Quelle, HWV 205; Das zitternde Gl䀀nzen der spielenden Wellen, HWV 203

Lydia Teuscher, soprano

Manuel Palau: Concierto Levantino, for Guitar and Orchestra

Jongho Park, guitar

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Francisco Valero-Terribas, conductor

Music by Bach, Respighi, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Akutagawa, Handel and Palau.

20220201Tom McKinney with performances from around the world including Beethoven's sixth symphony from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Yutaka Sado. Plus more music from the International Baroque Music Days festival at Melk Abbey in Austria.

Beethoven: Minuet WoO7/1

Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri - Ad manes

La Risonanza

Fabio Bonizzoni (director)

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 2

Vaclav Petr (cello)

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Marko Ivanovic (conductor)

3pm

Beethoven: Symphony no 6 in F major, Op 68

Yutaka Sado (conductor)

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri - Ad latus

JS Bach: Violin Sonata No 5 BWV 1018

Sayaka Shoji (violin)

Vikingur Olafsson (piano)

Witold Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Krzysztof Urbanski (conductor)

Beethoven: Minuet WoO7/11

Yutaka Sado conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Sixth Symphony.

20220208This week Afternoon Concert features French orchestras - today it's the turn of the Pau Casals Festival Orchestra with music by Saint-Saens and Beethoven. Plus we celebrate John Williams's 90th birthday with his music for the screen and concert hall. And there's Czech music from Smetana and Dvorak.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2pm

John Williams Theme from 'Jurassic Park

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

John Williams (conductor)

c.2.10

Bedrich Smetana String Quartet No. 2 in D minor

Pavel Haas Quartet

c.2.35

Olivier Messiaen Les Offrandes oubli退es, m退ditation symphonique

Orchestre National de France

Christian M?celaru (conductor)

c.3pm

Camille Saint-Sa뀀ns Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor, op. 119

Sol Gabetta (cello)

Pierre Bleuse (conductor)

c.3.25

Ludwig van Beethoven Coriolan, op. 62, overture

c.3.35

Johann Sebastian Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826

Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

c.3.55

John Williams Elegy for Cello and Orchestra

Bruno Delepelaire (cello)

c.4.05

Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 6 in D, op. 60

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin

Tomas Hanus (conductor)

Music by Saint-Saens, Beethoven and John Williams.

20220301With Ian Skelly. Continuing this week's series of concertos at 3pm, the young American pianist Kit Armstrong joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mozart's Piano Concerto No.20, and Dalia Stasevska conducts the orchestra in Dawson's Negro Symphony. Plus new recordings from the BBC Singers and David Hill, and more music from the early music group Ars Antiqua Austria.

Ryan Latimer: Antiarkie for orchestra

Pierre Andr退 Valade (conductor)

Mayr: Suite in D, from 'Pythagorisches Schmids-Füncklein

Gustav Holst: Four Partsongs (ed. Imogen Holst):

Imogen Holst: A Hymne to Christ

David Hill (conductor)

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Francisco Valero-Terribas (conductor)

c. 3pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto in D Minor No.20 K466

Kit Armstrong (piano)

Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

Mayr: Suite in D minor, from 'Pythagorisches Schmids-Füncklein

Ars Antique Austria

Dawson: Folk Symphony

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

Kit Armstrong plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466.

20220308Penny Gore with a rich selection of music by women composers from the 17th to the 21st centuries

Her selection includes baroque vocal and instrumental music from Italy, a bold statement from the United States and a rarely-heard cantata written for the International Congress for Women's Suffrage in Stockholm 1911

2.00pm

Joan Tower

Fanfare for the Uncomman Woman

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Joshua Weilerstein, conductor

Francesca Caccini

Io mi distruggo, from 'La Lucrezia

Hana Blaž퀀kovက, soprano

Hathor Consort

Romina Lischka, viola da gamba and conductor

Lotta Wenn䀀koski

Verdigris

John Storg倀rds, conductor

Isabella Leonarda

Sonata Duodecima

Maria, dolce Maria

Erika Fox

David Spielt vor Saul

Julian Jacobson, piano

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Geoffrey Paterson, conductor

3.00

Dora Pejacevic

Symphony in F# minor Op.41

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Fairfield Halls Croydon

Thea Musgrave

Helios

Dora Peja?evi?

Four Songs Katarina Karn退us, mezzo-soprano

Elfrida Andr退e

Geoffrey Cox, oboe

؀yvor Volle, violin

Sofie Asplund, soprano

Women of the G怀teborg Opera Chorus

G怀teborg Opera Orchestra

Henrik Schaefer, conductor

producer: Ellie Mant

Penny Gore with a rich selection of music by women composers.

20220315This week, Afternoon Concert features Scandinavian symphonic music - today we have Sibelius's Violin Concerto performed by soloist Philippe Quint with the KBS Symphony Orchestra, and conductor Christoph K怀nig. There's also more Purcell from Concentus Musicus Wien and Stefan Gottfried, Johann Strauss (II) from the Dresden Philharmonic and Marek Janowski, and the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales bring us Verdi's Four Sacred Pieces.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Overture to 'The Gypsy Baron

Marek Janowski (conductor)

Monteverdi Si dolce e il tormento from Quarto scherzo delle ariose vaghezze

Cristina Segura (Mezzo)

Ensemble Exclamatio

Poulenc

Sinfonietta

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrei Feher (conductor)

Eugene Bozza

Ballade for trombone and piano, Op.62

Peter Moore (trombone)

Robert Thompson (piano)

Violin Concerto in D minor, op.47

Philippe Quint (Violin)

Christoph Koenig (conductor)

Sibelius Finlandia

Haydn

Piano Trio in E flat major XV:10

Amatis Trio

Unter Donner und Blitz, polka schnell, op. 324

Verdi Four Sacred Pieces

BBC National Chorus of Wales

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Xian Zhang (conductor)

Henry Purcell

Three parts upon a Ground, Z. 731

Stefan Gottfried (conductor)

Music for a While, from ‘Oedipus Z.583

Michael Schade (tenor)

Unique performances with BBC orchestras and choirs and other great orchestras.

20220322Ivan Fischer conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's titanic Fifth Symphony, plus music by Arthur Bliss and a beautiful, little-heard cantata by Augusta Holmes

Presented by Ian Skelly

Two Contrasts for string orchestra

BBC Concert Orchestra

Martin Yates, conductor

Schumann

Quintet in E flat, Op.44

Armida Quartet

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

Rout

Ilona Domnich, soprano

3.00pm

Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67

Ivကn Fischer, conductor

The Lady of Shalott

La Visione de la reine - cantata for female voices, piano, cello and harp

Annabel Thwaite, piano

Morwenna Del Mar, cello

Alison Martin, harp

BBC Singers

Hilary Campbell, conductor

Ivan Fischer conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

20220329Tom Mckinney presents an afternoon of performances from around Europe and the UK, including music by Eric Coates with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Wilson, live from the orchestra's home in Salford Quays, plus further performances from a concert given by the Netherlands Bach Society with recorder player Lucie Horsch, and more from the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mikhail Glinka - Valse Fantaisie

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Dario Castello - Sonata Concertante

Lucie Horsch (recorder)

Wouter Verschuren (bassoon)

Siebe Henstra (harpsichord)

Shunske Sato (conductor)

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson - Louisiana Blues Street and Blue/s Forms for Solo violin

Augustin Hadelich (violin)

Adam Skoumal (piano)

2.30pm

LIVE from Salford

All works by Eric Coates:

Television March

The Three Men Suite

Cinderella

Last Love

Sweet Seventeen

The Three Elizabeths

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

c.3.35pm

Robert Schumann - Piano Quintet in E flat Op. 44

Claire Huangci (piano)

Minguet Quartet

Tarquino Merula - Ciaccona

Francesco Provenzale - La Stellidaura vendicante: Sinfonia

3.55pm

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Kenneth Hesketh - Danceries (Set 1) (Lull Me Beyond Thee; Catching of Quails; My Lady's Rest; Quodling's Delight)

Barcelona Symphonic Wind Band

Jose Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana (conductor)

John Wilson conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Eric Coates, live from Salford.

20220405This week Afternoon Concert features performances from French Orchestras - today it's the Requiem by Saint-Sa뀀ns performed by the French National Orchestra and Radio France Chorus and a top line-up of soloists. Plus there's highlights from a Mozart and Chopin recital given by pianist Pavel Kolesnikov at La Roque d'Anth退ron International Piano Festival.

Presented by Ian Skelly

2pm

Tchaikovsky Serenade in C, Op.48

East-West Chamber Orchestra

Rostislav Krimer (conductor)

c.2.35

Mozart Piano Sonata no.8 in A minor, K.310

Chopin Nocturne in E major, Op.62'2

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

c.3pm

Saint-Sa뀀ns Requiem, Op.54

V退ronique Gens (soprano)

All退nor Feix (contralto)

Nicholas Phan (tenor)

Nicholas Test退 (baritone)

Cristian M?celaru (conductor)

c.3.40

Mozart Piano Sonata no.11 in A major, K.331

3.55

Bruckner Symphony no.6 in A major - 2nd movt; Adagio, sehr feierlich

Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Sergiu Celibidache (conductor)

4.22

Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat, Op.61

Music by Mozart, Chopin and Saint-Sa\u00ebns.

20220412With Fiona Talkington. Andrew Manze conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Mozart's Jupiter symphony and music by John Maxwell Geddes. The Hungarian piano duo, Duo Jatekok (Nari Badal and Ad退lade Panaget), join the SSO and Ilan Volkov for Poulenc's Double Piano Concerto, and make their own choice of music for Afternoon Concert - excerpts from Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's recording of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Also, Christiane Karg sings Beethoven, and Augustin Hadelich joins Adam Skoumal for music for violin and piano by Ravel and Janacek.

Including:

Beethoven: Ah! perfido, op. 65, scene and aria

Christiane Karg (soprano)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Ivan Fischer (conductor)

Ravel: Violin Sonata No.2

Augustin Hadelich (violin)

Adam Skoumal (piano)

Martinu: Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani, H. 271

Christoph Berner (piano)

Dresden Philharmonic

Tomas Netopil (conductor)

c.3pm

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551 ('Jupiter')

Andrew Manze (conductor)

John Maxwell Geddes Ombre

Poulenc: Double Piano Concerto

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Artist Choice from Duo Jatekok

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (excerpts)

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Janacek: Violin Sonata

The Hungarian piano duo play music by Poulenc with the BBC SSO.

20220419Penny Gore with recordings from BBC performing groups and other ensembles from around Europe, as well as some selected chamber music including Saint-Saens's Septet and Haydn's String Quartet in G major, Op. 54 No. 1, featuring the Calidore Quartet. Also today, Schmidt's Symphony No. 4 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Mozart's Symphony No. 35 'Haffner' with the Basel Chamber Orchestra.

Including:

Policarpo Jos退 Ant nio da Silva: March and Contradance

Arcangelo Corelli: Trio Sonata, op. 3/2

Iberian Ensemble

Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D ‘Haffner

Basel Chamber Orchestra, conductor

Louis Langr退e, conductor

Francesca Caccini: O chiome belle

G. Frescobaldi: Toccata prima, from 'Il Secondo Libro di Toccate', Rome

Hana Blaž퀀kovက, soprano

Hathor Consort

Romina Lischka, viola da gamba and conductor

Saint-Saens: Septet for piano, trumpet and strings in E flat major, Op 65

Simon Hofele, trumpet; Charles Owen, piano; Daniel Storer, double-bass; Calidore Quartet

c.3pm

Schmidt: Symphony No. 4 in C

Fabio Luisi, conductor

Giovanni Antonio Giay: Concerto for flute, two violins and continuo

Haydn: Quartet in G major, Op 54 No 1

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

Ulster Orchestra

Dinis Souza, conductor

JS Bach (arr. for orchestra by J. Raff): Chaconne from Partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004

BBC Philharmonic

Leonard Slatkin, conductor

Schmidt's Fourth Symphony, Mozart's 'Haffner' and music by Francesca Caccini and Haydn.

20220510Penny Gore introduces recordings from around Europe, which this week includes performances from orchestras in the Czech Republic and Poland. Today, Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Brno Philharmonic in music by Janacek and Korngold. There's also music by Silvestrov in Prague, more from the Italian early music ensemble la fonte musica as they explore music of the Apennine Peninsula, plus the world premiere of a piano work by Johanna Muller-Hermann, recorded as part of Radio 3's 'Forgotten Women Composers Project' with the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Including:

Janacek: Adagio, for orchestra

Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

c.2.15pm

Johanna Muller-Hermann: Clavier Sonata Op.8 (world premiere)

Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano

A sequence of music by Johannes Ciconia and others:

Alena Dantcheva, soprano

Francesca Cassinari, soprano

Gianluca Ferrarini, tenor

Teodoro Baù, fiddle

la fonte musica, ensemble

Michele Pasotti, medieval lute, conductor

c.3pm

Korngold: Symphony in F sharp, Op.40

Artist choice - Dennis Russell Davies

Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 3, Sz. 119

Keith Jarrett, piano

New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra

Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor

Silvestrov: Elegy

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Petr Popelka, conductor

Suk: Fantastic scherzo for orchestra Op 25

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Richard Hickox, conductor

Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Brno Philharmonic in Korngold's Symphony in F.

20220517This week Afternoon Concert features piano concertos and early music from Madrid. Today's concerto is Beethoven's Piano Concerto no.3, performed by Kirill Gerstein with the NDR Elbphilharmonie conducted by Alan Gilbert. Plus Antoine Tamestit is soloist in Berlioz's Harold in Italy and the Ulster Orchestra perform Stravinsky's Firebird Suite.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Rossini Overture from The Barber of Seville

Rafael Payare (conductor)

c.2.10

Berlioz Harold en Italie - symphony for viola and orchestra, Op.16

Antoine Tamestit (viola)

Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble

Marc Minkowski (conductor)

c.2.50

Josquin Salve Regina a 5

Stile Antico

3pm

Beethoven Piano Concerto no.3 in C minor, Op.37

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Alan Gilbert (conductor)

c.3.35

Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1945)

Dinis Sousa (conductor)

c.4.15

Jacquet of Mantua Dum vastos Adriae fluctus

c.4.25

Gyorgy Kurtag - quasi una Fantasia..., Op.27'1

c.4.35

Marianne Martinez Sant'Elena al Calvario - 2 arias (Raggio di luce: Nel mirar quell sasso amato)

Ilona Domnich (soprano)

BBC Concert Orchestra

Jane Glover (conductor)

Music by Beethoven, Berlioz and Stravinsky.

20220524Ian Skelly continues his Spanish-inspired week with performances from the RTVE Symphony Orchestra. Today, ballet music by Falla features the Flamenco singer Esperanza Fernကndez, and Julian Rachlin plays Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto. Plus Shchedrin's take on Bizet's Carmen and Elizabeth Watts singing Purcell.

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No1 in A Op77

Julian Rachlin, violin

Pablo Gonzales, conductor

Debussy: ‘Pour le piano

Beatrice Rana, piano

3.00

Falla: El Amor Brujo

Esperanza Fernကndez (flamenco singer)

Miguel Angel G mez Mart퀀nez, conductor

Artists' choice:

Purcell: `From Rosy Bow'rs` (from ‘The Comical History of Don Quixote')

Elizabeth Watts, soprano

Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord

Anselm Ferrer: Lamentatio - 1. Veneris Sancto

Cererols Choir

Marc D퀀az, conductor

Rodion Shchedrin (after Bizet): Carmen Suite

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Gergely Madaras, conductor

The RTVE Symphony Orchestra perform music by Falla and Shostakovich.

20220531Ian Skelly with another afternoon of recordings from BBC orchestras and ensembles from across Europe. Today, Brahms Symphony No. 2 and Dvorak's Cello Concerto, with Daniel Müller-Schott the soloist, with the La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andr退s Orozco-Estrada. The BBC Philharmonic perform music by Bruno Maderna, including his arrangements of pieces by Frescobaldi. Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor with the Amatis Piano Trio. Also, Vivaldi with the Darmstadt Baroque Soloists.

Including:

Vivaldi: Da piu? venti, Argippo's aria from 'Argippo, RV 697-A

Shak耀d Bar, soprano

Alessandro Quarta, conductor

Girolamo Frescobaldi (arr. Bruno Maderna): Tre Pezzi

Bruno Maderna: Venetian Journal

Benjamin Hulett, soloist

BBC Scottish SO

Ilan Volkov, conductor

Adrian Willaert: O magnum mysterium

Gioseffo Zarlino: Virgo prudentissima

Christina Kubisch: Viaggio II, from 'Il viaggio della voce

La Cappella Marciana

Marco Gemmani, director

Schubert: Entr'acte No. 3 from 'Rosamunde

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Markus Poschner, conductor

3pm

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 73

Andr退s Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Dvo?ကk: Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104

Daniel Müller-Schott, cello

Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 49

Dvorak's Cello Concerto, Vivaldi, and the BBC Philharmonic perform Maderna.

20220607Penny Gore introduces the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ilan Volkov in a Haydn symphony today, as Radio 3's Breakfast travels across Scotland this week. Thomas Dausgaard also joins the orchestra for music by Wagner, there's more from Cafe Zimmermann in Prague, and the Berlin Philharmonic plays the music of Bernd Alois Zimmermann.

Including:

Wagner: Parsifal (Prelude)

BBC Scottish SO

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

Ellington/Peress: Black, Brown and Beige, suite

RAI National Symphony Orchestra

John Axlerod, conductor

JS Bach: Sonata, from 'Himmelsk怀nig, sei willkommen, BWV 182

JS Bach: Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV 169

JS Bach: Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36

JS Bach: Ein ungef䀀rbt Gemüte, BWV 24

Caf退 Zimmermann

3pm

Haydn: Symphony No.82 'Bear

Ilan Volkov, conductor

Gershwin (arr. Zigutkin): Clap Yo' Hands from the musical 'Oh, Kay!

12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic

c.3.30pm

Zimmermann: Photoptosis, Pr退lude für gro߀es Orchester

Kirill Petrenko, conductor

Gipps: Wind Sinfonietta, Op 73

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Jonathan Bloxham, conductor

Haydn: Cello Concerto No.2

Alexey Stadler, cello

Michael Sanderling, conductor

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Haydn's 'Bear' Symphony.

20220614Ian Skelly introduces performances by the SWR Symphony Orchestra, including Beethoven's 'Emperor' Concerto with Vadym Kholodenko. Plus there's Hungarian music by Tchaikovsky, Kurtag, Wolf, Kodaly, Schubert and Brahms, as well as highlights from the recent Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Suite No.2 in C major Op.53 (Scherzo burlesque)

Neville Marriner (conductor)

Gyorgy Kurtag - Movement for viola & orchestra

Paul Pesthy (viola)

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart

Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

c. 2.25

Roberto Gerhard - Pedrelliana

BBC Philharmonic

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c. 2.45

Hugo Wolf - Gebet, No.28 [M怀rike Lieder] / Gesang Weylas, No.46 [M怀rike Lieder] / Anakreons Grab / Der Rattenf䀀nger, No.11 [Goethe Lieder]

Hanno Muller-Brachmann (baritone)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Ivan Fischer (conductor)

3pm

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat, Op.73 `Emperor`

Vadym Kholodenko (piano)

Lionel Bringuier (conductor)

c. 3.45

Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata No.14 in A minor, D.784

Eric Lu (piano)

c. 4.10

Zoltan Kodaly - Dances from Galanta

c. 4.30

Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.1 in G minor

KBS Symphony Orchestra,

Antonio Mendez (conductor)

Vadym Kholodenko and the SWR Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto.

20220621More from French violinist Renaud Capu瀀on, this afternoon the expansive, romantic concerto by Edward Elgar. There's more from Judith Bingham's 70th birthday concert and two contrasting pieces for piano duo

Presented by Ian Skelly

2.00pm

Rossini

Cenerentola Overture

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

Gombert

Media vita

BBC Singers

Owain Park

Bartok

Two Portraits, Op.5

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

Schubert

Rondo in D, D. 608

Duration of work: 09:26 min.

Anne Queffelec and Gaspard Dehaene, piano

Poulenc

O magnum mysterium

3.00pm

Violin Concerto in B minor, Op.61

Renaud Capu瀀on, violin

Suisse Romande Orchestra

Jonathan Nott, conductor

Bach arr. Kurtag

Sonatina, from Actus Tragicus, BWV.106

Kodaly

Symphony in C

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

French violinist Renaud Capu\u00e7on plays the expansive, romantic concerto by Edward Elgar.

20220628Penny Gore with Faur退's Requiem given by the Flanders Symphony Orchestra and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, recorded recently in Ghent, together with Arvo P䀀rt's Adam's Lament. Plus other performances taken in the Low Countries, including CPE Bach's Flute Concerto No. 3, and Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 1 with Julia Fischer and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. From the 2021 London International Festival of Early Music, Louis Couperin's Harpsichord Suite in D is played by Laurence Cummings.

Including:

August De Boeck: Dahomeyan Rhapsody

Flemish Radio Orchestra

Marc Soustrot, conductor

CPE Bach: Flute Concerto No.3 in A major, Wq.168

Aurele Nicolet, flute

David Zinman, conductor

Claude Gervaise (arr. for brass band: Peter D怀rpinghaus & Peter Reeve)

Suite, from 'Danceries': Gaillarde de la guerre; Pavane passamaize; Branle Gay

Salaputia Brass

Jeroen Berwaerts, trumpet, conductor

Brahms: Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor, Op 38

Leonard Elschenbroich, cello

Alexei Grynyuk, piano

3.00pm

Faur退: Requiem, op. 48 [1900 version]

Hana Blaž퀀kovက, soprano

Roderick Williams, baritone

Kristiina Poska, conductor

Mozart: Violin Concerto No.1 in B flat, K207

Julia Fischer, violin

Yakov Kreizberg, conductor

Louis Couperin: Harpsichord Suite in D

Laurence Cummings, harpsichord

Arvo P䀀rt: Adam's Lament

Music by Faure, De Boeck, CPE Bach, Gervaise, Brahms, Mozart, Couperin and P\u00e4rt.

20220705Ian Skelly continues his week with more from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, music inspired by the harp and by Irish mythology, plus an item chosen for the programme by conductor/composer and BBC SSO Chief Conductor designate, Ryan Wigglesworth. The programme features:

Ryan Wigglesworth: Locke's Theatre (After T. Locke) II. `Rustic Music`

Halle Orchestra

Ryan Wigglesworth, composer

EJ Moeran: Sinfonietta

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Camille Saint-Saens: Morceau de Concert (arr. horn and harp)

Alec Frank-Gemmell, horn

Ellie Johnston, harp

Ina Boyle: The Magic Harp

National Symphony Orchestra

Nil Venditti, conductor

3.00

Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No 7 in D minor

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

This week's guest artist chooses a selection of music: Ryan Wigglesworth

WA Mozart: Flute Concerto in G K313

Adam Walker, flute

Claude Debussy: Pelleas Suite (arr. Erich Leinsdorf)

Bavarian Symphony Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC SSO performing Dvorak's Symphony No 7 in D minor.

20220719Presented by Ian Skelly. Today's Prom features John Wilson conducting his new super-orchestra, the Sinfonia of London, in an all-British programme. Adam Walker plays Huw Watkins' s Flute Concerto and the Prom culminates in Elgar's ever-popular Enigma Variations. Plus today's Proms Artist choice in the interval of the Prom.

2.00pm

Elgar: Sursum corda (Elevation) Op.11 for brass, organ and string orchestra

BBC Concert Orchestra

John Wilson, conductor

Frank Ferko: Reflection on Thomas Tallis' If ye love me for chorus

ORA Singers

Suzi Digby, conductor

c.2.13pm

Prom 2 (first broadcast live on 16 July) - Part 1 of 2

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis(15 mins)

Huw Watkins: Flute Concerto

Bax: Tintagel

Adam Walker, flute

c.3.45pm

Proms Artist Choice: Adam Walker

Mahler: Symphony No.8 in E Flat 'Symphony of a Thousand': I. Hymnus, Veni Creator

Christine Brewer (soprano), Soile Isokoski, Juliane Banse (sopranos), Birgit Remmert, Jane Henschel (mezzos), Jon Villars (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) & John Relyea (bass)

CBSO Chorus, CBSO Youth Chorus, Toronto Children's Choir, London Symphony Chorus

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Simon Rattle, conductor

c.4.50pm

Prom 2 (first broadcast live on 16 July) - Part 2 of 2

Walton: Partita for Orchestra

Elgar: ‘Enigma' Variations

Another chance to hear the recent Prom with John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London.

20220726Ian Skelly introduces an afternoon of performance which includes the chance to hear the BBC Singers and BBC Concert Orchestra combine forces to present a varied selection of music for royal occasions at the Proms. Plus a Prom Artist choice of music and listener suggestions.

Michael Tippett: Birthday Suite for Prince Charles

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Sir Georg Solti, conductor

BBC PROM 'Music for Royal Occasions

Arthur Bliss: ‘Jubilant' Fanfare

George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthem ‘Zadok the Priest

William Walton: Coronation March ‘Orb and Sceptre

Edward Elgar: O hearken thou, op. 64

William Harris: The Windsor Dances (arr. Jonathan Manners)

King Henry VIII of England: Pastime with good company

Benjamin Britten: Courtly Dances from ‘Gloriana

Hubert Parry: Coronation Anthem ‘I Was Glad

INTERVAL.

Prom Artist's choice from Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Judith Weir: Piano Concerto

William howard, piano

The Schubert Ensemble

John Ireland: Epic March

Judith Weir: I love all beauteous things

William Byrd: O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth

Charles Villiers Stanford: Coronation Gloria in B flat

George Frideric Handel: Water Music, Suite No. 1 - Overture

Water Music, Suite No. 1 - II: Adagio e staccato

Water Music, Suite No. 1 - V: Air.

Water Music, Suite No. 1 - XI: Alla Hornpipe

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Silence and Music

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Your Servant, Elizabeth (BBC commission: world premiere)

Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance, March No. 4 in G major

Barry Wordsworth, conductor

A royal Prom fest from the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers.

20220802Presented by Penny Gore. Another chance to hear the recent Prom with Andrew Manze, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and a programme of sea-themed music culminating in Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony in the composer's 150th anniversary year.

Carwithen: Bishop Rock

Grace Williams: Sea Sketches

INTERVAL

Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1)

Elizabeth Llewellyn, soprano

Jacques Imbrailo, bass-baritone

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Andrew Manze, conductor

Andrew Manze conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a sea-themed Prom.

20220809Presented by Fiona Talkington. Another chance to hear the recent Prom with the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra and conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson performing a symphony by Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, Chopin's Second Piano Concerto with soloist Anna Fedorova, and Brahms's Fourth Symphony.

Valentin Silvestrov: Symphony No. 7

Fr退d退ric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor

Ludwig van Beethoven: ‘Abscheulicher! - Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern' (Fidelio)

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor

Liudmyla Monastyrska (soprano)

Anna Fedorova (piano)

Keri-Lynn Wilson (conductor)

Pianist Anna Fedorova is today's Prom's Artist and chooses a piano piece by Valentin Silvestrov that's particularly dear to her heart.

Our Listeners' Choice theme this week is 'Piano Concertos', so we enjoy a favourite by Doreen Carwithen.

And there's a performance from the York Early Music Festival International Young Artists Competition every day this week, too. Today it's a wind quintet by Antoine Reicha, performed by the Hague-based ensemble Harmos Winds.

Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra in Chopin and Silvestrov.

20220816Presented by Penny Gore. Including another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in the premiere of Julian Anderson's Symphony No 2 and Martinu's Concerto for Two Pianos with the Labequ耀s. Plus today's Proms Artists' Choice.

c.2.25pm

Julian Anderson: Symphony No. 2, ‘Prague Panoramas' [BBC co-commission: world premiere of complete symphony]

Bohuslav Martin?: Concerto for Two Pianos

Interval

c.3.35

Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Katia and Marielle Lab耀que (pianos)

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

The BBC SO and Semyon Bychkov perform Rachmaninov, Anderson and Martinu at the BBC Proms.

20220913This week in Afternoon Concert Ian Skelly features music from summer festivals around Europe. Today includes a concert the Verbier Festival Orchestra gave at the Verbier Festival; Yefim Bronfman joined the Orchestra for Bartok's Second Piano Concerto, before Shostakovich's Symphony No 1. Plus more from Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande ɀcurie at the International Sacred Music Festival, Fribourg.

Presented by Ian Skelly

2pm

Fasch: Overture in G minor, FWV K.g2

Alexis Kossenko (conductor)

c.2.05

Schedrin: Dialogues with Shostakovich

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

c.2.25

Bartok: Piano Concerto no.2 in G major, Sz.95

Yefim Bronfman (piano)

c.3pm

Shostakovich: Symphony no.1 in F minor, Op.10

c.3.30

Doreen Carwithen: Sonatina for cello and piano

Andrei Ionita (cello)

Lilit Grigoryan (piano)

c.4'15

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Rosanne Philippens (violin)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

c.4.30

Zelenka: Potrei sovra degli Empi, from Il serpente di bronza, ZWV61

Stephan MacLeod (baritone)

Music by Schedrin, Bartok and Shostakovich.

20220920Penny Gore with recent live performances from around Europe, and exclusive recordings from BBC ensembles.

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra present Richard Strauss' An Alpine Symphony and Thomas Ad退s' The Exterminating Angel Symphony, based on music from his opera of the same name, conducted by Daniel Harding who also introduces today's Artist Choice. The BBC Philharmonic perform Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet fantasy overture, under the baton of Gemma New, there's music by Antonio Salieri from Concerto Koln, guitarist Thibaut Garcia plays Piazzolla's Four Seasons from Buenos Aires, and C退dric Tiberghien plays JS Bach, conductor Daniel Harding.

Including:

Balakirev: Islamey - oriental fantasy (orch. Lyapunov)

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Salieri: Overture to 'La secchia rapita

JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Prelude and fugue No 9 in E major, BWV 878)

C退dric Tiberghien, piano

c.2.20pm

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet: fantasy-overture

Gemma New, conductor

Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires - Autumn (arr. Sergio Assad)

Thibaut Garcia, guitar

Salieri: Sulle mie tempie, from 'La secchia rapita

Julia Lezhneva, soprano

c.3.00pm

R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

Daniel Harding, conductor

Artist's choice: Daniel Harding

c.4.15pm

Thomas Ad退s: The Exterminating Angel Symphony

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra play Strauss' epic Alpine Symphony.

20221004Fiona Talkington introduces recordings of live performances from around Europe and by BBC groups.

From Lugano, Tchaikovsky's 'Pathetique' Symphony is performed by the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and conductor Markus Poschner, Lydia Teuscher sings a concert aria by Felix Mendelssohn, and the BBC Singers perform more music by Purcell from a concert earlier this year. Also today, Roman Patocka joins the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra for Myslivecek's Violin Concerto.

Including:

Felix Mendelssohn: Infelice, op. 94, concert aria

Lydia Teuscher, soprano

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Giovanni Antonini, conductor

Schubert Eight Variations on a Theme from the Opera 'Marie' by H退rold in C major, D 908

Lucas & Arthur Jussen, piano duo

c.3pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 74 ('Path退tique')

Markus Poschner, conductor

Purcell: I was glad 1 & 2

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

Artist Choice: Nancy Cole (BBC Singers)

Myslivecek: Violin Concerto in B flat

Roman Patocka, violin

Vaclav Luks, conductor

Anna Clyne: Stride

Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

Anja Bihlmaier, conductor

The Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana perform Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony.

20221011Ian Skelly continues a week of afternoons as part of Radio 3's 150th anniversary celebrations of Ralph Vaughan Williams, with music by Vaughan Williams alongside some of the composers who influenced him, his contemporaries and students.

Today's 3pm spotlight falls on Holst, a lifelong friend of Vaughan Williams, as Daniel Harding conducts The Planets with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Louis Lortie plays Finzi, Kriss Russman conducts his own arrangement of Butterworth's Suite for String Quartet, and music by Purcell from a concert given by Choeur Les Elements at the Occitanie Montpellier Festival. Plus, Antonio Pappano conducts RVW's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, and a new BBC Philharmonic recording of music by one of the composer's students, Ruth Gipps.

Including:

Parry: I Was Glad

BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales

Grant Llewellyn, conductor

Finzi: Eclogue, Op. 10

Louis Lortie, piano

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis, conductor

Butterworth: Suite for String Quartette (arr. Kriss Russman)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Kriss Russman, conductor

c.2.45pm

Gipps: Death on the Pale Horse, Op. 25

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Purcell: Remember not, Lord, our offences

Eccles: The Mad Lover

Les Ombres

Joel Suhubiette, conductor

c.3pm

Gustav Holst: The Planets

Bavarian Radio SO

Daniel Harding, conductor

Rec. 25/2/22 SM/2021/09/32/04

Purcell: O God, thou hast cast us out

Tallis: If Ye Love Me

c.3.55pm

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Santa Cecilia Orchestra

Antonio Pappano, conductor

Daniel Harding conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

20221101Penny Gore presents a week of Afternoon Concert. Today's programme includes a concert given by Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, this time as violinist rather than conductor. He performs Sibelius' Violin Concerto and the Festival Overture by his father, Loris Tjeknavorian, before the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra take centre stage in Elgar's Symphony no.1. Plus more from Dejan Lazi?'s piano recital from the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and another brand new recording from the BBC Singers.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Loris Tjeknavorian Festival Overture for violin and orchestra

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian (violin)

Beethoven Piano Sonata no.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27'2 ‘Moonlight

Dejan Lazi? (piano)

Maurice Ravel arr Roderick Williams Piano Concerto in G (2nd Movement) arranged for choir and piano

Anna Markland (piano)

Robert Hollingworth (conductor)

Brahms Rhapsody in B minor, Op.79'1

Brahms Rhapsody in G minor, Op.79'2

3pm

Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47

Andrew Manze (conductor)

Schubert arr Dejan Lazi? Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd and the Rock), D.965

Elgar Symphony no.1 in A flat major, Op.55

Music by Ravel, Sibelius and Elgar.

20221115Presented by Fiona Talkington, with live concert recordings from around Europe and by the BBC orchestras.

Today's 3pm moment features pianist Sunwook Kim in Rachmaninov's ever-popular second concerto with the BBC Philharmonic and Ben Gernon, who also conducts the orchestra in a selection of music from Bizet's Carmen. There's more music by Agricola from the Berlin Music Festival, Nielsen in Denmark, and Steven Tharp plays Bach on the organ of the Basilica of St James the Greater in Prague.

Including:

Tchaikovsky: Polonaise, from 'Eugene Onegin, op. 24

German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Pietari Inkinen, conductor

Nielsen: Prelude, from 'Sir Oluf He Rides

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Sondergard, conductor

c.2.15pm

Bizet: Carmen - a selection

Ben Gernon, conductor

J.S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903

Steven Tharp, organ of the Basilica of St James the Greater, Prague

c.3pm

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18

Sunwook Kim, piano

c.3.45pm

Agricola: Der K怀nig jauchzet von dir entzücket

Vocalensemble Sirventes Berlin

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin

Stefan Schuck, conductor

Sunwook Kim performs Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic.

20221129Ian Skelly continues his profile of highlights from recent Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra concerts with a performance of the First Piano Concerto by Brahms with Igor Levit. The programme also features performances from the Atos Trio, Musica Ficta with Bo Holten, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thierry Fischer.

Claude Debussy: Symphony in B minor (orch. Tony Finno)

Lyon Op退ra Orchestra

Jun Markl (conductor)

Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 1 in C minor

Florence Price: Adoration For Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Yannick Nezet-Seguin (conductor)

JS Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor (Dorian)

Johannes Lang (organ)

3.00

Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor

Igor Levit (piano)

Manfred Honeck (conductor)

Heinrich Schutz:

O dolcezze amarissime

O primavera

Guinto e pur lidia

Fuggi, fuggi, o mio core

Bo Holten (director)

Samuel Scheidt: Battle Suite

Berlin Brass Ensemble

Arthur Honegger; Symphony No 3 `Liturgique`

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

More music with links to Bavaria.

20221206Penny Gore introduces an afternoon of live concert recordings by BBC orchestras and ensembles around Europe.

Our 3 o'clock highlight is Nielsen's Symphony No. 5, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra also plays music by Julia Perry, and the Ulster Orchestra performs Gershwin's symphonic picture from his opera Porgy and Bess. Milan Turkovic joins the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg for Mozart's bassoon concerto, and pianist Kirill Gerstein plays Richard Strauss' Burleske with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

Cristoforo Caresana: la taranatella

L'Arpeggiata

Christina Pluhar, musical direction, theorbo

Marianne Martines: Sinfonia in C major

BBC Concert Orchestra

Johannes Wildner, conductor

John Taverner: Dum transisset sabbatum

Choir of Queen's College, Oxford

Owen Rees, director

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

Liszt: Prelude & Fugue in A minor, S 462 (J.S. Bach BWV 543)

Khatia Buniatishvilli, piano

Julia Perry: Pastoral, for flute and string sextet

Geoffrey Paterson, conductor

3pm

Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, Op 50

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

Mozart: Concerto for bassoon and orchestra, K.191

Milan Turkovic, bassoon

Leopold Hager, conductor

Strauss: Burleske, for piano and orchestra

Kirill Gerstein, piano

Alan Gilbert, conductor

Trad (Sweden): Visa fr倀n Utanmyra

Luciana Mancini, mezzo-soprano

Julia Perry: Homage to Vivaldi (Requiem), for orchestra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Nielsen, and Mozart's Bassoon Concerto.

20221213Swiss composer Richard Flury's First Symphony, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Paul Mann

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Infused with the spirit, grandeur and architecture of Bruckner, Flury's first symphony is sweepingly romantic and dramatic, and is heard here in advance of a CD release. There's also Bach from harpsichord wizard Mahan Esfahani, dazzling orchestral writing from Elisabetta Brusa, and a beautiful transcription of Elgar's autumnal cello concerto for viola and orchestra

2.00pm

Libby Larsen

Love Songs: 4) Dear Love

BBC Singers

Will Dawes, conductor

Prelude and fugue in E, BWV 854

(The Well-Tempered Clavier)

Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord

Firelights

Stefan Solyom, conductor

Dupre

Paraphrase sur le Te Deum, Op.43

Nathan Laube, organ of Saint Wenceslas Cathedral, Olomouc

Toccata in D, BWV 912

3.00pm

Symphony 1

Paul Mann, conductor

Artist Choice: Paul Mann's pick

Jon Lord

Piano Concerto: Boom of the Tingling Strings (extract)

Nelson Goerner

Odense Symphony Orchestra

Schumann

Kreisleriana

Lucas Vondracek, piano

Elgar arr Tertis

Viola Concerto (originally for cello and orchestra)

Timothy Ridout, viola

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Swiss composer Richard Flury's Symphony No 1, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

20221220Penny Gore hosts an afternoon of music from the concert halls of Europe. Riccardo Minasi conducts Mozart's Symphony No 39 in Salzburg, and there's a plethora of festive tunes to get you in the yuletide spirit, including a seasonal concert from youth choirs in The Netherlands.

Including:

Leroy Anderson - Sleigh Ride

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Andrew Cottee (conductor)

Gerald Finzi - The Salutation [Dies Natalis, Op.8]

Susan Gritton (soprano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Isang Yun - The Shepherd's Flute

Lucie Horsch (recorder)

Trad. Norway arr. Idunn Vindspoll - Saele Jolekveld

National Women's Youth Choir of The Netherlands

Wilma ten Wolde (conductor)

Corelli - Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op.6'8 'Christmas night

CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra

Hartmut Haenchen (conductor)

c. 2.35pm

Bridge - Roger de Coverley (Christmas Dance)

BBC Concert Orchestra

David Hill (conductor)

Grant Still - Christmas in the Western World (Las Pascuas)

Toronto Clarinets

Greg Kostraba (piano)

3pm

Mozart - Symphony No.39 in E flat, K.543

Mozarteum Orchestra

Riccardo Minasi (conductor)

Gregorian Chant - Veni veni Emmanuel

Anon. - Mariam Matrem Verginem [Llibre Vermell de Montserrat]

Max Reger Unser lieben Frauen Traum [8 Sacred songs for chorus, Op.138]

National Youth Choir of The Netherlands

c. 3.40pm

JS Bach - Violin Sonata in G, BWV.1021

Chouchane Siranossian (violin)

Jonathan Pesek (cello)

Leonardo Garcia Alarcon (harpsichord)

Hummel - Trumpet Concerto in E flat

Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)

Academy of St Martin-in-the Fields

Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

Franck - Symphonic Variations, M.46

Adam Laloum (piano)

Orchestre Nationale de France

Andris Poga (conductor)

c. 4.30pm

Zoltan Kodaly - Dances from Galanta

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Yoel Levi (conductor)

Penny Gore with an afternoon of festive music from the concert halls of Europe.

20221227Introduced by Ian Skelly, including performances from BBC orchestras and ensembles around Europe.

At 3pm today and across the week, Ian presents Haydn's oratorio, The Seasons, in a live concert recording from Vienna's Musikverein, with soloists including the soprano Miah Persson. The Ulster Orchestra continues the Spring theme with Debussy, and Thomas Sondergard conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius's Sixth Symphony. Plus music from a recital by French sisters Julie and Camille Berthollet.

Including:

Vivaldi arr. J & C Berthollet

Medley Four seasons

Julie Berthollet, violin

Camille Berthollet, violin

Vincent Forestier, piano

c.2.15pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 in D minor, op. 104

Thomas Sondergard, conductor

Spain-Dunk: The Kentish Downs

Charlotte Ashton, flute solo

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Stephen Bell, conductor

Trad.: Deux guitars

c.3pm

Haydn: The Seasons, Hob. XXI:3, oratorio - Spring

Miah Persson, soprano

Mauro Peter, tenor

Florian Boesch, bass

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Debussy: Printemps

Jac van Steen, conductor

The first part of Haydn's The Seasons from Vienna.

20230103Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert, featuring highlights from the Lucerne and Verbier Festivals. Today's programme includes Mao Fujita performing Schumann, and as soloist in Rachmaninov's ever popular Piano Concerto no.2. Plus there's more from the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Japan, including Vaughan Williams's Lark Ascending with Nicola Benedetti, and a new recording of the orchestra in his Sinfonia antartica.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

c.2pm

Clyne Masquerade

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

Schumann Piano Sonata no.2 in G minor, Op.22

Mao Fujita (piano)

Vaughan Willams The Lark Ascending

Nicola Benedetti (violin)

Monteverdi Dixit Dominus, SV. 191

RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin

Ensemble Promena

Justin Doyle (conductor)

c.3pm

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor, Op.18

Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

Purcell Jehovah, quam multi sunt hostes mei, Z. 135

Chopin Ballade no.3 in A flat major, Op.47

c.4pm

Friedrich Gulda Concerto for Cello & Wind Band (2nd & 5th movts)

Nicholas Altstaedt (cello)

Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Alexander Joel (conductor)

Vaughan Williams Symphony No.7 - Sinfonia antartica

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Richard Pearce (organ)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Music by Schumann, Monteverdi and Vaughan Williams.

20230110Fabio Luisi conducts the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo in Beethoven's Symphony No 8 in F, and there's more music from the Japanese capital.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Dynamic Italian maestro Fabio Luisi guest-conducts the Japanese national broadcast orchestra in Mozart and Beethoven; there's more from baroque violinist Mayumi Hirasaki and Spanish pianist Mart퀀n Garc퀀a Garc퀀a, and there's a morsel from the Kisekino Cello Ensemble.

2.00pm

Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527

Fabio Luisi, conductor

Chopin

Waltz in A flat, op. 34/1; Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, op. 64/2

Mart퀀n Garc퀀a Garc퀀a, piano

Handel

Violin Sonata in A, HWV 361

Mayumi Hirasaki, baroque violin

Lorenzo Ghielmi, harpsichord

Davidov arr. Werner Thomas-Mifune

Hymn

Bach

Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, BWV 1015

3.00pm

Symphony No. 8 in F, op. 93

Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466

Alexander Melnikov, piano

Telemann

Fantasia no.12 in A minor

Nielsen

Symphony No. 6, FS 116 ('Sinfonia semplice')

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi conducts the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, in Beethoven's Eighth Symphony.

20230117Penny Gore introduces music by BBC ensembles and performances from across Europe, including Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 with the Odessa Philharmonic, conducted by Hobart Earle, who provides our Artist's Choice, selecting a work for our programme. Also, Tchaikovsky's The Voyevoda, with Ulster Orchestra under Jac van Steen; Strauss' Serenade for 13 wind instruments with the BBC Philharmonic; chamber pieces by Amanda Maier-R怀ntgen and Julius R怀ntgen.

Including,

Percy Grainger: Brigg Fair

Ruairi Bowen, tenor

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Adrian Partington, conductor

Mykola Kolessa: Symphony No. 1 - 4th movement: Festivity of the Populace (Allegro non troppo)

Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra

Hobart Earle, conductor

JS Bach: Prelude and fugue No 12 in F minor, BWV 857, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord

R. Strauss: Serenade for 13 wind instruments in E flat major, Op 7

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Chopin: Polonaise in A flat, op. 53 ‘Eroica

Mart퀀n Garc퀀a Garc퀀a, piano

Anton Fils: Sinfonia in G minor

Das Neue Mannheimer Orchester

Anders Muskens, conductor

Amanda Maier-R怀ntgen: Scherzo: Allegro non troppo - Trio: Poco più tranquillo - Tempo I, from String Quartet in A

Cecilia Zilliacus & Jannica Gustafsson, violins

Ylvali Zilliacus, viola

Kati Raitinen, cello

3pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43

Artist's choice: Hobart Earle

Vivaldi: Veni, veni me sequere fida, from Juditha triumphans, RV 644

Lea Desandre, mezzo-soprano

Ensemble Jupiter

Thomas Dunford, director

Julius R怀ntgen: String Quartet No. 12 in G sharp minor

Tchaikovsky: The Voyevoda, Op. 78

Jac van Steen, conductor

Also, music by JS Bach, Strauss, Chopin, Amanda Maier-R\u00f6ntgen, Julius R\u00f6ntgen, Vivaldi.

20230124Ian Skelly introduces a selection of great concert performances from around Europe with a focus on Romania, including a performance of Schubert's last symphony from the 2022 George Enescu Festival, and the BBC Concert Orchestra playing Enescu's first Romanian Rhapsody.

Including:

Bela Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances Sz56

P退tri Kumela (guitar)

Cecilia Zilliacus (violin)

Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in G major - 'Gypsy Rondo' H15:25

ATOS Trio

Giuseppe Verdi: Overture - La Forza del Destino

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Xian Zhang (conductor)

Robert Schumann: Fantiesestucke Op12 (extract)

Daria Parkhomenko (piano)

3.00

Franz Schubert: Symphony No 9 in C major `Great`

George Enescu Philharmonic

Ainars Rubikis (conductor)

Gyorgy Ligeti: Lontano

Moravian Philharmonia

Zsolt Hamar (conductor)

Georg Philipp Telemann: Ich fahre auf zu meinem Vater TWV 1:825

Vox Luminis

Petra Mullejans (violin)

Freinburg Baroque Orchestra

Lionel Meunier (conductor)

George Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No 1

Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

Ainars Rubikis conducts the George Enescu Philharmonic in Schubert's 'Great' Symphony.

20230131Ian Skelly hosts an afternoon of performances by orchestras from around Europe, with a focus on the Czech Republic.

Today in the 3pm orchestral spotlight, Dvorak's Ninth 'New World' Symphony is performed by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra at the city's famous 19th-century cultural venue, the Rudolfinum. The orchestra's chief conductor, Petr Popelka, makes his artist choice, with music by Schoenberg. Also today, there's more from soprano Julieta Viကas and ensemble La Bellement at Prague's Summer Festivities of Early Music, and Isabelle Faust joins the Czech Philharmonic for Martinu's second Violin Concerto. Plus, members of the Vienna Philharmonic play Berg at the 2022 Salzburg Festival, and new recording of Bartok's Dance Suite from the Ulster Orchestra.

Including:

Sibelius: Intermezzo (Karelia Suite, Op.11)

Prague Radio SO

Vladimir Valek, conductor

Diego Ortiz: Recercadas ottava and segunda sobre tenores italianos

Juan Vကsquez: De los ကlamos vengo, madre

Cosimo Bottegari: Two songs; i) Nel bel giardin d'Amor viddi una rosa, ii) Zefiro torna

Julieta Viကas, soprano

La Bellemont

Rafael Muကoz, vihuela de mano

Laura Puerto, spanish baroque double harp

Sara Ruiz, viola da gamba

Bartok: Dance Suite

Angus Webster, conductor

c.2.35pm

Vivaldi: Cello Concerto, RV 416

Bruno Philippe, cello

Ensemble Jupiter

Thomas Dunford, conductor

Berg: Adagio, from 'Chamber Concerto', arr. for violin, clarinet and piano

Members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Christopher Hinterhuber, piano

c.3pm

Dvorak: Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95 ‘New World

Petr Popelka, conductor

Francesco Canova da Milano: La canzon delli ucelli

Giovanni Battista Bovicelli: Ancor che col partire

Riccardo Rognoni: Ancor che col partire, from 'Passaggi per potersi esercitare nei diminuire, libro secondo

Cosimo Bottegari: Più non amo et più non ardo

c.4pm

Artist choice - Petr Popelka, chief conductor of the Prague Radio SO

Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht, Op.4 (conclusion)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Edward Gardner, conductor

c.4.20pm

Martinu: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, H. 293

Isabelle Faust, violin

The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Dvorak's Ninth Symphony.

20230207Penny Gore continues her week of Afternoon Concert with a performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto from Janine Jansen in Munich. There are Medieval pieces from Ensemble Celadon and choral music by Schutz and Schein from the Leipzig Cantorey every day this week, and of course regular contributions from the BBC performing groups. Today, there's also music by Foulds, Lysenko, Bellini, Schoenberg and Gershwin, plus a performance of Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini by Kirill Gerstein.

John Foulds - Keltic Overture, Op.28

BBC Concert Orchestra

Ronald Corp (conductor)

Johann Hermann Schein - Alleluja! Lobet den Herrn in seinem Heiligtum

Concerto Vocale Leipzig

Sachsisches Baroque Orchestra

Gotthold Schwarz (conductor)

Mykola Lysenko - Elegy, Op.41

Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra

Hobart Earle (conductor)

Vincenzo Bellini - Oboe Concerto

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

Peterborough String Orchestra

c. 2.30pm

Arnold Schoenberg - Chamber Symphony No.1

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

3pm

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D, Op.35

Janine Jansen (violin)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Joana Mallwitz (conductor)

Bernart de Ventadorn - Can l´erba fresch´ e.lh folha par / Anonymous La tierche Estampie Roial

George Gershwin - An American in Paris

Simon Hofele (trumpet)

Frank Dupree (piano)

c. 4.25pm

Sergei Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Alan Gilbert (conductor)

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto played by Janine Jansen

20230214Ian Skelly introduces a selection of concert recordings from BBC groups and orchestras abroad.

At 3pm today, Brahms's Violin Concerto is played by Frank Peter Zimmermann with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Radovan Vlatkovi? plays Richard Strauss's First Horn Concerto, Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Gershwin's Cuban Overture, and former BBC New Generation Artist Mariam Batsashvili plays music by Franz Liszt. Also, Pergolesi's secular cantata Orfeo with the French period-instrument ensemble Les Talens Lyriques under the direction of Christoph Rousset.

Including:

Mozart: Horn Concerto No 3 in E flat, K447 (3rd movement)

Radovan Vlatkovi?, horn

Munich Radio Orchestra

Ivan Repuši? , conductor

Gershwin: Cuban Overture

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Becky McGlade: Clouded with Snow

BBC Singers

Owain Park, director

Liszt: Ann退es de p耀lerinage: Deuxi耀me ann退e, Italie (No 7, Apres un lecture de Dante)

Mariam Batsashvili, piano

Farrenc: Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 35: III. Scherzo. Vivace

Solistes Europeens, Luxembourg

Christoph Koenig, conductor

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, Op 77

Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin

Petr Popelka, conductor

Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1 in E flat, Op 11

Ivan Repuši?, conductor

Pergolesi: Orfeo, cantata for soprano, strings and basso continuo, P. 115

Florie Valiquette, soprano

Christoph Rousset, director

Artist's choice - Florie Valiquette

Brahms's Violin Concerto, plus music by Mozart, Gershwin, Becky McGlade and Pergolesi.

20230221Ian Skelly continues a week of Afternoon Concert featuring performances from the Netherlands.

Today the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir are joined by soloists for Mozart's Requiem. Les Ambassadeurs La Grande Ecurie perform more of a concert of early music recorded at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. Plus today's concerto is Beethoven's Violin Concerto performed by Krist f Barကti with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ainars Rubikis, and the French National Orchestra plays Cesar Franck's symphonic poem, Les Djinns.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Including:

Bacewicz: Divertimento for Strings

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Teresa Riveiro Bohm (conductor)

Les Ambassadeurs La Grande Ecurie Deuxieme Suite in G minor

(Francois Francoeur - Ouverture (from Scanderberg), Jean-Phillipe Rameau - Air majestueux (from les Fꀀtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour), Francois Francoeur - Air gracieux (from : Pirame et Thisb退), Francois Francoeur - Air vif, Francois Francoeur - Gavottes gracieuses (airs added to Lully's Armide), Antoine Dauvergne - Airs tr耀s vifs (from: En退e et Lavignie), Francois Francoeur - Air Marqu退, Jean-Phillipe Rameau - Gavottes gracieuses (Rameau : Dardanus), Jean-Phillipe Rameau - Contredanse (Francoeur)

Alexis Kossenko (conductor)

Franck: Les Djinns, symphonic poem for piano and orchestra

Adam Laloum (piano)

Andris Poga (conductor)

c.3pm

Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K.626

Louise Kemeny (soprano)

Rosanne van Sandwijk (mezzo-soprano)

Fabio Trümpy (tenor)

Ashley Riches (bass)

Netherlands Radio Choir

Benjamin Goodson (conductor)

Sibelius: Overture, from 'Karelia' incidental music

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

c.4.15

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61

Krist f Barကti (violin)

Ainars Rubikis (conductor)

An afternoon of music including pieces by Franck, Mozart and Beethoven.

20230228Penny Gore presents an afternoon of concert recordings from around Europe and from BBC ensembles.

Today's 3pm spotlight is on Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique - a dazzling work inspired by the composer's own love life, vividly depicting a spectacular ball, a grim March to the Scaffold and a terrifying Witches' Sabbath - in a recent recording from Ondrej Lenard and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Also today, there's more from Les Arts Florissants from a concert in Stockholm, Karen Cargill sings Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Concert Orchestra plays Delius.

Including:

Berlioz: Overture, Le Corsaire

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thierry Fischer, conductor

Glass: Etudes nos.1-3

Dennis Russell Davies, piano

Josquin: Missa pange lingua: Kyrie

Stile Antico

Schumann: Adagio & Allegro, Op.70

Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn

Alasdair Beatson, piano

Delius: Florida Suite; Daybreak

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

3.00pm

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op.14

Ondrej Lenard, conductor

Carissimi: Jephte, oratorio

Paul Agnew, conductor

Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder

Karen Cargill, soprano

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Ondrej Lenard conducts Berlioz's dazzling, hallucinatory masterpiece.

20230307Fiona Talkington with more intriguing music and exclusive recordings from around Europe and from BBC ensembles.

Today features music from Ukraine by Gliere, Silvestrov and Karamanov, his Third Piano Concerto played by pianist Tamara Stefanovich at the Berlin Music Festival.

Violinist Jack Liebeck continues his seasonal journey courtesy of Antonio Vivaldi, and the BBC Concert Orchestra play Ruth Gipps.

Including:

Valentin Silvestrov: Bagatelle No 3

Composer (piano)

Gipps: Chanticleer Overture

Branwell Tovey (conductor)

Gliere: Concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra Op82

Natalie Dessay (soprano)

Berlin Symphony Orchestra

Michael Schønwandt (conductor)

Berg: Piano Sonata (orch: Andrew Davis)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Nancarrow: Toccata for Violin and Player Piano

Arditti String Quartet

Conlin Nancarrow (player piano)

3.00

Karamanov: Piano Concerto No 3

Tamara Stefanovich (piano)

Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra

Hobart Earle (conductor)

Artist choice - Tamara Stefanovich

Scriabin: Prelude Op11/8 in F# minor

Vladimir Sofronitsky (piano)

Telemann: Quartet in E minor TWV 43:e2

Collegium Marianum

David Matthews: Symphony 8

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - 'Summer

Jack Liebeck (violin/director)

Tamara Stefanovic plays Karamanov in Berlin, plus music from Ukraine.

20230314Penny Gore introduces an afternoon of concert performances from around Europe, continuing this week's focus on new recordings from the Ulster Orchestra.

Alpesh Chauhan conducts the orchestra in Dvorak's Seventh Symphony, and Adam Hickox leads them in Vaughan Williams's famous tribute to one of his musical inspirations, Thomas Tallis. We also feature pieces from a concert by the Prague Philharmonia, with soprano Ailyn Perez joining them for Ravel's great orchestral song cycle sung. Plus more from the Black Dyke Band at the World Band Festival in Lucerne last September, including Edward Gregson's variations on the German chorale Nun danket alle Gott. Their music director Nicholas Childs also makes today's artist choice with another of the band's recordings - music by Peter Graham inspired by the 1927 German science-fiction film Metropolis.

Including:

Mozart: Overture to 'The Abduction from the Seraglio, K. 384' (1782)

Emmanuel Villaume, conductor

J.S. Bach: Cantata, Nun danket alle Gott, BWV192

Joanne Lunn, soprano

Peter Harvey (bass)

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Saint-Saens: Bacchanale, from 'Samson et Dalila

Elizabeth Poston: Festal Te Deum

BBC Singers

Richard Pearce, organ

Gabriella Teychenne, conductor

Ravel: Sh退h退razade, song cycle

Ailyn Perez, soprano

Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen

Nicholas Childs, conductor

3.00

Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Massenet: Dis-moi que je suis belle, from 'Thas

Edward Gregson: The World Rejoicing (variations on the German chorale 'Nun danket alle Gott')

Handel: Süsse Stille, sanfte Quelle / Das zitternde Gl䀀nzen der spielenden Well

Lydia Teuscher, soprano

Arcangelo

Jonathan Cohen, director

Artist choice - Nicholas Childs (Black Dyke Band)

Peter Graham: Metropolis 1927 (conclusion)

c.4.35

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Adam Hickox, conductor

Alpesh Chauhan conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Dvorak's Seventh Symphony.

20230321Fiona Talkington continues this week of Afternoon Concert featuring performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and from some of the great German orchestras.

Today the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra performs Rachmaninov's mighty Second Symphony in Saarbrücken with conductor Pietari Inkinen, and Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish in Janacek's Sinfonietta. Plus every day this week you can hear Buxtehude's organ music played by Ton Koopman in Copenhagen, vocal music from the ensemble Voces8 and pieces by Toru Takemitsu from the BBC Philharmonic.

Including:

Dvorak: Overture - Armida, Op.115

Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor

Ton Koopman (organ)

Takemitsu: Vers l'arc-en-ciel, Palma

Juliana Koch (oboe)

Christian Karlsen (conductor)

Clara Schumann: Nocturne (Soirees Musicales, Op.6)

David Quigley (piano)

c. 2.30pm

Byrd: Laudibus in sanctis

Beethoven: Coriolan, Op.62

Ulster Orchestra

Jac van Steen (conductor)

3pm

Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27

c. 4pm

Handel: Agitato da fiere tempeste [Oreste]

Jakub Jozef Orlinski (tenor)

Il Pomo d'Oro

Zefira Valova (conductor)

Janacek: Sinfonietta

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

The German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra play Rachmaninov's Second Symphony.

20230404Penny Gore with more recordings from BBC ensembles and from across Europe

Today Sibelius' Violin Concerto is played by Bonsori Kim with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Also, we hear the same German orchestra in Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, under the baton of Karina Canellakis, and a concert version of Delius' La Calinda with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Riccardo Minasi conducts Hasse, the BBC Philharmonic plays Debussy and there's more music for Holy Week to mark the 400th anniversary of William Byrd.

Including:

Delius: La Calinda [concert version]

Stephen Cleobury, conductor

Zelenka: Reponsorium 'Velum templi scissum est

Myriam Arbouz, soprano

Thomas Hobbs, tenor

Benot Arnould, baritone

Le Banquet C退leste

Damien Guillon, countertenor and conductor

Mozart: Nine Variations in C on 'Lison dormait', K. 264

Elisso Virsaladze, piano

Hasse: Sinfonia in D, op. 3/3

La Scintilla Ochestra

Debussy: Rondes de Printemps, from Images

Juanjo Mena, conductor

3pm

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47

Bonsori Kim, violin

Alain Altinoglu, conductor

Byrd: Circumdederunt me dolores mortis, for 5 voices

Contrapunctus

Owen Rees, director

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

Karina Canellakis, conductor

Zelenka: Responsory 'Tristis est anima mea

Bonsori Kim plays Sibelius' Violin Concerto, plus music by Zelenka, Mozart and Delius.

20230411Penny Gore introduces an afternoon of concert performances from the BBC Philharmonic, the Ulster Orchestra and around Europe, with a focus on Latin American music.

Today in the 3pm spotlight, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra performs Richard Strauss' Ein Heldenleben - A Hero's Life - with conductor Vassily Petrenko. Also this afternoon, the BBC Philharmonic plays music by Anna Clyne, and there's Dvorak's Carnival Overture from the Ulster Orchestra. Plus every day this week you can hear Latin American music from guitarist Yamandu Costa and accordionist Vincent Peirani, and there are performances from The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, pianist Elisso Virsaladze and the Leipzig Cantorey.

Including:

Revueltas: Sensemaya

Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra

Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

Yamandu Costa: Carinho-Serelepe

Yamandu Costa (guitar)

c. 2.20pm

Dvorak: Carnival Overture, Op.92

Pablo Urbina (conductor)

Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K.475

Elisso Virsaladze (piano)

Biber: Sonata a 6 'Die Pauern Kirchfahrt genandt

Freirburg Baroque Orchestra

Wolfgang Newerla (conductor)

Ysaye: Caprice d'apr耀s l'退tude en forme de valse, Op.52 No.6 de Camille Saint-Sa뀀ns

Emmanuel Tjaknavorian (violin)

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op.40

Vassily Petrenko (conductor)

Vincent Peirani: Choral

Vincent Peirani (accordion)

c. 4.10pm

Schein: Herr, ich hoffe auf dich

Concerto Vocale Leipzig

Sachsisches Baroque Orchestra

Gotthold Schwarz (conductor)

Anna Clyne: Abstractions

Ben Gernon (conductor)

Ravel: La Valse

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Mikko Franck (conductor)

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra play Richard Strauss's tone poem Ein Heldenleben.

20230418Fiona Talkington introduces an afternoon of live recordings from BBC orchestras and recent concerts around Europe.

Continuing this week's celebration of Sir John Eliot Gardiner's 80th birthday, today at 3pm we hear his Orchestre R退volutionnaire et Romantique in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Also this afternoon, the American soprano Laura Aikin performs songs with orchestra by Dora Pejacevic, the Latvian Radio Choir sing a selection of Bruckner's Latin motets, and Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Ernest Bloch's Hebraic Rhapsody, Schelomo.

Including:

Pejacevic: Overture in D minor, op. 49

MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Shelley, conductor

c.2:10pm

Mendelssohn: The Hebrides, op. 26, overture in B minor ('Fingal's Cave')

National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

Leonard Slatkin, conductor

Alb退niz: El Albaic퀀n, from Iberia, Book 3

Yang Yang Cai, piano

Bloch: Schelomo (Hebraic Rhapsody)

Pablo Ferrandez, cello

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Bruckner: Virga Jesse

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14

John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Bruckner: Christus factus est

Pejacevic: Three lieder with orchestra

Laura Aikin, soprano

Dobrinka Tabakova: Organum Light

Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Emil Tabakov, conductor

Bruckner: Salvum fac populum tuum

Stanford: Rondo in F major for cello and orchestra

Gemma Rosefield, cello

Andrew Manze, conductor

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.

20230627Fiona Talkington introduces more recordings from around Europe, and from the BBC's own performing groups.

Today Fiona has a recording made for International Women's Day by German Radio, featuring Croatian composer Dora Pejacevic's Symphony in F sharp minor. Described as the ‘matriarch of Croatian composers', Pejacevic's extraordinary music is now being rediscovered. There's also music today by Croatian composer Luka Sorkocevic. Elsewhere on the programme, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra return with Dvorak's String Serenade, Martin Owen, the BBC Philharmonic and John Wilson perform the second of Strauss's Horn concerti, Barbara Hannigan conducts Stravinsky, and the strings of the Berlin Philharmonic play Takemitsu in the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona.

Including:

Sweelinck: Te Deum Laudamus

Netherlands Chamber Choir

Peter Phillips, conductor

Richard Strauss: Horn concerto No 2 in E flat major

Martin Owen, French horn

John Wilson, conductor

Sorkocevic: Symphony No 4 in F major

Salzburger Hofmusik

Wolfgang Brunner, conductor

c. 3pm

Pejacevic: Symphony in F sharp minor, Op 41

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Andris Nelson, conductor

Stravinsky: 3 Japanese lyrics

Emma Posman, soprano

LUDWIG

Barbara Hannigan, conductor

c. 4 pm

Dvorak: Serenade in E major, Op 22

Anne Katharina Schreiber, conductor

Takemitsu: Requiem for strings

Kirill Petrenko, conductor

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra perform Dora Pejacevic's Symphony in F sharp minor.

20230704Ian Skelly presents an afternoon of recordings from the BBC and European orchestras.

Today in the 3pm spotlight, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra performs Vaughan Williams's Symphony no.5, Ulla Miilmann is soloist in Nielsen's Flute Concerto, and there are highlights from a Schwetzingen Festival concert featuring the French classical and jazz composer Michel Godard. Plus a new recording from the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Monte Carlo.

Including:

Purcell Fantasia upon One Note, Z. 745

Ensemble Promena

Michel Godard: Anni Dopo

Nataša Mirkovi? (vocals)

Michel Godard (serpent)

Bruno Helstroffer (theorbo)

Airelle Besson (trumpet)

Nielsen: Flute Concerto, FS.119

Ulla Miilmann (flute)

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi (conductor)

Beethoven: Horn Sonata in F major, Op.17

Timothy Ridout (viola)

James Coleman (piano)

Ravel: L'Aurore for tenor, chorus and orchestra

Roland George (tenor)

BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: Symphony no.5 in D major, Op.82

Tarmo Peltokoski (conductor)

Andrea Falconieri: La Suave Melodia

Mozart: Symphony No. 13 in F major, K. 112

Europa Galante

Fabio Biondi (director)

c.4.20

Sibelius: En Saga, Op.9

Eva Ollikainen (conductor)

Augusta Holmes: Allegro Feroce

BBC Concert Orchestra

Jane Glover (conductor)

The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra perform Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony.

20230711Fiona Talkington presents the best performances from BBC ensembles and from concerts across Europe.

Today's 3pm highlight showcases the BBC Scottish Symphony in a late 19th-century rarity - the Creation Symphony by William Wallace. The BBC Philharmonic performs orchestral music from Wagner's Gotterdammerung, the BBC Concert Orchestra performs Elgar's Serenade for Strings, and Lisa Batiashvili is the soloist in Sibelius's Violin Concerto, performed in Munich in March with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

Louise Farrenc: Overture No.2

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Anja Bihlmaier (cond.)

Wagner: G怀tterd䀀mmerung - Dawn Music; Siegfried's Rhine Journey; Siegfried's Funeral March

Juanjo Mena (cond.)

Elgar: Serenade for strings

Stephen Cleobury (cond.)

William Wallace: Creation Symphony

Martyn Brabbins (cond.)

Sibelius: Violin Concerto

Lisa Batiashvili (violin)

Jakub Hrusa (cond.)

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform William Wallace's Creation Symphony.

20 Years Of Bbc New Generation Artists 2-520200128Every day this week, Georgia Mann celebrates the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme.

Founded in 1999 with the aim of supporting and nurturing some of the world's most exciting young musicians at the start of their international careers, the NGA scheme now boasts well over a hundred distinguished alumni, many of whom are major players on the world stage.

Membership of the NGA scheme is for a period of just over two years, during which time artists can expect to appear at some of the UK's most prestigious venues and festivals, perform with the BBC orchestras, make studio recordings, and commission new work.

Today we hear from Lisa Batiashvili, who was a New Generation Artist from 1999-2001 and has since developed a career as one of the finest violinists in the world.

Sibelius: Symphony No 1

Strauss: Suite: Der Rosenkavalier

Sibelius: Valse triste

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Susanna Maalki, conductor

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2

Lisa Batiashvili (violin)

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

Bach: Sarabande (Partita No 2)

Francois Leleux, oboe d'amore

Bavarian radio Chamber orchestra

Rodoslaw Sszulc, conductor

Mozart: String Quartet in B flat, K458, `Hunt`

Arod Quartet

Bartok: Piano Concerto No 2

Francois-Frederic Guy (piano)

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Gustavo Gimeno, conductor

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme.

20 Years Of Bbc New Generation Artists 3-520200129Every day this week, Georgia Mann celebrates the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme.

Founded in 1999 with the aim of supporting and nurturing some of the world's most exciting young musicians at the start of their international careers, the NGA scheme now boasts well over a hundred distinguished alumni, many of whom are major players on the world stage.

Membership of the NGA scheme is for a period of just over two years, during which time artists can expect to appear at some of the UK's most prestigious venues and festivals, perform with the BBC orchestras, make studio recordings, and commission new work.

Today we hear from Simon Trpceski, who was a New Generation Artist from 2001-3 and has since gone on to play at the world's most prestigious venues.

Sibelius: Symphony No 5

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat

Simon Trpceski (piano)

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

Vasily Petrenko, conductor

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme.

20 Years Of Bbc New Generation Artists 4-520200130Every day this week, Georgia Mann celebrates the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme.

Founded in 1999 with the aim of supporting and nurturing some of the world's most exciting young musicians at the start of their international careers, the NGA scheme now boasts well over a hundred distinguished alumni, many of whom are major players on the world stage.

Membership of the NGA scheme is for a period of just over two years, during which time artists can expect to appear at some of the UK's most prestigious venues and festivals, perform with the BBC orchestras, make studio recordings, and commission new work.

Today we hear from Alban Gerhardt, who was a New Generation Artist from 1999-2001 and has since developed a stellar career.

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

Elgar: Cello Concerto

Bach: Sarabande from Cello Suite No 6

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4

Alban Gerhardt (cello)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Cristian Maceralu, conductor

3.10: Brahms: String Quintet No 2 in G, Op 111

Belcea Quartet, Antoine Tamestit (viola)

3.40: Strauss: Songs (selection)

Olena Tokar (soprano)

RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra

Gledre Slekyte, conductor

4.00: Berg: Violin Concerto

Veronika Eberle (violin)

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Barbara Hannigan

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme.

20 Years Of Radio 3 New Generation Artists 1-520200127Every day this week, Georgia Mann celebrates the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme.

Founded in 1999 with the aim of supporting and nurturing some of the world's most exciting young musicians at the start of their international careers, the NGA scheme now boasts well over a hundred distinguished alumni, many of whom are major players on the world stage.

Membership of the NGA scheme is for a period of just over two years, during which time artists can expect to appear at some of the UK's most prestigious venues and festivals, perform with the BBC orchestras, make studio recordings, and commission new work.

Today we hear from Paul Lewis, who was a New Generation Artist from 1999-2001 and has since developed a career as one of the finest pianists in the world.

Leyman: Undulating Blue

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat

Holst: The Planets

Paul Lewis (piano)

Women of the Swedish Radio Choir

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

conductor Andrew Manze

3.40: Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 1, Op 8

Amatis Piano Trio

3.55: Copland: Clarinet Concerto

Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet)

Orchestre Royal de Chamber de Wallonie

Frank Braley, conductor

Celebrating 20 years of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme.

20 Years Of Radio 3's New Generation Artists Scheme 5-520200131Every day this week we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Founded in 1999 with the aim of supporting and nurturing some of the world's most exciting young musicians at the start of their international careers, the NGA scheme now boasts well over a hundred distinguished alumni, many of whom are major players on the world stage.

Membership of the NGA scheme is for a period of just over two years, during which time artists can expect to appear at some of the UK's most prestigious venues and festivals, perform with the BBC orchestras, make studio recordings, and commission new work.

Today we hear from Antoine Tamestit (2004-2006) and Martin Helmchen (2005-2007), both of whom are now major players on the world stage.

Haydn: Symphony No 95 in C minor

Bartok: Viola Concerto

Bartok: Allegro giocoso, from `44 Duos`

Shostakovich: Symphony No 6

Antoine Tamestit (viola)

SWR Symphony Orchestra

Hartmut Haenchen, conductor

Prokofiev: String Quartet No 2

Calidore Quartet

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor

Martin Helmchen (piano)

Frankfurt Radio Symphony

Klaus Makela, conductor

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme.

55,000 Notes20200217Highlights from the 2019 Lucerne Festival, launched by the Everest of piano concertos. Riccardo Chailly conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in an all-Rachmaninov programme, in which Russian virtuoso pianist Denis Matsuev tackles the towering 55,000 notes of the Third Piano Concerto. Plus star violinist Leonidas Kavakos moves to the conductor's podium for Beethoven at the 2019 Verbier Festival.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op 30

with Denis Matsuev (piano)

2.45pm

Vocalise (orchestral version)

Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 44

Conductor Riccardo Chailly

3.40pm

Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92

Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra

Conductor Leonidas Kavakos

The first of five Afternoon Concert programmes featuring concerts from the 2019 Lucerne Festival and its fellow Swiss festival in Verbier. Featuring:

- Bernard Haitink conducting his very last concert ever: the Vienna Philharmonic playing Beethoven and Bruckner

- Kirill Petrenko conducting Tchaikovsky with the Berlin Philharmonic

- Riccardo Chailly and Yannick N退zet-S退guin conducting Mahler, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich with the Verbier Festival Orchestra - whose members are drawn from the world's top orchestras

- Four leading soloists: pianist Denis Matsuev and Emanuel Ax, and violinists Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Leonidas Kavakos - who also conducts the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra.

A Celebration Of Bastille Day In France20201230A celebration of Bastille Day: French National Holiday at the Champ de Mars in Paris, with the French National Orchestra under Eun Sun Kim: popular orchestral pieces, traditional French songs and famous opera arias and choruses by Berlioz, Bizet, Verdi, Bernstein, Ravel, Mozart and others. Presented by Penny Gore.

2.00pm

Berlioz: Hungarian March from La Damnation de Faust

Edith Piaf: Hymne

A Finnish New Year20180101Performances by Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra including music by Tchaikovsly, Stravinsky and Uuno Klami

Jonathan Swain presents ballet music by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky, a new work by Magnus Lindberg, and a neglected oratorio by 20th century Finnish composer Uuno Klami

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite

Magnus Lindberg: Violin Concerto No. 2

Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss

Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin

Hannu Lintu, conductor

3.40

Uuno Klami (1900-1961): Psalmus

Helena Juntune, soprano

Tommi Hakala, baritone

Helsinki Music Centre Chorus

Hannu Lintu, conductor.

Performances by Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

A Week In Berlin20181008Penny Gore introduces two complete concerts given in the German capital by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. A choral masterpiece by Dvorak complements Bernstein's violin concerto-in-all-but-name and Mahler's first symphony

2.00pm

Stabat mater, Op.88

Simona Saturova, soprano

Elisabeth Kulman, contralto

Steve Davislim, tenor

Jan Martinik, bass

Berlin Radio Chorus

Jakub Hrusa, conductor

3.30pm

Serenade (after Plato's Symposium)

Symphony no.1 in D

Erez Ofer, violin

Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

Penny Gore with Dvorak, Bernstein and Mahler given by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

A Week In Berlin20181009Penny Gore with two concerts given by Berlin's Academy for Ancient Music which enterprisingly contrast well-known major choral works with shorter pieces by lesser-known composers

2.00pm

Haydn

St Cecilia Mass

interspersed with:

Michael Haydn

Ave Regina coelorum

and

Georg Reutter

Motetto De Tempore B.V. & SS. Trinitae

Johanna Winkel, soprano

Sophie Harmsen, contralto

Benjamin Bruns, tenor

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, bass

RIAS Chamber Chorus

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin

Justin Doyle, director

3.25pm

Leopold Mozart

Litaniae Lauretanae

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mass in C minor, K.427 'Great

Christina Landshamer, soprano

Anke Vondung, mezzo-soprano

Steve Davislim, tenor

Tobias Berndt, bariton

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Howard Arman, director

Penny Gore with works by Haydn and Mozart played by Berlin's Academy for Ancient Music.

A Week In Berlin20181010Penny Gore presents a concert given by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra earlier this year in the city's Philharmonie concert hall. One of Mozart's last great symphonies precedes the lushly-Mahlerian, seldom-heard Lyric Symphony in which Zemlinsky sets the exotic, fragrant texts of Rabindranath Tagore

2.00pm

Symphony no.38 in D, K.504 'Prague

Lyric Symphony, Op.18

Camilla Nylund, soprano

Matthias Goerne, baritone

Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

Penny Gore presents the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by Mozart and Zemlinsky

A Week In Berlin20181012Penny Gore presents two concerts given by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in their series 'Hope in times of war'. Thomas Ades conducts a death-infused programme of Britten, Liszt and his own Totentanz, while Vladimir Jurowski interpolates Schoenberg's searing A Survivor from Warsaw into Mahler's orchestration of Beethoven's final symphony

2.00pm

Sinfonia da requiem, Op.20

Kyrill Gerstein, piano

Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano

Simon Keenlyside, baritone

Thomas Ades, conductor

3.20pm

Beethoven orch. Mahler

Symphony no.9 in D minor, Op.125 'Choral

including:

Christina Landshamer, soprano

Maria Gortsevskaya, contralto

Torsten Kerl, tenor

Dietrich Henschel, baritone/narrarator

Berlin Radio Chorus

Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

Penny Gore presents music by Britten, Liszt, Ades, Schoenberg and Beethoven

A Week In Munich (1-5)20210405Penny Gore presents the Bavarian Radio SO in concert with Simon Rattle and Igor Levit: Rattle conducts music from Mozart to Mahler and Levit plays Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto with Franz Welser-M怀st conducting. Simon Rattle was recently announced as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra's next Chief Conductor, and he begins and ends this series of programmes featuring their recent concerts.

Mozart: Overture to 'The Marriage of Figaro

Mahler: Rückert-Lieder

with Magdalena Koženက (mezzo-soprano)

Dukas: Fanfare from La P退ri

Ravel: Mother Goose (complete ballet)

Conductor Simon Rattle

c. 3.15pm

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 19

with Igor Levit (piano)

Mozart: Symphony No 38 in D major, K.504 ('Prague')

Conductor Franz Welser-M怀st

This Bavarian Radio SO series will also feature two more concerts conducted by British musicians. In the second programme Daniel Harding conducts music by Benjamin Britten, Giovanni Gabrieli, Toru Takemitsu and Richard Strauss, and you can also hear short concerts conducted by Italian Giovanni Antonini and Ukrainian Oksana Lyniv. In the third programme British composer Thomas Ad耀s conducts works by Janacek and Britten as well as his own recent Piano Concerto with the pianist for whom it was written, Kirill Gerstein. Thursday's Opera Matinee features a recent Bavarian State Opera staging of Verdi's last opera, the sparkling Shakespearean comedy Falstaff, plus summer music from the Bavarian Radio SO. In the final programme Igor Levit returns to play Beethoven's First Piano Concerto (which he wrote after his so-called Second Piano Concerto), Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Bavarian Radio SO in Schumann and the Bavarian Radio Chorus in Latin American music, and the week ends with Simon Rattle conducting Messiaen's masterpiece for wind and percussion, Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum.

Penny Gore presents the Bavarian Radio SO in concert with Simon Rattle and Igor Levit.

A Week In Munich (2-5)20210406Penny Gore presents the Bavarian Radio SO in music from Gabrieli to Takemitsu via Mozart, Mendelssohn and Strauss, conducted by Daniel Harding, Giovanni Antonini and Oksana Lyniv.

Gluck: Larghetto and Finale, from ballet suite 'Don Juan

Haydn: Cello Concerto No 1 in C major, H.VIIb:1

with Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)

Joseph Martin Kraus: Symphony in C minor

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Giovanni Antonini

c. 3pm

Britten: Russian Funeral

Takemitsu: Day Signal

Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon Septimi Toni a 8; Canzon Duodecimi Toni a 10

Takemitsu: Night Signal

Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen

Conductor Daniel Harding

c. 3.45pm

Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, K.364

with Jehye Lee (violin) and Tobias Reifland (viola)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90 ('Italian')

Conductor Oksana Lyniv

A Week In Munich (3-5)20210407Penny Gore presents the Bavarian Radio SO with British composer-conductor Thomas Ad耀s: music by Janacek, Britten and Ad耀s's own recent Piano Concerto with soloist Kirill Gerstein.

Janacek: The Fiddler's Child

Ad耀s: Piano Concerto

with Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes - A Time There Was

c. 2.55pm

Janacek: Sinfonietta

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Penny Gore presents the Bavarian Radio SO with British composer-conductor Thomas Ad\u00e8s

A Week In Munich (4-5)20210408Opera Matinee: Penny Gore presents Verdi's last opera, the Shakespearean comedy Falstaff. This tale of how the lecherous and horizontally challenged knight Sir John Falstaff gets his comeuppance was only the second comic opera Verdi had ever written. He was in his late 70s and wasn't sure he was up to the task. But the result is one of the greatest operas ever composed. Plus music looking forward to summer from this week's featured orchestra, the Bavarian Radio SO.

Verdi: Falstaff

Sir John Falstaff, a fat knight - .. Wolfgang Koch (baritone)

Ford, a rich man - .. Boris Pinkhasovich (baritone)

Alice Ford, his wife - .. Ailyn P退rez (soprano)

Nannetta, their daughter - .. Elena Tsallagova (soprano)

Fenton, one of Nannetta's suitors - .. Galeano Salas (tenor)

Meg Page, a friend of Alice - Daria Proszek (mezzo-soprano)

Mistress Quickly, another friend - Judit Isabela Kutasi (contralto)

Dr Caius - .. Kevin Conners (tenor)

Pistola, a sidekick of Falstaff's - .. Callum Thorpe (bass)

Bardolfo, another sidekick of Falstaff's - .. Timothy Oliver (tenor)

Bavarian State Opera Chorus

Bavarian State Orchestra

Conductor Michele Mariotti

c. 4.10pm

Honegger: Pastorale d'退t退

Berlioz: Les Nuits d'退t退

with Christian Gerhaher (baritone)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor St退phane Den耀ve

A Week In New Zealand, Friday20210226New Zealand SO: Schubert and Beethoven Symphonies plus Tchaikovsky and Gillian Whitehead. Presented by Georgia Mann.

Alongside popular favourites by Schubert and Tchaikovsky, the NZSO's concert with their new Principal Conductor in Residence, Christchurch-born Hamish McKeich, features the premiere of Gillian Whitehead's imaginative work marking the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's first New Zealand landfall, at Turanga-nui (Gisbrone) in the northeast of the North Island. And the orchestra's Conductor Laureate Edo de Waart rounds off the week with possibly the most avant-garde symphony ever written: Beethoven's Choral Symphony.

Schubert: Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished)

2.20pm

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme

with Andrew Joyce (cello)

2.45pm

Gillian Whitehead: Turanga-nui (world premi耀re)

2.55pm

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture

3.15pm

Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125

Madeleine Pierard (soprano)

Kristin Darragh (mezzo-soprano)

Simon O'Neill (tenor)

Anthony Schneider (bass)

Voices New Zealand

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Edo de Waart

New Zealand SO in Schubert and Beethoven symphonies, Tchaikovsky and Gillian Whitehead.

A Week In New Zealand, Monday20210222New Zealand's top orchestras play music by Beethoven, Clara Schumann, Wagner and Bruckner. Presented by Fiona Talkington. Featuring two soloists from the South Island, Dunedin-born rising star pianist Modi Deng and international star tenor Simon O'Neill, born in Ashburton.

Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 21

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Edo de Waart

2.25pm

Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 7

Modi Deng (piano)

Auckland Philharmonia

Conductor Tianyi Lu

2.50pm

Wagner, orch. Wagner and Felix Mottl: Wesendonck Lieder

with Simon O'Neill (tenor)

Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E flat major

Conductor Lawrence Renes

Since we can't visit New Zealand in the flesh, let Fiona Talkington and Georgia Mann spirit you away there this week by the power of radio - for a series of concerts by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Auckland Philharmonia, featuring local composers and artists. The series begins with Beethoven's First Symphony and ends with his last - both conducted by the NZSO's Dutch-born Conductor Laureate Edo de Waart, who appears with them in each programme. The Auckland Philharmonia focus on music by women composers, including young New Zealanders Salina Fisher and Claire Cowan as well as Clara Schumann, in a concert celebrating the 125th anniversary of women's suffrage in New Zealand - the first country in the world to give women the vote. Plus Rameau's masterpiece Hippolyte et Aricie from Paris as the Thursday Opera Matinee.

A Week In New Zealand, Thursday20210225Opera Matinee: Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, plus more from New Zealand's top orchestras - music by Debussy, Ethel Smyth and Salina Fisher. Presented by Georgia Mann.

Hippolyte et Aricie, Rameau's first opera, could equally well have been called Theseus and Phaedra. In this tangled tale from Ancient Greece, the lovers Hippolytus and Aricia struggle against the odds, the gods and Hippolytus's father King Theseus and predatory stepmother Phaedra. There's no happy ending for one couple... but will there be for the other? This stunning production was performed for an online audience at the Op退ra Comique in Paris last November.

Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (1757 version)

Hippolytus - .. Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor)

Aricia - .. Elsa Benoit (soprano)

Theseus, King of Athens, Hippolyte's father - .. St退phane Degout (baritone)

Phaedra, Hippolytus's stepmother - .. Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (mezzo-soprano)

Oenone, Phaedra's confidante - .. S退raphine Cotrez (mezzo-soprano)

Neptune, Pluto - .. Arnaud Richard (bass-baritone)

Diana - Eug退nie Lefebvre (soprano)

Diana's Priestess, huntress, shepherdess, sailor - .. L退a Desandre (mezzo-soprano)

Tisiphone, a Fury - Edwin Fardini (baritone)

Other roles sung by Constantin Goubet, Arcas Martial Pauliat, Virgile Ancely, Guillaume Gutierrez, Victor Gkoritsas, Yves-No뀀l Genod, Iliana Belkhadra and Leena Zinsou Bode-Smith

Pygmalion Ensemble and Chorus

Conductor Rapha뀀l Pichon

4.15pm

Ethel Smyth: Overture to 'The Boatswain's Mate

Auckland Philharmonia

Conductor Tianyi Lu

Salina Fisher: Tupaia (world premi耀re)

New Zealand SO

Conductor Edo de Waart

4.30pm

Debussy: Pr退lude

A Week In New Zealand, Tuesday20210223New Zealand's top orchestras play music by Stravinsky, Rachmaninov, Mozart and Beethoven, plus New Zealand composer Claire Cowan. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Symphony in Three Movements

2.35pm

Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor, Op 27

New Zealand SO

Conductor Edo de Waart

3.35pm

Claire Cowan: Black, from Stark - The Violin Concerto

Amalia Hall (violin)

Auckland Philharmonia

Conductor Tianyi Lu

3.40pm

Beethoven: Overture to 'The Creatures of Prometheus

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K.467

Webern, orch. Gerard Schwarz: Langsamer Satz

4.30pm

Mozart: Symphony No 36 in C major, K.425 (Linz)

Conductor and piano Lars Vogt

New Zealand's top orchestras play music by Stravinsky, Rachmaninov, Mozart and Beethoven.

A Week In New Zealand, Wednesday20210224New Zealand's top orchestras play music by Ravel, Debussy, Berlioz and Salina Fisher, the young New Zealand composer of acclaimed piece Rainphase. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Ravel: Bol退ro

Berlioz: Les Nuits d'退t退

with Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano)

New Zealand SO

Conductor Edo de Waart

3.45pm

Salina Fisher: Rainphase

Auckland Philharmonia

Conductor Tianyi Lu

3.55pm

Debussy: La Mer

New Zealand's top orchestras play music by Ravel, Debussy, Berlioz and Salina Fisher.

A Week In Sweden20180521Georgia Mann launches a week of concerts from Sweden. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and their British Music Director Daniel Harding scale the heights in mountain-inspired music by Berwald, Schumann and Strauss; and Susanna Malkki conducts Mahler in Gothenburg.

Franz Berwald: Reminiscences of the Norwegian Mountains

Robert Schumann: Manfred, Op 115 (highlights)

Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony

Conductor Daniel Harding

c. 3.50pm

Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G major

Camilla Tilling (soprano)

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Susanna M䀀lkki

Coming up later in the week:

- Tuesday's programme is entirely conducted or composed by women and features Handel's oratorio The Triumph of Time and Disillusion conducted by Emmanuelle Ham and starring Sandrine Piau.

- Opera Matinee on Thursday is a controversial production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov from Gothenburg Opera with British bass Clive Bayley in the title role.

- On Friday Daniel Harding conducts his Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in an enormous Mahlerian Symphony by probably the most controversial composer ever to be born in Sweden, Allan Pettersson.

Georgia Mann presents concerts from Sweden: music by Berwald, Schumann, Strauss and Mahler

A Week In Sweden20180522Georgia Mann continues her week of concerts from Sweden with a programme entirely conducted or composed by women. Emmanuelle Ham conducts Handel's oratorio The Triumph of Time and Disillusion starring Sandrine Piau, Dalia Stasevska conducts Vaughan Williams and there's music by Swedish composer Britta Bystr怀m inspired by the paintings of Paul Klee.

Handel: Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (The Triumph of Time and Disillusion), HWV 46a

Bellezza (Beauty) ... Sandrine Piau (soprano)

Piacere (Pleasure) ... Inga Kalna (soprano)

Disinganno (Disillusionment) ... Romina Basso (contralto)

Tempo (Time) ... Michael Spyres (tenor)

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Emmanuelle Ham

c. 4pm

Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto in A minor

Emmanuel Laville (oboe)

Conductor Dalia Stasevska

c. 4.30pm

Britta Bystr怀m: Segelnde Stadt

Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado.

Georgia Mann presents music from Sweden conducted and composed by women.

A Week In Sweden20180523Georgia Mann continues this week of music from Sweden with a varied concert by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Omer Meir Wellber: symphonies by Haydn and Shostakovich, Alfred Schnittke's ironic tribute to Mozart and Haydn, and music from 75-year-old Swedish composer Sven-David Sandstr怀m.

Haydn: Symphony No 49 in F minor (La Passione)

Sven-David Sandstr怀m: Five Pieces for Piano and Orchestra

with Peter Friis Johansson (piano)

Schnittke: Moz-art

A Week In Sweden20180524Georgia Mann presents Opera Matinee: a controversial production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov from Gothenburg Opera, with British bass Clive Bayley in the title role.

Plus more highlights from recent concerts by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (original 1869 version)

Boris Godunov ... Clive Bayley (bass)

Fyodor, Boris's son ... Solgerd Isalv (mezzo-soprano)

Kseniya, Boris's daughter ... Anna Johansson (soprano)

Kseniya's nurse ... Mari Lindb䀀ck (contralto)

Prince Vasiliy Ivanovich Shuysky ... Tomas Lind (tenor)

Andrey Shchelkalov ... Mats Persson (baritone)

Pimen ... Mats Almgren (bass)

Grigory, the Pretender ... Joachim B䀀ckstr怀m (tenor) Varlaam, a vagabond ... Johan Schinkler (bass)

Innkeeper ... Matilda Paulsson (mezzo-soprano)

Misail, a vagabond / Yur divy (Holy Fool) ...

Conny Thimander (tenor) Nikitich ... Jonas Landstr怀m (bass)

Mitiyukha ... Tomas J怀nsson (bass)

Gothenburg Children's Choir

Gothenburg Opera Chorus and Orchestra

Conductor Leo Hussain

c. 4.05pm

Strauss: Don Juan

Conductor Ariane Matiakh

Aulis Sallinen: The Nocturnal Dances of Don Juanquixote, Op 58

with Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello)

Conductor Klaus M䀀kel䀀.

Georgia Mann presents Opera Matinee: Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov from Gothenburg Opera.

A Week In Sweden20180525Georgia Mann ends her week in Sweden with two complete concerts by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra featuring two cello concertos and music by native composers, including an enormous Symphony by one of the most controversial of all Swedish composers, Allan Pettersson.

And between those two concerts, at around half past three, there's the chance to eavesdrop on the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra performing in Perth at BBC Music's Biggest Weekend.

Franz Berwald: Overture to 'Estrella de Soria

Kurt Atterberg: Cello Concerto in C minor, Op 21

with Jakob Koranyi (cello)

Anton퀀n Dvorကk: Symphony No 6 in D major, Op 60

Conductor Jaime Martin

c. 3.30pm

Music from the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra recorded earlier this afternoon in Perth at BBC Music's Biggest Weekend

c. 3.40pm

Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129

with Maximilian Hornung (cello)

Allan Pettersson: Symphony No 7

Conductor Daniel Harding.

Georgia Mann presents music from Sweden and previews BBC Music's Biggest Weekend in Perth.

Afternoon Opera Matinee: Smetana's The Bartered Bride20190718Kate Molleson introduces a recording of Smetana's The Bartered Bride, recorded at the Bavarian State Opera, Munich.

Kruschina/Krušina.............Oliver Zwarg (baritone)

Kathinka/Ludmila..............Helena Zubanovich (soprano)

Marie/Ma?enka..................Selene Zanetti (soprano)

Micha/M퀀cha.......................Kristof Klorek (bass)

Agnes/Hကta.........................Irmgard Vilsmaier (mezzo-soprano)

Wenzel/Vašek.....................Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (tenor)

Hans/Jen퀀k...........................Pavol Breslik (tenor)

Kezal/Kecal.........................Günther Groissb怀ck (bass)

Springer/Principကl............Ulrich Ress (tenor)

Esmeralda, a dancer........Anna El-Khashem (soprano)

Muff, a comedian dressed as an Indian.............O?ulcan Yilmaz (bass-baritone)

Bavarian State Opera Chorus

S怀ren Eckhoff (chorus master)

Bavarian State Orchestra

Tom  Hanus (conductor)

4.25p.m.: Janacek Quartet no. 1 (The Kreutzer Sonata) for strings, arr. Richard Tognetti for string orchestra

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Lesley Hatfield (director)

Amadigi Di Gaula20090226Handel Operas 2009

Penny Gore introduces another in Radio 3's year-long series of Handel operas. Amadigi di Gaula, a mythical opera seria (or 'serious opera') centres on a complex love square, as a jealous enchantress (Melissa) attempts to break up a pair of lovers (Amadigi and Oriana) with the help of Amadigi's friend Dardano, who has designs on the lady himself.

Amadigi - Maria Riccarda Wesseling (mezzo-soprano)

Oriana - Elena de la Merced (soprano)

Melissa - Sharon Rostorf-Zamir (soprano)

Dardano - Jordi Domenech (countertenor)

Al Ayre Espanol

Eduardo Lopez Banzo (conductor).

Penny Gore presents a performance of Handel's mythical 'opera seria' Amadigi di Gaula.

Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet Starring Carlos Alvarez And Diana Damrau20191010Ambroise Thomas - Hamlet, opera in five acts after Shakespeare

Penny Gore introduces this most spectacular of French grand opera in a performance given earlier this year at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Following in the footsteps of Bellini, Berlioz and Gounod, Ambroise Thomas fell under the spell of Shakespeare and the romantic figure of Ophelia. And, following French fashion at the time, he and his librettists focused on the Romantic essentials of the drama: Hamlet's predicament, his withdrawal and the emptiness felt by Ophelia. Her Mad Scene, the Grave Diggers' Scene and the obligatory French Grand Ballet are the highlights of this colourful epic.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Carlos @lvarez (baritone)

Ophelia, daughter of Polonius: Diana Damrau (soprano)

Claudius, King of Denmark, brother of the late King Hamlet: Nicolas Test退 (bass)

Gertrude, Queen of Denmark, widow of King Hamlet and mother to Prince Hamlet: Eve-Maud Hubeaux (mezzo-soprano)

La뀀rtes, son of Polonius: Celso Albelo (tenor)

Ghost of the late King Hamlet: Ivo Stanchev (bass)

Marcellus, friend of Hamlet: Albert Casals (tenor)

Horatio, friend of Hamlet: Enric Mart퀀nez-Castignani (bass)

Polonius, court chancellor: Rub退n Amoretti (bass)

First Gravedigger: Carlos Daza (baritone)

Second Gravedigger: Josep Fad  (tenor)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barelona

Daniel Oren (conductor)

[recorded at Gran Teatre del Liceu, on 07 March 2019]

Afternoon Opera - Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet starring Carlos Alvarez and Diana Damrau.

An All-bernstein Concert With The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra20180326Launching a week of concerts recorded at last year's Robeco SummerNights festival in Amsterdam, an all-Bernstein concert with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by John Wilson, featuring some of the best-known numbers from the American stage works including West Side Story, Candide and On The Town, as well as the Suite from his film score On the Waterfront. Plus the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra playing Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole, Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos with the brothers Arthur and Lucas Jussen as soloists, and highlights from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2.00pm

Bernstein: 'On the Town' - New York, New York; Lonely Town; I can cook too

Bernstein: 'Peter Pan' - Dream with me

Bernstein: 'Wonderful Town' - A little bit in love; One hundred easy ways to lose a man

Bernstein: 'On the Waterfront' - Suite

Bernstein: 'Candide' - Overture; I am easily assimilated (Buenos Aires); Nothing more than this; Glitter and be Gay

Bernstein: '1600 Pennsylvania Avenue' - Take care of this house

Bernstein: 'West Side Story' - The Dance at the Gym Blues; Promenade; Mambo; Cha-Cha; Jump; Maria

Bernstein: 'Trouble in Tahiti' - Island Magic

Bernstein: 'Wonderful Town' - Wrong note rag

Bernstein: 'On the Town' - Some other time

Bernstein: 'West Side Story' - Tonight

Scarlett Strallen (soprano)

Kim Criswell (mezzo-soprano)

Julian Ovenden (tenor)

Nadim Naaman (baritone)

Conductor John Wilson

3.35pm

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos in D major, Op. 61

Prokofiev: 'Romeo and Juliet' - highlights

Arthur Jussen and Lucas Jussen (pianos)

Conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky.

An all-Bernstein concert with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam.

Ascona Music Festival 201920200520Continuing this week's celebration of summer festivals in Switzerland, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, visiting the Ascona Music Festival for the first time, play favourites by Sibelius and Brahms.

Presented by Hannah French.

2.00pm

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 73

Elina V䀀h䀀l䀀, violin

Hannu Lintu, conductor

The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra play music by Sibelius and Brahms.

Bach20171218Penny Gore presents works by Telemann and Bach performed by Philippe Jaroussky and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

2.00 pm

Georg Philipp Telemann

Overture: St Matthew Passion, TWV 5:53.

Cantata: Der am րlberg zagende Jesus, TWV 1:364

Overture: Der für die Sünden der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus, TWV 5:1

Cantata: Jesus liegt in letzten Zügen, TWV 1:983

J.S. Bach

Sinfonia: 'Gleich wie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel f䀀llt', BWV 18

Sinfonia: 'Der Herr denket an uns', BWV 196

Sinfonia: 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis' BWV 21

Cantata: Ich habe genug, BWV 82

Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor

Petra Müllejans, director

3.25 pm

Tilge, H怀chster, meine Sünden, BWV 1083

Ania Vegry, soprano

Hilke Andersen, contralto

Hanover Girls' Chorus

NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

David Stein, conductor

4.00 pm

Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052

Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi, conductor.

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra perform works by Telemann and Bach with Philippe Jaroussky.

Bach20171219Penny Gore presents three cantatas by J.S. Bach performed by the Netherlands Bach Ensemble directed by Peter Dijkstra, recorded earlier this year in Utrecht

2.00 pm

Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn, BWV 119

Lobe den Herren, den m䀀chtigen K怀nig der Ehren, BWV 137

Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69

Miriam Feuersinger, soprano

Alex Potter, countertenor

Thomas Hobbs, tenor

Peter Kooij, bass

Netherlands Bach Society

3.40pm

Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition 2017

Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given by the BBC Singers of the six finalists from this year's Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition 2017. Alongside the six settings of 'Sir Christemas', David Hill directs the BBC Singers in popular Christmas songs and carols.

The Netherlands Bach Ensemble perform three cantatas by J.S Bach.

Bach20171220Tom Redmond presents a concert live from MediaCityUK, Salford, in which the BBC Philharmonic performs a programme infused with the spirit of Johann Sebastian Bach

Steve Elcock: Choses renvers退es par le temps ou la destruction, Op 20

Bach arr. Reger: O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross, BWV 622

Berg: Violin Concerto

Bach arr. Elgar: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537

Michael Barenboim (violin)

Moritz Gnann, conductor.

The BBC Philharmonic perform Bach arrangements and pieces by Steve Elcock and Alban Berg.

Bach20171222Penny Gore presents Orchestral Suites and Brandenburg Concertos by J.S. Bach performed by the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin

Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F, BWV 1046

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048

Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067

Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat, BWV 1051

Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D, BWV 1069

3.30pm

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D, BWV 1050

Aapo H䀀kkinen, harpsichord

Helsinki Baroque Ensemble

3.50pm

J.S Bach

Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066

Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.

Orchestral works by J.S. Bach performed by the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.

Bach For Good Friday20120406Today's Afternoon on 3 marks Good Friday with a performance of Bach's St John Passion from the Philharmonic Concert Hall in Warsaw. This is followed by the world premiere performance by the Ulster Orchestra of Ian Wilson's The Stars, the Seas, written to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

Presented by Katie Derham.

Katie Derham presents a performance of Bach's St John Passion, to mark Good Friday.

Bach From Paris20200413Hannah French presents a celebration of highlights from recent concerts by great French orchestras and ensembles. Today, Bach's great Mass in B minor performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, along with French ballet favourites, played by the Orchestre National d'΀le-de-France.

Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232

Mariana Flores, soprano

Marianne Beate Kielland, mezzo-soprano

Paulin Bündgen, countertenor

Julian Pr退gardien, tenor

Andreas Wolf, bass

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus

Leonardo Garc퀀a Alarc n, conductor

Recorded last November in the Auditorium, Radio France Broadcasting House, Paris

Ravel: Daphnis et Chlo退, Suite No. 1

Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, op. 43, Suite No. 2

Fabien Gabel, conductor

Recorded in January 2019 in the Philharmonie, Paris.

Bach's great Mass in B minor, performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France.

Bach, Bartok, Berio And Brahms From Seoul's Kbs Symphony Orchestra20190920Music by Bach, Bartok and Brahms, plus Berio's quirky and inventive '60s masterpiece 'Sinfonia' featuring the vocal talents of The Swingle Singers

Presented by Hannah French

The KBS Symphony Orchestra and conductor Yoel Levi pair orchestral suites by Bach and Bartok with Luciano Berio's ground-breaking Sinfonia, which pitches eight voices singing, shouting, crying and whispering against an orchestral tapestry of quotations, allusions and commentaries. The soloists in this performance, recorded in Seoul last year, are members of The Swingle Singers, the ensemble that gave the work's premiere in 1968

Plus we conclude this week's tribute to Scottish composer Thea Musgrave who last year celebrated her ninetieth birthday

2.00pm

Bach: Orchestral Suite no.2 in B minor

Bartok: Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin

Berio: Sinfonia

Yoel Levi, conductor

3.20pm

Musgrave: Snow

Hannah Holgersson, soprano

Nicholas Daniel, cor anglais

Pascal Siffert, viola

3.30pm

Brahms: Symphony no.1 in C minor

Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

Music by Bach, Bartok and Brahms, plus Berio's Sinfonia featuring the Swingle Singers.

Bach, St John Passion20160324Verity Sharp introduces a performance of Bach's St John Passion performed by Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent at the Pau Casals Hall in Barcelona. Plus more from this week's featured orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

2pm

J.S. Bach St John Passion (Part 1)

2.36pm

J.S. Bach St John Passion (Part 2)

Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Evangelist

Tobias Berndt (bass), Jesus

Grace Davidson (soprano)

Damien Guillon (countertenor)

Zachary Wilder (tenor)

Peter Kooij (bass), Pilate

3.50pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 in D minor Op.104

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor).

Verity Sharp presents a recording of Bach's St John Passion from Philippe Herreweghe.

Bach: Christmas Oratorio20130110Bach Christmas Oratorio - a complete performance recorded last month in Berlin of this choral masterpiece. First performed at Leipzig's two main churches in the Chistmas of 1734-5, the work tells the Christmas story in six chapters.

Presented by Penny Gore

J. S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio

Sibylla Rubens (Sopran)

Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Alt)

Lothar Odinius (Tenor)

Tobias Berndt (Bass)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Kantaten I - VI

RIAS Chamber Chorus,

Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin,

Hans-Christoph Rademann (director)

1.The Birth

2.The Annunciation to the Shepherds

3.The Adoration of the Shepherds

4.The Circumcision and Naming of Jesus

5.The Journey of the Magi

6.The Adoration of the Magi.

Penny Gore presents a performance given in Berlin of Bach's Christmas Oratorio.

Back To Bach20200221Mahler's Sixth Symphony and Beethoven's Violin Concerto from the 2019 Lucerne Festival. Violinist Leonidas Kavakos plays the Beethoven concerto and follows it with solo Bach.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Mahler: Symphony No 6 in A minor

Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Conductor Riccardo Chailly

3.25pm Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 61

Leonidas Kavakos (violin)

Conductor Yannick N退zet-S退guin

4.15pm J S Bach: Andante, third movement of Sonata No 2 in A minor, BWV.1003

Baltic Sea Festival, Mahler's Symphony No 820190102Mahler's `Symphony of a Thousand` - given by a stalwart team of soloists, six of Stockholm's best choirs and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under conductor Daniel Harding. This concert was part of the 2018 Baltic Sea Festival. Presented by Tom McKinney.

2.00pm

Mahler - Symphony No.8 in E flat major

Tamara Wilson, soprano

Hanna Husahr, soprano

Ida Falk Winland, soprano

Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano

Anna Larsson, contralto

Simon O'Neill, tenor

Christopher Maltman, baritone

Shenyang, bass

Eric Ericson Chamber Choir

Mikaeli Chamber Choir

St. Jacob's Chamber Choir

Chorista, Hagersten Parish

Adolf Fredrik Church Descant Choir and Youth Choir

Swedish Radio Symphony Chorus & Orchestra

Daniel Harding, conductor

Daniel Harding conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No 8.

Baltic Sea Festival, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra20181231A concert of Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky from the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm. Plus music by Baltic composers Lars Edlund, Peteris Vasks & Erkki-Sven Tüür. Presented by Tom McKinney.

2.00pm

Rimsky-Korsakov - Suite from `Tsar Saltan`, Op.57

Velery Gergiev, conductor

Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite No.2

Stravinsky - Petrushka

3.30pm

Lars Edlund - Gloria

Mats Carlsson, tenor

Swedish Radio Chorus

T倀nu Kaljuste, conductor

Peteris Vasks - Violin Concerto `Distant Light`

Mark Bouchkov, violin

Sinfonietta Riga

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra

Normunds Sne, conductor

Erkki-Sven Tüür - Lighthouse

Music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, Peteris Vasks and Erkki-Sven T\u00fc\u00fcr from Stockholm.

Baltic Sea Festival, V\u00e4ster\u00e5s Sinfonietta20190101A concert of Beethoven, Haydn, Stravinsky and Mirjam Tally given by the V䀀ster倀s Sinfonietta at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm. Plus Esa-Pekka Salonen's Piano Concerto played by Andrius Zlabys and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Tom McKinney.

2.00pm

Beethoven - Coriolan Overture, Op.62

Simon Crawford-Phillips, conductor

Haydn - Symphony No.44 in E minor 'Trauer' (3rd mvt: Adagio)

Mirjam Tally - Allikas, homage

Baltic Sea Festival, Verdi Requiem20190104Domingo Hindoyan conducts Verdi's Requiem at the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. Plus music by Raminta Serksnyte, Veljo Tormis & Esa-Pekka Salonen.

2.00pm

Verdi - Requiem

Christina Nilsson, soprano

Miriam Treichi, contralto

Daniel Johansson, tenor

Anders Lorentzson, bass

Swedish Royal Opera Orchestra & Chorus

Goteborg Opera Chorus

Domingo Hindoyan, conductor

3.25pm

Raminta Serksnyte - Sakura

Swedish Radio Chorus

Latvian Radio Chamber Singers

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Chorus

T倀nu Kaljuste, conductor

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Veljo Tormis - Curse Upon Iron

Toomas Tohert (tenor)

Olari Viikholm (bass)

Esa-Pekka Salonen - Cello Concerto

Truls Mork (cello)

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Verdi's Requiem and music by Raminta Serksnyte, Veljo Tormis and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Baltic Week (1-5)20210419Tom McKinney features recordings of choirs and orchestras from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a week of music making from the Baltic States, which includes a cycle of performances of film music by Georgian composer Giya Kancheli.

Today the focus is on Latvia with performances from the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and Latvian Radio Choir, including an atmospheric performance of Tchaikovsky's Liturgy of St John Chryostom.

Dobrinka Tabakova: Orpheus' Comet

Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1 in Eb

(Daumants Liepinš, piano)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Romance in F Op50

(Elina Buksha, violin)

Gederts Ramans: Concerto Leggiero for Nine Jazz Instruments and String Orchestra - Mvts 2&3

(K?rlis Vanags, flute

D?vis Jurka, saxophone

Kristaps Luboys, saxophone

Gatis Gorkuša, trumpet

Laura Rozenberga, trombone

Edv?ns Ozols, double bass

Artis Orubs, percussion

Mikelis Dzenuška, vibraphone

Victors Ritovs, piano)

Andris Poga, conductor

2.45pm

Arvo P䀀rt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons

Gustav Mahler (arr. G退rard Pesson): Adagietto from Symphony No 5

Sigvards Klava, conductor

3.15pm

Giya Kancheli (arr. Vilnis Šm?dbergs): Cinema Music Suite

3.30pm

Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St John Chryostom, Op 41

The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra perform works by Tabakova, Kancheli and Ramans.

Baltic Week (2-5)20210420Tom McKinney focuses on Estonia in his week of music making from the Baltic States including music from the nation's best known composer, Arvo P䀀rt. The afternoon features a concert marking the 100th anniversary of the nation.

Eduard Tubin: Festive Overture

Cyrillus Kreek: Blessed Is the Man

(Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir)

Ester M䀀gi: Bucolic

Arvo P䀀rt: Credo

(Marrit Gerretz-Traksmann, piano

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

Arvo Vollmer, conductor

2.30pm

Giya Kancheli: .....A La Duduki (Concerto for Brass Quintet and Orchestra)

Latvian National Symphony Orchestra

Andris Poga, conductor

2.50pm

Ernest Chausson: Po耀me de l'amour et de la mer

Edgaras Montvidas, tenor

Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra

Modestas Pitrenas, conductor

3.20pm

Arvo P䀀rt: Kanon Pokajanen

Kaspars Putninš, conductor

4.10pm

Rudolf Tobias: Julius Caesar Overture

Eino Tamberg: Song of the Gascone Cadets from ‘Cyrano de Bergerac

(Rauno Elp, baritone

and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir)

Veljo Tormis: Overture No 2

Heino Eller: Homeland Tune - `Kodumaine viis`

Tom McKinney focuses on Estonia and includes music by Arvo P\u00e4rt.

Baltic Week (3-5)20210421Tom McKinney presents a selection of music and music-making from the Baltic States, continuing today with choral music from Latvia and Estonia including a performance of Arvo P䀀rt's Stabat Mater given in Munich.

P?teris But?ns: Lux Aeterna

Sonita Glazenburga, celeste

Ivo Kr?skops, percussion

El?ss Balceris, percussion

Kam?r.... Youth Choir

Sinfonietta Riga

Aivis Greters, conductor

3.00pm

Arvo P䀀rt: Stabat Mater

Simona Bruninghaus, soprano

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Munich Radio Orchestra

Ivan Repuši?, conductor

The Bavarian Radio Chorus and Munich Radio Orchestra perform Arvo Part's Stabat Mater.

Baltic Week (4-5)20210422Opera matinee - Tom McKinney's Baltic theme continues with a rare chance to hear Ponchielli's opera I Lituani (The Lithuanians), a love story set against a backdrop of war and politics. Plus a performance from Lithuania of a French symphonic masterpiece.

Amilcare Ponchielli: I Lituani

Arnoldas/Arnoldo, a Lithuanian prince - Modestas Sedlevi?ius (baritone)

Aldona, his sister - J?rat? Švedait?-Waller (soprano)

Walter, her husband / Konrad von Wallenrode - Mickael Spadaccini (tenor)

Vitoldas/Vitoldo, a Lithuanian renegade and chief judge - Ar?nas Malik?nas (baritone)

Albanis/Albano, an old bard - Tadas Girininkas (bass)

Kaunas State Chorus

Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra

Modestas Pitr?nas, conductor

3.45pm

C退sar Franck: Symphony in D minor

Tom McKinney introduces Ponchielli's rarely heard opera The Lithuanians.

Baltic Week (5-5)20210423Tom McKinney ends his week of music making from the Baltic States with works by Arvo P䀀rt, Peteris Vasks and Giya Kancheli plus the Latvian State Chorus in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.

Arvo P䀀rt: Silouan's Song

Peteris Vasks: Cello Concerto No 2 - Klatbutne (Presence)

Uladzimir Sinkevich, cello

Munich Radio Orchestra

Ivan Repuši?, conductor

2.40pm

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis

Ricarda Merbeth, soprano

Olesya Petrova, mezzo soprano

Josep Bros, tenor

Steven Humes, bass

Cadaqu退s Orchestra

Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

4pm

Giya Kancheli, arr. Xylem Trio: Caribbean, fom the film ‘An Unusual Exhibition

Xylem Trio: Oskars Petrauskis (saxophone), Raimonds Petrauskis (piano), Rihards Zalupe (percussion)

Latvian National Symphony Orchestra

Andris Poga, conductor

The Latvian State Chorus sing Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.

Barefoot Schoenberg20200219The Berlin Philharmonic and conductor Kirill Petrenko play Tchaikovsky and Schoenberg, with Patricia Kopatchinskaja - famous for playing barefoot - in Schoenberg's Violin Concerto. The Times reviewer at this concert in the 2019 Lucerne Festival heard her performance as 'a surreal psychodrama without words, volcanic in its outbursts, startling in its juxtapositions ... Kopatchinskaja proved here that she's in a class of her own'.

Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Op 36

with Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64

The Berlin Philharmonic and conductor Kirill Petrenko play Tchaikovsky and Schoenberg.

Baroque Around The Clock20130315Afternoon on 3's contribution to Baroque Around the Clock includes live performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thomas Sondergard in Bangor, North Wales, and from harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani in the studio in London. The battle for Top of the Baroque continues, Henry Purcell suffers death by chocolate, the BBC Concert Orchestra with Baroque on Call, and you can get involved with our Ridiculous Baroque feature. This and more Red Nose Day mayhem is presented by Katie Derham.

Katie Derham presents more live performances and comedy features for Red Nose Day.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra In Munich20200427Tom McKinney presents a week with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

The week begins with a concert given in January at Munich's Hercules Hall in which Robin Ticciati conducts a programme packed full of drama and excitement ! Wagner's 1880 opera `Parsifal` is based on the Arthurian Knight Percival's quest for the Holy Grail, and it's dripping with Wagnerian leitmotifs and incredible harmonies. The concert opens with a Suite from the opera, constructed last year by Claudio Abbado.

They then move on to a work by British composer George Benjamin - `Sudden Time`, inspired `by a dream in which the sound of a thunderclap seemed to stretch - as if in a spiral through my head`.

That concert concludes with Sibelius' final foray into the symphony - his 7th - one of the last pieces he ever wrote.

The final piece in today's programme is Schubert's Mass No.6 in E flat, from a concert also recorded in Munich last October, under the baton of Riccardo Muti.

2.00pm

Wagner, arr.Claudio Abbado: Suite from `Parsifal`

George Benjamin: Sudden Time

Sibelius: Symphony No.7 in C major, Op.105

Robin Ticciati (conductor)

3.20pm

Schubert: Mass No.6 in E flat, D.950

Ilse Eerens (soprano),

Henriette G怀dde (mezzo-soprano),

Nicholas Phan (tenor),

Maciej Kwasnikowski (tenor),

Gianluca Buratto (bass)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Riccardo Muti (conductor)

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Wagner, George Benjamin, Sibelius and Schubert

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra In Munich20200501Tom McKinney brings this week of performances by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra to a close.

They begin with a concert recorded in Munich in November 2018 which saw conductor Simone Young making her debut with the orchestra. The concert opens with Mozart's final symphony - the Jupiter - arguably one of the greatest symphonies of all time, written some three years before the composer's death in 1791. They conclude with Richard Strauss at his most heroic - Ein Heldenleben, his eighth tone poem, said to be autobiographical, although Strauss himself vehemently denied it.

The afternoon continues with a highlight from another concert given in Munich last autumn. This time, Riccardo Muti takes to the podium to conduct the symphony that Schubert left incomplete at his death in 1828 - the 8th, in B minor.

The week ends with former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Beatrice Rana in a performance of Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto, which he completed in 1921.

2.00pm

Mozart: Symphony No.41 in G minor `Jupiter`, K.551

Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Simone Young (conductor)

3.15pm

Schubert: Symphony No.8 in B minor `Unfinished`, D.759

Riccardo Muti (conductor)

4.00pm

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 in C, Op.26

Beatrice Rana (piano)

Klaus M䀀kel䀀 (conductor)

Presented by Tom McKinney

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays music by Mozart, Strauss, Schubert & Prokofiev

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Plays Bartok20200428Tom McKinney presents more from this week's featured orchestra - the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and a concert recorded in Munich last November with conductor Lahav Shani. This was an all-Bart k programme, including his Hungarian Pictures and his tour-de-force Concerto for Orchestra, composed following his emigration to the USA in 1940. Violinist Renaud Capu瀀on joins the orchestra to play Bart k's Violin Concerto No.2 - written for Zoltကn Sz退kely in 1938.

The programme continues with a short overture by Schubert, from another concert in Munich, this time under Riccardo Muti.

And to end today's Afternoon Concert, two highlights from a concert recorded in Munich last October with conductor Daniele Gatti. They begin with a wonderfully atmospheric piece for string orchestra by Henri Dutilleux - Le myst耀re de l'instant, and end with Shostakovich's mighty Symphony No.5

2.00pm

Bart k: Hungarian Pictures, Sz.97

Bart k: Violin Concerto No.2, Sz.112

Bart k: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz.116

Renaud Capu瀀on (violin)

Lahav Shani (conductor)

3.40pm

Schubert: Overture in C, D.591

Riccardo Muti (conductor)

3.50pm

Henri Dutilleux: Le myst耀re de l'instant

Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op.47

Daniele Gatti (conductor)

Presented by Tom McKinney

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Bart\u00f3k from Munich.

Bbc Concert Orchestra20181112The BBC Concert Orchestra with an electric programme of twentieth- and twenty-first century music. Coinciding with the one-hundred-year anniversary of the RAF, the concert opens with Martinu's composition inspired by Second World War fighter planes. Young Dutch piano duo Arthur and Lucas Jussen give the UK premiere of Together Remember to Dance, the double piano concerto composed by the BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Residence Dobrinka Tabakova. Pieces by Milhaud and Poulenc complete the programme that shines spotlights on various sections of the orchestra, showcasing their talents. Recorded at Watford Colosseum.

After this concert, the first of four French flute works we'll hear this week with the American soloist Ransom Wilson, and a chance to hear the BBC Concert Orchestra alongside Truro Cathedral Choir & around 100 students from local secondary schools perform arrangements of traditional folksongs, an anthem by Jonathan Dove, and they're joined by star cellist Natalie Clein in Tabakova's 'On The South Downs', setting words by local poet Francis William Bourdillon which perfectly capture a day's walking on the Downs in Sussex.

Martinu: Thunderbolt P-47, Scherzo for Orchestra

Dobrinka Tabakov: Together Remember to Dance (UK Premiere)

Fazil Say: Night

Milhaud: Symphonie de chambre No. 5, Op 75

Milhaud: Symphonie de chambre No. 4, Op 74

Poulenc: Sinfonietta

Lucas & Arthur Jussen, piano

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

c.3.40pm

Jacques Ibert: Flute Concerto

Ransom Wilson, flute

Perry So, conductor

c.4pm

American trad, arr James Erb: Shenandoah

Philip Moore: All wisdom cometh from the Lord

Trad, arr Chilcott: Londonderry Air

Dove: Seek him that maketh the seven stars

Dobrinka Tabakova: On The South Downs

Natalie Clein, cello

Youth Choir (from Truro High School for Girls, Richard Lander School, Truro School, Cornwall Youth Choir)

Christopher Gray, conductor

The UK premiere of Dobrinka Tabakova's double piano concerto, plus Poulenc and Fazil Say.

Bbc Concert Orchestra20181113David Bedford's work transcends genre and style, reaching audiences in dynamic and refreshing ways. In what would have been his 80th year, the BBC Concert Orchestra presents a concert of his music including Tubular Bells and Symphony No.1. Plus a world premiere by electronic musician Scanner, drawing out the majestic and exploratory nature of Bedford's works. After the concert we've another French flute work featuring the American soloist Ransom Wilson, and music recorded in Truro Cathedral including the first performance of the BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Residence Dobrinka Tabakova's 'Kynance Cove'. It sets the words of the nineteenth-century Cornish poet John Harris depicting that beautiful, rugged spot on the Lizard Peninsula.

Bedford: Alleluia Timpanis (revised version 1981)

Scanner, orch. Quinta: A Little Bit of Everything

Bedford: Symphony No. 1

Oldfield arr Bedford: Orchestral Tubular Bells

Steve Hillage, guitar

Scanner, electronics

Michael Seal conductor

c.3.40pm

Jean Fran瀀aix: Impromptu for Flute and String Orchestra

Ransom Wilson, flute

Perry So, conductor

c.3.55pm

Bach: Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV1056

Graham Fitkin arr. Mutter: Servant

Dobrinka Tabakova: Kynance Cove (First performance)

Charles Mutter, violin

Truro Cathedral Choir

Youth Choir (from Truro High School for Girls, Richard Lander School, Truro School, Cornwall Youth Choir)

Christopher Gray, conductor

Celebrating the 80th birthday of the composer David Bedford with the BBC Concert Orchestra

Bbc Concert Orchestra20181114Orchestral family favourites from the BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey, recorded at Redbridge Town Hall. Opening the concert, Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is a great introduction to the magic of classical music, while Saint-Saens' Danse macabre is instantly recognisable from its use as a TV theme tune. Celebrating their connection to Redbridge, Bramwell Tovey conducts his local school friend Roderick Elms' piece Cygncopations, and the programme ends with Gordon Jacob's Redbridge Variations.

Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Elms: Cygncopations

Debussy: Childrens Corner (orch. Andr退 Caplet)

Saint?Sa뀀ns: Danse macabre

Maconchy: Puck Fair (suite) Two Dances

Chaminade: Concertino in D major for Flute, Op 107

Jacob: Redbridge Variations

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Orchestral family favourites from Britten to Saint-Saens, Debussy and Chaminade.

Bbc Concert Orchestra20200612A concert of Broadway songs from Clare Teal and Tom Solomon recorded in January at the Chichester Festival Theatre, with the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Stephen Bell, introduced by singer, Liz Robertson.

Presented by Penny Gore

2.00pm

Sherman & Sherman: 'Mary Poppins' Overture

Sondheim: Not While I'm Around from 'Sweeney Todd

Rodgers & Hammerstein: Hello Young Lovers from 'The King & I

Fain, arr Barker: Secret Love from 'Calamity Jane

Styne, arr Campbell: Old Time Fantasy

Lerner & Lane: Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here! from 'On A Clear Day You

Herman: I Am What I Am from 'La Cage aux Folles

Gershwin: Embraceable You

Gershwin: Crazy For You Overture

2.50pm

Kern: A Kern Kaleidoscope

Kern: The Folks Who Live on the Hill from 'High, Wide & Handsome

Cole Porter: Always True To You from 'Kiss Me Kate

Lerner & Loewe: I remember it well from 'Gigi

Styne: People from 'Funny Girl

Loesser: Luck Be A Lady from 'Guys & Dolls

Lane: 'On A Clear Day' - Main Theme

Leigh: The Impossible Dream from 'The Man from La Mancha

Artie Butler: Here's To Life

Berlin: Annie Get Your Gun Overture

Clare Teal and Tom Solomon, singers

Liz Robertson, singer and presenter

Catherine Moore, trumpet

Stephen Bell, conductor

3.50pm

C退cile Chaminade: Concertstuck

Victor Sangiorgio, piano

Martin Yates, conductor

4.05pm

Alfred Cellier: Suite symphonique (1878)

John Andrews, conductor

A concert of Broadway songs and music by Chaminade and Cellier.

Bbc Concert Orchestra20201109With Fiona Talkington, this week showcasing composers and performers as part of ‘1 in 5', the BBC's focus on disability this month, marking the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act. The BBC Concert Orchestra is the featured orchestra today in a socially distanced studio recording from Alexandra Palace Theatre last month, with Clare Hammond playing the Piano Concerto by Doreen Carwithen. And from the 2018 Arnold Festival former Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart conducts Symphony No 4 by Malcolm Arnold, who suffered with mental health issues for much of his professional life.

Louise Farrenc: Overture No 1 in E minor

Doreen Carwithen: Concerto for Piano and Strings

Franz Schubert: Symphony No 6 in C (Little C major)

Clare Hammond (piano)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Gavin Sutherland

15.00

Jean Francaix: Sept Danses (Les Malheurs de Sophie)

BBC Concert Orchestra wind players, conductor Lev Parikian

15.15

Gustav Holst: Somerset Rhapsody

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Charles Hazlewood

Pauline Oliveros: The Last Time (from Ghostdance), extract

Paraorchestra

Victoria Oruwari (soprano)

Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No 4

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart

Showcasing composers as part of the BBC's disability focus, presented by Fiona Talkington.

Bbc Concert Orchestra20201111Hannah French presents a concert given in December 2018 by the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Richard Farnes at the Watford Colosseum. Former R3 New Generation Artist Thibaut Garcia is the soloist in Rodrigo's famous guitar concerto; a composer who lost his sight at the age of three. Ravel, whose Tombeau de Couperin begins the concert, suffered from aphasia towards the end of his life, triggered or possibly exacerbated by an accident with a taxi.

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez

Maconchy: Nocturne

14.50

Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra

Thibaut Garcia (guitar)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Richard Farnes

Thibaut Garcia performs Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez with the BBCCO. With Hannah French

Bbc Concert Orchestra20201112With Fiona Talkington. Showcasing two composers as part of ‘1 in 5', the BBC's focus on disability this month: Edward German, who was visually impaired at the end of his life, and Delius, who was both blind and paralysed.

But first, another chance to hear the Tristan and Isolde story, re-told with a contemporary, multi-cultural backdrop by Julian Joseph to a libretto by Mike Phillips. In this oratorio for modern times Isolde longs to escape to the Transylvanian countryside, where she meets Tristan and falls in love. What she doesn't realise at first is that she has met Tristan before when he was part of a street gang in London and she tended his injury. Tristan also harbours a dark secret concerning Isolde's former fiancee.

Julian Joseph Tristan and Isolde

Carleen Anderson - Isolde

Ken Papenfus - Tristan

Christine Tobin - Iuliana/Brigid

Cleveland Watkiss - Vasile

Renato Paris - Marko

Julian Joseph Trio - Julian Joseph (piano), Jerry Brown (kit), Mark Hodgson (bass)

Members of the Julian Joseph All Star Big Band

BBC Singers

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Clark Rundell

16.05

Delius Double Concerto

Phillipe Graffin (violin)

Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor David Lloyd-Jones

16.25

Edward German Romeo and Juliet incidental music

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor John Wilson

16.35

Doreen Carwithen East Anglia Holiday

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Gavin Sutherland

Julian Joseph's oratorio Tristan and Isolde. recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall.

Bbc Concert Orchestra And Bbc Singers20200608This week Penny Gore presents music from the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers. We start with the 10th-anniversary concert from last year's English Music Festival, recorded in the beautiful Abbey of Dorchester-on-Thames in May 2019. Plus a new CD release and choral music from celebrated British composer Nigel Hess performed by the BBC Singers with their Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin.

2.00pm

Lord Berners: Portsmouth Point

Arnold: Serenade for Small Orchestra

Stanford: Violin Concerto in D (1875)

2.55pm

Vaughan Williams: The Blue Bird (World Premiere performance)

Delius: A Song before Sunrise

Milford: Symphony No.2 (World Premiere performance)

Sergei Levitin, violin

Martin Yates, conductor

3.55pm

Nigel Hess: Arise, my love

Nigel Hess: Live with me and be my love

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

4.05pm

Chaminade: Suite No 1 for orchestra, Op 20

Penny Gore with music by Berners, Arnold, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Delius and others.

Bbc Concert Orchestra At Snape Maltings20191224BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, in a programme of festive music featuring the ever-popular Overture to Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hansel & Gretel; a gentle dash through the snow on a Sleigh Ride by Frederick Delius; Gustav Holst's setting of words by Walt Whitman - The Mystic Trumpeter, with soprano Susan Gritton as soloist; and Malcolm Arnold's Fantasia on Christmas Carols - The Holly & The Ivy. The main event, though, is music from Act II of Tchaikovsky's gloriously yule-packed ballet - The Nutcracker.

There's also a chance to hear Madrid's RTVE Symphony Orchestra again in Bernstein's suite from his 1954 film score On the Waterfront.

The programme closes with more Christmas music from a concert given in Stockholm by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, including pieces by Alice Tegner, Hugo Alfven, Eriks Esenvalds, Erich Korngold, Jule Styne and Edward Pola - well, it is the most wonderful time of the year, after all -

Presented by Hannah French.

2pm

Humperdinck: Overture - Hansel & Gretel

Delius: Sleigh Ride

Holst: The Mystic Trumpeter

Arnold arr. Christopher Palmer: The Holly & The Ivy (Fantasia on Christmas Carols)

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Act II (complete)

Susan Gritton, soprano

Barry Wordsworth, conductor

3.20pm

Bernstein: On the Waterfront - suite

RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Madrid

Christian Lindberg, conductor

3.35pm

Gustav Lazarus Nordqvist: Jul, jul, stralande Jul (Yule, Yule, radiant Yule)

Alice Tegner: Betlehems stjarna (Star of Bethlehem)

Hugo Alfven: Julsang (Christmas Carol)

Eriks Esenvalds: Stars

William Bergsma: Carol on Twelfth Night

Erich Korngold: Introduction from `Der Schneemann`

Jule Styne: Let it snow

Felix Mendelssohn: Weihnachten, Op.79 No.1

John Francis Wade: Dagen ar kommen (Adeste fidelis)

Edward Pola: It's the most wonderful time of the year

Love Tronner, tenor

Swedish Radio Choir

Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano/conductor

Festive music by Humperdinck, Delius, Arnold, Holst, Tchaikovsky, Alfven and Esenvalds.

Bbc Concert Orchestra Live20190118Live from Watford Colosseum, the BBC Concert Orchestra under conductor Anna-Maria Helsing peforms music by Susan Spain-Dunk, Albert Roussel and Augusta Holm耀s. The orchestra is also joined by violinist Jennifer Pike for a performance of Saint-Saens' Introduction et Rondo Capricioso. After the live concert we return to this week's focus on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Poulenc & Tchaikovsky.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

2.00pm

Spain-Dunk - Stonehenge

Roussel - Petite Suite

Saint-Sa뀀ns - Introduction et Rondo Capricioso

Roussel - Le Festin d'Araign退e

Holm耀s - Irlande, Symphonic Poem

Jennifer Pike (violin)

Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor)

c.3.40pm

Poulenc - Sinfonietta

Tung-Chieh Chuang (conductor)

recorded at Glasgow City Halls

c.4.05pm

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74 `Pathetique`

Richard Farnes (conductor)

recorded at Ayr Town Hall

Presented by Tom McKinney

Anna-Maria Helsing conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra live from Watford Colosseum.

Bbc Concert Orchestra, Live20181211Live from Watford Colosseum, Fiona Talkington presents the BBC Concert Orchestra performing music by Ravel, Rodrigo, Maconchy & Lutowslawski, with New Generation Artist guitarist Thibaut Garcia & conductor Richard Farnes.

After the live concert, Penny Gore features music recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra at the EFG London Jazz Festival last month. The programme explores the marvels that are composer/performers and the influence of New York City on jazz. Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey is the pianist for Pictures in the Smoke, his work inspired by a line from New York-based poet Dorothy Parker. Gordon Hamilton's piece pays homage to one of New York's greatest jazz composer/performers, John Coltrane, and Coltrane played with Miles Davis whose album Nefertiti has been arranged for orchestra by Guy Barker. The Frontier by Dave Heath explores a range of musical images based upon feelings on returning from a visit to New York City in 1989.

Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin

Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez

Matos Rodriguez - La Cumparsita

Maconchy - Nocturne for Orchestra

Lutowslawski - Concerto for Orchestra

Thibaut Garcia, guitar

Richard Farnes, conductor

c.3.50pm

Gordon Hamilton: Baby Steps First

Wayne Shorter, arr. Guy Barker: Nefertiti

Dave Heath: The Frontier

Bramwell Tovey: Pictures in the Smoke

Bramwell Tovey, piano & conductor

Live from Watford Colosseum, music by Ravel, Rodrigo, Maconchy and Lutowslawski

Bbc Dubai Proms 201920190402The BBC SO, BBC Singers and Dubai Opera Festival Chorus, conductor Richard Farnes, are joined by star soloists to perform Beethoven's 9th, 'Choral', Symphony at Dubai Opera. Soloist Nicolas Altstaedt joins the orchestra for Walton's Cello Concerto. The concert is presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Then, the afternoon continues with Georgia Mann introducing a work from the 2018 International Rostrum of Composers: Argentinian Julieta Szewach's stunning soundscape El Oc退ano del Aliento Puro, for symphony orchestra, Pre-Columbian instruments, tape and four sopranos.

The afternoon closes with two upcoming CD releases from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

2pm - concert presented by Petroc Trelawny

Walton: Cello Concerto

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral

Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)

Elizabeth Atherton (soprano)

Yvonne Howard (mezzo-soprano)

Mark Le Brocq (tenor)

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Richard Farnes (conductor)

3.55pm - presented by Georgia Mann

Julieta Szewach: El Oc退ano del Aliento Puro

4.05pm

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18

Dong-Hyek Lim

Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

4.40pm

Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast Suite, Op. 51

Sakari Oramo

Richard Farnes conducts the BBC SO, BBC Singers and friends in Beethoven's Symphony No 9.

Bbc Music Day20150605Ian Skelly hosts Afternoon of 3 which continues to celebrate music in communities up and down the UK for the first BBC Music Day. The children of Pimlico Opera's Primary Robins visit Grange Park Opera for a live concert featuring the bass baritone Bryn Terfel and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

In Bristol, the British Paraorchestra teams up with young musicians from South West OpenUp Music Orchestra and singers from the Bristol Youth Choir and City of Bristol Choir under conductors Charles Hazlewood and David Ogden.

1400-1500

LIVE from Grange Park Opera with presenter Verity Sharp

Music to include:

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll (original orchestration)

Plus songs specially arranged by Andrew Cottee to feature members of the BBC Concert Orchestra and Pimlico Opera's Primary Robins, a community project that uses music and drama to enrich the lives of schoolchildren with little exposure to the arts.

There'll also be a guest appearance from opera superstar Bryn Terfel, currently playing Tevye in Grange Park's production of 'Fiddler on the Roof'.

Michael Collins (conductor)

Bryn Terfel (bass baritone)

1530-1545

LIVE from Colston Hall in Bristol with presenter in Alex Lovell in conversation with Charles Hazlewood

Radio 3 drops in on a concert conducted by Charles Hazlewood and David Ogden who bring together four musically diverse and cross-generational groups of musicians in a celebration of muisic making in Bristol. The South West OpenUp Music Youth Orchestra and Bristol Youth Choir are joined by City of Bristol Choir and Charles Hazlewood's Biritish Paraorchestra in works by Pachelbel arranged by David Ogden and Jonathan Dove. Presenter Alex Lovell discusses Charles Hazlewood's vision for musical diversity live on air.

Pachelbel arr. Ogden: The songs you learn by heart.

Jonathan Dove: There was a Child

Bristol Youth Choir & City of Bristol Choir

Charles Hazlewood and David Ogden (conductors)

1620-1630

LIVE from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff - simulcast with Radio Cymru and Radio Wales, presented by Nicola Heywood-Thomas

After discussions with Guinness World Records, we are going to attempt to set a new world record - The Greatest Distance Between Singers of a Duet.

It will happen at Hoddinott Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, and Y Wladfa in Patagonia, to the accompaniment of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (conductor - John Quirk), and will be a live broadcast on BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio 3, simultaneously.

The song in question will be the Welsh hymn Calon Lan, with the first and second verses being sung as a duet between Shan Cothi in Cardiff and Andres Evans in Patagonia (7000+ miles away). So as well as celebrating the first ever BBC Music Day, we will also be part of the ongoing, year-long celebrations, noting 150 years since the first Welsh settlers left for Patagonia.

The first and second chorus, along with the third verse and repeated chorus at the end will be sung by a choir in Patagonia (Cor Ysgol Gerdd y Gaiman), and an inter-generational composite choir in Hoddinott Hall. The composite choir in Cardiff will be made up of the in-house Radio Cymru choir, members of the BBC NOW Chorus, members of the BBC Choir of the Year - Cor CF1, and Wales Millennium Centre/Only Kids Aloud Chorus (conducted by the Music Day ambassador - Tim Rhys Evans).

For BBC Music Day, Ian Skelly introduces special live concerts from Bristol and Cardiff.

Bbc Music Day: Bbc Singers20190926Music and Wellbeing - The BBC Singers perform a selection of repertoire focusing on the power of music as a tool to unlock memories for those living with dementia. BBC Singers soprano Alice Hulett tells us of her own experience of dementia in her family and introduces the BBC Music Memories website (https://musicmemories.bbcrewind.co.uk/). The BBC Singers also perform a selection of music inspired and written by composers and poets with a personal connection to dementia.

Followed by today's opera matinee double bill: Die glückliche Hand (The Hand of Fate), to Schoenberg's own libretto, plotting his own life events and concluding that man continues to repeatedly make the same mistakes, and Duke Bluebeard's Castle - Bartok's one-act expressionist opera based on the French literary tale La Barbe Bleue, from the Teatro Massimo, Palermo.

Presented by Penny Gore

One Equal Music - Ben Parry

Simple Gifts - Traditional

Take on Me - A-Ha

Karma Chameleon - Culture Club

Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me - Elton John

At Last - Etta James

Alexander L'Estrange (conductor)

Errollyn Wallen: My Granny Sarah

Nicholas Kok (conductor)

c.2.30 pm

Schoenberg: Accompanying Music to a Film Scene, Op. 34

Schoenberg: Die glückliche Hand (The Hand of Fate), Op. 18

Bart k: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz.48

A Man / Duke Bluebeard - Gကbor Bretz (baritone)

Judith - Atala Sch怀ck (mezzo-soprano)

Teatro Massimo di Palermo Orchestra and chorus

Gregory Vajda (conductor)

Music and Wellbeing: focusing on music's power to unlock memories for those with dementia.

Bbc National Chorus And Orchestra Of Wales, Friday20180706Penny Gore introduces choral works by James MacMillan performed by the BBC National Chorus of Wales conducted by Adrian Partington. And the programme ends with Bartok, Shostakovich and Sibelius from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

2.00pm

James MacMillan:

Benedicimus Deum caeli

Lux aeterna

Te Deum (soloists: Linda Walsh, Emma Nelson, Lily Taylor, Verity-Belle Atkinson, Camille Chappuis)

Seven Angels

Llio Evans (soprano)

Matthew Farrell (countertenor)

Huw Llywelyn (tenor)

James Geidt (bass)

Sarah Hatch (percussion)

Lucy Wakeford (harp)

Robyn Grayling (cello)

Simon Bell (organ)

Adrian Partington (conductor)

3.05pm

Bartok: Divertimento for string orchestra

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

3.31pm

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op.107

Andrei Ionita (cello)

Rebecca Miller (conductor)

4.00pm

Joseph Jongen: Symphonie concertante, Op.81

Thomas Trotter (organ)

4.44pm

Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela from Lemmink䀀inen Suite, Op.22

Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

Penny Gore with choral works by James MacMillan from the BBC National Chorus of Wales.

Bbc National Orchestra And Chorus Of Wales20111003Louise Fryer presents a week which profiles the BBC National Chorus of Wales and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. We're joined, live in the studio, by Chorus Master, Adrian Partington, to discover how the chorus works, plus there's music from the orchestra's most recent concerts in North and mid Wales.

After five successful years at the helm, Thierry Fischer opens his final season with the orchestra as Principal Conductor. We hear their concert from St. David's Hall in Cardiff, which took place just three days ago. Thierry leads the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales in two profound and moving works. John Adams's 'On the Transmigration of the Souls' is a direct and emotional response to the events of 9/11 - heard here ten years on. The work weaves music with recorded sounds, a litany of friends and relatives reading the names of their loved ones who perished in the twin towers, as well as the everyday noises of the city around them.

A cultural icon virtually from its premiere nearly 200 years ago, with its famous choral setting of Schiller's 'Ode to Joy' (which also became an 'ode to freedom' in 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down), Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is a journey from darkness to light, and a personal declaration that all humankind stand together as brothers.

Adrian Partington directs the BBC National Chorus of Wales alone in Britten's 'Hymn to St. Cecilia', a notoriously challenging choral work dedicated to the patron saint of music who shares her name day with Britten's own birthday, 22nd November. Adrian joins us live in the studio this afternoon to talk about his work with the 100-strong chorus. We also hear them on CD for Florent Schmitt's extravagant setting of the Psalm 47, 'O clap your hands, all ye people'. The programme opens with a short piece by Debussy, his entry for the Prix de Rome competition at the Paris Conservatoire, 'Le Printemps' (Spring). It's conducted by Richard Hickox, Principal Conductor of the BBC NOW from 2000 to 2006.

Louise Fryer presents the BBC National Chorus of Wales in music by Britten and Beethoven.

Bbc National Orchestra And Chorus Of Wales20111004Louise Fryer presents music from the closing concert from the orchestra's 2010-11 season at St. David's Hall, Cardiff, in June this year. Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer opens with Faure's elegant Pavane, heard here, as it was at the 1888 premiere, with added choral lines to a text by Count Robert de Montesquiou - who was a kind of French Oscar Wilde (the idea of using his words was suggested to Faure by his cousin, an influential society hostess, whose patronage was well worth having).

French violinist Olivier Charlier joins the orchestra for the violin concerto by Henri Dutilleux. Still composing today at the age of 94, Dutilleux's music reveals a strong link to the music of Debussy and Ravel. This concerto, 'The tree of dreams' pushes out musical branches which multiply and renew the lyrical essence of the tree, in addition to reflecting a seasonal cycle.

The climax of the concert is Ravel's spectacular ballet score Daphnis and Chloe, written for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - sensational and seductive, it is clothed in the finest colours, including a wordless chorus.

Also in today's programme, another ballet for Diaghilev, Poulenc's Les Biches, the most recent CD release from the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales. It's a parody of French fashionable society in a typically witty and brilliant suite of dances. Three include chorus, setting 17th century texts, but the underlying theme of sexual dynamics hasn't changed much in the intervening years.

We also turn the clock back 25 years through the BBC archives, to hear the BBC National Chorus of Wales just four years after they were founded. In concert at the 1987 Swansea Festival they join the orchestra for a cantata by Daniel Jones, an important figure in twentieth century Welsh music who deserves wider recognition. The conductor was Sir Charles Groves, a particular champion of Daniel Jones.

Louise Fryer presents the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales in French music.

Bbc National Orchestra And Chorus Of Wales20111005Louise Fryer presents performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales on their most recent tour of North and mid Wales. We visit St. Asaph cathedral in Denbighshire, for the 39th North Wales International Music Festival - the orchestra's visit has been a highlight of the festival since its foundation in 1972. This year conductor Leo Hussain makes his debut with the orchestra in Mozart's 'Paris' symphony. The premiere in 1778 in the French capital made the composer so happy that he left the concert early, to pop over to the Palais Royal where he could enjoy a 'large ice'. Also in St. Asaph is a long-time friend of the orchestra, baritone Roderick Williams, marking the centenary of Gustav Mahler's death with his haunting 'Songs of a Wayfarer'.

The gifted Welsh cellist Thomas Carroll joins the orchestra in mid Wales, for a concert in Newtown, recorded just ten days ago. Shostakovich's first cello concerto is both an emotionally and technically challenging work, written for the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.

You can also hear the orchestra with the BBC National Chorus of Wales in their award-winning recording of Stanford's Songs of the Sea - with baritone Gerald Finlay and their much loved and much missed previous Principal Conductor, Richard Hickox.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Mozart, Mahler, Shostakovich and Stanford.

Bbc National Orchestra And Chorus Of Wales20201012Adrian Partington, who's been Artistic Director of the BBC National Chorus of Wales for 21 years, conducts both Chorus and Orchestra in music by Stanford, Poulenc and Fanny Mendelssohn.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Charles Villiers Stanford: At the Abbey Gate

Gareth Brynmore John (baritone)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Adrian Partington (conductor)

c.2.10pm

Frederick Septimus Kelly: Elegy for String Orchestra, In Memoriam Rupert Brooke

c.2.25pm

Charles Villiers Stanford: Mass Via Victrix

Kiandra Howarth (soprano)

Jess Dandy (contralto)

Ruairi Bowen (tenor)

c.3.30pm

Mark Bowden: We have found a better land

c.3.55pm

Fanny Mendelssohn: 19 chore for 4 voices

c.4pm

Francis Poulenc: Secheresses

Adrian Partington conducts the BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales: music by Stanford

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20180924Georgia Mann presents a week of performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, beginning with a concert of string orchestra works by Elgar, Tippett and Richard Blackford from the Cheltenham Festival in July. The British theme continues with music by Parry, Kenneth Hesketh, Vaughan Williams and Ruth Gipps, who will feature throughout the week.

2.00pm

Elgar: Introduction and Allegro, Op 47

Richard Blackford: Kalon

Tippett: Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Correlli

Strings of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

3.00pm

Parry: Symphony No 4 in E minor

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

3.45pm

Kenneth Hesketh: In Ictu Oculi

Christoph-Mathias Mueller (conductor)

4.10pm

Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody

David Atherton (conductor)

4.25pm

Ruth Gipps: Symphony No 4, Op 61

BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Martyn Brabbins with music by Elgar and Tippett

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20180925Georgia Mann continues her week with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Alongside their recent performance of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony with conductor Dalia Stasevka at the Lichfield Festival, there will be some new releases and a whole host of music by female composers, including the week's featured artist Ruth Gipps.

2.00pm

Thomas Hyde: Les at Leisure - A Comedy Overture, Op 18

Shostakovich: Symphony No 9 in E flat major

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor

Amy Beach: Piano Concerto, Op 45 (ii Scherzo vivace)

Danny Driver (piano)

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Clara Schumann: 3 Gemischte Ch怀re

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Adrian Partington (conductor)

Kenneth Hesketh: Of Time and Disillusionment

Christoph-Mathias Mueller (conductor)

c.4.00pm

Verdi: E'strano / Ah fors'e lui / Sempre libera (La Traviata)

Xiaolin Zhuo (soprano)

Andrea Licata (conductor)

Gipps: Symphony No 2

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Musgrave: Phoenix Rising

Sarah Jayne Porsmoguer (cor anglais)

Tim Thorpe (horn)

William Boughton (conductor)

Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man

Ben Gernon (conductor)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Dalia Stasevska in Rachmaninov and Shostakovich

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20181205Kate Molleson takes over for this week of music from BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Looking ahead to the Orchestra's tour to China in a couple of weeks, we look back at the last time the orchestra toured there in 2012 with a concert at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts, featuring principal clarinetist Robert Plane. Thierry Fisher was the conductor.

2.00pm

Strauss: Die Fledermaus (overture)

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto

Chen, Qigang: Wu Xing (The Five Elements)

Mussorgsky, orch Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Robert Plane (clarinet)

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thierry Fischer in Mozart, Qigang Chen and Mussorgsky

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20181207Kate Molleson concludes a week of music from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Starting with a concert of music inspired by light, which includes the world premiere of Paul Mealor's Third Symphony, 'Illumination', and following on to other music inspired by light. Plus a performance of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony with Xian Zhang, ahead of her trip to China with the Orchestra in two weeks' time.

2.00pm

Dove: Sunshine

Mathias: Helios

Norgard: Iris

Sibelius: Night Ride and Sunrise, Op 55

Mealor: Symphony No 3, ‘illumination

Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

3.30pm

Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra

Jac van Steen (conductor)

4.10pm

Lennox Berkeley: Voices of the Night

Richard Hickox (conductor)

4.20pm

Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 25

Xian Zhang (conductor)

4.40pm

Jenkins: Lament for Syria

Kathryn Rudge (soprano)

Abel Salaocoe (cello)

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales

Karl Jenkins (conductor)

4.50pm

Protheroe, arr. Quirk: Y Ty Heb Un Fflag

Shan Cothi (soprano)

John Quirk (conductor)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Geoffrey Paterson perform a Paul Mealor world premiere

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20200622Recorded at the opening concert of last year's Newbury Spring Festival in St. Nicolas Church, music by Barber, Beethoven, and Brahms' Violin Concerto with soloist Alexander Sitkovetsky. As the festival was sadly cancelled this year, Penny Gore evokes the festival spirit to open this week of Afternoon Concert featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Followed by a brand new recording with conductor Kenneth Woods of music by the British composer Philip Sawyers, whose work has been described as `of instant appeal and enduring quality`. His Symphony No 4 was written in the unusual form of just three movements. To explain why, the composer simply said that 'by the time the third movement was complete, there was nothing more to say'.

2pm

Barber: Adagio for string orchestra

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, op. 77

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C, op. 21

Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin

Jac van Steen, conductor

c.3.25pm

Philip Sawyers: Symphony No. 4

Kenneth Woods, conductor

Barber, Brahms and Beethoven in the opening concert of the 2019 Newbury Spring Festival.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20200623Recorded at St George's Bristol in March this year with the young British conductor Jonathan Bloxham, a concert of music by Beethoven and Strauss. Welsh soprano Rhian Lois brings great characterisation to Beethoven's concert aria Ah! Perfido (Ah! Deceiver), written in part to a text by that doyen of librettists, Pietro di Metastasio. Faced with the ruins of WWII, Strauss memorialised his country's past by quoting Beethoven's groundbreaking ‘Eroica' symphony in his elegy for 23 string soloists, Metamorphosen, and the concert ends with that very symphony. When the orchestra recorded this concert they knew they wouldn't be performing together again for some time. They reported that the repertoire felt incredibly poignant, and some months down the line that feeling has only grown.

Nicholas Maw wrote his 'Voices of Memory' to a BBC commission commemorating the 300th anniversary of the death of Henry Purcell. It ends with a chaconne, a form in which Purcell excelled, embellishing a theme from Maw's own 'Life Studies' for 15 solo strings'.

Alban Gerhardt has described Dvo?ကk's Cello Concerto as a mixed blessing for cellists: ‘A blessing because not only cellists claim that it is the most beautiful concerto for any instrument. But a curse too, as no other concerto is as strong as `the Dvo?ကk`, which is why so few concertos of the vast repertoire are being performed.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Beethoven: Ah! perfido - scena and aria, op. 65

Strauss: Metamorphosen

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, op. 55 (Eroica)

Rhian Lois, soprano

Jonathan Bloxham, conductor

3.30pm

Maw: Voices of Memory

William Boughton, conductor

3.55pm

Dvo?ကk: Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104

Alban Gerhardt, cello

Anu Tali, conductor

Beethoven and Strauss in the final concert performed by BBC NOW before lockdown.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20200624L'ɀloignement, meaning remoteness or estrangement, a work for 34 strings, was composed on commission from the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. The composer Qigang Chen quotes a Chinese proverb which says: 'When a man is uprooted, he gains vital force. If he remains stationary, he cannot flourish. Renewal of his surroundings brings new opportunities; whatever changes there may be, large or small, are always experienced like a great rebirth.' In the form of a rondo with variations, L'ɀloignement depicts separation, disorder, imagination, and yearning. The music is both happy and sad, nostalgic and exciting, all of which account for the conflicting moods of the departing one.

Bent Sørensen's three-movement Trumpet Concerto moves from the muted trumpet crawling in and out of the orchestra's running melodies and layering noise textures through a Venetian barcarole to a staggering finale in which the trumpet, at last, escapes. On hearing the concerto for the first time the Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim remarked 'It reminds me of something I've never heard'! The orchestra's Principal Trumpet Philippe Schartz is soloist.

Composer, organist and improviser Thierry Escaich's Psalmos for orchestra displays recurring thematic elements in the style of a symphonic poem or concerto for orchestra. It's based on three Lutheran Chorales which, the composer says, are used as motivation without any real reference to their religious symbolism.

Vale of Glamorgan Festival focuses on highlighting the talents of living composers and was set up by the Welsh/Canadian composer John Metcalf in 1969. Presented by Penny Gore.

Qigang Chen: L' Eloignement for string orchestra

Bent Sørensen: Concerto for trumpet and orchestra

Thierry Escaich: Psalmos for orchestra

Philippe Schartz, trumpet

Alexandre Bloch, conductor

Qigang Chen, Bent S\u00f8rensen and Thierry Escaich at the 2018 Vale of Glamorgan Festival.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20200626From Duke Ellington's playful jazz arrangement of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, via the blues and tomfoolery of Ravel's piano concerto with the orchestra's former Composer in Association Huw Watkins as soloist, to Prokofiev's fantastical retelling of Cinderella. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor David Danzmayr lead this afternoon's dance in a concert recorded in January at Swansea's Brangwyn Hall.

American Romantic George Chadwick wrote music full of orchestral colour and wide dynamic range. We'll hear that colour palate as Andrew Constantine conducts the orchestra in his symphonic ballad Tam O'Shanter. In a new CD recording, the BBC NOW help to put the name of Alexander Veprik back on the musical map. He was regarded as a star in the young Soviet generation of composers that included Shostakovich, but fell out of favour as a victim of Stalin's anti-Semitic policies and was sent to the Gulag. His 'Five Little Pieces' play with the Jewish melodies that accompanied Veprik, who was born near Odessa, throughout his life. Richard Wagner's love letter to Mathilde Wesendonck, whose poems he set whilst working on the opera Tristan und Isolde, is sung by soprano Jenufa Gleich.

Presented by Hannah French.

2pm

Ellington: Nutcracker suite after Tchaikovsky

Ravel: Concerto in G major for piano and orchestra

Prokofiev: Cinderella, op. 87 (highlights)

Huw Watkins, piano

David Danzmayr, conductor

3.15pm

Chadwick: Tam O'Shanter - symphonic ballad

Andrew Constantine, conductor

3.35pm

Veprik: 5 Little pieces, op. 17

Christoph-Mathias Mueller, conductor

3.50pm

Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder

Jenufa Gleich, soprano

Fabrice Bollon, conductor

The worlds of fairy tale and dream mingle in music seen through the eyes of a child

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales (1-4)20210524Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Haydn, Berg and Shostakovich, plus music from the orchestra's new CD of London-born conductor, pianist and composer Cipriani Potter. Plus, throughout this week the BBC Singers celebrate the 70th birthday of composer Cecilia McDowall with new recordings of her work.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Including:

c.2.10pm

Haydn: Symphony No.90 in C major

c.2.35pm

Berg: Three pieces from Lyric Suite

c.2.50pm

Shostakovich, arr. Barshai: Symphony for strings and wind, Op.73a

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Owain Park conducts the BBC Singers in music by Cecilia McDowall, in celebration of the composer's 70th birthday.

Ryan Bancroft conducts music by Haydn, Berg and Shostakovich.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales (2-4)20210525Joshua Weilerstein conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales music by Hannah Kendall and George Walker, and Pavel Kolesnikov joins the orchestra for Beethoven's second piano concerto. The BBC Singers continue their celebration of Cecilia McDowall 70th birthday.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Including:

c.2.10pm

Hannah Kendall: Verdala

c.2.15pm

Beethoven: Piano concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 19

Pavel Kolesniikov (piano)

c.2.45pm

George Walker: Lyric for Strings

c.2.50pm

Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat major, Op 60

Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)

c.3.55pm

The BBC Singers and conductor Owain Park with new recordings of music by Cecilia McDowall.

Joshua Weilerstein conducts music by Hannah Kendall, George Walker and Beethoven.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales (3-4)20210526Maxime Tortelier conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Poulenc and the Welsh composer Carlijn Metselaar, and Alice Neary performs Honegger's Cello Concerto. Rachel Podger leads the orchestra in Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante, plus music by Cecilia McDowall from the BBC Singers.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Including:

2.00pm

Carlijn Metselaar: Time for Your Walk

c.2.10pm

Honegger: Cello Concerto

Alice Neary (cello)

c.2.30pm

Poulenc: Sinfonietta

Maxime Tortelier (conductor)

c.2.55pm

The BBC Singers perform music by Cecilia McDowall to celebrate her 70th birthday.

c.3.05pm

Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante

Rachel Podger (violin/director)

Maxime Tortelier conducts music by Poulenc, Honegger and Welsh composer Carlijn Metselaar.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales (3-5)20201202The BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a programme that spans three centuries.

Hannah French continues this week's survey of recent recordings from the BBC NOW with a programme with Bach and ends with a concerto by the Anglo-Indian composer, John Mayer.

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 3

Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat 'Dumbarton Oaks

Martinu: Tre Ricercari (1938)

Paul Goodwin (conductor)

John Mayer: Violin Concerto Concerto No. 2, ‘Sarangi ka Sangit

Sasha Rozhdestvensky (violin)

Debashish Chaudhuri (conductor)

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays Bach, Stravinsky, Martinu and John Mayer.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales (4-4)20210528Jonathan James conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Haydn's Symphony No.103, and Ryan Bancroft leads them in music by Caroline Shaw, and Wolfgang Rihm's Gesungene Zeit with violinist Chloe Hanslip. Plus the BBC Singers conclude this week's 70th birthday celebrations for Cecilia McDowall.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Including:

c.2.15pm

Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte

c.2.30pm

Wolfgang Rihm: Gesungene Zeit

Chloe Hanslip (violin)

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

c.2.50pm

Haydn: Symphony No.103 in E flat 'Drumroll

Jonathan James (conductor)

c.3.50pm

The BBC Singers and conductor Owain Park with music by Cecilia McDowall, including the UK Premiere recording of her work De Profundis.

Ryan Bancroft and Jonathan James conduct music by Haydn, Caroline Shaw and Wolfgang Rihm.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales (5-5)20201204The BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Hannah French presents the last programme this week looking at the work of the BBC NOW with music ranging from a Mozart piano concerto - with Llyr Williams as soloist - to a concerto for orchestra by John Mayer. And in between, the orchestra is joined by its chorus for Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, KV. 453

Schubert Symphony No 5

Llyr Williams (piano)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Moritz Gnann (conductor)

Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin (complete ballet)

BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor)

De Falla El Sombrero de tres picos - suite no. 1

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jun Markl (conductor)

Morfydd Owen: Morfa Rhuddlan

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen (conductor)

John Mayer: Concerto for the instruments of an orchestra

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Debashish Chaudhuri (conductor)

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Mozart, Schubert and Bartok.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales In Beijing20120713The BBC National Orchestra of Wales are just finishing a Chinese tour with their outgoing Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer, and Penny Gore rounds off this week of Afternoon on 3 with the concert they gave last Sunday in the capital Beijing. The orchestra's principal clarinettist Robert Plane is the soloist in Mozart's well-loved Concerto, alongside more music from Europe - by Johann Strauss; China itself - by Qigang Chen; and the huge country in between - Mussorgsky's world-famous Pictures at an Exhibition, in the equally world-famous orchestration by Ravel.

Plus a final flourish from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their own outgoing Chief Conductor, the Czech Ji?퀀 B?lohlကvek, in their series of music by Dvorak's son-in-law Josef Suk: his beautiful symphonic poem telling A Summer's Tale.

Johann Strauss: Overture to Die Fledermaus

BBC National Orchestra of Wales,

Thierry Fischer (conductor).

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto

Robert Plane (clarinet),

c. 2.35pm

Qigang Chen: Wu Xing (The Five Elements)

c. 2.50pm

Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

c. 3.25pm

Suk: A Summer's Tale

BBC Symphony Orchestra,

Ji?퀀 B?lohlကvek (conductor).

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales play Mozart, Johann Strauss & Chinese music in Beijing

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales In China20190226From their recent tour to China, Xian Zhang conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a concert from Shenzhen, including music by Glinka, Liszt & Dvorak. Plus there are performances of Bartok, Beethoven, Suk and Kate Whitley from back home in Cardiff.

Presented by Tom Redmond.

2.00pm

Glinka - Overture: Ruslan & Ludmila

Liszt - Piano Concerto No.1 in E flat major

Dvorak - Symphony No.8 in G major

Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.5

Geng Zhimaio (piano)

Xian Zhang (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Bartok - Hungarian Sketches

Tommy Andersson (conductor)

c.3.45pm

Suk - Fantastic Scherzo

Richard Hickox (conductor)

c.4.00pm

Beethoven - Leonore Overture No.3

Joseph Swenson (conductor)

c.4.15pm

Kate Whitley - Speak Out

c.4.25pm

Bridge - Mid of Night

Xian Zhang conducts the BBC NOW in music by Glinka, Liszt and Dvorak.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales In Mahler20190409Two of Mahler's most emotionally-charged works from a recent concert with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. New Generation Artist Catriona Morison sings the 5 lieder which Mahler set to the Romantic poetry of Friedrich Rückert, before the heart-wrenching Adagio from Mahler's 10th Symphony, the only section left complete before the composer's death. Plus, there's music by Price, Ben Haim, Parry, Elgar and Schmitt.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

2.00pm

Mahler: Rückert Lieder

Mahler: Adagio (Symphony No 10)

Catriona Morison (Mezzo-Soprano)

Thomas Sønderg倀rd (Conductor)

c.2.45pm

Price: Ethiopia's Shadow in America

Daniel Blendulf (conductor)

c.3.00 pm

Ben Haim: Evocation (Yizkor)

Itamar Zorman (violin)

Philippe Bach (conductor)

c.3.20pm

Parry: Proserpine

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat major, Op 55

Richard Hickox (conductor)

c.4.30pm

Schmitt: La Trag退die de Salom退, Op 50

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Thomas Sondergard conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in two pieces by Mahler.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live From Cardiff20110608The BBC National Orchestra of Wales is joined by conductor Roberto Minczuk, and Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Dutch baritone Henk Neven, for a live concert from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. They perform Rachmaninov's final work, his energetic Symphonic Dances, and his dark symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead, alongside Mussorgsky's intense Songs and Dances of Death.

Presented by Catrin Finch.

The BBC NOW performs music by Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky and Stravinsky.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live From Hoddinott Hall20180928As part of BBC Music Day, Kate Molleson presents a live performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, in which conductor Carlos Miguel-Prieto showcases three composers from his native Mexico: Silvestre Revueltas, Arturo Marquez and Jose Pablo Moncayo. They are joined by mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz for Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo, and New Generation Artist Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad for Walton's Viola Concerto.

A feature on the BBC Singers' work with workplace choirs in Birmingham follows the concert, along with new recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including the last this week from our featured artist, Ruth Gipps.

2.00pm

Falla: El amor brujo (suite)

Walton: Viola Concerto

2.55 Interval Music

Revueltas: Sensemaya

Marquez: Danzon No 2

Moncayo: Huapango

Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)

Eivind Holstmark Ringstad (viola)

Carlos Miguel-Prieto (conductor)

Continues with:

Ben-Haim: Violin Concerto

Itamar Zorman (violin)

Philippe Bach (cond)

Gipps: Song for Orchestra

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Thea Musgrave: Loch Ness

Daniel Trodden (tuba)

William Boughton (conductor)

BBC NOW and Carlos Miguel-Prieto live, with music by de Falla, Marquez and Walton

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live In Cardiff20151127The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Eduardo Portal perform live in Cardiff as part of Afternoon on 3's Southern Hemisphere season. Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas. Then back to the studio with Ian Skelly for music performed by the BBC Singers.

14.00 - LIVE

Marquez: Danzon No 2

Luis Cluzeau-Mortet: Llanuras

Lalo Schifrin: Concierto Caribeno

Matthew Featherstone (flute)

Eduardo Portal (conductor)

14.50

Interval music Gershwin American in Paris

Eric Stern (conductor)

15.15 - LIVE

Revueltas: La Noche de los Mayas

15.50

Penderecki: Agnus Dei

Gorecki: Amen

Paul Brough (conductor).

Live from Cardiff, the BBC NOW in music by Marquez, Cluzeau-Mortet, Schifrin and Revueltas

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Performs Hoddinott, Lewis And Panufnik20190227Holly Mathieson conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Alun Hoddinott, Sarah Lianne Lewis and Andrzej Panufnik in a concert recorded earlier this year in Cardiff. Plus performances of pieces by Ruth Gipps & James MacMillan.

Presented by Tom Redmond.

2.00pm

Alun Hoddinott - Taliesin

Sarah Lianne Lewis - Is there no seeker of dreams that were?

Andrzej Panufnik - Sinfonia Sacra (Symphony No. 3)

Holly Mathieson (Conductor)

c.3.00pm

Ruth Gipps - Knight in Armour

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

c.3.10pm

James MacMillan - Te Deum

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Adrian Partington (conductor)

Holly Mathieson conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Hoddinott and Panufnik.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales, Beethoven And Weber20190225Romantic masterpieces from the BBC National Orchestra Orchestra of Wales in a concert given at Prichard Jones Hall, Bangor, in November 2018. Soloist Robert Plane joins the orchestra for a performance of Weber's ground-breaking Clarinet Concerto No.1 in F minor. Plus there's music by Bartok and Bernard Rands.

Presented by Tom Redmond

2.00pm

Beethoven - Symphony No.1 in C major, Op.21

Weber - Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op.73

Baermann - Clarinet Quintet No.3, Op.23 (Adagio)

Beethoven - Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.55

Robert Plane (clarinet)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin

Mariss Janssons (conductor)

c.3.50pm

Bernard Rands - Canti Del Sole

Stephen Chaundy (tenor)

William Boughton (conductor)

Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Beethoven & Weber.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales, Mark Boden Premiere20190408A varied selection of contemporary British music from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a concert from March 2018, including two World Premieres—Guto Puw's Camouflage and Mark Boden's Clarinet Concerto, featuring the Orchestra's principal clarinettist Robert Plane. The concert also includes Michael Berkeley's Concerto for Orchestra, a piece which was written while he was composer in association for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

2.00pm

Guto Puw: Camouflage

Hoddinott: Variants for Orchestra, Op 47

Mark Boden: Clarinet Concerto

Michael Berkeley: Concerto for Orchestra

Robert Plane (clarinet)

Jac van Steen (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Bonis: Trois femmes de legende

Jessica Cottis (Conductor)

c.3.45pm

Berlioz: Harold in Italy, Op 16

Steven Burnard (viola)

Richard Hickox (conducting)

c.4.30pm

Stravinsky: Agon - Ballet

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Jac van Steen conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in two world premieres.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales, Monday20180702Penny Gore launches a week of performances from The BBC National Orchestra of Wales with a concert from Aldeburgh in which Mark Wigglesworth conducts an ever-popular symphony, a violin concerto that deserves to be better known and two works by the Liverpudlian composer Emily Howard.

2.00pm

Emily Howard: Magnetite

Britten: Violin Concerto, Op. 15

Emily Howard: Sphere

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor Op. 95 (From the New World)

Vilde Frang (violin)

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

3.40pm

Sibelius: King Kristian II Suite, Op. 27

Thomas Sondergard (Conductor)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 30

Alexander Ghindin (piano)

Jonathan Berman (conductor)

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1 Op. 64a

Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

Penny Gore introduces the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Mark Wigglesworth.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales, Moritz Gnann, Karl Jenkins, Xian Zhang20181203Fiona Talkington begins a week of performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with a concert from Newtown, under the direction of Moritz Gnann, in which Young Musician of the Year runner-up Charlie Lovell-Jones performs Vaughan-Williams' The Lark Ascending alongside some other highly regarded works from great composers. The afternoon then continues with other works which have become popular favourites from Karl Jenkins, Beethoven and John Williams.

2.00pm

Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela, Op 22 No 2

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Stravinsky: Ronde des princess; Infernal Dance; Berceuse; Finale (The Firebird Suite)

Charlie Lovell-Jones (violin)

Moritz Gnann (conductor)

3.15pm

Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace

Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)

Karl Jenkins (conductor)

4.20pm

Beethoven: Symphony No 4

Xian Zhang (conductor)

Works by Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Stravinsky, Jenkins and Beethoven

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales, Smetana, Dvorak And Beethoven20190412This BBC National Orchestra of Wales concert from St. Georges in Bristol begins with two works of Bohemian origin, the scherzo from Smetana's Triumphal Symphony and Dvo?ကk's Serenade for Strings, a work which the composer reportedly completed in just 12 days. The concert concludes with Beethoven's majestic Violin Concerto, featuring the New Generation Artist Aleksey Semenenko as soloist. Also music from Martin? and, this week's featured work in the Our Classical Century focus, Sibelius' tone poem Tapiola.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

2.00pm

Smetana: Scherzo (Triumphal Symphony, Op 6)

Dvo?ကk: Serenade for Strings in E major, Op 22

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 61

Aleksey Semenenko (violin)

Ji?퀀 Rože? (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Martin?: The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca, H 352

Jac van Steen (conductor)

c.4.00pm

Our Classical Century:

Sibelius: Tapiola - tone poem Op.112

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo, conductor

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06rs2yc

Jiri Rozen and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a concert from St George's Bristol.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales, St David's Day20190301Celebrate St. David's Day with the BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales and music by Welsh composers including Alun Hoddinott, Grace Williams, Daniel Jones, Mervyn Burtch and William Mathias.

Presented by Tom Redmond.

2.00pm

Hoddinott - Four Welsh Dances

Meirion Williams, arr. Jonathan Dove - Mai

Dilys Elwyn Edwards - Mae Hiraeth yn y Mor

Morfydd Owen - Threnody for the passing of Branwen

R.S. Hughes, arr. Idris Lewis - Arafa Don

Idris Lewis - Bugail Aberdyfi

Ivor Novello arr. Jeffrey Howard - My life belongs to you

Joseph Parry - Hywel a Blodwen

Gareth Glyn - Cadwyn

William Mathias - Let the people praise thee

E.T. Davis - Ynys y plant

Haydn Morris, arr. Jeffrey Howard - Hei Ho

Paul Mealor - Ubi Caritas

Karl Jenkins - Sarikiz (first movement)

Jeffery Howard - A Welsh Celebration

Rebecca Evans (Soprano)

Joshua Mills (Tenor)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Adrian Partington (Conductor)

c.3.30pm

Grace Williams - Sea Sketches

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

c.3.50pm

Daniel Jones - Symphony No.10

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

c.4.15pm

Mervyn Burtch - Psalm 21

c.4.30pm

William Mathias - In Arcadia

Celebrate St David's Day with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales, Stephen Isserlis, Amatis Trio20181204Fiona Talkington continues her week with the BBC National orchestra of Wales. Alongside a recent performance from Marlborough School which includes music which focuses on the centenary of the end of the First World War, there will be more music, including Bridge's Oratio (Concerto Elegiaco) with Steven Isserlis as cello soloist, Jenkins' For the Fallen, with Michael Sheen as narrator, and Delius Requiem with soprano Elizabeth Watts and baritone Mark Stone, which plays tribute to victims of the conflict. Also, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4, conducted by Xian Zhang.

2.00pm

Beethoven: Die Weihe des Hauses (Overture)

Beethoven: Concerto in C major for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra

Kelly: Elegy for strings in Memoriam Rupert Brooke

Amatis Trio

Adrian Partington (conductor)

3.00pm

Bridge: Oration (Concerto Elegiaco)

Steven Isserlis (cello)

Richard Hickox (conductor)

3.30pm

Jenkins: For the Fallen

Michael Sheen (narrator)

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales

Karl Jenkins (conductor)

3.40pm

Delius: Requiem

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

Mark Stone (baritone)

4.15pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4

Xian Zhang (conductor)

The BBC NOW performs works by Beethoven, Kelly, Bridge, Jenkins, Delius and Tchaikovsky.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales, Tuesday20180703Penny Gore continues a week of performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with a concert from Brangwyn Hall in which Thomas Sondergard conducts the powerful 1st Symphony by Brahms and is joined by soloist Stephen Hough for the 1st Piano Concerto by Mendelssohn.

2.00pm

Dvorak: The Golden Spinning-Wheel Op. 109

Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor Op. 25

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op. 68

Stephen Hough (piano)

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

3.35pm

Gundmumsen-Homgreen: Tricolore IV

Jonathan Berman (conductor)

Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor D.759 (Unfinished)

Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26

Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

Penny Gore introduces the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thomas Sondergard.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales, Wednesday20180704In today's concert, from St Davids Cathedral, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Penny Gore introduces works by Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Sibelius conducted by Nicholas Carter.

2.00pm

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85

Sibelius: Valse triste, Op 44 no 1

Sibelius: Symphony No 3 in E minor, Op 52

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)

Nicholas Carter (conductor)

3.15pm

Sibelius: The Oceanides, Op 73

Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales play Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Sibelius.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: Brahms's A German Requiem20190716Kate Molleson introduces recordings of concerts given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Stravinsky: Funeral Song

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

Jacques Ibrailo (baritone)

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)

(Given in the BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff

28/06/19)

Grace Williams: Sea Sketches

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

(Given in the Royal Albert Hall,

04/09/08)

Ravel: Sheherazade

Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

(Given in St. David's Hall, Cardiff

13/10/16)

Gunning: Symphony No 2

Kenneth Woods (conductor)

Korngold Cello Concerto

Rafael Wallfisch (cello)

Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)

Concerts from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including Brahms's A German Requiem.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: De Falla, Ravel, Debussy20190715Kate Molleson introduces recordings of concerts by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including a Spanish-flavoured programme and a celebration of Harrison Birtwistle's birthday.

De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Ravel: Piano concerto in D major (for the left hand)

de Falla: Three Cornered Hat: Suite No. 1

Debussy: Images: No. 2 Iberia

Angela Hewitt, piano

Jun Markl,conductor

(Recorded in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea on

08/02/19)

Birtwistle: Endless Parade

Phillippe Schartz, trumpet

Jac van Steen, conductor

02/12/08)

Holst: Egdon Heath

James Judd (conductor)

Weir: Welcome Arrival of Rain

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Bloch Cello Concerto

Rafael Wallfisch (cello)

Lukasz Borowicz, conductor

Kate Molleson introduces concerts by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: Gershwin And Elgar20190717Kate Molleson introduces recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Gershwin: Piano concerto in F major

Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Prokofiev: March in B flat major, Op.99

Joanna MacGregor (piano)

Elim Chan (conductor)

(Recorded in Cheltenham Town Hall,

17/03/19)

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: Live From Hoddinott Hall20190927In our first live afternoon concert of the season from Hoddinott Hall, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales opens with Debussy's beautiful symphonic poem Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune followed by two works that will be new to audiences: the UK premiere of Judith Weir's Oboe Concerto, written for and dedicated to the orchestra's former Principal Cor Anglais Celia Craig, and a new suite that brings together the wealth of magnificent orchestral music from Wagner's opera Parsifal, under the baton of its arranger, Andrew Gourlay. Plus a new recording of 'Clytemnestra' by Welsh composer Rhian Samuel whose music seeks to give women a voice, here adapting Aeschylus' work from Clytemnestra's viewpoint, and George Whitefield Chadwick's Tam O'Shanter, a work of vivid musical story-telling based on the tale by Robert Burns.

Presented by Penny Gore

Debussy: Prelude a l'apres midi-d'un faune

Weir: Oboe Concerto (UK Premiere)

Wagner, arr. Gourlay: Parsifal Suite

Celia Craig (oboe)

Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

c.3.40pm

Rhian Samuel: Clytemnestra

Ruby Hughes (soprano)

Jac van Steen (conductor)

c.4pm

Chadwick: Tam O'Shanter

Andrew Constantine (conductor)

Photo of Judith Weir: B Ealovega

UK Premieres of Judith Weir's Oboe Concerto and a new suite from Wagner's opera Parsifal.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: Rachmaninov And Schubert20190719Kate Molleson introduces recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major (‘Great')

Boris Giltburg (piano)

Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

(Recorded in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea

12/04/19)

Dvo?ကk: Scherzo Capriccioso

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Dvorak Hall, Prague

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: Rodrigo's Concierto De Aranjuez20190924BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Thibaut Garcia joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with conductor Kensho Watanabe to play Joaquin Rodrigo's beautiful classic for guitar and orchestra: Concierto de Aranjuez. The blind composer took inspiration from the fountains and gardens of the palace of Aranjuez on the shore of River Tagus, near Madrid and it's the centrepiece for a concert which also includes Tchaikovsky's skilful evocation of the notion of fate in his fifth symphony.

Plus Romanian pianist Sergiu Tuhutziu plays a virtuosic concerto by his compatriot Calin Huma, a heart-rending epitaph by Andrzej Panufnik born 105 years ago today, and the 2011 premiere recording of Christopher Painter's re-working of the last movement of his 3rd symphony 'Fire in the Snow'.

Presented by Penny Gore

Borodin Prince Igor: Overture

Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez

Rodriguez La Cumparsita - tango, arr. Romero for guitar solo

Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 in E minor Op.64

Thibaut Garcia (guitar)

Kensho Watanabe (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Calin Huma: Piano Concerto

Sergiu Tuhutziu (piano)

Christopher Petrie (conductor)

c.3.50pm

Andrzej Panufnik: Katyn Epitaph

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

c.4pm

Elgar: Falstaff

Andrew Constantine (conductor)

c.4.30pm

Christopher Painter: - the brightness of snow

Jac van Steen (conductor)

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Thibaut Garcia plays Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: St Davids Cathedral Festival20190925Poulenc's Organ Concerto, Mathias's Threnos and Saint?Sa뀀ns's mighty Third Symphony from St Davids Cathedral Festival with organist David Briggs under the baton of Daniel Blendulf

Presented by Penny Gore

Mathias: Threnos for string orchestra

Poulenc: Organ Concerto in G minor

Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3 in C minor Op.78 'Organ Symphony

David Briggs (Organ)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Daniel Blendulf (conductor)

Poulenc and Saint\u2010Saens from the St Davids Cathedral Festival with organist David Briggs.

Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: Vale Of Glamorgan Festival20190923A feast of treats, this concert combines music by giants of contemporary music, including Steve Reich and Peteris Vasks, with incredible new talent emerging from Wales today. Recorded at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival with conductor Ryan Bancroft, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs one of the world's first performances of Steve Reich's Music for Ensemble and Orchestra, and the world premiere of a new arrangement of John Metcalf's Polly Garter Aria from his critically acclaimed opera Under Milk Wood. There are moments of quiet meditation, with Lonely Angel by Peteris Vasks reflecting the vision of an angel gazing down on the world, concerned and hopeful at the same time and Dobrinka Tabakova's Organum Light, a transcendentally beautiful meditation based on a mediaeval chant; plus plenty of fun, with Graham Fitkin's celebratory work Metal - for orchestra and untuned scaffolding - ending the concert with a bang.

We've a chance to hear Ryan Bancroft conducting very different repertoire next; Sibelius' 5th symphony with its extraordinary finale, and harpist Hannah Stone joins the orchestra at the North Wales International Music Festival at St Asaph Cathedral to premiere Anglesey composer Gareth Glyn's piece Amaterasu. Specially commissioned by the festival it's a musical depiction of the story of Amaterasu, the Japanese Shinto religion's divinity of light. Having been mistreated by her volatile brother Susanowo (depicted by solo trombone - the orchestra's Principal Trombone Donal Bannister) Amaterasu retreats into a cave and the whole world is plunged into darkness. To lure her out the other gods hold a party outside and her curiosity gets the better of her. When she emerges the world is flooded with light again.

Presented by Penny Gore

Dobrinka Tabakova: Organum Light

Peteris Vasks: Vientu?ais e??elis (Lonely Angel)

Steve Reich: Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (2018)

Benjamin Wallace: Five Gifts for an old friend

Claire Victoria Roberts: Blue Lab

Mark David Boden: Descent (World Premiere - Festival Commission)

David Lang: Simple Song #3 (2015)

John Metcalf: Polly Garter's Aria from Under Milk Wood

Graham Fitkin: Metal (1995)

Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)

Elizabeth Donovan (soprano)

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82

c.4pm

Gareth Glyn: Amaterasu

Hannah Stone (harp)

Donal Bannister (trombone)

Gavin Sutherland (conductor)

c.4.15pm

Alban Berg: Altenberg Lieder

Ruby Hughes (soprano)

Jac van Steen (conductor)

A feast of treats, from contemporary music giants Reich and Vasks to young Welsh talent.

Bbc Now: Hoddinott, Bruch, Sibelius, Nielsen20100512Live from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, Elin Manahan Thomas presents a concert given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales - continuing their series revisiting works they've recently commissioned. Nielsen's dramatic fourth symphony, 'The Inextinguishable', closes the concert, and it opens with the final symphony by Alun Hoddinott, the Welsh composer after whom the orchestra's hall is named.

Hoddinott: Symphony no. 10

John Storgards (conductor)

Bruch: Violin conerto no. 1 in G minor

Matthew Trusler (violin)

3pm Interval

Sibelius: Nightride and Sunrise

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

3.15pm

Nielsen: Symphony no. 4 'The Inextinguishable

John Storgards (conductor).

From BBC Hoddinott Hall, the BBC NOW perform Hodinott, Bruch, Sibelius and Nielsen.

Bbc Performing Groups Round Up Of The Year20191217Elizabeth Alker presents a round-up of the best of the BBC Performing Groups this year: starting today with a concert featuring prolific author Alexander McCall Smith.

His highly successful series 'The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency' sold over twenty million copies in the English language alone, and his books have become bestsellers throughout the world. For one afternoon only, McCall Smith joins forces with the BBC Symphony Orchestra to bring to life much- loved characters from Botswana, Scotland and Italy, wrapped around an eclectic array of his favourite music to guarantee a unique and magical experience.

Rossini: Overture The Italian Girl in Algiers

Respighi: Gli Uccelli (The Birds) No 3 - La Colomba

Maxwell-Davies: Farewell to Stromness

Walton: Touch Her Soft Lips and Part (Henry V)

Mozart: Overture: The Marriage of Figaro

Malcolm Arnold: Scottish Dance No 1

John Barry: Out of Africa (Main Theme)

Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano, No 3 - La Nascita di Venere (The Birth of Venus)

Malcolm Arnold: Beckus the Dandipratt

Alexander McCall Smith (narrator)

David Parry (conductor)

3.45pm

Ethel Smyth: Mass in D major

Susanna Hurrell, soprano

Catriona Morison, mezzo-soprano

Ben Johnson, tenor

Duncan Rock, baritone

BBC Symphony Chorus

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Elizabeth Alker presents a round-up of the best of the BBC Performing Groups this year.

Bbc Performing Groups Round Up Of The Year20191220Elizabeth Alker presents a round-up of the best of the BBC Performing Groups this year. The afternoon begins with the BBC Singers live from London's historic Temple Church with a festive programme of contemporary Christmas carols, conducted by Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin and introduced by Ian Skelly. The concert includes the world premiere of the Lebanese-French composer Naji Hakim's spectacular setting of Veni, veni, Emmanuel. Then we head north with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu's Requiem, the work that launched his international career in 1957, and Rachmaninov's Third Symphony which was written in exile in Lucerne in the mid-thirties.

2pm

Carl Rutti: My Dancing Day

Michael Higgins: The Angel Gabriel

Christopher Robinson: Rejoice and be merry

Naji Hakim: Veni, veni Emmanuel

Roderick Williams: Queen Elizabeth's Winchester Carol

Malcolm Archer: A little child there is yborn

Fredrik Sixten: Mary's Lullaby

James MacMillan: Nova! Nova! Ave fit ex Eva

Francis Pott: Improvisation on Adeste, Fideles

Richard Lloyd: Love came down at Christmas

Roxanna Panufnik: Jesus Christ is Born (Angels Sing)

James Burton: Balulalow

Matthew Martin: Novo profusi gaudio

Trad arr Cleobury: Quittez, pasteurs

Betty Roe: The Holly and the Ivy

Judith Weir: Illuminare, Jerusalem

Trad arr. Nicholson: The Lord of the Dance

Ashley Grote, organ

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

c.3.10pm

Takemitsu : Requiem for Strings

Donald Runnicles, conductor

Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 in A minor Opus 44

John Wilson, conductor

The BBC Singers with contemporary Christmas Carols, live from Temple Church.

Bbc Performing Groups Round-up Of The Year20191216This week Elizabeth Alker presents a round-up of the best of the BBC Performing Groups this year, and we go live to Maida Vale, Media City, and Temple Church for some special festive performances.

2pm

Live from Maida Vale studios The BBC Singers and Principal Guest Conductor Bob Chilcott perform the six shortlisted carols in this year's BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition. Hundreds of amateur composers enter the annual competition, and this year entrants have set Go to the Child by the Pakistani-British poet Imtiaz Dharker. Alongside the six settings are solo works for the festive period.

Ghislaine Reece-Trapp: Alleluia! A new work is come on hand

Michael Head: Star Candles

Vladimir Rebikov: Yolka (The Christmas Tree) Op. 21: Waltz

Robert Quinney: Sing Lullaby

Poulenc: Nous voulons une petite soeur

David Willcocks: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

3pm

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 2 in F major Opus 102

Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D major

Martin James Bartlett, piano

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Mark Wigglesworth, conductor

Elizabeth Alker presents a round-up of the best of the BBC Performing Groups this year.

Bbc Philharmonic20181002Birds on the wing open today's Afternoon Concert, with the BBC Philharmonic and presenter Tom McKinney - works by Respighi, Sibelius and Rautavaara, and two UK premieres with Andrea Tarrodi's Birds of Paradise II and Minna Leinonen's Kaarne (The Raven). There's also the second of this week's Saint-Saens piano concertos with soloist Louis Lortie, and visits to Italy with Berlioz and Foulds, Then, the orchestra also give the UK premiere of Thea Musgrave's Songs for Spring with baritone Ashley Riches and conductor Clarke Rundell, and the afternoon closes with Elgar's epic First Symphony, premiered in Manchester in 1908 and which conductor Arthur Nikisch dubbed `the Fifth of Brahms`.

2pm

Respighi Suite: The Birds

Andrea Tarrodi: Birds of Paradise II (ukp)

Sibelius: Scene with cranes

Minna Leinonen: Kaarne (The Raven)(ukp)

Rautavaara: Cantus arcticus

Anna- Maria Helsing (conductor)

c.3pm

Saint-Sa뀀ns Piano Concerto No 2

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Louis Lortie (piano)

c. 3.25pm

Berlioz Overture, Roman Carnival

Andrew Litton (conductor)

c. 3.35pm

Foulds Sicilian Aubade

Ben Gernon (conductor)

c.3,40pm

Thea Musgrave Songs for Spring (ukp)

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Ashley Riches (baritone)

c.3.55pm

Elgar Symphony No 1

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Tom McKinney presents the BBC Philharmonic performing Saint-Saens, Musgrave and Elgar

Bbc Philharmonic20190128Music by Rachmaninov, Bach, Arriaga, Dove & LeFanu plus Holst's Planets Suite in live performances by the BBC Philharmonic, presented by Tom Redmond

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3

Holst: The Planets

Manchester Chamber Choir (ladies' voices)

Denis Kozhukhin (piano)

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Bach: Lobet den Herrn (BWV 230)

Jessica Hayes (cello)

Darius Battiwalla (chamber organ)

Justin Doyle (conductor)

Arriaga: Los esclavos felices, Overture

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

David Matthews: A Vision of the Sea

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Nicola Lefanu: Threnody

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Jonathan Dove: Gaia theory

Timothy Redmond (conductor)

Music by Rachmaninov, Holst, Arriaga, Dove and LeFanu performed by the BBC Philharmonic.

Bbc Philharmonic20190129Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts and live recordings by the BBC Philharmonic. Music today includes Rachmaninov Symphony no.2 and Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture.

Bart k Violin: Concerto No 2

Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2

Krist f Barကti (violin)

Ben Gernon (conductor)

Recorded in November last year in Bucharest

Arriaga: Cantata, Herminie

Berit Norbakken Solset (soprano)

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Berlioz: Overture, Roman Carnival

Rory Macdonald (conductor)

Copland Symphony No 3

John Wilson (conductor)

Tom Redmond presents music by Rachmaninov and Bartok in recordings by the BBC Philharmonic

Bbc Philharmonic20190201Radio 3 New Generation Artist Andrei Ioni?? plays Haydn's Cello Concerto in C with the BBC Philharmonic plus Enescu Romanian Rhapsody and Shostakovich Symphony no.9. Presented by Tom Redmond

Stephan: Music for orchestra (1912)

Haydn: Cello Concerto in C

Enescu: Rumanian Rhapsody No 2

Shostakovich: Symphony No 9

Andrei Ioni?? (cello)

Moritz Gnann (conductor)

Alwyn: They flew alone (suite from the film music)

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

McCabe: Joybox

John Storgards (conductor)

Ginastera: Piano Concerto No 1

Xiayin Wang (piano)

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Holst A Moorside Suite

BBC Philharmonic (strings)

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Arriaga: Symphony

Radio 3 New Generation Artist Andrei Ionita plays Haydn with the BBC Philharmonic.

Bbc Philharmonic20190325Today's concert, an all-English programme featuring Walton, Elgar and Britten recorded by the BBC Philharmonic in Bilbao earlier this month. It's presented by Tom McKinney.

Walton Overture, Scapino

Elgar In the South

Britten Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Recorded. March 2 2019 in Bilbao, Spain

David Matthews Symphony No 8

BBC Philharmonic / Jac van Steen

Rec. December 6 2017 at MediaCityUK, Salford

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Holst A Winter Idyll

Sir Andrew Davis, conductor

Saint-Sa뀀ns Piano Concerto No 3

BBC Philharmonic / Moritz Gnann / Louis Lortie (piano)

Rec. February 13 2019 at MediaCityUK, Salford

Jonathan Dove Airport Scenes (first broadcast)

BBC Philharmonic / Timothy Redmond

Rec. September 7 2018 at MediaCityUK, Salford

Ginastera Panambi

BBC Philharmonic/ Juanjo Mena / Manchester Chamber Choir

Rec.March 23 2016 in MediaCityUK, Salford

An all-English programme with works by Walton, Elgar and Britten presented by Tom McKinney

Bbc Philharmonic20190329Concluding a week of great performances by the BBC Philharmonic. Today's concert features music by Elgar (Sevillana and Cockaigne Overture) and Walton (Viola Concerto).

Presented by Tom McKinney

Elgar Sevillana

Walton Viola Concerto

Elgar Overture, Cockaigne

BBC Philharmonic / Juanjo Mena

Rec. March 3 2019 in Bilbao, Spain

Montsalvatge Partita

Britten Violin Concerto

BBC Philharmonic / Edward Gardner / Tasmin Little (violin)

Scott Symphony No 4

BBC Philharmonic / Martyn Brabbins

Bax Symphony No 7

BBC Philharmonic / Vernon Handley

Elgar, Walton and Britten given by the BBC Philharmonic and presented by Tom McKinney.

Bbc Philharmonic20190603with Elizabeth Alker.

Today's concert:

2pm:

Dvo?ကk Cello Concerto in B minor

Elgar Symphony No 1

BBC Philharmonic / Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) / Bartholomew Lafollette (cello)

c.3.30pm:

David Matthews Sinfonia

BBC Philharmonic / Jac van Steen (conductor)

c.3.40pm:

Dukas Polyeucte

BBC Philharmonic / Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

c.3.55pm:

Sibelius Symphony No 6

BBC Philharmonic / Andrew Davis (conductor)

c.4.25pm:

Gerard Schurmann Claretta (suite from the film score)

BBC Philharmonic / Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Elizabeth Alker presents an afternoon of music performed by the BBC Philharmonic.

Bbc Philharmonic20190604With Elizabeth Alker.

Today's concert:

2pm:

Mendelssohn Overture, Ruy Blas

Edward Cowie Clarinet Concerto no 3 (Ruskin's Dreams)

Tchaikovsky Symphony no 6 (Path耀tique)

BBC Philharmonic / Andrew Gourlay (conductor) / Julian Bliss (clarinet)

c.3.30pm:

Holst Indra

BBC Philharmonic / Andrew Davis (conductor)

c.3.45pm:

Thomas Ad耀s Three Studies from Couperin

BBC Philharmonic / Clemens Schuldt (conductor)

c.4pm:

Schubert Symphony no 9 (Great)

Elizabeth Alker presents more concert performances from the BBC Philharmonic

Bbc Philharmonic20190607Elizabeth Alker concludes a week of performances from the BBC Philharmonic.

2pm:

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, fantasy-overture

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor

Sibelius; Violin Concerto in D minor

Istvan Vardai (cello)

Ning Feng (violin)

BBC Philharmonic and string students of the Royal Northern College of Music

Simone Young (conductor)

c.3.35pm:

Copland; Quiet City

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c.3.45pm:

Martin?; Symphony No 4

John Storgards (conductor)

Bbc Philharmonic20190618With Tom McKinney.

Today's Concert:

2pm:

Haydn Symphony no 49 (La Passione)

Schumann Cello Concerto

Shostakovich Symphony no 6

BBC Philharmonic / Omer Meir Wellber (conductor) / Andrei Ionita (cello)

c.3.15pm:

Stravinsky Symphony in C

BBC Philharmonic / Andrew Davis (conductor)

c.3.45pm:

Ginastera Variaciones concertantes

BBC Philharmonic / Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c.4.10pm:

Jonathan Dove The Ringing Isle

BBC Philharmonic / Timothy Redmond (conductor)

Tom McKinney introduces concert performances from the BBC Philharmonic.

Bbc Philharmonic20200629The BBC Philharmonic with an all-Beethoven concert recorded in Hanley in February. Plus works by Edward Gregson and Russian-born Swiss composer Paul Juon.

Presented by Tom McKinney

2pm

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (Eroica)

Martin Roscoe, piano

Ben Gernon, conductor

c.3.30pm

Edward Gregson: Euphonium Concerto

David Childs, euphonium

Eric Coates: The Merrymakers, Overture

John Wilson, conductor

Paul Juon: Suite Op 93

John Storgards, conductor

The BBC Philharmonic perform music by Beethoven, Edward Gregson and Paul Juon.

Bbc Philharmonic20200630The BBC Philharmonic with a concert recorded in Leeds in February featuring music by Tchaikovsky, Berlioz and the world premiere of Edward Gregson's oboe concerto. Plus Shostakovich's 4th Symphony, recorded at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

2pm

Tchaikovsky: Fantasy Overture 'Romeo and Juliet

Edward Gregson: A Vision in a Dream (Oboe Concerto) (world premiere, BBC commission)

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Jennifer Galloway, oboe

Ben Gernon, conductor

c.3.35pm

Antheil: Capital of the World Suite

John Storgards, conductor

Shostakovich: Symphony No 4

Mark Wigglesworth, conductor

The BBC Philharmonic in music by Tchaikovsky, Gregson, Berlioz, Antheil and Shostakovich.

Bbc Philharmonic20200701An afternoon of English music played by the BBC Philharmonic. We start off with Vaughan Williams atmospheric evocation of the East Anglian landscape, followed by a tribute to him by Edmund Rubbra, a composer Vaughan Williams claimed was his natural successor. In 1914 Arnold Bax began an affair with the pianist Harriet Cohen and they spent a few weeks on the north Cornish coast at Tintagel, with its nearby castle associated with the legends of King Arthur. His love for Cohen and that Arthurian magic are all features of his popular tone poem. Next up is music by Dutch born composer Gerard Schurmann who's best known for film scores and who orchestrated Lawrence of Arabia. We'll hear his Concerto for Orchestra which was written in 1996. And to conclude the world premiere recorded in 2019 of Martin Suckling's 'This Departing Landscape'. Martin describes the two movements as 'a kaleidoscope of sharp-edged fragments constantly shifting into new configurations', and 'music of glacial energy: extremely heavy, extremely slow, an inexorable continuity of gradual transformation'.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

2pm

Vaughan Williams: In the Fen Country

John Wilson, conductor

Rubbra: A Tribute [to Vaughan Williams on his 70th birthday]

John Storgards, conductor

Bax: Tintagel

Vernon Handley, conductor

Schurmann: Concerto for orchestra

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Martin Suckling: This Departing Landscape (wp, BBC commission)

Ilan Volkov, conductor

The BBC Philharmonic with an afternoon of British music.

Bbc Philharmonic20200703The BBC Philharmonic and Chief Guest Conductor John Storgards on tour in Friedrichshafen with symphonies by Britten and Bruckner. Kian Soltani joins them as soloist in Haydn's D major Cello Concerto and Lawrence Power brings us MacMillan's Viola Concerto.

2pm

Britten: Simple Symphony

Haydn: Cello Concerto in D

Bruckner: Symphony No 6

Kian Soltani, cello

John Storgards, conductor

c.3.45pm

James MacMillan: Viola Concerto

Lawrence Power, viola

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

The BBC Philharmonic on tour in Friedrichshafen including music by Britten and Bruckner.

Bbc Philharmonic20210119Georgia Mann presents recent recordings by the BBC Philharmonic.

Shostakovich: Symphony No 11

John Storgards, conductor

Ginastera: Piano Concerto No 1

Xiayin Wang, piano

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Holst: A Winter Idyll

Andrew Davis, conductor

Arriaga: Symphony

Elgar: Cello Concerto

Paul Watkins, cello

Andrew Davis conducts Paul Watkins and the BBC Philharmonic in Elgar's Cello Concerto.

Bbc Philharmonic (1-4)20201123Tom McKinney introduces as week of recent performances recorded by the BBC Philharmonic including music by Britten, Berlioz and the Concerto for Theremin by Kalevi Aho.

Eric Coates: Calling All Workers

BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Wilson

Hector Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Ben Gernon

Michael Tippett: Divertimento on ‘Sellinger's Round

Edmund Rubbra :Four Medieval Latin lyrics

Benjamin Britten: Sinfonietta

Christopher Purves (baritone)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Rumon Gamba

Kalevi Aho: Eight Seasons (Theremin Concerto)

Carolina Eyck (theremin)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Storgards

An afternoon of orchestral music from the BBC Philharmonic.

Bbc Philharmonic (2-4)20201124Tom McKinney continues his focus on music making from the BBC's orchestra in the north, the BBC Philharmonic, beginning with a concert given in the Musikverein in Vienna of music by Britten, Haydn and Bruckner.

'The BBC Phil in Vienna'

Benjamin Britten: Simple Symphony

Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto in D

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No 6

Kian Soltani (cello)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Storgards

Rec. October 11 2019 in the Musikverein, Vienna

From the orchestra's home studio in Salford:

Wolfgang Mozart: Symphony No 33 in B flat (K 319)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Ben Gernon

Gabriel Faur退: Suite, Masques et Bergamasques

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Stephanie Childress

George Benjamin: At First Light

Orchestral music from the BBC Philharmonic.

Bbc Philharmonic (3-4)20201125Tom McKinney introduces a live afternoon concert from Media City UK in Salford given by the BBC Philharmonic of music by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D

Wolfgang Mozart: Piano Concerto in A K 414

Paul Lewis (piano)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gergely Madaras

From the Philharmonic archive.....

Per Nørg倀rd: Momentum (Cello Concerto No 2)

Jakob Kullberg (cello)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Storgards

The BBC Philharmonic - live.

Bbc Philharmonic (4-4)20201127Tom McKinney concludes his week-long look at music-making from the BBC Philharmonic with some recent performances of music by Mozart, Schubert, Busoni and Schuller.

Wolfgang Mozart: Serenade in D (K 320) (Posthorn)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Mark Wigglesworth

Franz Schubert: Symphony No 8 in B minor (D 759) (Unfinished)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Juanjo Mena

Ferruccio Busoni: Suite - Die Brautwahl

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Neeme J䀀rvi

Mark-Anthony Turnage Romanian Rhapsody (first broadcast)

Zo뀀 Beyers (violin)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Storgards

Gunther Schuller: Symphony for brass and percussion

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Clark Rundell

Recent studio recordings from the BBC Philharmonic.

Bbc Philharmonic And Bbc Concert Orchestra20201113with Hannah French

The BBC Philharmonic present a short studio concert, live from MediaCity, Salford, starting with Faur退's popular Pavane, a composer who suffered increasing deafness towards the end of his life. Jennifer Pike is the soloist in Mozart's sunny Violin Concerto No 5. The BBC Concert Orchestra feature in the rest of the programme with a newly released CD of Spanish music: and the wind players from the orchestra play Holst's Japanese Suite. Holst spent much of his life teaching and composing because neuritis curtailed his ambition of being a concert pianist. Part of ‘1 in 5', the BBC's focus on disability this month, marking the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act.

Faur退: Pavane

Justina Repe?kait?: Chartres (UK premiere)

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K 219

Jennifer Pike (violin)

BBC Philharmonic, conductor Ben Gernon

14.55

Raymond Premru: Divertimento

BBC Concert Orchestra brass players, conductor David McCallum

15.10

Holst Japanese Suite

BBC Concert Orchestra wind players, conductor Lev Parikian

15.25

Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Turina: Poema en forma de canciones

Juan Perez Floristan (piano)

Magdalena Llamas (mezzo)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Alfonso Casado Trigo

16.00

Delius: Hiawatha (tone poem)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor David Lloyd-Jones

The BBC Philharmonic live from MediaCity, Salford. The BBC Concert Orchestra plays Holst.

Bbc Philharmonic In Manchester20200120The beginning of a week of concerts and music featuring the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC's orchestra in the North of England.

Concert of the Day:

Rec. April 13 2019 in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Bax November Woods

Walton Violin Concerto

James Ehnes, violin

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 4

John Wilson, conductor

Dvo?ကk The Wood Dove

Jac van Steen, conductor

Presented by Elizabeth Alker

Performances by the BBC's north of England orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic.

Bbc Philharmonic In Zagreb20200121This week we are featuring concerts and recordings by the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC's orchestra based in the north of England.

Concert of the Day

Rec. October 12 2019 at Lisinski Hall, Zagreb

Britten:Simple Symphony

Haydn: Cello Concerto in D

Bruckner Symphony No 6

Kian Soltani, cello

John Storgards, conductor

Mozart: Vado, ma dove? (K583)

Sally Matthews (soprano)

Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Piano Concerto No 3

Louis Lortie (piano)

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Coates The Jester at the Wedding, Suite

Presented by Elizabeth Alker

Concerts from the BBC performing groups and orchestras from across the world

Bbc Philharmonic Live20131211Stuart Flinders presents a live concert by the BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Guest Conductor John Storgards, at MediaCity in Salford. You can hear Carl Nielsen's enigmatic final symphony, an overture by Hindemith - continuing this week's series marking the 50th anniversary of his death - and Shostakovich's well-loved Second Piano Concerto, with Martin Roscoe as soloist.

Hindemith: Cupid and Psyche, Overture

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 2

2.30pm

Nielsen: Symphony No 6 (Sinfonia semplice)

Martin Roscoe (piano),

BBC Philharmonic,

John Storgards (conductor).

Live from Salford, BBC Philharmonic/John Storgards in Hindemith, Shostakovich and Nielsen.

Bbc Philharmonic Live20190130Tom Redmond presents a live concert from MediaCityUK with the BBC Philharmonic of music by Frederic Cowan, Dorothy Howell, Vaughan Williams and Bliss.

Arnell: Overture, The New Age

Cowen: Reverie

Fogg: Merok

Howell: Lamia

Vaughan Williams: Harnham Down

Goossens: By the tarn

Bliss: Mꀀl退e Fantasque

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Tom Redmond presents a live concert from MediaCityUK with the BBC Philharmonic.

Bbc Philharmonic Live20190206Tom McKinney presents the BBC Philharmonic live in a concert from MediaCityUK in Salford, featuring works by Emily Howard, Edward Cowie and Richard Rodney Bennett

John Ruskin was born 200 hundred years ago this week and the piece by Edward Cowie celebrates the great art critic of the Victorian era who famously argued that the principal role of the artist is 'truth to nature'. Edward Cowie, as well as being a composer has also exhibited internationally as a painter

Emily Howard: Magnetite

Edward Cowie: Clarinet Concerto No 3 (Ruskin's Dreams - Coniston)

Richard Rodney Bennett: Partita

Julian Bliss (Clarinet)

Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

Penny Gore presents the rest of the afternoon from London

BBC Philharmonic live in works by Emily Howard, Edward Cowie and Richard Rodney Bennett

Bbc Philharmonic Live20191113John Wilson conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Eric Coates live from MediaCityUK. Presented by Andrew McGregor.

Eric Coates:

London Bridge: March

Selfish Giant: Phantasy

Wood Nymphs: Concert Waltz

For Your Delight: Serenade

Lazy Night: Valse Roance

The Enchanted Garden

Summer Days: Suite

John Wilson, conductor

John Wilson conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Eric Coates, live from MediaCityUK.

Bbc Philharmonic Live20200114Tom McKinney presents a live concert from MediaCityUK, in which John Wilson conducts the BBC Philharmonic in two pieces by Vaughan Williams. They begin with his folksong-inspired tone poem In the Fen Country and move on to his often violent-sounding Sixth Symphony, written in the years immediately after the Second World War.

Following that, we join the BBC Singers and conductor Sofi Jeannin for a concert featuring choral arrangements of some orchestral favourites under the splendour of historic sailing ship Cutty Sark. There's music by Elgar, Grainger, Barber and Byrd, among others

There's also another visit to the 66th International Rostrum of Composers in Argentina, with an orchestral piece written by the young Slovenian composer Petra Strahovnik in 2018.

The programme ends with another violin concerto from the instrument of Jack Liebeck - this time, Brahms's - with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Gourlay.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Ralph Vaughan Williams: In the Fen Country

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 in E minor

John Wilson, conductor

3.00pm

Edward Elgar: Lux Aeterna

William Walton (arr. Bob Chilcott): Touch her soft lips, and part

Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei

Percy Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry

Percy Grainger: The Sussex Mummers' Carol

Sven-David Sandstr怀m: Hear my prayer

Jan Sandstr怀m: Det 䀀r en ros utsprungen

William Byrd: Ave verum corpus

Roderick Williams: Ave Verum Corpus Re-Imagined

Douglas Guest: (They shall grow not old)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr. Paul Drayton): The Lark Ascending

Elodie Chousmer-Howells, violin

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

3.50pm

Petra Strahovnik: Prana

RTV Symphony Orchestra, Ljubljana

Rossen Milanov, conductor

4.00pm

Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major

Jack Liebeck, violin

Andrew Gourlay, conductor

The BBC Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams and the BBC Singers perform on the Cutty Sark.

Bbc Philharmonic Live At Mediacityuk In Salford20190619Tom McKinney introduces a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford.
Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk In Salford20160921Stuart Flinders presents a live concert of music from the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Alondra de la Parra. They open with a UK premiere - Mexican Arturo Marquez's Leyenda de Milano, before turning to Argentina for Ginastera's Variaciones concertantes, and finally Brazil with Villa Lobos's tribute to JS Bach in the seventh of his Bachianas Brasileiras.

2pm

Arturo Mကrquez: Leyenda de Milano (UK premiere)

Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes, Op 23

Villa Lobos: Bachiana Brasileira No 7

Alondra de la Parra (conductor).

Live from MediaCityUK, the BBC Philharmonic in music by Marquez, Ginastera and Villa-Lobos

Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk, Salford20170215The BBC Philharmonic - Live from MediaCityUK, Salford, presented by Tom Redmond

George Antheil - radical American composer and a performing pianist, once took to the stage armed with a revolver concealed under his concert dress for a concert tour of 1930s Germany - as a 'degenerate' artist he wanted to defend himself if any Nazis stormed the stage.

Hindemith also felt the disapproval of the Nazi party. He wrote his symphony based on themes from his opera 'Mathis der Maler' (Mathis the Painter) for Furtw䀀ngler and the Berlin Philharmonic to perform in 1934, but both Furtw䀀ngler and Hindemith faced official censure as Hindemith was already considered a composer of 'degenerate' music - and the message of the opera was that the artist must follow his own conscience and the the instruction of his political masters.

By the 1960s, Shostakovich was past the worst of what the Soviet State could throw at him, so it seems a pity that his Second Cello Concerto should have caused him so many problems musically. He struggled with the first movement, which had been originally destined as a new symphony, and threw out a completed final movement and started again from scratch.

Live BBC Philharmonic

2pm

Serenade No 1 for strings [1948]

Cello Concerto No 2 in G major, Op126

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)

Symphony 'Mathis der Maler

John Storgards (conductor).

Live from Salford, the BBC Philharmonic performs Antheil, Shostakovich and Hindemith.

Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk, Salford20171027Tom Redmond presents the BBC Philharmonic, live from their home at MediaCityUK in Salford. Pavel Kolesnikov joins the orchestra for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4. And Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with Eventyr by Delius, inspired by a Norwegian fairy tale. Then it's back to London with Jonathan Swain, and more from this week's featured ensemble, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, in concert at Maida Vale. They perform recent composition by some of the UK's most exciting living composers, including the world premiere of Gordon Crosse's Third Symphony.

2pm - LIVE from MediaCityUK Salford, presented by Tom Redmond

Delius: Eventyr

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G major

Sibelius: King Christian II Suite Op.27

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

Rory Macdonald (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Back to the studio with Jonathan Swain

Rachel Portman: Endangered

Edwin Roxburgh: Concerto for Piano and Winds

Sally Beamish: Diodati (UK premiere)

Gordon Crosse: Symphony No. 3 'Between Despair and Dawn' (world premiere)

Clare Hammond (piano)

Michael Seal (conductor).

The BBC Philharmonic perform live from Salford, plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk, Salford20190605Elizabeth Alker introduces a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic in their home at MediaCity.

2pm:

Piers Hellawell Wild Flow

Shostakovich Violin Concerto no 2 in C sharp minor

BBC Philharmonic / Jac van Steen (conductor) / Aleksey Semenenko (violin)

c.2.50pm:

Arensky Symphony no 2 in A major

BBC Philharmonic / Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Elizabeth Alker introduces a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford.

Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford20160511Stuart Flinders presents a concert live from the studios in Salford's MediaCityUK. Jac van Steen conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Elgar's symphonic study Falstaff, and they are joined by Russian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov in Beethoven's Concerto no.1 in C

2pm

Elgar: Falstaff - symphonic study Op.68

c.2.35pm

Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 1 in C major Op.15

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

Jac van Steen, conductor.

Live from Salford, BBC Philharmonic in Elgar: Falstaff and Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1.

Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford20160525Tom Redmond introduces a live concert of French music with the BBC Philharmonic. Lorenzo Viotti conducts, and Leonard Elschenbroich joins the orchestra for Saint-Sa뀀ns's lyrical First Cello Concerto.

2pm

Poulenc: Les Animaux mod耀les - suite from the ballet

2.25pm

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor

2.55pm

Chausson: Symphony in B flat, Op 20

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)

Lorenzo Viotti (conductor).

A live concert of French music with the BBC Philharmonic under Lorenzo Viotti.

Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford20180919BBC Philharmonic Chief Guest Conductor John Storg倀rds returns to Salford for a live broadcast of music by Valentin Silvestrov and Judith Weir

After this, John Wilson conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in the four 'Sea Interludes' Benjamin Britten extracted from his opera Peter Grimes

2.00pm

Valentin Silvestrov: Symphony no. 5

Judith Weir: I Give You The End Of A Golden String

John Storg倀rds, conductor

1510

Britten: Four Sea interludes from Peter Grimes, Op.33a

John Wilson, conductor

John Storgards conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Silvestrov and Weir

Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford20180926Live from Salford's MediaCityUK, Conductor Jiri Rozen and the BBC Philharmonic perform Martinu's final symphony, his 'Fantaisies symphoniques', and one of Dvorak's most popular orchestral works, his Serenade for Strings. They are joined by Ashley Riches for Mahler's youthful song cycle, the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer).

After this, Rumon Gamba conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Knight in Armour, the early tone poem of Ruth Gipps which was premiered at the Last Night of the Proms in 1942.

2.00pm

Dvorak: Serenade for Strings in C major, Op 48

Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer

Martinu: Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony No 6), H 343

Ashley Riches (baritone)

Jiri Rozen (conductor)

Continues:

c.1520

Gipps: Knight in Armour, Op 8

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

BBC Philharmonic and Jiri Rozen live in Dvorak, Mahler and Martinu

Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford20181106Live from Salford's MediaCityUK, conductor Douglas Boyd and the BBC Philharmonic perform Britten's thrilling setting of poems by Rimbaud, Les Illuminations with tenor Robin Tritschler. This is paired with Mozart's Serenade in B flat (K 361) often referred to as the Gran Partita. The live concert is presented by Tom Redmond.

After this, Tom continues his survey this week of Tippett's symphonic works with the composer's Symphony No. 3 for soprano and orchestra, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martin Brabbins and soloist Rachel Nicholls. This eclectic works is blues-influenced and includes quotations from Beethoven, suggesting that Tippett was challenging Beethoven's world-view.

2.00 pm

Britten: Les Illuminations

Mozart: Serenade in B flat (K 361)

Robin Tritschler, tenor

Douglas Boyd, conductor

c. 3.20 pm

Tippett: Symphony No. 3

Rachel Nicholls, soprano

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

c. 4.20 pm

Britten: Four Sea Interludes

Rory Macdonald, conductor

c. 4.40 pm

Helen Grime: Snow from 2 Eardley Pictures

The BBC Philharmonic and Douglas Boyd, live from Salford, perform Britten and Mozart.

Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford20190410Live from Media City in Salford, John Wilson conducts a concert of twentieth-century English music.

We begin with the ballet music from Gustav Holst's comic opera The Perfect Fool which is danced by Spirits of Earth, Water and Fire, before hearing John Ireland's tone poem The Forgotten Rite which was inspired by the pagan ancient sites of Jersey. Next up is a selection from William Walton's Facade featuring yodelling, a tango and a tarantella, and the concert concludes with Arnold Bax's shimmering evocation of The Garden of Fand, a work infused with Irish mythology and Celtic fantasy.

Holst: The Perfect Fool Ballet Music

Ireland: The Forgotten Rite

Walton: Facade (selection)

Bax: The Garden of Fand

BBC Philharmonic

John Wilson (Conductor)

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Live from Salford, John Wilson conducts a concert of twentieth-century English music.

Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford20210716Tom McKinney presents the BBC Philharmonic live from Salford. Ben Gernon conducts music by Malcolm Arnold and Haydn, and Karen Gomyo joins the orchestra for Bruch's popular first violin concerto.

Plus, Ian Skelly introduces more recordings from Poland, including South American music from the Polish Radio Orchestra and Christian Vasquez.

Including:

2pm

Arnold: Sinfonietta No.3

c.2.15pm

Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op. 26

c.2.40pm

Haydn: Symphony No.103 in E flat major (Drum Roll)

Karen Gomyo (violin)

Ben Gernon (conductor)

Bbc Philharmonic Live In Salford20191204Rumon Gamba conducts music by Michael Tippett, Malcolm Arnold and Ruth Gipps - a celebration of British musical creativity in the decades after World War II.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Tippett: Praeludium

Arnold: Clarinet Concerto No 1

with Michael Collins (clarinet)

Gipps: Symphony No 3

BBC Philharmonic

Conductor Rumon Gamba

Rumon Gamba conducts music by Michael Tippett, Malcolm Arnold and Ruth Gipps.

Bbc Philharmonic, Halvorsen, Strauss, Mendelssohn20141022Live from MediaCity, Salford, home of the BBC Philharmonic.

This week launches the Afternoon on 3 Nordic and Baltic season. Conductor Ben Gernon had his BBC Proms debut this year and joins the orchestra for Johan Halvorsen's Pictures from Norwegian Fairy Tales, Richard Strauss's Burleske for piano and orchestra with soloist Zhang Zuo and Mendelssohn's youthful First Symphony.

2pm

Norwegian Fairy Tale Pictures, Op.37

Burleske in D Minor, Op.11

Zhang Zuo (piano)

Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.11

Ben Gernon (conductor).

Live from MediaCity in Salford, BBC Philharmonic in Halvorsen, Strauss and Mendelssohn.

Bbc Philharmonic, Live20181212Continuing our week of live performances every day from the BBC Orchestras, Ben Gernon conducts the BBC Philharmonic performing Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Anna Clyne's This Midnight Hour & excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake live from MediaCityUK. Presented by Stuart Flinders.

Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel: Prelude to Act I

Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (excerpts)

Ben Gernon, conductor

Ben Gernon conducts music by Humperdinck, Clyne and Tchaikovsky live from MediaCityUK.

Bbc Philharmonic, Live From Mediacityuk20200124Featuring live music by the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC's orchestra in the North of England.

Presented by Elizabeth Alker

Beethoven: Overture, The Consecration of the House

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat (K271)

Beethoven: Gratulations-Menuett (WoO 3)

Elisabeth Brauss, piano

Ludovic Morlot, conductor

Bbc Philharmonic, Live From Salford20190515The BBC Philharmonic, live from Salford, in a programme of works by Polish-born composer Mieczys?aw Weinberg, including the world premiere of his piece Morning-Red. Long resident in Moscow, he was a friend and confidante of Dmitri Shostakovich and his was some of the most interesting and important Soviet music of the last half of the twentieth century. Presented by Tom Redmond.

2.00pm

Mussorgsky arr. Shostakovich: Khovantshchina, Prleude to Act I (Dawn on the Moscow river)

Weinberg: Morning-Red (Dawn), op. 60 (world premiere);

Concerto no. 1 for flute and string orchestra, op. 75;

Symphony no. 4, op. 61

Alex Jakeman, flute

John Storg倀rds, conductor

The BBC Philharmonic, live from Salford, in a programme of works by Mieczyslaw Weinberg.

Bbc Philharmonic, Prokofiev, Ravel And Vaughan Williams20170224Catriona Young rounds off her week of performances by the BBC Philharmonic. Conductor John Wilson has been featuring over this week, and he performs music by Haydn Wood and Vaughan Williams as part of Afternoon on 3's British Music Season. Plus Colin Matthews's orchestration of four Preludes by Debussy, and Prokofiev's Symphony No.7.

2pm

Sibelius: The Bard, Op.64

John Storgards (conductor)

Prokofiev: Symphony No 7 in C sharp minor

Jac van Steen (conductor)

c.2.40pm

Debussy orch. Colin Matthews: Four Preludes

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

c.3.20pm

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 2 (A London Symphony)

John Wilson (conductor)

Haydn Wood: London Landmarks

John Wilson (conductor).

BBC Philharmonic in Sibelius, Prokofiev, Debussy, Ravel, Vaughan Williams and Haydn Wood.

Bbc Philharmonic, Sibelius, Vasks, Nielsen20141210Afternoon on 3's series of Nordic/Baltic music continues with the BBC Philharmonic and conductor John Storgards live in concert from MediaCity, Salford. The orchestra's Principal Cor Anglais player Gillian Callow is the soloist in Peteris Vasks Cor Anglais Concerto, before Nielsen's mighty Symphony no.4.

Presented by Stuart Flinders.

2.00pm

Sibelius: Pan and Echo

Peteris Vasks: Cor anglais Concerto

2.30pm

Nielsen: Symphony No 4 (Inextinguishable)

Gillian Callow (cor anglais)

BBC Philharmonic, conductor John Storgards.

John Storgards conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Sibelius, Vasks and Nielsen.

Bbc Philharmonic. Live From Salford20200122Today's Concert: live from the BBC Philharmonic Studio, Media City.

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge

Ravel Mother Goose: Five Pieces

Alessandro Fisher, tenor

Ludovic Morlot, conductor

Presented by Elizabeth Alker

Featuring live music by the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC's orchestra in the North of England.

Bbc Philharmonic: Music, By George Antheil Live From Salford20180530Stuart Flinders presents a live invitation concert in which the BBC Philharmonic and chief guest conductor, John Storg倀rds, celebrate the self-styled 'bad boy of music', George Antheil. Antheil's 'mechanistic' works made him the rage of the 1920s Parisian artistic community and 'bad boy' of the music scene

Antheil's First Symphony, 'Zingaresca', dates from his early twenties. In 1922 Antheil announced that jazz was 'one of the greatest artistic landmarks of modern art' and this symphony is a prime example of the way in which he incorporated the sounds and styles of jazz into classical music

Commissioned in 1952 to write music for a ballet based on a Hemingway short story, Antheil flavours his Capital of the World suite with American, Russian and Spanish influences

George Antheil:

Symphony no. 1 'Zingaresca

John Storg倀rds, conductor.

The BBC Philharmonic celebrates the self-styled 'bad boy of music', George Antheil.

Bbc Proms Dubai 201920190401This week will be featuring, among other things, concerts from the recent tour to Dubai made by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers. Today we're at Dubai's Opera with a programme given by the BBC Singers, introduced there by Petroc Trelawny. First, the Singers perform Britten's Choral Dances from his opera 'Gloriana' and Durufl退's Four Motets on Gregorian Themes. Then comes a selection of popular works including Laura Mvula's Love Like a Lion. Then, the Singers are joined by the Dubai English-speaking College Chamber Choir in an arrangement of Bob Chilcott's We Are, who also arranged Billy Joel's And So It Goes, performed by the local group on their own. Next is the Singers again in songs from Flanders & Swann's 'At the drop of a Hat'. And the concert ends with Laura Mvula's Sing to the Moon, a medley of Abba's music, arranged for choir and Andrew Gold's classic Never Let Her Slip Away.

For the rest of the afternoon we're in the company of Fiona Talkington as she introduces Lighting the Fire, a work by the Estonian composer Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes, featured in the 2018 International Rostrum of Composers.

Then we move to Milton Court in London, with Dominic Dagavino performing Ligeti's Musica Ricercata for piano, part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's 'Total Immersion' cycle.

And the afternoon ends with Richard Strauss's Sonatina No.1 in F major 'From an Invalid's Workshop', with the BBC Symphony Orchestra Wind, conducted by Douglas Boyd.

2.00pm - Concert presented by Petroc Trelawny

Britten: Choral Dances from ‘Gloriana

Durufl退: Quatre motets sur des th耀mes gr退goriens

Laura Mvula: Love Like a Lion

Bob Chilcott: We Are

Billy Joel, arr Chilcott: And So It Goes

Flanders & Swann, arr Stephen Jeffes and Grace Rossiter: Choral Suite of Songs from ‘At the Drop of a Hat

Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon

Benny Andersson and Bj怀rn Ulvaeus, arr. Stephen Jeffes and Grace Rossiter: ABBA Medley

Andrew Gold arr. Jonathan Wikeley: Never Let Her Slip Away

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

Presented by Fiona Talkington

3.20pm

Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes (Estonia): Lighting the Fire

3.53pm

From the BBCSO's Total Immersion: Ligeti - at Milton Court in London

Ligeti: Musica ricercata for piano solo 1951-53

Dominic Degavino, piano

4.23pm

Richard Strauss: Sonatina No.1 in F major 'Aus der Werkstatt eines Invaliden

BBCSO Wind

Douglas Boyd, conductor

The BBC Singers conducted by Sofi Jeannin at Dubai Opera.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20111010Katie Derham presents performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Donald Runnicles, including a recent concert from Aberdeen with soprano Michaela Kaune in Strauss's Four Last Songs.

Elgar: Symphony no. 1 in A flat major Op.55

Donald Runnicles (conductor)

Beethoven: Overture: Egmont

R Strauss: Four Last Songs

Elgar: Symphony No.2

Michaela Kaune (soprano)

Recorded at The Music Hall, Aberdeen.

Katie Derham presents performances by the BBC Scottish SO and Donald Runnicles.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20111011Katie Derham presents a recent concert from Perth Concert Hall by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Xian Zhang, with pianist Denis Kozhukhin performing Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto. Plus Mozart and Stravinsky

Schubert: Symphony No.8 'Unfinished

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 in C major, Op.26

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4

Denis Kozhukhin (piano)

Xian Zhang (conductor)

Stravinsky: Pulcinella

Karen Cargill (mezzo soprano)

Thomas Walker (tenor)

Andrew Foster-Williams (bass)

Matthias Pintscher (conductor).

Katie Derham presents BBC SSO performing music by Schubert, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20111012Violinist Jennifer Koh joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrew Grams in a rare performance of Menotti's Violin Concerto in A minor - a work that she studied with the composer. Also in this concert given recently at the Lammermuir Festival in East Lothian are Rossini's overture to William Tell and Dvorak's 'New World' Symphony.

Presented by Katie Derham

Rossini: Overture: William Tell

Menotti: Violin Concerto in A minor

Dvorak: Symphony No.9 (From the New World)

Jennifer Koh (violin)

Andrew Grams (conductor).

Katie Derham presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Rossini, Menotti and Dvorak.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20180917Penny Gore introduces music by Elgar, Dvorak, Copland and, in his centenary year, Leonard Bernstein

Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations, while cellist and former BBC New Generation Artist Nicolas Altstaedt joins them for concertos by Elgar and Dvorak

2.00pm

Wagner: Tannhauser Overture

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85; 'Enigma' Variations, Op.36

Nicolas Altstaedt, cello

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

3.20pm

Macmillan: Stomp (with Fate and Elvira)

Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104

4.00pm

Copland: Quiet City

Britten: Sinfonia da requiem, Op.20

Bernstein: Halil

Mark O'Keeffe, trumpet

James Horan, cor anglais

Charlotte Ashton, flute

John Wilson, conductor

Penny Gore with music by Elgar, Dvorak, Copland and Bernstein

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20180918Penny Gore introduces Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, as well as music by Mozart and Richard Rodney Bennett

Martyn Brabbins conducts Elgar's searing oratorio The Dream of Gerontius, to words by Cardinal Newman, recorded in Rotterdam during the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's European tour earlier this year

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op.38

Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano

Andrew Staples, tenor

David Soar, bass

Rotterdam Symphony Chorus

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

1540

Bennett: Concerto for Stan Getz; Symphony no. 2

Howard McGill, saxophone

John Wilson, conductor

1620

Mozart: Symphony no.41 in C, K.551 'Jupiter

Laura Samuel, director

Penny Gore introduces Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and music by Richard Rodney Bennett

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20180921Penny Gore introduces music by Bruckner, Britten, Mozart and Richard Rodney Bennett in performances recorded by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Former BBC Young Musician of the Year Laura van der Heijden joins the orchestra for Haydn's sunny Cello Concerto in C, written in the 1760s: it was presumed lost for two hundred years until it was discovered in a museum in Prague

2.00pm

Haydn: Cello Concerto no.1 in C, Hob.7b.1

Bruckner: Symphony no.7 in E

Laura van der Heijden, cello

Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor

1520

Bennett: Serenade for orchestra; Partita for orchestra

John Wilson, conductor

1550

Bridge orch. Hindmarsh: Three Idylls

Britten: Les Illuminations, Op.18

Mozart: Serenade in G, K.525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Claire Booth, soprano

Laura Samuel, director

Penny Gore introduces music by Haydn, Bruckner, Britten, Mozart and Richard Rodney Bennett

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20181105A week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, beginning with a concert of American music by Copland, Augusta Read Thomas and Gershwin. Tom also highlights the symphonic works of Michael Tippett who died 20 years ago, starting today with his Symphony in B flat major, written in the mid-1930s when Tippett was still in his twenties. Presented by Tom Redmond.

2.00 pm

Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man

Augusta Read Thomas: Brio

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

Bernstein: Songfest

Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

Tracy Cantin, soprano

Michele Losier, mezzo soprano

Kelley O'Connor, alto

Paul Appleby, tenor

Nmon Ford, baritone

Musa Ngqungwana, bass

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

c. 3.25 pm

Copland: Billy the Kid Suite

John Wilson, conductor

c. 3.45 pm

Tippett: Symphony in B flat major [1933-34]

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

c. 4.15 pm

Elgar: Enigma Variations

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with music by Copland, Gershwin, Bernstein and Tippett

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20181107Today's concert by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra features Sibelius's patriotic tone poem Finlandia, and his Violin Concerto of which Donald Tovey wrote 'I have not met a more original, a more masterly, and a more exhilarating work'. The soloist is Viktoria Mullova, with conductor Thomas Dausgaard. The concert ends with Nielsen's Second Symphony, The Four Temperaments, describing four personality types: choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic, and sanguine. The concert is presented by Tom Redmond.

2.00 pm

Sibelius: Finlandia

Sibelius: Violin Concerto

Nielsen: Symphony No.2 (The Four Temperaments)

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

Viktoria Mullova, violin

Much-loved works by Sibelius and Nielsen performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20181109The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra end a week of concerts with Dohnanyi's First Violin Concerto with soloist Barnabကs Kelemen, Kodကly's Dances of Galကnta and Borodin's Second Symphony. The concert is conducted by Gergely Madaras and presented by Tom Redmond.

Tom also features another symphonic work by Michael Tippett, ending his brief survey this week of the composer's works with the Fourth Symphony. It begins and ends with the sound of a single breath, fittingly as Tippett described the work as a 'birth to death piece.

2.00 pm

Erno Dohnanyi: Violin Concerto No 1 in D minor

Zoltကn Kodကly: Dances of Galကnta

Alexander Borodin: Symphony No 2 in B minor

Barnabကs Kelemen, violin

Gergely Madaras, conductor

c. 3.25 pm

Mussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition

Rory Macdonald, conductor

c. 4.00 pm

Michael Tippett: Symphony No 4

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

c. 4.30 pm

Bridge orch P Hindmarsh: 3 Idylls for string quartet

Laura Samuel, director/violin

Dohnanyi, Kodaly and Borodin performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20190204A week of performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today James Ehnes joins the orchestra for Britten's Violin Concerto; plus Dvorak's Cello Concerto with Nicolas Altstaedt; Eduard Lassen's Violin Concerto with Linus Roth & Richard Rodney Bennett's 1st Symphony

The Romantic passions of these symphonic works are contrasted with the sparkling wit and infectious energy of a couple of excerpts from Rossini operas with mezzo-soprano Victoria Simmonds.

Presented by Penny Gore

Barber: Essay no. 2 Op.17

Britten: Violin Concerto Op.15

James Ehnes (violin)

James Feddeck (conductor)

2.40pm

Rossini: The Silken Ladder Overture

Rossini: Una voce poco fa from The Barber of Seville

Victoria Simmonds (mezzo-soprano)

Richard Farnes (conductor)

2.55pm

Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor Op.104

Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

3.35pm

Richard Rodney Bennett: Symphony No.1

John Wilson (conductor)

3.55pm

Eduard Lassen: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.87

Linus Roth (violin)

Antony Hermus (conductor)

James Ehnes performs Benjamin Britten's Violin Concerto with the BBC SSO

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20190205The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Liszt's 1st Piano Concerto with pianist Stephen Hough; and Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23 with soloist Elisabeth Brauss

Franz Liszt composed his 1st Piano Concerto over a 26-year period. It premiered in Weimar in 1855, with Liszt at the piano and Hector Berlioz conducting. It is a thunderous war-house of a concerto with contrasting exquisite lyrical sections.

Presented by Penny Gore

Bart k: Suite No.2

Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat major

Bart k: Suite No.1

Stephen Hough (piano)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

3.30pm

Philipp Scharwenka: Violin Concerto op.95

Linus Roth, violin

Antony Hermus, conductor

4.05pm

Richard Rodney Bennett

Reflections on a 16th century tune

John Wilson (conductor)

4.20pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.23 K.488

Elisabeth Brauss, piano

Holly Mathieson, conductor

Concertos by Mozart, Scharwenka and Liszt plus Bartok's two orchestral suites

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200504Penny Gore presents the first in a week of programmes featuring highlights from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's current season.

Bruckner Symphony no. 8 in C minor

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)

Donald Runnicles (conductor)

Recorded 28/02/20 in the Music Hall, Aberdeen.

Brahms Quartet in G minor Op.25, orch. Schoenberg [orig. Piano Quartet no.1]

Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

Recorded 11/10/19 in the Concert Hall, Perth.

Highlights form the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's current season.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200505Penny Gore presents the second programme in a week of concerts given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Bartok - Hungarian Sketches

Schumann - Piano Concerto

Elgar - Symphony No.1

Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

Recorded 16.05.19, in City Halls, Glasgow.

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder

Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5 in D minor Op.47

Claudia Huckle (contralto)

Michael Sanderling (conductor)

Recorded 30/01/20, in Glasgow City Halls

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays Elgar and Shostakovich.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200506Penny Gore presents the third of a week of programmes featuring concerts given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Chopin Concerto no. 1 in E minor Op.11 for piano and orchestra

Schumann Symphony no. 2 in C major Op.61

Zlata Chochieva (piano)

Karl-Heinz Steffens (conductor)

Recorded 09/02/20 in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh.

Chopin and Schumann from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200615Tom McKinney introduces a week of music from the BBC Scottish Symphony beginning today with a concert of music from the Town Hall in Ayr recorded at the start of the year.

Bacewicz: Concerto for string orchestra

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor

Dvorak: Symphony No 7 in D minor

Kristof Barati (violin)

BBC SSO conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya

Also from Ayr...

Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn

BBC SSO conducted by John Wilson

Schubert: Symphony No 4 in C minor 'Tragic

BBC SSO conducted by Francois Leleux

Concerts and recordings made in Ayr.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200616Tom McKinney introduces music making from Perth from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra including a chance to hear Ernst von Dohnanyi's five-movement neo-romantic First Symphony.

A concert recorded in Perth Concert Hall in February of this year...

Smetana: Overture - The Bartered Bride

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D

Dohnanyi: Symphony No 1 in D minor

Karen Gomyo (violin)

BBC SSO conducted by Gergely Madaras

Also from Perth....

Wilhelm Stenhammar: Symphony No1 in F

BBC SSO conducted by Andrew Manze

Concerts and recordings from Perth, including Dohnanyi's First Symphony.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200617Tom McKinney introduces more music making from Scotland with a concert recorded by the BBC SSO at Eden Court in Inverness in March of this year.

Glazunov: Chopiniana

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5

BBC SSO conducted by Martyn Brabbins

Plus a chance to hear more recordings from the BBC Radio 3 'New Generation Artists'.

A concert from Inverness, including works by Glazunov and Tchaikovsky.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200619Tom McKinney introduces music-making from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra recorded in Edinburgh, including a concert of music by Edmund Finnis, Rachmaninov and Rimsky-Korsakov given in the Usher Hall.

Finnis: The Air, Turning (BBC Commission)

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Vadym Kholodenko (piano)

BBC SSO conducted by Ilan Volkov

Also from Edinburgh....

Walton: Symphony No 1 in B flat

BBC SSO conducted by Martyn Brabbins

Concerts and recordings from Edinburgh, including Walton's First Symphony.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20210517The excellent work of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is highlighted in this week's programming.

Mendelssohn The Hebrides overture

Mozart Piano Concerto No.18 K.456

Imogen Cooper, piano

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Tippett: Symphony No 1

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Mendelssohn Symphony No.1

Presented by Fiona Talkington

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform works by Mendelssohn, Mozart and Tippett.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20210518Highlighting the work of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Debussy: Prelude a l'apr耀s midi d'un faune

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Tippett: Symphony No 2

Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E

Ilan Volkov, conductor

Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D

Carolin Widmann, violin

Haydn: Symphony No 6 in D (Le matin)

Presented by Fiona Talkington

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform music including works by Debussy and Tippett.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra (1-4)20210621This week's Afternoon concerts focus on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with a wide range of concerts and studio recordings. Today's programme has a British flavour with Grace Williams's Sea Sketches, Britten's evocative Serenade and the late Anthony Payne's completion of Elgar's Third Symphony.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

2pm

Bartok: Hungarian sketches Sz.97 for orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Haydn Symphony No 8, H.1.8 ‘Le Soir

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.2.35pm

Grace Williams Sea Sketches

Holly Mathieson (conductor)

c.2.55pm

Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

Ian Bostridge (tenor), Christopher Parkes (horn)

Elgar comp.Payne Symphony No 3 in C minor

John Wilson (conductor)

Music by Grace Williams, Britten and Anthony Payne's completion of Elgar's Symphony No 3.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra (2-4)20210622~Afternoon Concert continues with a focus on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme includes a Frenchman in Egypt, a Swedish serenade and culminates in Shostakovich's mighty Tenth Symphony.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

2pm

Donizetti Don Pasquale - opera buffa in 3 acts - Overture

Puccini Capriccio sinf nico

John Wilson (conductor)

c.2.15pm

Faure Pelleas and Mellisande Suite

Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 5 (Egyptian)

Javier Perianes (piano)

Mathias Pintscher (conductor)

Stenhammar Serenade in F

Andrew Manze (conductor)

c.3.45pm

Shostakovich: Symphony no. 10 in E minor Op.93

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Fiona Talkington presents music by Faure, Saint-Saens, Stenhammar and Shostakovich.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra (3-4)20210623~Afternoon Concert continues with its focus on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme includes a masquerade by Anna Clyne, a chamber arrangement of Nielsen's Sixth Symphony and Respighi's Roman Festivals.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

2pm

Anna Clyne Masquerade for orchestra

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

Nielsen Symphony No 6 (arr Abrahamsen for 18 Players)

Andrew Manze (conductor)

c.2.55pm

Respighi Feste Romane for orchestra

John Wilson (conductor)

Fiona Talkington presents music by Anna Clyne, Nielsen and Respighi.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra (4-4)20210625~Afternoon Concert concludes its focus on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with a performance given in Perth Concert Hall for which the orchestra was joined by Steven Osborne. Plus Elizabeth Maconchy's Music for strings and Respighi's Pines of Rome.

Presented by Ian Skelly

2pm

Sibelius Karelia Overture

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op.19

Stenhammar Symphony No 1 in F Major

Steven Osborne (piano)

Andrew Manze (conductor)

c.3.35pm

Elizabeth Maconchy Music for strings

Holly Mathieson (conductor)

c.3'50pm

Respighi Pini di Roma - symphonic poem

John Wilson (conductor)

Ian Skelly presents music by Beethoven, Stenhammar, Machonchy and Respighi.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra In Concert20201116Highlights of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's recent season: Andrew Manze arranges Lawes, and Weber invites us to the dance, plus music by Ruth Gipps, Jane Grey and Dorothy Howell. Presented by Penny Gore.

Respighi: The Birds - Suite

Tippett: Concerto for double string orchestra

Lawes, William (arr. Manze): Fantasy in G minor-major

Mozart: Symphony No.39 in E flat major, K.543

Andrew Manze, conductor

Weber: Invitation to the Dance (orch Berlioz)

Alexander Vedernikov, conductor

Mussorgsky, arr. Shostakovich: Songs and dances of death

Sergei Leiferkus, baritone

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Ruth Gipps: Sinfonietta op.73 for winds and percussion

Ruth Gipps: Jane Grey - fantasy op.15 for viola and strings

Dorothy Howell: 2 pieces for muted strings

Scott Dickinson, viola

Teresa Riveiro Bohm, conductor

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays Respighi and Mozart. Presented by Penny Gore.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra In Japan (1)20191125The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra brings the Proms to Japan.

Fiona Talkington introduces performances recorded recently during the orchestra's residency at the Orchard Hall in Tokyo. This afternoon they open the series with Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Mahler in what is the orchestra's first tour of Japan.

Mendelssohn: Overture 'The Hebrides' ('Fingal's Cave') op. 26

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor

Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor

Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

followed at approx. 3.55pm by:

James MacMillan: Woman of the Apocalypse

Joana Carneiro (conductor)

recorded at the Edinburgh International Festival 2019

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra In Japan (2)20191126The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra brings the Proms to Japan.

Georgia Mann introduces performances recorded recently during the orchestra's residency at the Orchard Hall in Tokyo. This afternoon they play Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Elgar.

Sibelius: Finlandia Op.26

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major Op. 35

Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in D major Op.43

Vadim Repin (violin)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

followed at apporx 3.35pm by:

Toshio Hosokawa: Preludio for orchestra

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85

Dai Miyata (cello)

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra In Japan, 'last Night Of The Proms'20191127The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra brings the Proms to Japan.

Fiona Talkington introduces performances recorded recently during the orchestra's residency at the Orchard Hall in Tokyo. This afternoon they bring the spirit of the Last Night of the Proms to Tokyo in a concert featuring the brilliant young saxophonist, Jess Gillam and the Japanese soprano Maki Mori.

Bernstein: Overture to Candide

Milhaud: Scaramouche

Malcolm Arnold: 4 Scottish dances Op.59 no. 3 ‘Scottish Waltz

Purcell: Now that the sun hath veiled his light Z.193 (An Evening hymn on a ground)

Puccini: O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Jess Gillam (saxophone) andMaki Mori (soprano)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

and at approx. 2.35pm a performance the orchestra gave earlier this year in Salzburg

Elgar Symphony no. 1 in A flat Op.55

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra Live20201001The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs live from City Halls in Glasgow. Britten's Simple Symphony is followed by Shostakovich's more complicated one. Plus a return to this week's Royal Concertgebouw theme, with performances of Mozart, Lutoslawski and Beethoven.

2pm

BBC SSO LIVE, presented by Kate Molleson.

Britten Simple Symphony

Shostakovich Symphony No 14

Elizabeth Atherton (soprano)

Joshua Bloom (bass)

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K. 364

Isabelle Faust (violin)

Tabea Zimmermann (viola)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Ivကn Fischer (conductor)

c.3.55pm

Lutoslawski Cello Concerto

Gregor Horsch (cello)

Beethoven Symphony no.5 in C minor, Op.67

Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, live from City Halls, Glasgow

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Barber, Bernstein, Rachmaninov20191030Tom McKinney with music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra including a concert from Inverness of American and Russian music conducted by John Wilson.

Leonard Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from 'On The Town

Samuel Barber: Knoxville - Summer of 1915

(Elizabeth Reiter - soprano)

Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Wilson

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Barber, Bernstein and Rachmaninov.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Barber, Britten, Macmillan20191028Tom McKinney introduces concerts and recordings made by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, including appearances at this year's St Magnus Festival in Orkney.

Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings

Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations

(Mary Bevan - soprano)

James MacMillan: For Sonny

Ralph Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis.

(Leader - Laura Samuel)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 4

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Liebreich

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Barber, Britten and MacMillan.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Bartok, Brahms, Macmillan20191101Tom McKinney introduces a programme of concerts and recordings given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra including music recorded in Salzburg under their Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard.

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor

(Elizabeth Leonskaya - piano)

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thomas Dausgaard

and from this year's Edinburgh Festival

James MacMillan: A Scotch Bestiary

(Stephen Farr - organ)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joana Carneiro.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Bartok, Brahms and MacMillan.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Brahms, Haydn, Rachmaninov20191029Tom McKinney introduces concerts and recordings from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra including the premiere of a new work by Stuart MacRae given at this year's Lammermuir festival.

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No 42 in D

Sergey Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

(Vadim Kholodenko - piano)

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 3

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Carter

From the 2019 Lammermuir Festival

Stuart MacRae: Prometheus Symphony for soprano, baritone and orchestra

(Jennifer France - soprano)

(Paul Carey Jones - baritone)

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No 5

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Matthew Halls.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Brahms, Haydn and Rachmaninov.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Live20181213Glasgow's City Halls hosts the BBC Scottish SO in a live concert featuring Anna Clyne's Masquerade, Dvo?ကk's Cello Concerto & Sibelius Symphony No.2. Presented by Jamie MacDougall. After the live concert, Penny Gore introduces music by composers who served in the Armed Forces during World War 1, some of whom died in the conflict. These pieces were recorded during the Total Immersion 'In Remembrance' weekend at the Barbican in November, featuring Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Anna Clyne: Masquerade

Dvo?ကk: Cello Concerto in B minor

Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in D major

Pablo Ferrကndez, cello

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

c.3.50pm

Frederick Septimus Kelly: Six Songs, Op. 6

Katherine Mcindoe, soprano

Michael Pandya, piano

Rudi Stephan: Groteske

Maria W?oszczowska, violin

Serene Koh, piano

Georges Antoine: Piano Quartet in B minor, Op. 6

Joon Yoon piano

Juliette Roos violin

Oscar Holch viola

Akito Goto cello

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Clyne, Dvorak and Sibelius in Glasgow.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Hough Plays Rachmaninov20230504Stephen Hough and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Rachmaninov's timelessly romantic Piano Concerto No 2.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Arguably the best-loved composition of the twentieth century, the wartime movie Brief Encounter brought its hauntingly beautiful slow movement to a worldwide audience. It is played by polymath Stephen Hough - pianist, composer, painter, writer - who shares a recording he finds especially inspiring.

2.00pm

Edvard Grieg/Franz Josef Breuer

Wedding day at Troldhaugen, from Lyric Pieces, Book 8

Jerzy Maksymiuk, conductor

Robert Schumann

Adagio and Allegro

Lise Berthaud, viola

Adam Laloum, piano

Matthew Hindson

Concerto for soprano saxophone and orchestra

Amy Dickson (saxophone)

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Pierne

Scherzo-caprice

Stephen Coombs, piano

Ronald Corp, conductor

3.00pm

Stephen Hough, piano

Nuno Coelho, conductor

Stephen introduces his Artist's Choice:

Weber

Sonata No 2: 1) Allegro moderato, con spirito ed assai legato

Alfred Cortot, piano

Mozart

Vesperae solennes de confessore

Katja Stuber, soprano

Dorothee Rabsch, alto

Michael Mogl, tenor

Joachim Hochbauer, bass

Regensburger Domspatzen

Hofkapelle, Munich

Christian Heiss, conductor

Stephen Hough and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninov's Symphony No 220230501Hannu Lintu conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony in Rachmaninov's Second Symphony, plus music by Vivaldi and Franck transcribed by pianist Stephen Hough

Presented by Ian Skelly

Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov took six months to craft his Symphony No 2, and conducted its first performance in St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre in January 1908. He must have been relieved because the premiere of his first symphony, directed by fellow-composer Alexander Glazunov, was such a disaster that it drove its young composer into a deep despair.

Pianist Stephen Hough performs Rachmaninov's Concerto No 2, again with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, in Thursday's programme. We feature him every day this week, today with a sublime transcription of Franck's Choral No 3 for organ.

2.00pm

Agitata da due venti, from Griselda

Lea Desandre, mezzo

Jupiter Ensemble

Thomas Dunford, conductor

Mozart

Symphony No 13 in F

Michael Sanderling, conductor

Armatae face et anguibus, from Juditha triumphans

Anna Clyne

This Midnight Hour

Tito Munoz, conductor

3.00pm

Hannu Lintu, conductor

Franck/Hough

Stephen Hough, piano

Mentre dormi, amor fomenti, from L'Olimpiade

Hannu Lintu conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony in Rachmaninov's Second Symphony.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Rimsky-korsakov's Scheherazade20230503Alpesh Chauhan conducts Scheherazade, Rimsky-Korsakov's sweeping tales of oriental heroism and love.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Based on One Thousand and One Nights (or The Arabian Nights), this suite of four movements feature the titular storyteller, weaving exotic fairy tales of princes and princesses, pirates and the sea itself

2.00pm

Vivaldi

Gelosia, tu gi

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Sibelius's Lemminkainen Suite20230505Nuno Coelho conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius's epic Lemminkainen Suite, and there's music by Saint-Sa뀀ns and Prokofiev.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Sibelius was inspired by the Kalevala, Finland's national collection of folklore poetry, in four stories: Lemminkainen and the Maidens of the Island; The Swan of Tuonela; Lemminkainen in Tuonela and Lemminkainen's Return. Written forty years later, the second of Prokofiev's two violin concertos is one of the composer's most inspired and lyrical works

2.00pm

Dukas

Fanfare from La peri

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Africa

Stephen Hough, piano

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo

Mozart

Violin Sonata in G, K.301

Aleksey Semenenko, violin

Inna Firsova, piano

Reger

Requiem, Op.144b

Consortium

Andrew John-Smith

Christopher Glynn, piano

3.00pm

Nuno Coelho, conductor

Violin Concerto no.2

Rosanne Philippens, violin

Teresa Riveiro Bohm, conductor

Nuno Coelho and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in epic Sibelius.

Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Wagner's Gotterdammerung20230502Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in his own sequence of music from the last of Wagner's Ring cycle of operas.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Composer-conductor Ryan Wigglesworth leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in his very own, specially curated sequence from Gotterdammerung, the last and greatest chapter from Wagner's Ring cycle, an epic of love, death and redemption

In a very different mood, there's a performance of one of Mozart's lesser-known sacred works, recorded at last year's Regensburg Early Music Days festival

2.00pm

Mass in C `Credo Mass`

Katja Stuber, soprano

Dorothee Rabsch, alto

Michael Mogl, tenor

Joachim Hochbauer, bass

Regensburger Domspatzen

Hofkapelle, Munich

Christian Heiss, conductor

Vaughan Williams/David Matthews

Dark Pastoral

Dai Miyata, cello

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

3.00pm

Wagner/Wigglesworth

Gotterdammerung: A Symphonic Journey

Katherine Broderick, soprano

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Chopin

Two Nocturnes, Op.62

Stephen Hough, piano

Shostakovich

Violin Concerto no.2

Elina Vahala, violin

Hannu Lintu, conductor

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts his own sequence of music from the last of Wagner's Ring cycle.

Bbc Singers20180502Penny Gore presents a BBC Singers concert from St Paul's, Knightsbridge featuring settings of the poetry of George Herbert.

Benjamin Britten: Antiphon

William Harris: Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life

Herbert Howells: Sweetest of sweets; Antiphon ('Let all the world in every corner sing')

Ola Gjeilo: Contrition

Mary Plumstead: A Grateful Heart

Ben Parry: Heaven

John Tavener: Love Bade Me Welcome

Judith Weir: Vertue

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs

Andrew Rupp (baritone)

Choral Scholars of Royal Holloway University of London

Conductor Rupert Gough

Stephen Farr (organ and piano).

Penny Gore presents the BBC Singers in a concert featuring the poetry of George Herbert.

Bbc Singers20191023A concert given by The BBC Singers and conductor Sofi Jeannin at St Paul's, Knightsbridge

Presented by Kate Molleson.

Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers in music by Anders Hillborg, Gerald Finzi, Judith Bingham and CV Stanford, plus the world premiere of Rachel Portman's 'Earth Song'. The afternoon ends with a further recording by the BBC Singers and Sofi Jeannin of two choral pieces by Francis Poulenc - his Sept Chansons and Chansons Francaises.

2.00pm

Anders Hillborg: Endless Sky

Gerald Finzi: Clear and gentle stream

Judith Bingham: The drowned lovers

Charles Villiers Stanford: The blue bird

Rachel Portman: Earth Song (world premiere)

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

3.00pm

Francis Poulenc: Sept Chansons

Francis Poulenc: Chansons Francaises

The BBC Singers with Finzi, Stanford, Anders Hillborg, Judith Bingham and Rachel Portman.

Bbc Singers And Bbc Concert Orchestra20200609Penny Gore presents a Mindfulness Moment with the BBC Singers - with thoughts on choral music from young musicians, conductors and composers; new CD releases from the BBC Concert Orchestra, including Anton Simon's Piano Concerto in A flat; and looking ahead to Thursday's opera matinee in which we'll hear Gilbert without Sullivan, we have Sullivan without Gilbert! Actor Simon Callow joins the orchestra for The Tempest with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan.

2.00pm

?riks Ešenvalds: O salutaris

P䀀rt Uusberg: Հhtul (Evening)

P䀀rt Uusberg: Valgusele (For Light)

Matthew Martin: An Invocation to the Holy Spirit

Morten Lauridsen: O Nata Lux

Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium

Sergei Rachmaninov: Tebe poem

Eric Whitacre: I carry your heart with me

Judith Bingham: The Drowned Lovers

Owain Park, conductor

2.35pm

Anton Simon: Piano Concerto in A flat

Victor Sangiorgio, piano

Martin Yates, conductor

3.05pm

Sullivan: Incidental music to The Tempest

Simon Callow, actor

Mary Bevan and Fflur Wyn, sopranos

John Andrews, conductor

4.05pm

Walter Braunfels: Die Taubenhochzeit aus der Oper Die V怀gel, Op 30 No 2

Johannes Wildner, conductor

George W Chadwick: A Pastoral Prelude

Keith Lockhart, conductor

4.30pm

Will Todd: Concerto for Emma

Emma Johnson, clarinet

Philip Ellis, conductor

Music by Esenvalds, Uusberg and Lauridsen and Sullivan's incidental music for The Tempest.

Bbc Singers And Bbc Concert Orchestra20200610Penny Gore presents two pieces of choral music from Gerald Barry in a recording by the BBC Singers, and Martin Yates conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in his own ballet symphonique of the music C退cile Chaminade wrote in 1888 for a ballet based on the classical Greek story Callirho뀀.

Gerald Barry: O Lord, how vain

Gerald Barry: Long Time

Ben Palmer, conductor

2.15pm

C退cile Chaminade: Callirho뀀 (complete ballet)

Martin Yates, conductor

Penny Gore with choral and orchestral music by Gerald Barry and Cecile Chaminade.

Bbc Singers And Bbc Concert Orchestra20200611Opera Matin退e - Penny Gore presents a recording of the comic opera The Mountebanks, with libretto by WS Gilbert working without his famous partner Arthur Sullivan. As music director of the D'Oyly Carte company, conductor and composer Alfred Cellier was no stranger to G & S operas and writes charming music very much in the style. Gilbert was very interested in the 'lozenge plot' storyline, in which characters undergo a transformation thanks to a lozenge or, as here, a magic potion which leads to complications and intrigue in the pursuit of true love.

2.00pm

Gilbert and Cellier: The Mountebanks

Teresa: Soraya Mafi (soprano)

Alfredo: Thomas Elwin (tenor)

Arrostino: James Cleverton (baritone)

Minestra: Sharon Carty (mezzo soprano)

Risotto: John-Colyn Gyeantey (tenor)

Nita: Catherine Carby (mezzo soprano)

Bartolo: John Savournin (bass-baritone)

Pietro: Geoffrey Dolton (baritone)

Ultrice: Madeleine Shaw (mezzo soprano)

Elvino: Martin Lamb (bass-baritone)

Step-out solos from BBC Singers: Olivia Robinson (soprano), Nancy Cole (mezzo), Tom Raskin (tenor), Andrew Rupp (baritone)

BBC Concert Orchestra

Daniel Cook, Chorus master

John Andrews, conductor

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4.10pm

Anton Simon: Danse de Bayad耀re, Op 34

Martin Yates, conductor

4.30pm

Walter Braunfels: Serenade, Op 20

Johannes Wildner, conductor

Photo credit: Lewis Foreman

Opera Matinee - Penny Gore presents Gilbert and Cellier's The Mountebanks.

Bbc Singers And Bbc Concert Orchestra20201110With Fiona Talkington, showcasing composers and performers as part of ‘1 in 5', the BBC's focus on disability this month, marking the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act.

Three visually impaired singers, Denise Leigh (winner of Channel 4's Operatunity), Sandra Gayer and Victoria Oruwari join the ladies of the BBC Singers in a studio recording presented by Natasha Riordan. Former R3 New Generation Artist Pavel Kolesnikov is the soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra in Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto and Martin Yates conducts the orchestra in a recording of Robin Milford's Second Symphony from last year's English Music Festival.

Chesnokov: Svete Tihy (Gladsome Light)

Kodaly: Ave Maria

Ravel arr. Gottwald : Toi, le Coeur de la rose (from L'Enfant et les sortileges)

Sallinen: Ballad (No 4 from Songs from the Sea)

Debussy arr. Gottwald: Les Angelus

Langlaise: Hommage a Louis Braille

Duparc: Romance de mignon

Duparc: Chanson Triste

Sullivan: The sun whose rays

Bingham: God be in my Head (second setting)

Britten: Balulalow from Ceremony of Carols

Quilter: Now sleeps the crimson petal

Malotte: Lord's Prayer

German: Orpheus with his lute

Head: Under the Bower of Night (No 2 from Snowbirds)

Holst: Rig Veda (Third Group)

Vaughan Williams: The Conspiracy (Sigh no more, ladies) from Sir John in Love

Dense Leigh, Sandra Gayer, Victoria Oruwari

Anna Tilbrook - piano

Grace Rossiter - conductor

15.25

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 (Emperor)

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Johannes Wildner

16.05

Robin Milford Symphony No 2

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates

16.35

Gordon Langford London Miniatures

BBC Concert Orchestra brass players, conductor David McCallum

Music from composers and performers as part of '1 in 5', the BBC's focus on disability

Bbc Singers And Bbc Symphony Orchestra20190625Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky feature large this afternoon with our opening concert from the BBC Singers recorded at St Giles, Cripplegate. Plus, the former concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Guy Braunstein joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. The orchestra's Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo, celebrated for his interpretations of Sibelius, conducts the Lemmink䀀inen Suite.

We showcase two young composers from the International Rostrum of Composers, both writing for orchestra: Estonian Maria K倀rvits, whose piece 'falling up into the bowl of sky' takes inspiration from a poem by the Persian poet and Sufi mystic R?m?, and Swede Britta Bystr怀m. Her 'Notes from the City of the Sun' is based on the Chinese writer Bei Dao's suite of poems of the same name and performed by the soprano Malin Bystr怀m to whom it is dedicated.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Tchaikovsky: Cherubic Hymn - Let us who mystically represent the Cherubim (Nine Sacred Pieces)

Stravinsky: Anthem ‘The dove descending breaks the air

Tchaikovsky: Hail, gladdening light (Vesper Service Op. 52)

Gesualdo: Three motets: O vos omnes; Ave, Regina coelorum; Hei mihi, Domine (Sacrarum cantionum, Book 1)

Stravinsky: Tres sacrae cantiones (Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa): Da pacem Domine; Assumpta est Maria; Illumina nos

Tchaikovsky: Blessed are they (Nine Sacred Pieces)

Stravinsky: The Lord's Prayer [Otche nash]

Tchaikovsky: The Lord's prayer [Otche nash] (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom)

Stravinsky: Simvol ver (Russian Credo)

Tchaikovsky: At Bedtime

Stravinsky: Bogoroditse Dyevo (Ave Maria)

Tchaikovsky: A Legend (16 Songs for Children, Op. 54)

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

c.2.50pm

Maria K倀rvits: langedes ülespoole, taeva kaarjasse kaussi (falling up into the bowl of sky)

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

Anu Tali (conductor)

c.3.05pm

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Op.35

Guy Braunstein (violin)

BBCSO

Kirill Karabits (conductor)

c.3.40pm

Britta Bystr怀m: Notes from the City of the Sun

Malin Bystr怀m (soprano)

Malm怀 Symphony Orchestra

Eun Sun Kim (conductor)

c.4.05pm

Sibelius: Lemmink䀀inen Suite

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Choral music by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. Plus, Sibelius's thrilling Lemminkainen Suite.

Bbc Singers And Bbc Symphony Orchestra20200306Presented by Penny Gore.

This concert presents a selection of choral works by the British composer Bernard Hughes alongside a selection of favourite composers he has chosen to complement his music. Hughes's music ranges from the wordless ecstasy of Revelation Window to the exciting world premiere of new commission A Ternary of Littles. A sequence of sacred pieces in the second half includes works by Dobrinka Tabakova and Eleanor Alberga, while the secular first half includes a Burns setting by Cecilia McDowall and the exquisite Pavane Fantasia by long-time BBC Singers collaborator Bo Holten.

It's followed by American conductor Fawzi Haimor and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the German trumpeter Simon H怀fele both making their BBC Symphony Orchestra debuts. There's Syrian-American composer's Kareem Roustom's recent propulsive, colourful piece 'Ramal' and a work by Russian/Soviet composer Sergei Vasilenko - his Concerto Poem for Trumpet & Orchestra, written in the late 1940s, which demonstrates the trumpet's lyrical voice.

2.00pm

Bernard Hughes: Revelation Window

Bo Holten: Pavan I (Pavane-Fantasia)

Bernard Hughes: I Sing of Love

Cecilia McDowall: A red, red rose

Bernard Hughes: The winter it is past

Bernard Hughes: Two Songs of Spring

Bernard Hughes: A Ternary of Littles - WORLD PREMIERE

Dobrinka Tabakova: Alma Redemptoris Mater

Bernard Hughes: Psalm 56

Bernard Hughes: Jubilate Domino

Eleanor Alberga: My Heart Danceth

Bernard Hughes: Precious Things

Eamonn Dougan, conductor

3.10pm

Kareem Roustom: Ramal

Sergei Vasilenko: Concerto Poem for Trumpet and Orchestra, Op.113*

Simon H怀fele, trumpet* (Radio 3 New Generation Artist)

Fawzi Haimor, conductor

3.45pm

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Choral pieces by Holten and Hughes. Orchestral music by Roustom, Vasilenko and Beethoven.

Bbc Singers And Bbc Symphony Orchestra In Concert20160311Ian Skelly presents a live concert from St Paul's Knightsbridge by the BBC Singers with music from New Zealand and Australia as part of Afternoon on 3's Southern Hemisphere season. Then back to the studio with Katie Derham for a concert the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave at the Barbican last month.

2pm - LIVE presented by Ian Skelly

Leonie Holmes: Through Coiled Stillness

David Griffiths: Lie Deep My Love

Jenny McLeod: Childhood

Stephen Leek: Great Southern Spirits

Tecwyn Evans (conductor)

c.3.05pm presented by Katie Derham

Kodကly: Hကry Jကnos - Suite

Richard Dubugnon: Klavieriana - Piano Concerto (world premiere)

c.4pm

Prokofiev arr. Christopher Palmer: War and Peace - Suite

Noriko Ogawa (piano)

Fabien Gabel (conductor).

Live from St Paul's Knightsbridge, the BBC Singers in music from New Zealand and Australia

Bbc Singers And Bbc Symphony Orchestra On Tour20191025The BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra with two concerts featuring music by Brahms, Britten, Saint-Saens, Stravinsky, Donizetti, Elizabeth Maconchy, Raymond Yiu, Stephen Wilkinson & Hans Gal.

Presented by Kate Molleson.

Closing our week of music from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers, we hear two concerts given recently in Shanghai and in London. First we have a choral concert given at St Paul's, Knightsbridge by the BBC Singers conducted by Bart van Reyn. The concert celebrates the 100th birthday of British conductor and composer Stephen Wilkinson, and features his works alongside those of composers with whom he enjoyed a close working relationship, such as John McCabe and Hans Gal.

We end the week as we began, at the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis on their recent tour to China. They perform music by Elizabeth Maconchy, Benjamin Britten, Stravinsky and Raymond Yiu as well as arias by Saint-Saens, Donizetti and Offenbach with mezzo-soprano Catherine Wynn-Rogers.

2.00pm

Hans Gal: Motet

Johannes Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben?

William Byrd: Vigilate

Stephen Wilkinson: Dover Beach

Stephen Wilkinson: The Lark in the Clear Air

Stephen Wilkinson: Y deryn pûr

JS Bach: Komm, Jesu komm, BWV.229

Gustav Holst: Nunc Dimittis

John McCabe: Motet

3.15pm

Elizabeth Maconchy: Overture: Proud Thames

Camille Saint-Saens: Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix [Samson et Delilah]

Gaetano Donizetti: O mio Fernando [La Favorita]

Jacques Offenbach: Ah quel diner [La Perichole]

Benjamin Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Raymond Yiu: Xocolatl

Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919)

Catherine Wynn-Rogers, mezzo-soprano

Sir Andrew Davis, conductor

Brahms, Britten, Maconchy, Stravinsky, Saint-Saens, Stephen Wilkinson and Hans Gal

Bbc Singers And Bbc Symphony Orchestra, Mental Health Awareness Week20210511Penny Gore presents the BBC Singers in sacred music by women composers taken from 'Multitude of Voyces', a new series of publications dedicated to this repertoire. Plus music by Britten, Schoenberg, Puccini and Vaughan Williams performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra - continuing the focus on works from the time of the exploration of psychotherapy in Vienna in this series broadcast in Mental Health Awareness Week 2021.

Amy Bebbington: I sing of a maiden

Anna Semple: Drop down, ye heavens

Yshani Perinpanayagam: In Bethlehem above

Tamsin Jones: Noel: Verbum caro factum est

Amy Summers: Nunc dimittis

Joanna Ward: Hail, O Queen

Cecilia McDowall: The Lord is Good

Sarah MacDonald: Crux fidelis

Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade: Car aupr耀s de toi

Gail Randall: The Call

Judith Bingham: Les Saintes Maries de la Mer

Alison Willis: I sing of a maiden

Conductor Owain Park

2.40pm

Britten: Russian Funeral Music

Brass of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Anthony Weeden

2.50pm

Anders Hillborg: En midsommarnattsdr怀m

Ingvar Lidholm: Motto

Lars Johan Werle: Canzone 126 di Francesco Petrarca

Conductor Sofi Jeannin

Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2

Conductor Alpesh Chauhan

Puccini: Chrysanthemums

Strings of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

3.40pm

Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony

Elizabeth Llewellyn, soprano

Marcus Farnsworth, baritone

BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Conductor Martyn Brabbins

Sacred music by women composers, plus Britten, Schoenberg, Puccini and Vaughan Williams.

Bbc Singers And The Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition20201216A selection of entries from this year's Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition.
Bbc Singers At Maida Vale20200117The BBC Singers are at Maida Vale Studios for a concert of music by just two composers - Aaron Copland and Thea Musgrave. Gabriella Teychenn退 conducts.

Following that concert, there's a final visit of the week to the 66th International Rostrum of Composers in Argentina, and a piece by the young Argentinian composer Melissa Foss Hyatt - 'Hanblecheyapi', written in 2018.

The programme continues with a recording made by violinist Guy Braunstein of one of Tchaikovsky's best-known miniatures for violin and orchestra, followed by a final concert from the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale. Mei-Ann Chen conducts arrangements of Florence Price piano pieces, four of Mahler's most heartfelt Lieder with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Ema Nikolovska, plus works by Hindemeith, Malcolm Forsyth and An-Lun Huang.

2pm

Thea Musgrave: For the Time Being: Advent

Aaron Copland: Help Us, O Lord (Four Motets No.1)

Thea Musgrave: Four Madrigals

Aaron Copland: Thou, O Jehova, Abideth Forever (Four Motets No.2)

Thea Musgrave: Ithaca

Aaron Copland: Have Mercy On Us, O My Lord (Four Motets No.3)

Aaron Copland: Sing Ye Praises To Our King (Four Motets No.4)

Gabriella Teychenn退, conductor

3pm

Melissa Foss Hyatt: Hanblecheyapi (2018)

Performed by the composer

3.10pm

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Pas de de deux from Swan Lake

Guy Braunstein, violin

Kirill Karabits, conductor

3.20pm

Florence Price arr. William Grant Still: Dances in the Canebrakes

Gustav Mahler: Das irdische Leben; Rheinlegendchen; Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt ; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? [Des Knaben Wunderhorn]

Malcolm Forsyth: Three M退tis Songs from Saskatchewan

Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosen on a Theme of Weber

An-Lun Huang: Saibei Dance

Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano

Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

Presented by Penny Gore.

Gabriella Teychenne conducts the BBC Singers in music by Aaron Copland and Thea Musgrave.

Bbc Singers In Good Friday Music20190419James Weeks conducts the BBC Singers in a programme featuring his own work for choir and narrator, Orlando Tenebrae, as part of repertoire linked to Good Friday. At the heart of the programme are Lenten-related works that make no reference to Christian or religious specifics in their texts. The Orlando Tenebrae takes these ancient texts into a modern, secular frame of reference, where the theme becomes oppression, suffering and hope. The programme continues with two pieces inspired by Good Friday, with the BBC Singers performing first Kenneth Leighton's Crucifixus Pro Nobis and then, Paul Drayton's The Passion of Christ as told by Mark the Evangelist.

Also today, Our Classical Century, as we continue to explore repertoire that was crucial in the development of our contemporary music. Today, it's Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, from which we hear the Agnus Dei in the celebrated version featuring tenor Peter Pears and the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by the composer. Presented by Hannah French.

2.00pm

Tomကs Luis de Victoria: Three Tenebrae Responsories

Ecce quomodo moritur iustus

Aestimatus sum

O vos omnes

James Weeks: Orlando Tenebrae (with narrator)

Heinrich Schütz:

Quid commisisti, o puer SWV56

Die mit Tr䀀nen saen, SWV378

Die mit Tr䀀nen saen, SWV42

James Weeks, conductor [& chamber organ in last Schutz piece (SWV42)]

Kenneth Leighton: Crucifixus Pro Nobis

Christopher Bowen - tenor solo

Richard Pearce - organ

Paul Spicer - conductor

Paul Drayton: The Passion of Christ as told by Mark the Evangelist

Jesus: Andrew Rupp - baritone

High Priest & Pilate: Jamie W. Hall - bass

Narrator: Olivia Robinson - soprano

Peter: Stephen Jeffes - tenor

Marin Andre - conductor

4.10pm

Our Classical Century -

Benjamin Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Agnus Dei

Peter Pears, tenor

Benjamin Britten, conductor

Repertoire by Victoria, Jonathan Weeks, Schutz, Kenneth Leighton and Paul Drayton.

Bbc Singers In London And Bbc Symphony Orchestra In China20191115Choral music by Emily Howard and Ralph Vaughan Williams recorded at St Giles Cripplegate plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in China, recorded at the Concert Hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing earlier this year with soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers and conductor Sir Andrew Davis. Colloquially described as The Giant Egg, China's NCPA is an ellipsoid dome of titanium glass surrounded by an artificial lake, seating over 5000 people in three halls. This concert, recorded there with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Davis, included Beethoven's set of incidental pieces for a Goethe play, his Egmont Overture, Mahler's 'Songs of a Wayfaring Lad' and Shostakovich's 10th Symphony which was premiered in December 1953 following the death of Joseph Stalin in March of that year.

2pm

Vaughan Williams: A Vision of Aeroplanes

Emily Howard: Threnos

Emily Howard: Ite Fortes

Vaughan Williams: Five English Folk Songs

BBC Singers

Richard Pearce (organist)

Paul Spicer (conductor)

Daniel Bhattacharya (violin soloist for Ite Fortes)

c.2.50pm

Beethoven: Egmont Overture

Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Shostakovich: Symphony No.10

Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo soprano)

Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

Choral music by Emily Howard and Ralph Vaughan Williams plus the BBCSO on tour in China.

Bbc Singers Live At Temple Church20221222Penny Gore with an afternoon of music from the concert halls of Europe, including Mozart's Symphony No.41 from Salzburg alongside a host of Yuletide tunes to get you in the festive spirit. And at 2.30pm, Ian Skelly is at London's Temple Church with the BBC Singers, for a Christmas concert conducted by Sofi Jeannin.

Including:

Prokofiev - Troika [Lietenant Kij退 Suite]

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Andr退 Previn (conductor)

Handel - For unto us a child is born [The Messiah]

Zurcher Singakademie

La Scintilla

Florian Helgath (conductor)

Rimsky-Korsakov - Snow Maiden Suite

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

LIVE from London's Temple Church

Jeremy Filsell - Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

Melissa Dunphy - O Oriens

Anna Lapwood - Drop down ye heavens

Adrian Peacock - O Radix Jesse (BBC Commission, world premiere)

Lucy Walker - Away in a manger

Francis Jackson - How not syng but how?

Helen Neeves - The Holy Night (world premiere)

Iain Farrington - Nova, nova

Alastair Putt - This Worldes Joie

George Baker - Berceuse sur le nom de SWANN (organ solo)

Bryan Kelly - This lovely lady

Cecilia McDowall - In Dulci jubilo

Suzzie Vango - Balulalow

Malcolm Hawkins - Rainbow Arc

Stuart Nicholson - We've been a while-a-wandering

Yshani Perinpanayagam - In Bethlehem Above

Simon Preston - I saw three ships

Libby Croad - Christmas Eve

Thomas Hewitt Jones - The Holly and the Ivy

Luke Bond (organ)

Sofi Jeannin (conductor

c. 4pm

Sibelius - Finlandia, Op.26

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

Torelli - Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op.8 No.6 'Per il santissimo Natale

Il Giardino Armonico

Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

Bartok - Romanian Christmas Carols for piano, Sz.57

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

c. 4.30pm

Malcolm Arnold - Commonwealth Christmas Overture, Op.64

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Jule Styne - Let it Snow

Kerry Ellis (vocals)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Andrew Cottee (conductor)

Penny Gore & Ian Skelly with an afternoon of festive music from The BBC Singers and more.

Bbc Singers Live From St Pauls, Knightsbridge20160615Fiona Talkington presents a concert with the BBC Singers, live from St Paul's Knightsbridge. Eamonn Dougan makes his conducting debut with the BBC Singers in a concert exploring three generations of Polish music. Choral music from the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries is interspersed with piano preludes by Poland's most famous composer - Frederic Chopin - performed by BBC New Generation Artist Pavel Kolesnikov.

2pm

Asprilio Pacelli: Veni sponsa Christi

Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki: O rex gloriae

Roxanna Panufnik: Prayer

Giovanni Francesco Anerio: Salve Regina

Bartlomiej Pekiel: Ave Maria

Pawel Lukaszewski: Ave Maria

Vincenzo Bertolusi: Osculetur me

Roxanna Panufnik: Celestial Bird

Pawel Lukaszewski: Nunc dimitis

Vincenzo Bertolusi: Ave verum corpus

Eamonn Dougann (conductor)

Chopin: Preludes

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

c.3pm Presented by Ian Skelly

Albeniz orch. Enescu: Rapsodia espaကola

Martin Roscoe (piano)

BBC Philharmonic

Juanjo Mena (conductor).

Fiona Talkington presents a concert with the BBC Singers live from St Paul's Knightsbridge

Bbc Singers, Live20181116Live from St Paul's Knightsbridge, presented by Petroc Trelawny, the BBC Singers perform music written by the organists & composers Wayne Marshall & Naji Hakim, who each perform in their own works. After the live concert, Kate Molleson continues this week's focus on the multi-faceted BBC Concert Orchestra with music by Jean Rivier, Ryan Latimer & Leonard Bernstein.

Wayne Marshall: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for upper voices

Naji Hakim: Messe solennelle

Wayne Marshall: Organ improvisation on themes of Leonard Bernstein

Naji Hakim: No. 3. No뀀l from Trois No뀀l

Naji Hakim, Organ

Wayne Marshall, Conductor/Organ

c.3pm

Our Classical Century

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

c.3.15pm

Jean Rivier: Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra

Ransom Wilson, flute

Perry So, conductor

c.3.30pm

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

Ryan Latimer: Frigates & Folly - CEFC commission, world premiere

Bernstein: Chichester Psalms - Soloist: Joshua Abrams

Bernstein: West Side Story Concert Suite No.2

Valeria Perboni (Maria/Rosalia)

Emily Chesterton (Anita)

Kieran Parrott (Riff)

Nitai Levi (Bernardo/Tony)

Crouch End Festival Chorus

David Temple, conductor

Live from St Paul's Knightsbridge with organists-composers Wayne Marshall and Naji Hakim

Bbc Singers, Music For Holy Week20120405Presented by Katie Derham.

Today's Afternoon on 3 features the BBC Singers in a programme of music for Holy Week live from St Paul's Knightsbridge and introduced by the Reverend Richard Coles, including the world premiere of the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Gabriel Jackson. This is followed by Dvorak's setting of the Stabat Mater, performed by the BBC Philharmonic last month at Leeds Town Hall.

Katie Derham and Richard Coles present the BBC Singers in music for Holy Week.

Bbc So, Korvits, Sibelius, Klami, Schubert20111025Presented by Penny Gore and Louise Fryer

Live from the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, Neeme Jarvi conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Estonian and Finnish music - in advance of the orchestra's complete Sibelius symphony series which begins on Friday night.

Tonu Korvits: Sung into the Wind (UK premiere)

Sibelius: Finlandia

Klami: Sea Pictures

Sibelius: Karelia Suite

Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

3:30pm

Schubert: Octet

BBCSO Soloists.

Neeme Jarvi conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Estonian and Finnish music.

Bbc Symphony Chorus20180606Fiona Talkington presents a programme celebrating the remarkable amateur singers of the BBC Symphony Chorus, including a concert featuring Brahms's Requiem

William Harris: Bring us, O Lord God

Gabriel Jackson: Justorum animae

Conductor Neil Ferris

Louis Couperin: Le tombeau de M. Blancrocher

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

Brahms: A German Requiem

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)

Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy (pianos)

Vaughan Williams: Darest thou now, O Soul

BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Conductor Martyn Brabbins.

Fiona Talkington presents the BBC Symphony Chorus in British music and Brahms's Requiem.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra20120501with Katie Derham and Penny Gore. The BBC Symphony Orchestra are Live at 2pm with BBC New Generation Artist Clara Mouriz (mezzo soprano) as the soloist in Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne. Alexander Shelley conducts. And the Concert ends with Brahms 2nd Symphony.

Parry: Elegy for Brahms

Alexander Shelley (conductor)

Canteloube: Bailero, Malurous qu'o uno fenno, Lo fiolaire, L'Aio de Rotso, La delaissado and Brezairola from Chants d'Auvergne

Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)

Brahms: Symphony no. 2 in D major Op.73

Einojuhani Rautavaara

Lorca Suite and Cancion de nuestro tiempo

BBC Singers

Jamie Burton (conductor).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Canteloube, Parry and Brahms.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra20180430Penny Gore launches a week of concerts by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers, including the Symphony Orchestra on tour in Japan and Switzerland with their Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. Today they're at Symphony Hall in Kawasaki.

Britten: Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia (Peter Grimes)

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

3pm - Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor

Alina Pogostkina (violin)

3.50pm

Suk: Serenade for strings

BBC Symphony Orchestra strings

Conductor Gergely Madaras.

Penny Gore presents the BBC SO playing Brahms, Britten and Tchaikovsky on tour in Japan.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra20180501Penny Gore presents the second of a week of concerts by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers, including the Symphony Orchestra on tour in Japan and Switzerland with Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. Today they're at Tokyo's famous Suntory Hall.

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor

2.35pm - Mahler: Symphony No 5

Yu Kosoge (piano)

3.50pm

Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher - concerto for viola and small orchestra

Eivind Holtsmark-Ringstad (viola)

Conductor Douglas Boyd.

Penny Gore presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Rachmaninov and Mahler on tour in Japan.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra20180504Penny Gore ends her week featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra with a concert from their recent trip to Switzerland with Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. The venue is Geneva's beautiful Victoria Hall - and yes, it is named after the English Queen Victoria...

Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour

Britten: Violin Concerto

2.45pm - Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F major (Pastoral)

Vilde Frang (violin)

3.30pm

Richard Strauss: Suite in B flat major for 13 wind instruments, Op 4

BBC Symphony Orchestra winds

Conductor Douglas Boyd

3.55pm

Florent Schmitt: Symphony No 2

Penny Gore presents the BBC SO in Anna Clyne, Britten and Beethoven on tour in Switzerland

Bbc Symphony Orchestra20180608Jonathan Swain presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra in concert playing music by American and British composers - plus a Russian exile, Stravinsky.

Bernstein: Overture to Candide

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

with Steven Osborne (piano)

Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919 )

Bernstein: Symphony No 1 (Jeremiah)

with Jessica Gillingwater (mezzo)

Copland: Appalachian Spring

Conductor Roderick Cox

3.35pm

Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony

Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano)

Marcus Farnsworth (baritone)

BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Conductor Martyn Brabbins.

Jonathan Swain presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing American and English music.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra20200304Presented by Penny Gore

The BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Maida Vale Studios with a concert of fascinating contrasting works, recorded recently.

Two works written by composers at the start of their creative outputs contrast with the last symphony of a master. There's a rarely performed work by the 13-year-old Richard Strauss, his Serenade in G major. The Concerto for piano, full string orchestra and timpani (1946) is the first acknowledged serious work written in 1946 by the extraordinary Galina Ustvolskaya, pupil of Shostakovich, who bravely ploughed her own distinct furrow through the 20th-century Soviet Union. And we end with Jean Sibelius's final symphony, written in 1923-24. Although Sibelius lived for another 33 years after finishing the Seventh, it was one of the last works he composed. It consists of one long continuous movement. Finnish conductor Eva Ollikainen and Armenian-born pianist Marianna Shirinyan both make their BBC Symphony Orchestra debuts.

It's followed by performances given by musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama taken as part of the BBC's Total Immersion cycle, devoted this time to the music of Detlev Glanert, including also works from some of his German contemporaries. First we hear Three Auden Songs by Hans Werner Henze, followed by Serenade for Cello and Piano, Op. 13, by Glanert himself.

2.00pm

R. Strauss: Serenade in G, AV 32

Galina Ustvolskaya: Piano Concerto*

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7

Marianna Shirinyan, piano*

Eva Ollikainen, conductor

3.10pm

Henze: Three Auden Songs (1983)

Jonah Halton, tenor

Matthew Gemmill, piano

Glanert: Serenade for Cello and Piano, Op.13 (1986)

Leo Popplewell, cello

With music by Richard Strauss, Galina Ustvolskaya and Sibelius.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra (1-5)20210628Ian Skelly presents an afternoon of recordings from the the BBC Symphony Orchestra, including music by Vaughan Williams, Beethoven and James MacMillan.

Marking Deafblind Awareness Week, Sakari Oramo conducts Beethoven's 5th Symphony, and continuing the BBC SO's 90th birthday celebrations throughout 2021, Ian remembers one of the orchestra's many world premiere performances from today's greatest composers, with James MacMillan's The Quickening from the 1999 Proms. Plus new studio recordings featuring the BBC SO brass and string sections.

Including:

2pm

Jolivet: Fanfares pour Britannicus

Brass of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Anthony Weeden (conductor)

c.2.35pm

Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

c.3.10pm

Panufnik (Roxanna and Andrej): Modlitwa

Strings of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Chlo退 can Soeterst耀de (conductor)

c.3.30pm

James MacMillan: The Quickening

Hilliard Ensemble, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

Ian Skelly presents music by Vaughan Williams, Beethoven and James MacMillan.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra (3-5)20210203The BBC Symphony Orchestra @ 90.

Penny Gore presents more memorable recordings from the orchestra's archive. Today, Jukka-Pekka Saraste introduces music from the snowy North to audiences at a 2004 concert at London's Barbican Centre.

Magnus Lindberg: Feria for orchestra

Jukka Tiensuu: Puro for clarinet and orchestra

Kaija Saariaho: Oltra mar (Across the sea) for chorus and orchestra

Sibelius: Symphony no. 7 in C major Op.105

Kari Kriikku (clarinet)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

The BBC Symphony Orchestra play Sibelius's Seventh Symphony at the Barbican Centre.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra (4-5)20210204Kurt Weill: The Firebrand of Florence

Broadway operetta in two acts.

Music and lyrics by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin.

Book by Edwin Justus Mayer, based on his play The Firebrand.

Script adaptation and narration by Sam Kenyon.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra assembled an all-star cast for this landmark recreation at London's Barbican Centre in 2000 of the work with which Kurt Weill hoped to lead American musical theatre in a new direction. Although The Firebrand was, in Weill's words,' killed by its production,' it contains sumptuous music on a scale not seen on Broadway before. It's based on scenes from the life of the Renaissance sculptor, Benvenuto Cellini who has been sentenced to hang for the attempted murder of Count Maffio. It opens with a memorable scene in Florence's public square where Cellini awaits his fate and it ends with jugglers and dancers in faraway Fontainebleau. But, in between, there are twists and turns of love, betrayal and adventure with numbers like, 'You're Far Too Near Me,' 'When the Duchess is Away,' The Little Naked Boy,' 'Love is Enemy' and finally a reprise of 'Life, Love and Laughter.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Benvenuto Cellini..... Rodney Gilfry (baritone)

Angel, his model and paramour..... Lori Ann Fuller (soprano)

Alessandro de Medici..... George Dvorsky..... (bass)

The Duchess of Florence..... Felicity Palmer.... (mezzo)

Emilia, Cellini's servant..... Lucy Schauffer..... (mezzo)

Ascanio, Cellini's apprentice..... Stephen Charlesworth..... (baritone)

Ottaviano de Medici, the Duke's treacherous cousin..... Roger Heath..... (bass)

Marquis Pierre, the French Ambassador..... Robert Johnston.... (tenor)

A Hangman..... Henry Waddington..... (bass)

Maffio, a villainous Florentine count..... Stuart MacIntyre - (baritone)

Simon Russell Beale..... (narrator)

BBC Singers [Chorus Master: Stephen Betteridge]

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Followed at c. 4pm by another work in this week's series exploring Music from the Frozen North. Today a short work which charts the no man's land between acoustic and electronic music from a composer who works regularly with artists such as his fellow Icelander, Bjork.

Valgeir Sigur

Bbc Symphony Orchestra (5-5)20210702Ian Skelly presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Britten, Cecilia McDowall and Elgar.

Sir Andrew Davis directs orchestra, chorus and soloists in the concluding second part of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, and Viviane Hagner joins the orchestra for Bruch's folk-inspired Scottish Fantasy. Dalia Stasevska conducts music by Britten and Cecilia McDowall.

Including:

2pm

Cecilia McDowall: Rain, Steam, Speed

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

c.2.10pm

Bruch: Scottish Fantasy

Viviane Hagner (violin)

Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

c.2.45pm

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem

c.3.20pm

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Part 2 (Part 1 in Afternoon Concert on Thursday 1st July)

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

Stuart Skelton (tenor)

David Soar (bass)

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

Ian Skelly presents music by Britten, Cecilia McDowall and Elgar.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra 1-520210201The BBC Symphony Orchestra in recordings made at the Berlin Philharmonie, London's Barbican Centre and in the studio.

Penny Gore begins a week in which she introduces some memorable performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, which celebrates its ninetieth anniversary this season. There will be performances directed by many of the orchestra's recent principal and guest conductors including Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Martyn Brabbins and Jiri Belohlavek, who conducts Mozart in today's programme. Also today a performance of Shostakovich made in lockdown on the very day that the soprano soloist won the 2020 Royal Philharmonic Society Singer Award.

Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain, ed. Rimsky-Korsakov

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 Op. 135

Natalya Romaniw (soprano)

Neal Davies (bass-baritone)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits (conductor)

Roderick Williams: Ave Verum corpus (A reflection on William Byrd's Ave verum corpus)

BBC Singers, Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A major K201

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Anders Hillborg (1954): Quintet for Brass

Signum Brass

Dvorak: Serenade in D minor Op. 44

Winds of BBC Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Boyd (conductor)

Music from the snowy North with the BBC SO in Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Dvorak and Mozart.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers20180604Fiona Talkington launches a week of programmes featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra with a programme featuring the mandolin and guitar in music from Italy and Mexico. Plus choral music from the BBC Singers.

Ravel: Sh退h退razade - ouverture de f退erie

Avner Dorman: Mandolin Concerto

with Avi Avatal (mandolin)

Ghedini: Musica notturna (UK premiere)

Respighi: Pines of Rome

Conductor Daniele Rustioni

4pm

Ponce: Concierto del Sur

Thibaut Garcia (guitar)

Conductor Rumon Gamba

4.30pm

Walton: Partita for Orchestra

Conductor Edward Gardner

Other highlights in Afternoon Concert this week:

Tuesday - a live Ulster Orchestra concert featuring music by Tchaikovsky and Sibelius, plus Elgar's Second Symphony from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Wednesday - the BBC Symphony Chorus perform Brahms's Requiem.

Thursday - a rare chance to hear Gounod's last opera, in the month of his 200th birthday.

Friday - a BBC Symphony Orchestra concert of American music including Bernstein, Copland and Gershwin, plus Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony.

Fiona Talkington presents concerts by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers20191111Emily Howard's music embraces a diverse range of influences from science, maths, philosophy and poetry, and she's used concepts from the world of mathematics in the shape and structure of her piece 'Torus'. A torus is a whole with a hole: it is often described as doughnut-shaped, a squashed and stretched ball held together with a central void. In it, the music is as much about absence as presence. It was commissioned for the 2016 BBC Proms seasons and this performance was recorded at London's Barbican Hall by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Martyn Brabbins. Radio 3 New Generation Artist Elena Urisote then joins the orchestra for Vaughan Williams' concerto in all but name, The Lark Ascending, and we'll hear the first of 3 Vaughan Williams symphonies conducted by Brabbins this week - we'll hear the 5th today, the 4th tomorrow and the 3rd on Thursday. Later in the afternoon, highlights from a concert the BBC Singers gave in the fine acoustics of St Giles Cripplegate including Mahler's own arrangement of the Adagietto from his 5th Symphony, and we round off with Ravel's musical memorial to his compatriot Fran瀀ois Couperin.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Emily Howard: Torus

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5

Elena Urisote (violin)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.3.15pm

Brahms: Fest- und Gedenkspruche Op.109

Mahler arr. Clytus Gottwald: Im Abendrot (Adagietto from Symphony No. 5)

Anna Tilbrook (piano)

James O'Donnell (conductor)

c.4pm

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

A mathematical form, an expansive symphony, a masterful arrangement and a musical memorial

Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers20200302Penny Gore presents a week with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers.

Surely you jest? A Beethoven-inspired concert with a difference from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Portuguese powerhouse conductor Joana Carneiro. The ‘Eroica' symphony blew classical music sky-high and the Grosse Fuge still sounds modern after nearly 200 years. John Adams' Absolute Jest - starring the Doric Quartet - absorbs musical artefacts, saluting Beethoven the way he would have wanted: with one enormous musical joke.

Followed by the BBC Singers and their Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin, who perform the world premiere of David Sawer's work for choir and bassoon 'How Among the Frozen Words'. The perfect music for a winter's afternoon, this piece came from a chapter in Rabelais' novel Gargantua and Pantagruel. Whilst travelling towards the North Pole, Rabelais describes seeing letters of the alphabet frozen in the sky. Sawer's also inspired by Omyakon, a remote village in eastern Siberia which holds the record for the coldest place on earth. Also in the programme, repertoire by Edvard Grieg, Karin Rehnqvist, Kaija Saariaho and Matthias Skold.

2.00pm

Beethoven: Grosse Fuge, Op. 133

John Adams: Absolute Jest for string quartet and orchestra

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op. 55 'Eroica

Doric String Quartet

Joana Carneiro, conductor

3.40pm

Karin Rehnqvist: HAYA!

Edvard Grieg: Ved Rondane, 12 Songs Op. 33 No. 9

Kaija Saariaho: Nuits adieux

Edvard Grieg: Ave Maris Stella

Mattias Skold: We Know Not Where The Dragons Fly

Edvard Grieg: V倀ren, 12 Songs Op. 33 No. 2

David Sawer: How Among the Frozen Words* - BBC COMMISSION WORLD PREMIERE

Jonathan Davies, bassoon*

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

With music by Beethoven and John Adams, and a choral recital including Grieg and Sawer.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers (2-5)20210202The BBC Symphony Orchestra @ 90.

Penny Gore this week introduces some memorable performances from the UK's world-renowned radio orchestra recorded at its historic home studio in London's Maida Vale and at the orchestra's Total Immersion weekends at the Barbican Centre. Also today, music spanning almost five centuries from the versatile voices of the BBC Singers and a chance to hear the young Russian cellist and current Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Anastasia Kobekina. She plays Schumann's Cello Concerto, written in just two weeks but never performed in his lifetime. And the afternoon ends with Martyn Brabbins putting the orchestra's brass section through its paces in his own fearsomely virtuosic arrangements of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

Tallis: Videte Miraculum

Michael Finnissy: Videte Miraculum

Taverner: Dum transisset Sabbatum

Michael Finnissy: Dum transisset Sabbatum

Michael Finnissy: Plebs Angelica Tippett: Plebs Angelica

BBC Singers, Nicholas Kok (conductor)

Haukur Tomasson: From darkness woven

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)

at approx 3pm

R. Schumann: Cello Concerto

Anastasia Kobekina (cello)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Dreaming

Anders Hillborg: Duet for clarinet and violin

Cara Doyle (clarinet)

Ragnhild Kyvik Bauge (violin)

members of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

at approx 4pm

Alan Hovhaness: Symphony no. 2 Op.132 (Mysterious mountain)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Prokofiev arr Brabbins: Suite from Romeo and Juliet

Brass of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Music from the north - Tallis, Prokofiev and Hovhaness - with the BBC SO and Singers.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers (5-5)20210205The BBC Symphony Orchestra @ 90.

Penny Gore ends her celebration this week of the work of this supremely versatile orchestra with music inspired by the landscape of Iceland and two French works which capture the exoticism of North Africa: Louis Schwizgebel plays Saint-Saens's 'Egyptian,' Piano Concerto and the Egyptian soprano, Fatma Said sings Ravel's Sh退h退razade, with its sensual texts derived from The Arabian Nights. And, to start the afternoon, the BBC Singers explore the music of Bob Chilcott, their Principal Guest Conductor, whose music has delighted choirs and audiences across the globe.

Gorecki: Totus Tuus

MacMillan: The gallant weaver

Jenny McLeod: Cocks Crow

Jenny McLeod: There's a time to live

Chilcott: Thou my love art fair

Chilcott: Songs my heart has taught me

BBC Singers, Anna Tilbrook (piano), Bob Chilcott (conductor)

John Pickard: Dimmuborgir - Black Castles

Brass and percussion of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

at approx 2.50pm

Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto in F major, Op. 103,'The Egyptian.

Louis Schwizgebel (piano)

Ravel: Sh退h退razade

Wahab arr. James Whitbourn: Nashid al qassam

Fatma Said (soprano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

Anders Hillborg: Kongsgaard variations for string quartet

Moriarty String Quartet from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Prokofiev: Symphony no. 1 in D major, Op. 25, 'Classical

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)

The BBC Singers enjoy music by Bob Chilcott and Fatma Said sings Ravel's Sheherazade

Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers At The Barbican20191112Among the first composers commissioned by the Ensemble InterContemporain, Betsy Jolas wrote her Onze Lieder for them in 1977, with a solo part for Pierre Thibaud who was her colleague at the Paris Conservatoire where she was taught by Olivier Messiaen. She avoided the bald title ‘concerto' in favour of something more atmospheric, creating a sequence of instrumental songs for trumpet of contrasting character and scoring. This concert recorded at London's Barbican Hall features star soloist Hakan Hardenberger who also performs Haydn's bright & energising trumpet concerto. Two 'Classical' symphonies frame these concertante works under the orchestra's Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. As part of the Barbican's Sound Unbound weekend in May this year the BBC Singers recorded a concert at St Batholomew-the-Great featuring music spanning the 15th- to 21st Centuries, and the afternoon ends with the second of the Vaughan Williams Symphonies which the BBC Symphony Orchestra has recently recorded with conductor Martyn Brabbins, and a piece by which Arthur Bliss wrote for the rich, expressive contralto voice of Kathleen Ferrier and an orchestra without clarinets, bassoons, or tuba, ‘relying on the nasal tone of oboe and cor anglais, and the sardonic sound of muted brass'.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Prokofiev: Symphony 1 'Classical

Haydn: Trumpet Concerto

Betsy Jolas: Onze Lieder - UK premiere

Haydn: Symphony No. 103 'Drumroll

Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

c.3.15pm

Claudio Monteverdi: Cantate Domino a6

Alonso Lobo: Versa est in luctum

Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati quorum via

Franz Biebl: Ave Maria

Orlando Gibbons: O clap your hands

Robert Lucas Pearsall: Lay a garland

Pierre Villette: Hymne

Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Elijah20201217In a week featuring the best of the BBC performing groups, the BBC Symphony Orchestra take centre stage with a performance of Mendelssohn's account of the story of Elijah, recorded earlier this year at the Barbican in London.

Felix Mendelssohn: Elijah

Toby Davies (treble)

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

Claudia Huckle (mezzo)

Allan Clayton (tenor)

Johan Reuter (baritone)

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo

The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Singers20200512Some of Anders Hillborg's earliest lessons in music were learnt singing in choirs. In a concert recorded at St Giles' Cripplegate in February, the BBC Singers present the first performance of a new choral work by the Swedish composer alongside some of his established favourites, including the simple song lined with mourning O Dessa րgon and the spine-tingling surround-sound of the 16-part Mouyayoum. Complementing Hillborg's works, Ragnar Rasmussen and the Singers bring us the radiant and heartbreaking love songs by Hillborg's compatriot Sven-David Sandstr怀m and Olivier Messiaen's cut-glass miniature O Sacrum Convivium.

Followed by a performance recorded at the Barbican in January this year by legendary American pianist Garrick Ohlsson of Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto with its towering technical demands for the soloist. The composer took the part for the 1909 world premiere in New York, preparing for it by practising on a dummy keyboard aboard ship on the Atlantic en route to the US. Early the following year he gave a performance with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Gustav Mahler.

The afternoon closes with a rare opportunity to hear Bliss' Mary of Magdala in a recent recording with Dame Sarah Connolly as Mary Magdala, James Platt as Jesus and the BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC SO under Conductor Laureate Sir Andrew Davis. Bliss was drawn to the story describing it as ‘one of the loveliest stories in the New Testament' where at the sepulchre, Mary Magdala was the first to see the risen Christ supposing him to be the gardener.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

2pm

Anders Hillborg: The Cradle Song, O Dessa 怀gon, The Breathing of the World (UK premiere)

Sven-David Sandstr怀m: Four Songs of Love

Anders Hillborg: Stella Maris, Lilla Sus Grav

Esa-Pekka Salonen: Songs from Kalender R怀d

Olivier Messiaen: O sacrum convivium

Anders Hillborg: Mouyayoum

Theo Hillborg, saxophone

Filip Graden, cello

Ragnar Rasmussen, conductor

c.3.20pm

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3

Garrick Ohlsson, piano

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Robert Spano, conductor

c.4.10pm

Arthur Bliss: Mary of Magdala

Dame Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano

James Platt, bass

Sir Andrew Davis, conductor

Ethereal Nordic choir, Rachmaninov and biblical Bliss with the BBC SO and Singers.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Singers (2-5)20210629Ian Skelly presents recordings by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers, including music by Schubert, Anthony Payne and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts Schubert's `Great` Ninth Symphony, and violinist Igor Yuzefovich directs the orchestra in summer music by Piazzolla and Vivaldi. And the BBC Singers are joined by their chief conductor Sofi Jeannin for new studio recordings of music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir paired with Parry's Songs of Farewell.

Including:

2pm

Jonathan Bailey Holland: Motor City Dance Mix

Brad Lubman (conductor)

c.2.10pm

Piazzolla: Summer (from the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires)

Strings of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Igor Yuzefovich (violin/director)

c.2.20pm, 3pm and 3.30pm

Music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir alongside Parry's Songs of Farewell

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

c.2.35pm

Anthony Payne: Of land, sea and sky for chorus and orchestra

BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

c.3.20pm

Vivaldi: Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, 'Summer

c.3.55pm

Schubert: Symphony No.9 in C minor, D944 'Great

Ian Skelly presents music by Schubert, Anthony Payne and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Singers (3-5)20210630Ian Skelly presents recordings by the BBC Symphony Orchestra of music by Falla and Haydn, and the BBC Singers perform Shruthi Rajasekar.

Sakari Oramo conducts a performance of Haydn's Symphony No. 49 'Las passione' from the Barbican last year, and pianist Javier Perianes joins the BBC SO for the Andalusian composer Manuel de Falla's atmospheric Nights in the Gardens of Spain. Plus new studio recordings by the BBC Singers, as Nicholas Chalmers leads them in music by two young composers, Shruthi Rajasekar and Electra Perivolaris.

Including:

2pm

Stephen Montague: Introit & Flourish

Brass of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Anthony Weeden (conductor)

c.2.05pm

Falla: Nights in the Garden of Spain

Javier Perianes (piano)

Josep Pons (conductor)

c.2.30pm

Music by Shruthi Rajasekar and Electra Perivolaris

Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)

c.3.05pm

Symphony No. 49 in F minor 'La passione

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Ian Skelly presents music by Falla, Haydn and Shruthi Rajasekar.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Singers (4-5)20210701Ian Skelly presents an afternoon of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers, including music by Mendelssohn, Walton, Elgar and Judith Weir.

Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC SO and Chorus in the first part of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius (concluding tomorrow) featuring soloists Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton and David Soar. James Ehnes joins the orchestra for Walton's Viola Concerto, and Chlo退 van Soeterst耀de and Dalia Stasevska conduct music by Mendelssohn and Sibelius. Plus, Ian introduces recent performances by the BBC Singers from the Nevill Holt Opera June Festival.

Including:

c.2.15pm

Mendelssohn: String Symphony No.1

Strings of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Chlo退 van Soeterst耀de (conductor)

c.2.30pm

Recordings from the Nevill Holt Opera June Festival

Alexander Campkin: The Crimson Sun

Ben Ponniah: O sacrum convivium

Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)

c.2.40pm

Sibelius: Rakastava

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

c.2.55pm

Brahms: Waldesnacht, Op.63 No.2

Judith Weir: Love bade me welcome

by Brahms, Holst, Judith Weir and Melissa Dunphy,

c.3.15pm

Walton: Viola Concerto

James Ehnes (violin)

Edward Gardner (conductor)

c.3.40pm

Judith Weir: A blue true dream of sky

Melissa Dunphy: Halcyon Days

c.4.15pm

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Part 1 (concludes in Afternoon Concert on Friday 2nd July)

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

Stuart Skelton (tenor)

David Soar (bass)

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

Ian Skelly presents music by Mendelssohn, Walton and Elgar.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra At 9020201026As the BBC Symphony Orchestra turns 90, Penny Gore introduces a whole week of celebrations, including today performances featuring some of the orchestra's chief conductors, among them Andrew Davis, who conducts Mark-Anthony Turnage's Momentum, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 4, with soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, followed by a BBC commission: Anthony Payne's completion, from the composer's sketches, of Elgar's 3rd Symphony. Closing the afternoon another chief conductor, Leonard Slatkin, with the ballet score of Billy the Kid by Aaron Copland. And before that, there's Lutos?awski's Cello Concerto, with Paul Watkins as soloist and Edward Gardner conducting.

2.00pm

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Momentum

Sergey Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no. 4 in G minor, Op.40

Elgar: Symphony no. 3 in C minor, compl. Anthony Payne [from Elgar's sketches]

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Sir Andrew Davis, conductor

3.40pm

Witold Lutos?awski: Cello Concerto

Paul Watkins, cello

Edward Gardner, conductor

4.05pm

Copland: Billy the Kid (ballet)

Leonard Slatkin, conductor

Chief conductors and commissions. Today Andrew Davis conducts Elgar/Payne 3rd Symphony.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra At 9020201027Penny Gore introduces three former chief conductors of the BBC SO as the orchestra turns 90. Today's celebrations start with Pierre Boulez, at his 80th birthday gala concert in 2005, conducting Debussy's Jeux and Trois ballads de Villon, with soprano Elizabeth Atherton, and his own music, Le soleil des eaux, featuring the BBC Singers, and then Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe - joined by the BBC Symphony Chorus. Next Jessica Cottis takes to the rostrum to conduct the ensemble in Thea Musgrave's Helios, with oboist Emily Pailthorpe. Colin Davis at the 1971 Last Night of the Proms thrills with Berlioz's Trojans March, there's a Haydn Symphony with current Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo, and the afternoon ends with Gennadi Rozhdestvensky conducting Prokofiev's Ode to the End of the War - involving wind orchestra, percussion, 4 harps and 4 pianos!

2.00pm

Debussy: Jeux

Debussy: Trois ballades de Villon

Boulez: Le soleil des eaux

Ravel: Daphnis and Chlo退

Elizabeth Atherton, soprano

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Pierre Boulez, conductor

3.50pm

Thea Musgrave: Helios

Emily Pailthorpe, oboe

Jessica Cottis, conductor

4.15pm

Berlioz: The Trojans March

Colin Davis, conductor

4.20pm

Haydn: Symphony No. 34 in D minor

Sakari Oramo, conductor

4.40pm

Prokofiev: Ode to the End of the War

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor

Pierre Boulez conducts Debussy, his own music and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra At 9020201028Penny Gore with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, celebrating its 90th anniversary, on tour in Germany in 2015 with its current chief conductor Sakari Oramo. There's Wagner's overture to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Mendelssohn's Concerto for violin in E minor, with soloist Alina Ibragimova, followed by Brahms' Symphony No. 2 in D major. We end the afternoon with a very recent commission for the BBC SO, Hannah Kendall's Tuxedo Vasco 'de' Gama.

2.00pm

Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto in E minor for violin and orchestra, Op. 64

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

Hannah Kendall: Tuxedo Vasco 'de' Gama

Alina Ibragimova, violin

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Current Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo with music by Wagner, Mendelssohn and Brahms.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra At 9020201030Penny Gore closes this week of celebrations of the 90th anniversary of the BBC Symphony Orchestra with one of its former Chief Conductors, Jiri Belohlavek, conducting an outstanding performance of Janacek's comic opera The Adventures of Mr. Broucek. Tenor Jan Vacik is in the title role, leading an almost entirely Czech cast plus the BBC Singers. Two Excursions: one drunken flight of fantasy to the moon, the other back in time to 15th century war-torn Prague! This is Janacek's operatic reaction to the satirical stories of Svatopluk Cech, and unique among his operas: comic, serious, and patriotic. Recorded at the Barbican Hall in February 2017.

Jan Vacik - Tenor (Mr Broucek)

Peter Straka - Tenor (Mazal/Ethereal/Kunka)

Maria Haan - Soprano (Malinka/Etherea/Kunka)

Roman Janal - Baritone (Sacristan, Lunobor, Domsik)

Zdenek Plech - Bass (Wurfl/Caroskvouci/Councillor)

Ivan Kusnjer - Baritone (The apparition of Svatopluk/Second Taborite)

Lenka Smidova - Mezzo-soprano (Housekeeper/Kedruta)

Martina Bauerova - Soprano (Young Waiter/Child Prodigy/Student)

Jaroslav Brezina - Tenor (Painter/Duhoslav/Vojta from the Peacocks/Voice of the Professor)

Ales Briscein - Tenor (Composer/Harfoboboj/Miroslav the goldsmith)

Vaclav Sibera - Baritone (Poet [Prague]/Oblacny/Vacek Bradaty)

Edward Goater - Tenor (Poet)

Christopher Bowen - Tenor (Another Poet)

Charles Gibbs - Bass (First Taborite)

Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

Janacek's comic opera The Excursions of Mr. Broucek, conducted by Jiri Belohlavek in 2007.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra At 9020210329Penny Gore presents a week of concerts by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2

Mahler: Symphony No. 5

Yu Kosuge, piano

BBC SO

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Gavin Higgins: Sadly now the throstle sings

Ryan Bancroft, conductor

Weir: Natural History

Ailish Tynan, soprano

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Mahler's Fifth Symphony.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra At Maida Vale20200115The BBC Symphony Orchestra are at Maida Vale Studios for a concert of 20th and 21st-century music which includes one of Bartok's final orchestral works - his Viola Concerto, written for virtuoso viola player William Primrose. There are also three UK premieres of works by US composers Andrew Norman, Augusta Read Thomas and Jonathan Bailey Holland.

Following that concert, there's another visit to the 66th International Rostrum of Composers in Argentina, and a piece by the young Latvian composer J?kabs Jan?evskis - 'When', written in 2018.

The programme ends with a recording made by violinist Guy Braunstein of one of Tchaikovsky's best-known miniatures for violin and orchestra.

2pm

Andrew Norman: Sacred Geometry (UK Premiere)

Bela Bartok: Viola Concerto

Augusta Read Thomas: Helios Choros I (UK premiere)

Jonathan Bailey Holland: Motor City Dance Mix (UK premiere)

Timothy Ridout, viola

Brad Lubman, conductor

3pm

J?kabs Jan?evskis: When (2018)

Kristaps Bergs, cello

Mixed Choir of Riga Cathedral Choir School

Jurgis Cabalis, conductor

3.10pm

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Serenade m退lancolique, Op.26

Guy Braunstein, violin

Kirill Karabits, conductor

Presented by Penny Gore.

The BBC SO with Bartok, Andrew Norman, Augusta Read Thomas and Jonathan Bailey Holland.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra At The Barbican20200113This week Penny Gore introduces concerts given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers. There are also highlights each day from the 66th International Rostrum of Composers, which took place in Argentina.

The week begins with a concert conducted by Alexander Vedernikov, featuring Gyorgy Sviridov's paean to Pushkin - 'The Blizzard', Rachmaninov's ever-popular set of variations on one of Paganini's Caprices - with soloist Andrei Korobeinikov, and Tchaikovsky's earliest notable work - the First Symphony.

The programme also includes a recent work for mixed choir by the young Estonian composer Gerta Raidma, which was recorded at the 66th International Rostrum of Composers in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. To end, Jack Liebeck joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra to perform the violin concerto that Schoenberg composed three years after fleeing Nazi Germany to the USA.

2pm

Gyorgy Sviridov: The Blizzard (Suite)

Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Paganini

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.1, 'Winter Daydreams

Andrei Korobeinikov, piano

Alexander Vedernikov, conductor

3.40pm

Gerta Raidma: Je suis (2018)

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

Kaspars Putni?š, conductor

3.45pm

Arnold Schoenberg: Violin Concerto

Jack Liebeck, violin

Andrew Gourlay, conductor

The BBC Symphony Orchestra plays Sviridov, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Schoenberg.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra In Elgar And Tchaikovsky20200715The BBC Symphony Orchestra in Shanghai. Penny Gore introduces performances given last summer at Shanghai Symphony Hall. The orchestra brought with them Elgar's classic Enigma Variations, and the brilliant young pianist Pavel Kolesnikov joined them in Tchaikovsky's famous concerto.

Huan Ruo: Folk Songs for Orchestra

I: Flower Drum Song from Feng Yang

II: Love Song from Kang Ding

III: Little Blue Flower

IV: The Girl from the Da Ban City

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23

(Pavel Kolesnikov, piano)

Elgar: Variations on an original theme ('Enigma')

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Elgar's Enigma Variations and Tchaikovsky in Shanghai.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra In Hungarian Music20170516Nielsen, Bruch and Mendelssohn from violinist Jack Liebeck and the Ulster Orchestra, live from Ulster Hall, Belfast and presented by John Toal.

Followed by Hungarian works from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, recorded at London's Barbican Hall earlier this year and introduced by Katie Derham.

2.00pm - LIVE

Nielsen: Saga-Drøm, Op.39

Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, Op.46

Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op.27

Jack Liebeck, violin

Giordano Bellincampi, conductor

Presented by Katie Derham:

3.00pm

Bartok:Concerto for Orchestra

P退ter E怀tv怀s: Senza sangue

Russell Braun, tenor

Albane Carr耀re, mezzo-soprano

Simone Young, conductor.

The Ulster Orchestra in Nielsen, Bruch and Mendelssohn. Plus BBC SO in Bartok and Eotvos.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra Live20130212Presented by Katie Derham.

Live from the Maida Vale studios in London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jean Deroyer perform a concert of French music.

The soloist in Poulenc's Concert Champetre is Pascal Rog退, who also performs and talks about solo piano music by both Poulenc and Satie.

After the concert, the world premiere, recorded last month, of Malcolm Hayes' Byzantium with the BBC SO conducted by Garry Walker, and a piano lullaby by Oliver Knussen. The afternoon closes with the BBC SO under its chief conductor Jiri Belohlavek in music from his homeland: Dvorak's sinister symphonic poem The Water Goblin.

Faur退: Sicilienne

Poulenc: Concert Champꀀtre

Pascal Rog退 (harpsichord)

Satie: Gymnopedie No. 1; Gnossiennes Nos. 2 & 5

Poulenc: Improvisations Nos. 12, 15 & 6

Pascal Rog退 (piano)

3pm

Poulenc: Sinfonietta

Jean Deroyer (conductor)

3.35pm

Malcolm Hayes: Byzantium (World Premiere)

Garry Walker (conductor)

Oliver Knussen: Sonya's lullaby, Op. 16 (Part 2 of 'Triptych')

Richard Uttley (piano)

4pm

Dvorak: The Water Goblin

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

Katie Derham presents the BBC SO live, with pianist Pascal Roge in Poulenc and Satie.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra Live From Maida Vale Studios20140321Jean Deroyer conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, pianist Louis Schwizgebel and tenor Robin Tritschler in a short afternoon concert, broadcast live from Maida Vale in today's Afternoon on 3.

Hear the jazz-inflected harmonies of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major, while his Cinq m退lodies populaires grecques set popular Greek songs from the island of Chios, mixing the flippant Tout gai! with the more profound L

Bbc Symphony Orchestra On Tour20191021From the BBC Symphony Orchestra's recent trip to China, a concert featuring music by Huang Ruo alongside Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 and Elgar's Enigma Variations. Also, featuring choral music by Joanna Marsh performed by the BBC Singers and Stravinsky from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Presented by Kate Molleson.

Starting a week with material from the BBC Symhony Orchestra's 2019 tour of China, plus other material recorded recently at the Edinburgh Festival and pieces recorded by The BBC Singers, today we feature a concert given in Shanghai by the BBC SO with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Pavel Kolesnikov. The concert - given at the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall - begins with the world premiere of Chinese-born composer Huang Ruo's Folk Songs for Orchestra. Also in the programme were two well-known and much-loved pieces: Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto and Elgar's Enigma Variations, all conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

The afternoon continues with a recent recording of choral music by Joanna Marsh - Arabesques - made by The BBC Singers under Owain Park. And we end at the Maida Vale Studios, and a further concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrei Feher, with the Divertimento from Stravinsky's 'The Fairy's Kiss'.

2.00pm

Huang Ruo: Folk Songs for Orchestra (world premiere of complete set)

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23

Edward Elgar: Variations on an original theme 'Enigma', Op.36

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

Sir Andrew Davis, conductor

3.40pm

Joanna Marsh: Arabesques

Owain Park, conductor

4.00pm

Igor Stravinsky: Divertimento from 'The Fairy's Kiss

Andrei Feher, conductor

Music by Huang Ruo, Tchaikovsky, Elgar and Stravinsky from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra On Tour20191022Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No.2 and Mahler's 4th Symphony from the 2019 Edinburgh International Festival, plus more choral music by Joanna Marsh from The BBC Singers, and a further concert given at Maida Vale Studios by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, featuring Louise Farrenc's Overture No.1, Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor and Faure's Pelleas et Melisande.

Presented by Kate Molleson.

Continuing with recordings taken from the BBC Symphony Orchestra's recent touring activities, today we hear Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No.2 with soloist Kirill Gerstein, and Mahler's Symphony No.4 with soprano Christina Gansch, given at a concert at Edinburgh's Usher Hall as part of this year's Edinburgh Festival.

The afternoon continues with another recording of choral music by Joanna Marsh - Weighing the Earth - made by the BBC Singers under conductor Owain Park.

And we end the programme with a recent concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale Studios in London, including the dramatic Overture No.1 by Louise Farrenc, Grieg's much-loved Piano Concerto in A minor with soloist Elizabeth Brauss, and Faure's intensely romantic Pelleas et Melisande, all conducted by Francois Leleux.

2.00pm

Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No.2 in F major, Op.102

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.4 in G major

Kirill Gerstein, piano

Christina Gansch, soprano

Semyon Bychkov, conductor

3.25pm

Joanna Marsh: Weighing the Earth

Owain Park, conductor

3.30pm

Louise Farrenc - Overture No.1, Op.23

Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16

Gabriel Faure: Pelleas et Melisande

Elizabeth Brauss, piano

Francois Leleux, conductor

Shostakovich and Mahler from the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra On Tour In Spain20181121Another concert from Spain today as we continue the series of recordings recently made by the BBC Symphony Orchestra abroad on tour. From the Kursaal Auditorio in San Sebastiကn, Sibelius Suite Scenes historiques No. 1, followed by the Peacock Tales by Hillborg and Debussy's First Rhapsody, with clarinettist Martin Fr怀st as soloist, and the orchestra Chief Conductor, Sakari Oramo, at the helm. The programme continues in Britain with the orchestra performing more Sibelius, his Symphony No. 2, recorded earlier this year at the Barbican Centre, in London.

Presented by Penny Gore

14.00

Sibelius: Sc耀nes historiques Suite No.1

Hillborg: Peacock Tales

Debussy: First Rhapsody

Martin Fr怀st (clarinet)

Sakari Oramo (Conductor)

14.45

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

The BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Spain with music by Sibelius, Hillborg and Debussy.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra Play Stravinsky And William Grant Still20220930Adam Hickox conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra live at Maida Vale Studios in music by Stravinsky and William Grant Still. Plus there are performances by The Huelgas Ensemble from the Fribourg Sacred Music Festival, and there's music by Elizabeth Maconchy, Clara Schumann, Beethoven and Ravel.

Elizabeth Maconchy - Overture: Proud Thames

Andrew Davis (conductor)

2.06

Homer Herpol - Dum appropinquaret Jesus Jericho

Homer Herpol - Ecce mitto angelum

Paul van Nevel (conductor)

2.21

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Quintet in E flat, Op.16

Alexander Melnikov (piano)

Marcel Ponseele (oboe)

Asko Heiskanen (clarinet)

Jaakko Luoma (bassoon)

Teunis van der Zwart (horn)

2.46

Felix Mendelssohn - Verleih' uns Frieden gn䀀diglich

Marta Paklar (soprano)

Franz Vitzthum (alto)

Thomas Hobbs (tenor)

Felix Schwandtke (bass)

Netherlands Bach Society

Jos van Veldhoven (conductor)

LIVE AT 3pm

Igor Stravinsky - Symphony in 3 movements

Adam Hickox (conductor)

William Grant Still - Darker America

3.45

Maurice Ravel - Pavane pour une infante d退funte

MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra

Michael Balke (conductor)

4.05

Clara Schumann - 3 Romances, Op.21

Cristina Ortiz (piano)

Music by Stravinsky, Beethoven, Maconchy and William Grant Still.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra, Live20181214Live from Maida Vale Studios, the young Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Linberg, Kabalevsky & Bartok. Presented by Natasha Riordan. After the live concert, Penny Gore continues our celebration of ‘Our Classical Century', a countdown of the hundred most important events in classical music across the last hundred years. In this final week, we focus on Prokofiev's Peter and the wolf and hear a performance by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier, recorded in 1999, and narrated by David Attenborough. The afternoon concludes with the final pieces from the Total Immersion 'In Remembrance' concert recorded at the Barbican last month featuring Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. We'll hear music by George Butterworth who died whilst serving in the Armed Forces during World War 1, and Enrique Granados who became fatally involved in the war only by chance.

Lindberg: Two Episodes

Kabalevsky: Cello Concerto No.1, Op.4

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

Jonathan Roozeman, cello

Dalia Stasevska, conductor

Prokofiev: Peter and the wolf

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

David Attenborough, narrator

Granados: La maja dolorosa

Carmen Artaza, mezzo-soprano

Michael Pandya, piano

Butterworth: Love Blows as the Wind Blows

Andrew Hamilton, baritone

Maria W?oszczowska, violin

Ruth Hene, violin

Oscar Holch, viola

Akito Goto, cello

Live from Maida Vale, Dalia Stasevska conducts music by Lindberg, Kabalevsky and Bartok.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra, Mental Health Awareness Week20210510In Mental Health Awareness Week 2021, Penny Gore introduces performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra featuring music from early 20th-century Vienna, where the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, developed psychotherapy.

Jessie Montgomery: Starburst

Strings of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Alpesh Chauhan

2.05pm

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op.61

Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op.5

James Ehnes, violin

Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth

3.50pm

Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1

Conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste

This series broadcast in Mental Health Awareness Week includes a particular focus on the music of Vienna-born Arnold Schoenberg, whose work and intellectual life has startling parallels with that of his contemporary who developed psychoanalysis in Vienna, Sigmund Freud. The final programme of the series includes the Seventh Symphony by a composer who actually consulted Freud, Gustav Mahler. Plus on Tuesday the BBC Singers perform sacred music by women composers from the exciting new series of publications 'Multitude of Voyces', while Thursday's Opera Matinee is a masterwork from the Baroque era, Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses.

Penny Gore introduces music by Montgomery, Beethoven, Schoenberg and Enescu.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra, Mental Health Awareness Week20210512In Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 Penny Gore presents the BBC SO in music by Bartok, Oskar Fried, Schoenberg and Suk composed around the time of the development of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Central Europe.

Bartok: Two Pictures, Op.10

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Gergely Madaras

2.20pm

Oscar Fried: Verklaerte Nacht

Christine Rice, mezzo-soprano

Stuart Skelton, tenor

Conductor Edward Gardner

2.30pm

Schoenberg: Verklaerte Nacht

3.00pm

Suk: Prague

Conductor Jiri Belohlavek

Penny Gore presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bartok, Oskar Fried, Schoenberg and Suk.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra, Mental Health Awareness Week20210514In Mental Health Awareness Week 2021, Penny Gore presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing music by Britten, Dan Jenkins, Joseph Marx, Thomas Larcher and Mahler, including works composed in early 20th century Vienna where the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, developed psychotherapy. A few years after composing his Seventh Symphony, Mahler even consulted Freud himself.

Dan Jenkins's piece 6845815 is a reflection on the time of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Dan, a composer, arranger and the BBC Symphony Orchestra's 2nd trombone, was deeply moved by the orchestra's visit to Hiroshima for a concert in 2018, and wrote this piece in response.

Britten: Four Sea Interludes

Conductor Sakari Oramo

2.25pm

Dan Jenkins: 6845815

Brass and percussion of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Martyn Brabbins

2.35pm

Marx: 3 songs

Christine Brewer, soprano

Conductor Jiri Belohlavek

2.50pm

Thomas Larcher: Chiasma

3pm

Mahler: Symphony No. 7

Penny Gore presents the BBC SO in music by Britten, Dan Jenkins, Marx, Larcher and Mahler.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky And Shostakovich20190624A recently discovered funeral song by Stravinsky opens this all-Russian concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo, recorded last month at London's Barbican Hall. Stravinsky wrote it in tribute to his friend and teacher Rimsky-Korsakov and it's a musical depiction of laying a floral tribute on the grave. The newly-appointed leader of the orchestra, Igor Yuzefovich, is the soloist in Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto and the concerts closes with a thrilling performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra's Principal Bassoon Julie Price joins Michael Collins in Richard Strauss's Concertino and we've the first of this week's pieces from the International Rostrum of Composers which, since its foundation in 1955, has launched many of the most important composers of the 20th and 21st centuries from Henri Dutilleux and Hans-Werner Henze to Henryk G recki and Dobrinka Tabakova. Jenny Hettne is a Swedish composer who places her clearest focus on the exploration of sound and timbre. In her piece Whirli(gigue) she achieves a subtle orchestral sound poetry that channels the world of electroacoustic music.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Stravinsky: Funeral Song Op. 5

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No.1

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Igor Yuzefovich (violin)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Beethoven: Leonora Overture No. 2 Op. 72a

c.3.45pm

Richard Strauss: Duet Concertino

Michael Collins (clarinet)

Julie Price (bassoon)

Strings of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

c.4.00pm

Jenny Hettne: Whirli(gigue)

Malm怀 Symphony Orchestra

Leif Segerstam (conductor)

c.4.10pm

Szymanowski: Harnasie

Rob Murray (tenor)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Edward Gardner (conductor)

A recent concert of Russian music kicks off this week featuring the BBCSO and BBC Singers.

Bbc Symphony Orchestra: Yiu, Shostakovich And Saariaho20190628Raymond Yiu's musical love letter to London opens this afternoon's concert in which the Hong Kong-born young composer quotes Elgar's Cockaigne Overture and skilfully blends popular style with symphonic scope. Martin Owen becomes the third BBC SO section principal to step into the spotlight this week, joining tenor Anthony Gregory in Britten's nocturnal song-cycle, and former BBC SO Principal Guest Conductor David Robertson continues this season's series of Shostakovich symphonies with the First. Written while the composer was still a student, its precocious brilliance is tempered by a sense of darkness and foreboding.

This week's Our Classical Century piece is Graal th退 tre (Grail Theatre) by the celebrated Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho which, writes the composer, 'expresses the tension between the efforts of the composer when writing music and the theatrical aspect of performance'. It's dedicated to the soloist in this performance, Gidon Kremer.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Raymond Yiu: The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured

Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1

Anthony Gregory (tenor)

Martin Owen (horn)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

David Robertson (conductor)

Recorded in May at the Barbican Hall, London

c.3.15pm

Kaija Saariaho: Graal th退 tre - concerto for violin and orchestra

Gidon Kremer (violin)

Esa-Pekka Salonen

c.3.45pm

Brahms: Symphony No. 3

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Raymond Yiu's love letter to London, young Shostakovich and Saariaho's Graal theatre.

Beethoven Symphony No 420230515Penny Gore begins a week of Afternoon Concert featuring the Ulster Orchestra performing at Ulster Hall, Belfast. Today at 3pm it's Beethoven's 4th Symphony. Plus there's a new recording of Gershwin's An American in Paris from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and part of a concert of Barbara Strozzi given by the Hathor Consort in Antwerp in February.

Including:

Couperin: Passacaille, from 'L'Espagnole, deuxi耀me ordre des Nations

Les Talens Lyriques

Christophe Rousset (director)

Gershwin: An American in Paris

Lionel Bringuier (conductor)

Schumann: Overture to Manfred, Op. 115, after Byron

Daniel Harding (conductor)

Antheil: Trumpet Sonata

Simon H怀fele (trumpet)

Frank Dupree (piano)

c.3pm

Beethoven: Symphony no.4 in B flat major, Op.60

Moritz Gnann (conductor)

Strozzi: L'Amante modesto Op1'13

Merce di voi, Op.1'1

Lagrime me, Op.7'4

Al battitor de bronzo, Op.1'18

Begli occhi, Op.3'9

L'Eraclito amoroso, Op.2'14

Claire Lefili tre (soprano)

Doroth退e Mields (soprano)

Romina Lischka (bass viol, artistic leader)

c.4pm

Dvorak: The Wild Dove, Op.110

The Ulster Orchestra plays Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, Plus, Gershwin and Strozzi.

Beethoven, Symphony No.6 'pastoral'20240305Penny Gore presents a week of Afternoon Concert featuring new recordings from the BBC performing groups and the European Broadcasting Union. Today's 3 o'clock moment is Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony in a performance from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ryan Wigglesworth. Also featured across the week is a performance from the brilliant young pianist Yumeka Nakagawa in concert in Cologne. Plus other new recordings from the Ulster Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Presented by Penny Gore

2pm

Tailleferre Overture

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Mozart Variations on 'Ah, vous dirai-je maman', K.265

Yumeka Nakagawa (piano)

Jonathan Dove Seek Him that Maketh the Seven Stars

Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge

Glen Dempsey (organ)

Andrew Nethsingha (conductor)

Handel Concerto no. 13 in F major HWV.295 (The Cuckoo and the nightingale)

Istvan Ella (organ)

Corelli Chamber Orchestra

Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture

Dresden State Orchestra

Colin Davis (conductor)

3pm

Beethoven Symphony No.6 in F major, Op.68, ‘Pastoral

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Chopin 24 Preludes, Op.28 – no 7-9

Warlock Capriol Suite vers. for string orchestra

Nash Ensemble

c.4.15

Chopin 24 Preludes, Op.28 – no 10-12

Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia Cumbres (Summits)

Pablo Urbina (conductor)

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor

Juilliard String Quartet

Borodin In the steppes of central Asia [V sredney Azii]

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

Music by Beethoven, Chopin and Berlioz.

Penny Gore presents Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony in a performance from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Plus Chopin from pianist Yumeka Nakagawa in concert in Cologne.

Beethoven's Emperor At The Newbury Spring Festival20230424Ian Skelly with an imperial selection of music for the afternoon, including the Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko performing Beethoven's monumental Fifth Piano Concerto at the Newbury Spring Festival and traditional songs from the eastern Mediterranean as realised by Jordi Savall.

Isaac: Imperii proceres (Music for Maximilian)

Concentus Musicus Wien

Wiener S䀀ngerknaben

Chorus Viennensis

Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

Dilermando Reis: Uma Valsa e Dois Amores

Anabel Montesunos (guitar)

Mompou: La fuente y la campana

Julien Brocal (piano)

3.00

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No5 in Eb 'Emperor

Vadym Kholodenko (piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Trad: Six traditional songs from Greece, Israel, Syria, and Morocco

Trad: Two traditional songs from Israel and Greece

Lior Elmaleh (vocals)

Katerina Papadopoulou (vocals)

Hesperion XXI

Faure: Pavane Op50

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

Mozart: Horn Concerto No 4 in Eb K495

Ben Goldscheider (horn)

Ulster Orchestra

Leslie Suganandarjah (conductor)

Vadym Kholodenko performs Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, plus music from Jordi Savall.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony From Munich20221110Penny Gore continues this week of programmes with a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony from the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava. Jordi Savall brings us one of the Cantigas de Santa Maria every day this week, there's Renaissance polyphony from Stile Antico, plus we celebrate Philip Glass's 85th birthday with pianists Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa, and Gabriel Jackson's 60th birthday with The BBC Singers. And there's music by Mozart, Lysenko, Sibelius, Walton, Georg Muffat and Marie Jaell too.

Mykola Lysenko - Overture: Taras Bulba

Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra

Hobart Earle (conductor)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K.364 (2nd mvt: Andante)

Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)

Vladimir Babeshko (viola)

Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Bavarian State Orchestra

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Lahav Shani (conductor)

Thomas Tallis - Videte miraculum

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

c. 2.32pm

Marie Jaell - Cello Concerto in F

Raphael Perraud (cello)

Orchestre Nationale de France

Debora Waldman (conductor)

3pm

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67

Georg Muffat - Violin Sonata in D

Chouchane Siranossian (violin)

Jonathan Pesek (cello)

Leonardo Garcia Alarcon (harpsichord)

c. 3.42pm

Philip Glass - Four Movements for Two Pianos (Part IV)

Dennis Russell Davies / Maki Namekawa (pianos)

3.50

Robert White - Lamentations for 5 voices (Part I)

Alfonso X of Castile - Santa Maria, strela do dia [Cantigas de Santa Maria, No.100]

Capella Real de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI

Jordi Savall (director)

Jean Sibelius - Andante Festivo

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

c. 4.33pm

Gabriel Jackson - Luce coruscas

William Walton - Portsmouth Point

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Lahav Shani conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

Beethoven's First Symphony20230920Ian Skelly presents great concert performances from across Europe and from the BBC performing groups, this week featuring the Ulster Orchestra every day at 3pm. Today the orchestra performs Beethoven's Symphony No.1. Plus, Rudolph Buchbinder is the soloist in Mozart's dramatic Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, who also play music by William Grant Still. And the Netherlands Radio Choir and Orchestra perform Brahms's elegiac Song of Destiny.

Including:

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves

Aarhus Symphony Orchestra

Christian Oland (conductor)

William Grant Still: Summerland (from 3 Visions)

Zina Schiff (violin)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Avlana Eisenberg (conductor)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor

Rudolph Buchbinder (piano)

Elim Chan (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin - Introduction & Waltz

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Beethoven: Symphony No.1 in C

Jonathan Bloxham (conductor)

Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen: Blue White Gold

Dreamers' Circus

Brahms: Song of Destiny

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Benjamin Goodson (conductor)

A new recording of Beethoven's First Symphony from Belfast.

Beethoven's First Symphony From Bratislava20221109Penny Gore continues this week of programmes with a performance of Beethoven's First Symphony from the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava. Jordi Savall brings us one of the Cantigas de Santa Maria every day this week, plus we celebrate Philip Glass's 85th birthday with pianists Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa, and Gabriel Jackson's 60th birthday with The BBC Singers. And there's music by Dvorak, Brahms, Coleridge-Taylor, CPE Bach and Peter Zagar too.

Antonin Dvorak - Carnival Overture, Op.92

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)

Gabriel Jackson - Blumbergs in Venice

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Peter Zagar - Blumental Dance No.6

Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

Alfonso X of Castile - Muito faz grand'erro [Cantigas de Santa Maria, No.209]

Capella Real de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI

Jordi Savall (director)

c. 2.43pm

Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.6 in D

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Petr Popelka (conductor)

CPE Bach - Sinfonia for strings in B minor, Wq.182/5

Netherlands Bach Society

Shunske Sato (conductor)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.1 in C, Op.21

Philip Glass - Four Movements for Two Pianos (Part III)

Dennis Russell Davies / Maki Namekawa (pianos)

c. 3.35pm

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor -Piano Trio in E minor

Trio Anima Mundi

Carlo Farina - La Farina

Chouchane Siranossian (violin)

Jonathan Pesek (cello)

Leonardo G

Ondrej Lenard conducts the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's First Symphony.

Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto With Nino Gvetadze20221108Penny Gore continues this week of programmes with a performance of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto from Nino Gvetadze in Olomouc. Jordi Savall brings us one of the Cantigas de Santa Maria every day this week, there's Renaissance polyphony from Stile Antico, plus we celebrate Philip Glass's 85th birthday with pianists Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa, and Gabriel Jackson's 60th birthday with The BBC Singers. And there's music by Chabrier, Debussy, Schubert, Mel Bonis and Richard Strauss too.

Emmanuel Chabrier - Espaကa

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Claude Debussy - Arabesque No.1 in E major

Nino Gvetadze (piano)

c. 2.14pm

Gabriel Jackson - In the half-light of dusk

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Franz Schubert - Overture: Rosamunde

BBC Philharmonic

Clemens Schuldt (conductor)

Alfonso X of Castile - Miragres fremosos faz por nos [Cantigas de Santa Maria, No.37]

Capella Real de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI

Jordi Savall (director)

Richard Strauss - Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Joana Mallwitz (conductor)

3pm

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.4 in G major, Op.58

Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra

Zsolt Hamar (conductor)

c. 3.50pm

Philippe de Monte - Super flumina Babylonis

Mel Bonis - Trois femmes de l退gende

Orchestre Nationale de France

Debora Waldman (conductor)

c. 4.28pm

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Andante in C, K.315

Matthias Kiesling (flute)

Concerto Koln

Philip Glass - Four Movements for Two Pianos (Part II)

Dennis Russell Davies / Maki Namekawa (pianos)

Nino Gvetadze plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with the Moravian Philharmonic

Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony20230612Elena Schwarz conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Beethoven's Sixth Symphony in F, 'Pastoral'.

Presented by Ian Skelly

The focus this week is on the BBC Philharmonic, including a specially recorded performance of one of Beethoven's best-loved works, his Sixth Symphony evoking scenes of pastoral life.

2.00pm

Elgar

Pomp and Circumstance March no.1

Andrew Davis, conductor

Marcel Dupre

Prelude and fugue in F minor

Steven Tharp, organ of Basilica of St James the Greater, Prague

Vaughan Williams

Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

3.00pm

Symphony no.6 'Pastoral

Elena Schwarz, conductor

Brahms

Theme and Variations (arranged from String Sextet no.1)

Denis Kozhukhin, piano

CPE Bach

Cello Concerto in a minor

Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello

Ensemble Resonanz

Riccardo Minasi, conductor

Elena Schwarz conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, 'Pastoral'.

Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 420240314Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert featuring live recordings from the BBC performing groups and the European Broadcasting Union. Today's featured work at 3 o'clock is Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4, with pianist Francesco Piemontesi the soloist and Herbert Blomstedt conducting the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Also featured across the week is music from a concert given by the Serbian choral group the Novi Sad Chamber Choir, as well as recordings from several of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists.

2pm

Luciano Berio: Quattro versioni originali della 'Ritirata notturna di Madrid' di Luigi Boccherini

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Franz Liszt: Harmonies du soir (Transcendental Etude No 11)

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Domingo Lopez arr George Hernandez: Rosas Pandan

Bozidar Crnjanski (conductor)

George Frideric Handel: Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 1 No 1

Bojan ČiĀ?ić (violin)

Steven Devine (harpsichord)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Petit suite de concert

BBC Concert Orchestra

Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

William Lawes: Royall Consort suite No 3 in D minor

Phantasm

Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo)

3pm

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58

Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

Cecilia McDowall: O Virgo Virginum

BBC Singers

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Richard Strauss: Prelude to Capriccio

Calidore String Quartet

Eivind Ringstad (viola)

Andrei Ioniță (cello)

4pm

CPE Bach: Symphony in E minor, Wq 178

Pulcinella Orchestra

Ophélie Gaillard (director)

Robert Schumann arr Thorp: Frauenliebe und Leben (arr for singer and string quartet)

Helen Charlston (mezzo soprano)

Consone Quartet

Puccini: Preludio sinfonico

Munich Radio Orchestra

Ivan Repušić (conductor)

Lyadov: Baba-Yaga – symphonic poem

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

Dragan Suplevski: Oral dedo

Orchestral music by Beethoven, Coleridge-Taylor and Puccini.

Ian Skelly introduces a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4 with pianist Francesco Piemontesi and Herbert Blomstedt conducting the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto With Lise De La Salle20221019Ian Skelly introduces a highlight from last year's Leos Janacek International Music Festival alongside performances of Schreker, Schubert, Suk and Joan Tower, book-ended with a spot of afternoon tea..

Vincent Yoemans/Art Tatum: Tea For Two

Lise de la Salle (piano)

Franz Schreker: Ekkehard Op12 - Symphonic Overture

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaiksky (conductor)

CDMA

Schubert: Der Winterreise (selection)

Benjamin Appl

Joseph Middleton

Joan Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No 1

National Symphony Orchestra

Nil Venditti (conductor)

Josef Suk: Scherzo Fantastique Op25

Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Jakob Hausa (conductor)

3.00

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor

Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra

Kristiina Poska (conductor)

Jean-Baptiste Lully: Excerpts from 'Acis et Galat退e LWV 73

Ouverture

Menuet

Premier air

Marche

Troisi耀me air

Schwetzingen 2022 -

Accademia del Piacere

Fahmi Alqhai, viola da gamba, artistic direction

Shostakovich/Yoemans: Tahiti Trot

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Riccardo Chailly

French pianist Lise de la Salle performs Beethoven at the Janacek Music Festival.

Beethoven's Violin Concerto In D, Op 6120231031Ian Skelly introduces a performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto with soloist Tobias Feldmann, accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic under conductor Leslie Suganandarajah, who also perform the composer's Leonora overture No. 1. Also, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Holst's Walt Whitman Overture, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Butterworth's rhapsody for orchestra 'A Shropshire lad'.

And more Italian film music, from a golden era of cinema, with the Munich Radio Orchestra.

Including,

2pm

Verdi: Macbeth - opera in 4 acts: Act 1 sc.1; Che faceste? Dite su! [Witches chorus]

Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Chorus

Richard Armstrong, conductor

Holst: Walt Whitman Overture, Op. 7

Owain Arwel Hughes, conductor

Beethoven: Leonora overture No. 1

Leslie Suganandarajah, conductor

JS Bach (trans. for piano: Busoni): Toccata and fugue in D minor BWV.565

Nikolai Demidenko, piano

3pm

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

Tobias Feldmann, violin

Riz Ortolani: Theme from 'Fantasma d'amore

Luis Bacalov: 'Beatrice' and 'In Bicicletta', from 'Il Postino

Ivan Repusic, conductor

Butterworth: A Shropshire lad – rhapsody for orchestra

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Barbara Strozzi: Sacri Musicali Affetti; Libro 1, op.5 (Venise 1655); Salve Regina

Maria Cristina Kiehr, soprano

Concerto Soave

Tobias Feldmann plays Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D, Op 61, with the BBC Philharmonic.

Tobias Feldmann plays Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D with the BBC Philharmonic under conductor Leslie Suganandarajah. Also, Italian film music with the Munich Radio Orchestra.

Butterworth: A Shropshire lad - rhapsody for orchestra

Berg, Brahms And Honegger20190708Throughout the week we'll be featuring performances by one of the most celebrated orchestras in Switzerland, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. We start this afternoon with its Music and Artistic Director since January 2017 at the helm. It's the British conductor Jonathan Nott, who takes to the rostrum in a concert including Berg's Lyric Suite; then they're joined by contralto Gerhild Romberger and the choir of the Zurich Sing-Akademie, in the first of two pieces by Johannes Brahms, starting with his Alto Rhapsody, followed then by his Piano Concerto No. 2 with Nicholas Angelich as soloist. The afternoon continues with pieces from another concert conducted by Nott including Honegger's Symphony No. 3, 'Liturgical', James MacMillan's Trombone Concerto, with J怀rgen van Rijen as soloist, and finally, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The pianist in the latter is Lucas Debargue.

Also, throughout the whole week there'll be a newly commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2.00pm

Berg: Lyric Suite

Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major , Op.83

Gerhild Romberger, contralto

Nicholas Angelich, piano

Orchestra de la Suisse Romande

Jonathan Nott , conductor

3.25pm

Honegger: Symphony No. 3 (‘Liturgical')

James MacMillan: Trombone Concerto

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

J怀rgen van Rijen, trombone

Lucas Debargue, piano

4.40pm - New Music Biennial

Edmund Finnis: The Centre Is Everywhere

Manchester Collective

Jonathan Nott conducts the Suisse Romande Orchestra.

Berlin Philharmonic20200914Penny Gore presents a week of highlights from the Berlin Philharmonic's last season.

Paavo J䀀rvi conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in music by Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Schumann.

Sibelius: Tapiola, op. 112

Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 97 ('Rhenish')

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Paavo J䀀rvi, conductor

Concert given in the Philharmonie, Berlin on 12/10/2019

2.50: Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra play Berio.

Berio: Sinfonia .

3.30: Part of A European Concert for Europe, given in the empty Berlin Philharmonie, on 01/05/2020, after the lockdown. The reduced forces of the Berlin Philharmonic are conducted by Kirill Petrenko.

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G

(arrangement for chamber ensemble by Erwin Stein)

Christiane Karg, soprano

Kirill Petrenko, conductor

Sibelius, Berio and Mahler performed by the Berlin Philharmonic.

Berlin Philharmonic20200915Penny Gore presents a week of highlights from the Berlin Philharmonic's last season.

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Strauss's Oboe Concerto and Beethoven's oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives.

Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D, AV 144

Beethoven: Christ on the Mount of Olives, op. 85

Jonathan Kelly, oboe

Iwona Sobotka, soprano

Benjamin Bruns, tenor

David Soar, baritone

Berlin Radio Chorus

Simon Halsey, chorus director

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

Concert given at the Philharmonie, Berlin, on 05/03/2020

3.10: Paavo J䀀rvi conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in a programme of Stravinsky and Berlioz.

Stravinsky: Scherzo fantastique, op. 3

Abrahamsen: Horn Concerto

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, op. 14

Stefan Dohr, horn

Paavo J䀀rvi, conductor

Concert given at the Philharmonie, Berlin, on 31/01/2020.

Strauss, Beethoven, Stravinsky and Berlioz performed by the Berlin Philharmonic

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra20220425This week Afternoon Concert celebrates Berlin ensembles; today it's the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Brahms' Symphony No.2 and that orchestra's cello section in music by Julius Klengel. Plus violinist Arabella Steinbacher plays Prokofiev with the BBC Philharmonic, countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski sings Handel with Il Pomo d'Oro and The Dover Quartet and the Pavel Haas Quartet join forces to play Mendelssohn's gorgeous String Octet.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2pm

Mozart - Overture: Cosi fan Tutte, K.588

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Louis Langr退e (conductor)

Poulenc - Oboe Sonata

Fran瀀ois Leleux (oboe)

Emmanuel Strosser (piano)

c. 2.20

Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor

Arabella Steinbacher (violin)

John Storgards (conductor)

Julius Klengel - Hymnus, Op.57

12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic

3pm

Brahms - Symphony No.2 in D, Op.73

Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

c. 3.45

Mendelssohn - Octet in E flat, Op.20

Dover String Quartet

Music by Mozart, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Klengel, Brahms, Handel and Mendelssohn.

Berlin Philharmonic, Britten, Mahler20110916Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in two very recent concerts

Britten: Nocturne, op. 60

Ian Bostridge (tenor)

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

Recorded at the Lucerne Festival

Mahler: Symphony No. 7

Recorded in the Philharmonie, Berlin.

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic. Britten: Nocturne. Mahler: Symphony No 7.

Berlin Philharmonic, Tallis, Mahler20110923An afternoon with the Berlin Philharmonic including a concert given on Sunday night and dedicated to the memory of conductor, Kurt Sanderling in which the Tudor composer, Thomas Tallis's great forty part motet precedes Mahler's massive 'Symphony of a Thousand.' Preceded by a grand celebratory work by Richard Strauss

Recorded at the 2011 Salzburg Festival.

Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle in Tallis: Spem in alium and Mahler: Symphony No 8.

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra And Vladimir Jurowski20200529The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra: Penny Gore concludes this week's survey of some recent performances by Germany's oldest radio orchestra with Mahler and Bruckner conducted by their current Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski.

Also today, there is a sequence of Brahms's charming love songs sung by members of Berlin Radio's professional chamber choir directed by their British principal conductor, Justin Doyle.

Mahler: Das himmlische Leben, from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G

Alice Lackner (soprano)

Berlin RSO, Vladimir Jurowski

At approx 3.05pm

Brahms: Neue Liebeslieder, op. 65

Members of RIAS Berlin Chamber Choir

Ufuk and Bahar D怀rdüncü, pianos

Justin Doyle, conductor

at approx. 3.25pm

Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D minor (2nd version (1877))

Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

Mahler and Bruckner from the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra directed by Vladimir Jurowski

Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique20221026Kazuki Yamada conducts the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic in exuberant music by Berlioz; there's also a keyboard concerto by Bach and exquisite vocal music from Josquin des Prez.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Berlioz's fantastical symphony is almost hallucinatory, taking us from daydreams to the scaffold and even to a terrifying witches' sabbath. Chief conductor-designate of the CBSO, Kazuki Yamada here leads the Monte Carlo Philharmonic in a fiery live recording made in the summer.

2.00pm

Overture: Le Corsaire, Op.21

Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra

Kazuki Yamada, conductor

Keyboard Concerto no.1 in D minor, BWV.1052

Stephane Fuget, harpsichord

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, conductor

Inviolata, integra et casta es Maria

Stile Antico

3.00p,

Symphonie fantastique, Op.14

Kazuki Yamada conducts the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic in exuberant music by Berlioz.

Bernard Haitink's Farewell20200218Highlights from the 2019 Lucerne Festival, including Bernard Haitink's very last concert. The 90-year-old conductor ends his 65-year career with music by Beethoven and Bruckner - two of the composers he loves best; the orchestra is the Vienna Philharmonic. Plus the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with another symphonic blockbuster by another of Haitink's favourite composers, Shostakovich.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58

with Emanuel Ax (piano)

2.35pm

Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E major

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor Bernard Haitink

3.50pm

Symphony No 4 in C minor, Op 43

Conductor Yannick N退zet-S退guin

Better Angels20210120Hannah French presents recent recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Aritiunian: Trumpet Concerto

Simon H怀fele, trumpet

Duncan Ward, conductor

Copland Quiet City

Sarah-Jayne Porsmoguer, cor anglais

Rhian Samuels: Clytemnestra

Ruby Hughes, soprano

Jac van Steen, conductor

Gipps: Song for Orchestra, Op. 33

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Richard Blackford: Better Angels of Our Nature

Emily Pailthorpe (oboe),

BBC SO

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

The BBC NOW plays Copland and Ruth Gipps, plus a new concerto by Richard Blackford.

Bizet, Ravel, Saariaho And Mahler From The Rte National Symphony Orchestra In Dublin20191001Tom McKinney continues a week of concerts from the RTE National Symphony Orchestra's 2018/19 season in Dublin.

Estonian conductor Mihhail Gerts makes his debut with the orchestra in an all French programme of Bizet and Ravel.

Under Ilan Volkov Finnish clarinettist Kari Kriikku performs 'D'om le vrai sens' which Kaija Saariaho wrote especially for him in 2009. It was inspired by The Lady and the Unicorn, a series of six Medieval tapestries. Each one depicts the five senses and an ambiguous ‘sixth sense' The movements of the work are titled accordingly: L'Oue (Hearing), La Vue (Sight), Le Toucher (Touch), L'Odorat (Smell), Le Goût (Taste) and A mon seul D退sir (To my only desire).

Volkov brings the afternoon to a close with Mahler's enigmatic and forward looking Symphony No 7 in E minor.

2.00pm

Ravel: Bolero

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites No 1 & 2

Mihhail Gerts, conductor

2.55pm

Saariaho: D'om le vrai sens

Kari Kriikku, clarinet

Ilan Volkov, conductor

3.30pm

Mahler: Symphony No 7 in E minor

Music by Bizet, Ravel, Saariaho and Mahler performed by the RTE Symphony Orchestra.

Bomsori Kim Plays Nielsen20231025Ian Skelly with a selection of performances from BBC ensembles and from concert halls around Europe.

In the 3pm spotlight, violinist Bomsori Kim joins the Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi for a performance of Carl Nielsen's Violin Concerto recorded at the DR Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark. And our week of Norwegian fiddle music continues with more music from violinist Ragnhild Hemsing.

Including:

2pm

Gioachino Rossini:

William Tell – Act 3: Soldiers' Dance

Vienna State Opera Orchestra

Fabio Luisi, conductor

Fryderyk Chopin/Nathan Milstein: Nocturne (Op.posth) in C sharp minor, arr. for violin & piano

Bomsori Kim, violin

Rafal Blechacz, piano

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No 92 in G, Hob. I:92 ('Oxford')

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Giuseppe Mengoli, conductor

Johan Halvorsen/George Frideric Handel: Passacaglia

Ragnhild Hemsing, fiddle

Mario Häring, piano

Carl Nielsen: Violin Concerto

Louise Farrenc: Overture No.1 Op.23

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Francois Leleux, conductor

Norwegian Trad: Wedding March of the Myllarguten

Bomsori Kim plays Nielsen's Violin Concerto with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Violinist Bomsori Kim joins the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fabio Luisi, for a performance of Carl Nielsen's Violin Concerto.

William Tell - Act 3: Soldiers' Dance

Mario H䀀ring, piano

Boxing Day, Abel Selaocoe And The Bbc Sso20221226Ian Skelly presents the perfect selection of music for Boxing Day afternoon.

In the 3pm spotlight, the dynamic cellist and vocalist Abel Selaocoe collaborates with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Thomas Dausgaard, with a free-flowing selection of music including Abel's own compositions and cello virtuoso Giovanni Sollima's 'homage' to Boccherini, the 'L.B. Files.' Also today, music from Danish orchestras, including Dausgaard returning to conduct Nielsen's imagined portrait of the Faroe Islands, which ends the programme before Horatio Clare begins the second leg of his journey around the archipelago in the North Atlantic.

Including:

Grieg: Wedding day at Troldhaugen, arr. for orch. [from 'Lyric pieces', book 8 no.6]

Jerzy Maksymiuk, conductor

Berlioz: Le Carnaval romain, op. 9, overture after 'Benvenuto Cellini

Royal Danish Orchestra

Sylvain Cambreling, conductor

Schubert: Allegretto in C minor, D 915

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

c.2.40pm

Haydn: Symphony No. 95 in C minor

Danish Chamber Orchestra

Adam Fischer, conductor

c.3pm

Abel Selacoe: Ka Bohaleng

Giovanni Sollima: L. B. Files

Trad. (arr Selaocoe): Encore

Abel Selaocoe, vocals/cello

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

c.3.45pm

Nielsen: An Imaginary journey to the Faroes - rhapsodic overture

Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Abel Selaocoe collaborates with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Grieg and Sollima.

Brahms's Double20230926Presented by Penny Gore, with the finest concert recordings from BBC ensembles and around Europe.

Today, Brahms' Double Concerto for violin and cello is played by Stephen Waarts and Steven Isserlis, with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conduced by Andras Schiff, the MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Strauss's tone poem Death and Transfiguration, plus more Mozart from counter-tenor Franco Fagioli and the Basel Chamber Orchestra. The BBC Symphony Orchestra plays the music of Dorothy Howell.

Including:

Foulds: Le Cabaret - overture to a French comedy

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Kraus: Overture, from 'Olympie VB 33

Daniel Bart, conductor

c.2.15pm

R. Strauss: Tod und Verkl䀀rung (Death and Transfiguration), op. 24

Alexander Shelley, conductor

Mozart: Lungi le cure ingrat, from 'Davide penitente, K. 469

Franco Fagioli, countertenor

D. Howell: Two Pieces for Muted Strings [1. Nocturne; 2. Moto perpetuo]

Michael Collins, conductor

3pm

Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, op. 102

Stephen Waarts, violin

Steven Isserlis, cello

Andras Schiff, conductor

c.3.50pm

Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165

Alice Mary Smith: Overture to the Masque of Pandora

BBC Concert Orchestra

Barry Wordsworth, conductor

c.4.40pm

Beethoven (arr. G. Schumann and Y. Segal): Sonata for Orchestra (After Beethoven's Op. 30 No. 2); 1st movement

Yaniv Segal, conductor

Stephen Waarts and Steven Isserlis combine in Brahms's Double Concerto.

Brahms's Double Concerto20230613Violinist Daniel Pioro and cellist Victor Julien-Laferriere play Brahms with the BBC Philharmonic.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Ian's focus this week is on the BBC Philharmonic and this afternoon there's Elgar and Brahms, but also performances by crack German group Ensemble Resonanz.

2.30pm

Pomp and Circumstance March no.2

Andrew Davis, conductor

Rossini

Serenata in E flat major for flute, oboe, cor anglais and string quartet

Bologna Municipal Theatre Orchestra (members)

3.00pm

Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra

Daniel Pioro, violin

Victor Julien-Laferriere, cello

Elena Schwarz, conductor

Mozart

Ch'io mi scordi di te

Symphony no.35 (Haffner)

Anna Prohaska , soprano

Herbert Schuch, piano

Riccardo Minasi, conductor

Finzi

Let us garlands bring

Ashley Riches, baritone

Simon Lepper, piano

Humperdinck

Hansel and Gretel: Overture

BBC Concert Orchestra

Barry Wordsworth, conductor

Violinist Daniel Pioro and cellist Victor Julien-Laferriere play Brahms.

Brahms's First Piano Concerto, Live From Salford20220520Concluding this week's focus on romantic piano concertos, today's is Brahms's mighty Piano Concerto no.1 performed live from Salford by Stephen Hough and the BBC Philharmonic. Plus there's more CPE Bach Chamber music from the Nevermind Ensemble, and the Vienna Philharmonic performs Franck's Symphony in D minor.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2pm

Franck Symphony in D minor, Op.48

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

c.2.40

CPE Bach Quartet in G major, Wq.95

3pm - LIVE from MediaCity, Salford

Brahms Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor, Op.15

Stephen Hough (piano)

Jac van Steen (conductor)

c.3.55

Respighi Il tramonto

Alma Sade (mezzo-soprano)

Janine Jansen (violin)

Boris Brovtsyn (violin)

Amihai Grosz (viola)

Daniel Blendulf (cello)

Stephen Hough plays Brahms in Salford, plus Franck and Respighi.

Brahms's First Symphony From Prague20220225Tom McKinney ends the week with more concert performances from around Europe including Brahms's Symphony No.1 & Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra from Prague, and music by Mozart, Ethel Smyth, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Francesco Cesarini. Plus there'll be more from the Catalan ensemble Vespres d'Arnadi and the mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital.

John Williams - Olympic Fanfare and Theme (for the Los Angeles Games, 1984)

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

John Williams (conductor)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Petite Suite de Concert

BBC Concert Orchestra

Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

c. 2.20pm

Lutoslawski - Concerto for Orchestra

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Jakub Hrusa (conductor)

3pm

Brahms - Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.18

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Liebreich (conductor)

c. 3.45pm

Trad. Bulgarian arr. Avi Avital - Bucimis

Avi Avital (mandolin)

Norwegian Radio Orchestra

Miguel Harth-Bedoya (conductor)

Franco Cesarini - Bulgarian Dances II, Op.43

Barcelona Symphonic Wind Band

Jos退 Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana (conductor)

c. 4.10pm

Mozart - Symphony No.10 in G, K.74

Dani Espasa (conductor)

Presented by Tom McKinney

Performance of Brahms's First Symphony and Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra in Prague.

Brahms's Serenade No 120231107Penny Gore presents great concert performances from across Europe and from the BBC performing groups. Today's 3pm highlight showcases the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra performing Brahms's orchestral Serenade No 1 conducted by Anne Katharina Schreiber. Another great baroque group, B'Rock Orchestra, performs a Bach cantata with mezzo Helena Rasker, and Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra in Mozart's Symphony No 29.

c2pm

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice – Overture

Rene Jacobs (cond.)

Lili Boulanger: Psalm 24

Neil Mackenzie (tenor)

City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus

BBC Philharmonic

Yan Pascal Tortelier (cond.)

Mozart: Symphony No.29 in A

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Andrés Orozco-Estrada (cond.)

c2.45pm

Jennifer Higdon: Blue Cathedral

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Robert Spano (cond.)

c3pm

Brahms: Serenade No.1

Anne Katharina Schreiber (cond.)

c4pm

Bach: Cantata No.199 Mein Herz schwimmt im Blut

Helena Rasker (mezzo-soprano)

Brahms: Academic Festival Overture

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Grant Llewellyn (cond.)

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra performs Brahms's Serenade No 1

Anne Katharina Schreiber conducts the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in Brahms's Serenade No 1. Rene Jacobs leads B'Rock Orchestra in Bach's Cantata No 199 with mezzo Helena Rasker.

Penny Gore presents great concert performances from across Europe and from the BBC performing groups. Today's 3pm highlight showcases the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra performing Brahms's orchestral Serenade No 1 conducted by Anne Katharina Schreiber. Another great baroque group, B'Rock Orchestra, performs a Bach cantata with mezzo Helena Rasker, and Andr退s Orozco-Estrada conducts the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra in Mozart's Symphony No 29.

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice - Overture

Andr退s Orozco-Estrada (cond.)

Brahms's Symphony In F Minor (orch Holloway)20230329Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert featuring recent recordings by the Royal Concertgebouw, including today music by Bartok and Mahler. The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform in new recordings of Brahms and Schumann, plus more Schütz from Musica Ficta.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2pm

Bartok Intermezzo interrotto from Concerto for Orchestra, Sz.116

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Ivan Fischer (conductor)

Schumann orch Robin Holloway 6 Canonic Studies Op.56 for 2 pianos

Paul Mann (conductor)

Schütz Selig sind die Toten, SWV 391

Schütz Ride la Primavera

Bo Holten (conductor)

Mahler Blumine

Alice Mary Smith By the waters of Babylon

BBC Singers

Richard Pearce (organ)

Gabriella Teychenne (conductor)

c.3pm

Brahms orch. Robin Holloway Symphony in F minor (after Sonata for 2 pianos Op.34a)

Schütz Di Marmo siete voi

Schütz Vasto Mar

Music by Schumann, Brahms and Sch\u00fctz.

Brahms's Symphony No 1 In C Minor, Op 6820231002Penny Gore presents an afternoon of music from BBC ensembles and concert halls from around Europe.

North German Radio takes the 3pm spotlight each day this week, with recordings from the broadcaster's Philharmonic Orchestra and Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. Today, Brahms' soul-searching Symphony No.1 is conducted by Andrew Manze, and Johannes Goritzki leads the NDR Philharmonic Orchestra in Louise Farrenc's Overture in E flat major. There are new recordings from the BBC Singers directed by Sofi Jeannin, specially recorded for the programme, celebrating Black History Month, and we hear from a recital by pianist Javier Perianes recorded in Spain, in homage to fellow Spaniard and giant of the piano, Alicia de Larrocha.

Including,

Including:

Lyadov: Baba-Yaga

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thomas Sondergard, conductor

Mark Butler: Dona Nobis Pacem

Sofi Jeannin, director

Farrenc: Overture in E flat major Op.24

Johannes Goritzki, conductor

Manuel de Falla: Serenata andaluza

Javier Perianes, piano

J Strauss II: Overture (Die Fledermaus)

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, op. 68

NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Andrew Manze, conductor

Undine Smith Moore: We shall walk through the valley

Florence Price: Quartet No. 2 in A minor (2nd movt)

Catalyst Quartet

Albeniz: El Albaic퀀n, from 'Iberia', book 3

Brahms's soul-searching exploration of the symphony, in Beethoven's shadow.

Brahms's Symphony No 220231222Penny Gore presents Afternoon Concert, featuring new recordings from the BBC Performing Groups and the European Broadcasting Union. Today's 3 o'clock moment is a performance of Brahms's Symphony No 2, performed by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Jaap van Zweden. Plus there are highlights of a carol concert given by the BBC Singers at Temple Church yesterday, presented by Ian Skelly.

Presented by Pennny Gore

2pm

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor [1875-1912]/Sydney Baynes [1879-1938]

Christmas overture from ‘The forest of wild thyme', Op.74

BBC Concert Orchestra

Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

Bob Chilcott Welcome, all wonders in one sight!

Matthew Martin Angelus ad Virginem

Grace Rossiter O Sapientia (BBC Commission, world premiere)

Helen Neeves Minstrels

James Whitbourn Hodie

Oliver Tarney Balulalow

Ashley Grote (organ)

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Lyadov Kikimora - symphonic poem Op.63

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Vivaldi Concerto in G major RV.150 for string orchestra

La Serenissima

Adrian Chandler (director)

c.3pm

Brahms Symphony no.2 in D major, Op.73

Jaap van Zweden (conductor)

Adams, arr. Rutter O Holy Night

Lucy Walker This Christmas Life

Eoghan Desmond Verbum Caro Factum Est

Walford Davies O Little Town of Bethlehem

Bryan Kelly Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

Thomas Hewitt Jones Camel Carol

c.4.15

Dvorak Prague waltzes [Prazske valciky] B.99

Prague Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Brahms's Symphony No 2 and highlights from a carol concert given by the BBC Singers.

Penny Gore presents a performance of Brahms's Symphony No 2, performed by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Plus, highlights of a carol concert given by the BBC Singers.

Brahms's Symphony No 2 With The Australian World Orchestra Under Zubin Mehta20220908Penny Gore with another chance to hear Prom 48 with Zubin Mehta conducting the Australian World Orchestra in Webern's Passacaglia and Six Pieces for Orchestra, Brett Dean's arrangement of Debussy's cycle Ariettes oubli退es with soprano Siobhan Stagg, and also Brahms' Symphony No. 2.

Also artist's choice by maestro Zubin Mehta.

Including,

2.00pm

R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - waltz sequence no. 1 [from Acts 1 and 2]

Berliner Philaharmoniker

Zubin Mehta, conductor

Beethoven (arr. Brett Dean): String Quartet No.8 in E Minor, Op.59, No.2: II. Adagio molto

Swedish Chamber Orchestra

Brett Dean, conductor

Mozart: Regina coeli, for soloists, chorus, orchestra & organ (K.276) in C major

Olivia Robinson, soprano

Sian Menna, mezzo-soprano

Christopher Bowen, tenor

Stuart McIntyre, baritone

BBC Singers

BBC Concert Orchestra

Stephen Cleobury, conductor

2.30pm

Prom 48 - Part 1

Webern: Passacaglia, Op. 1

Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 (revised version, 1928)

Debussy, arr. Brett Dean: Ariettes oubli退es

Siobhan Stagg, soprano

3.15pm

Listener's choice

3.40pm

Prom 48 - Part 2

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major

4.20pm

Artist's choice: Zubin Mehta

Prom 48 with music by Webern, Debussy and Brahms.

Brahms's Violin Concerto20230616German violinist Alina Pogostkina joins the BBC Philharmonic to play the violin concerto by Johannes Brahms.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Ian concludes this week of programmes focusing on the BBC Philharmonic with a specially recorded performance of Brahms' richly romantic violin concerto

2.00pm

Elgar

Pomp and Circumstance March no.5

Andrew Davis, conductor

Suk

Meditation on an old Czech hymn 'St Wenceslas

Signum Quartet

Tchaikovsky

The Tempest

Ulster Orchestra

Tom Fetherstonhaugh, conductor

3.00pm

Alina Pogostkina, violin

Kristiina Poska, conductor

Anna Clyne

Restless oceans (UK premiere)

Debussy

Three Nocturnes

Vocalia Taldea

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alain Altinoglu, conductor

Alina Pogostkina plays Johannes Brahms's Violin Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic.

Brahms's Violin Concerto From Prague20221021Sergey Khachatryan performs the Brahms Violin Concerto in a programme that also features music by Dvorak, Dohnanyi, Stravinsky, Kurtag, Scriabin and Narekatsi. Introduced by Ian Skelly.

Aram Khachaturian: Sabre Dance from Gayane

Sergey Khachatryan (violin)

Lusine Khachatryan (piano)

Dvorak: Carnival Overture

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Erno Dohnanyi: Symphonic Minutes Op36

Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra

Zsolt Hamar (conductor)

Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

BBC Singers

BBC SO

Dalia Stasevska (condutcor)

JS Bach (Kurtag): Chorale Prelude ‘Aus tiefer not Schweitzer ich zubdir' BWV 687

Gy怀rgy and Martha Kurtag (piano)

3.00

Brahms Violin Concerto -

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Liebreich (conductor)

Grigor Narekatsi: Havun, Havun

Marin Marais: Excerpts from 'Suite d'un goût Etranger

La rꀀveuse

L'arabesque

Marche Persane dite la Savigny

Feste Champꀀtre

Schwetzingen 2022

Accademia del Piacere

Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba, artistic direction)

Scriabin: Le Poeme d'extase

Sergey Khachatryan performs a giant work in the Romantic repertory.

Brahms's Violin Concerto In D, Op 7720231006Penny Gore introduces a performance with virtuoso soloist Leonidas Kavakos performing Brahms' Violin Concerto in D, op. 77, with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under conductor Herbert Blomstedt.

Also, the BBC Singers celebrate Black History Month with music by composers Vicente Lusitano and Avril Coleridge-Taylor. And more from Javier Perianes in his recital in homage to Alicia De Larrocha, one of Spain's most celebrated pianists. Plus the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Polonaise from his comic opera Cherevichki, The Slippers, as well as music by Dora Pajacevic with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

Tchaikovsky: Cherevichki - Polonaise

BBC Scottish Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Vicente Lusitano: Emendemus in Melius

Sofi Jeannin, director

Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Sussex Landscape, Op. 27: III. Largo - Maestoso

Chineke! Orchestra

Roderick Cox, conductor

Haydn: Trio in E flat major H.15.10 for keyboard and strings

Beaux Arts Trio

Zelenka: Missa Divi Xaverii ZWV 12: Sanctus

Hana Blazikova, soprano

Collegium Vocale 1704

Collegium 1704 / Vaclav Luks, director

Manuel de Falla: Ritual Fire Dance, from 'El amor brujo (Love, the Magician)

Javier Perianes, piano

3pm

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, op. 77

Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

Mozart: Sonata in E flat major, K 282

Francesco Piemontesi, piano

Pejacevic: Symphony in F sharp minor Op. 41 (4th movt)

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Leonidas Kavakos performs Brahms's Violin Concerto in D, Op 77.

Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture20171108Penny Gore presents a concert given by conductor Juanjo Mena at the helm of the BBC Philharmonic, featuring Vaughan Williams' overture to the incidental music for The Wasps; also, Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, with pianist Stephen Hough as soloist, and finishing with Elgar's First Symphony. This concert is part of Radio 3's season Breaking Free: a Century of Russian culture, exploring its impact not only in the country but beyond its frontiers.

2pm

Vaughan Williams: The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite - Overture

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43, for piano and orchestra

Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat major, Op 55

Stephen Hough (piano)

Juanjo Mena (conductor).

Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic perform music by Vaughan Williams and Rachmaninov.

Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture20171110Penny Gore presents a concert given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under conductor Martyn Brabbins, including Tchaikovsky's The Tempest and his Symphony No. 6; in between them, we hear Elgar's Sea Pictures with the mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill as soloist. This concert is followed by Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, the 'Leningrad', performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Semyon Bychkov, all part of Afternoon Concert's participation in Radio 3's season Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture, which continues next week.

2.00pm

Tchaikovsky: The Tempest [Burya] - symphonic fantasia, Op 18

Elgar: Sea pictures, Op 37

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor (Path退tique), Op 74

Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

3.35pm

Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 in C major (Leningrad), Op 60

Semyon Bychkov (conductor).

BBC Scottish SO and Martyn Brabbins perform Tchaikovsky and Elgar, with Karen Cargill.

Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture20171113As part of Radio 3's Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture, Afternoon Concert marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution with a week of concerts featuring major symphonic works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. In today's programme, Verity Sharp introduces a concert in which Gennadi Rozhdestvensky conducts the Dresden Staatskapelle in Symphonies Nos 1 and 15 by Shostakovich

2pm

Shostakovich: Symphony No.1; Symphony No.15

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

3.35pm

Prokofiev: Symphony-Concerto in E minor, Op. 125

Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)

Arie van Beck (conductor)

4.20pm

Tchaikovsky

Orchestral Suite No. 4 in G, Op. 61 ('Mozartiana')

Arie van Beck (conductor).

Verity Sharp introduces Rozhdestvensky conducting Symphonies Nos 1 & 15 by Shostakovich.

Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture20171114Continuing our week of concerts featuring major symphonic works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich, Verity Sharp introduces a concert in which David Afkam conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in Shostakovich's 5th Symphony. Also includes Sofia Gubaidulina's soulful Viola Concerto with Lawrence Power.

2pm

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5, 'Emperor

Shostakovich: Symphony no.5

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

David Afkam (conductor)

3.30pm

Sofia Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto

Lawrence Power (viola)

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Juraj Valcuha

4.05pm

Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

Swedish RSO

Juraj Valcuha.

Verity Sharp introduces David Afkam conducting Shostakovich's powerful 5th Symphony.

Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture20171115~Afternoon Concert marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution with a concert featuring a couple of major Russian symphonic works. In today's programme, Verity Sharp introduces performances of Prokofiev's First Symphony and First Violin Concerto with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by Markus Poschner

2pm

Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 'Classical'; Violin Concerto No 1

Mozart: Symphony No 41 'Jupiter

Vadim Gluzman (violin)

Markus Poschner (conductor).

Verity Sharp introduces performances of Prokofiev's 1st Symphony and 1st Violin Concerto.

Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture20171117~Afternoon Concert finishes a week marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution. In today's programme Verity Sharp introduces a concert featuring Shostakovich's 10th Symphony and Mahler's Rückert Lieder with Dorothea Roschmann with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Afkam. Also includes a performance his infectious Second Jazz Suite

2pm

Sibelius: Valse triste

Mahler: Rückert Lieder

Shostakovich: Symphony No.10

Dorothea R怀schmann (soprano)

David Afkam (conductor)

3.25pm

Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A minor

Maria Milstein (violin)

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

3.45pm

Shostakovich: Jazz Suite No. 2

Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

Arie van Beck (conductor)

4.30pm

BBC Children in Need

Petroc Trelawny presents highlights from a concert recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios on Wednesday. The BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra are joined by young musicians supported by projects which receive funding from BBC Children in Need.

John Williams: Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Suite

BBCSO

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg arr. John Barber: Somewhere over the rainbow from The Wizard of Oz (world premiere)

Kamarra (violin solo)

Shermann Brothers arr Jeffes/Rossiter: Children in Need Sherman Medley (world premiere)

Joss (baritone solo)

Grace Rossiter (conductor)

ABBA arr Jeffes/Rossiter: ABBA-DABBA-DOO

Sly and the Family Stone arr John Barber : Everyday People

Music Action International Everyday People Group

Merit Ariane Stephanos (conductor)

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor).

~Afternoon Concert finishes the Russian-themed week with Shostakovich's 10th Symphony.

Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture, Bbc Symphony Orchestra, Bbc Philharmonic Orchestra20171106Penny Gore presents, starting Afternoon in Concert's participation in Radio 3's season Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture. First, a concert given by Semyon Bychkov and the BBC Symphony Orchestra focusing on repertoire by Tchaikovsky, including his Serenade in C major for string orchestra, his Third Piano Concerto, with Kirill Gerstein as soloist, and his symphonic fantasia after Dante, Francesca da Rimini; before the latter they perform Taneyev concert overture The Oresteia. The afternoon continues with the Doric Quartet joining the ensemble, this time under Edward Gardner, in Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for string orchestra. Finally, closing the programme, the BBC Phiharmonic, under the baton of Andrew Litton, perform Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11, The Year 1905.

2.00pm

Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C major for string orchestra, Op.48

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, Op.75

Taneyev: The Oresteia - concert overture, Op.6

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini - symphonic fantasia after Dante, Op.32

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

3.35pm

Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for string orchestra, Op.47

Doric String Quartet

Edward Gardner (conductor)

3.50pm

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G minor (The Year 1905), Op.103

BBC Philharmonic

Andrew Litton (conductor).

Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC SO in music by Tchaikovsky and Taneyev.

Breaking Free: A Century Of Russian Culture, Live From Lenin's London Office20171107~Afternoon Concert becomes 'A Century of Russian Culture' - for one afternoon, marking the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution.

LIVE from Lenin's office in London, where he edited 'Iskra' in 1902-3, in what is now the Marx Memorial Library.

Tom Service hosts a panel of distinguished guests, Dr. Marina Frolova-Walker, Orlando Figes and Victoria Donovan to play and discuss music and culture across the past hundred years in Russia.

From the lead up to 1917, to the explosion of energy swiftly followed by social chaos and civil war, corralled into Socialist Realism in the early 1930s and harnessed to the will of the state, Russian Culture and music in particular illuminate ideas, individual lives and society as a whole against a backdrop of a suspicious and controlling state.

Including the first modern performance (given in Moscow in September) of a piece for choir and orchestra by a hero of Russian Futurism and ardent Bolshevik, Alexander Mosolov, who fell first from favour in the 30s and was then sentenced to hard labour in a Gulag.

Mosolov: Symphonic Poem

Evgenia Denisova (soprano)

Alina Miyshkina (mezzo-soprano)

Nizhny Novgorod Chamber Chorus

Orpheus Radio Symphony Orchestra

Sergei Kondrashev.

Tom Service hosts an afternoon of Russian music to explore the legacy of the past century.

Britten's Violin Concerto20230530Penny Gore introduces recordings by the BBC performing groups and by groups across Europe, with a focus throughout this week on the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Today in Frankfurt, Carolin Widmann joins the orchestra as the soloist in Britten's Violin Concerto, the BBC Symphony Orchestra plays Holst's The Perfect fool, we have Ravel's Bolero from the BBC Philharmonic, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with music by Sibelius. There's also more from the early music ensemble amacordplus, with music from the Bach family in Germany.

Including:

Josef Strauss: Fireproof polka

Vassily Sinaiksy, conductor

Liebholdt: Habe deine Lust an dem Herren

Schein: Da Jakob vollendet hatte

Ensemble amarcordplus

c.2.20pm

Holst: The Perfect fool

Andrew Davis, conductor

Mozart: Rondo in A minor K.511

Mitsuko Uchida, piano

Rossini: L' Italiana in Algeri - Overture

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Claudio Abbado, conductor

3pm

Britten: Violin Concerto, op. 15

Carolin Widmann, violin

Hugh Wolff, conductor

Artist Choice - Carolin Widmann:

Britten: 4 Sea interludes from 'Peter Grimes'; no.3; Moonlight

Edward Gardner, conductor

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro - Overture

Mozart: Deh vieni, non tardar, from 'Le nozze di Figaro

Regula Mühlemann, soprano

Tarmo Peltokoski, conductor

Ravel: Bolero

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Schumann: 3 Romances, Op 94

Annelien van Wauwe, clarinet

Lucas Blondeel, piano

Sibelius: Kullervo goes to war (Kullervo)

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

J.M. Bach: Unser Leben w䀀hret siebenzig Jahr

J.C. Bach: Der Mensch, vom Weibe geboren, motet

Carolin Widmann plays Britten's Violin Concerto.

Capu\u00e7on Plays Dvorak20220502French cellist Gautier Capu瀀on plays Dvorak's Romantic Cello Concerto, plus extracts from Mozart's operas and works by Florence Price and Susan Spain-Dunk

Presented by Ian Skelly

Dvorak's late Cello Concerto is both one of the largest pieces in the genre and one of the best-loved, championed by all the great masters of the instrument and now by Capucon, in a performance recorded with the Vienna Philharmonic last year

2.00pm

Carnival Overture

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

Come scoglio from Cos쀀 fan tutte

Il mio tesoro from Don Giovanni

Olga Bezsmertna, soprano

Pavel Kolgatin, tenor

German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Saarbrucken Kaiserslautern

Michael Schønwandt, conductor

Concert Overture no.2

BBC Concert Orchestra

Jane Glover, conductor

3.00pm

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104

Gautier Capucon, cello

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Alain Altinoglu, conductor

Stonehenge

Anna-Maria Helsing, conductor

French cellist Gautier Capu\u00e7on plays Dvorak's Romantic Cello Concerto

Carl Nielsen's Sinfonia Espansiva20231024Ian Skelly with a selection of performances from BBC ensembles and from concert halls around Europe.

The 3pm highlight sees soprano Liv Redpath and baritone Johan Reuter join the Danish National Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 3 ('Sinfonia espansiva'). And our week of Norwegian fiddle music continues with violinist Ragnhild Hemsing performing at Weilburg Castle in Germany.

Including:

2pm

Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for orchestra no. 1 (BWV.1066) in C major, Overture

Concerto Copenhagen

Lars Ulrik Mortensen, conductor

Franz Schubert: Greisengesang, D778

Johan Reuter, baritone

Swedish Chamber Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard

Norwegian Fiddle -

Trad: Traditional Melodies from the Valdres Region

Ragnhild Hemsing, fiddle

Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Concerto No 2

Nicholas Carpenter, clarinet

BBC Concert Orchestra

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 3 in D minor, op. 27 ('Sinfonia espansiva')

Liv Redpath, soprano

Fabio Luisi, conductor

Josef Suk: Fantastic scherzo for orchestra Op 25

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Richard Hickox, conductor

Imogen Holst: Leiston suite for brass quartet

Members of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Coronation Mass in C, K. 317

Sarah Brady, soprano

Olivia Vermeulen, mezzo

David Fischer, tenor

Roderick Williams, baritone

Netherlands Radio Choir

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Benjamin Goodson, conductor

Edvard Grieg: Excerpts from 'Lyric Suite', Op. 54

Mario Häring, piano

Soprano Liv Redpath and baritone Johan Reuter with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Soprano Liv Redpath and baritone Johan Reuter join the Danish National Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No 3.

Mario H䀀ring, piano

Carl Nielsen's Sixth Symphony20231027Linton Stephens with a selection of performances from BBC ensembles and from concert halls around Europe.

Today's 3pm spotlight concludes our week-long celebration of Carl Nielsen as the Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi perform Nielsen's Symphony No. 6, 'Sinfonia semplice', recorded at the DR Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark. Plus more Norwegian fiddle music from violinist Ragnhild Hemsing.

Including:

Carl Nielsen: Maskarade - opera in 3 acts FS.39: Overture

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

Johan Halvorsen: Veslemøys Sang

Ragnhild Hemsing, fiddle

Mario Häring, piano

Reginald Morris: Sinfonia in C

BBC Concert Orchestra

Martin Yates, conductor

William Henry Reed: Rhapsody for viola and piano

Timothy Ridout, viola

James Baillieu, piano

Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia and fugue in C minor (BWV.537) orch. Elgar [orig. for organ]

Leonard Slatkin, conductor

BBC Philharmonic

Felix Mendelssohn: Hear my prayer - hymn, arr. for soprano, chorus & orchestra

Jennifer Adams-Barbaro, soprano

BBC Singers

Stephen Cleobury, conductor

Myllarguten's Wedding March, Op. 72/8

Ragnhild Hemsing, violin

Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 6, FS 116 ('Sinfonia semplice')

Fabio Luisi, conductor

Jean Sibelius: The Oceanides, Op 73

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thomas Sondergard, conductor

Florence Price: Piano Concerto

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano

Joshua Weilerstein, conductor

Joseph Martin Kraus: Overture, from 'Prosperpin VB 19

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Daniel Bart, conductor

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra perform Nielsen's Symphony No 6.

Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No 6, 'Sinfonia semplice'.

Mario H䀀ring, piano

Carols From Temple Church With The Bbc Singers20211222Owain Park and the BBC Singers in carols old and new, live from London's Temple Church.
Celebrating Cesar Franck 1-520220711Penny Gore salutes the great Belgian composer, beginning today with his beloved Symphony in D minor

There's also a key piano work by him, as well as Dvorak's romantic Cello Concerto and a selection of beautiful vocal works by Josquin des Prez

2.00pm

Franck

Prelude, Choral et Fugue in B flat minor

Nikolai Lugansky, piano

Se congi退 prens; Plusieurs regretz; Je me complains; Pour souhaitter

Graindelavoix

Bjorn Schmelzer, artistic director

Sibelius

The Swan of Tuonela

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thomas Sondergard, conductor

3.00pm

Symphony in D minor, op. 48

Liege Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Gergely Madaras, conductor

Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104

Victor Julien-Laferriere, cello

Gergely Madaras conducts the Liege Royal Philharmonic in Franck's Symphony in D minor.

Celebrating Cesar Franck 2-520220712More from Belgian composer Cesar Franck and his younger French compatriot Ernest Chausson, as well as piano music by Beethoven

Presented by Penny Gore

We pay tribute to Franck with two key works for piano and orchestra, as well as the only symphony by his friend and pupil Chausson. There's more from Nikolai Lugansky's recital recorded in Brussels earlier this year and Mozart's very last symphony in a dashing live performance by Les Musiciens du Louvre

2.00pm

Symphonic Variations

Florian Noack, piano

Liege Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Pierre Bleuse, conductor

Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, op. 31/2 ('Tempest')

Nikolai Lugansky, piano

Alessandro Marcello

Oboe Concerto in D minor

Paolo Grazzi, oboe

Il Giardino Armonico

Giovanni Antonino, conductor

3.00pm

Symphony in B flat, op. 20

Variations on an Original Theme

Symphony no.41 in C, K.551 `Jupiter`

Prague Chamber Orchestra

Pianist Florian Noack performs Franck's Symphonic Variations.

Celebrating Cesar Franck 3-520220713More from Cesar Franck including a major work for solo piano and the first part of his opera Hulda.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Franck's opera is set in 11th-century Norway and tells of a young woman's quest for vengeance on the men who killed her family. There's also operatic Wagner and beautiful early vocal music by Gombert and Josquin.

2.00pm

Wagner arr Hermann Zumpe

The Gods enter Valhalla from Rheingold

Belgian National Orchestra

Otto Tausk, conductor

Nicolas Gombert

Musae Jovis

Graindelavoix

Bjorn Schmelzer, artistic director

Prelude, Aria et Final

Nikolai Lugansky, piano

Josquin des Prez

Baisiez moy

3.00pm

Hulda, opera in four acts and an epilogue

Acts One and Two

Jennifer Holloway, soprano, Hulda

Veronique Gens, soprano, Gudrun

Judith van Wanroij, soprano, Swanhilde

Marie Karall, mezzo-soprano, Hulda's Mother

Marie Gautrot, mezzo-soprano, Halgerde

Ludivine Gombert, soprano, Thordis

Edgaras Montvidas, tenor, Eiolf

Namur Chamber Choir

Liege Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Gergely Madaras, conductor

Gergely Madaras conducts the first two acts of Franck's opera Hulda.

Celebrating Cesar Franck 5-520220715Orchestral works by Franck, Debussy and Sibelius plus the final part of Franck's dramatic opera Hulda.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Conductor Marius Constant made a fine suite from Debussy's sumptuous opera of doomed love, Pelleas and Melisande, and it's joined in today's programme by the last part of Franck's little-heard opera Hulda. There's exquisite early vocal music from Belgian group Graindelavoix and Sibelius's very last symphony

2.00pm

Redemption

Belgian National Orchestra

Otto Tausk, conductor

Josquin des Prez

Nymphes des bois

Jheronimus Vinders

O mors inevitabilis

Bjorn Schmelzer, artistic director

Debussy arr Marius Constant

Suite from Pelleas et M退lisande

3.00pm

Hulda, opera in four acts and an epilogue

Act Four (Part 2) and Epilogue

Jennifer Holloway, soprano, Hulda

Veronique Gens, soprano, Gudrun

Judith van Wanroij, soprano, Swanhilde

Marie Karall, mezzo-soprano, Hulda's Mother

Marie Gautrot, mezzo-soprano, Halgerde

Ludivine Gombert, soprano, Thordis

Edgaras Montvidas, tenor, Eiolf

Namur Chamber Choir

Liege Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Gergely Madaras, conductor

Symphony no.7 in C, Op.105

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Christoph Koenig, conductor

Penny Gore introduces orchestral and operatic Franck, plus Debussy and Sibelius.

Celebrating Last Year's Verbier Festival In Switzerland20180507This week's programmes celebrate last year's Verbier Festival and other prestigious Swiss music festivals

Today, Jonathan Swain presents a late piano concerto by Mozart and Mahler's death-obsessed ninth symphony, as well as sparkling French bonbons

2.00 pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto in C, K503

Mahler: Symphony No 9

Verbier Festival Orchestra

Sergei Babayan, piano

Joshua Weilerstein, conductor (Mozart)

Daniel Harding, conductor (Mahler)

4.00 pm

Bizet: Carmen, Prelude

Bizet: L'arlesienne, suites nos 1 & 2

Suisse Romande Orchestra

Kazuki Yamada, conductor.

Jonathan Swain presents music by Mozart, Mahler and Bizet.

Celebrating Last Year's Verbier Festival In Switzerland20180509Jonathan Swain with music by Copland, Lutoslawski and Prokofiev, plus a rare concerto by flamboyant jazz virtuoso Artie Shaw

The Verbier Festival Orchestra is joined in today's programme by clarinet maestro Martin Frost in a concert of jazzy works by Copland, Lutoslawski and Shaw, as well as a carefully-chosen selection of extracts from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet

2.00 pm

Copland: El Salon Mexico

Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes

Artie Shaw: Clarinet Concerto

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (extracts)

Martin Frost, clarinet

Verbier Festival Orchestra,

Joshua Weilerstein.

Jonathan Swain presents music by Copland, Lutoslawski and Prokofiev.

Celebrating Last Year's Verbier Festival In Switzerland20180511Jonathan Swain presents two of Tchaikovsky's best-loved works, along with a fascinating selection of baroque arias and concertos

In today's programme, Jonathan pairs Tchaikovsky's violin concerto and fourth symphony with little-known Glazunov, which contrasts with a selection of baroque music by Vivaldi, Mancini and Hasse

2.00 pm

Glazunov: 'From the Middle Ages', Op 79 (Prelude)

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op 35; Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36

Janine Jansen, violin

Verbier Festival Orchestra

Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

3.30 pm

Mancini: Sonata No 14 in G minor, for recorder, two violins, viola and continuo

Dieupart: Recorder Concerto in A minor

Opera arias by Fiore, Torri, Gasparini and Hasse

Nuria Rial, soprano

Maurice Steger, recorder

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Stefano Barneschi, conductor.

Jonathan Swain with orchestral showstoppers by Tchaikovsky and rare baroque pieces.

Celebrating Swiss Music Festivals20180508Jonathan Swain introduces music by Bruckner, Catalani, Tartini, Chausson and a sequence of rare baroque opera arias recorded at last year's St. Gallen and Meirigen music festivals in Switzerland

Conductor Stanis?aw Skrowaczewski, who died last year, created an orchestral masterpiece from one of Bruckner's lesser-known chamber works. In today's programme, it is paired with an even less well-known choral work by opera composer Alfredo Catalani, as well and chamber works by Lekeu, Turina and Chausson

2.00 pm

Bruckner orch. Skrowaczewski: Adagio (String Quintet)

Catalani: Mass in E minor

Elena Rossi, soprano

Alessandra Volpe, contralto

Derek Taylor, tenor

Levente Pall, bass

Feldkirch Chamber Chorus

Prague Philharmonic Chorus

St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra

Otto Tausk, conductor

2.55 pm

Tartini: Devil's Trill Sonata

Lekeu: Adagio, Op.3

Turina: Escena andaluza, Op.7

Chausson: Concert, Op.21

Ernen Festival Ensemble

4.25 pm

Opera arias by Albinoni, Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Vinci

Nuria Rial, soprano

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Stefano Barneschi, conductor.

Jonathan Swain introduces music by Bruckner and Catalani, as well as baroque opera arias.

Celebrating Swiss Music Festivals20180510Jonathan Swain presents a Vespers service compiled from music by Monteverdi and Gabrieli recorded at last year's Zurich Early Music Festival

Early music specialist Andrea Marcon leads the renowned La Cetra baroque orchestra and vocal ensemble. His selection includes Monteverdi's second Dixit Dominus a 8, his first Beatus vir a 6 and the first Magnificat a 8

Monteverdi & Gabrieli: Venetian Vespers

Andrea Marcon, director

3.40pm

Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor for two cellos, RV. 531

Dvorak: Waldesruh', Op. 68; Rondo, Op. 94

Schoeck: Cello Concerto, Op.61

Thomas & Patrick Demenga, cellos

Swiss Italian Radio Orchestra

Philippe Bach, conductor.

Jonathan Swain presents a Vespers service compiled from music by Monteverdi and Gabrieli.

Celebrating The Bbc Concert Orchestra: Double Acts20190705Adrian Scarborough presents a concert recorded in March at the Royal Festival Hall in London on the subject of Double Acts - famous duos and couples - featuring stars of the West End stage singers Maria Friedman and her husband Adrian Der Gregorian

Daring duos, comedy couples and popular pairs - this gem of a concert, with the BBC Concert Orchestra and its chief guest conductor Keith Lockhart, invites you to get swept up in the love, heartbreak and comedy that some of the best loved duos have to offer

Olivier award-winning singer/actors Maria Friedman and Adrian der Gregorian star in this programme celebrating the best double acts and romances from musicals, theatre, film and beyond!

2.00pm

Berlioz: Overture: Beatrice & Benedict

Berlin: Anything You Can Do; The Girl That I Marry; I Got Lost In His Arms; They Say It's Wonderful (from Annie Get Your Gun)

Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet

Arnold/Price: Sherlock Suite

Sondheim: A Little Priest (from Sweeney Todd)

Gary Carpenter: Fred & Ginger

Lerner & Loewe: I remember it well (from Gigi)

Loesser: Sue Me (from Guys & Dolls)

Williams: Suite for Cello & Orchestra (from Memoirs of a Geisha)

Steiner/Hupfeld: Suite from Casablanca

Gershwin They Can't Take That Away; The Man I Love; Let's Call The Whole Thing Off

Porter: You're The Top (from Anything Goes)

Maria Friedman & Adrian Der Gregorian (singers)

Keith Lockhart (conductor)

3.45pm

Our Classical Century

Birtwistle: Panic

John Harle (saxophone)

Paul Clarvis (drums)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis (conductor)

A concert celebrating double acts featuring Maria Friedman and Adrian Der Gregorian.

Celebrating The Bbc Concert Orchestra: English Music Festival20190702Kate Molleson presents the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert recorded last month at the 13th annual English Music Festival in Dorchester-on-Thames. By orchestrating or completing neglected works by British composers, conductor Martin Yates has brought several world premiere performances to the festival over the years and this concert includes four.

2.00pm

Lord Berners (orch Yates): Portsmouth Point (world premiere)

Arnold: Serenade for small orchestra

Stanford: Violin Concerto in D (world premiere)

Vaughan Williams (orch Yates): The Blue Bird (world premiere)

Delius: A Song before Sunrise

Robin Milford: Symphony No.2 (world premiere)

Sergey Levitin (violin)

Martin Yates (conductor)

3.55pm

Braunfels: Hebridean Dances, Op.70

Piers Lane (piano)

Johannes Wildner (conductor)

The BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert recorded last month at the English Music Festival.

Celebrating The Bbc Concert Orchestra: Orange20190701This BBC Concert Orchestra performance, recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London last month, was presented on stage by artist Lachlan Goudie, and features pieces connected with the colour orange.

2.00pm

Delius: Florida Suite: Daybreak

Jonathan Dove: Sunshine (London premiere)

De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Grieg: Peer Gynt: Morning

Michael Torke: Ecstatic Orange

Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges: Symphonic Suite

Victor Sangiorgio (piano)

Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor)

3.50pm

Braunfels: Orchestral Suite in E minor, Op.48

Johannes Wildner (conductor)

The BBC Concert Orchestra performs music associated with the colour orange.

Celebrating The Bbc Concert Orchestra: The Light Of The World20190704An outstanding cast joins the BBC Concert Orchestra in a recent, highly acclaimed recording of the rarely heard Sullivan oratorio The Light of the World.

Commissioned for and first produced at the Birmingham Musical Festival of 1873, The Light of the World is Arthur Sullivan's great oratorio on the life of Christ. Although regularly performed during the composer's lifetime, changing fashions gradually condemned the work to obscurity.

Occasional revivals have failed to make the case for it, primarily because it was not understood that The Light of the World is essentially a dramatic work, rather than a purely religious one.

Presented by Kate Molleson.

2.00pm

Sullivan: The Light of the World

Natalya Romaniw (Mary, Mother of Jesus)

Eleanor Dennis (Mary Magdalene/Martha)

Kitty Whately (An Angel)

Robert Murray (A Disciple/Nicodemus)

Ben McAteer (Jesus)

Neal Davies (A Ruler/A Pharisee/A Shepherd)

Kinder Children's Choir

BBC Symphony Chorus

John Andrews (conductor)

Image © Jorge Cocco Santကngelo

The BBC Concert Orchestra in Sullivan's rarely heard oratorio The Light of the World.

Celebrating The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20180528Penny Gore presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in works by Haydn, Mozart, John Joubert and Guto Puw

Violinist Rachel Podger directs the orchestra in classical repertoire, followed by specially recorded performances including the world premiere of Guto Puw's 'Camouflage

2.00pm

Haydn: Symphony no. 8 in G major H.1.8 (Le Soir)

Mozart: Violin Concerto no. 1 in B flat major K.207

Mozart: Adagio in E major K.261 for violin and orchestra

Haydn: Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105

Rachel Podger (violin)

Jos退 Luis Vegara (oboe)

Alice Neary (cello)

Jaroslaw Augustyniak (bassoon)

BBC NOW

Rachel Podger (director)

3.30pm

Ittai Shapira: Sephardic Journeys (concerto for violin, cello and orchestra)

Ittai Shapira (violin)

Thomas Carroll (cello)

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

4.00pm

John Joubert: Symphony No. 3 on themes from the opera 'Jane Eyre' Op.178

William Boughton (conductor)

4.35pm

Guto Puw: Camouflage [world premiere]

Jac van Steen (conductor).

BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays Haydn, Mozart, John Joubert and Guto Puw.

Celebrating The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20180529Penny Gore with works by Sibelius, Nielsen and Hoddinott played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thomas Sondergard leads the orchestra in Scandinavian works both well and less-well known, followed by new and recent works by exciting composers from Wales and further afield

2.00pm

Sibelius: King Kristian II: Suite

Nielsen: Flute Concerto

Sibelius: Finlandia

Sibelius: Symphony No.5 in E-flat major

Matthew Featherstone (flute)

BBC NOW

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

3.30pm

Hoddinott: Variants for Orchestra op. 47

Jac van Steen (conductor)

3.55pm

Mark Bowden: Three interludes [world premiere]

B Tommy Andersson (conductor)

4.05pm

Ittai Shapira: Midnight's Children (for clarinet, violin and orchestra)

Ittai Shapira (violin)

Robert Plane (clarinet)

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

4.30pm

Mared Emlyn: Porthor (whistling Sands)

Ian Lawson: High Aldons

B Tommy Andersson (conductor).

BBC National Orchestra of Wales in works by Sibelius, Nielsen and Hoddinott.

Celebrating The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20180601Penny Gore presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in works by Strauss, Brahms and B Tommy Andersson

Polish soprano Aga Mikolaj joins the orchestra for Richard Strauss's ravishing Four Last Songs, and there are new and recent works by Simon Holt, John Joubert and B Tommy Andersson

2.00pm

Mozart: Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro K.492

Richard Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder, Av. 150

Brahms: Symphony no. 4 in E minor Op.98

Aga Mikolaj (soprano)

BBC NOW

Otto Tausk (conductor)

3.10pm

Simon Holt: St Vitus in the Kettle

B Tommy Andersson (conductor)

3.20pm

B Tommy Andersson Violin Concerto (Homage to Michelangelo)

Chloe Hanslip (violin)

3.45pm

Messiaen Le Tombeau resplendissant

4.00pm

John Joubert: Piano Concerto Op. 25

Martin Jones (piano)

William Boughton (conductor)

4.30pm

Sarah Lianne Lewis: Is there no seeker of dreams

Jac van Steen (conductor)

4.40pm

Luciano Williamson: Electric Bagatelle

B Tommy Andersson (conductor).

BBC National Orchestra of Wales in works by Strauss, Brahms and B Tommy Andersson.

Celebrating The Bbc Orchestras20201207Georgia Mann introduces a week of live concerts given by the BBC performing groups.

Today, viola player Timothy Ridout, a member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, joins the Ulster Orchestra.

Live from the Waterfront Hall, Belfast, presented by John Toal.

Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage

Weber: Andante e Rondo Ungarese for viola and orchestra, Op 35

Hummel: Potpourri for Viola and Orchestra , Op 94

Dvo?ကk The Noon Witch

Timothy Ridout, viola

UlsterOrchestra

Moritz Gnann, conductor

15.15: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, live from the Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas.

Gavin Higgins: What Wild Ecstasy (2012)

Berio Folk Songs (1964)

De Falla: El Retablo de Maese Pedro (1922)

Clara Mouriz (mezzo soprano)

Jorge Navarro Colorado (tenor)

Michel de Souza (baritone)

BBC NOW

Ryan Bancroft, conductor

The Ulster Orchestra plays Romantic favourites, and the BBC NOW plays de Falla.

Celebrating The Bbc Orchestras20201208Natasha Riordan presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra, live from Maida Vale Studios.

Robin Holloway/Schumann: Canonic Studies

Copland: Emily Dickinson Songs

Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale

Sophie Bevan (soprano)

BBC SO

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

3.15: Georgia Mann presents recent recordings by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Weir: Moon & Star

BBC Singers

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Brahms: Symphony No. 3

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Helen Grime: Elegiac Inflections

BBC SO Wind 10tet

John Adams: Harmonium

BBC Symphony Chorus

Proms Youth Choir

Edward Gardner (conductor)

The BBC Symphony, live from Maida Vale Studios, London.

Celebrating The Bbc Orchestras20201209Georgia Mann introduces another programme celebrating the BBC Orchestras.

Today, the BBC Philharmonic play music by Dvorak.

Tom McKinney presents, live from MediaCityUK, Salford.

Dvorak: Legends Nos 4, 9 and 7

Czech Suite in D, Op 39

Legends Nos 6, 8 and 10

Conductor Martyn Brabbins

The BBC Philharmonic perform some much-loved works by Dvorak.

Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic20200316Elgar, Rachmaninov and James MacMillan from the BBC Philharmonic including Elgar's magnificent Violin Concerto with Christian Tetzlaff and the last of Rachmaninov's symphonies.

John Storgards leads the orchestra in Rachmaninov's Symphony no.3 - a late work, lush and romantic, that remains nostalgic for the romanticism in which the composer grew up, yet with experimental touches such as the use of the saxophone in the orchestral texture

Later, Martyn Brabbins conducts the fourth symphony by Scottish composer James MacMillan, who wrote that he was interested 'in the interplay of different types of material, following upon a fascination with music as ritual that has stretched from Monteverdi in the early 17th century through to Boulez and Birtwistle in the present day.

Presented by Kate Molleson

2.00pm

Christian Tetzlaff, violin

John Storgards, conductor

3.30pm

Coates

Two Symphonic Rhapsodies

John Wilson, conductor

3.40pm

Symphony no.4

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic20200317Works by Rudi Stephan and Steve Elcock, live from MediaCityUK, Salford, plus music by Mendelssohn and Shostakovich.

Composer Rudi Stephan's career was cut brutally short aged 28: a casualty of World War I. Considered the most promising German composer of his generation, today we hear his Music for Orchestra (1912) which searches for new paths in expressionist colours

There's also music by Chesterfield-born Steve Elcock, whose work was first performed by the BBC Philharmonic in 2009. Today, the orchestra give the world premiere of his Fourth Symphony - ‘A golden rose fallen from the flat sea of time'. Of its title, he says: `I will only say that you must make of it what you can`. The one-movement piece explores a move away from serial music to the magnetic pull of tonality

Presented by Kate Molleson

2.00pm

Symphony no.4 'A golden rose fallen from the flat sea of time' (world premiere)

Sarah Walker, presenter

Moritz Gnann, conductor

2.50pm

Vaughan Williams (arr. David Childs & Rodney Newton)

Concerto for Tenor Tuba & Orchestra

David Childs, tenor tuba

Ben Gernon, conductor

3.00pm

Vivaldi (arr. Jacob Reuven)

Summer (The Four Seasons)

Jacob Reuven (mandolin)

Omer Meir Welber, conductor/harpsichord

3.10pm

Piano Concerto no.1

Denis Kozhukhin, piano

Joana Carneiro, conductor

3.30pm

Symphony no.11 'The Year 1905

John Storgards, conductor

Works by Rudi Stephan, Steve Elcock, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich, live from Salford.

Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic20200318Works by young British composer Anna Clyne, alongside Berlioz and the timeless The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams

Anna Clyne, one of Britain's most exciting young composers, describes Night Ferry as ‘music of voyages, from stormy darkness to enchanted worlds'. True, but that hardly captures the thrilling turbulence of the ride it takes into uncharted waters

Listen closely and you might hear echoes of the similarly restless Symphonie fantastique - but in truth Berlioz's utterly wild work, written under the twin influences of opium and unrequited love, is like nothing else

In between, Vaughan Williams's beloved classic of the English rural springtime injects a welcome note of tranquillity

Presented by Kate Molleson

2.00pm

Jennifer Pike, violin

BBC Philharmonic

Ben Gernon, conductor

Anna Clyne, Vaughan Williams and Berlioz

Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic20200320Vassily Sinaisky conducts Szymanowski's gripping Second Violin Concerto before taking on another Eastern European masterpiece from between the wars. Nikolay Myaskovsky was a rebel in a time and place when rebellion was a dangerous game - post-revolutionary Russia, where a word out of turn could leave you silenced for good. His epic Sixth Symphony is deeply political and intensely personal, inspired by both the Revolution and the deaths of his father and aunt

Presented by Kate Molleson

2.00pm

Rimsky-Korsakov

Introduction and Wedding Procession (‘The Golden Cockerel')

Violin Concerto no.2

Symphony no.6

Lisa Fertschman, violin

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

3.30pm

Vaughan Williams

John Wilson, conductor

Rimsky-Korsakov, Szymanowski, Myaskovsky and Vaughan Williams

Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic, Bartok, Prokofiev, Reeves20191106Live from MediaCityUK, Salford, Simone Young conducts a varied programme of 20th and 21st century music

Between exciting, vigorous works by Bartok and Prokofiev comes a very special world premiere. Light Speed with Time Canons by Camden Reeves, Professor of Music at The University of Manchester, celebrates the centenary of the experimental proof for Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

Presented by Kate Molleson

2.00pm

Romanian folk dances; Hungarian Peasant songs

Light speed with time canons [world premiere performance]

Suite from ‘The Gambler

BBC Philharmonic

Simone Young, conductor

Live from Salford, works by Bartok, Prokofiev and a world premiere by Camden Reeves.

Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic, Britten, Prokofiev, Bruckner, Antheil20191108The BBC Philharmonic in symphonies by Britten and Bruckner, a concerto by Prokofiev, and more this week from 'Bad Boy of Music' George Antheil

John Storgards leads the orchestra in Britten's reworking of his own younger self, his so-called 'Simple' Symphony. The concert, recorded last month on the orchestra's tour in Utrecht, also features Bruckner's sixth symphony and the second of Prokofiev's two concertos for violin played by Arabella Steinbacher

And there's more from this week's featured composer, George Antheil - two of his symphonies

Presented by Kate Molleson

2.00pm

Simple Symphony

Violin Concerto no.2

Symphony no.6

Arabella Steinbacher, violin

John Storgards, conductor

3.45

Symphony no.5 'Joyous'; Symphony no.6 'After Delacroix

Music by Britten, Prokofiev, Bruckner and 'Bad Boy of Music' George Antheil

Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic, Saint-saens, Mahler, Clyne, Saariaho, Antheil20191105A cello concerto by Saint-Saens and Mahler's fifth symphony, plus recent works by Anna Clyne and Kaija Saariaho, as well as more this week from 'Bad Boy of Music', George Antheil. Today's featured soloists are former BBC New Generation Artist, cellist Laura van der Heijden and Norwegian violinist Peter Herresthal.

Presented by Kate Molleson

2.00pm

Night Ferry

Cello Concerto no.1

Symphony no.5

Laura van der Heijden, cello

BBC Philharmonic

Joana Carneiro, conductor

3.45pm

Symphony no.3 'American'; The Golden Bird - Chinoiserie

John Storgards, conductor

4.15pm

Graal Theatre

Peter Herresthal, violin

Ludovic Morlot, conductor

Works by Saint-Saens and Mahler, plus recent works by Anna Clyne and Kaija Saariaho.

Celebrating The Bbc Philharmonic, Schumann, Haydn, Sibelius, Antheil20191104Schumann's third symphony, one of Haydn's cello concertos and Sibelius' unofficial Finnish national anthem, Finlandia. Plus the first of this week's look at American composer George Antheil, the so-called 'Bad Boy of Music

Presented by Kate Molleson

2.00pm

Symphony no.3 'Rhenish

Cello Concerto in D

Karelia Suite; Finlandia

Kian Soltani, cello

BBC Philharmonic

John Storgards, conductor

3.20pm

Goossens

By the Tarn

Rumon Gamba, conductor

3.25 pm

Symphony no.1 :Zingareska

4.00pm

Jeffrey Mumford

- with defuse echoes - softly spreading [world premiere performance]

Joana Carneiro, conductor

Schumann, Haydn and Sibelius plus George Antheil, 'the 'Bad Boy of Music'.

Celebrating The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra (1-4)20190422This afternoon's complete concert brings together three composers with an influence of Jewish music alongside the renowned Klezmer band, She'Koyokh. It includes Bernstein's Candide Overture and a rare chance to hear Schelomo, the 'Hebrew rhapsody' by Ernest Bloch in which the orchestra is joined by cellist Jian Wang. Mahler's First Symphony is preceded by a performance of Jewish klezmer folk music to explore what resonances emerge.

Presented by Hannah French.

2.00pm

Bernstein: Candide Overture

Bloch: Schelomo

Paul Moylan/She'Koyokh: Klez'Mahler

Mahler: Symphony no.1

Jian Wang (cello)

She'Koyokh (klezmer group)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

3.35pm

Hosokawa: Meditation to the victims of Tsunami (3.11)

Fujikura: Piano Concerto no.3

Yu Kosuge (piano)

Alexander Liebriech (conductor)

4.10

Poulenc: Sinfonietta

Tung-Chieh Chuang (conductor)

Thomas Dausgaard conducts music inspired by Judaism: Bernstein, Bloch and Mahler

Celebrating The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra (2-4)20190423Ilan Volkov conducts CPE Bach and Bruckner, and is joined by Carolin Widmann in Stravinsky's spiky violin concerto

The theme of Bruckner's 7th Symphony came to him in a dream, while the theme of Stravinsky's Violin Concerto came to him at dinner - we don't know where CPE Bach thought up his Symphony in Eb, but his music, which opens this concert, was pivotal in the development of the classical forms that Stravinsky would later draw on in his so-called 'Neoclassical' works. Nevertheless, it is the music of his father JS Bach which is most resonant in Stravinsky's 1931 Violin Concerto: a work almost entirely derived from a single chord, scribbled on a napkin. The BBC SSO, and conductor Ilan Volkov, are joined by the sparky virtuoso Carolin Widmann to play it.

In contrast to the concision of these two composers' music stands Bruckner's 7th Symphony. It is massively more expansive in length but still owes a great deal to CPE Bach's 18th century formal innovations. Written in the 1880s it won international recognition for its composer.

The folk hero Kullervo was the inspiration behind one of Jean Sibelius' earliest masterpieces, a powerful national statement for a country struggling to overthrow Russian rule. This massive musical hybrid - part cantata, part symphony, part suite - is a vivid and thrilling work, richly melodic but looking ahead to modernism.

Presented by Hannah French

2.00pm

CPE Bach: Symphony in E flat

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto

Bruckner: Symphony no.7

Carolin Widmann (violin)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

3.40pm

Sibelius: Kullervo

Benjamin Appl (baritone)

Lund Male Choir

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Celebrating The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra (3-4)20190424John Wilson conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a varied programme with an American theme. Bernstein's celebration of New York's razzle-dazzle contrasts with Samuel Barber's beautiful, nostalgic evocation of small-town simplicity. Although it was written during his sojourn in Switzerland, Sergei Rachmaninov arrived in America to settle just in time to attend final rehearsals of his third, and what was to be his final, symphony.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2.00pm

Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from 'On The Town

Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915

Rachmaninov: Symphony No.3

Elizabeth Reiter (soprano)

John Wilson (conductor)

John Wilson conducts music by Bernstein, Barber and Rachmaninov.

Celebrating The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra (4-4)20190426Thomas Dausgaard in a Spanish-themed concert of well-loved works by Debussy, Falla and Ravel. From an impressionistic era of composition, come the sounds of Spain in three composers highly influenced by the country. Debussy takes us through the streets and paths, the fragrant nights and to the morning festivals. Ravel, whose mother was Basque, had natural affinity with Spain and set four different aspects of Spanish life in the Rapsodie espagnole and in the 'morning after'! Falla painted a picture of his home country in a suite from his ballet and also in his enchanting nocturnes for piano played by the young Spanish virtuoso - Javier Perianes

Presented by Fiona Talkington

2.00pm

Debussy: Images

Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat - Suite No 2

Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Ravel: Alborada del gracioso

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

Javier Perianes (piano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

1535

Knussen: Symphony No 3

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Oliver Knussen

Thomas Dausgaard conducts a Spanish-themed concert of works by Debussy, Falla and Ravel.

Celebrating The Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers20190107Royal cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason dazzles in Elgar's autumnal concerto, while the BBC Singers mix Portuguese polyphony with jazz trumpet improvisation

Presented by Penny Gore

2.00pm

Bliss: Suite from Checkmate

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.3 'Pastoral

Sheku Kanneh-Mason (Cello)

Elizabeth Watts (Soprano)

Martyn Brabbins (Conductor)

3.40pm

Duarte Lobo: Missa pro defunctis for 8 voices (with jazz trumpet improvisation)

Steve Martland: Sea Songs

Thomas Tallis: Nine Psalm Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter (with jazz trumpet improvisation)

Tom Gardner (Trumpet)

James Morgan (Conductor)

4.30pm

As part of New Year, New Music, Radio 3 presenters introduce some of the latest pieces of music they love

4.40pm

Elizabeth Maconchy: Overture - Proud Thames

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Michael Seal (Conductor)

Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Elgar's Cello Concerto, plus music by Bliss, Lobo and Martland

Celebrating The Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers20190109The BBC Symphony Orchestra recorded at London's Barbican Hall last month in raucous Strauss, luscious Berg and Shostakovich's best-loved work, his 'Soviet artist's creative response to justified criticism

Presented by Penny Gore

2.00pm

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel

Berg: Seven Early Songs

Shostakovich: Symphony no.5

Dorothea R怀schmann (Soprano)

Rafael Payare (Conductor)

3.25pm

As part of New Year, New Music, Radio 3 presenters introduce some of the latest pieces of music they love

The BBC Symphony Orchestra in Strauss, Berg and Shostakovich's Symphony No 5

Celebrating The Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers20190111An Advent concert of seasonal British choral works by Arnold Bax and Cheryl Frances-Hoad recorded in November. Glowing with textural interest and intensity, as though lit from within, Frances-Hoad's choral writing looks to the musical past for music that is very much of the present. Her carols and motets take us from festive rejoicing, in the exuberant Gaude et Laetare, to rapt wonder in There is no Rose. Bax - Master of the King's Music under George VI - also draws on the carol's medieval origins in his graceful I Sing of A Maiden and This Worldes Joie

Followed by a concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour last year in Spain: three twentieth century masterpieces from either side of the Iron Curtain conducted by Sakari Oramo

Presented by Penny Gore

2.00pm

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Gaude et Laetare

Arnold Bax: I Sing Of A Maiden

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: This time a child is born

Arnold Bax: This Worldes Joie

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: From the Beginning of the World; Floodlight, Starlight

Arnold Bax: Five Greek Folk Songs

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: There is no Rose

BBC Singers

Ben Palmer (Conductor)

2.45pm

Finzi: Nocturne

Andrew Davis (Conductor)

2.55pm

As part of New Year, New Music, Radio 3 presenters introduce some of the latest pieces of music they love

3.00pm

Wiren: Symphony no.3

Rumon Gamba(Conductor)

3.30pm

Shostakovich: Symphony No 9

Copland: Concerto for clarinet, strings, harp and piano

Prokofiev: Symphony no.6

Martin Fr怀st (Clarinet)

Sakari Oramo (Conductor)

Advent works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Bax, plus Shostakovich, Copland and Prokofiev.

Celebrating The Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers20190211British choral music from the BBC Singers followed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Schoenberg's lushly romantic Pelleas und Melisande and Beethoven's violin concerto with soloist James Ehnes

2.00pm

Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor

John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times (wp)

Andrew Griffiths (conductor)

2.50pm

Phyllis Tate: London Fields

Michael Seal (conductor)

3.05pm

Beethoven: Violin Concerto

Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande

James Ehnes (violin)

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

British choral music followed by major works by Beethoven and Schoenberg.

Celebrating The Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers20190212Major works by Brahms and Schumann, including the latter's cello concerto with soloist Steven Isserlis, followed by a recent mass setting by Julian Anderson

2.00pm

Richard Causton: Ik Zeg Nu (wp)

Schumann: Cello Concerto

Brahms: Symphony no.3

Steven Isserlis (cello)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

3.30pm

Anderson: Heaven is shy of Earth

Susan Bickley (ms)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Oliver Knussen (conductor)

4.10

Klami: The Cobbler on the Heath

Madetoja: Symphony No. 3

Major works by Brahms and Schumann followed by a mass setting by Julian Anderson

Celebrating The Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers20190215Symphonies by Minna Keal & Shostakovich (his so-called 'Leningrad'), as well as works by Kenneth Leighton and a new trombone concerto by Gavin Higgins

2.00pm

Vasks: Cantabile for strings

Higgins: Trombone Concerto

Helen Vollam (trombone)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

2.30pm

Shostakovich: Symphony no.7 'Leningrad

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

3.45pm

Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin

Leighton: Mass

BBC Singers

Richard Pearce (organ)

Matthew Halls (conductor, Britten)

Paul Spicer (conductor, Leighton)

4.15pm

Keal: Symphony

Nicholas Cleobury (conductor)

Symphonies by Shostakovich and Minna Keal and works by Gavin Higgins and Kenneth Leighton.

Celebrating The Ulster Orchestra And The Bbc Concert Orchestra (1-5)20210531It's the turn of the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra to take centre stage, as Ian Skelly presents recent recordings they have made of a wide range or repertoire

2.00pm

Poulenc/Francaix

Musique pour faire plaisir

BBC CO Wind Ensemble,

Lev Parikian, conductor

2.10pm

Schubert

Rosamunde Overture

Cherubini

Symphony in D major

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

2.50pm

James MacMillan

Saxophone Concerto

Amy Dickson, saxophone

James MacMillan, conductor

3.10pm

Haydn

Symphony no 84 in E flat

Ben Gernon, conductor

3.40pm

Kodaly

Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song

Moritz Gnann, conductor

Ian Skelly introduces music by Poulenc, Schubert, MacMillan, Haydn and Kodaly.

Celebrating The Ulster Orchestra And The Bbc Concert Orchestra (2-5)20210601Part of this week's programmes featuring recent recordings by the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra, featuring the dazzling German cellist Daniel Muller-Schott and two rewritings: Berio's take on Schubert and fellow Italian composer Alfredo Casella's look back at Paganini

Presented by Ian Skelly

2pm

Borodin

Prince Igor Overture

Tchaikovsky

Souvenir d'un lieu cher

Daniel Muller-Schott, cello

Oliver Zeffman, conductor

2.30pm

Jan Koetsier

Brass Symphony

BBC CO Brass Ensemble,

David McCallum, conductor

2.45pm

Maconchy

Music for Strings

Piazzolla

Sinfonietta

Moritz Gnann

3.20pm

James MacMillan

For Sonny

James MacMillan, conductor

3.30pm

Paganiniana

Schubert/Berio

Rendering

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

4.25pm

George W Chadwick

Sinfonietta in D

Keith Lockhart, conductor

Ian Skelly presents music by Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Elizabeth Maconchy and James MacMillan.

Celebrating The Ulster Orchestra And The Bbc Concert Orchestra (3-5)20210602Ian Skelly with music old and new, including Beethoven's great 'Eroica' symphony, all in recent recordings by the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra.

2pm

Alice Mary Smith - Overture: The Masque of Pandora

Xia Leon Sloane - brink (BBC Proms Inspire commission)

Albrechtsberger - Trombone Concerto

Matt Lewis, trombone

Barry Wordsworth, conductor

2.35pm

Beethoven - Symphony No 3 in E flat, 'Eroica

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

Music by Alice Mary Smith, Xia Leon Sloane and Beethoven.

Celebrating The Ulster Orchestra And The Bbc Concert Orchestra (4-5)20210603Ian Skelly with recent recordings of music by Ravel, Nigel Hess, James MacMillan and Elisabetta Brusa from the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra, including a major work by James MacMillan conducted by the composer himself

2pm

A Celebration Overture

Richard Balcombe, conductor

2.05pm

Ma mere l'oye - Mother Goose

Olster Orchestra

Oliver Zeffman, conductor

2.25pm

The Lakes of Cold Fen

The Old Man of Lochnagar Suite

2.45pm

Tryst

James MacMillan, conductor

3.20pm

George W Chadwick

Adonais Elegia Overture

Cleopatra (Symphonic Poem)

Keith Lockhart, conductor

4.00pm

Symphony No.2

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

Ian Skelly introduces music by Ravel, Nigel Hess, James MacMillan and Elisabetta Brusa.

Celebrating The Ulster Orchestra And The Bbc Concert Orchestra (5-5)20210604Ian Skelly with music by James MacMillan and (in his centenary year) Malcolm Arnold, as well as a specially recorded The Sound of TV in which Matthew Sweet explores the very best in music for TV programmes over the years

2pm

Stanford

Welcome March

Ulster Orchestra

Howard Shelley, conductor

2.05pm

Ein Lamplein verlosch

BBC Concert Orchestra

James MacMillan, conductor

2.10pm

Elisabetta Brusa

Simply Largo

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

2.30pm

Matthew Sweet looks at the intriguing world of TV signature tunes, which also involves delving in to the BBC archives to find original manuscripts that haven't seen the light of day since they were recorded for the programmes themselves back in the 60s and 70s. Favourites include The Avengers, Black Beauty, Miss Marple and Grandstand

Richard Balcombe, conductor

3.55pm

Symphony No.1

Keith Lockhart, conductor

Ian Skelly introduces music by James MacMillan, Malcolm Arnold and Elizabetta Brusa.

Celebrating The Viola20200515Closing this week of programmes celebrating the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers, British composer/conductor Owain Park conducts the BBC Singers in a programme of contemporary choral music. Alongside his own works is music by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Rhiannon Randle and Joanna Ward, and 'Song' by former BBC Singers composer in Association Gabriel Jackson.

This afternoon we shine a light on the BBC SO's Co-Principal Viola Caroline Harrison who's been a member of the orchestra for 30 years. We'll hear a sequence of BBC SO performances in which she performed. Firstly, at the Barbican in February 2015, Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, celebrated for their Sibelius performances, played his tone poem The Oceanides in its 1914 Yale version. This is how the work was first heard at its premiere in America on Sibelius's one and only trip there, and it retains many interesting features that the composer removed in a later revision. Australian composer, viola player, and former BBC Symphony Orchestra Artist in Association Brett Dean was inspired by Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament to create a quirky work for twelve violas. The Beethoven is a letter full of despair written as the composer battled to come to terms with the onset of deafness. Brett Dean's Testament reimagines this experience and asks some of the players to tune their strings in unusual ways and not to put resin on their bows - to create a world of half-heard sounds and eerie pen-on-parchment scratchings. Thea Musgrave's 2002 Turbulent Landscapes is her Pictures at an Exhibition. Inspired by Turner paintings including Sunrise with Sea Monsters, The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, and The Exile and the Rock Limpit (Napoleon), Musgrave takes your ears from one canvas to another in vivid orchestral sounds. And finally Prokofiev's Haydn-inspired symphony with all its classical grace is performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2pm

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Floodlight, starlight

Gabriel Jackson: Song (I gave upon you)

Pawe? ?ukaszewski: Like as the waves

Owain Park: For the fallen

Owain Park: The wings of the wind

Rhiannon Randle: On Life's dividing sea

Joby Talbot: The wishing tree

Joanna Ward: Brambles Fewer

Owain Park, conductor

c.2.30pm

Beat Furrer: Psalm

Dieter Schnebel: Motetus I

James Weeks, conductor

c.2.55pm

Sibelius: The Oceanides Op. 73 (1914 Yale Version)

Sakari Oramo, conductor

c.3.10pm

Brett Dean: Testament for 12 violas

BBC SO violas

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

c.3.25pm

Thea Musgrave: Turbulent Landscapes

Osmo Vanska, conductor

c.3.50pm

Prokofiev: Classical Symphony

Contemporary music from the BBC Singers and favourite archive recordings from the BBC SO.

Chamber Orchestra Of Europe, Cpe Bach, Mozart20111028Penny Gore presents a concert from this year's Mozart Festival in Salzburg. Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Mozart's Symphony No.39. and Piotr Anderszewski is the soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor (K.466).

After Naeme Jarvi's 'live' concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday, its the turn of his 2 sons to complete today's programme. Elder sibling Paavo Jarvi conducts the German Chamber Philharmonic in Brahms's bucolic Serenade No.1 in D major, and younger brother Kristjan conducts the Baltic Youth Philharmonic at a concert recorded at the Baltic Sea Festival held last month in Stockholm.

2.00pm CPE Bach: Symphony No. 1 in D, from 'Vier Orchester-Sinfonien mit zwolf obligaten Stimmen, Wq 183

Yannick Nezet-Seguin (conductor)

2:10pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto no.20 in D minor (K.466)

Piotr Andersewski (piano)

2:45pm

Mozart: Symphony No.39 in Eb (K.543)

3:35pm

Brahms: Serenade No.1 in D (Op.11)

German Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra

Paavo Jarvi (conductor).

Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in CPE Bach and Mozart.

Cherubini's Medea From The Salzburg Festival20200423Cherubini: M退d退e, opera in three acts

Presented by Penny Gore.

Elena Stikhina, (soprano), M退d退e

Pavel ?ernoch, (tenor), Jason

Vitalij Kowaljow, (bass), Cr退on

Rosa Feola, (soprano), Dirce

Alisa Kolosova, (mezzo-soprano), N退ris

Vienna State Opera Chorus and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)

rec. Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg

Salzburg Festival

30/07/2019

followed at approx. 4.00pm by more from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 63

Baiba Skride, violin

Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

Cherubini's opera Medea from the 2019 Salzburg Festival.

Cherubini's Requiem20200605Collegium 1704 perform Cherubini's Requiem and Kurpi?ski's Te Deum at the 2019 Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival. Plus piano concertos by Hummel and Chopin.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

Cherubini: Requiem Mass no. 1 in C minor

Simona Houda-Šaturovက, soprano

Helena Hozovက, soprano

Pavla Radostovက, soprano

Aneta Petrasovက, contralto

Kamila Mazalovက, contralto

Vကclav ?힀ek, tenor

Ond?ej Holub, tenor

Tomကs Šelc, bass

Luk  Zeman, bass

Collegium Vocale 1704

Vကclav Luks, conductor

Hummel: Piano Concerto in F, op. posth.

Howard Shelley, conductor and period piano

Sinfonia Varsovia

Kurpi?ski: Te Deum .

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, op. 11

Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano

Collegium 1704 perform Cherubini's Requiem and Kurpi\u0144ski's Te Deum.

Chopin And His Europe20190311Performances from last year's Chopin and his Europe festival in Warsaw celebrating the music of Chopin and some of the composers who were inspired by his legacy, such as Debussy and Bizet

The 2018 Chopin and his Europe festival opened with a programme of Penderecki, Debussy, Bizet and Chopin himself; this is followed by solo works played on the fortepiano by Alexei Lubimov, twentieth century discoveries by Tansman and Rathaus, and a fizzling fortepiano concerto by J C Bach

2.00pm

Penderecki: Polonez

Debussy: Rapsodie for saxophone & orchestra

Chopin: Piano Concerto no.2 in F minor

Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

Bizet: Roma

Lukasz Dyczko, saxophone

Szymon Nehring, piano

Beethoven Academy Orchestra

Jean-Luc Tingaud, conductor

3.40pm

Chopin: Ballade no.1 in G minor

Alexei Lubimov, fortepiano

3.50pm

Tansman: Polish Rhapsody

Rathaus: Piano Concerto

Yaara Tal, piano

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor

4.35

J C Bach: Keyboard Concerto in D

Tobias Koch, fortepiano

Concerto Koln

Gianluca Capuano, conductor

Celebrating the music and legacy of Chopin, with works also by Debussy, Bizet and JC Bach

Chopin And His Europe20190312Performances from last year's festival in Warsaw celebrating the music of Chopin and some of the composers who were inspired by his legacy, such as Hoffmann, Czerny and - in an eye-opening new arrangement - Beethoven's Ode to Joy

Mozart: Don Giovanni Overture

Danzi: Fantasy on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' for clarinet & orchestra

Mozart: Symphony no.29 in A

Cramer: Keyboard Concerto no.8 in D minor*

Hoffmann: Symphony in E flat ‘Warsaw‘

Lorenzo Coppola, clarinet

Howard Shelley, fortepiano/conductor*

Concerto Koln

Gianluca Capuano, conductor

3.40pm

Chopin Ballade no.2 in F

Alexei Lubimov, fortepiano

3.50pm

Lortzing: Overture - Der Pole und sein Kind

Czerny: Haydn Variations

Beethoven/Cammaroto: Ode to Joy (arrangement of fourth movement of Symphony no.9 for fortepiano & orchestra)

Tobias Koch, fortepiano

Celebrating the music and legacy of Chopin, with works also by Hoffmann and Czerny.

Chopin And His Europe20190313Recorded at Warsaw's Chopin and his Europe festival last year, Vivaldi's delightful serenata 'Gloria e Imeneo', interspersed here with some of his lesser-known violin concertos

The serenata, written to celebrate the wedding of French king Louis XV and the Polish princess Maria Leszczyska in 1725, sees Glory (representing the French monarchy) and Hymen (the god of marriage) tunefully celebrating the regal nuptials

2.00pm

Jarzebski: Canzoni e concerti (excerpts)

Vivaldi: Serenata 'Gloria e Imeneo‘, RV.687 interspersed with Vivaldi concertos: in C, RV.186; in F, RV.288; in B flat, RV.380

Vivica Genaux, Martina Belli (mezzos)

Europa Galante

Fabio Biondi,violin/conductor

Vivaldi's delightful serenata 'Gloria e Imeneo', interspersed with some of his concertos.

Chopin And His Europe20190315Performances from last year's festival in Warsaw celebrating the legacy of Chopin, with works by Elgar, Sibelius and Paderewski, a late-Romantic composer and virtuoso pianist who also served as Poland's prime minister.

2.00pm

Elgar: Polonia - symphonic prelude

Paderewski: Piano Concerto in A minor

Elgar: Piano Concerto (slow movement)

Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture

Garrick Ohlssohn, piano (Paderewski)

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano (Elgar)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Gzregorz Nowak, conductor

3.55pm

Chopin Ballade no.4 in F minor

Alexei Lubimov, fortepiano

4.10pm

Paderewski: Overture

Sibelius: Symphony no.2

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Edward Gardner, conductor

Celebrating the legacy of Chopin, with works by Elgar, Paderewski and Sibelius.

Chopin Plus20200601Concerts from orchestras from across the world: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra play music by Dvorak, Ravel, Schnittke and Mahler. Violinist Gidon Kremer joins them in Schnittke's Fourth Violin Concerto.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

The first of a series of programmes this week featuring performances from the Poland, and featuring the 2019 Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival.

Dvo?ကk: Vodn퀀k, The Water Goblin, op. 107

Ravel: Ma m耀re l'oye (Mother Goose) (complete)

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice

Jamie Phillips, conductor

2.55 p.m.

Schnittke: Violin Concerto No. 4

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G

Gidon Kremer, violin

Andrzej Borejko, conductor

The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Dvorak, Ravel, Schnittke and Mahler.

Chopin Plus20200602Highlights from the 2019 Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, featuring the Sinfonia Varsovia with pianists Piotr Alexewicz and Nelson Goerner. Plus Mozart from the Orchestra of the 18th Century.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

Chopin: Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante in E flat, op. 22

with Piotr Alexewicz, piano

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, op. 30

with Nelson Goerner, piano

Berlioz: Harold in Italy, op. 16

Tatsuya Shimono, conductor

3.30 p.m.

Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D, K. 385 ('Haffner'); Ch'io mi scordi di te, K .505; Abendempfindung an Laura, K. 523

Rosanne van Sandwijk, mezzo-soprano

Christian Zacharias In Haydn, Schoenberg And Mozart20220215Pianist Christian Zacharias plays and conducts the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in symphonies by Haydn and Schoenberg, as well as Mozart's final keyboard concerto

Presented by Penny Gore

German pianist Christian Zacharias has long made a name for himself as a conductor with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra - as well as orchestral works, he has become an acclaimed performer of Mozart's piano concertos, directing from the keyboard. There's more early music from the International Baroque Music Days festival in Melk, Austria, plus one of the series of works Antonin Dvorak wrote during an especially fruitful period in the United States

2.00pm

Pisendel

Violin Concerto in D

Cecilia Bernardini, violin

Zefiro Ensemble

Alfredo Bernardini, conductor

Faure

Requiem

Ilse Eerens, soprano

Benjamin Russell, baritone

Netherlands Radio Choir

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Benjamin Goodson, conductor

3.00pm

Symphony No. 91 in B flat

Chamber Symphony No. 2 in E flat minor

Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat

Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne

Christian Zacharias, conductor/piano

American Suite

Ragna Schirmer, piano

Pianist Christian Zacharias plays and conducts the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.

Cindy Mctee, Strauss And Elgar From The Rte National Symphony Orchestra In Dublin20191002Tom McKinney continues a week of performances recorded in Dublin with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra.

Today's concert opens with Circuits by the American composer Cindy McTee, written in 1990. The title reflects several aspects of the work's musical language: circuitous structures, recurring short sections, and an unrelenting kinetic energy. Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova play's Strauss's Concerto in D minor, composed when Strauss was just 17. The concert concludes with Elgar's series of musical portraits, the Enigma Variations.

2.00pm

Cindy McTee: Circuits

Richard Strauss: Violin Concerto in D minor Op.8

Alina Ibragimova, violin

Leonard Slatkin, conductor

2.45pm

Elgar: Enigma Variations Op.36

Music by Cindy McTee, Richard Strauss and Edward Elgar.

Claudio Abbado: The Final Concerts In Lucerne20140124Claudio Abbado: the final concerts.

Louise Fryer presents recordings made at the late conductor's final appearances at last summer's Lucerne Festival. Claudio Abbado's work with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra represented the zenith of the great maestro's life in music. Formed ten years ago, and performing a mere handful of concerts a year, the orchestra brought together many leading soloists, chamber musicians and principal players from the world's elite orchestras alongside a hand-picked assembly of young musicans from the many youth projects with which Claudio Abbado has been so intimately involved over the past thirty years. But, even by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra's own exalted standards, these final two concert programmes saw performances which soared to new heights. As one reviewer put it: 'Abbado's concerts weren't mere performances of pieces of music, they were searing, transformative existential journeys. That they have come to an end is an unimaginable loss.

Brahms Tragic Overture in D minor, op. 81

Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

Schoenberg Orchestral Interlude and Song of the Wood Dove, from Gurrelieder

Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano),

c. 2.30pm

Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 ('Unfinished')

c. 3.00pm

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D minor, WAB 109

Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor).

Claudio Abbado: the final concerts in Lucerne - Brahms, Schubert and Bruckner.

Cologne's Wdr Big Band Wishes A Jazzy Christmas For Everybody20211224An enticing festive cocktail of Christmassy jazz and Haydn from Germany as well as seasonal Tchaikovsky from Manchester and a deep, deep glimpse of the Loch Ness Monster.

Your Christmas Eve afternoon brings 'Winter Daydreams' from Tchaikovsky, the 'Miracle' that is the last in this week's series of Haydn symphonies, and a deep dive in cold, dark water to see if we can spot a legendary beast. All this, plus swinging festive hits coming one after another, courtesy of the WDR Big Band from Cologne.

Presented by Ian Skelly

2.00pm

Thea Musgrave

Loch Ness - A postcard from Scotland

Ben Thomson, tuba

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Donald Runnicles, conductor

Symphony no.1 in G minor ‘Winter Daydreams

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

3.00pm

The WDR Big Band Wishes a 'Jazzy Christmas for Everybody

Toe-tapping jazzy arrangements of festive Christmas favourites including ‘Let it snow', ‘It's the most beautiful time of the year' and ‘Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer

WDR Big Band Cologne

Ansgar Striepens, conductor

Symphony no.96 in D ‘Miracle

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Zubin Mehta, conductor

Christmassy jazz and Haydn from Germany and Tchaikovsky from Manchester.

Czech Philharmonic From Prague20191227The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with Schubert's Symohony No.3 and Strauss' Sinfonia Domestica conducted by Franz Welser-M怀st; and Mozart's `Prague` Symphony conducted by Thomas Netopil.

From the Rudolfinum in Prague, Franz Welser-M怀st conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Schubert's 3rd Symphony, composed just after his 18th birthday; and Richard Strauss' musical reflection of his own, much-valued home-life - the Sinfonia Domestica.

Then, the Czech Philharmonic is in the German spa town of Bad Kissingen for an all-Mozart concert, conducted by Thomas Netopil. They begin with the ballet music from `Idomeneo`, before welcoming pianist Leif Ove Andsnes to play Mozart's Piano Concerto No.20, and ending with a tribute to their home town - the Symphony No.38, written in Prague in 1786.

Presented by Hannah French.

2.00pm

Franz Schubert: Symphony No.3 in D

Richard Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica

Franz Welser-M怀st, conductor

3.05pm

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ballet music from `Idomeneo`

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K466

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No.38 in D, k.504 `Prague`

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

Thomas Netopil, conductor

With music by Mozart, Schubert and Richard Strauss.

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (1-4)20210208A week of programming featuring the mighty Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and some of their closest musical friends.

Today's concert is dedicated to the memory of the Czech Philharmonic's great conductor Vaclav Neumann, recorded in 2020, the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, op. 35

Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 in G, op. 88

Daniil Trifonov, piano

Selina Ott, trumpet

Semyon Bychkov, conductor

Suk: Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale 'St. Wenceslas' , op. 35a

Schoenberg: Verkl䀀rte Nacht op. 4

Prague Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Brauner, conductor

Anton퀀n Reicha: Cantata: Lenore (Lenora)

Part 1.

Martina Jankovက, soprano, Lenora

Ji?퀀 Brückler, baritone, Vil退m

Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno

Petr Fiala, chorus director

Brno Philharmonic Orchestra

Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

Part 2 is on Friday

The Czech Philharmonic perform Shostakovich and Dvorak.

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (2-4)20210209Presented by Tom McKinney

Featuring all week the great Czech Philharmonic Orchestra plus their musical friends.

Music from the Dvo?ကk Prague International Music Festival

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, op. 58

Martin Kas퀀k, piano

Suk: Symphony No. 1 in E, op. 14

Jakub Hr?ša, conductor

Anton퀀n Reicha: Cantata: Lenore (Lenora)

Part 2

Martina Jankovက, soprano, Lenora

Ji?퀀 Brückler, baritone, Vil退m

Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno

Petr Fiala, chorus director

Brno Philharmonic Orchestra

Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

The closing concert from the Prague Spring International Music Festival: Czech Philharmonic and Jakub Hr?ša perform Beethoven´s string quartets

Beethoven orch/arr Hr?ša - String Quartet No. 16 in F, op. 135

The Czech Philharmonic perform Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with Martin Kas\u00edk.

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (3-4)20210210Every afternoon this week you can hear performances by the great Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and their friends.

Suk: Serenade for Strings in E flat, op. 6

Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra

Josef Špa?ek, director

Jan Vကclav Vo?횀ek: Grand Rondeau for Piano Trio and Orchestra, op. 25

Josef Špa?ek, violin

Tom  Jamn퀀k, cello

Luk  Vondrက?ek, piano

Dvo?ကk: Lento maestoso - Vivace, from Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, op. 90 (encore)

Dvo?ကk: Serenade for String Orchestra in E, op. 22, B. 52

Presented by Tom McKinney.

The Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra perform works by Suk and Vorisek.

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (4-4)20210212Dvo?ကk: Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104

Vကclav Petr, cello

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Semyon Bychkov, conductor

Dvo?ကk: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95

Beethoven orch/arr Hr?ša - String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, op. 131

Jakub Hr?ša, conductor

Presented by Tom McKinney.

The Czech Philharmonic perform Beethoven and Dvorak.

Dalia's Mix Tape, Bbc Symphony Orchestra 90th Birthday Celebration20201022Petroc Trelawny presents a mixture of live and pre-recorded music given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with its Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska, from its home at the Maida Vale studios, marking its 90th birthday.

Dalia's Live Mixtape is inspired by the BBC SO's tour to Scandinavia in 1956, and offers a time-travel through Finnish and British music. Dalia writes: `The time travel idea was inspired by 90 years of history and the amazing accomplishments of the orchestra, but as well, by the title of Sibelius's Scenes Historiques. We're celebrating the history of BBCSO, the history of British music and the close friendship the UK has with Finnish music. See how a unique combination of music communicates with us, how pieces communicate with each other across time, and what kind of story they tell us.`

Rautavaara: Into the heart of light

Sibelius: Scenes Historiques Op.66 Mov 1. Mets䀀stys (The Chase)

Purcell: Fantasia Upon One Note

Sibelius: Scenes Historiques Op.66 Mov 2. Minnelaulu (The Minnesong/Love Song)

Judith Weir: Still, Glowing

Oliver Knussen: ...upon one note: Fantasia After Purcell

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves

Sibelius: Scenes Historiques Op.66 Mov 3. Nostosillalla (On the Drawbridge)

From 1500

George Walker: Lyric for Strings

Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring

Roderick Williams (Baritone)

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem

Lotta Wenn䀀koski: Hava

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska.

And to conclude the afternoon, from the archive....

BBC SO's 80th Birthday Concert in 2010

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Robertson

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska live from Maida Vale.

Dances With Witches20191202BBC Philharmonic in concert: music by Rachmaninov, Vaughan Williams and Schumann. Featuring Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances and a cannibalistic Russian witch conjured up by Liadov.

Presented by Penny Gore

Liadov: Baba-Yaga

Chausson: Poeme

with Aleksey Semenenko (violin)

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Conductor Antony Hermus

2.55pm

Vaughan Williams: Harnham Down

Conductor Rumon Gamba

3.05pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 12 in A major, K414

Schoenberg: Five Pieces

Omer Meir Wellber (piano/conductor)

3.50pm

Martin?: Symphony No 3

Conductor Jac van Steen

The first of a series broadcast in the week 2-6 December 2019 featuring the BBC Philharmonic in concert, including their brand-new Chief Conductor Omer Meir Wellber - not just conducting but also playing the piano.

A concert performance by the BBC Philharmonic of Rachmaninov, Vaughan Williams and Mozart.

Daniel Barenboim Conducts Brahms20230324Ian Skelly rounds off a week of afternoons featuring live concert performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic and from some of the great German orchestras.

Today Daniel Barenboim conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Brahms' 2nd Symphony, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays Dohnanyi's Variations on a Nursery Song with pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason. There's also more organ music by Buxtehude, played by Ton Koopman in Copenhagen, vocal music from the ensemble Voces8 - today featuring music by Jonathan Dove - and music for violin and guitar with orchestra, by Toru Takemitsu.

Including:

Carwithen: Overture, Men of Sherwood

BBC Concert Orchestra

Gavin Sutherland (conductor)

Buxtehude: Prelude and fugue in D

Ton Koopman (organ)

Takemitsu: Spectral canticle for violin, guitar & orchestra

Viviane Hagner (violin)

Jacob Kellermann (guitar)

c. 2.30pm

Haydn: Overture in D major

Bavarian Symphony Orchestra

Mariss Jansons

Jonathan Dove: Vertue

Mussorgsky: Night on a bald mountain

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Andris Poga (conductor)

3pm

Brahms: Symphony No.2 in D, Op.73

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

Ingvar Lidholm: Laudi

BBC Singers

Grace Rossiter (conductor)

Buxtehude: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

c. 3.30pm

Dohnanyi: Variations on a Nursery Song

Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

The Berlin Philharmonic and Daniel Barenboim perform Brahms' Second Symphony.

Das Rheingold20210610Penny Gore introduces Richard Wagner's 'Das Rheingold', in a performance recorded as a concert version at the Op退ra Bastille, Paris, in November last year. In Part I of 'The Ring of the Nibelung', based on Norse myths, we hear how the theft of the magical Rhine gold and the forging of a ring, which is later on cursed, trigger a series of tragic events in which the Gods, led by Wotan, see their existence compromised in this tale of love, power, greed, treason and revenge. Philippe Jordan conducts a starry cast led by the bass Ian Paterson in the title of Wotan.

Plus, continuing this week's focus on German ensembles, Lionel Meunier directs the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and choral ensemble Vox Luminis in Agostino Steffani's Stabat Mater.

2.00pm

Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold, opera in one act (concert version)

Wotan: Iain Paterson, bass

Donner: Lauri Vasar , bass-baritone

Froh: Matthew Newlin , tenor

Fasolt: Wilhelm Schwinghammer , bass-baritone

Fafner: Dimitry Ivashchenko , bass

Alberich: Jochen Schmeckenbecher , baritone

Mime: Gerhard Siegel , tenor

Fricka: Ekaterina Gubanova , mezzo-soprano

Freia: Anna Gabler , soprano

Erda: Wiebke Lehmkuhl , contralto

Woglinde: Tamara Banjesevic , soprano

Wellgunde: Christina Bock , soprano

Flosshilde: Claudia Huckle , mezzo-soprano

Paris Opera Orchestra

Philippe Jordan, conductor

c. 4.20pm

Agostino Steffani: Stabat Mater

Lionel Meunier, conductor and bass

Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold from the Opera Bastille Paris with Ian Paterson as Wotan.

Dausgaard Conducts Nielsen's Inextinguishable20220905Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius and Nielsen, and they are joined by Jan Lisiecki for Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto,

‘Music is life - and like it, inextinguishable.' Two giants of the symphony take the 20th century head-on, with shattering results. Sibelius seems to concentrate all the forces of air, earth and water in a Seventh Symphony that feels like it could have been wrought from the elements themselves. Nielsen confronted the brutality of the First World War in music that absolutely refuses to lie down and die - crowned by a life-or-death duel for two sets of drums. An epic evening from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its Danish-born Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard: Beethoven's lyrical Fourth Piano Concerto will form the eye of the storm, with Jan Lisiecki as soloist.

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4

3.15pm

Interval: Artist Choice

Laura Samuel, leader of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with her choice of a work which particularly inspires her

3.30pm

Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, ‘The Inextinguishable

Jan Lisiecki (piano)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Thomas Dausgaard conducts Sibelius, Beethoven and Nielsen.

Debussy, Ravel, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20190116French masterpieces from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard recorded at Glasgow City Halls. Pianist Joaquin Achucarro joins for a performance of Ravel's Concert for the Left Hand.

Presented by Tom McKinney

2.00pm

Debussy - Nocturnes

Ravel - Concerto for piano (left hand) & orchestra in D major

Debussy - Clair de Lune (encore)

Joaquin Achucarro (piano)

Debussy - Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

Debussy - La Mer

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under Thomas Dausgaard, plays music by Debussy and Ravel.

Debussy's La Mer From Paris20221024Cristian Macelaru conducts the French National Orchestra in Debussy's La mer, plus works by Mozart, Bach and Alma Mahler.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

In the first of this week's programmes celebrating French and Belgian orchestral works, Cristian Macelaru directs a dazzling performance of Debussy's aquatic masterpiece. Plus Philippe Herreweghe conducts Mozart's 'Prague' symphony and Vilde Frang plays the first of Bach's exquisite violin concertos

2.00pm

Debussy orch. Colin Matthews

Fireworks (Preludes, Bk.2)

Halle

Mark Elder, conductor

Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor, BWV.1041

Vilde Frang, violin

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Philippe Herreweghe, conductor

Philippe Manoury

State of Alert for percussion duet and orchestra

Emmanuel Curt, percussion

Florent Jodelet, percussion

Orchestre National de France

Cristian Macelaru, conductor

Handel

Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 390a

Arcangelo

3.00pm

Three Early Songs

BBC Singers

Grace Rossiter, conductor

Symphony no.38 in D, K.504 'Prague

Decadence And Melodrama: Schreker's The Stigmatized20200213Schreker's Die Gezeichneten, from Hanover

First performed in 1918 Schreker's Die Gezeichneten, 'The stigmatized' earned him a reputation as one of Germany's leading composers, on a par with Richard Strauss. The setting may be Renaissance Genoa, but this isn't the romanticized vision of the past of Wagner or Hans Pfitzner but rather a psychological drama rooted in the writings of Sigmund Freud. The score and the libretto - by Schreker himself - are opulent, melodramatic and decadent and make huge demands on the enormous orchestra.

The bourgeoisie of the city of Genoa is in turmoil: young women have been disappearing and there is something to fear. A clique of eight noblemen have been living out their desires on the island of Elysium. Alviano Salvago has made this island a haven of absolute beauty and harmony - in compensation for his own physical ugliness. When Alviano learns of the machinations of his fellow noblemen he tells them that he intends to transfer the island to the citizens of the city, thereby setting events in motion that he can no longer control.

Penny Gore introduces this performance recorded last year at the State Opera, Hanover.

Franz Schreker: Die Gezeichneten, opera in three acts

Robert Künzli - Tenor (Alviano Salvago)

Stefan Adam - Bass (Duke Antoniotto Adorno)

Jordan Shanahan - Baritone (Count Vitelozzo Tamare)

Tobias Schabel - Bass (Lodovico Nardi)

Karine Babajanyan - Soprano (Carlotta Nardi)

Edward Mout - Tenor (Guidobald Usodimare)

Frank Schneiders - Baritone (Gonsalvo Fieschi)

Gala El Hadidi - Mezzo-soprano (Martuccia)

Martin Rainer Leipoldt - Tenor (Menaldo Negroni)

Pawel Brozek - Tenor (A cutthroat)

Byung Kweon Jun - Baritone (Michelotto Cibo)

Daniel Eggert - Bass (Julian Pinelli)

Yannick Spanier - Bass (Paolo Calvi)

Alla Doelle - Soprano (Ginevra Scotti)

Franziska Abram - Soprano (A young girl)

Sung-keun Park - Tenor (A youth)

Latchezar Pravtchev - Tenor (Senator 1)

Jonas B怀hm - Baritone (Senator 2)

Michael Dries - Bass (Senator 3)

Ula Drescher - Soprano (A maid servant)

Marek Durka - Bass (A servant / A citizen)

Hanover State Opera Chorus

Hanover State Orchestra

Mark Rohde - Conductor

Venue

06/04/2019

Synopsis

Sixteenth century Genoa

Act 1

The young Genoan nobleman Alviano Salvago, hunchbacked and deformed, does not dare dream of the love of women. He wants to donate to the people of Genoa the island paradise called 'Elysium' he has created. His friends, a group of dissolute young noblemen, have been using an underground grotto on the island for orgies with young women abducted from prominent Genoan families, and intervene with Duke Adorno to stop the transfer of ownership. One of them, Count Tamare, has set his sights on Carlotta, daughter of the Podest

Delibes' Final Opera Kassya20190207Delibes' final opera Kassya (completed by Massenet)

Delibes is best known for his popular ballets, Copp退lia and Sylvia and his opera Lakm退. This a chance to hear this rarity in a performance from Montpellier conducted by Michael Schonwandt and staring the soprano V退ronique Gens.

Presented by Penny Gore

Kassya.....V退ronique Gens (Soprano)

Sonia.....Anne-Catherine Gillet (Soprano)

Une Bohemienne.....Nora Gubisch (Mezzo-soprano)

Cyrille.....Cyrille Dubois (Treble)

Le Comte de Zevale.....Alexandre Duhamel (Main Artist)

Kostska.....Renaud Delalgue (Bass)

Kolenati.....Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin (Baritone)

Mochkou.....R退my Mathieu (Tenor)

Un sergent recruteur.....Anas Seguin (Baritone)

Un Buveur.....Luc Bertin-hugault (Baritone)

Une Paysanne.....Marie Senle (Soprano)

Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon National Orchestra

Montpellier Opera Chorus

Michael Schonwandt (Conductor)

At the foot of the Carpathian mountains, Kassya, a young gypsy girl, is in love with the peasant Cyrille, but leaves him for the Count of Zevale, who dominates the region. Winner but resentful, the Count forces Cyrille to enlist in the imperial armies. Two years later, on his return, Cyrille finds his father reduced to misery by the tyrannical aristocrat, accompanied by Sonia, who has never ceased to love her childhood friend. Cyrille, the hero, then convinces the peasants to revolt and they overthrow the Count. Kassya, becomes a Countess whose cruelty equals that of her husband. Cyrille saves the young woman, who is in a difficult situation, from being lynched. Kassya tries to revive the flame of her former lover, but the procession of his wedding with Sonia is heard. Faced with the refusal of Cyrille, who prefers onia, his faithful promised, Kassya kills herself.

Delibes' final opera Kassya from Montpellier.

Don Quixote20230912Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert featuring new recordings by the BBC performing groups. Today's programme includes two musical interpretations of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote story, including Richard Strauss's tone poem at 3pm with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Plus, the Miserere by James MacMillan performed by the BBC Singers. Plus a rare chance to hear the Sinfonia in C by English composer Reginald Morris performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Including:

Gerhard: Don Quixote, Dances version for orchestra 1957

BBC Philharmonic

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Barber: Two Choruses from Antony and Cleopatra

Caroline Jaya-Ratnam (piano)

Grace Rossiter (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Overture to 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 21

Aarhus Symphony Orchestra

Christian ؀land (conductor)

c.3pm

R. Strauss: Don Quixote

Scott Dickinson (viola)

Pablo Ferrandez (cello)

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

James MacMillan: Miserere

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

c.4.15

Reginald Morris: Sinfonia in C

Martin Yates (conductor)

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

NDR Radio Philharmonic

Delyana Lazarova (conductor)

Music inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's epic novel.

Donizetti's Anna Bolena From Li\u00e8ge20200109Opera Matinee. Georgia Mann presents a recording of last season's production of Donizetti's Anna Bolena by the Op退ra Royal de Wallonie, Li耀ge. The composer was fascinated by the Tudor period in British history and set four of his operas during that time. Olga Peretyatko sings the title role in this performance, which tells of the ill-fated, short life of Henry VIII's second wife.

Donizetti's Anna Bolena, from Li耀ge

Anna Bolena (Anne Boleyn) - Olga Peretyatko, soprano

Giovanna Seymour (Jane Seymour), Anna's lady-in- waiting - Sofia Soloviy, mezzo-soprano

Lord Percy - Celso Albelo, tenor

Enrico (Henry VIII) - Marko Mimica, bass

Smeton (Mark Smeaton), musician - Francesca Ascioti, contralto

Lord Rochefort/Rochford (George Boleyn), Anna's brother - Luciano Montanaro, bass

Sir Hervey, court official - Maxime Melnik, tenor

Chorus of the Op退ra Royal de Wallonie

Pierre Iodice, chorus director

Orchestra of the Op退ra Royal de Wallonie

Giampaolo Bisanti, conductor

Image: Olga Peretyatko copyright Op退ra Royal de Wallonie-Li耀ge

This week's opera matinee from Opera Royal de Wallonie, Li\u00e8ge. Presented by Georgia Mann.

Durufle Requiem From King's College, Cambridge20200717The BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra: Penny Gore concludes this week's celebration of the BBC's London-based performing with memorable performances recorded at the Berlin Philharmonic and the Royal Albert Hall. And to begin the afternoon, the late Stephen Cleobury conducts a deeply moving account of the Durufl退 Requiem in the spacious acoustics of the chapel of King's College, Cambridge.

Durufl退: Notre Pere

Durufl退: Requiem

BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra

Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

BBC Singers Lockdown recording;

Wayne Marshall: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis

Ladies of the BBC Singers, conducted and accompanied by Wayne Marshall

At approx. 2.45pm

Mussorgsky: Night on Bare Mountain

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5

BBC Symphony Orchestra,

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

at approx. 3.45pm

John Adams: Harmonium

BBC Symphony Chorus, Proms Youth Choir

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Brahms in Berlin and the Durufle's Requiem from King's College, Cambridge.

Dvo\u0159\u00e1k's New World20230410Penny Gore begins a week of Afternoon Concert featuring performances from the BBC Philharmonic, the Ulster Orchestra and a focus on Latin American music.

Today in the 3pm spotlight, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra performs Dvo?ကk's 'New World` Symphony with conductor Jakub Hr?ša. Also this afternoon, the BBC Philharmonic plays Stravinsky's Funeral Song, and there's Ethel Smyth's overture to 'The Wreckers' from the Ulster Orchestra. Plus every day this week you can hear Latin American music from guitarist Yamandu Costa and accordionist Vincent Peirani, and there are performances from The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, pianist Elisso Virsaladze and the Leipzig Cantorey.

Including:

Mozart Camargo Guarnieri: Brazilian Dance (3 Dances for orchestra)

S o Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Roberto Minczuk (conductor)

Yamandu Costa: Samba por Rafa

Yamandu Costa (guitar)

Smyth: Overture, The Wreckers

Pablo Urbina (conductor)

c. 2.30pm

Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K.396

Elisso Virsaladze (piano)

Vejvanovský: Baletto per Carnuale

Wolfgang Newerla (conductor)

Stravinsky: Funeral Song

Ben Gernon (conductor)

Dvo?ကk: Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95 `From the New World`

Jakub Hr?ša (conductor)

Piazzolla: Seul te seul

Vincent Peirani (accordion)

c. 4pm

Schein: Unser Leben w䀀hret siebnzig Jahr

Concerto Vocale Leipzig

S䀀chsisches Baroque Orchestra

Gotthold Schwarz (conductor)

Ravel: Pavane pour une infante d退funte

Li耀ge Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Gergely Madaras (conductor)

Jakub Hr\u016f\u0161a conducts Dvo\u0159\u00e1k's Ninth Symphony.

Dvo\u0159\u00e1k's Symphony No 7 In D Minor20220829Presented by Ian Skelly. From the Proms - Prom 36: another chance to hear the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop, in Bart k's suite The Miraculous Mandarin, Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 3 in C major with soloist Benjamin Grosvenor, the UK premiere of Hannah Eisendle's Heliosis, and Dvo?ကk's Symphony No 7 in D minor.

Plus today's Proms artist's choice: Marin Alsop.

Erno Dohnanyi: Tante Simona (Aunt Simona) - opera in 1 act Op. 20: Overture

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Roberto Paternostro, conductor

JS Bach: Partita No.4 in D, BWV 828; 1st movement: Overture

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

2.10pm

Prom 36 - Part 1

B退la Bart k: The Miraculous Mandarin - suite

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 in C major

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

Marin Alsop (conductor)

3.05pm

Artist's Choice - Marin Alsop

Brahms: Sextet No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 18 - 1st & 2nd movements

3.30pm

Prom 36 - Part 2

Hannah Eisendle: Heliosis (UK premiere)

Dvo?ကk: Symphony No 7 in D minor

Listener's choice - brass concertos

From the Proms - Prom 36. Music by Bart\u00f3k, Prokofiev, Hannah Eisendle and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k.

Dvorak 9 From St Petersburg20211231Ian Skelly introduces performances from around the world including the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra Dvorak's 9th Symphony and Freiburg Baroque with Handel & Caldara. Plus, there's music by Louise Farrenc, Debussy and Wolf

Louise Farrenc - Overture No.1, Op.23

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Francois Leleux (conductor)

Handel - Zadok the Priest, HWV 258

Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened, HWV 259

The King Shall Rejoice, HWV 260

My Heart is Inditing, HWV 261

Vox Luminus

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Lionel Meunier (conductor)

Debussy - Prelude က l'apr耀s-midi d'un faune

Ulster Orchestra

Jac van Steen (conductor)

3pm

Dvorak - Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95 'From the New World

Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)

Caldara - Te Deum

Hugo Wolf - Penthesilea

ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna

Marin Alsop (conductor)

Unique performances with BBC orchestras and choirs and other great orchestras

Dvorak And Martinu From The Swiss Romande Orchestra20220214Jonathan Nott conducts Czech music in Geneva, plus early music from Paris and the Austrian city of Melk.

Penny Gore takes us on a whirlwind tour of Europe: Geneva's Swiss Romande Orchestra plays one of Dvorak's best-loved symphonies and a delightful rarity from fellow Czech Bohuslav Martinu; and there's the week's first visit to the International Baroque Music Days festival in Melk in Lower Austria.

2.00pm

Bartok

Rhapsody No. 2 for violin and orchestra

Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Jonathan Nott, conductor

Veracini

Overture No. 6 in G minor ('Dresden')

Zefiro Ensemble

Alfredo Bernardini, conductor

Albeniz

Suite espanola: Granada; Cataluna; Cadiz; Asturias

Ragna Schirmer, piano

R. Strauss

Serenade in E flat for wind instruments

BBC Philharmonic (members)

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

3.00pm

Suite concertante

Symphony No. 8 in G

Corelli

Concerto grosso, op. 6/8 ('Christmas Concerto')

Les Arts Florissants

Paul Agnew, conductor

Jonathan Nott conducts Czech music in Geneva, plus early music from Paris and Melk.

Dvorak, Pereira, Villa-lobos, Franck, Saint-saens, Dukas20190507Fiona Talkington presents the second of four programmes featuring the S o Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, one of South America's finest ensembles.

Today, Nathalie Stutzman conducts works by Dvo?ကk and Pereira, Isaac Karabtchevsky works by Villa-Lobos, and Louis Langr退e a programme of French favourites.

Dvo?ကk: Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104 .

Antonio Meneses, cello

S o Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (OSESP)

Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor

Cl vis Pereira (1932) - Canto do Cego (Song of the Blinder) (encore)

Anton퀀n Dvo?ကk (1841-1904) - Symphony No. 7 in D minor, op. 70

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) - Uirapuru

Isaac Karabtchevsky, conductor

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) - Lento, from 'Symphony No. 7 ('Peace Odyssey')

Odiss退ia da paz .

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) - Ch䀀ros No. 10 ('Rasga o Cora瀀 o')

OSESP Chorus

Franck: Chausseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman) .

Louis Langr退e, conductor

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Danse macabre, op. 40

Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice, symphonic scherzo

Continuing a series of concerts by the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra.

Dvorak's 6th Symphony From Lucerne20211227Ian Skelly introduces performances from around the world including the Lucerne Festival Orchestra who launch a key theme of the week - Dvorak's symphonies. Plus, there's music by Weber, Webern, Mozart, Biber and Piazzolla, as his anniversary year comes to an end.

2pm

Weber - Overture: Oberon

BBC Philharmonic

John Storgards

Webern - 4 Pieces for violin & piano, Op.7

John Storgards (violin)

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

2.20pm

Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219 'Turkish

Johan Dalene (violin)

Elena Schwarz (conductor)

Biber - Mystery (Rosary) Sonata No.1 `The Annunciation`

Hiro Kurosaki (violin )

Wolfgang Glüxam (organ)

Pierre Pitzl (viola da gamba)

David Bergmüller (lute)

3pm

Dvorak - Symphony No.6 in D, Op.60

Jacob Hrusa (conductor)

3.45pm

Piazzolla - Caliente

Astor Piazzolla Quintet

Music for the afternoons on Radio 3.

Dvorak's Eighth Symphony20230921Ian Skelly presents great concert performances from across Europe and from the BBC performing groups, this week featuring the Ulster Orchestra every day at 3pm. Today, they perform Dvorak's Symphony No.8. Plus, Daniel Ottensamer is the soloist in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with Camerata Salzburg, a rare performance of Carl Nielsen's radiant choral work Hymnus Amoris from Copenhagen, and more from Nordic folk trio Dreamer's Circus.

Including:

Nielsen: Maskarade - Overture

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

Ruth Gipps: Pan and Apollo

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Jonathan Bloxham, conductor

Carr/Busk/Sorenssen: folk medley

Dreamers' Circus

Aarhus Symphony Orchestra

Christian Oland, conductor

Smetana: The Bartered Bride - Overture

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

Schubert: The Shepherd on the Rock

Sally Matthews (soprano)

Thomas Watmough (clarinet)

Malcolm Martineau (piano)

c.3pm

Dvorak: Symphony No.8

Angus Webster, conductor

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto

Daniel Ottensamer (clarinet)

Ton Koopman, conductor

c4.15pm

Nielsen: Hymnus Amoris

Liv Redpath (soprano), Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor)

Danish National Junior Choir and Concert Choir

Fabio Luisi, conductor

Lili Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps

BBC Philharmonic

Yan Pascal Toretelier, conductor

Dvorak in optimistic mood with the Ulster Orchestra.

Dvorak's Seventh Symphony From Prague20211228Ian Skelly introduces performances from around the world including the Prague Philharmonia who continue this week's key theme - Dvorak's symphonies. Plus, there's music by Joplin, Weiss, Beethoven, Grieg, Biber, Bach and Piazzolla, as his anniversary year comes to an end.

Joplin Overture: Treemonisha

RAI National Symphony Orchestra

John Axelrod (conductor)

Weiss Concerto for 2 lutes in D

ARTIS Guitar Duo

Beethoven Romance No.2 in F for violin & orchestra, Op.50

John Storgards (violin & director)

BBC Philharmonic

Grieg Holberg Suite

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Chlo退 van Soeterst耀de

Biber Mystery (Rosary) Sonata No. 10 ('The Crucifixion')

Hiro Kurosaki (violin)

Wolfgang Glüxam (organ)

Pierre Pitzl (viola da gamba)

David Bergmüller (lute)

3pm

Dvorak Symphony No.7 in D minor, Op.

Emmanuel Villaume (conductor)

JS Bach Partita in A minor, BWV.1013

Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder)

Piazzolla Escualo

Astor Piazzolla Quintet

Emmanuel Villaume conducts the Prague Philharmonia performing Dvorak's Seventh Symphony.

Dvorak's Sixth Symphony20231016Fiona Talkington begins another week of afternoons, featuring the best performances from BBC ensembles and concert halls around Europe.

In the 3pm spotlight today, Petr Popelka conducts the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra in Dvorak's 6th Symphony, in which Czech folk music and flowing melodies combine. It was recorded at this summer's Montepellier Festival, and we also hear from a recital by the festival by pianist Fazil Say, including Haydn, and variations on Gershwin's Summertime. Plus new recordings exclusive to Radio 3, of Schubert from the Ulster Orchestra, and Judith Weir from the BBC Singers.

Including:

Faure: Masques et bergamasques, Overture

BBC Philharmonic

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Schubert: Die Zauberharfe - Overture in C Major D.644, 'Rosamunde

Jac van Steen, conductor

Ali Osman: The Shepherd's Song for oboe and orchestra

Jennifer Galloway, oboe

Ben Gernon, conductor

Haydn: Piano Sonata in C, Hob. XVI:35

Fazil Say, piano

Dvorak: Symphony No. 6 in D, op. 60

Petr Popelka, conductor

Judith Weir: Indelible, miraculous

Daniel Hyde, conductor

Fazil Say: Ballade No. 1: Nazim

Gershwin/Fazil Say: Summertime Variations

Petr Popelka conducts the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra in Dvorak's Sixth Symphony.

Petr Popelka conducts the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra in Dvorak's Sixth Symphony. Plus, new recordings of Schubert from the Ulster Orchestra and Judith Weir from the BBC Singers.

Dvorak's Violin Concerto With Roman Patocka20220221Fiona Talkington with recent concert performances from around Europe including Dvorak's Violin Concerto from Prague and Haydn's 'Mass in honorem B.V.M.' from Barcelona. Plus there'll be performances from the Catalan ensemble Vespres d'Arnadi and the Israeli mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital featured across the whole week.

Roussel - Fanfare pour un sacre paien

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Anthony Weedon (conductor)

Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No.14 in F minor, S.244/14

Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mark Kadin (conductor)

Francesco Durante - Concerto No.2 in G minor

Dani Espasa (conductor)

Vaughan Williams - The Cloud capp'd towers

BBC Singers

Ellie Slorach (conductor)

Frank Bridge - The Bee

Owain Park (conductor)

Rx date: 22.09.20

Rx venue: BBC Maida Vale

Dur: 01'24

Tchaikovsky - Romeo & Juliet

Norwegian Radio Orchestra

Miguel Harth-Bedoya (conductor)

3pm

Dvorak - Violin Concerto in A minor, Op.53

Roman Patocka (violin)

Prague Symphony Orchestra

Tomas Brauner (conductor)

Omer Klein - Espaကa

Avi Avital (mandolin)

Omer Klein (piano)

c.3.40pm

Joseph Haydn - Mass in honorem B.V.M. in E flat, Hob.XXII:4

Roger Padulles (tenor)

Xavier Mendoza (baritone)

Alvaro Carnicero (organ)

Escolania de Montserrat

Capella de Musica de Montserrat

Orquestra Simfonica del Valles

Xavier Puig (conductor)

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Music by Roussel, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Haydn and Omer Klein.

Dystopia20200110Presented by Fiona Talkington. Today's concert from the BBC Concert Orchestra was recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London last December. Joe Cutler's BBC commission Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii, written for saxophonist Trish Clowes and given its first performance here, is inspired by David Mitchell's dystopian novel Cloud Atlas. It is surrounded by music used in dystopian films, illuminated and contextualised by presenter Matthew Sweet. Plus, as part of New Year, New Music, Sean Rafferty introduces a piece of music he loves.

Rossini: Overture The Thieving Magpie

Joe Cutler: Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii - Saxophone Concerto, BBC commission world premiere

Trish Clowes: Abbott & Costello

John Paesano: The Maze Runner Suite

Bernard Herrmann: Fahrenheit 451 Suite

Bach: Cello Suite No 1 in G 'Prelude

John Williams: New Beginning

Danny Elfman: Nightmare before Christmas - Orchestral Suite.

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D

Trish Clowes, saxophone

Ross Stanley, Hammond

Ben Palmer, conductor

With Fiona Talkington. Music and dystopia from the BBC Concert Orchestra and Trish Clowes.

Elgar, Saint-saens And Musgrave20181001Elgar, Saint-Saens, Musgrave and a world premiere of Nimrod Borenstein's Cello Concerto, given by the BBC Philharmonic and presented by Tom McKinney.

Leonard Elschenbroich joins the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Duncan Ward for a performance of Elgar's elegiac Cello Concerto, while French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie gives the first of their Saint-Saens concertos this week. There's Thea Musgrave every day too: today, Songs for a Winter's evening with soprano Claire Booth. Then, the world premiere of Nimrod Borenstein's Cello Concerto Op 77, given by Corinne Morris and conductor Fr退d退ric Chaslin.

2.00pm

Debussy: Pr退lude က l'apr耀s-midi d'un faune

Elgar: Cello Concerto

Bart k: Concerto for orchestra

Duncan Ward (conductor)

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)

c.3.15pm

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Piano Concerto No 1

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Louis Lortie (piano)

c.3.40pm

Thea Musgrave Songs for a Winter's evening

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Claire Booth (soprano)

c.4.05pm

Copland An Outdoor overture

John Wilson (conductor)

c.4.15pm

Nimrod Borenstein Cello Concerto Op 77 (wp)

Fr退d退ric Chaslin (conductor)

Corinne Morris (cello)

Tom McKinney presents the BBC Philharmonic performing Elgar, Saint-Saens and Musgrave.

Elgar's Cello Concerto20231204Ian Skelly presents great concert performances from across Europe and from the BBC performing groups. As part of the BBC's Rethinking Disability week, this week's Artist's Choice works have been chosen by members of the National Youth Open Orchestra. Today's choice, from violinist Cass, is Franz Schrecker's haunting Intermezzo. This week also showcases the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in our 3pm highlight slots. Today, Colombian cellist Santiago Canon-Valencia joins the orchestra in Elgar's brooding Cello Concerto. Plus, brass music from the Wallberg Band.

Eric Coates: The Merrymakers – overture

Rumon Gamba (cond.)

Hannah Peel: The Universe Before Matter (from The Unfolding)

Paraorchestra

Charles Hazlewood (cond.)

Handel

Concerto Grosso in D, Op.3 No.6

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin

Georg Kallweit (director)

Sibelius

The Swan of Tuonela

Ryan Bancroft (cond.)

Harold Moss: The Nightingale

Christopher Bins (trombone)

Ivan Meylemans (cond.)

Mozart: Rondo in A, K386

Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

Les Violons du Roy

Bernard Labadie (cond.)

c3pm

Elgar: Cello Concerto

Santiago Canon-Valencia (cello)

Gergely Madaras (cond.)

Franz Schrecker: Intermezzo

Sinfonia of London

John Wilson (cond.)

Bach: Orchestral Suite No.4

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Masaaki Suzuki (cond.)

Rossini: Semiramide – Overture

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Mark Elder (cond.)

Santiago Canon-Valencia performs Elgar's Cello Concerto and Masaaki Suzuki conducts Bach

Santiago Canon-Valencia performs Elgar's Cello Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Masaaki Suzuki conducts Bach's Orchestral Suite No 4 with the Frankfurt RSO

Elgar's Enigma Variations20230615Kristiina Poska conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Elgar's Enigma Variations.

Presented by Ian Skelly

The focus this week has been the BBC Philharmonic and this afternoon there's a specially recorded performance of perhaps Elgar's greatest work, the so-called 'Enigma' Variations into which he wove the personalities of his friends

2.30pm

Pomp and Circumstance March no.4

Andrew Davis, conductor

Lotti

Froh quanta sunt

Jakub Jozef Orlinski, countertenor

Il Pomo d'Oro

Zefira Valova, director

Rossini

Overture: The thieving magpie

Ben Gernon

3.00pm

Kristiina Poska, conductor

Haydn

Cello Concerto no.1 in C

Alban Gerhardt, cello

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov, conductor

Tarik O'Regan

I Listen To The Stillness Of You

BBC Singers

Grace Rossiter, conductor

Smetana

Ma Vlast: Vltava

Ulster Orchestra

Tom Fetherstonhaugh, conductor

Moeran

Lonely waters

Vernon Handley, conductor

Elgar's Second Symphony20231009Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Elgar's Second Symphony in E flat.

Presented by Ian Skelly

The last of Elgar's two completed symphonies forms the centrepiece of this afternoon's programme, with Wagner from Budapest and, in continuing celebration of Black History Month, works by Coleridge-Taylor and George Walker

2.00pm

Ride of the Valkyries, from act 3 of 'Die Walkure

Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

Adam Fischer, conductor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Valse-Suite

Monica Gayford, piano

Debussy

Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

Ilan Volkov, conductor

Prelude and Liebestod, from 'Tristan and Isolde

3.00pm

Symphony no.2

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Three Lyrics

BBC Singers

Caroline Jaya-Ratnam, piano

Grace Rossiter, conductor

Ethel Smyth

String Quartet: 3) Andante

Archaeus Quartet

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play Elgar's Second Symphony in E flat.

Elgar's Symphony No 1 In A Flat20220901Presented by Ian Skelly. Including another chance to hear Prom 39 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Elgar's Symphony No.1, a Turnage premiere, and Vaughan Williams's Tuba Concerto with Constantin Hartwig. Plus today's Proms artist's choice.

Also featured,

Roland Szentpali Pearls III: I. Very Good Morning

Constantin Hartwig (tuba, and 3 ‘background tubas')

Maria Lebed (piano)

Sibelius Luonnotar, Op.70

Karita Mattila (soprano)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Handel Suite no. 2 in F major HWV.427 for keyboard

Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)

2.25pm

Prom 39 - Part 1

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Time Flies [BBC co-commission: UK premiere]

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto

3.15pm

Artist's choice: Constantin Hartwig

Holst 1st Suite for Military Band Op.28`1

RAF Central Band

Duncan Stubbs (conductor)

3.30 pm

Prom 39 - Part 2

Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A flat major

Constantin Hartwig (tuba)

4.45

Listener's choice - brass concertos

Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms

Elisabeth Jacquet De La Guerre's Cephale Et Procris20190307Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre was a child prodigy and performed on the harpsichord at a young age before the French king, Louis XIV. She was one of the few well-known female composers of her time, and today we hear her 1694 opera C退phale et Procris, first performed at the Acad退mie Royale de Musique. This five-act trag退die lyrique was the first opera written by a woman in France.

The afternoon ends with works by Sally Beamish and Bartok

Presented by Kate Molleson

Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: C退phale et Procris

Procris.....Raphaele Kennedy (Soprano)

Cephale.....Achim Schultz (Counter-tenor)

Dorine.....Camilla De Falleiro (Soprano)

Arcas.....Lisandro Abadie (Bass)

Boree / La Desespoir.....Emil Rovner (Bass)

Priestess / Iphis.....Anna Jesus Sanchez (Soprano)The

L'Aurore.....Mariana Flores (Soprano)

La Volupte.....Gry Elisabeth Knudsen (Soprano)

A Thracian.....Kazuko Nakano (Alto)

Rage.....Alex Potter (Counter-tenor)

Jealousy.....Daniel Issa Goncalves (Tenor)

The King.....Erich Bieri (Bass)

Musica Fiorita

Daniela Dolci (director)

4.00pm

Sally Beamish: The Singing - Accordion Concerto

James Crabb (accordion)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

4.20pm

Bartok: Divertimento for Strings

BBC Symphony Orchestra Strings

Gergely Madaras (conductor)

Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre's 1694 opera, Cephale et Procris.

Emmanuelle Ha\u00efm And The Berlin Philharmonic20200916Penny Gore presents a week of highlights from the Berlin Philharmonic's last season.

Emmanuelle Ham conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in music by Purcell and Handel.

Purcell: Suite from 'The Fairy Queen, Z. 629

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks in D, HWV 351

Handel: La terra 耀 liberata (Apollo e Dafne), HWV 122

Lucy Crowe, soprano

Florian Sempey, baritone

Emmanuelle Ham, conductor

Concert given in the Philharmonie, Berlin, on 17/10/2019

Emmanuelle Ha\u00efm conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in music by Purcell and Handel.

Enescu And Suk From The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra20200526The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra: Penny Gore introduces recent performances by Germany's oldest radio orchestra. Founded in 1923, the orchestra is noted for its championship of a wide variety of repertoire. Today the orchestra continues that tradition under its current Principal Conductor, Vladimir Jurowski.

Britten: Violin Concerto, op. 15

Arabella Steinbacher, violin

Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

Enescu: Symphony No. 3 in C, op. 21

George Enescu Philharmonic Chorus

Berlin State Opera Children's Chorus

Followed at approx. 3.30pm by

Dvo?ကk: Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 53

Josef Spacek, violin

Jakub Hr?ša, conductor

at approx. 4.00pm

Josef Suk: Pohကdka l退ta, symphonic poem, op. 29 (A Summer's Tale)

The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra play Enescu's Symphony No 3 and Suk's A Summer's Tale.

English Music With The Bbc Philharmonic20190326A week of great performances by the BBC Philharmonic. Today, another all-English programme: music by Vaughan Williams and Elgar both recorded earlier this month in Bilbao. Tom McKinney presents.

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Jennifer Pike, violin

Recorded 2 March 2019 in Bilbao, Spain

c. 2.45pm

Sullivan: Symphony

Richard Hickox, conductor

c. 3.20pm

Elgar Cello Concerto

Rory Macdonald, conductor

Laura van der Heiden, cello

Recorded 3 March 2017 at the Victoria Hall, Hanley

c. 3.55

Schurmann: Doctor Syn (suite from the film score)

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Recorded 20 June 2018 in MediaCityUK, Salford

c. 4.20pm

Nielsen Symphony No 3 (Sinfonia espansiva)

John Storgards, conductor

Gillian Keith, soprano

Mark Stone, baritone

A week of great performances by the BBC Philharmonic. Tom McKinney presents.

Ethel Smyth's Mass In D20220906Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in works by Debussy and Smyth.

Ethel Smyth wasn't especially religious: the text and images of the Catholic Mass simply thrilled her. ‘What words! What words!' she exclaimed, and her monumental Mass in D major is one of the crowning glories of the British choral tradition. Following their widely admired 2019 recording (‘fiercely committed, highly persuasive' - BBC Music Magazine) Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra give the first Proms performance since the composer's own lifetime, with rising operatic star Nardus Williams heading an impressive quartet of soloists. Debussy's Nocturnes begin the evening in a very different, but no less beautiful world - blurring the edges of sound itself to create music that seems to glow in the dark.

2.30pm

Interval: Artist Choice

Soprano Nardus Williams with her pick of an inspiring CD track

2.45pm

Nardus Williams, soprano

Bethan Langford, mezzo-soprano

Robert Murray, tenor

Božidar Smiljani?, bass-baritone

BBC Symphony Chorus

Sakari Oramo, conductor

3.50pm

Schumann

Piano Quintet, Op.44

Minguet Quartet

Claire Huangci, piano

Sakari Oramo conducts Debussy and Smyth

Eugene Onegin20190131This week's Opera Matinee:

Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

Madame Larina.....Susann Vegh (Mezzo-soprano)

Tatyana.....Cornelia Beskow (Soprano)

Olga.....Johanna Rudstrom (Mezzo-soprano)

Filipyevna.....Katarina Leoson (Contralot)

Lensky.....Joel Annmo (Tenor)

Eugene Onegin.....Karl Magnus Fredriksson (Baritone)

Prince Gremin.....Lennart Forsen (Bass)

Zaretsky.....Martin Lissel (Bass)

Monsieur Triquet.....Jonas Degerfeldt (Tenor)

Swedish Royal Opera Orchestra

Swedish Royal Opera Chorus

Evan Rogister

This week's Opera Matinee: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin with the Swedish Opera Orchestra.

European Summer Festivals (1-3)20201228This series features concerts from summer festivals around Europe. Today, Sch怀nbrunn Summer Night Concert with Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and tenor Jonas Kaufmann; Beethoven's Violin Concerto with soloist Veronika Eberle and the German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen at the Klosters Music Festival; and Charpentier's Te Deum at Gottfried Silbermann Days with Collegium Vocale Leipzig.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2.00pm

2020 Sch怀nbrunn Summer Night Concert

Richard Strauss: Prelude and Presentation of the Rose, from Der Rosenkavalier (Suite)

Richard Wagner: Love Music, from Tristan und Isolde (Symphonic Synthesis by Leopold Stokowski)

Offenbach: 'Belle nuit, 䀀 nuit d'amour' (Barcarolle) from The Tales of Hoffmann

Massenet: 'Pourquoi me r退veiller?' from Werther

Kကlmကn: 'Wenn es Abend wird' from Gr䀀fin Mariza

Felix Mendelssohn: Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Maurice Jarre: Doctor Zhivago (Suite)

Khachaturian: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia, from Spartacus

Puccini: 'Nessun dorma' from Turandot

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)

Conductor Valery Gergiev, conducto

3.20pm

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, op. 61

Veronika Eberle (violin)

Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado

4.05pm

Gottfried Silbermann Days - Opening Concert

M-A Charpentier: Te Deum

Isabel Schicketanz, Gesine Adler, Susanne Langner (sopranos)

Marie Henriette Reinhold (contralto)

Christoph Pfaller (tenor)

Tobias Ay (bass)

Merseburger Hofmusik

Conductor Michael Sch怀nheit

Sch\u00f6nbrunn Summer Night Concert, Klosters Music Festival and Gottfried Silbermann Days.

European Summer Festivals (1-5)20210412Music by Elgar, Beethoven and a piece by Michael Gordon inspired by the classic western High Noon.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Opening a week celebrating music-making across Europe, the programme includes two Beethoven symphonies conducted by two specialists in early music, Elgar's autumnal cello concerto and a recent choral work written by Michael Gordon as 'a nod to American cowboy movies where the town marshal meets the bad guys'.

2.00pm

Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67

Harriet Krijgh, cello

NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Andrew Manze, conductor

3.10pm

A Western

Theatre of Voices

Paul Hillier, conductor

3.35pm

Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 55 ('Eroica')

German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen

Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor

Music by Elgar, Beethoven and Michael Gordon

European Summer Festivals (2-3)20201229Penny Gore continues this series of concerts from European Summer Festivals with the Radio France Philharmonic under conductor Mikko Franck playing two Berlioz masterpieces at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Switzerland. Tomကs Jamn퀀k plays Dvo?ကk's little-known Concerto for Cello in A with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Dvo?ကk Prague International Music Festival. And the closing concert comes from the Musiq3 Festival in Belgium with a variety of celebratory twentieth-century orchestral pieces from the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Rumon Gamba.

2.00pm

Berlioz: Overture to 'B退atrice et B退n退dict'; Symphonie fantastique

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

3.00pm

Anton퀀n Dvo?ကk: Concerto for Cello in A, B.10

Tomကs Jamn퀀k (cello)

Conductor James Judd

3.45pm

Musiq3 Festival - closing concert

Zoltကn Kodကly: Dances from Galကnta

Manuel de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Alberto Ginastera: Estancia (ballet suite)

Arturo Mကrquez: Danz n No. 2

Luis Fernando P退rez (piano)

Performances from the Gstaad Menuhin, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Prague and Musiq3 festivals.

European Summer Festivals (2-5)20210413A feast of Handel, featuring both his first and his best-known oratorio, as well as a beautiful love story from Czech folk mythology.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Handel reinvented the oratorio form and it is fascinating to compare the allegorical 'The Triumph of Truth and Disillusion', his first work in the genre, with Messiah, which remains one of the most-loved pieces of classical music.

Love is in the air for Czech composer Josef Suk, whose delightful Fairy Tale draws on mythical passion and magic.

Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno

Emmanuelle de Negri, soprano, Piacere

Monica Piccinini, soprano, Bellezza

Delphine Galou, mezzo-soprano, Disinganno

Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, tenor, Tempo

Accademia Bizantina

Ottavio Dantone, conductor/harpsichord

3.40pm

Fairy Tale, op. 16

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

James Judd, conductor

4.10pm

Messiah, HWV 56 (excerpts)

Hana Blaž퀀kovက, soprano

Mark退ta Cukrovက, contralto

Jaroslav B?ezina, tenor

Roman Hoza, baritone

Collegium Vocale 1704

Collegium 1704

Vကclav Luks, conductor

A feast of Handel, including highlights from Messiah, as well as music by Josef Suk.

European Summer Festivals (3-3)20210101Closing our series of concerts from Summer Festivals across Europe, music by Byrd and Ferrabosco at the Copenhagen Baroque Festival; Le Banquet C退leste with Bach's Cantata 47 at Saintes Festival; and from Klosters Music Festival, a Mozart Gala.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2.00pm

Byrd: Laudibus in sanctis; Emendemus in melius

Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder: Nuntium vobis; The Lamentations of Jeremiah

Byrd: Fantasia a 6

Theatre of Voices

Conductor Paul Hillier

2.30pm

Saintes Festival 2020

J. S. Bach: Cantata No. 47, 'Wer sich selbst erh怀het, der soll erniedriget werden

Conductor Damien Guillon

2.55pm

Klosters Music Festival, Mozart Gala

Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D, K. 385 (Haffner); highlights from Idomeneo, Lucio Silla, Cos쀀 fan tutte and The Marriage of Figaro

Christiane Karg (soprano)

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Conductor Riccardo Minasi

Music from the Copenhagen Baroque, Saintes and Klosters Music festivals.

European Summer Festivals (3-5)20210414Sacred music by Danish Baroque composer and organist Dietrich Buxtehude.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Buxtehude was a richly original composer, and a significant influence on J.S. Bach - in fact, the young Bach walked over 250 miles from Arnstadt to Lübeck specifically to hear Buxtehude play and improvise on the organ

2.00pm

Der Herr ist mit mir, BuxWV 15

Fürwahr, er trug unsere Krankheit, BuxWV 31

Orfeo Orchestra

Purcell Choir

Gy怀rgy Vashegyi, conductor

2.30pm

Strauss

Ein Heldenleben, op. 40

Orchestre National d'΀le-de-France

Case Scaglione, conductor

Sacred music by Danish Baroque composer Dietrich Buxtehude.

European Summer Festivals (4-5)20210415Opera matinee - German music from the beginning and the end of the 19th century, by Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Strauss.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Weber's Der Freischütz, one of the first German romantic operas, is an evocatively expressive tale of marksmanship and love set in Bohemia just after the Thirty Years War, while Strauss's tone poem from 1898 paints in sound 'A Hero's Life

2.00pm

Johanni van Oostrum, soprano, Agathe

Tuomas Katajala, tenor, Max

Chiara Skerath, soprano, Ānnchen

Vladim쀀r Baykov, bass, Kaspar

Christian Immler, bass, Eremit and voice of Samiel

Thorsten Grümbel, bass, Kuno

Samuel Hasselhorn, baritone, Ottokar

Anas Seguin, baritone, Kilian

Cl退ment Dazin, Samiel

Accentus

Insula Orchestra

Laurence Equilbey, conductor

4.00pm

Buxtehude

Jesu, meines Lebens Leben, BuxWV 62

Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BuxWV 78

Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr, BuxWV 41

Orfeo Orchestra

Purcell Choir

Gy怀rgy Vashegyi, conductor

An opera matinee of German music spanning the 19th century by Weber and Strauss.

European Summer Festivals (5-5)20210416Works by Mozart, Schubert and unjustly neglected French Revolutionary composer ɀtienne Nicolas M退hul.

Presented by Ian Skelly

A mixed programme of orchestral and vocal works from the Classical period, featuring acclaimed tenor Julian Pr退gardien as well as an epic of Romanticism, Reger's violin concerto, a successor to the great concertos of Beethoven and Brahms.

2.00pm

Misero, o sogno!, K. 431

Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183

Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd sch怀n, from 'The Magic Flute

Was belebt die sch怀ne Welt, from 'Die Zauberharfe

Menuets and Trios, D. 89

Symphony No. 1 in G minor

Julian Pr退gardien, tenor

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Lorenza Borrani, conductor

3.30pm

Violin Concerto in A, op. 101

Kristian Winther, violin

Gruppo Montebello

Henk Guittart, conductor

Works by Mozart, Schubert and unjustly neglected French composer \u00c9tienne Nicolas Mehul.

European Summer Festivals, Week 1, Friday20210730Fiona Talkington rounds up the first week of performances from European summer festivals with a strong Spanish feel, including a tribute concert from the Spanish National Orchestra and Josep Pons to the orchestra's former Musical Director, Ataulfo Argenta, alongside the last instalment in Daniele Gatti's Schumann symphony cycle from Dresden.

Manuel de Falla: Interlude and Dance, from 'La Vida Breve

Josep Pons (conductor)

Dresden Music Festival

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, op. 120 (original version, 1841)

Dresden Festival Orchestra

Daniele Gatti (conductor)

Manuel de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Josep Colom (piano)

Christoph Gluck: Don Juan - ballet suite

Le Concert des Nations

Jordi Savall (director)

Manuel de Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite Nos 1 & 2

Performances of Spanish-inspired music from Dresden

European Summer Festivals, Week 1, Monday20210726Tom McKinney introduces the first of two weeks of performances from European summer festivals including music making from Norway, Germany and the Czech Republic. Including a complete cycle of Schumann symphonies across the week.

Including, from the....

Brussels Festival Musiq3

Wolfgang Mozart : Overture to 'Cos쀀 fan tutte

Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra

St退phane Den耀ve, (conductor)

Bergen International Festival

Vyacheslav Semionov: Kalina Krasnaya (Guelder Rose)

Mathias Rugsveen (accordion)

Prague Spring

Gustav Mahler: 'Symphony No. 3' 2nd movement - 'What the Wild Flowers Tell Me

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

Dresden Music Festival

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B flat, op. 38 ('Spring')

Dresden Festival Orchestra

Daniele Gatti, (conductor)

Performances from Dresden, Brussels and Bergen

European Summer Festivals, Week 1, Thursday Opera Matinee20210729Fiona Talkington introduces a performances of Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro' from Aix-en-Provence as part of her eavesdrop on European summer festivals. Given at the Theatre de l'Archeveche in a new production by Lotte de Beer, who suggests that the opera embraces all social situations and all ages of life and their right to love, Her staging of Figaro resonates with contemporary issues depicting sex- and power-based relationships as related through the perceptions and experiences of the characters.

Wolfgang Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro

with:

Figaro: Andr耀 Schuen

Susanna: Julie Fuchs

Il Conte di Almaviva: Gyula Orendt

La Contessa Almaviva: Jacquelyn Wagner

Cherubino: Lea Desandre

Marcellina: Monica Bacelli

Il Dottor Bartolo: Maurizio Muraro

Don Basilio / Don Curzio: Emiliano Gonzalez Toro

Barbarina: Elisabeth Boudreault

Antonio: Leonardo Galeazzi

Chœur du CNRR de Marseille

Chorus Master: Anne Periss退 dit Prechacq

Balthasar Neumann Ensemble

Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)

Figaro from Aix-en-Provence

European Summer Festivals, Week 1, Tuesday20210727Tom McKinney continues his selection of performances from European summer festivals, including Smetana and Stravinsky from Prague and a Schumann symphony cycle from Dresden.

Prague Spring

Smetana: Ma Vlast - II. Vltava (Moldau)

Collegium 1704

Vaclav Luks (conductor)

Dresden Music Festival

Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C, op. 61

Dresden Festival Orchestra

Daniele Gatti (conductor)

Festival St-Denis

Wagner: Overture to 'Tannh䀀user

Strauss: Four Last Songs

Camilla Nylund, soprano

Orchestre National de France

Karina Canellakis, (conductor)

Stravinsky: Octet for Winds

Members of the Prague Philharmonia

Mariကn Lejava (conductor)

Granada Festival

Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor

Javier Perianes (piano)

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Klaus M䀀kel䀀 (conductor)

Performances from Prague, St Denis and Wurzburg

European Summer Festivals, Week 1, Wednesday20210728Fiona Talkington introduces performances from Germany and Spain including the third instalment in Daniele Gatti's Schumann symphony cycle from Dresden.

Including:

Dresden Music Festival

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 97 ('Rhenish')

Dresden Festival Orchestra

Daniele Gatti (conductor)

Granada Festival

Jean Sibelius: 'Lemmink䀀inen Suite, op. 22 'The Swan of Tuonela

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Klaus M䀀kel䀀 (conductor)

Georg Handel: Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F, HWV 348

Le Concert des Nations

Jordi Savall (director)

Performances from Dresden and Granada

European Summer Festivals, Week 2, Friday20210806Ian Skelly concludes this second week of European festivals, with Antonio Pappano conducting a concert of Szymanowski and Brahms in Verbier, Jordi Savall leading Le Concert des Nations in music by Rebel in Granada, and guitarist Thibaut Garcia joining forces with Santtu-Matias Rouvali and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra.

Plus the last of this week's recordings by the winners of 2019 BBC Young Composer.

Including:

Festival Radio France Occitanie

Ponce: Concierto del Sur

Thibaut Garcia (guitar), Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)

Granada Festival

Rebel: Les El退mens (The Elements), ballet suite

Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations

Verbier Festival

Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1, op. 35 c.25

Brahms: Serenade No. 1 in D, op. 11 c.40

Janine Jansen (violin), Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Antonio Pappano (conductor)

Performances from Rheingau and Granada

European Summer Festivals, Week 2, Monday20210802Ian Skelly introduces a second week of recordings from this year's European summer festivals. James Gaffigan conducts the Bergen Philharmonic in the music of George Walker and Missy Mazzoli, there's a double helping of Mendelssohn in Brussels, and Sibelius in Granada.

Throughout the week, Ian will also present recordings of pieces created by the winners of the 2019 BBC Young Composer competition.

Including:

Bergen International Festival

John Adams: The Chairman Dances, Foxtrot for orchestra

Walker: Lyric for Strings

Missy Mazzoli: Vespers for Violin; Dark with Excessive Bright (violin concerto arrangement)

Peter Herresthal (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, James Gaffigan (conductor)

Brussels Festival Musiq3

Mendelssohn: The Hebrides, op. 26, overture in B minor ('Fingal's Cave')

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64

Renaud Capu瀀on (violin), Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, St退phane Den耀ve (conductor)

Granada Festival

Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 in D minor, op. 104

Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Klaus M䀀kel䀀 (conductor)

Performances from Bergen, Brussels and Granada

European Summer Festivals, Week 2, Thursday20210805Ian Skelly presents more recordings from European festivals. Today's focus is on two German festivals, with Nils M怀nkemeyer playing Walton's Viola Concerto in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Plus there's Haydn in Würzburg, Zelenka in Fribourg Switzerland, and more music from the Prague Spring festival.

And we hear another piece by a winner of 2019 BBC Young Composer.

Including:

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival

Marco Hertenstein: Festspiel Overture, for viola and orchestra

Walton: Viola Concerto

Haydn: Symphony No. 99 in E flat, Hob. I:99 ('London')

Nils M怀nkemeyer (viola), NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)

International Sacred Music Festival, Fribourg

Tuma: Stabat Mater

Collegium 1704 and Collegium Vocale 1704, Vကclav Luks (conductor)

Sibelius: En Saga, op. 9

Dvo?ကk: A Hero's Song, op. 111

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, František Macek (conductor)

Performances from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and W\u00fcrzburg

European Summer Festivals, Week 2, Tuesday20210803Ian Skelly continues his round-up of performances from the best European festivals, including Prokofiev and Shostakovich from Verbier, and Pablo Heras-Casado conducting Schubert at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in northern Germany.

Plus, another piece by one of the winners of 2019 BBC Young Composer.

Including:

Verbier Festival

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D, op. 25 ('Classical')

Shostakovich: Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings, Op. 35

Verbier Chambver Festival Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)

Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival

Schubert: Symphony No. 6 in C, D. 589

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)

Solsberg Festival

Kahn: Serenade, op. 73

Andrey Godik (oboe), David Guerrier (horn), Nelson Goerner (piano)

Brussels Festival Musiq3

Anno Schreier : Sinfonia amorosa e giocosa

Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, St退phane Den耀ve (conductor)

Performances from Verbier, Solsberg and northern Germany

European Summer Festivals, Week 2, Wednesday20210804Ian Skelly with more music from European summer festivals, including Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducting South American music at Radio France's festival in Occitanie, and Johannes Moser playing Schumann's cello concerto in Prague.

Including:

Festival Radio France Occitanie

Romero: Fuga con Pajarillo

Revueltas: La noche de los Mayas

Adriana Gonzales (soprano), Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)

Bergen International Festival

Ives: Symphony no. 3 in B flat major, The Camp Meeting

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, James Gaffigan (conductor)

Prague Spring

Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129

Johannes Moser (cello), Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, František Macek (conductor)

Performances from Occitanie and Prague

Eurovision Young Musicians Final20180824Petroc Trelawny and Josie d'Arby present coverage of the final of Eurovision Young Musicians 2018 at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, as six youthful soloists vie for the title. Each finalist performs a concerto movement with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Thomas Dausgaard, and the winner is chosen by a jury of eminent musicians including Sir James MacMillan and Marin Alsop.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The final of Eurovision Young Musicians 2018 from the Usher Hall in Edinburgh.

Faust, By Gounod From Madrid20181227Today's opera matinee is one of the ever-greens of the repertoire. Gounod's Faust is the tale of a man who sells his soul to the Devil in return for power and knowledge. This new production by the Teatro Real in Madrid is a co-production with De Nationale Opera and Ballet of Amsterdam. Starring Piotr Beczala, Luca Pisaroni and Marina Rebeka. Presented by Jonathan Swain

Gounod: Faust

Faust - .. Piotr Beczala (tenor)

M退phistoph退l耀s - .. Luca Pisaroni (bass-baritone)

Marguerite - .. Marina Rebeka (soprano)

Valentin - .. St退phane Degout (baritone)

Wagner - .. Isaac Galကn (baritone)

Si退bel - Serena Malfi (mezzo-soprano)

Marthe Schwertlein - .. Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (mezzo-soprano)

Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra

Dan Ettinger , conductor

2.00pm

Acts 1 and 2

2.50pm

Act 3

3.40pm

Acts 4 and 5

For full synopsis visit programme page

Gounod's Faust starring Piotr Beczala, Luca Pisaroni and Marina Rebeka.

Florence Price's Symphony No 120231030Ian Skelly begins another week of afternoons, featuring the best performances from BBC ensembles and concert halls across Europe.

Today, he introduces the BBC Philharmonic with Joshua Weilerstein conducting Florence Price's Symphony No. 1, also the orchestra in music from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, with conductor Vassily Sinaisky; also this week, Italian music from a golden age of cinema, with the Munich Radio Orchestra. Today, music from 'Cinema Paradiso', by the renowned composer Ennio Morricone. Also, Clara Schumann's Trio in G minor and a Buxtehude's cantata with the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Including,

2pm

Richard Rodney Bennett: Serenade: III. Nocturne. Molto vivace

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

John Wilson, conductor

Florence Price: Fantasie no. 1 in G minor for violin and piano

Randall Goosby, violin

Zhu Wang, piano

Verdi: La Forza del Destino (Overture)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Xian Zhang, conductor

Ennio Morricone:

Infanzia e Maturita, from 'Cinema Paradiso

Viaggio, from 'Stanno tutti bene

Ivan Repusic, conductor

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri - 7 passion cantatas BuxWV.75: no.2; Ad genua

John Mark Ainsley (Tenor); Robin Blaze (Counter-tenor); Giles Underwood (Bass); Phantasm Ensemble; Daniel Hyde, director

3pm

Price: Symphony No. 1

Joshua Weilerstein, conductor

Paganini: Sonata for violin and guitar no. 2 in D major [Centone di sonate]

Gil Shaham, violin

Goran Sollscher, guitar

Clara Schumann: Trio in G minor Op.17 for piano and strings: Allegro moderato

Trio Storioni

Tchaikovsky: Introduction and waltz from 'Eugene Onegin' - lyric scenes in 3 acts (Op.24)

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

Joshua Weilerstein conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Florence Price's Symphony No 1.

Joshua Weilerstein conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Florence Price's Symphony No 1 and music from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. Plus, film music with the Munich Radio Orchestra.

Floridante20090326Handel Operas 2009

Presented by Penny Gore. Her guest is American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, who sings Elmira in Floridante, the latest instalment in Afternoon on 3's Handel Opera Cycle. She may not be the title character, but she's a woman who knows her own mind - and she tells her timid lover Floridante where to get off.

Handel: Floridante

Floridante, Prince of Thrace - Marijana Mijanovic (mezzo-soprano)

Elmira, Princess of Persia - Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)

Rossane, her sister (or is she?) - Sharon Rostorf-Zamir (soprano)

Timante, Prince of Tyre - Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)

Oronte, King of Persia - Vito Priante (bass)

Coralbo, his sidekick - Ricardo Novaro (baritone)

Il Complesso Barocco

Alan Curtis (conductor).

American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato sings Elmira in Floridante.

Francesca Dego Plays Beethoven20230516Penny Gore continues a week of Afternoon Concert featuring the Ulster Orchestra in the 3pm spotlight, in recent recordings from the Ulster Hall, Belfast. Today it's Beethoven's Violin Concerto with soloist Francesca Dego. Plus there's a new recording of Roussel Le festin de l'araign退e from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and part of a concert of Barbara Strozzi given by the Hathor Consort in Antwerp in February.

Including:

Paganini arr Kreisler: La Campanella, arr. for violin & piano [from Violin concerto no.2]

Francesca Dego (violin)

Francesca Leonardi (piano)

Roussel: Le festin de l'araign退e (The Spider's Banquet)

Lionel Bringuier (conductor)

Strozzi: Sospira, respire, Op.6'17

Tradimento, Op.7'9

Claire Lefili tre (soprano)

Doroth退e Mields (soprano)

Romina Lischka (bass viol, artistic leader)

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, fantasy overture after Shakespeare

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Marie Jacquot (conductor)

c.3pm

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

Strozzi: Silentio nocivo, Op.1'16

Cuore che reprime: ardo in tacito foco, Op.3'1

Il Romeo, Op.2'3

Moralita amorosa, Op.3'2

Liberta, Op.1'10

Francesca Caccini Romanesca

c.4pm

Stravinsky: Octet for Winds

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

JS Bach: Chaconne from Partita no.2 in D minor, Op.1004

Leonidas Kavakos (violin)

Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor, FP 61

Lucas Jussen & Arthur Jussen (pianos)

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Francesca Dego, and music by Tchaikovsky and Strozzi.

Franck's Symphony In D Minor20221028Chloe van Soeterstede conducts Franck's orchestral masterpiece; plus music by Debussy, Schubert and Francis Grier

Presented by Penny Gore

In a concert performance recorded in Madrid last year, Chloe van Soeterstede leads the orchestra of Spain's national broadcaster In Cesar Franck's Symphony, written on the grandest scale and full of dynamism and emotion. There's also exquisite music for solo flute by Debussy, music for piano duet by Schubert and a 2012 setting of the mass by English composer Frances Grier

2.00pm

Les eolides

BBC Philharmonic

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Syrinx

Anne Danican Philidor

Sonata in D

Lucie Horsch, recorder

Thomas Dunford, lute

Four Polonaises, D.599

Lucas & Arthur Jussen, piano

3.00

Symphony in D minor, Op.48

RTVE Symphony Orchestra

Chloe van Soeterstede, conductor

Missa Aedis Christi

BBC Singers

James Sherlock, conductor

Chloe van Soeterstede conducts Franck's orchestral masterpiece.

Frank Martin's Le Vin Herbe20190103Frank Martin's chamber opera take on the 'Tristan and Isolde' story - 'Le Vin herb退' is, in every way, a far cry from Wagner, but still in a league of its own; a human oratorio, an intimate and emotional story of love and death.

Frank Martin himself called the piece a chamber opera that is more influenced by Bach than Wagner, even if the background story is the same, a ‘human oratorio'. In spite of the small ensemble and a focus on storytelling rather than dramatization, Martin's setting of the medieval love story is just as strong and gripping. Here, Peter Dijkstra, who is himself a passionate fan of Frank Martin's music, and the Swedish Radio Chorus perform 'Le Vin herb退' in concert version, the immortal drama and the enchanting music.

2pm

Frank Martin - Le Le Vin herb退

Part I: Le Philtre

Part II : La Forꀀt du Morois

Part III : La Mort and Epilogue

Tristan - Marcel Reijans, tenor

Iseult - Johanna Winkel, soprano

Love Derwinger, piano

Members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Peter Dijkstra, conductor

3.45pm

Raminta Serksnyte - Songs of Sunset & Dawn

Lina Dambrauskaite, soprano

Justina Grinyte, mezzo-soprano

Edgaras Montvidas, tenor

Nerijus Masevicius, bass

Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra

Gledre Slekyte, conductor

Raminta Šerkšnyt?'s Songs of Sunset and Dawn is a fusion of thriving neo-romantic sounds and playfully exploratory motifs and techniques. It's a setting of the writings of the Indian and Bengali poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore.

Presented by Tom McKinney

Frank Martin's chamber opera Le Vin herbe performed in Stockholm's Berwaldhallen

Friday, 21st-century European Concert Halls20170303Verity Sharp presents a week of concerts from 21st-century European concert halls.Today's programme includes Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Marzena Diakun conducting the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra from the Philharmonie in Paris.

2pm:

Ives: Symphony No. 4 KV.39

Emil Holmstr怀m (piano)

Helsinki Music Centre Chorus

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchsetra

Conductor Hannu Lintu

c.2:30pm:

Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35

Vilde Frang (violin)

Marzena Diakun (conductor)

c. 3pm:

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Alisa Kolosova (mezzo-soprano)

Christian Elsner (tenor)

Marzena Diakun (conductor).

Verity Sharp with music by Ives, Korngold and Mahler performed in European concert halls.

Friday, Also Sprach Zarathustra20230303Presented by Penny Gore, featuring concert recordings from BBC orchestras and ensembles from around Europe.

Today at 3pm, Finnish conductor Klaus Makela leads the Paris Orchestra in Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra. Known to millions through its use in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as other films and TV shows, Strauss's Nietzsche-inspired tone poem takes us on an astounding musical and philosophical journey. Also today, there's more operatic fayre from the Berlin Philharmonic with tenor Jonas Kaufmann, and Kirill Petrenko conducts the orchestra in the fantasy piece Tchaikovsky was inspired to compose following a journey he made to Rome. Plus, the BBC Philharmonic with the first of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet suites.

Including:

Verdi: Overture to 'La Forza del destino

Orchestra Kirill Petrenko, conductor

R. Strauss: Festival March, Op.1

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conductor

Verdi: La vita 耀 inferno all'infelice from 'La forza del destino

Jonas Kaufmann, tenor

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: Suite no.1 (extracts)

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Giordano: Un di all' azzurro from 'Andrea Chenier

3.00pm

R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30

Klaus Makela, conductor

CPE Bach: Gott hat den Herrn auferwecket, Wq. 244

Hanna Zumsande, soprano

Daniel Johannsen, tenor

Henryk Bohm, bass

Thomanerchor

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Andreas Reise, conductor

Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op.45

Klaus Makela conducts Strauss's epic tone poem.

Friday, American Ensembles And Repertoire20170421Katie Derham introduces a performance of Joaqu퀀n Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez from the Swiss Romande under Alondra de la Parra, with guitar soloist Milos Karadaglic. Then it's the Boston Symphony Orchestra with its newly appointed Principal Conductor Andris Nelsons, who takes to the rostrum for this recording of Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin, followed by Mahler's Symphony No. 6 'Tragic'.

2.00pm

Milos Karadaglic, guitar

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Alondra de la Parra, conductor

2.25pm

The Miraculous Mandarin Suite, Op. 19

Andris Nelsons, conductor

3.05pm

Symphony No. 6 in A minor ('Tragic')

Andris Nelsons, conductor.

Katie Derham features the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

Friday, Andris Nelsons Conducts Shostakovich20220325Violinist Baiba Skride joins Andris Nelsons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's searing Second Violin Concerto; the composer's deceptively light Ninth Symphony is also on the bill of fayre, along with performances by the Freiberg Baroque Orchestra and a rarely heard chamber work by Respighi.

Presented by Ian Skelly

2.00pm

Symphony No.9 in E flat, Op.70

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Lully

Extracts from 'Alceste

Delalande

Troisi耀me Caprice, from 'Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Amandine Beyer, violin / conductor

3.00pm

Violin Concerto No.2 in C sharp minor, Op.129

Baiba Skride, violin

Mozart

Rondo in A minor, K.511

Mariam Batsashvili, piano

Quartet in D

Escher String Quartet

Violinist Baiba Skride performs Shostakovich with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Friday, Bach's St John Passion20230407On Good Friday, Penny Gore introduces a recent live performance of JS Bach's St John Passion by the Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Arcangelo Chorus and a cast lead by tenor Samuel Boden in the role of the Evangelist, under the baton of Topi Lehtipuu.

Also this afternoon, Byrd's motet Ave Verum with The Sixteen, and Jiri Belohlavek conducts part of Martinu's 4th Symphony with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Byrd: Ave verum

Harry Christophers, director

Martinu: Symphony no. 4: 1st mvt; Poco Moderato

Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

2:15pm

JS Bach: St John Passion

Samuel Boden, tenor, Evangelist

Aarne Pelkonen, baritone, Jesus

Sandrine Piau, soprano

Elmar Hauser, countertenor

Robin Tritschler, tenor

Tomi Punkeri, bass

Topi Lehtipuu, conductor

Bach's St John Passion with the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and Arcangelo Chorus.

Friday, Bbc Concert Orchestra20170609Katie Derham presents recent recordings from the BBC Concert Orchestra, including the original version of Walton's Violin Concerto and Sullivan's music for Macbeth with actor Simon Callow.

2pm

Sullivan: Incidental music for Macbeth

Simon Callow (actor)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor John Andrews

c.2.55pm

Hubert Clifford: Suite frorm the film 'Hunted

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp

c.3.10pm

Walton: Violin Concerto (original version, 1939)

Lorraine McAslan (violin)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates

c.3.40pm

Dvorak: Symphony No 7 in D minor

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Jaime Martin.

The BBC Concert Orchestra performs music by Sullivan, Hubert Clifford, Walton and Dvorak.

Friday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20170310Katie Derham concludes her series of British music in a week also celebrating International Women's Day (Wednesday) with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Dobrinka Tabakova pays homage to Schubert and there's another chance to hear Lynne Plowman's Blue - which won the BBC NOW Young Composers Competition back in 1995. Bliss explores the associations of heraldic colours in his symphony, and Vaughan Williams adds the delicate sounds of a wordless chorus to orchestral strings in his brilliantly original viola concerto. Steve Martland and Graham Fitkin add energy and rhythmic brilliance from a recent concert series championing bold composers of recent years, 'Great Brits'.

c.2pm

Dobrinka Tabakova: Fantasy Homage to Schubert

Clark Rundell, conductor

c.2.10pm

Martland: Crossing the Border

Edwin Outwater, conductor

c.2.40pm

Graham Fitkin: Intimate Curve

c.3pm

Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi

Lawrence Power, viola

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

c.3.25pm

Bliss: A Colour Symphony

Richard Hickox, conductor

c.3.55pm

Lynne Plowman: Blue

Martyn Brabbins, conductor.

BBC NOW in music by Tabakova, Martland, Fitkin, Vaughan Williams, Bliss and Lynne Plowman.

Friday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20170623Verity Sharp concludes the week introducing the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a live concert from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff with music by Bartok, Prokofiev and Korngold.

2pm

Bartok: Hungarian Sketches, Sz.97

B Tommy Andersson (conductor)

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op.26

Beatrice Rana (piano)

c.2.50pm

Interval Music:

B Tommy Andersson: Pan

David Goode (organ)

BBC NOW

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

c.3.15pm LIVE

Korngold Symphony in F sharp, Op.40

c.3.55pm

Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches

Andrew Constantine (conductor).

Live at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, BBC NOW in Bartok, Prokofiev, Korngold and Chadwick

Friday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales In Afternoon Concert20180126Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. We hear the collaborative concert from the recent Association of British Orchestras conference in Cardiff, at which both the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera performed. Plus Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues, and we hear the fruits of the Orchestra's Beethoven Symphony Cycle recorded during a recent tour of North Wales with Principal Guest conductor Xian Zhang.

2pm

R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite

Welsh National Opera Orchestra

Tomas Hanus (conductor)

c. 2.50pm

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

c. 3.40pm

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini - symphonic fantasia after Dante, Op 32

Xian Zhang (conductor)

c. 4.15pm

Beethoven: Symphony No.6 in F major, Op 68, 'Pastoral

Xian Zhang (conductor).

Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC NOW.

Friday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live At Hoddinott Hall20170929Nicola Heywood Thomas introduces the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, live from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff in a programme of French tone poems as part of Afternoon on 3's tone poem theme. We'll hear Franck, Honegger and d'Indy all inspired by mountains. Plus Peter Moore joins the orchestra for pieces for trombone and orchestra by Takemitsu and Milhaud. Then back to the studio with Penny Gore for music by Johann Strauss II.

2pm - LIVE from Hoddinott Hall, presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas

Franck: Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, po耀me symphonique d'apr耀s Victor Hugo, Op.13 (1847)

Takemitsu: Fantasma Cantos II for trombone and orchestra (1994)

c.3.10

Milhaud: Concertino d'hiver for trombone and strings, Op.327 (1953)

Honegger: Pastorale d'退t退 (1921)

d'Indy: Jour d'退t退

Friday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live From Cardiff20171020Nicola Heyward Thomas introduces the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, live from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. Baritone Ashley Riches sings Russian repertoire, and the orchestra celebrates Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme with a programme dedicated to the form, and examples by Shostakovich, Scriabin and Liszt. Then it's back to the studio with Penny Gore for Sibelius's Fifth Symphony and another tone poem - Richard Arnell's portrait of Lord Byron.

2pm

Live from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, presented by Nicola Heyward Thomas.

Shostakovich: October - symphonic poem, Op.131

Musorgsky: Songs and dances of death (orch Denisov)

Musorgsky: Song of the Flea (orch Stravinsky)

Interval music

c.3pm

Liszt: Mazeppa - symphonic poem after Hugo, S.100

Scriabin: Le Poeme de l'extase, Op.54

Ashley Riches (baritone)

Robert Spano (conductor)

c.3.50pm back to the studio with Penny Gore

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op.82

Sibelius: Valse Triste (Kuolema)

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

c.4.25pm

Arnell: Lord Byron - a Symphonic Portrait

Martin Yates (conductor).

Friday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live From Hoddinott Hall20180413From the band's beginnings as the Western Studio Orchestra in the Assembly Rooms Cardiff's City Hall, through the orchestra's adventurous tour in what was, then, East Germany, to its enduring three decade-long partnership with Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka, we celebrate the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th Anniversary with a week of Afternoon Concerts that explore the orchestra's role in Welsh musical life and beyond.

Concluding a week of concerts, Nicola Heywood Thomas presents a live performance from the orchestra's home in Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, with the pianist Llyr Williams in Mozart - a composer also featured in our first ever concert in 1928. Bruch was also on that inaugural programme 90 years ago, and returns in a performance of his double concerto by BBC New Generation Artist, the viola player Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad, and the clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe. Marking the orchestra's relationship with the welsh composer William Mathias, conductor Grant Llewellyn returns to a work he first premiered under the composer's watchful eye back in 1991 - his Symphony No. 3.

Huw Watkins - 3 Welsh songs for String Orchestra

Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major K.482

Bruch - Double Concerto for Clarinet and Viola in E minor

Mathias - Symphony No. 3

Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad (viola)

Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)

Llyr Williams (piano)

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

And at 3.50pm

Kate Molleson continues this week's focus on the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th anniversary by marking band's relationship with associated composers, including a work written by Daniel Jones for Ken Thomas - the former General Secretary of the Civil and Public Services Association - as a retirement gift. Plus we hear Principal Conductor Thomas Sondergard conduct B Tommy Andersson's memoriam to Richard Wagner.

Daniel Jones - Cloud Messenger for orchestra

BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra

Arwell Hughes (conductor)

Andersson - Death in Venice (Richard Wagner Memoriam)

Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

Kate Molleson celebrates the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th anniversary.

Friday, Bbc Now And Bbc So Live20211210This week features live and recent concerts from the BBC performing groups, and the week concludes with two live concerts. First to Hoddinott Hall for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to perform a world premiere by Sarah Lianna Lewis, Woolrich's Viola Concerto with New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout and Ravel's sumptuous Mother Goose ballet. Then to Maida Vale in London for the BBC Symphony Orchestra's live concert, including Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with New Generation Artist Tom Borrow, and Sibelius's Symphony no.6.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2pm

BBC NOW - Live from Hoddinott Hall

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas

Sarah Lianna Lewis: Creature of Dust and Dreams (WP)

Woolrich: Viola Concerto

Ravel: Mother Goose - ballet

Timothy Ridout (viola)

Finnegan Downie Dear (conductor)

3.30pm

BBC Symphony Orchestra - Live from Maida Vale

Beethoven: Piano Concerto no.5 in E flat major, Op.75 ‘Emperor

Sibelius: Symphony no.6 in D minor, Op.74

Tom Borrow (piano)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Live performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Friday, Bbc Now Live From Bbc Hoddinott Hall In Cardiff20170407A live concert from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff.

With Radio 3 in Hull for its Uproot folk festival, Jun M䀀rkl conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in pieces by Debussy, Saint-Sa뀀ns and Ravel that were part of the French orientalist movement - an early manifestation of an interest in world music.

Nicola Heywood Thomas presents.

2pm - LIVE from Hoddinott Hall

Debussy: 6 Epigraphes antiques, orch. Ansermet

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op.103, 'Egyptian

Ravel: Sh退h退razade - ouverture de f退erie

Debussy: Khamma - legende dans退e, orch. Debussy & Koechlin

Louis Schwizgebel (piano)

Jun M䀀rkl (conductor)

4pm

Followed by Catriona Young rounding off a week of performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

A live concert from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Friday, Bbc Philharmonic20170616Penny Gore presents more American orchestral music from the BBC Philharmonic. In today's programme the orchestra performs works by George Antheil, Aaron Copland and John Harbison. Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor joins the orchestra for Saint-Sa뀀ns's second piano concerto.

2.30pm

Symphony No 4

BBC Philharmonic, John Storgards (conductor)

c.3.05pm

Orchestral Variations

BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (conductor)

Music for Eighteen Winds (UK premiere)

BBC Philharmonic, Clark Rundell (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 22

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon (conductor)

c.3.55pm

Debussy

La mer - 3 symphonic sketches for orchestra

BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon (conductor).

The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Antheil, Copland, Harbison, Saint-Saens and Debussy

Friday, Bbc Philharmonic20171208Tom Redmond introduces today's concert from the BBC Philharmonic, featuring music by Stravinsky as well as a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Michael Seal conducts the orchestra in Bantock's tone poem 'Fifine at the Fair', and Mark Simpson performs Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto.

2pm:

Stravinsky: Apollo

Sibelius: Six Humoresques

Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67

James Ehnes (violin)

Nicholas Collon (conductor)

c.3.40pm:

Magnus Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto

Mark Simpson (clarinet)

HK Gruber (conductor)

c.4.10pm:

Stravinsky: Concerto in D major for strings

Lee Reynolds (conductor)

c.4.25pm:

Bantock: Fifine at the Fair

Michael Seal (conductor).

Tom Redmond introduces a concert of music by Stravinsky, Sibelius and Beethoven.

Friday, Bbc Philharmonic20180112Tom Redmond introduces performances from the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Joshua Weilerstein, Nicholas Collon, Leo Hussain, Edward Gardner and Manoj Kamps.

c.2pm:

Bach arr. Webern: Ricercare a 6 (from 'The Musical Offering')

Beethoven: Overture Leonora No 3

Debussy: Prelude a l'apr退s-midi d'un faune

Smyth: On the Cliffs of Cornwall (Prelude to Act II, 'The Wreckers')

Ives orch. Schuman: Variations on 'America

John Luther Adams: The Light that Fills the World

Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)

c.3.15pm:

Stravinsky: Apollo

Nicholas Collon (conductor)

c.3.45pm:

Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 1

Alina Ibragimova (violin)

Leo Hussain (conductor)

c.4.10pm:

Berg: Lulu - Symphonic Pieces

Marie Arnet (soprano)

Edward Gardner (conductor)

c.4.40pm:

Holst: Egdon Heath

Manoj Kamps (conductor).

Tom Redmond introduces more performances from the BBC Philharmonic.

Friday, Bbc Philharmonic20180316Kate Molleson concludes a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic, including Kathryn Stott as the soloist in Rachmaninov's first piano concerto, and Sibelius's first symphony.

c.2pm:

Elgar: Overture, Cockaigne

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor, Op 1

Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in E minor, Op 39

Kathryn Stott (piano)

Andrew Davis (conductor)

c.3.20pm:

Elgar: The Pipes of Pan

Roderick Williams (baritone)

c.3.25pm:

Berlioz: Overture, Le carnaval romain

Andrew Litton (conductor)

c.3.35pm:

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 19

Martin Roscoe (piano)

John Storgards (conductor)

c.4.10pm:

Tchaikovksy: Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36

Juanjo Mena (conductor).

Kate Molleson concludes a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic.

Friday, Bbc Philharmonic20180420Tom Redmond concludes a week of performances from the BBC Philharmonic. Today's concert features Britten's Violin Concerto with soloist Julia Fischer, and Elgar's second symphony.

2pm:

Weber - Overture, Euryanthe

Britten - Violin Concerto

Elgar - Symphony no 2

Julia Fischer (violin)

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c.3.40pm:

Vaughan Williams - The Wasps, Overture

c.3.55pm:

Messiaen - Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

Clark Rundell (conductor).

Friday, Bbc Philharmonic20180629Tom McKinney concludes a week of performances from the orchestra, including Korngold's Violin Concerto with soloist Andrew Haveron, and Vaughan Williams' fifth symphony.

2pm:

Copland - Suite, Appalachian Spring

Korngold - Violin Concerto in D major Op 35

Vaughan Williams - Symphony no 5 in D major

Andrew Haveron (violin)

BBC Philharmonic

John Wilson (conductor)

c.3.30pm:

Copland - Connotations

c.3.50pm:

Dvorကk - Slavonic Rhapsody in G minor Op 45 no 2

Frederic Chaslin (conductor)

c.4.05pm:

Arriaga - Overture in D

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c.4.15pm:

Carmen (selection from the suites)

Ben Gernon (conductor)

c.4.45pm:

Roussel - Pour une Fꀀte de printemps

Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).

Tom McKinney concludes a week of performances from the BBC Philharmonic.

Friday, Bbc Philharmonic Live At Mediacityuk, Salford20210618Jac van Steen conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a live performance of music by Theo Verbey, Copland & Janacek, with oboist Tim Blomfield and soprano Sophie Bevan.

Following the live concert, Tom McKinney introduces more of the orchestra's recent recordings of Hindemith, Tchaikovsky, Britten, Sibelius and a euphonium concerto by Paul Mealor.

Theo Verbey - Notturno (UK premiere)

Aaron Copland - Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson

Leos Janacek - Idyll

Tim Blomfleid (oboe)

Sophie Bevan (soprano)

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Tchaikovsky - Hamlet: Entr'acte, Act III

Ben Gernon (conductor)

Hindemith - Der Schwanendreher

Timothy Ridout (viola)

John Storg倀rds (conductor)

Sibelius - Romance in C , Op.42

Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor)

Britten - Russian Funeral

BBC Philharmonic brass and percussion

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Sibelius - Scene with cranes, Op.44 No.2

Paul Mealor - Euphonium Concerto (first broadcast performance)

David Childs (euphonium)

Jac van Steen conducts BBC Philharmonic in a live performance of Verbey, Copland & Janacek

Friday, Bbc Philharmonic Live From Bridgewater Hall20170414Penny Gore presents a performance Bach's St Matthew Passion with the BBC Philharmonic under Nicholas Kraemer, live from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall

Bach's St. Matthew Passion was first performed on Good Friday in 1727. Nearly 300 years later, this rich and profoundly personal masterpiece retains its place as the one of the greatest Easter works in the repertoire. With gripping drama, it tells the story of Christ's last days including the last supper, his betrayal, crucifixion and burial

2.00pm

Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV.244 (sung in German)

Nicholas Mulroy, tenor - Evangelist

Matthew Hargreaves, bass-baritone - Christus

Lina Johnson, soprano

Marianne Beate Kielland, mezzo-soprano

Andrew Tortise, tenor

Benjamin Bevan, baritone

Manchester Chamber Choir

Kinder Children's Choir

Nicholas Kraemer, conductor.

Live from Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Penny Gore presents Bach's St Matthew Passion.

Friday, Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford20171013Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic at MediaCityUK in Salford, featuring a complete performance of Smetana's 'Ma vlast' - part of Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme. Plus performances of Sibelius's first symphony and Elgar's Falstaff.

2pm

Smetana: Ma vlast

Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

c. 3.25pm

Sibelius: Symphony No 1

Jamie Phillips (conductor)

c. 4pm

Nicola LeFanu: Wind-blown seeds

Clark Rundell (conductor)

c. 4.20pm

Elgar: Falstaff

Sir Andrew Davis (conductor).

Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic at MediaCityUK in Salford.

Friday, Bbc Philharmonic On Tour20170630Penny Gore concludes a week of performances from the orchestra on tour in Spain, Austria, Germany and China.

Today, Julia Fischer joins the orchestra for Britten's Violin Concerto in Stuttgart, and Juanjo Mena conducts Elgar's Second Symphony in Innsbruck. Plus, as part of Radio 3's Canada 150 celebrations, a performance of Chris Meyer's Hope, performed by the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.

2pm

Violin Concerto, Op 15

Julia Fischer (violin), BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c.2.35pm

Tchaikovsky

Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36

c.3.20pm

Symphony No 2 in E flat major, Op 63

c.4.15pm

Hope (NYO of Canada commission)

Perry So (conductor).

The BBC Philharmonic performs Britten, Tchaikovsky and Elgar in Germany.

Friday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20170505Catriona Young concludes her week of performances and recordings by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with a Beethoven theme across the week. Today's programme includes a concert the orchestra gave at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, including Dvorak's 6th Symphony. Plus today's piece of Beethoven is his Pastoral Symphony.

2pm

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op.68 (Pastoral)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

c.2.40pm

Tippett: Ritual Dances from 'The Midsummer Marriage

Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op.26

Daniel Hope (violin)

c.3.30pm

Dvorak: Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op.60

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor).

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Beethoven, Tippett, Bruch and Dvorak

Friday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20170526Katie Derham completes her week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with new recordings of music by neglected British composers Erik Chisholm and William Sterndale Bennett. Plus a concert the orchestra gave in Aberdeen, comprising Sibelius's Violin Concerto, with Alexandra Soumm as soloist, and Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony.

2pm

Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op.9

Howard Shelley (piano/director)

c.2.30pm

Glinka: Ruslan i Lyudmila - Overture

Sibelius Concerto in D minor Op.47 for violin and orchestra

c.3.10pm

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op.36

Alexandra Soumm (violin)

Ben Gernon (conductor)

c.3.50pm

Chisholm: Dance Suite for piano and orchestra

Danny Driver (piano)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

The BBC SSO performs music by WS Bennett, Glinka, Sibelius Tchaikovsky and Chisholm.

Friday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20170922The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Walton, plus Rachmaninov's second piano concerto

Presented by Verity Sharp

2.00pm

Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor, Op.18

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op.35

Vadym Kholodenko, piano

Ilan Volkov, conductor

3.40pm

Walton: Violin Concerto in B minor

Anthony Marwood, violin

Martyn Brabbins, conductor.

Verity Sharp with pieces by Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov and Walton.

Friday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20171124Ian Skelly presents performances given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. This afternoon's 2pm concert, recorded in Inverness, features orchestral masterpieces by 19th-century composers: Brahms's Haydn Variations, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Strauss's tone poem Aus Italien. Then, music by Bohemian composers: Dvorak's overture to his little-known opera Vanda opens this concert, which also includes Janacek's Suite for Strings, and Dvorak's folk-tale inspired The Wild Dove, reflecting Afternoon Concert's continuing exploration of the romantic tone poem. Plus Messiaen's L'Ascension, four meditations on the Ascension of Christ.

Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op.56a

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64

Strauss: Aus Italien, Op.16

Kristof Barati (violin)

Christoph K怀nig (conductor)

c. 3.30pm

Dvorak: Vanda - overture

Janacek: Suite for Strings

Dvorak: The Wild Dove

Rory Macdonald (conductor)

c.4.30pm

Messiaen: L'Ascension

Duncan Ward (conductor).

Ian Skelly presents concert performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Friday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20180427Georgia Mann concludes her week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme begins with a concert which combined Bartok's folk influenced music with contributions from folk musicians, singer N ri Kovကcs and Parapကcs. This was followed by Bartok's Music for strings, percussion and celesta. Plus more from two new recordings which have been featured across the week.

2pm

Bartok Romanian folk dances Sz.68, orch. from Sz.56 [orig. for piano] (including Hungarian folk music mixed in)

Bartok 15 Hungarian Peasant songs, Sz.71 (including Hungarian folk music mixed in)

Bartok Hungarian sketches Sz.97 for orchestra [from own piano works]

13'08 (including Hungarian folk music mixed in)

Bartok Transylvanian Dances, Sz.96 (including Hungarian folk music mixed in)

Bartok Music for strings, percussion and celesta Sz.106

N ri Kovကcs (singer)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Rheinberger Concerto in A flat major Op.94 for piano and orchestra

Simon Callaghan (piano)

Ben Gernon (conductor)

Corea Children's songs, arr. saxophone and Orchestra [orig. for piano]

Tommy Smith (saxophone)

Clark Rundell (conductor).

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Bartok.

Friday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20180518Penny Gore presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, directed from the violin by their Leader Laura Samuel, in music by Mozart, Bridge & Benjamin Britten. Plus Beethoven's rousing Eroica symphony to round off the week.

2pm

Mozart: Serenade in G major K.525 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)

Britten: Les Illuminations Op.18 for voice and string orchestra

Bridge: 3 Idylls for string quartet, arr Hindmarsh for strings

Mozart: Symphony no. 41 in C major K.551 (Jupiter)

Laura Samuel (violin & director)

Claire Booth (soprano)

c.4.05pm

Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 in E flat major Op.55 (Eroica)

Ilan Volkov (conductor).

Penny Gore presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performing Mozart Bridge & Britten

Friday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20210319This week's performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra concludes with music by Ravel: La Valse, Une Barque sur l'ocean and the Piano Concerto in G major. Plus Unsuk Chin's music from Alice in Wonderland, Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, and Korngold's Symphony in F sharp.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

2pm

Ravel La Valse - choreographic poem for orchestra

Chin Snags and snarls - suite from 'Alice in Wonderland' for soprano, mezzo and orchestra

Ravel Une Barque sur l'ocean, orch. from no.3 of 'Miroirs

Rachmaninov 3 Symphonic dances Op.45 for orchestra

Yeree Suh, soprano

Ilan Volkov, conductor

c.3.10pm

Ravel Piano concerto in G major

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

c.3.30pm

Korngold Symphony in F sharp Op.40

John Wilson, conductor

With music by Ravel, Unsuk Chin, Rachmaninov and Korngold.

Friday, Bbc Singers And Bbc Symphony Orchestra20170714Catriona Young introduces a concert given by the BBC Singers at Milton Court in London earlier this month, conducted by Eric Whitacre, as well as music from the BBC Symphony Orchestra in tribute to former Chief Conductor Jiri Belohlavek who died last month.

Vitezslav Novak: About the eternal longing Op.33 - tone-poem after Hans Andersen

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

2:20pm

Eric Whitacre: I carry your heart with me

John Mackey: The Rumour of a Secret King

Jonathan Newman: Agnus Dei

Steven Bryant: In Aeternum

Eriks Esenvalds: Stars

Sarah Hopkins: Past Life Melodies

Eric Whitacre: Three Flower Songs

John Powell: Requiem Addendum

Eric Whitacre: Enjoy the Silence

Eric Whitacre (conductor)

Recorded earlier this month at Milton Court, Barbican, London

3:30pm

Ralph Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

BBC SO in Novak and Vaughan Williams. Plus BBC Singers: Eric Whitacre and John Mackey.

Friday, Bbc Singers And Symphony Orchestra At The Bbc Proms Dubai20170331Katie Derham ends a week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers at the BBC Proms Dubai

Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in the Dubai Opera House for a concert of music by Shostakovich, Debussy and Saint-Sa뀀ns recorded last week during the orchestra's visit to Dubai.

2.00pm

Shostakovich: Festive Overture, Op.96

Edward Gardner (conductor)

2.09pm

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op.22

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

2.32pm

Debussy: La Mer

2.55pm

Handel: Zadok the Priest

3.03pm

Joseph Tawadros (arranged by Jules Buckley): Eye of the Beholder; Permission to Evaporate; Constantinople

Joseph Tawadros (ud and percussion)

3.20pm

Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs

3.28pm

Arne (arr. Sargent): Rule, Britannia

3.33pm

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 in D major;

4.00pm

Katie Derham continues the afternoon with more performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Judith Weir: The Welcome Arrival of Rain

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

Music by Shostakovich, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Handel, Tawadros, Wood, Arne, Elgar and Weir.

Friday, Bbc Symphony Orchestra20180216Kate Molleson rounds off her week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers with a concert the orchestra gave last week at the Barbican, London. James Feddeck conducted Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and Javier Perianes joined them for Ravel's G major Piano Concerto. Plus a recording of Szymanowski's 2nd Violin Concerto with Tasmin Little, and Esa-Pekka Salonen's Karawane with the BBC Symphony Chorus.

2pm

Barber: Symphony No 1, Op 9

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

George Walker: Icarus in Orbit

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch.Ravel)

Javier Perianes (piano)

James Feddeck (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden

Tenebrae

Nigel Short (conductor)

c.3.45pm

Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 2

Tasmin Little (violin)

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Bernstein: Touches - Chorale, Eight Variations and Coda for piano

piano tba

c.4.20pm

Esa-Pekka Salonen: Karawane

Sakari Oramo (conductor).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Ravel and Mussogsky at the Barbican, London.

Friday, Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers20170519Music by Suk, Beethoven and a modern take on the four seasons from Roxanna Panufnik, her 'Four World Seasons', played by violinist Tasmin Little

Presented by Katie Derham

2.00pm

Suk: Prague, Op.26

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

2.25pm

Detlev Glanert: Megaris

BBC Singers

Sakari Oramo, conductor

2.50pm

Beethoven: Symphony No.5

3.20pm

Roxanna Panufnik: Four World Seasons

Tasmin Little, violin/director

3.40pm

Martinu: Symphony No.4

Jiri Belohlavek, conductor.

BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Suk, Glanert, Beethoven, Roxanna Panufnik and Martinu.

Friday, Beethoven's Choral Symphony20211112Penny Gore presents a selection of music from the BBC performing groups and European Broadcasting Union. Today features Beethoven's mighty Ninth Symphony conducted by Jordi Savall, this week's featured artist who has turned 80 this year. Plus today's Mozart concerto - the third violin concerto performed by Liza Ferschtman - and English music by Vaughan Williams and Britten.

Presented by Penny Gore

c.2pm

Mozart: Violin Concerto 3 in G major, K.216

Liza Ferschtman (violin)

Residentie Orkest The Hague

Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus

Ulster Orchestra

Jac van Steen (conductor)

c.3pm

Beethoven: Symphony no.9 in D minor, Op.125 ‘Choral

Sara Gouzy (soprano)

Laila Salome Fischer (mezzo-soprano)

Benedikt Kristjansson (tenor)

Manuel Walser (baritone)

Vox Bona

Les Concert des Nations

Jordi Savall (conductor)

c.4.00

Britten Lachrymae

Scott Dickinson (viola)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Music by Beethoven, Mozart, Vaughan WIlliams and Britten.

Friday, Brahms's Fourth Symphony20230217Ian Skelly introduces an afternoon of concert performances by BBC ensembles and orchestras from across the globe.

Today, at 3pm, a week of Brahms concludes with his Symphony No 4, with the KBS Symphony Orchestra and conductor Christoph Eschenbach. Also, Nimrod from Elgar's Enigma Variations with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol with the BBC Philharmonic, piano music by Lili Boulanger played by Alexandra Dariescu, and more sacred music by Andrea Gabrieli with the period ensemble Concerto Palatino.

Including:

Brahms: Hungarian Dance No 1 in G minor

Christoph Eschenbach, conductor

Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma') Op 36, Variation 9; Nimrod

Andrew Davis, conductor

Handel: Lascia ch'io pianga, from 'Rinaldo' (arr. for oboe d'amore)

Albrecht Mayer, oboe d‘amore

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Francois-Xavier Roth, conductor

Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op 34

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet

Ensemble Wien-Berlin

Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98

Lili Boulanger: Prelude and Trois morceaux

Alexandra Dariescu, piano

Andrea Gabrieli: The Penitential Psalms of David

[including: Beati quorum remissae sunt, a 6 (prima pars); Delictum meum (secunda pars); Tu es refugium meum (tertia pars); In camo et fraeno maxillas eorum (quarta pars)]

Bruce Dickey, cornetto & leader

Christoph Eschenbach conducts Brahms Symphony No 4 and music by Elgar and Lili Boulanger.

Friday, Bruch For Two Pianos20220311Strauss and Bruch from Seoul, as well as more from the Bach Family with the Controcorrente Orchestra.

Presented by Penny Gore

We've two different looks at J.S. Bach - music by him and his sons on period instruments, as well as the second part of a big band arrangement of his Goldberg Variations. Max Bruch's Concerto for two pianos, with its achingly beautiful slow movement, is also on the bill of fayre as well as the suite from Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier.

Roderick Williams

Ave verum corpus

BBC Singers

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

Bach arr. Bill Dobbins

The Goldberg Project, Part 2

WDR Big Band Cologne

J怀rg Achim Keller, leader

Johann Sebastian Bach

Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, BWV 1049

Alfia Bakieva, violin

Emiliano Rodolfi, recorder

Alessandro Naasello, recorder

3.00pm

Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in A flat minor, op. 88a

Suite from 'Der Rosenkavalier

Minsoo Sohn, piano

Jiyeong Mun, piano

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Sascha Goetzel, conductor

Johann Christian Bach

Sinfonia in G minor, op. 6/6

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Concerto in F for two harpsichords, Wq.46

Andreas Staier, harpsichord

Luca Quintavalle, harpsichord

Strauss and Bruck from Seoul, as well as more from the Bach family.

Friday, Capu\u00e7on Plays More Mozart20220624We close a week of programmes celebrating French violinist Renaud Capu瀀on with him joined by compatriot Gerard Causse in Mozart's sublime Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola. There's more from the London International Festival of Early Music and we pay our final visit to composer Judith Bingham's 70th birthday concert

Presented by Ian Skelly

2.00pm

Purcell

I was glad, Z.19

Remember not, Lord, our offences, Z.50

Ensemble Pro Victoria

Vaughan Williams

Valiant for Truth

Unpredictable but providential

BBC Singers

Owain Park

Dieupart

Suite No.5 in F

Elizabeth Kenny, lute

Laurence Cummings, harpsichord

Antal Dorati

Duo concertante

Francois Leleux, oboe

Emmanuel Strosser, piano

3.00pm

Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K.364

Gerard Causse, viola

Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

Renaud Capu瀀on, violin and conductor

Caresana

La veglia

L'Arpeggiata

Christina Pluhar, director

Reubke

Organ Sonata in C minor on Psalm 94

Nathan Laube, organ of Saint Wenceslas Cathedral, Olomouc

Renaud Capu\u00e7on and Gerard Causse play Mozart's Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola.

Friday, Concerts From Switzerland20170512Verity Sharp introduces concerts recorded recently in Switzerland. First, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, conducted by J退r退mie Rhorer, performs Mozart's Symphony 40 in G minor. The afternoon continues with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, under Sir Roger Norrington, playing Haydn's Symphonies 83 and 103, but in between them, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 with Franceso Piemontesi as soloist. And to end the afternoon, Tubin's Estonian Dance Suite, again with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, this time under the baton of Anu Tali.

2.00pm

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550

J退r退mie Rhorer, conductor

2.25pm

Haydn: Symphony No. 83 in G minor, Hob. I:83 ('La Poule')

Sir Roger Norrington, conductor

2.56pm

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37

Francesco Piemontesi, piano

3.30pm

Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in E flat, Hob. I:103 ('Drumroll')

4.01pm

Tubin: Estonian Dance Suite

Anu Tali, conductor.

Verity Sharp introduces a programme including music by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.

Friday, Cpe Bach's Magnificat20230630Penny Gore rounds off another week of recordings from around Europe and from the BBC performing groups.

Today, son and father feature, as Penny introduces a recording of CPE Bach's Magnificat, featuring Netherlands Bach Society under the direction of violinist Shunsuke Sato. Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Vကclav Luks play Bach's Third Orchestral Suite. Steven Osborne is the soloist with the BBC Philharmonic in Ravel's jazz and folk-influenced Piano Concerto, while the BBC Singers bring music by Isaac Hirshow to the mix. Today's featured Dutch composer is Alphons Diepenbrock, and Penny also has a symphony once thought to be the work of Beethoven, but now believed to be the work of one Friedrich Witt.

Including:

Ravel: Piano concerto in G major

Steven Osborne, piano

John Wilson, conductor

Isaac Hirshow: Kol Goyin

Paul Brough, conductor

Diepenbrock: The Birds - overture

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Riccardo Chailly, conductor

c. 3pm

CPE Bach: Magnificat, Wq 215

Kristen Witmer, soprano

Reginald Mobley, alto

Marcel Beekman, tenor

Felix Schwandtke, bass

Shunsuke Sato, director

JS Bach: Orchestral suite No 3 in D major, BWV 1068

Vကclav Luks, conductor

c. 4pm

Friedrich Witt: Symphony No 14 in C major (Jena)

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Gottfried von der Goltz, conductor

The Netherlands Bach Society perform CPE Bach's Magnificat.

Friday, Dalia Stasevska And The Bbc So20220722Presented by Ian Skelly, featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra's recent Prom with conductor Dalia Stasevska, performing music from Iceland and Russia, pairing J hann J hannsson's atmospheric reworkings of Durham miners' songs with Rachmaninov's popular Second Piano Concerto, and Hildur Gu
Friday, Elena Urioste Plays Barber20220304With Ian Skelly. Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Barber's romantic Violin Concerto with Elena Urioste, and the orchestra return with Anja Bihlmaier with Dvorak's Seventh Symphony. Plus music from a Mediterranean themed concert given at the Resonanzen Festival in Vienna, and more new recordings from the BBC Singers with David Hill.

Including:

Gerhard: Alegrias - suite from the flamenco ballet

BBC Philharmonic,

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Alleoti: Angelus ad pastores

Janet Wheeler: I heard a voice

David Hill (conductor)

Britten: Simple Symphony

John Storgards (conductor)

c. 3pm

Barber: Violin Concerto Op.14

Elena Urioste (violin)

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

Nostalgia - Meer der Erinnerungen' (Sea of Memories)

Including music by Rossi and Murcia

Nihan Devecioglu, voice

Xavier Diaz-Latorre, theorbo, baroque guitar

Friederike Heumann, viola da gamba, lirone

Dvorak: Symphony No.7

Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC SO and Elena Urioste in Barber's Violin Concerto.

Friday, European Concert Showcase20171201Tom McKinney presents the last of this week's selection of concerts from across Europe, celebrating 50 years of the European Broadcasting Union's music exchange - a swapping service between European broadcasters. Today's main concert is from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, with Daniele Gatti conducting Beethoven and Brahms. Plus a final visit to the Prague Spring International Music Festival with the Orchestre de Paris in Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

2pm:

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op 61

Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68

Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)

conductor Daniele Gatti

c.3.30pm:

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No 2

Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne

Mussorgsky, orch Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano

conductor Thomas Hengelbrock.

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Orchestre de Paris play Beethoven and Mussorgsky

Friday, Farrenc's Third Symphony20230317Fiona Talkington rounds off this week's focus on new recordings form the Ulster Orchestra, plus chamber and orchestral concert performances from around Europe.

Today, Manoj Kamps conducts the Ulster Orchestra in the third of Louise Farrenc's symphonies and Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, with soloist Steven Osborne. Also this afternoon, violinist Leonidas Kavakos plays Stravinsky in Berlin, and the trumpet-piano duo of Simon H怀fele and Frank Dupree present music by Enescu, Weill and Elvis Costello.

Including:

Handel: Concerto grosso in D, op. 6/5, HWV 323

G怀teborg Baroque

Magnus Kjellson, director

Enescu: L退gende

Simon H怀fele, trumpet

Frank Dupree, piano

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D major

Leonidas Kavakos, violin

German Symphony Orchestra

Robin Ticciati, conductor

Weill: Slow Fox and Algi-Song

3.00

Farrenc: Symphony No.3 in G Minor, Op.36

Manoj Kamps, conductor

Schütz Singet dem Herr ein neues Lied a 8 SWV 35 (Psalm 98)

RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin

Ensemble Promena

Justin Doyle, conductor

Moeran: Rhapsody No.2 in E major

Bryden Thomson, conductor

Elvis Costello: Almost Blue

4.00

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

Steven Osborne, piano

The Ulster Orchestra play Louise Farrenc.

Friday, Gran Partita20220401Tom McKinney rounds off the week of Afternoon Concerts with more from this week's featured BBC performing groups, the Ulster Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, playing music today by the Welsh composer Grace Williams. There are more performances from the Darmstadt Baroque Soloists and the Dresden Philharmonic perform Mozart's great Serenade No 10 known as the Gran Partita. There's also a final performance from pianist Alexander Tharaud given in Warsaw.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Divertimento for strings K. 136

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Laura Samuel (leader/director)

Astor Piazzolla

Tango para una ciudad

Astor Piazzolla Quintet

Julian Vat (conductor)

2.20pm

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.2 in D major

Ilyich Rivas (conductor)

Christoph Graupner - Chaconne

Alessandro Quarta (conductor)

Antonio Vivaldi - Grida quell sangue vendetta (Vitellia's aria from ‘Tito Manlio')

Sonia Prina soprano

3pm

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Serenade No. 10 for winds in B-flat major, K. 361 ('Gran Partita')

Marek Janowski (conductor)

c.3.50pm

Grace Williams - Penillion

Jamie Philips (conductor)

c. 4.10pm

Franz Schubert - Overture to ‘Rosamunde

Alexander Tharaud (piano)

Music from Mozart, Piazzolla, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Grace Williams and Schubert.

Friday, Handel's Israel In Egypt, Part 320221104Penny Gore presents a week of Afternoon Concert, featuring today the third part of Handel's Israel in Egypt performed by the Zürcher Sing-Akademie and Freiburg Baroque Orchestra conducted by Ren退 Jacobs. Plus more highlights from accordian player Martynas Levickis and his Mikroork退stra and Kit Armstrong is soloist in Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto no.2.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Strauss II Thunder and Lighting Polka, Op.324

Martynas Levickis (accordian)

Debussy Reflets dans L'eau, from 'Images, Set 1, L. 110

Daniil Trifonov (piano)

Corelli Concerto grosso in D major, Op.6'4

Schumann 3 Romances Op.94 for horn (originally for oboe) and piano

Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn)

Alasdair Beatson (piano)

Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 22

Kit Armstrong (piano)

Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

3pm

Handel Israel in Egypt, HWV54 - Part 3: Moses‘ Song

Robin Johannsen (soprano)

Emmanuel de Negri (soprano)

Alberto Migu退lez Rouco (counter-tenor)

Jeremy Ovenden (tenor)

Neal Davies (bass)

Yannick Debus (bass)

Ren退 Jacobs (conductor)

Vivaldi Excerpts from Autumn from the Four Seasons, Violin Concerto RV293

(1.Allegro, 3.Allegro)

Poulenc Sinfonietta, FP 141

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Marek Sedivy (conductor)

Music by Handel, Saint-Sa\u00ebns and Poulenc.

Friday, Haydn's Symphony No 9120220916This week in Afternoon Concert Penny Gore features music from summer festivals around Europe. Today includes a concert given by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Manze at the Wurzburg Mozart Festival, featuring music by Haydn, Mozart and Stravinsky. Plus more highlights from the RIAS Chamber Chorus concert at the International Sacred Music Festival, Fribourg.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2pm

Arvo P䀀rt: The Deer's Cry

Part Nunc dimittis

Peter Dijkstra (conductor)

c.2.15

Stravinsky: Concerto in D for strings ‘Basel

Andrew Manze (conductor)

c.2.30

Isabel Mundry: Traces des moments, for string trio, clarinet and accordion

Theresa Jensen (violin)

Sarah Luisa Zrenner (viola)

Ulrich Witteler (cello)

Karl Rauer (clarinet)

Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion)

c.2.50

Jennifer Higdon: Piano Trio - 1st movt: Pale Yellow

Anne Akiko Meyers (violin)

Alisa Weilerstein (cello)

Adam Neiman (piano)

c.3pm

Haydn: Symphony no.91 in B flat major, H.1:91

c.3.40

Mozart: Piano Concerto no.23 in A major, K.488

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

c.4.10

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Prelude und Liebestod

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

Friday, Haydn's The Seasons: Winter20221230Ian Skelly introduces an afternoon of live concert recordings from BBC ensembles and from around Europe.

This week's focus on Haydn's The Seasons, in a performance from Vienna's Musikverein, concludes today with Winter. The BBC Philharmonic continue the theme with winter evening tales by Josek Suk, Marin Alsop conducts the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna, in Janacek's Sinfonietta, and the Ulster Orchestra plays music by Jessie Montgomery and Vaughan Williams. Plus the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford, on tour in Antwerp with the music of John Taverner.

Including:

Haydn: Piano Sonata in D major H.XVI:37

Mariam Batsashvili, piano

c.2.15pm

Suk: Tale of a winter's evening

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

Taverner: Gaude plurimum

Owen Rees, conductor

Jessie Montgomery: Banner

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

c.3pm

Haydn: The Seasons, Hob. XXI:3, oratorio - Winter

Miah Persson, soprano

Mauro Peter, tenor

Florian Boesch, bass

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Vaughan Williams: The Wasps Overture

Jac van Steen, conductor

Carwithen: Sonatina for cello and piano

Andrei Ionita, cello

Lilit Grigoryan, piano

c.3.55pm

Janacek: Sinfonietta

Marin Alsop, conductor

The final part of Haydn's The Seasons, Winter.

Friday, Jan Lisiecki Plays Prokofiev20230127Ian Skelly rounds up his week of concert performances from around Europe with music by Honegger, Wagner, Faure, Prokofiev. Plus a wintery symphony by German-Swiss composer Joachim Raff, and the Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki playing Prokofiev in Switzerland.

Including:

Chopin: Etude No 1 in C `Waterfall` Op10/1

Jan Lisiecki (piano)

Honegger: Pacific 231 - Mouvement symphonique No 1

Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra

David Zinman (conductor)

Wagner: Overture Rienzi

Orchestre Nationale de France

Andris Poga (conductor)

Faure: Caligula Op52

Radio France Children's Choir

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Mikko Frank (conductor)

3.00

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor op16

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Markus Poschner (conductor)

Raff: Symphony No 11 `Winter`

Bamberger Symphoniker

Hans Stadlmair (conductor)

Unique performances from across Europe, with special mention given to Switzerland.

Friday, Katya Kabanova, Act 320220603Fiona Talkington introduces the third and final act of Janacek's Katya Kabanova, from Rome Opera. Catch up with Acts 1 and 2 from Wednesday and Thursday's programmes. Also today, Janacek's In the Mists, in a version for string quartet; Mozart's Symphony No. 1 with German Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers perform JS Bach's Komm, Jesu, Komm, Gliere's Horn Concerto in Prague with soloist Radek Baborကk. Also, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Arthur Benjamin's Piano Concertino, played by Simon Callaghan. And Tchaikovsky's fantasy overture Romeo and Juliet.

Including:

Mozart: Symphony No. 1 in E flat, K. 16

Cornelius Meister, conductor

JS Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229

Stephen Farr, organ

Sofi Jeannin, director

Reinhold Gliere: Horn Concerto in B flat, op. 91

Radek Baborကk, French horn

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Petr Popelka, conductor

3pm

Leos Janacek: Katya Kabanova - opera in 3 acts

Act 3

Sav뀀l Prokofjevic Dik j, a merchant: Stephen Richardson, bass

Boris Grigorjevi?, Dik j's nephew: Charles Workman, tenor

Marfa Ignat?vna Kabanovက (Kabanicha), widow of a rich merchant: Susan Bickley, contralto

Tichon Ivany? Kabanov, her son: Julian Hubbard, tenor

Kက?a (Katerina), Tichon's wife: Corinne Winters, soprano

Vက?a Kudrjaš, a schoolteacher: Sam Furness, tenor

Varvara, a foundling: Carolyn Sproule, mezzo-soprano

Kuligin, friend of Vကna Kudrjaš: Luk  Zeman, baritone

Janက?ek: ‘In The Mists' (arr. for string quartet)

Czech Philharmonic Quartet

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture

Grant Lewellyn, conductor

Arthur Benjamin: Piano concertino

Simon Callaghan, piano

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

The conclusion of Janacek's opera from Rome, and music by Mozart, JS Bach and Gliere.

Friday, Live With The Bbc Philharmonic20211008Tom McKinney with the best classical music performed by BBC ensembles and orchestras across Europe.

Mark Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Philharmonic live from Salford's MediaCity in a concert including Mozart's overture to La Clemenza di Tito, Haydn's `Clock` Symphony and Mozart's Symphony No.40. In between the two symphonies, while the orchestra re-sets, you can hear a recording of Edward MacDowell's deeply romantic `Keltic` piano sonata.

Also in the programme, Copland's Billy the Kid Suite from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, more Baroque vocal music from Capella Marianna in Prague and a highlight from last year's London International Festival of Early Music.

Including:

Mozart: Overture: La Clemenza di Tito (LIVE)

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No.101 in D major `The Clock` (LIVE)

MacDowell: Piano Sonata No.4 in E minor `Keltic`

James Barbagallo (piano)

Mozart: Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550 (LIVE)

c. 3.30pm

Smetana: Jitro krကsn退 [Two Widows]

Smetana: Noc je tak tichက [The Brandenburgers in Bohemia]

Smetana: Lullaby [The Kiss]

Smetana: Zitko krကsn退 [The Secret]

Smetana: Ba, nejveselejs퀀 je tento sv?t [Dalibor]

Smetana: Pro? bychom se net?sili [The Bartered Bride]

Prague Philharmonic Choir

Lukas Vasilek (conductor)

Copland: Billy the Kid Suite

John Wilson (conductor)

Arvo P䀀rt: Fratres

Fretwork

Mark Wigglesworth conducts symphonies by Mozart and Haydn.

Friday, Live With The Bbc Philharmonic20211119Tom McKinney with the best classical music performed by BBC ensembles and orchestras across Europe.

The afternoon kicks off with a live concert from MediaCity in Salford, where Rory MacDonald conducts the BBC Philharmonic in an all-Strauss programme, featuring a selection of his songs with soprano Elizabeth Watts, followed by his tone poem Metamorphosen.

After 3 o'clock Tom continues his focus on great Romantic symphonies this week with Schumann's Fourth, in its original 1841 version - Alan Gilbert conducts the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in a performance recorded at the Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festivalin September. There's also Monteverdi performed by the Youth of La Capella Reial de Catalunya and new music by Judith Weir from the Vale of Glamorgan Festival. The week ends with Mozart's 'Haffner' Symphony from the Basel Chamber Orchestra.

Richard Strauss - Winterweihe, Op.48'4

Richard Strauss - Meinem Kinde, Op.37'3

Richard Strauss - Morgen, Op.27'4

Richard Strauss - Ruhe, meine Seele, Op.27'1

Richard Strauss - Befreit, Op.39'4

Richard Strauss - Ich liebe dich, Op.37'2

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

Rory MacDonald (conductor)

Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen

Claudio Monteverdi - S쀀, ch'io vorrei morire [Madrigals, Book IV]

Jove Capella Reial de Catalunya

Lu퀀s Vilamaj  (conductor)

c.3.05pm

Robert Schumann - Symphony No.4 in D minor, Op.120 (original version)

Alan Gilbert (conductor)

Judith Weir - I give you the end

of a golden string

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Geoffrey Patterson (conductor)

c. 4pm

Mozart - Symphony No.35 in D, K.385 'Haffner

Louis Langree (conductor)

Live from MediaCity in Salford, the BBC Philharmonic perform Strauss's Metamorphosen.

Friday, Live With The Bbc Philharmonic20221209Penny Gore introduces a live performance in MediaCity, Salford, at 2.30pm, given by the BBC Philharmonic under conductor Ben Gernon, who perform Prokofiev's In the Palace, from his ballet Cinderella, Respighi's Botticelli Triptych, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Chirstmas Eve suite.

Ben Gernon also makes an Artist's Choice, selecting the riotous Christmas market scene from Puccini's La Boheme. Also today, music from last year's Schubertiade in Austria, performed by the Jussen Piano Duo.

Including:

Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia - overture

Ben Gernon, conductor

Anon (arr. Martin Schmidt & N退stor Fabiကn Cort退s Garz n): Concerto for flute, strings and basso continuo

Los Temperamentos

Schubert: Eight Variations on a Theme from the opera ‘Marie' by Herold, in C major, D. 908

Caroline Clemmow, piano / Anthony Goldstone, piano

2.30pm - LIVE from MediaCity, Salford

Prokofiev: Cinderella: In the Palace

Respighi: Botticelli Triptych

Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve suite

Artist's Choice: Ben Gernon

Puccini: La Boheme - 2nd Act: scene at the Christmas market

Roberto Alagna (Rodolfo), Leontina Vaduva (Mimi), Thomas Hampson (Marcello), Simon Keenlyside (Schaunard), Samuel Ramey (Colline), Ruth Ann Swenson (Musetta), Enrico Fissore (Benoit)

London Voices, Boys from The London Oratory School & Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio Pappano

Mozart: Ballet Music from Idomeneo, K. 367

Ulster Orchestra

Angus Webster, conductor

Bizet: La Toupie, la Poup退e and le Bal, from 'Jeux d'enfants, op. 22

Jussen Piano Duo (Arthur & Lucas Jussen)

Ben Gernon conducts music by Prokofiev, Respighi and Rimsky-Korsakov, live from Salford.

Friday, Lutoslawski's Concerto For Orchestra20230707Presented by Ian Skelly, with new concert and studio recordings from the BBC and European orchestras.

Today, the Radio France Philharmonic performs Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra, performed just last month in Paris. The BBC Philharmonic performs Honegger's Concerto da camera, plus more from the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Monte Carlo.

Including:

Debussy Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet and orchestra

Franklin Cohen (clarinet)

Cleveland Orchestra

Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Mozart Divertimento in F major, K.138

Leonkoro Quartet

Honegger Concerto da camera for flute, cor anglais and strings

Gillian Callow (cor anglaise)

Alex Jakeman (flute)

Elena Schwarz (conductor)

JS Bach: Oh Jesulein Suss, Oh Jesulein Mild, BWV.493

Hugh Cutting (countertenor)

George Ireland (piano)

Nielsen: Rhapsody Overture: An Imaginary Journey to the Faroe Islands

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi (conductor)

3pm

Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Jacob Hrusa (conductor)

Vivaldi Sinfonia in E flat

major RV.130 (Sonata al Santo Sepolcro) for string orchestra

Arte dei Suonatori

Gipps: Wind Octet, Op.65

Members of BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Jonathan Bloxham (conductor)

Barber: Symphony no.1, Op.9

Eva Ollikainen (conductor)

Gian Francesco de Majo: Mio ben, ricordati, from 'Alessandro

Elisabeth Hetherington (soprano)

Das Neue Mannheimer Orchester

Anders Muskens (conductor)

c.4pm

Lyadov: The Enchanted Lake, Op.62

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Music by Lutoslawski, Barber and Honegger.

Friday, Malcolm Arnold20211022Penny Gore introduces the BBC Philharmonic performing music by Malcolm Arnold in the week of the composer's centenary, including his Concerto for clarinet with Michael Collins, and the tone poem Larch trees. Plus Purcell from La Folia Baroque, the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy.

Plus more Radio 3 commissions for the BBC orchestras. Pieces by Perivolaris, Usui and Vibrans.

Including:

Anna Clyne: Masquerade for orchestra

Marin Alsop, conductor

Mendelssohn: Trumpet Overture

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Henry Purcell: Since the Toils and Hazards of War, from 'The Prophetess, Z. 627

Henry Purcell: Aeolus, You Must Appear, from 'The Tempest, Z. 531

Henry Purcell: See, Nature, Rejoicing, from 'Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323

Anna Prohaska, soprano

Julia B怀hme, contralto

Richard Resch, tenor

Nikolay Borchev, baritone

La Folia Baroque Orchestra

Robin-Peter Müller, violin and conductor

Scriabin: Le Poeme de l'extase for orchestra, Op 54

Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

Giuseppe Tartini: Sonata in G minor, 'Devil's Trill' (arr. F. Kreisler)

Alexandra Soumm, violin

Aimo Pagin, piano

c.3pm

Malcolm Arnold: Concerto no. 1 Op. 20 for clarinet and [string] orchestra

Malcolm Arnold: Larch trees - tone poem Op.3

Michael Collins, clarinet

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Carl Nielsen: Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 13

Danish String Quartet

Electra Perivolaris: A Forest Reawakens

BBC Concert Orchestra

Barry Wordsworth, conductor

Shiori Usui: Particles

BBC SSO

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Oliver Vibrans: Treading Water

John Storgards, conductor

Verdi: Laudi alla Vergine Maria, from 'Four Sacred Pieces

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Zubin Mehta, conductor

Music to celebrate the centenary of Malcolm Arnold's birth.

Friday, Mendelssohn And Mahler20220812Presented by Ian Skelly. Another chance to hear the recent Prom with Ryan Bancroft conducting BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Caroline Shaw, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Mahler's Fourth Symphony.

Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte

Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major

Clara-Jumi Kang (violin)

Miah Persson (soprano)

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Plus the Proms Artist Choice feature - in which a Proms 2022 performer or conductor introduces a favourite work - and listener requests.

Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC NOW in music by Shaw, Mendelssohn and Mahler.

Friday, Mozart In The Netherlands20220701Penny Gore introduces Mozart's Symphony No 40 in G minor, played by the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. Also, more music performed in the Low Countries, including three pieces by Lili Boulanger arranged for voice and piano, Monteverdi's Toccata from L'Orfeo and Gershwin's Summertime for Porgy and Bess, arranged for brass band, played by Salaputia Brass. And more Mozart, his Adagio for Violin and Orchestra, K.261, with Noa Wildschut as soloist. Daniel Rowland plays Roxanna Panufnik's Songs for Love and Friendship; and Fran瀀ois Leleux plays Richard Strauss's Oboe Concerto with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding.

Including:

Mozart: Adagio for Violin and Orchestra in E Major, K. 261

Noa Wildschut, violin

Gordan Nikoli?, conductor

Sergey Taneyev: Suddenly a music sounded from eternity

Netherlands Chamber Choir

Tonu Kaljuste, director

Richard Strauss: Concerto for Oboe and small Orchestra in D major, Op. 144

Fran瀀ois Leleux, oboe

Daniel Harding, conductor

Lili Boulanger:

Hymne au soleil

Psalm 24 ('La terre appartient

Friday, Muti Conducts Conducts Tchaikovsky's 'pathetique' Symphony20230113Riccardo Muti, one of the most distinguished conductors of our age, took to the podium at last year's Salzburg Festival, directing two great works of drama. Tchaikovsky's last symphony is one of the composer's most emotional works and became subtitled 'Pathetique'; while Muti's unrivalled flair for opera is on display in Boito's masterpiece Mephistopheles.

Presented by Penny Gore

Villa-Lobos

Prelude No. 5 in D

Paulo Bellinati

Um Amor de Valsa, waltz

Anabel Montesinos, guitar

Mendelssohn

Hear my prayer

Jennifer Adams-Barbaro, soprano

BBC Singers

BBC Concert Orchestra

Stephen Cleobury, conductor

Bach

Chaconne, from 'Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004

Strauss I

Radetsky March

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Haydn

Trio in E major, Hob XV No 28

ATOS Trio

3.00pm

Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 74 'Path退tique

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Riccardo Muti, conductor

Antonio Lauro

El Marabino (Song from Venezuela)

Mephistopheles: Heavenly Prologue

Ildar Abdrazakov, bass

Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children's Choir

Vienna State Opera Chorus Concert Association

Riccardo Muti conducts works by Tchaikovsky and Boito.

Friday, Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra20180406Penny Gore concludes a week of live concert recordings featuring the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. Today, music by Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera.

Ginastera:

Glosses sobre tempes de Pau Casals, Op 4

Harp Concerto, Op 25

Estudios sinfonicos, Op 35 (European premiere)

Estancia, Op 8 - ballet suite

Xavier de Maistre, harp

Carlos Miguel Prieto (conductor).

Penny Gore concludes a week of concerts featuring the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.

Friday, Nielsen's Sinfonia Semplice20220318This week, Afternoon Concert features Scandinavian symphonic music - today we have Nielsen's Symphony No 6, 'Sinfonia semplice' performed by BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jamie Phillips. There's also Beethoven, Lutoslawski and Berg from the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and conductor Karina Canellakis, Handel and Geminiani from the Max Volpers Ensemble and Ravel from the KBS Symphony Orchestra.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Coriolan Overture

Karina Canellakis (conductor)

Francesco Geminiani

Concerto grosso No. 12 in D minor (after Corelli's op. 5 'La Follia')

Max Volbers and Ensemble

Max Volbers (conductor, continuo)

Concerto for Orchestra

Carl Nielsen

Symphony no. 6 FS.116 (Sinfonia semplice)

BBC NOW

Jamie Phillips (conductor)

Clara Schumann 6 Songs Op.13 - no.1; Ich stand in dunklen Traumen

Benjamin Appl (baritone)

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

Anton Webern Six Pieces for Chamber Orchestra, op. 6

George Frideric Handel Sinfonia, from 'Amadigi di Gaula, HWV A11

George Frideric Handel Lascia ch'io pianga, from 'Rinaldo, HWV 7' (encore)

Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo-soprano)

Ma Mere l'oye

Christoph Koenig (conductor)

Anton퀀n Dvo?ကk

Andante moderato, from 'Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, op. 90 'Dumky

Christian Tetzlaff, violin

Tanja Tetzlaff, cello

Lars Vogt, piano

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Nielsen's Sixth Symphony, 'Sinfonia semplice'.

Friday, Pastoral Music From Beethoven And Knecht20210924This week, Afternoon Concert features the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin performing Brandenburg concertos by Bach and symphonies by Beethoven. Today's it's Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, followed by more music of a pastoral nature from Holzbauer and Knecht.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Including:

Gade: Hamlet Overture

BBC Philharmonic

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Thomas Ades: Three Studies from Couperin

Bavarian Radio SO

Daniel Harding (conductor)

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat, BWV 1051

c.3pm

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F, op. 68 ('Pastoral')

Bernhard Forck (conductor)

Holzbauer: Symphony in E flat, op. 4/3 ('La tempesta del mare')

Knecht: Pastoral Symphony ('Portrait musical de la nature, ou Grande Simphonie')

The Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin play Beethoven, and Daniel Harding conducts in Bavaria.

Friday, Pelleas And Melisande20230203With Penny Gore, and a selection of live concert recordings from around Europe.

Today, Arnold Schoenberg's romantic symphonic poem based on the Pelleas and Melisande story is played by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, rounding off this week's 3pm focus on Czech orchestras. There's more from Los Temperamentos at last year's Summer Festivities of Early Music in Prague, Rumon Gamba conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Elgar's second Wand of Youth suite, Richard Egarr directs the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and soloist Liisa Randalu in a viola concerto by Telemann, and Zhang Zuo plays a Haydn piano sonata.

Including:

Vivaldi: Vedr  con mio diletto, Manlio's aria from 'Il Giustino, RV 717

L退a Desandre, mezzo-soprano

Ensemble Jupiter

Thomas Dunford, conductor

c.2.10pm

Elgar: Wand of Youth Suite No.2

Rumon Gamba, conductor

c.2.45pm

Telemann: Concerto for Viola and Strings in G, TWV 51:G9

Liisa Randalu, viola

Richard Egarr, conductor

c.3pm

Schoenberg: Pelleas et Melisande

Petr Popelka, conductor

Haydn: Sonata in E flat major, Hob XVI No 52

Zhang Zuo, piano

c.3.55pm

JS. Bach: An Wasserflüssen Babylon, BWV 653

Anon. (arr. N退stor Fabiကn Cort退s Garz n): La Candela (Son Jarocho)

Arnold Schoenberg's romantic take on the Pelleas and Melisande story.

Friday, Prisms, Cycles, Leaps20211203Penny Gore rounds off another week of the best recordings of classical music from around Europe and the BBC's orchestras.

Today, the Netherlands Philharmonic are joined by conductors Martyn Brabbins and Joshua Weilerstein to play music by Elgar and Thomas Ades, and the American composer Derrick Spiva Jr's Prisms, Cycles, Leaps, which blends music from the Balkans and Ghana, and North Indian Hindustani classical music. Marin Alsop conducts Brahms's Second Symphony in Frankfurt, Christian Ihle Hadland plays Szymanowski in Denmark, and there's more from Philippe Jaroussky and L'Arpeggiata at the Utrecht Early Music Festival.

Including:

Grieg: Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Anthony Weedon (conductor)

Szymanowski: Symphony No. 4, op. 60

Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)

Royal Danish Orchestra

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

Music by Moulini退, Caix d'Hervelois and Lambert

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)

Christina Pluhar (conductor, theorbo)

c.3pm

Brahms: Symphony No.2 in D, Op.73

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Marin Alsop (conductor)

Thomas Ades: Dawn Chacony, for orchestra at any distance

Elgar: Introduction and Allegro, op. 47, for string quartet and string orchestra

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Derrick Spiva Jr: Prisms, Cycles, Leaps

Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)

Music by Derrick Spiva Jr and Brahms's Second Symphony

Friday, Rachmaninov And Stravinsky20230310Presented by Penny Gore, an afternoon of live concert recordings from around Europe and from BBC orchestras.

Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Philharmonic in symphonic music by Stravinsky, and in the 3pm spotlight, Edward Gardner conducts the Bergen Philharmonic in the Symphonic Dances by Rachmaninov. Also in today's programme, Brahms is at his most sober, and violinist Jack Liebeck comes to rest in a frozen Venetian winter.

Including:

Stravinsky: Circus Polka

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - 'Winter

Jack Liebeck (violin/director)

Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes

Annelein van Wauve (clarinet)

Martin Klett (piano)

Brahms: Variations on a theme of Schumann for two pianos Op. 23 (Orch. Robin Holloway)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Paul Mann (conductor)

Yann Tiersen: Medley from Am退lie

Martynas Levickis (accordian)

Vadamas Vystavkinas (harpsichord)

Mikroorkestra

3.00

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Brahms: N䀀nie Op82

WDR Chorus

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Andres Orazco-Estrada (conductor)

Quantz: Trio Sonata in G minor QV2:34

Collegium Marianum

Stravinsky: Symphony in 3 movements

Penny Gore with more exclusive recordings from across Europe.

Friday, Radio France Philharmonic20171006Penny Gore presents the Radio France Philharmonic in a series of concerts and recordings to launch Radio 3's new Afternoon Concert. Today's 2pm concert features an all-Mozart programme, beginning with his thrilling and tense overture to his opera, Don Giovanni. Today's Mozart Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor, K.491 is performed by leading French pianist, Jean-Claude Pennetier, a prize winner in both the Gabriel Faure and Marguerite Long piano competitions, and the concert concludes with Mozart's Haffner Symphony. Plus there are symphonies by Schubert and Schumann.

Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527

Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491

Symphony No. 35 in D, K. 385 ('Haffner')

Jean-Claude Pennetier (piano)

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Christoph Poppen (conductor)

c. 3.15pm

Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 97 ('Rhenish')

Sir Roger Norrington (conductor)

c. 4.25pm

Symphony No. 5 in B flat, D. 485

Sir Roger Norrington (conductor).

Radio France Philharmonic in Mozart's thrilling overture to his opera, Don Giovanni.

Friday, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra20220211This week, Afternoon Concert features performances from French orchestras - today's it's the Radio France Philharmonic with Bartok's Village Scenes and Mahler's First Symphony, 'Titan'. Plus there's more from Joyce DiDonato's performance with Il Pomo d'Oro at the George Enescu International Festival.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2pm

Susan Spain-Dunk The Kentish Downs

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Stephen Bell (conductor)

c.2.15

B退la Bart k Village Scenes, Sz. 78

Radio France Children's Chorus

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

c.2.45

George Frideric Handel Aria lui Ariodante „Scherza infida, in grembo al drudo` din Ariodante HWV 33

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)

c.3pm

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D 'Titan

Fabien Gabel (conductor)

c.3.55

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky arr Helmut Hodl Ballet Suite - The Nutcracker

Vienna Clarinet Connection

c.4‘10

George Frideric Handel Aria lui Ariodante „Dopo notte` din Ariodante HWV 33

Music by Bartok, Handel and Mahler.

Friday, Rattle At Radio 320170915Penny Gore presents Simon Rattle conducting Poulenc's Dialogues des Carm退lites, which was recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2014. Sally Matthews stars as the young novice nun, Blanche, who deals with her own fears to face her destiny in Poulenc's version of the true story of the martyrdom of the nuns of Compi耀gne during the French Revolution.

Poulenc: Dialogues des Carm退lites

Blanche - Sally Matthews (soprano)

Constance - Anna Prohaska (soprano)

Madame Lidoine - Emma Bell (soprano)

Mother Marie - Sophie Koch (mezzo-soprano)

Madame de Croissy - Deborah Polaski (soprano)

Marquis de la Force - Thomas Allen (baritone)

Chevalier de la Force - Yann Beuron (tenor)

Mother Jeanne - Elizabeth Sikora (mezzo-soprano)

Sister Mathilde - Catherine Carby (mezzo-soprano)

Father Confessor - Alan Oke (tenor)

First Commissary - David Butt Philip (baritone)

Second Commissary - Michel De Souza (baritone)

First Officer - Ashley Riches (baritone)

Gaoler - Craig Smith (baritone)

M.Javelinot - John Bernays (bass)

Thierry - Neil Gillespie (tenor)

Royal Opera House Orchestra

Royal Opera House Chorus

Simon Rattle (conductor)

[Opera matinee returns to Thursday as usual next week].

Simon Rattle conducts Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites recorded at the Royal Opera House

Friday, 'reformation' Symphony20230421Ian Skelly introduces an afternoon of live concert recordings, including BBC orchestras and ensembles from around Europe.

The last of this week's symphonies conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, in celebration of his 80th birthday, is Mendelssohn's 'Reformation' symphony, with the London Symphony Orchestra. Looking ahead to Earth Day (Saturday 22 April), Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in more music from their recent 'Our Precious Planet' family event, in collaboration with the artist Gr退goire Pont. Plus, the BBC Singers with music by Folke Rabe, and the MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Richard Strauss' tone poem depicting the story of Don Juan.

Including:

c.2:10pm

JS Bach: Cantata, Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV.80

Marta Paklar, soprano

Franz Vitzthum, alto

Thomas Hobbs, tenor

Felix Schwandtke, bass

Netherlands Bach Society

Jos van Veldhoven, conductor

c.2:40pm

Earth Day...

Anna Meredith: Nautilus (orchestral version - UK premiere)

John Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony (2nd movement `Panic`)

Dalia Stasevska, conductor

3pm

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 107 'Reformation

John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Folke Rabe: to love

Grace Rossiter, conductor

c.3:40pm

Britten: Four Sea Interludes (4th movement `Storm`)

Ginastera: Estancia (2nd movement: Danza del Trigo)

R Strauss: Don Juan, op. 20

Alexander Shelley, conductor

Colin Riley: The Smallest Play of Leaves, third movement from 'Earth Voices

Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

David Niemann, conductor

John Eliot Gardiner conducts the LSO in Mendelssohn's 5th Symphony.

Friday, Reinhard Goebel Conducts Haydn And Mozart20220617Ian Skelly introduces performances by the SWR Symphony Orchestra ,including Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante in B flat and Mozart's Symphony No 31, recorded last month at the Schwetzingen Festival. Plus there's music by John Foulds, Bach, Prokofiev, Monteverdi and Betsy Jolas, alongside highlights from the recent Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival.

John Foulds - The Isles of Greece, Op.48'2

BBC Concert Orchestra

Ronald Corp (conductor)

c. 2.05

Sergei Prokofiev - Excerpts from Romeo & Juliet

Fedor Rudin (violin)

Yi-Chen Lin (conductor)

c. 2.30

Claudio Monteverdi - Si ch´io vorrei morire

singer pur

3pm

Joseph Haydn - Sinfonia Concertante in B flat, Hob.I:105

Mila Georgieva (violin) / Anne Angere (oboe) / Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello)

Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

c. 3.20

W.A. Mozart Symphony No.31 in D, K.97 `Paris`

c. 3.40

JS Bach arr. Avi Avital - Sarabande & Gigue [Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV.1004]

Avi Avital (mandolin)

Omer Klein (piano)

c. 3.45

Betsy Jolas - Letters from Bachville

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

c. 4.05

JS Bach - Trio Sonata in G, BWV.1039

Arcangelo

Jonathan Cohen (director)

Unique performances with BBC orchestras and choirs and other great orchestras

Friday, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra20170602Jonathan Swain presents the last programme in this week of concerts from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In today's programme Stephane Deneve conducts the orchestra in works by Roussel and Ravel. And to end, Daniele Gatti conducts Mahler's mighty Resurrection Symphony.

2.00

Lyadov

The Enchanted Lake, op. 62

Antonio Pappano

2.08

Symphony No. 3 in G minor, op. 42

St退phane Den耀ve

2.34

La Valse

2.48

Symphony No. 2 in C minor ('Resurrection')

Chen Reiss, soprano

Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano

Netherlands Radio Chorus

Daniele Gatti.

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performs music by Lyadov, Roussel, Ravel and Mahler.

Friday, Russian Music In Prague20220107Penny Gore introduces the perfect afternoon of music to round off the week, with unique recordings from BBC orchestras and ensembles around Europe. Today, there's Russian music from Prague, including Rachmaninov's last major work and Gabriela Montero in Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. Mark Wigglesoworth is also in the Czech capital to conduct Britten arranging Mahler.

Also, just before 3pm throughout the week, New Year New Music: Radio 3 presenters share the newest music that means the most to them.

Including:

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, op. 45

Prague Radio SO

Petr Popelka, conductor

Corelli: Violin Sonata in C, op. 5/3

Antje Weithaas, violin

Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord

c.3pm

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, op. 23

Gabriela Montero, piano

Gustav Mahler arr. Britten What the Wild Flowers Tell Me (2nd movement of 'Symphony No.3)

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Mark Wigglesworth, conductor

Gabriela Montero plays Tchaikovsky, and Britten arranges Mahler.

Friday, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra20170324Penny Gore ends a week of performances from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota. The culmination of the week is a lively concert led by the charistmatic and energetic violinist Pekka Kuusisto. Expect the unexpected!

2pm:

Mozart: Piano concerto No.9 in E flat, K.271

Christian Zacharias (piano/director)

2.30pm:

George Tsontakis: Coraggio, from 'String Quartet No. 3' (first performance)

c. 2.40pm:

Nico Muhly: Material in E flat, from 'Drones and Violin

Erkki-Sven Tüür: Passion for string orchestra

Tippett: A Lament (Divertimento on Sellinger's Round)

Erkki-Sven Tüür: Action, for string orchestra

Bryce Dessner: Tenebre, for string ensemble and pre-recorded track

Erkki-Sven Tüür: Illusion, for string orchestra

Pekka Kuusisto (violin/director)

c.3.15pm:

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K. 219

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 in G

Pekka Kuusisto (violin/director).

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Mozart, Tsontakis, Muhly, Tippett, Dessner, Tuur, Mozart.

Friday, Schoenberg And Pelleas20211217Penny Gore rounds up her focus on music inspired by Pelleas et Melisande with a symphonic poem by Schoenberg alongside recordings of Mahler, Debussy. Handel and Monteverdi. Including:

Mahler: Symphony No 10 - 1. Adagio

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi (conductor)

Handel: Chaconne in G HWV 435

Artis Guitar Duo

Mancini: Recorder Concerto

Netherlands Bach Society

Lucie Horsch (recorder)

Lidewij van der Voort (violin)

Siebe Henstra (harpsichord)

3.00

Schoenberg: Symphonic poem - Pelleas and Melisande

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Debussy: Nocturnes

Dutch National Opera Chorus

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Lorenzo Viotti (conductor)

The BBC Philharmonic play Schoenberg's symphonic poem inpsired by Pelleas et Melisande.

Friday, Scottish Symphonies20220204Fiona Talkington with performances from around the world including Mozart's Symphony no 40 from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Peter Whelan and the Mendelssohn 'Scottish' from Switzerland. Plus more music from the International Baroque Music Days festival at Melk Abbey in Austria and Simon Rattle conducting Messaien.

William Brade: Dances and songs

Il Giardino Armonico

Giovanni Antonini (director)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 'Scottish

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Adam Fischer (conductor)

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri - Ad cor

La Risonanza

Fabio Bonizzoni (director)

3pm

Mozart: Symphony no 40 in G minor, K550

Peter Whelan (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Variations Serieuses (arr. organ by Nathan Laube)

Nathan Laube (organ)

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri - Ad faciem

Messiaen: Et Exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Simon Rattle (conductor)

Unique performances with BBC orchestras and choirs and other great orchestras.

Friday, Shostakovich Symphony No 1420220708Ian Skelly rounds up his week of afternoon performances with Britten, Bach, Handel and Rachmaninov and John Storgards conducting Shostakovich's Symphony No 14.

Benjamin Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings - V. Dirge `This ae night`

Mark Padmore (tenor)

Stephen Bell (horn)

Britten Sinfonia

Claude Debussy: La Mer

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov, conductor

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No 1 in G major BWV 1007

Andrei Ionita, cello

Sergei Rachmaninov: Aleko:

No 5. Girls' Dance,

No 6. Men's Dance,

No 11. Intermezzo

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

3.00

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No 14

Elizabeth Atherton, soprano

Peter Rose, bass

John Storgards, conductor

GF Handel: Concerto in F minor (trans. LaFosse)

Peter Moore, trombone

Richard Uttley, piano

Benjamin Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem

Bavarian Symphony Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

John Storgards conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Shostakovich's Symphony No 14.

Friday, Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony20220805Penny Gore rounds off a week of Afternoon Concert by introducing another chance to hear Alpesh Chauhan's recent Prom with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with music for percussion and orchestra by Canadian composer Nicole Liz退e, and culminating in Shostakovich's 5th Symphony. Plus today's Proms Artist Choice.

Nicole Liz退e: Blurr is the Colour of My True Love's Eyes (BBC co-commission: European premiere)

Bruckner arr. Skrowaczewski: String Quintet in F major - Adagio

INTERVAL

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor

Colin Currie, percussion

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms.

Friday, Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony20221118Ian Skelly rounds off a week of afternoons focusing on the BBC Philharmonic, as Anja Bihlmaier conducts Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony.

Also today, Bihlmaier also leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Louise Farrenc, the Czech Philharmonic perform Smetana, Steven Isserlis plays Robert Schumann, and there's more from Barry Douglas's piano recital at this year's Montpellier Festival.

Including:

c.2.15pm

Farrenc: Overture No 2 Op 24

Anja Bihlmaier, conductor

Lizzy Hardy: Hear the mellow wedding bells

BBC Singers

Will Dawes, conductor

Smetana: From Bohemia's Woods and Fields, from 'Mက vlast' (My Homeland)

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Petr Popelka, conductor

c.2.40pm

Prokofiev: Ten Pieces from 'Romeo and Juliet, op. 75

(nos. 6-10 - Montagues and Capulets; Friar Laurent; Mercutio; Dance of the Girls With Lilies; Romeo and Juliet Before Parting)

Barry Douglas, piano

c.3pm

Shostakovich: Symphony No.9 in E flat major, Op.70

Field: Nocturne No. 10 in E minor, H. 46; Nocturne No.5 in B flat, H. 37

Agricola: Lobet den Herren in seinem Heiligthum

Vocalensemble Sirventes Berlin

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin

Stefan Schuck, conductor

c.3.45pm

R. Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129

Steven Isserlis, cello

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Michael Sanderling, conductor

Anja Bihlmaier conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony.

Friday, Sibelius 5 Live20211029The BBC Philharmonic and Gemma New perform music by Sibelius, Brahms and Lilburn live from their base at MediaCityUK in Salford, and Ian Skelly rounds up his week of music making from Denmark. with the conclusion of Hans Abrahamsen's Ten Pieces for Orchestra - a work nearly fifteen years in the making.

2pm

Lilburn: Aotearoa

Brahms: Violin Concerto (Tobias Feldmann - violin)

Interval

Onslow: Wind Quintet in F Op81

Les Vents Francais

c.3pm

Sibelius: Symphony No 5

Gemma New (conductor)

Gibbons: 'The Silver Swanne

Bennett: 'All Creatures Now

Tallis: 'Te Lucis Ante Terminum

BBC Singers

Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)

Ellie Storach (conductor)

Hans Abrahamsen: 10 Pieces for Orchestra

No 10. Adagio molto espressivo

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi (conductor)

Nielsen: Aladdin Op34 (excerpts)

Gennady Roazhdezvensky (conductor)

The BBC Philharmonic live from Salford.

Friday, Sibelius In Ostrava20220513Rounding off this week's focus on recordings from ensembles in Poland and the Czech Republic, Penny Gore introduces Sibelius's popular Second Symphony from Ostrava, and the music of Sofia Gubaidulina from Prague. Plus, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales play Mozart, and the Barcelona Symphonic Wind Band play music by the British composer Kenneth Hesketh.

Including:

Mozart: Excerpts from Idomeneo - overture (K.366), Chaconne & Pas Seul (K.367 Nos.1 & 2)

Richard Hickox, conductor

Kenneth Hesketh: Danceries (Set II)

Jose Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana, conductor

Sofia Gubaidulina: Fairytale Poem

Prague Radio SO

Holly Mathieson, conductor

c.3pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 43

Janacek Philharmonic, Ostrava

Kristiina Poska, conductor

Vanhal: Organ Concerto in F

Petr Cech, organ

Camerata Janacek

Pavel Dolezal, director

Kristiina Poska conducts Sibelius's Second Symphony in Ostrava

Friday, Sibelius's First Symphony20220610Penny Gore rounds up a week of performances by BBC orchestras and ensembles from around Europe. In the last of this week's spotlight on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth conducts Sibelius's First Symphony. Plus music from a concert of early Mediterranean music in Vienna, with the Cantlon and Unicorn Ensembles, and Elsa Dreisig sings Mozart arias with the Basel Chamber Orchestra.

Including:

Howard Skempton: Lento

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Mark Wigglesworth, conductor

Paulus/Cantlon Ensemble: Salz der Erde

Albin Paulus, director

(Konzerthaus, Vienna)

Mozart: Pupille amante, from 'Lucio Silla, K. 135

Elsa Dreisig, soprano

Louis Langree, conductor

Cossetto: Four Ashkenazy Themes

Viola Wilmsen, oboe

Oliver Triendl, piano

c.3pm

Sibelius: Symphony No.1 in E minor

BBC Scottish SO

Rec. 13/3/22

Mozart: Ach ich fühls, from 'The Magic Flute, K. 620

Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, arr. for orchestra

Donald Runnicles, conductor

Anon.: Die Insel der Aphrodite

Michael Posch, conductor

Mark Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish SO in Sibelius's First Symphony.

Friday, Sibelius's Fourth Symphony In Amsterdam20230224Ian Skelly concludes this week of Afternoon Concert featuring performances from the Netherlands, with the Royal Concertgebouw performing Sibelius's Fourth Symphony, written in 1910 and a product of a difficult period in the composer's life.

Also today, Les Ambassadeurs La Grande Ecurie perform more of a concert recorded at the Utrecht Early Music Festival, and today's concerto is Bartok's Third Piano Concerto performed by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet with the KBS Symphony Orchestra.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

Including:

Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonata No. 12 'The Ascension

Petra Mullejans (violin)

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Lionel Meunier (conductor)

Liszt: Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe, S. 107, symphonic poem

Vienna Philharmonic

Riccardo Muti (conductor)

David Matthews: Le Lac Op.146 for soprano and ensemble

Ailish Tynan (soprano)

Ulster Orchestra

Jac van Steen (conductor)

c.3pm

Sibelius Symphony no.4 in A minor, Op.63

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Klaus M䀀kel䀀 (conductor)

Les Ambassadeurs La Grande Ecurie Quatrieme Suite in D major

(Jean-Philippe Rameau - Ouverture (from Zas), Jean-Philippe Rameau - Menuet (from Le Temple de la Gloire), Jean-Philippe Rameau - Rondeau (from Dardanus), Antoine Dauvergne - Entr退e de Chasseurs (from: En退e et Lavinie), Jean-Joseph de Mondonville - Musette (from: Titon et L'Aurore), Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer - Chaconne, Jean-Philippe Rameau - Tambourin)

Alexis Kossenko (conductor)

c.4.00

Bartok Piano Concerto no.3 in E major, Sz.119

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

Yoel Levi (conductor)

Including music by Liszt, Sibelius and Bartok.

Friday, Sibelius's Lemmink\u00e4inen Suite20230120Penny Gore with music played by BBC ensembles and performances from across Europe, including Sibelius's Lemmink䀀inen Suite with the KBS Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Pietari Inkinen; also, arias and chorales from cantatas by JS Bach performed by G怀teborg Baroque; Copland's Clarinet Concerto with soloist Michael Collins, with the Ulster Orchestra under Angus Webster; and Ravel's La Valse, with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Edward Gardner.

Including,

Vivaldi: Sinfonia to Act III from 'La fida ninfa, RV 714

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Gottfried von der Goltz, director

Copland: Old American songs (Set 1 No 1. The Boatman's dance)

Kathryn Rudge, mezzo-soprano

James Baillieu, piano

Sibelius: Overture in A minor for orchestra

Lahti Symphony Orchestra

Osmo Vanska, conductor

Johann Sebastian Bach:

Die Seele ruht in Jesu H䀀nden, from Herr Jesu Christ, wahr Mensch und Gott, BWV 127

Ich bin nun achtzig Jahr, from Gott ist mein K怀nig, BWV 71

Chorale from Herr gehe nicht ins Gericht, BWV 105

Sofia Niklasson, soprano

Amanda Flodin, alto

Carl Unander-Scharin, tenor

Karl Peter Eriksson, bass

Per Bengtsson, oboe

Magnus Kjellson, claviorgan, leader

Ravel: La Valse

Edward Gardner, conductor

Beethoven: 32 Variations in C minor, WoO 80

Louis Schwizgebel, piano

3pm

Sibelius: Lemmink䀀inen Suite, Op. 22

Boccherini: Quintet in C major, Op.30 No.6: 'La Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid

Casals String Quartet

Eckart Runge, cello

Copland: Clarinet Concerto

Michael Collins, clarinet

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

Sibelius, cantatas by JS Bach, Copland's Clarinet Concerto and Ravel's La Valse.

Friday, Sibelius's Symphony No 220220923Penny Gore rounds off a week of performances from around Europe and BBC ensembles.

Today, Sibelius's Symphony No 2 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hannu Lintu, who also perform Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, with soloist Emanuel Ax. The BBC Philharmonic with Dvorak's Othello overture and also Honegger's Concerto da camera; Purcell's Welcome to all the pleasure, Ode for St Cecilia, with Choeur Les El退ments and Les Ombres, directed by Joel Suhubiette; and Alexandra Dariescu with Clara Schumann's nocturne, from Soirees musicales.

Including:

Sibelius: Humoresques Op.87; no.1 in D minor

Fenella Humphreys, violin

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

George Vass, conductor

Purcell: Welcome to all the pleasure, Ode for St Cecilia

Joel Suhubiette, conductor

c.2.20pm

Dvorak: Othello - concert overture (Op.93)

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

Clara Schumann: Nocturne, from Soirees musicales, Op. 6

Alexandra Dariescu, piano

Honegger: Concerto da camera

Alex Jakeman, flute

Gillian Callow, cor anglais

Elena Schwarz, conductor

c.3.00pm

Sibelius: Symphony 2

Hannu Lintu, conductor

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Emanuel Ax, piano

Hannu Lintu conducts Sibelius's Second Symphony.

Friday, Stephen Hough Plays Beethoven20220114This week Afternoon Concert celebrates Beethoven concertos with a different one each day at 3pm - today it's the third with soloist Stephen Hough and the BBC Philharmonic in concert in Hanley. Plus French music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and performances from the Ensemble Correspondances at the Schwetzinghen Festival.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

c.2.05

Mozart Idomeneo - ballet music

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

c.2.25

Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin

Matthias Pintscher (conductor)

c.2.45

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Premi耀re le瀀on de t退n耀bres du Vendredi saint, H. 91

S退bastien Dauc退 (conductor)

c.3pm

Beethoven Piano Concerto no.3 in C minor, Op.37

Stephen Hough (piano)

c.3.35

Haydn Symphony No. 101 in D, Hob.1:101 'Clock

c.4.05

Debussy Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

Yutaka Sado (conductor)

Stephen Hough performs Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic.

Friday, Strauss, Strauss And Strauss20220408This week Afternoon Concert features performance by French orchestras - to round off the week it's the Radio France Philharmonic in a waltz-tastic concert of Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II and Richard Strauss. Plus music by Debussy from the BBC Philharmonic, Alexandre Tharaud plays Schubert, and a version of Gershwin's American in Paris for trumpet and piano, featuring Simon Hofele.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2pm

Strauss II Overture to Die Fledermaus

Strauss I Seufzer-Galopp, Op.9

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Mikko Franck (conductor)

Debussy Gigues (from Images for Orchestra)

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Schubert Four Impromptus, D.899

Alexandre Tharaud, piano

Isabella Leonarda Sonata Duodecima

Ensemble Exclamatio

c.3pm

Strauss II Loreley-Rhein-Kl䀀nge - saltz Op.154

Richard Strauss Burleske for piano and orchestra

Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)

Strauss II Roses from the South - waltz Op.388

Richard Strauss Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op.9

Strauss II Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op.214

Gershwin An American in Paris

Simon Hofele, trumpet

Frank Dupree, piano

Music by Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss I and Johann Strauss II.

Friday, Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring20230414Penny Gore concludes her week of afternoons featuring concert performances, with music from the Ulster Orchestra, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and a focus on Latin American music.

Today in the 3pm spotlight, the SWR Symphony Orchestra performs Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' with conductor Teodor Currentzis. Also this afternoon, Barry Douglas joins the Ulster Orchestra for a performance of Britten's Piano Concerto, and Dobrinka Tabakova pays homage to Schubert. Plus every day this week you can hear Latin American music from guitarist Yamandu Costa and accordionist Vincent Peirani and performances from The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.

Including:

Arturo Marquez: Conga del fuego nuevo

Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra

Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

Yamandu Costa - Chegada

Vincent Peirani (accordion)

Yamandu Costa (guitar)

c.2.20pm

Britten: Piano Concerto

Barry Douglas (piano)

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart

Teodor Currentzis (conductor)

Hermeto Pascual: Chorinho pra ele

c. 3.40pm

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No.5 in F sharp, Op.53

Andrei Korobeinikov (piano)

CPE Bach: Symphony in A, Wq.182 No.4

Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)

c. 4.05pm

Dobrinka Tabakova: Fantasie Homage to Schubert

Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Emil Tabakov (conductor)

Teodor Currentzis conducts Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring.

Friday, Sturm Und Drang From Mozart20221202Ian Skelly rounds up his week of highlights from Bavaria with symphonies by Mozart and Strauss and with stormy music from Rossini and CPE Bach. The programme also includes duets from Vivaldi and Graupner from Shaked Bar and Sonia Prima, and a gentle walk into paradise.

Edward Elgar: Three Bavarian Dances - No 3

Bournemouth Sinfonietta

Norman Del Mar (conductor)

Gioachino Rossini: Overture - William Tell

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Paul Watkins (conductor)

Antonio Vivaldi: ‘Tito Manlio' RV738

`Non mi vuoi con te o crudele`

'Dar la morte'

Shaked Bar (soprano)

Sonia Prina (contralto)

Darmstadt Baroque Soloists

Alessandro Quartet

Frederick Delius: The Walk To The Paradise Garden

Halle

Mark Elder (conductor)

CPE Bach: Quartet for Harpsichord, Flute & Viola in G major, Wq 95

Les Adieux

Andreas Staier (harpsichord)

Wilbert Hazelzet (flute)

Hajo B䀀߀ (viola)

3.00

WA Mozart: Symphony No 25 in g minor

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

Christoph Graupner: ‘Aminta - La costanza vince l'inganno

`Non esser pui si fiera`

Sonia Prima (contralto)

Antonio Vivaldi: ‘L'Olimpiade' RV725

`Ne giorni tuoi felici`

Richard Strauss: Symphony No 2 in f minor

Marie Jacquot (conductor)

The Bavarian Radio Symphony perform Mozart's 'little' Symphony No 25 in G minor.

Friday, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra20170707Verity Sharp presents a concert by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Plus a final piece from the New Music Biennial at Hull City of Culture.

2pm:

Brahms: Symphony No.1 in C minor

Conductor Daniel Harding

2:45pm:

Helen Grime: Violin Concerto (first performance)

Malin Broman (violin)

3:10pm:

Stravinsky: The Firebird (1910)

Conductor Daniel Harding.

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs music by Brahms, Helen Grime and Stravinsky.

Friday, Tchaikovsky's Pathetique20211001Penny Gore ends this week of recordings by European orchestras and BBC ensembles.

Today, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with a rhapsody by Frank Bridge, a Bach cantata with the Swedish Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Herbert Blomstedt, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra play Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 'Pathetique', and Radek Baborကk is the soloist in Mozart's 3rd Horn Concerto in Prague.

Including:

Bridge: Enter Spring - rhapsody for orchestra

Francois-Xavier Roth, conductor

JS Bach: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51, cantata

Simona Houda-Šaturovက, soprano

Gianluca Calise, piccolo trumpet

Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

c.3pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 74 ('Path退tique')

Lorenzo Viotti, conductor

Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat, K.447

Radek Baborကk, horn

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Anu Tali, conductor

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Orchestre de Paris

Klaus M䀀kel䀀, conductor

Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 from The Netherlands Philharmonic, plus Bach, Mozart and Ravel.

Friday, Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony20230210Penny Gore ends her week of Afternoon Concert with a performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.2 by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Elim Cham. There are more Medieval pieces from Ensemble Celadon and choral music by Schütz and Schein from the Leipzig Cantorey, and of course regular contributions from the BBC performing groups. Today, there's also music by Saint-Saens, Beethoven, Auric, Piazzolla, Gity Razaz, Augusta Holm耀s, Alexander MacKenzie and Hannah Kendall.

Alexander MacKenzie - Overture: The cricket on the hearth, Op.62

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Johann Hermann Schein - Freuet euch des Herren, ihr Gerechten

Concerto Vocale Leipzig

Sachsisches Baroque Orchestra

Gotthold Schwarz (conductor)

Camillle Saint-Saens - Morceau de concert, Op.94 arr. for horn & harp

Alec Frank Gemmill (horn)

Ellie Johnston (harp)

c. 2.30pm

Hannah Kendall - Nexus

European Youth Orchestra

Giandandrea Noseda (conductor)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Overture: Egmont, Op.84

Elim Cham (conductor)

Gity Razaz - Lux aeterna

BBC Singers

Will Dawes (conductor)

3pm

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.2 in C minor, Op.17 `Little Russian`

Anonymous A l´entrada del temps clar, eya ! / Chominciamento di gioia, Estampie

Ensemble Celadon]

Augusta Holm耀s - Allegro feroce

BBC Concert Orchestra

Jane Glover (conductor)

c. 4pm

Georges Auric - Dead of Night (Suite from the film)

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Heinrich Schütz - Herr, unser Herrscher, SWV.27

c. 4.15pm

Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion Tango

Ksenija Sidorova (accordion)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Elim Chan conducts Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony in Munich.

Friday, The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live From Bbc Hoddinott Hall20170428Nicola Heywood Thomas presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, live from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. Alexandre Bloch conducts a programme of Stravinsky and Rachmaninov, and the orchestra is joined by BBC New Generation Artist Anneline van Wauwe for Hindemith's Clarinet Concerto. Then it's back to London with Penny Gore, and more from a new CD recording of works by Bernard van Dieren.

2pm

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas

Stravinsky: Danses concertantes

Hindemith: Clarinet Concerto in A major

Rachmaninov: Symphony No.3 in A minor

Annelien van Wauwe (clarinet)

Alexandre Bloch (conductor)

c.4.05pm back to the studio with Penny Gore

Dieren: Introit - Les propous des Beuveurs (after Rabelais)

William Boughton (conductor).

Live from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, BBC NOW in Stravinsky, Hindemith and Rachmaninov.

Friday, The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20180209Georgia Mann presents a concert given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen. John Wilson conducts, and is joined by Roman Simovic for Glazunov's Violin Concerto. Plus more from a new recording of British violin works performed by Clare Howick, and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony conducted by Ilan Volkov.

2pm

Grieg: Holberg Suite Op 40

Glazunov Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 82

Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma'), Op 36

Roman Simovic (violin)

John Wilson (conductor)

c.3.10pm

Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale

Matthias Pintscher (conductor)

Paul Patterson:Violin Concerto No 2

Clare Howick (violin)

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

c.3.55pm

Cassandra Miller: Round

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 55 (Eroica)

Ilan Volkov (conductor).

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert in Aberdeen.

Friday, The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20180309Kate Molleson concludes a week of concerts featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today: Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich recorded in Edinburgh, and Schumann with violinist Ilya Gringolts from a concert recorded in Leeds.

2pm

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor, Op 23

Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 in G minor Op 103

Denis Kozhukhin (piano)

Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

3.40pm

Helen Grime: Two Eardley Pictures

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

4.00pm

Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor

lya Gringolts (violin)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

~Afternoon Concert this week focuses on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and concludes with a concert they gave at Edinburgh's Usher Hall in December. They were joined by the powerhouse Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin for Tchaikovsky's enduringly popular First Piano Concerto, while the second half of the concert was given over to Shostakovich's giant depiction of the events of the 1905 Russian Revolution: his Symphony No 11.

That's followed by a pair of orchestral depictions of winter by the Scottish composer Helen Grime, her Two Eardley Pictures: 'Catterline in Winter' and 'Snow'.

Then there's a recording made in Leeds last November, in which the Russian virtuoso Ilya Gringolts joined the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to perform Schumann's Violin Concerto. This was a work, written towards the end of the composer's troubled life, that remained unheard for over 80 years, finally seeing the light of day in the 1930s.

Friday, The Bbc Singers Live From Temple Church, City Of London And The Bbc Symphony Orchestra Live From Maida Vale20171215~Afternoon Concert's week of live performances from the BBC performing groups concludes with two concerts from London. First to Temple Church, in the City of London for the BBC Singers conducted by Owain Park, with a selection of contemporary choral Christmas pieces. Roger Sayer accompanies them on the organ. Then to the BBC Symphony Orchestra's home at Maida Vale studios in London, for a concert under the baton of Tung-Chien Chuang including Liadov's tone poem Baba Yaga, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, with Alexander Soumm as soloist, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E minor.

2pm - LIVE from Temple Church, City of London, presented by Ian Skelly

Richard Madden: Balulalow

Owain Park: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

Bernard Hughes: Jesus, Springing

Joanna Marsh: Evergreen (world premiere)

Richard Knight: Come rock his cradle

Carl Rutti: O little town

Richard Causton: Cradle Song

Judith Bingham: Corpus Christi Carol

Peter Copley: Two Carols

Howard Skempton: To Bethlehem did they go

Bror Samuelson: Ave maris stella

Adrian Peacock: Venite Gaudete

Roger Sayer (organ)

Owain Park (conductor)

3.15pm LIVE from Maida Vale, London, presented by Petroc Trelawny

Liadov: Baba Yaga - tone poem

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Alexander Soumm (violin)

Tung-Chien Chuang (conductor).

Live from London's Temple Church the BBC Singers with contemporary choral Christmas pieces

Friday, The Bbc Symphony Orchestra20180202Tom McKinney concludes a week of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Today includes a concert they gave at the Barbican in November with a programme of Ruders, Shostakovich and Strauss. The BBC Symphony Chorus join the Orchestra for the Beatitudes by Bliss, and Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with music by Dohnanyi.

2pm

Poul Ruders: Concerto in Pieces (Purcell Variations)

Shostakovich: Concerto in C minor, Op 35, for piano, trumpet and string orchestra

Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30

Alan Thomas (trumpet)

Behzod Abduraimov (piano)

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

c.3.20pm

Cowie: Earth Music

BBC Singers

c.3.35pm

Dohnanyi: Ruralia hungarica, Op 32b

Gergely Madaras (conductor)

c.4.05pm

Bliss: The Beatitudes

Emily Birsan (soprano)

Ben Johnson (tenor)

Andrew Davis (conductor).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra in concert at the Barbican in London.

Friday, The 'best Of 2017' Featuring The Bbc Sso, Bbc Singers And Bbc So20171229Jonathan Swain concludes his 'Best of 2017' week from the BBC performing groups. Today features a concert the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra gave at the Muskverein in Vienna last month, for which they were joined by violinist Nicolai Znaider for Brahms' Violin Concerto. Then to the BBC Singers and highlights of a Palestrina and Bruckner concert they gave at St Giles' Cripplegate in London's Barbican. And finally to the BBC Symphony Orchestra; Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius' complete Lemminkainen Legends.

2pm

Britten: Four Sea Interludes

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor,'Scottish

Nicolaj Znaider (violin)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

c.3.45pm

Palestrina Salve Regina

Bruckner: Christus factus est

Palestrina: Stabat Mater

Robert Quinney (conductor)

c.4.10pm

Sibelius: Lemminkainen - Four Legends:

I Lemminkainen and the Maidens of Saari

II The Swan of Tuonela

III Lemminikainen in Tuonela

IV The Return of Lemminikainen

Sakari Oramo (conductor).

The Best of 2017, featuring the BBC SSO, BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Friday, The Birds20211015Ian Skelly with the last of his visits to the concert halls of Berlin, Glasgow and the Netherlands.

Croatian conductor Ivan Repuši? directs the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin in Haydn, Respighi and Boris Papandopulo; there's more from Holland Baroque and a piece by Naomi Pinnock

Including:

Respighi: Gli uccelli (The Birds)

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Ivan Repuši?, conductor

JS Bach: Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582

Herman Hollanders: O vos omnes

Herman Finkers: Ave Maria

Benedictus

Friday, The Bourgeois Gentleman20221216Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Richard Strauss's suite Le bourgeois gentilhomme.

Presented by Penny Gore

Strauss fashioned his delightful suite Le bourgeois gentilhomme from music inspired by the witty play by Moliere and completed it, un-festively, on Christmas Day 1917. There's orchestral and chamber music by Beethoven and more Handel from soprano Sophie Junker

2.00pm

Grace-Evangeline Mason

Tenebrae factae sunt

BBC Singers

Will Dawes, conductor

Overture in C `Name Day`

Andrew Davis, conductor

Endless pleasure, from Semele

Sophie Junker, soprano

Concert de l'Hostel-Dieu

Franck-Emmanuel Comte, harpsichord & conductor

Kareem Roustom

Ramal

Fawzi Haimor, conductor

Friday, The Cbso At The Proms20220729Ian Skelly introduces music by Rachmaninov, Glinka and Ethel Smyth performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor designate, Kazuki Yamada, at this year's Proms. Plus a choice of music from Ian's Prom Guest and the last of this week's listener suggestions.

Sergey Rachmaninov: 'Lilacs

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

Igor Stravinsky (arr. Piatagorsky): Suite Italienne

Narek Hakhazaryan, cello

Oxana Sheychenko, piano

BBC PROM - Yamada conducts the CBSO Pt 1

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila - overture

Ethel Smyth: Concerto for Violin and Horn

Elena Urioste, violin

Ben Goldscheider, horn

Kazuki Yamada, conductor

INTERVAL

Prom artist's choice from Ben Goldscheider of music by Rameau

PROM Pt 2

Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor

Another chance to hear the CBSO at the Proms under its new chief conductor designate.

Friday, The Firebird20220121Ian Skelly rounds off this week of Afternoon Concert with the Berlin Philharmonic playing Stravinsky's complete music for The Firebird, and Hartmann's 'Concerto fun耀bre' with the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. There's also Beethoven in Bavaria and Diana Damrau singing songs by Richard Strauss at last year's George Enescu Festival in Romania.

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3, op. 72b

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, conductor

Hartmann: Violin Concerto ('Concerto fun耀bre')

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin

Kirill Petrenko, conductor

A selection of songs by R. Strauss

Diana Damrau, soprano

German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen

J退r退mie Rhorer, conductor

c.3pm

Stravinsky: The Firebird, ballet

Simon Laks: Concerto da Camera

Members of the German Symphony Orchestra

Stravinsky's ballet, The Firebird, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic.

Friday, The Rite Of Spring20230106Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert, featuring highlights from the Lucerne and Verbier Festivals. Today's programme includes the European Union Youth Orchestra in Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, and more from Avi Avital's Verbier Festival Bach concert. Plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Japan with music by Maconchy and Purcell.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

c.2pm

Maconchy Proud Thames Coronation Overture

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

Juan Crisostomo Arriaga String Quartet no.1 in D minor

Aris Quartet

Vivaldi Flute Concerto in G minor, RV 439 'La notte

Isabel Lehmann (recorder)

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)

Liszt R退miniscences de 'Norma', S.394

Emanuil Ivanov (piano)

Purcell Music for a While

Roderick Williams (baritone)

c.3pm

Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor

c.3.45

Bach Excerpts from 'Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

Avi Avital (mandolin)

Maurice Steger (recorder)

David Bergmüller (lute)

Hille Perl (viola da gamba)

Sebastian Wienand (harpsichord and organ)

Debussy Pr退lude

Friday, The Scottish Symphony20211105Fiona Talkington rounds of a week exploring the symphonies of Felix Mendelssohn with a new recording of Symphony No 3, 'Scottish', Roderick Cox conducting the BBC Philharmonic. Augustin Hadelich is the soloist in Sibelius's Violin Concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, who also perform Mendelssohn's The Hebrides overture, and there are madrigals by Gesualdo with Collegium Vocale Ghent;

Our living composer series this week, performed by BBC ensembles, features the music of Anna Clyne with the BBC Philharmonic.

Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas (overture) Op 95

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47

Augustin Hadelich, violin

Andr退s Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Kapsberger: Toccata Cromatica III & IV

Gesualdo: Selection from Madrigali a 5 voci, libro Quinto

Thomas C. Boysen, lute

Philippe Herreweghe, conductor

c.3pm

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, ‘Scottish

Roderick Cox, conductor

Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour

Ben Gernon, conductor

Kapsberger: Toccata I

Mendelssohn: The Hebrides, op. 26, overture in B minor ('Fingal's Cave')

Roderick Cox conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Mendelssohn's Third Symphony.

Friday, The Ulster Orchestra20180323Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Symphonies by Brahms and Sibelius bookend today's programme. which also includes a performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto - a work which is now cherished, but was largely ignored during the composer's lifetime.

2pm

Brahms - Symphony No.3 Op.90

Beethoven - Violin Concerto Op.61

Sergey Khachatryan (violin)

Rafael Payare (conductor)

3.25pm

Mendelssohn - Calm Sea and Prosperous Op.27

Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)

3.35pm

Neruda: Concerto for Trumpet and Strings

Pacho Flores (trumpet)

4.15pm

Sibelius - Symphony No. 1 Op.39

Rafael Payare (conductor).

Penny Gore showcases the Ulster Orchestra performing Brahms, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.

Friday, Ulster Orchestra20170317Katie Derham showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme includes works by Tchaikovsky and Haydn, and Afternoon on 3's British music season continues with Vaughan Williams' Oboe Concerto and Elgar's Enigma Variations.

2pm

Sibelius: Karelia Overture, Op.10

Ben Gernon (conductor)

2.10pm

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.2 in G major, Op. 44

Barry Douglas (piano)

Rafael Payare (conductor)

2.55pm

Haydn: Symphony No 104 in D major (H. 1/104)

Jac van Steen (conductor)

3.25pm

Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto

Ramon Ortega Quero (oboe)

3.45pm

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Jac van Steen (conductor).

The Ulster Orchestra in music by Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Vaughan Williams and Elgar.

Friday, Ulster Orchestra20171103Tom McKinney showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme continues Afternoon Concert's celebration of the descriptive power of Tone Poems, including works by Bax, Alwyn and Vaughan Williams, together with First Symphonies by Beethoven and Mahler.

2pm

Beethoven: Symphony No.1 in C major, Op. 21

Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D Major (Titan)

Rafael Payare (conductor)

3.25pm

Bax: Cathleen-ni-Houlihan

Willian Alwyn: Blackdown

Vaughan Williams: Three Impressions for Orchestra

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

4.20pm

Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Jac Van Steen (conductor).

Friday, Variations On A Rococo Theme20211126Cellist Laura van der Heijden plays Tchaikovsky with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; pianist Khatia Buniatishvili plays two of Beethoven's best-known sonatas; we've more from composer Susan Spain-Dunk and there's music for a lavish, 16th-century Medici Florentine wedding.

Presented by Penny Gore

Susan Spain-Dunk: Malaya

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Stephen Bell, conductor

La Pellegrina, Part Two

Music for the wedding of Ferdinando de' Medici and Christine de Lorraine, Florence 1589

including music by Giulio Romolo Caccini, Cristofano Malvezzi, Luca Marenzio and Emilio de' Cavalieri

Voces Suaves

Cappella Amsterdam

Capriccio Stravagante

Skip Sempe, director

c.3pm

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme

Laura van der Heijden, cello

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Dvorak: Symphonic variations

Ulster Orchestra

Jac van Steen, conductor

Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op.13 `Pathetique`

Khatia Buniatishvili, piano

Susan Spain-Dunk: The Kentish Downs

Beethoven: Sonata in C sharp minor, Op.27/1 `Moonlight`

Cellist Laura van der Heijden plays Tchaikovsky with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Friday, Vaughan Williams 150: Symphony No 820221014Rounding off a week featuring the music of Vaughan Williams and friends as Radio 3 marks the composer's 150th anniversary, Ian Skelly introduces an afternoon of live recordings by BBC ensembles and from around Europe.

In today's 3pm spotlight, Martyn Brabbins conducts a new recording of Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 8 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, there are works by two of his students, Grace Williams and Elizabeth Maconchy, and Renaud Capucon plays music by his teacher Ravel. Finishing the week with a nod to the ongoing influence and respect for Vaughan Williams amongst British composers today, Martyn Brabbins returns with Judith Weir's nature-inspired piece Forest.

Including:

Grace Williams: Ballades for Orchestra; No. 1

BBC Welsh National Orchestra

Vernon Handley, conductor

Vaughan Williams: Violin Sonata in A minor; 1st movement - Fantasia

Jennifer Pike, violin

Martin Roscoe, piano

Maconchy: The Land

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Odaline de la Martinez, conductor

c.2.40pm

Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor (arr. for orchestra by Yan Maresz)

Renaud Capucon, violin

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alain Altinoglu, conductor

c.3pm

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.8

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Finzi: Elegy Op. 22 arr. for string quartet

Finzi Quartet

Vaughan Williams: Tarry Trowsers; The Carter; Ward the Pirate (from 6 English Folksongs 1912)

BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

c.3.45pm

Parry: The Chivalry of the Sea

David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

Judith Weir: Forest

Martyn Brabbins conducts a new recording of Vaughan Williams's Eighth Symphony.

Friday, Woyrsch's First Symphony20220527Ian Skelly wraps up his week of music making from and about Spain with the RTVE Symphony Orchestra and Miguel @ngel G mez Mart퀀nez conducting a rarely heard symphony by Felix Woyrsch. Also, more from organist Olivier Latry in Barcelona, Steven Osborne plays Rachmaninov's Corelli Variations, Radio 3 New Generation Artists Katharina Konradi and Catriona Morison sing duets from Schumann's Spanish Songbooks, and music from Jordi Savall.

Including:

Ravel: ‘Alborada del Gracioso' from ‘Miroirs

BBC Philharmonic

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Rachmaninov: Corelli Variations

Steven Osborne, piano

Anon: Folias Criollas

Antonio de Cabazon: Pavana con sua glosa

Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall

Liszt: Weinen Klagen Sorgen Zagen

Olivier Latry, organ

(The organ of Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona)

3.00

Woyrsch: Symphony No 1

RTEV Symphony Orchestra

Miguel @ngel G mez Mart퀀nez, conductor

Schumann: `Erste Begebnung` Op74

Schumann: `Botschaft` Op74

Schumann: `Bedeckt mich mir Blumen` Op138/4

Katharina Konradi, soprano

Catriona Morison, mezzo-soprano

Joseph Middleton, piano

Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnol

The RTVE Symphony Orchestra perform a rarely heard symphony by Felix Woyrsch.

Friday, Yulianna Avdeeva Plays Prokofiev20221007Ian Skelly introduces more recordings of live performances from around Europe

In the 3pm spotlight today, Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3 played by Yulianna Avdeeva with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart, Mozart in Geneva, and another motet by the French Baroque composer Lalande from the Vac Early Music Days festival.

Including:

Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Michael Sanderling, conductor

Mozart: Symphony in D, K. 196+121 'La finta giardiniera

Wiener Concert-Verein

Pablo Boggiano, conductor

c.3pm

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 in C, Op.26

Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

Teodor Currentzis, conductor

Kodaly: Dances from Galကnta

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Joel Levi, conductor

Lalande: Notus in Judaea Deus, S. 63 24'52 + appl.

Purcell Choir

Orfeo Orchestra

Gyorgy Vashegyi, conductor

Prokofiev's third piano concerto played by Yulianna Avdeeva

Friday: Bbc Philharmonic20181130Dvo?ကk, Ginastera, and Saariaho from live recordings by the BBC Philharmonic. Beginning with Arthur Benjamin's wartime piece for viola, we'll also hear a Dvo?ကk symphony written for the Philharmonic Society in London and a Saariaho piece whose postscript comes from T. S. Eliot's poem 'The Waste Land'.

2.00pm

Elegy, Waltz and Toccata for Viola and Orchestra

Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad, viola

Symphony No.7

Nuno Coelho, conductor

Zimmermann

Symphony in One Movement (Revised Edition)

Antheil

Specter of the Rose, Waltz (1946)

John Storg倀rds, conductor

Alwyn

The Ship that Died of Shame (1955)

Rumon Gamba, conductor

c. 3.30pm

David Matthews

Toward Sunrise

Jac van Steen, conductor

Concierto Argentino

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Xiayin Wang, piano

Kaija Saariaho

Notes on Light

Jakob Kullberg, cello

c. 4.30pm

Var耀se

Am退riques

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Live recordings of Dvorak, Ginastera and Saariaho by the BBC Philharmonic.

Friday: Mendelssohn And Shostakovich20180914Tom Redmond brings to an end a week of concerts recorded in Belgium. Today's concert features the Li耀ge Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christian Arming performing Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13.

Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Jodie Devos, soprano

Lore Binon, soprano

Czech Philharmonic Chorus, Brno

Women's voices

Petr Fiala, director

Christian Arming, conductor

Recorded in the Philharmonic Hall, Li耀ge

c.3.45pm:

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony no 13 in B flat minor, Op 113 ('Babi Yar')

Alexander Vinogradov, bass

Men's voices of the Czech Philharmonic Chorus, Brno

The Liege Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs Mendelssohn and Shostakovich

From April To December20191206BBC Philharmonic in Concert: music by Sibelius, Prokofiev, Schumann, Foulds & Tchaikovsky. From April in England with Foulds to Tchaikovsky's Russian winter daydreams. And first Sibelius takes us deep into the Nordic forests. Presented by Penny Gore.

Sibelius: The Wood Nymph

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2

with Arabella Steinbacher (violin)

Schumann: Symphony No 3 (Rhenish)

Conductor John Storgards

3.30pm

Foulds: April-England

Conductor Rumon Gamba

3.40pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1 (Winter Daydreams)

Conductor Ben Gernon

The BBC Philharmonic perform Sibelius, Prokofiev, Schumann, Foulds and Tchaikovsky

From Denmark To Sweden20230524Ian Skelly introduces recordings from around Europe.

Continuing his week of music from Denmark and Sweden, Ian crosses the ؀resund Bridge from Copenhagen to Malm怀, with a Danish composer and Swedish orchestra - Nielsen's Fourth Symphony, 'The Inextinguishable', his celebration of the will to live, played by the Malm怀 Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Bancroft. Just a little way up the coast, the Helsingborg Guitar Festival takes place, and Ian has recordings from the 2023 edition, featuring Swedish guitar duo Mats Bergstr怀m and G怀ran S怀llscher. And there are further recordings from the Mozart Week which took place this January in Salzburg.

Including:

Lennon & McCartney arr. Brouwer: Penny Lane; She's Leaving Home

Mats Bergstr怀m, guitar

G怀ran S怀llscher, guitar

Bechara El-Khoury: Flute concerto No 2 (Nordic Dreams)

Ulla Miilmann, flute

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi, conductor

Mozart: Symphony No 11 in D major, K 84

Europa Galante

Fabio Biondi, director

c. 3pm

Nielsen: Symphony No 4, Op 29 (The Inextinguishable)

Ryan Bancroft, conductor

Bo Nilsson arr. Mats Bergstr怀m: Arctic Romance

Leo Brouwer: Micropiezas

The Malm\u00f6 Symphony Orchestra perform Nielsen's Symphony No 4, 'The Inextinguishable'.

Gabetta Plays Elgar20220503Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta plays the elegiac late concerto by Edward Elgar, plus extracts from Mozart operas and Beethoven's 'Ghost' Trio.

Presented by Ian Skelly

In our series this week of great concertos for string instruments, Sol Gabetta joins the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Krzysztof Urbanski for Elgar's poignant and much-loved Cello Concerto.

2.00pm

Dalla sua pace; In quali eccessi - Mi tradi quell'alma ingrata from Don Giovanni

Olga Bezsmertna, soprano

Pavel Kolgatin, tenor

German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

Michael Schønwandt, conductor

Dvorak

The Golden Spinning-Wheel

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov, conductor

3.00pm

Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85

Sol Gabetta, cello

Krzysztof Urbanski, conductor

Trio in D, Op.70/1, ‘Ghost

ATOS Trio

Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta plays the elegiac late concerto by Edward Elgar.

Gaia Theory20210331The BBC SO play Prokofiev's Sixth Symphony and works by Jonathan Dove and Matthew Taylor.
Gerhaher Sings Mahler20221123Baritone Christian Gerhaher sing's Mahler's cycle of Ruckert-Lieder with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Antonello Manacorda.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Written at the end of Mahler's life, his cycle sets five poems by Friedrich Ruckert - ranging from the beauty of 'the breath of blossoms red' to the elegiac 'I have been lost to the world'. There's also Schubert's evergreen 'Unfinished' Symphony and music by compatriots Dvorak and Janacek.

2.00pm

Beethoven

Coriolan Overture, Op.62

Antonello Manacorda, conductor

Rikadla - Children's Rhymes

Magdalena Kozena, mezzo-soprano

Christopher Richards, clarinet

Simon Rattle, piano

Suite in A, Op.98 ('American')

Simon Rattle, conductor

3.00pm

Symphony no.8 in B minor, D.759 'Unfinished

Christian Gerhaher, baritone

Baritone Christian Gerhaher sing's Mahler's cycle of Ruckert-Lieder.

German Ensembles (1-4)20210607Penny Gore introduces performances by German ensembles throughout the week. Today starts with a period instrument ensemble, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in a concert recorded in December directed from the violin by ɀva Borhi. It features symphonies by Carl Stamitz and Haydn, music by Gossec and JS Bach, and also the trumpet concerto by Johann Wilhelm Hertel, with Jaroslav Roucek as soloist. Then, in a concert from 2006, choral music by Robert Schumann with the SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart and soloists, accompanied by the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart, under the baton of Heinz Holliger.

2.00pm

Carl Stamitz: Symphony in D ('La Chasse')

Fran瀀ois-Joseph Gossec: Suite de No뀀ls

Johann Wilhelm Hertel: Trumpet Concerto No. 3 in D

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 89 in F, Hob. I:89

Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich steh´ an Deiner Krippen hier, BWV 469 (recitation verse and music)

Beatrix Hülsemann, narrator (in JS Bach)

Jaroslav Roucek, trumpet

ɀva Borhi, conductor and violin

3.00pm

Robert Schumann: Nachtlied, op. 108

Robert Schumann: Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, op. 112

SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart

Heinz Holliger, conductor

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra play Stamitz, Haydn and Hertel. And choral music by Schumann.

German Ensembles (2-4)20210608Penny Gore with music performed by German ensembles. Today opens with Wayne Marshall directing the WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne from the piano, in an all-Gershwin programme including his variations on I Got Rhythm, a medley of themes from Hollywood, his Rhapsody No. 2 for piano and orchestra, closing with the Cuban Overture. Then, Isabelle Faust performs Beethoven's violin concerto with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, directed by Rapha뀀l Pichon. The afternoon continues with an archive concert from 2014 with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Roger Norrington, featuring more Beethoven, music from Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet, and finishing with Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, 'From the New World'.

2.00pm

George Gershwin: I Got Rhythm, from 'Girl Crazy' (Variations for piano and orchestra) / [William C. Schoenfeld, arranger]

George Gershwin: Gershwin in Hollywood (medley) / [Robert Russell Bennett, arranger]

George Gershwin: Rhapsody No. 2, for piano and orchestra

George Gershwin: Cuban Overture

Wayne Marshall, piano and conductor

2.45pm

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, op. 61

Isabelle Faust, violin

Rapha뀀l Pichon, conductor

3.30pm

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F, op. 93

Hector Berlioz: Romeo alone, from 'Romeo and Juliet, op. 17

Anton퀀n Dvo?ကk: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95 ('From the New World')

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart

Sir Roger Norrington, conductor

Music for piano and orchestra by Gershwin, Beethoven's Violin Concerto, Berlioz and Dvorak

German Ensembles (3-4)20210609Penny Gore with music performed by German ensembles. Today starts with Schumann's overture Hermann and Dorothea, with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart, conducted by Sir Roger Norrington. The Gaechinger Cantorey and soloists, under the baton of Hans-Christoph Rademann, perform an all-Haydn concert opening the Stuttgart Music Festival 2018. It features the Symphony No.100 in G, 'Military', then the aria 'Berenice, che fai?' with soprano Chen Reiss, finishing with the Mass No. 9 in C, 'Missa in tempore belli'.

2.00pm

Robert Schumann: Hermann and Dorothea, op. 136, overture

Heinz Holliger, conductor

2.10pm

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 100 in G, Hob. I:100 ('Military')

Joseph Haydn: 'Berenice, che fai?', Hob. XXIVa:10 (soprano Chen Reiss)

Joseph Haydn: Mass No. 9 in C, Hob. XXII:9 ('Missa in tempore belli')

Chen Reiss, soprano

Stine Marie Fischer, contralto

Nicholas Mulroy, tenor

Peter Harvey, bass

Hans-Christoph Rademann, conductor

Schumann's overture Hermann and Dorothea, Haydn's 'Military' Symphony and Mass No 9.

German Ensembles (4-4)20210611Penny Gore closing this week of performances by German ensembles. Today, the period instrument ensemble The Frieburg Baroque Orchestra directed by Gottfried von der Goltz in repertoire by Haydn, his Symphony No. 70, and Mozart, including contredanses and opera arias as well as his Exsultate jubilate, with soprano Christiane Karg as soloist, finishing with the Symphony No. 38 in D, 'Prague'. Then, to close the afternoon, Krzysztof Urba?ski conducts the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart, in Beethoven's Coriolan Overture and Symphony No. 1, but in between them, Weinberg's Cello Concertino, with Nicolas Altstaedt as soloist.

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 70 in D, Hob. I:70

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Five Contredanses, K. 609

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Lungi da te, mio bene, Sifare's aria from 'Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87 (Laceulle Gijs, horn)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Aer tranquillo e d쀀 sereni, Aminta's aria from 'Il Re Pastore, K. 208

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D, K. 504 ('Prague')

Christiane Karg, soprano

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Gottfried von der Goltz,

c. 3.20pm

Ludwig van Beethoven: Coriolan, op. 62, overture

Mieczys?aw Weinberg: Cello Concertino, op. 43 bis

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C, op. 21

Nicolas Altstaedt, cello

Krzysztof Urba?ski, conductor

Music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Weinberg

German Orchestras (1-4)20190527A week of concerts featuring German orchestras, beginning today with the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin

Presented by Kate Molleson

2.00pm

Guillaume Connesson: Flammenschrift

Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47

Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony, Op.64

Nikolaj Znaider, violin

Stephane Deneve, conductor

3.50pm

J.S.Bach: Orchestral Suite No.1 inC, BWV 1066

C.P.E Bach: Cello Concerto in A, Wq172

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.98 in B flat, Hob: 1:98

Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello

Ton Koopman, conductor

Two concerts by the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin.

German Orchestras (2-4)20190528Continuing a week of concerts by German orchestras. Today we hear from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin.

Presented by Kate Molleson

2.00pm

Francis Poulenc: Concerto for organ, timpani and strings in G minor, FP 93

Camille Saint-Saens: Symphony No.3 in C, Op.78 `Organ`

Iveta Apkalna, organ

Mariss Jansons, conductor

3.10pm

Heinrich Schutz: Das ist mir lieb, Psalm 116

Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.68

RIAS Chamber Chorus

Justin Doyle, conductor

Igor Levit, piano

Robin Ticciati, conductor

Concerts by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin

German Orchestras (3-4)20190529Our tour around Germany lands in Leipzig today for a concert by the renowned Gewandhaus Orchestra.

Presented by Kate Molleson

2.00pm

Felix Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture, Op.95

Robert Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C, Op.61

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 in A, Op.90 `Italian`

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Andris Neslons, conductor

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra play Mendelssohn and Schumann.

German Orchestras (4-4)20190531Our week of concerts by German orchestras concludes today with another by the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, under their music director Robin Ticciati.

Presented by Kate Molleson

2,00pm

George Benjamin: Sudden Time

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op.61

Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27

Christian Tetzlaff, violin

Robin Ticciati, conductor

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin conducted by Robin Ticciati.

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin20210126This week's featured group, the German Symphony Orchestra. Berlin, perform Mahler conducted by Simon Rattle and ballet music by Stravinsky with Robin Ticciati.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Robin Ticciati, conductor

Henry Purcell: March, from 'Funeral Music for Queen Mary

Harrison Birtwistle: Cortege for 14 Musicians

Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (arr. Glen Cortese)

Magdalena Koženက, mezzo

Andrew Staples, tenor

Simon Rattle, conductor

Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon in echo duodecimi toni a 10

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - Apollon musag耀te, ballet in two scenes for strings (1947)

More performances from Berlin introduced by Tom McKinney.

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin20210129In the final programme this week with the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. Tom McKinney introduces performances of music by Antonio Vivaldi, Sergei Rachmaninov, Klaus Lang and Richard Wagner, including orchestral arrangements of music from Wagner's opera 'Gotterdammerung', conducted by Robin Ticciati; and also on the programme, a Brahms serenade with a twist.

Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in D RV234 'L'Inquietudine

(Alina Ibragimova, violin)

Johannes Brahms: Serenade No 1

Stephen Braun, jazz cello

Rolf Zielke, jazz piano

Robin Ticciati, conductor

Sergei Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead

Klaus Lang: Ionisches Licht

Richard Wagner: Excerpts from 'G怀tterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods)' (arr. Erich Leinsdorf)

Tom McKinney concludes his week with the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin.

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin (1-4)20210125Tom McKinney introduces a week of recordings from the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin with music by Smetana, Martinu, Dvorak and others. The orchestra was founded at the end of the Second World War by the American occupation forces when it was known as the Radio Orchestra of the American Sector. It adopted its present name in the 1990s and has built a considerable reputation across the world, attracting some of the foremost conductors of our time.

Bed?ich Smetana: Overture to 'The Bartered Bride

Bohuslav Martin?: Cello Concerto No. 1 in D

(Cello - Tom  Jamn퀀k)

Anton퀀n Dvo?ကk: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 10

Jakub Hr?ša, conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor

Antonello Manacorda, conductor

Tom McKinney introduces a week of recordings from the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin.

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin (3-4)20210127In today's selection of performances from the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, we hear music from Richard Strauss, Mozart, Haydn and Messiaen; plus music from the Norwegian composer, conductor and organist, Knut Nystedt. Introduced by Tom McKinney.

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 6 in D, Hob. I:6, 'Le matin

Knut Nystedt: Pia Memoria, op. 65

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 1 in E flat, K. 16

Olivier Messiaen: Pri耀re du Christ montant vers son P耀re, from 'L'Ascension (The Ascension), Four Meditations for Orchestra

Cornelius Meister, conductor

The German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, perform Strauss, Mozart, Haydn and Messiaen.

Gerstein Plays Rachmaninov20221125Pianist Kirill Gerstein joins the Berlin Philharmonic to play Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, plus there's music by Mussorgsky, Liszt and Schulhoff.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Russian-born American pianist Kirill Gerstein is one of the world's great musicians, famed for his musical insight, prodigious technique and questing repertoire. Here, he is joined by Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic to play perhaps the most famous concerto of the last century. There's also Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and a jazz-infused symphony by Ervin Schulhoff.

2.00pm

Lyadov

Kikimora, Op.63

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Kirill Petrenko, conductor

Three Concert Etudes, S.144: Un Sospiro

Emanuil Ivanov, piano

Hercules Hall, Munich

Symphony No. 2

Three Concert Etudes: Il Lamento

3.00pm

Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor, Op.18

Kirill Gerstein, piano

Three Concert Etudes: La Leggierezza

Pianist Kirill Gerstein plays Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto.

Giulio Cesare In Egitto, Acts 1 And 220090416Handel Operas 2009

As part of BBC Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel's operas, Jonathan Swain presents the first two acts of the composer's most popular - and arguably best - opera, Giulio Cesare in Egitto. It features possibly one of the most seductive heroines in all opera: Cleopatra, a role famous for two great arias, Se pieta and Piangero.

Handel: Giulio Cesare in egitto (Acts 1 and 2)

Giulio Cesare - Marijana Mijanovic (mezzo-soprano)

Cleopatra - Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano)

Cornelia, widow of Caesar's enemy Pompey - Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo-soprano)

Sesto, her son - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)

Tolomeo, Cleopatra's brother - Bejun Mehta (countertenor)

Achilla, Tolomeao's sidekick - Alan Ewing (bass)

Nireno, Cleopatra's sidekick - Pascal Bertin (countertenor)

Curio, Caesar's sidekick - Jean-Michel Ankaoua (bass)

Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble

Marc Minkowski (conductor).

Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Acts 1 and 2.

Good Friday, Membra Jesu Nostri20220415Penny Gore introduces an afternoon of music for Good Friday, including a performance of Buxtehude's cantata cycle, Membra Jesu Nostri, from the Church of Saints Simon and Jude in Prague - a unique work based on texts from a medieval Latin hymn, 'Salve mundi salutare', with each of the seven cantatas dedicated to a different part of Christ's crucified body. Also today, at 3pm this week's focus on BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra recordings concludes with Joana Carneiro conducting Stravinsky's Petrushka, pianist Lukas Vondracek plays Beethoven, and Faure's Pelleas and Melisande.

Including:

Hindemith: Trauermusik

Scott Dickinson viola

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.2.10pm

Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV75 (c.60')

I. Ad pedes - II. Ad genua

C退line Scheen (soprano)

Barbora Kabကtkovက (soprano)

Damien Guillon (countertenor, director)

Ond?ej Holub (tenor)

Jarom퀀r Nosek (bass)

Ensemble Tourbillon

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, op. 90

Lukas Vondracek (piano)

c.2.40pm

III. Ad manus - IV. Ad latus

c.3pm

Stravinsky: Petrushka

Joana Carneiro (conductor)

c.3.40pm

V. Ad pectus

Faure: Pelleas and Melisande

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Francois Leleux (conductor)

c.4.05pm

VI. Ad cor - VII. Ad faciem

Buxtehude's cantata cycle from Prague.

Gossec's Grande Messe Des Morts20161130Penny Gore introduces a complete performance of Fran瀀ois-Joseph Gossec's Grande Messe des Morts recorded in Vienna last year. It's performed by Wiener Singakademie with Les Si耀cles and conducted by Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth.

Gossec was an important influence on in 19th century France, developing the symphonic form and later writing music for the Revolutionary regimes. This large scale work, written in 1760, is said to have have been a precursor to the later Requiem composed by Berlioz.

2:00pm

Chantal Santon-Jeffrey (soprano)

Anaik More (mezzo-soprano)

Pascal Bourgeois (tenor)

Jean-Marc Salzmann (baritone)

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth (conductor).

Penny Gore introduces a complete performance of Gossec's Grande Messe des Morts.

Hadelich Plays Bruch20220506Italian-born Augustin Hadelich plays Bruch's evergreen Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, plus there's music by Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn.

Presented by Ian Skelly

German composer Max Bruch wrote his first violin concerto under the shadow of Mendelssohn's concerto of 20 years earlier. But it has taken on a life of its own, and is now one of the best-loved works for violin and orchestra

2.00pm

Symphony no.1 in C minor, Op.11

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thierry Fischer, conductor

Bach

Prelude, fugue and allegro in E flat major, BWV.998

Sean Shibe, guitar

3.00

Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op.26

Symphony No. 1 in D, Hob.I:1

Augustin Hadelich, violin

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin

Cornelius Meister, conductor

Il Delirio Amoroso

Francesca Lombardi Mazzuli, soprano

L'Arte del Mondo

Massimiliano Toni, conductor

Italian-born Augustin Hadelich performs Max Bruch's evergreen Violin Concerto in G minor.

Hadelich Plays Dvorak20220907Augustin Hadelich plays Dvorak's violin concerto and Cristian M?celaru conducts the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne in works by Mendelssohn and Brahms.

The composers of the Romantic generation saw the world differently, and they heard it differently, too. A stormy voyage off the Scottish coast set music playing in Mendelssohn's head: music that grew into the overture The Hebrides. Brahms launches his Third Symphony in heroic style - but brings it to a close in the most radiant of sunset glows. Dvo?ကk, meanwhile, fused Classical forms with Czech folklore and his own deeply poetic spirit to create a violin concerto that dances as joyfully as it sings. Grammy Award-winner Augustin Hadelich is its champion tonight, as the Proms welcomes the Cologne-based WDR Symphony Orchestra and its energetic Chief Conductor Cristian M?celaru.

Mendelssohn: Overture ‘The Hebrides

Dvorak: Violin Concerto in A minor

2.55pm

Interval: Artist Choice

Prom conductor Cristian M?celaru with his inspiring CD track

3.10pm

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major

Augustin Hadelich, violin

Cristian M?celaru, conductor

Augustin Hadelich plays Dvorak's Violin Concerto. Plus, music by Mendelssohn and Brahms.

Haenchen Conducts Shostakovich20220504German cellist Lukas Plag plays Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto, and there's music by Mozart and Richard Strauss.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Shostakovich wrote his first cello concerto for the great Russian virtuoso Mstislav Rostropovich and, ever since, it has been championed by cellists around the world. Despite its seemingly innocuous opening, it packs a hefty emotional punch.

2.00pm

Sonata in E flat, K.282

Francesco Piemontesi, piano

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Op.60: Suite after Moliere

German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

Michael Schønwandt, conductor

3.00pm

Cello Concerto No.1 in E flat, Op.107

Lukas Plag, cello

South Netherlands Philharmonic

Hartmut Haenchen, conductor

Mahler

5 Ruckert-Lieder

Catriona Morison, mezzo

Yuka Beppu, piano

German cellist Lukas Plag plays Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto.

Halevy From Hannover20200227Elizabeth Alker introduces a performance of Fromental Halevy's 19th-century grand opera, La Juive - 'The Jewess' - from Hannover Opera. In its day, La Juive was considered one of the great musical works of its time and might even have inspired moments in Richard Wagner's work. It was largely forgotten for much of the 20th century but has enjoyed a widespread revival in the last 20 years. It tells the story of the love of a Christian man for a Jewish women and can be regarded as an advocacy for religious tolerance.

Fromental Halevy: La Juive

A grand opera in Five Acts.

Cast:

Rachel, the supposed daughter of El退azar - Hailey Clark, soprano,

El退azar, a Jewish goldsmith - Zoran Todorovich, tenor

L退opold, Imperial Prince - Matthew Newlin, tenor

Princess Eudoxie, niece of the emperor - Mercedes Arcur퀀, soprano,

Gian Francesco, Cardinal de Brogni, President of the Council - Shavleg Armasi, bass,

Ruggiero, city provost - Pavel Chervinsky, baritone,

Albert, a sergeant in the emperor's archers - Hubert Zapi r, bass,

Hanover State Opera Chorus

Hanover State Opera Auxiliary Chorus

Hanover State Orchestra

Constantin Trinks, conductor

Opera Matinee from Hannover

Handel: Admeto, Acts 1 And 220090521Handel Operas 2009

As part of BBC Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel's operas, Louise Fryer presents Acts 1 and 2 of Admeto, a work which holds a unique place among Handel's operas, as the last of them to be staged in his lifetime. This is considered by many to be the finest of the five works he wrote for the 'rival queens' - two star Italian sopranos who demanded equal billing.

The main roles are two very contrasting women who both love the hero, King Admeto of Thessaly. Comic relief is provided by the slow-witted but brave Hercules, who tries to rescue Admeto's wife from Hades, guarded by the three-headed hound Cerberus.

Including conversation with veteran Handel opera expert Winton Dean.

Handel: Admeto (Acts 1 and 2)

Admeto - Rene Jacobs (countertenor)

Alceste, his wife - Rachel Yakar (soprano)

Antigona, his former fiancee - Jill Gomez (soprano)

Trasimede - James Bowman (countertenor)

Ercole (Hercules) - Ulrik Cold (bass)

Orindo, Admeto's adviser - Rita Dams (mezzo-soprano)

Meraspe, Antigon's tutor - Max van Egmond (bass)

Il Complesso Barocco

Alan Curtis (director).

Louise Fryer presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's Admeto, starring countertenor Rene Jacobs.

Handel: Alcina (acts 1 And 2)20091015Handel Operas 2009

Jonathan Swain presents the first two acts of Alcina, regarded as possibly Handel's greatest opera. Arleen Auger stars as Alcina in this well-loved recording, now over 20 years old and still among the best of all Handel opera discs

Alcina is a sorceress who lures men to her enchanted island - then turns them into rocks, trees or animals when she grows tired of them. Her latest victim is Ruggiero - but his betrothed, Bradamante, won't give him up without a fight.

Including contributions from director James Conway and novelist Donna Leon.

Alcina - Arleen Auger (soprano)

Ruggiero - Della Jones (mezzo-soprano)

Morgana, Alcina's sister - Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano)

Bradamante - Kathleen Kuhlmann (contralto)

Oberto - Patrizia Kwella (soprano)

Oronte - Maldwyn Davies (tenor)

Melisso - John Tomlinson (bass)

Opera Stage Chorus

City of London Baroque Sinfonia

Richard Hickox (conductor).

Jonathan Swain presents Acts 1 and 2 of Alcina, seen as possibly Handel's greatest opera.

Handel: Arianna In Creta (acts 1 And 2)20090924Handel Operas 2009

Presented by Penny Gore.

The series of Handel operas continues with the first two acts of Arianna in Creta - the classic story of a boy, a girl and a half-man/half-bull monster.

Arianna - Miah Persson (soprano)

Alceste - Lisa Milne (soprano)

Teseo - Kristina Hammarstrom (mezzo-soprano)

Carilda - Sonia Prina (contralto)

Tauride - Marina de Liso (mezzo-soprano)

Minos - Antonio Abete (bass)

Academy of Ancient Music

Christopher Hogwood (conductor).

The series of Handel operas continues with Acts 1 and 2 of Arianna in Creta.

Handel: Ariodante (acts 1 And 2)20091008Handel Operas 2009

Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with Ariodante, a work featuring joy and deep despair, love, hatred and revenge, set to some of the greatest music the composer ever wrote.

Presented by Louise Fryer, who talks to Janet Baker about one of her signature roles in this most appealing of Handel operas.

Ariodante - Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Ginevra, his betrothed - Edith Mathis (soprano)

Polinesso, the villain - James Bowman (countertenor)

Dalinda, Ginevra's maid - Norma Burrowes (soprano)

Lurcanio, Polinesso's brother - David Rendall (tenor)

King of Scotland, Ginevra's father - Samuel Ramey (bass)

Odardo, his attendant - Alexander Oliver (tenor)

London Voices

English Chamber Orchestra

Raymond Leppard (conductor).

Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with Acts 1 and 2 of Ariodante.

Handel: Arminio20091029Handel Operas 2009

As part of a complete cycle of Handel's operas, Louise Fryer presents a performance of Arminio, composed in 1736.

Arminio is a German prince defending his country - and his wife Tusnelda - against the invading Romans. Our sympathies are divided, though: the Roman general Varo is as noble and heroic as Arminio himself. The villain is Tusnelda's treacherous father Segeste, ever-ready to betray his fellow Germans - even his own family - to the enemy.

Arminio - Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)

Tusnelda - Geraldine McGreevy (soprano)

Sigismondo, her brother - Dominique Labelle (soprano)

Ramise, Arminio's sister - Manuela Custer (mezzo-soprano)

Varo - Luigi Petroni (tenor)

Tullio, Roman captain - Sytse Buwalda (countertenor)

Segeste - Riccardi Ristori (bass)

Il Complesso Barocco

Alan Curtis (conductor).

Louise Fryer presents a performance of Handel's opera Arminio.

Handel: Atalanta20091022Handel Operas 2009

Radio 3's cycle of Handel operas continues with Atalanta, a pastoral tale of kings and queens, shepherds and shepherdesses, with the customary plot lines of mistaken identities, scorned love, jealousy, near disaster and last-minute resolutions in time for a happy ending.

The opera was composed in 1736 for the wedding of Prince Frederick of Wales, and is rarely heard. This production is directed by Handel expert Nicholas McGegan, who joins Ian Skelly to discuss the work.

Atalanta, Princess of Arcadia - Dominique Labelle (soprano)

Meleagro, King of Etolia - Susanne Ryden (soprano)

Irene, a shepherdess - Cecile van de Sant (mezzo-soprano)

Amintas, A shepherd - Michael Slattery (tenor)

Nicander, father of Irene - Philip Cutlip (baritone)

Mercury - Corey McKern (baritone)

Hanover Opera Chamber Choir

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

Nicholas McGegan (director).

Ian Skelly presents a performance of Handel's opera Atalanta.

Handel: Berenice, Queen Of Egypt20091112Handel Operas 2009

As part of BBC Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel's operas, Penny Gore presents a performance of Berenice, Queen of Egypt, with Rudolph Palmer conducting the Brewer Chamber Orchestra in a recording from 1994.

The work plays revenge and conflict against love in a Roman-controlled Egypt, where Queen Berenice of Egypt is told by the senate in Rome to marry a young Roman, Alessandro, instead of her intended, the rival Egyptian Prince Demetrio. But he secretly prefers Berenice's sister Selene, and is plotting to desert the queen and use the marriage to seize the Egyptian throne, while the powerful backing of Rome threatens them all.

Penny is joined by countertenor and conductor Jonathan Peter Kenny, who has good news for the future of Premier League football, and conductor Alan Curtis who is currently making a new recording of Berenice in Italy.

Handel: Berenice, Queen of Egypt - opera in three acts

Berenice - Julianne Baird (soprano)

Alessandro - Andrea Matthews (soprano)

Demetrio - Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano)

Selene - D'Anna Fortunato (mezzo-soprano)

Arsace, another Prince - Drew Minter (countertenor)

Fabio, Roman ambassador - John McMaster (tenor)

Aristobolo, chief minister - Jan Opalach (bass)

Rudolph Palmer (conductor).

Penny Gore presents a performance of Berenice, Queen of Egypt from 1994.

Handel: Deidamia (acts 1 And 2)20091210Handel Operas 2009

Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with the last opera he wrote for the London stage before turning his attention to oratorios. Deidamia tells the story of the mythical daughter of King Lycomedes of Skyros, who bore a child by Achilles.

Deidamia - Simone Kermes (soprano)

Ulisse - Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano)

Nerea - Dominique Labelle (soprano)

Achille - Anna Maria Panzarella (soprano)

Fenice - Furio Zanasi (baritone)

Licomede - Antonio Abete (baritone)

Il Complesso Barocco

Alan Curtis (conductor).

BBC Radio 3's cycle of Handel operas continues with Acts 1 and 2 of Deidamia.

Handel: Ezio (acts 1 And 2)20090709Handel Operas 2009

Rarely heard after its London premiere in 1732, Ezio is considered to be a masterpiece of music drama, with its strong characters, thrilling arias and the occasional oddity, and it features Handel's only operatic bass aria with trumpet obbligato and an air accompanied by bagpipes.

Metastasio's plot is one of passion, murder and revenge. Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg leads as Ezio, a role created by the castrato Senesino.

Louise Fryer's guest is opera critic Barry Emslie, who has some individual and controversial views about Handel's operas.

Ezio, Roman general - Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)

Fulvia, his lover - Karina Gauvin (soprano)

Massimo, her father - Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (tenor)

Valentiniano, Emperor of Rome - Sonia Prina (contralto)

Onoria, his sister - Marianne Andersen (contralto)

Varo, Ezio's friend - Vito Priante (bass)

Il Complesso Barocco

Alan Curtis (director)

4.15pm

Haydn: String Quartet in F, Op 74, No 2

Ebene Quartet.

Louise Fryer presents a performance of Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's forgotten masterpiece Ezio

Handel: Faramondo20091119Handel Operas 2009

As part of BBC Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel's operas, Louise Fryer presents a performance of Faramondo. Another of the composer's neglected operas, it is a complex web of warring factions and mistaken identity and was written for the greatest singers of the age.

Faramondo - Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor)

Adolfo - Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)

Clotide - Sophie Karthauser (soprano)

Rosimonda - Marina de Liso (mezzo-soprano)

Gustavo - In-Sung Sim

Gernando - Xavier Sabata

Teobaldo - Fulvio Bettini

Childerico - Terry Wey

Swiss Radio Choir

I Barocchisti

Diego Fasolis (conductor).

Louise Fryer presents a performance of Handel's opera Faramondo.

Handel: Fernando, Re Di Castiglia20090716Handel Operas 2009

As BBC Radio 3 continues its journey though all of Handel's operas, Jonathan Swain is joined in the studio by Suzanne Aspden to talk about the dramatic, yet rarely performed, opera Fernando, Re di Castiglia.

Fernando - Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor)

Elvida - Veronica Cangemi (soprano)

Dionisio - Filippo Adami (tenor)

Isabella - Marianna Pizzolato (mezzo-soprano)

Alfonso - Neal Banerjee (tenor)

Sancio - Max Emanual Cencic (countertenor)

Altomaro - Antonio Abete (bass)

Ill Complesso Barocco

Alan Curtis (conductor).

Handel's Fernando, Re di Castiglia, featuring Lawrence Zazzo and Veronica Cangemiunder.

Handel: Flavio20090409Handel Operas 2009

As part of BBC Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel's operas, Louise Fryer presents a performance of Flavio, a tragi-comedy focusing on the complicated politics and love triangles surrounding two families in the Royal court of Lombardy.

Flavio - Jeffrey Gall

Guido - Derek Lee Ragin

Emilia - Lena Lootens

Teodata - Bernarda Fink

Vitige - Christina Hogman

Ugone - Gianpaolo Fagotto

Lotario - Ulrich Messthaler

Ensemble 415

Rene Jacobs (director).

Louise Fryer presents Handel's tragi-comic opera Flavio.

Handel: Hercules20091224Handel Operas 2009

Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Radio 3's complete series of Handel operas continues with a performance of Hercules from a stellar cast, including Gidon Saks, Anne Sofie von Otter and David Daniels. Written at time when Handel was becoming better known for his oratorios, his setting of the Greek myth was not as successful in its day as his earlier Italian operas had been. Only now has it been recognised that its musical quality and dramatic vigour justifies a more regular place in the opera house.

Handel: Hercules - music drama in three acts

Hercules - Gidon Saks (bass-baritone)

Dejanira - Anne Sofie von Otter (soprano)

Hyllus - Richard Croft (tenor)

Iole - Lynne Dawson (soprano)

Lichas - David Daniels (countertenor)

Priest of Jupiter - Marcos Pujol (baritone)

Choeur et Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble

Marc Minkowski (conductor).

BBC Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with a performance of Hercules.

Handel: Poro, Re Dell'indie, Acts 1 And 220090702Handel Operas 2009

Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with a performance of Poro, re dell'Indie.

As Alexander the Great forges his way into India defeating all in his path, Poro - his latest victim - considers taking his own life for the first of several times in the opera. He is only saved by his love for Queen Cleofide, and thus ensues a tale of deception, lust, jealousy and great intrigue.

Presented by Penny Gore, in conversation with Graham Cummings, who oversaw the edition for this performance.

Handel: Poro, re dell'Indie (Acts 1 and 2)

Poro - William Towers (countertenor)

Cleofide - Jutta Bohnert (soprano)

Erissena, Poro's sister - Franziska Gottwald (mezzo-soprano)

Alessandro (the Great) - Thomas Piffka (tenor)

Gandarte, Poro's general - Andrew Radley (countertenor)

Timagene, Alexander's general - Torben Jurgens

Akademie fur Alte Musik, Berlin

Konrad Junghanel (conductor).

Radio 3's cycle of Handel operas continues with a performance of Poro, re dell'Indie.

Handel: Serse20091126Handel Operas 2009

Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Radio 3's series of the complete Handel operas continues with Serse - a convoluted love intrigue set in the ancient world. One of the composer's most popular operas, it mixes seriousness and comedy, and counts the celebrated Ombra mai fu among its many memorable arias.

Handel: Serse - opera in three acts

Serse - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)

Romilda - Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz (soprano)

Atalanta - Sandrine Piau (soprano)

Arsamene - Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor)

Amastre - Silvia Tro Santafe (mezzo-soprano)

Ariodate - Giovanni Furlanetto (bass-baritone)

Elviro - Antonio Abete (bass)

Les Arts Florissants

William Christie (director).

With Penny Gore. BBC Radio 3's series of the complete Handel operas continues with Serse.

Handel: Siroe20090604Handel Operas 2009

Radio 3's series of Handel operas continues with Siroe, a work set in Ancient Persia in the 1720s.

To help put the piece in context, Louise Fryer talks to Professor Judith Milhous, from the City University of New York, about the intriguing world of opera and theatre in 1720s London.

Siroe, Prince of Persia - Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)

Emira, his Indian lover - Johanna Stojkovic (soprano)

Laodice, her rival - Sunhae Im (soprano)

Medarse, Siroe's younger brother - Gunther Schmid (countertenor)

Cosroe, their father - Sebastian Noack (baritone)

Arasse, Siroe's general - Timm de Jong (bass)

Capella Coloniensis

Andreas Spering (director).

Louise Fryer presents Handel's opera Siroe, with Ann Hallenberg and Capella Coloniensis.

Handel: Tolomeo, Acts 1 And 220090611Handel Opera Cycle

Continuing Radio 3's complete Handel opera cycle, Penny Gore presents Acts 1 and 2 of Tolomeo, a tale of marital and fraternal loyalty, deposition, deception and disguise.

Special guest countertenor Jonathan Peter Kenny, noted for his Handel roles including Tolomeo, joins Penny in the studio.

Handel: Tolomeo (Acts 1 and 2)

Tolomeo, banished ruler of Egypt - Axel Kohler (countertenor)

Seleuce, wife of Tolomeo - Linda Perillo (soprano)

Araspe, King of Cyprus - Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass)

Elisa, sister of Araspe - Romelia Lichtenstein (mezzo-soprano)

Alessandro, younger brother of Tolomeo - Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano)

Handel Festival Orchestra, Halle

Howard Arman (conductor)

4.25pm

Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op 33, No 5

Ysaye Quartet.

Penny Gore presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Tolomeo.

Haydn And Brahms With Leonidas Kavakos20230523Ian Skelly introduces more recordings from around Europe, with a focus this week on music making in Denmark and Sweden.

Today Ian has recordings from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in which the violinist Leonidas Kavakos steps up to the podium to conduct symphonies by Brahms and Haydn. Also on the bill, a chance to hear Jonas Frølund as soloist in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, one of the composer's last completed works before his untimely death, performed by an orchestra and conductor renowned for their recordings of Mozart's complete symphonies - the Danish Chamber Orchestra and Adကm Fischer. There's more Mozart, as Ian introduces a recording from January's Mozart Week in Salzburg, and BBC New Generation Artists collaborate in music by Boccherini.

Including:

Mozart: Overture to 'Ascanio in Alba

Europa Galante

Fabio Biondi, director

Haydn: Symphony No 64 in A major

Leonidas Kavakos, conductor

Monteverdi: La Sestina (extract)

Eric Ericson Chamber Choir

Grete Pedersen, conductor

Regis Campo: The Wonder of Life

RAI National Symphony Orchestra

Robert Trevino, conductor

c. 3pm

Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68

Boccherini: Fandango from Quintet in D major

Danish String Quartet

Sean Shibe (guitar)

c. 4pm

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K 622

Jonas Frølund (clarinet)

Adကm Fischer, conductor

Leonidas Kavakos conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Brahms and Haydn.

Haydn, Stravinsky And Beethoven At The Lucerne Festival20181228More orchestral treats from two conductors at the Lucerne Festival: Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth and Mariss Jansons. Haydn's witty 83rd symphony, also known as The Hen; Stravinsky's neo-classical Symphony in 3 movements; a rare chance to hear Beethoven's lesser known Mass - the one in C; plus Schumann, Rachmaninov and Bernstein.

Presented by Jonathan Swain

2.00pm

Haydn: Symphony No. 83 in G minor 'La Poule

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth, conductor

2.20pm

Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

Beethoven: Mass in C, op. 86

Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B flat, op. 38 ('Spring')

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43

Bernstein: Divertimento for Orchestra

Julia Kleiter, soprano

Gerhild Romberger , contralto

Christian Elsner , tenor

Florian Boesch , bass-baritone

Denis Matsuev , piano

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mariss Jansons, conductor

Performances of music by Haydn, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Schumann, Rachmaninov and Bernstein

Herbert Blomstedt Conducts Bach And Mendelssohn20200210The Baltic Sea Festival.

Penny Gore this week introduces performances by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir. Today the nonogenarian, Herbert Blomstedt, conducts a joyous solo cantata by Bach and Mendelssohn's Lobgesang. Also today and all this week, there are recordings made at Stockholm's Baltic Sea Festival.

Bach wrote most of his cantatas in Leipzig. Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, with its jovial soprano and trumpet parts, really is true to its title: Shout for joy to God in all lands. Over a century later in the same city, Mendelssohn wrote Lobgesang, another work teeming with infectious joy, for the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing. The Herbert Blomstedt, yet another former Leipzig resident, puts all of his experience and skill to realizing this optimistic, life-affirming music. Late in the week, there's music by Zemlinsky, the complete Vespers by Rachmaninov and music by the Swede Hugo Alfven and a hommage to Jenny Linde,'the Swedish Nightingale.

Bach: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51, cantata

Simona Houda-Šaturovက (soprano), Gianluca Calise (piccolo trumpet),

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat, op. 52 ('Lobgesang')

Simona Houda-Šaturovက (soprano), Marie Henriette Reinhold (mezzo-soprano), Tilman Lichdi (tenor),

Swedish Radio Choir and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

Arvo Part: L'Abb退 Agathon

Maria Listra (soprano), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, T倀nu Kaljuste (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D, K. 504 ('Prague')

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Bach and Mendelssohn conducted by Herbert Blomstedt at the Baltic Sea Festival.

Higher And Higher20201222Christmas music from the BBC Singers plus BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom highlights: climb a mountain with Richard Strauss and soar to Paradise with August Read Thomas. Fiona Talkington presents this programme as part of BBC Radio 3's Light in the Darkness season.

Christmas music (replacing the previously advertised live concert, cancelled owing to Tier 4 coronavirus restrictions in London)

Ashley Grote (organ)

Conductor Sofi Jeannin

Presenter Ian Skelly

c. 3.30pm

Augusta Read Thomas: 'Juggler in paradise' (Violin Concerto No 3; world premiere)

Jennifer Koh (violin)

Conductor Jiri Belohlavek

c. 3.50pm

Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

Conductor Semyon Bychkov

Christmas music from the BBC Singers, plus BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom highlights.

Highlights From The Montpellier Festival20200414Georgia Mann presents a celebration of highlights from the concert season in France. Today, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and Yevgeny Kissin at the Montpellier Festival, in a programme of Vasks, Liszt and Prokofiev. Then the Orchestre National de France, conducted by Emmanuel Krivine, play Brahms and Berlioz.

Vasks: Lauda

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat, S. 124

Kissin: Tango dod退caphonique

Brahms: Waltz in A flat, op. 39/15

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat, op. 100

Sibelius (1865-1957) - Valse triste, from 'Kuolema, op. 44

Yevgeny Kissin, piano

Andris Poga, conductor

Recorded at the Op退ra Berlioz, Le Corum, Montpellier, last July, during the 2019 Montpellier Festival.

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F, op. 90

Berlioz: Harold en Italie, op. 16

Nicolas B䀀ne, viola

Emmanuel Krivine, conductor

Recorded last June in the Auditorium, Radio France Broadcasting House, Paris.

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and Yevgeny Kissin at the Montpellier Festival.

Highlights From The Montpellier Festival20200417Continuing Radio 3's celebration of French orchestras: Hannah French presents a concert from the 2019 Montpellier Festival - Plaisir d'amour: 150th Anniversary of Berlioz's Death.

Martini: Messe des morts

Berlioz: Messe solennelle

Adriana Gonzales, soprano

S退bastien Droy, tenor

Mikhail Timoshenko, bass-baritone

Le Concert Spirituel

Herv退 Niquet, conductor

Concert given at the Op退ra Berlioz, Le Corum, Montpellier, on 17th July 2019.

Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid), fantasy after Andersen

Orchestre National de France

Emmanuel Krivine, conductor

Recorded last July at the Op退ra Berlioz, Le Corum, Montpellier, during the 2019 Montpellier Festival.

Le Concert Spirituel perform at the Montpellier festival.

Holst's The Planets In Frankfurt20230606Fiona Talkington presents concert performances from across Europe.

Today's 3pm highlight is a performance of Holst's celestial suite The Planets with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Also today, more from the King's Singers at the 2022 Montpelier Festival, Prokofiev's dramatic Romeo and Juliet ballet music in Jerusalem, Andras Schiff conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Beethoven, and conductor Hugh Wolff choses one of his favourite pieces especially for us: Debussy's atmospheric Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faun.

Including:

George Antheil:

Nocturne in Skyrockets

BBC Philharmonic

John Storgords (conductor)

Beethoven: The Consecration of the House, overture

Andras Schiff (conductor)

Trad. arr. Wallace Willis: Steal Away to Jesus

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 & 2 (excerpts)

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra

Conrad van Alphen (conductor)

c3pm

Holst: The Planets

Hugh Wolff (conductor)

Beth Orton arr. Christopher Bruerton: Call Me the Breeze

Debussy: Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faun

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Chris de Souza: Missa Douacensis

BBC Singers

Chaconne Brass

Stephen Disley (organ)

David Hill (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony No.25 in G minor

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Holst's The Planets.

Ibert And Schreker20200108Live from Salford, this afternoon's live concert presented by Tom McKinney features two works inspired by the work of Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. Ibert's symphonic poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, was considered rather daring at the time. Evoking the bleak world of the prison,the composer's first symphonic work both impressed and astonished audiences with its themes of anguish and terror. In contrast, Schreker's music for a pantomime, The Birthday of the Infanta, is a lighter affair, taken from a collection of fairy tales Wilde had published in 1891. Schreker adapts a tragic tale of a hunchbacked dwarf and, despite the story ending in death from a broken heart, its sentimental melodies make the piece still sound as fresh and engaging as ever. Plus, as part of New Year, New Music, Kate Molleson introduces a piece of music she loves.

Ibert: La ballade de la ge䀀le de Reading (The Ballad of Reading Gaol)

Schreker: Der Geburtstag der Infantin, Suite (The Birthday of the Infanta)

BBC Philharmonic

Holly Mathieson, conductor

Live from Salford, the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Holly Mathieson.

Ibert, Ravel And Strauss From Seoul's Kbs Symphony Orchestra20190918Music by Ibert and Richard Strauss, featuring pianist Pascal Roge in Ravel's sparkling Piano Concerto in G

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Yoel Levi puts his KBS Symphony Orchestra through its paces in dazzling showpieces by Ibert and Strauss, one evoking different ports-of-call, the other evoking nothing less than the titanic philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. In between, French pianist Pascal Roge plays the Concerto in G by one of his heroes: 'I think Ravel was my first real French composer....[E]very time I play the Ravel concerto it's still magic. ...The first love, the first music love is Ravel. I think it's still maybe the closest.

2.00pm

Ibert: Escales

Ravel: Concerto in G

R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

Pascal Roge, piano

Yoel Levi, conductor

Music by Ibert, Ravel and Richard Strauss, featuring French pianist Pascal Roge.

Il Bravo (the Assassin), By Saverio Mercadante From Wexford20190117The thrilling 2018 Wexford Festival staging of Saverio Mercadante's opera 'Il Bravo' (The Assassin) from the 2018, starring Rubens Pelizzari and Ekaterina Bakanova.

Presented by Tom McKinney

Saverio Mercadante - Il Bravo (The Assassin)

Carlo ('Il bravo') - Rubens Pelizzari (tenor)

Pisani - Alessandro Luciano (tenor)

Foscari - Gustavo Castillo (baritone)

Luigi - Simon Mechlinski (baritone)

Violetta - Ekaterina Bakanova (soprano)

Teodora - Yasko Sato (soprano)

Cappello - Jos退 de E瀀a (tenor)

Marco - Toni Neži? (tenor)

Messenge r..... Richard Shaffrey (tenor)

Michelina - Ioana Constantin-Pipelea (soprano)

Wexford Festival Chorus

Wexford Festival Orchestra

Jonathan Brandani (conductor)

The libretto by Gaetano Rossi and Marco Marcello was based on the play 'La V退n退tienne' by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, which was in turn based on James Fennimore Cooper's novel 'The Bravo'. Set in 16th-century Venice, the Bravo of the title is a tormented character who long ago killed his wife in a fit of jealousy; unjustly accused of plotting against the state, he has been forced by the Council of Ten to become their secret hired assassin, while his father is held hostage to compel his obedience. The story also involves Pisani, a young man under sentence of banishment, in love with a girl whom he believes to be immured in Venice; Violetta, the girl in question, who has been under the protection of the Bravo since the murder of her guardian by a would-be abductor; and Teodora, a wealthy foreigner living in Venice, who turns out to be not only Violetta's mother but also the Bravo's wife, whom he had not killed after all. To compound these complications the Bravo, moved by Pisani's predicament, allows him to borrow the mask and dagger of his office and impersonate the official assassin for two days. In this capacity, Teodora employs him to rescue her daughter from the stranger who has apparently abducted her (that is, the Bravo himself). At the end of Act 2 Teodora, in the middle of a brilliant ball, sets fire to her own palace; the last act is largely concerned with the revealing of identities and the unravelling of family knots and, although Violetta and Pisani escape to freedom, Teodora is convicted of arson, and her death at her own hand cheats the Bravo of his last hope of happiness.

For full synopsis visit programme page

Mercadante's opera Il Bravo (The Assassin) from the 2018 Wexford Festival in Ireland.

Il Corsaro20200604Opera matinee: Verdi's Il Corsaro from the Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

Verdi: Il Corsaro, opera in three acts after Byron, to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Matheus Pompeu, tenor, Corrado

Ilona Mataradze, soprano, Medora

Karen Gardeazabal, soprano, Gulnara

Aleksey Bogdanov, baritone, Seid

Mateusz Stachura, bass, Giovanni

Pawe? Cicho?ski, tenor, Selimo, Enuco, Schiavo

Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Chorus

Europa Galante

Fabio Biondi, conductor

Opera matinee: Verdi's Il Corsaro.

In Memoriam Stephen Cleobury20201120The BBC Singers present a programme of choral music in memory of Stephen Cleobury, who died on 22 November 2019, introduced by his wife Emma.

After which we return to our featured ensemble of the week, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with music by Tchaikovsky.

Elgar: Go, song of mine

Mendelssohn: Richte mich, Gott

Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben

Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia

Vaughan Williamas: Valiant for Truth

Howells: Here is the little door

Chilcott: The Shepherd's Carol

Maw: One foot in Eden still, I stand

Weir: Madrigal

Harris: Bring us, O Lord God

Robert Quinney - conductor

3.15: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.1, Winter Daydreams

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

A concert in memory of Stephen Cleobury, performed by the BBC Singers.

In The Midnight Hour20200511In this concert recorded at London's Barbican Hall in March 2018, Anna Clyne's 2015 orchestral work This Midnight Hour draws inspiration from the waltz and two poems, one by Juan Ram n Jim退nez, where music is described as 'a naked woman running mad through the pure night'; the other by lover of the decadent Charles Baudelaire from his Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) . Expect a magic-lantern show in music, a panorama of vivid, intoxicating nocturnal sounds. Then Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang plays Britten's Violin Concerto, one of the most profound of twentieth century concertos for the instrument, a work that has finally emerged from the shadows and one that Frang has made her own. To conclude, Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony No.6, where a composer's infatuation with nature, sparked on his walks in the countryside around Vienna, lights the score.

Next, the BBC Singers and their Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin explore one of the landmarks of French 20th-century choral writing - Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur's setting of parts of the biblical Song of Songs, Le Cantique des Cantiques. Nigel Hess's theme tune to Ladies in Lavender receives its world premiere broadcast in a new choral arrangement, written for the BBC Singers by the composer, alongside two works for choir by the 20th-century English composer, Ruth Gipps.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

2pm

Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour

Britten: Violin Concerto Op.15

Beethoven: Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' in F Op.68

Vilde Frang (violin)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

c.3.40pm

Daniel-Lesur: Le Cantique des Cantiques

Nigel Hess: Kyrie

Ruth Gipps: Easter Hymn

Ruth Gipps: Gloria

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Recently recorded concerts from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

Ingrid Fliter Plays Chopin's First Piano Concerto20211230Ian Skelly introduces performances from around the world including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Dvorak's Symphony No. 8, and Ingrid Fliter playing Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with The Ulster Orchestra. Plus, there's music by Mendelssohn, De Lalande, Debussy and Tchaikovsky.

Mendelssohn - Overture: The Fair Melusina, Op.32

RTVE National Symphony Orchestra

Chlo退 van Soeterst耀de (conductor)

Lalande - Te Deum laudamus, S. 32

Vox Luminus

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Lionel Meunier (conductor)

3pm

Dvorak - Symphony No.8 in G, Op.88

Manfred Honeck (conductor)

Debussy - Rhapsody for English Horn & Piano

Francois Leleux (cor anglais)

Emmanuel Strosser (piano)

Tchaikovsky - The Storm

Rebecca Tong (conductor)

Chopin - Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor, Op.11

Ingrid Fliter (piano)

Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)

Unique performances with BBC orchestras and choirs and other great orchestras

International Women's Day20170308As part of International Women's Day, composer Tansy Davies curates today's music composed by female composers, including a couple of her own works, and joins Katie Derham in the studio.

2pm

Tansy Davies: The Beginning of the World (Variations on Sellinger's Round) for string orchestra

BBC Philharmonic

Antony Hermus, conductor

c.2.10pm

Anna Meredith: Barchan

Donal Bannister, trombone

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Andrew Gourlay, conductor

c.2.20pm

Liza Lim: Pearl, Ochre, Hair String

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Lothar Zagrosek, conductor

c.2.40pm

Helen Grime: Virga

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jessica Cottis, conductor

c.2.45pm

Kaija Saariaho: Notes on Light (1st movt: Translucent, Secret)

Anssi Karttunen, cello

Orchestre de Paris

Christoph Eschenbach, conductor

c.2.50pm

Rebecca Saunders: Traces

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov, conductor

c.3.05

Tansy Davies: Tilting

Zsolt Nagy, conductor.

As part of International Women's Day, Katie Derham is joined by composer Tansy Davies.

International Women's Day20180308Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music, is Kate Molleson's live guest in the Afternoon Concert studio for International Women's Day. Our Opera Matinee is Judith Weir's The Vanishing Bridegroom, and it's complemented by music she loves by women composers from Hildegard to Saariaho.

Judith Weir: The Vanishing Bridegroom

Ailish Tynan (soprano)

Anna St退phany (mezzo)

Andrew Tortise (tenor)

Owen Gilhooly (baritone)

Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone)

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Martyn Brabbins

Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Overture to C退phale et Procris

Performers TBC

Kate Whitley: I am I say

Sarah-Jane Lewis (soprano)

Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)

Kender Primary School Choir

St. John's and St. Clement's Primary School Choir

Lyndhurst Primary School Choir

Multi-Story Orchestra

Conductor Christopher Stark

Kaija Saariaho: Petals

Scott Roller (cello)

Thomas Neuhaus (electronics)

Barbara Strozzi: L'Eraclito amoroso (Heraclitus in Love)

Doroth退e Leclair (soprano)

Lea Rahel Bader (cello)

Yasunori Imamura (theorbo)

Jory Vinikour (harpsichord)

Arlene Sierra: Aquilo

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Conductor Jac van Steen

Judith Bingham: Vol de nuit, from The Secret Garden

Tom Winpenny (organ)

Hildegard of Bingen: work TBC

Tiburtina Ensemble

Director Barbora Kabကtkovက

Sofiya Gubaidulina: String Quartet No 4

Kronos Quartet

Weir: Moon and Star

Conductor Martyn Brabbins.

Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music, chooses music she loves by women composers.

International Women's Day: Bacewicz, Symphony No 420240308Penny Gore presents a special edition of Afternoon Concert celebrating International Women's Day. Today's 3 o'clock moment is a new recording of Bacewicz's Fourth Symphony by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo. There are also pieces specially recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra by Sasha Scott and Missy Mazzoli, along with the premiere performance of Camille Pépin's Inlandsis by the Radio France Philharmonic. Plus music by Dorothy Howell, Cecilia McDowall and Clara Schumann.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Dorothy Howell: Lamia - symphonic poem

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Strozzi: Lagrime Mie

Helen Charlston (soprano)

Toby Carr (lute)

Sasha Scott: Drifting Haze

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

C Schumann: Konzertsatz in F minor

Lucy Parham (piano)

BBC Concert Orchestra

Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

Beach: Let this mind be in you

BBC Singers

Stephen Farr (organ)

David Hill (conductor)

3pm

Bacewicz: Symphony No.4 (1953)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Cecilia McDowall: Standing as I do before God

Rebecca Lea (soprano)

Errollyn Wallen Mighty River (extract)

Keith Lockhart (conductor)

Camille Pépin: Inlandsis (premiere performance)

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Mikko Franck (conductor)

3.50

Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Sonata in C minor

Heather Schmidt (piano)

Missy Mazzoli: River Rouge Transfiguration

Martines: Symphony in C major: 1st mvt

Johannes Wildner (conductor)

Music by Bacewicz, Camille Pepin and Clara Schumann.

Penny Gore celebrates International Women's Day. Today's 3 o'clock moment is a new recording of Bacewicz's Fourth Symphony by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo.

Into The Forest20181015Presented by Kate Molleson

~Afternoon Concert goes Into the Forest for a second time this year. As days shorten and shadows lengthen we explore how the dark, mythical forest has touched composers' imaginations, creating some brooding and heartfelt music. Into the Forest is a year-long theme for Radio 3, as the station explores the enduring and magical influence of the forest on music and the arts.

We begin the week with a concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms in 2015 featuring Jean Sibelius' Tapiola, a tone poem portraying Tapio, the animated forest spirit mentioned throughout the epic poem saga Kalevala. It's followed by Jon Leifs' mighty Concerto for organ and orchestra, with Stephan Farr as soloist. Next comes Anders Hillborg's Beast sampler, a piece dedicated to Sakari Oramo, who conducts this concert, in which the idea of the orchestra as a beast of sound is explored. The concert finishes with Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major. We then travel to the continent for a concert given by the German Symphony Orchestra under David Zinman, starting with Bernstein's Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety, with Misha Dichter on the piano, and closing with Bartok's complete ballet 'The Wooden Prince', in which a forest is awakened by a fairy only to disrupt a prince's attempts to lure his lover.

2.00pm

Sibelius: Tapiola - tone poem, Op.112

Jon Leifs: Concerto for organ and orchestra, Op. 7

Anders Hillborg: Beast sampler, for orchestra

Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A major, Op.92

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Stephen Farr, organ

3.20pm

Bernstein: Symphony No. 2, ‘The Age of Anxiety

Bartok: The Wooden Prince (complete ballet)

Misha Dichter, piano

David Zinman, conductor

Into the Forest season with music by Sibelius, Leifs, Hillborg and Beethoven.

Into The Forest20181016Presented by Kate Molleson

As autumn gets under way, Radio 3's Forest season continues its exploration of how the darkness and mystery of the woods has inspired composers throughout time. Today's journey Into the Forest starts & ends with music by Arnold Schoenberg, with Stravinsky, Humperdinck & Schreker en route.

We open with the BBC Philharmonic under Juanjo Mena performing Schoenberg's symphonic poem Pelleas and Melissande, the story of a doomed love affair which starts atmospherically in a forest. The afternoon continues with a concert given in Portugal by the Gulbenkian Orchestra with Matthias Pintscher as conductor - and also composer, as we hear his piece for violin and orchestra 'Mar'eh', with soloist Renaud Capucon. It's followed by Stravinsky's complete ballet version of The Firebird, a magical creature from the forest. Finally, Schoenberg's orchestration of his Verkl䀀rte Nacht - Transfigured Night - is based on Richard Dehmel's poem of the same name which opens with the words 'Two people are walking through a bare, cold wood; the moon keeps pace with them and draws their gaze.

Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande - symphonic poem, Op. 5

Juanjo Mena, conductor

2.40pm

Pintscher: 'Mar'eh' for violin and orchestra

Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete ballet version)

Renaud Capucon, violin

Matthias Pintscher, conductor

3.50pm

Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel - Overture

Dresden State Orchestra

Colin Davis, conductor

Franz Schreker: Der ferne Klang: Nachtstuck - orchestral interlude

Royal Swedish Orchestra

Lawrence Renes, conductor

4.15pm

Schoenberg: Verkl䀀rte Nacht

German Symphony Orchestra Berlin

Riccardo Chailly, conductor

This journey Into the Forest starts and ends with Schoenberg, with Stravinsky and Schreker

Into The Forest20181017Presented by Kate Molleson

Forest by Judith Weir opens today's programme, appropriately, as part of our Into the Forest season - a year-long theme for Radio 3, exploring the enduring and magical influence of the woods on music and the arts. It's performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Martyn Brabbins. Then we turn to a concert given recently by the Ulster Orchestra, under Eivind Gullberg Jensen, with Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, by Edvard Grieg, featuring the incidental music he wrote for a play by Ibsen in which nature, including forests and mountains, play a crucial role. The concert is followed by Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini, with Simon Trpceski as soloist, finishing with Carl Nielsen's powerful and enigmatic Symphony No. 5.

Weir: Forest

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Grieg: Peer Gynt - Suite No. 1, Op.46

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, for piano and orchestra, Op. 43

Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, Op. 50

Simon Trpceski, piano

Eivind Gullberg Jensen, conductor

Weir's Forest with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra with music by Grieg

Into The Forest20181019Presented by Kate Molleson

As we close this week's contribution to Radio 3's Into the Forest season, looking at the magical influence of the woods on music and the arts, the afternoon starts with Dvorak's The Golden Spinning-wheel, a fairy tale featuring the forest, played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, under conductor Thomas Sondergard. Then we travel to France for a concert featuring excerpts from Georges Enescu's Suite No. 1, Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 2 with Evegeny Kissin as soloist, and Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen Suite - again a piece where the forest plays a significant role - finishing with Kodaly's Dances from Galatea. Lawrence Foster conducts the Orchestre National de France. The afternoon closes with Bartok's dark opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, performed by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Jaap van Zweden. The bass Mikhail Petrenko is Bluebeard and the mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung is Judith.

Dvorak: The Golden Spinning-wheel, Op.109

Thomas Sondergard, conductor

2.20pm

Enescu: Suite No. 1 in C, Op. 9 - excerpts

Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2

Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen - Suite

Kodaly: Dances from Galanta

Evgeny Kissin, piano

Lawrence Foster, conductor

3.45pm

Bartok: Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Bluebeard -Mikhail Petrenko, bass

Judith - Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano

Jaap van Zweden, conductor

BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays music by Dvorak. Part of the Into the Forest season.

Jacek Kaspszyk Conducts Beethoven's Sixth Symphony20221111Penny Gore concludes this week of programmes with a performance of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony from the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast. Jordi Savall brings us one of the Cantigas de Santa Maria every day this week, there's Renaissance polyphony from Stile Antico, and we celebrate Gabriel Jackson's 60th birthday with The BBC Singers. Plus there's music by Mozart, Glinka, Hamilton Harty, Robert White and Charlotte Sohy too.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Overture: The Marriage of Figaro

BBC Concert Orchestra

Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

Trad. orch. Hamilton Harty - Londonderry Air

Bryden Thomson (conductor)

Alfonso X of Castile - Rosa das rosas [Cantigas de Santa Maria, No.10]

Capella Real de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI

Jordi Savall (director)

c. 2.20pm

Charlotte Sohy - Symphony in C sharp minor, Op.10

Orchestre Nationale de France

Debora Waldman (conductor)

2.51

Gabriel Jackson - Yes I am your angel

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

3pm

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.6 in F major, Op.68

Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)

3.53

Robert White - Lamentations for 5 voices (Part II)

4.06

Mikhail Glinka - Valse-fantasie in B minor

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Jacek Kaspszyk conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Beethoven's Sixth Symphony in Belfast.

James Ehnes Plays Brahms's Violin Concerto20220927Penny Gore brings you a selection of great performances across your afternoons this week. James Ehnes is the soloist in Brahms's Violin Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic under Thomas Dausgaard. Plus there are performances by The Huelgas Ensemble from the Fribourg Sacred Music Festival, and pianist Alexander Melnikov is joined by an array of musical friends to perform Schumann's Piano Quintet. Plus there's music by Bach, Chabrier, Josquin, Herpol and Kodaly.

Emmanuel Chabrier - Joyeuse Marche

Yan-Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Josquin des Prez - Missa L‘Homme arm退 (Sanctus)

Paul van Nevel (conductor)

2.15

Zoltan Kodaly - Dances from Galanta

Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra

Zsolt Hamar (conductor)

2.33

Robert Schumann - Piano Quintet in E flat, Op.44

Alexander Melnikov (piano)

Isabelle Faust & Anna Katherina Schreiber (violins)

Antoine Tamestit (viola)

Jean-Guiyen Queyras (cello)

3pm

Johannes Brahms - Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77

James Ehnes (violin)

Roderick Cox (conductor)

3.50

Homer Herpol - Magnificat octavi toni

4.05

Johann Sebastian Bach - Nun danket alle Gott, BWV.192

Marta Paklar (soprano)

Franz Vitzthum (alto)

Thomas Hobbs (tenor)

Felix Schwandtke (bass)

Netherlands Bach Society

Jos van Veldhoven (conductor)

4.20

John Tavener - Fragments of a Prayer [Children of Men soundtrack]

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

Studio Orchestra

4.35

Mozart - Symphony No.29 in A, K.201

Wiener ConcertVerein

Pablo Boggiano (conductor)

Music by Brahms, Chabrier, Josquin, Schumann and Kodaly.

Jess Gillam Plays Barbara Thompson's Saxophone Concerto20211229Ian Skelly introduces performances from around the world including Jess Gillam playing Barbara Thompson's Saxophone Concerto in Hanover and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Britten's Nocturne. Plus, there's music by Hans Rott, Georg Muffat, Heinrich Biber and Haydn.

Hans Rott - Overture: Julius Caesar

ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra

Marin Alsop (conductor)

Muffat - Concerto Grosso No 8 in F `Coronatio Augusta`

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Lionel Meunier (conductor)

Barbara Thompson - Concerto for saxophone and orchestra

Jess Gillam (saxophone)

NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)

Biber - Mystery (Rosary) Sonata No.16 `Passacaglia`

Hiro Kurosaki (violin)

Haydn - Symphony No.6 'Le Matin

Ulster Orchestra

David Brophy (conductor)

Britten - Nocturne

Joshua Ellicott (tenor)

Peter Whelan (conductor)

Jess Gillam plays Barbara Thompson's Saxophone Concerto with the NDR Radio Philharmonic.

Joana Mallwitz Conducts Beethoven's Seventh Symphony In Munich20221107Penny Gore kicks off this week of programmes with a performance of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony in Munich. Jordi Savall brings us one of the Cantigas de Santa Maria every day this week, there's Renaissance polyphony from Stile Antico, plus we celebrate Philip Glass's 85th birthday with pianists Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa, and Gabriel Jackson's 60th birthday with The BBC Singers. And there's music by Brahms, Debussy, Elgar, Bach, Augusta Holm耀s and Ethel Smyth into the bargain.

Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.1 in G minor

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Petr Popelka (conductor)

Peter Phillips - Gaude Maria virgo

Claude Debussy - Rhapsody No.1 for clarinet & orchestra

Karel Dohnal (clarinet)

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Pavel Snajdr (conductor)

Augusta Holm耀s - La nuit et l'amour [Ludus pro Patria]

Orchestre Nationale de France

Debora Waldman (conductor)

c. 2.29pm

Johann Sebastian Bach - Sonata for viola da gamba in D minor, BWV.1023

Chouchane Siranossian (violin)

Jonathan Pesek (cello)

Leonardo Garcia Alarcon (harpsichord)

Edward Elgar - Cockaigne

BBC Philharmonic

John Wilson (conductor)

3pm

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Joana Mallwitz (conductor)

c. 3.42pm

Gabriel Jackson - Nightingale Fragments

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Ethel Smyth - Overture: The Wreckers

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

c. 4.05pm

Philip Glass - Four Movements for Two Pianos (Part 1)

Dennis Russell Davies / Maki Namekawa (pianos)

Alfonso X of Castile - O ffondo do mar tan chao [Cantigas de Santa Maria, No.383]

Capella Real de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI

Jordi Savall (director)

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

Josefowicz Plays Berg20220505Leila Josefowicz plays Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, dedicated 'To the Memory of an Angel', and there's music by Handel, Schumann and Gershwin.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

Berg's haunting concerto was the last work he completed, and it was dedicated to the memory of 18-year-old Manon Gropius, daughter of composer Alma Mahler.

2.00pm

An American in Paris

BBC Philharmonic

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Raymond Yiu

Xocolatl

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis, conductor

Adagio & Allegro, Op.70

Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn

Alasdair Beatson, piano

3.00

Violin Concerto ('To the memory of an angel')

Leila Josefowicz, violin

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Hannu Lintu, conductor

Agrippina condotta a morire

Francesca Lombardi Mazzuli, soprano

L'Arte del Mondo

Massimiliano Toni, conductor

Leila Josefowicz plays Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, 'To the Memory of an Angel'.

Juanjo Mena Conducts Elgar's Second Symphony20220429Today's programme features an archive recording of Juanjo Mena conducting the BBC Philharmonic in Elgar's Symphony No.2. Plus we're in Montreal for Handel's Water Music, the BBC Philharmonic plays Bernstein, and there's music by Brescianello, Alessandro Scarlatti, Rentaro Taki and Chen Yi.

Presented by Ian Skelly

2pm

Bernstein - Overture: Candide

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

c. 2.05

Andrius Zlabys - Kaleidoscope of lost times

Kremerata Baltica/Lettonica

Gidon Kremer (violin & director)

c. 2.20

Handel - Excerpts from Water Music, Suite No.3 in G

Vincent Lauzer / Ariane Brisson (recorders)

Les Violons du Roy

Jonathan Cohen (conductor)

Rentaro Taki - Kojo no tsuki

12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic

Chen Yi - Written on a rainy night

singer pur (choir)

c. 2.45

Brescianello - Ciaccona

Il Pomo d'Oro

Zefira Valova (conductor)

3pm

Elgar - Symphony No.2 in E flat, Op.63

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Juanjo Mena conducts Elgar, plus music by Bernstein, Scarlatti and Chen Yi.

Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields20190306The BBC Singers and Bang on a Can All-Stars, conducted by Tecwyn Evans, perform the oratorio Anthracite Fields by the American composer Julia Wolfe. It was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. It commemorates the history of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Coal Region and it has been described as 'an unforgettably haunting, harrowing evocation of the plight of Pennsylvania's coal miners, incorporating many musical styles and effectively shadowy visuals.' Plus Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bax's tone poem, The Garden of Fand, inspired by the Irish Celtic sea goddess Fand.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Julia Wolfe: Anthracite Fields

Tecwyn Evans (conductor)

3.10pm

Bax: The Garden of Fand

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

BBC Singers and Bang on a Can All-Stars perform Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields.

Kerensa Briggs's Requiem20231110Penny Gore presents concert performances from the BBC performing groups and from across Europe. With Remembrance Day tomorrow, today's 3pm highlight is Kerensa Briggs's moving Requiem, performed by the BBC Singers. Other music for Remembrance includes part of Elgar's The Spirit of England and William Grant Still's In memoriam. And the Ulster Orchestra performs Grieg's evergreen Holberg Suite.

Alexis Ffrench: The Last Post

Alexis Ffrench (piano)

City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Adam Klemens (cond.)

Beethoven: Romance No.1 in G

James Ehnes (violin)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Andrew Manze (cond.)

Elgar: The Spirit of England – Part 3: For the fallen

Susan Gritton (soprano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

David Lloyd Jones (cond.)

Robert Schumann: Introduction and allegro appassionato

Michael McHale (piano)

Jac van Steen (cond.)

c3pm

Kerensa Briggs: Requiem

Stephen Farr (organ)

David Hill (cond.)

c3.40pm

William Grant Still: In Memoriam

Fort Smith Symphony

John Jeter (cond.)

Grieg: Holberg Suite

Dionysis Grammenos (cond.)

Copland: El salon Mexico

BBC Philharmonic

John Wilson (cond.)

The BBC Singers perform Kerensa Briggs's Requiem for Remembrance Day

For Remembrance Day, the BBC Singers perform the Requiem by Kerensa Briggs. Plus, Elgar's The Spirit of England, and Grieg's Holberg Suite performed by the Ulster Orchestra.

Knussen, Ariosi, Berg And Dvorak20190621With Tom McKinney.

Today's Concert:

2pm:

Knussen Flourish with Fireworks

Henze Ariosi, for soprano, violin and orchestra

Berg Three Fragments from 'Wozzeck' for soprano and orchestra

Dvorak Symphony no 9 (From the New World)

BBC Philharmonic / Moritz Gnann (conductor)

Clio Gould (violin)

Christiane Oelze (soprano)

Allison Oakes (soprano)

c.3.30pm:

Antheil McKonkey's Ferry, Overture

BBC Philharmonic / John Storgards (conductor)

c.3.40pm:

Jonathan Dove Run to the Edge

BBC Philharmonic / Timothy Redmond (conductor)

c.3.45pm:

Bliss Mꀀl退e fantasque

BBC Philharmonic / Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Tom McKinney concludes a week of performances from the BBC Philharmonic.

Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole20221025Violinist Augustin Hadelich plays Lalo's sun-infused Spanish Symphony, plus music by Bach, Mendelssohn and Schumann.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

A violin concerto in all but name, Lalo's Spanish Symphony was written for the virtuoso and fellow-composer Pablo de Sarasate. His modern-day successor, the German-American violinist revels in the sparkling writing in this live recording made in Paris in May. There's music from Duparc and Mendelssohn and, in Bach, a very different, much earlier violin concerto

2.00pm

Violin Concerto no.2 in E, BWV.1042

Vilde Frang, violin

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Philippe Herreweghe, conductor

Phidyle

Veronique Gens, soprano

Susan Manoff, piano

Franz Schmidt

Orchestral extracts from Notre Dame

BBC Philharmonic

Ben Gernon, conductor

3.00pm

Symphonie espagnole in D minor, Op.21

Augustin Hadelich, violin

French National Orchestra

Cristian Macelaru, conductor

Symphony no. 5 in D minor, Op.107 ('Reformation')

Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

Anja Bihlmaier, conductor

Kinderszenen, Op.15

Elisabeth Brauss, piano

Violinist Augustin Hadelich plays Lalo's sun-infused Spanish Symphony.

Laura Van Der Heijden Plays Walton20231011Laura van der Heijden plays Walton's Cello Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Including Walton's sunny, Mediterranean-inspired cello concerto, more epic Wagner from Adam Fischer, and a beautiful choral work by George Walker

2.00pm

Prelude to act 1 of 'Lohengrin

Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

Adam Fischer, conductor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Nonet: 2) Andante con moto

Kaleidoscope Collective

Janacek

The Fiddler's Child

Peter Thomas, violin

Ilan Volkov, conductor

Overture to 'Tannhauser

14'00 + appl

3.00pm

Laura van der Heijden, cello

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

A Babe is Born

BBC Singers

Grace Rossiter, conductor

Biber

Mystery Sonata no.3 “The Birth of Jesus ?

Cordaria

Laura van der Heijden plays Walton's Cello Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony.

Laura van der Heijden plays Walton's Cello Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Plus, music by Wagner, Coleridge-Taylor, and Janacek.

Mystery Sonata no.3 `The Birth of Jesus`

Leonard Elschenbroich Plays Dvorak's Cello Concerto20220928Penny Gore brings you a selection of great performances across your afternoons this week. Leonard Elschenbroich is the soloist in Dvorak's Cello Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic under Anja Bihlmaier. Plus there are performances by The Huelgas Ensemble from the Fribourg Sacred Music Festival, and there's music by Shostakovich, Beethoven, Jacobus de Kerle, CPE Bach, William Grant Still and sarah gibs

Dmitri Shostakovich - Festive Overture

Yan-Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

2.09

Jacobus de Kerle - Missa Ferialis quinque vocum (Sanctus & Agnus Dei)

Paul van Nevel (conductor)

2.18

Ludwig van Beethoven - Horn Sonata in F, Op.17

Teunis van der Zwart (horn)

Alexander Melnikov (piano)

2.34

sarah gibs (Sarah Gibson) - warp & weft

Gemma New (conductor)

2.47

CPE Bach - Sinfonia No.1 in D, Wq.183'1

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Vaclav Luks (conductor)

3pm

Antonin Dvorak - Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)

Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

3.43

William Grant Still - Suite for violin & piano

Randall Goosby (violin)

Zhu Wang (piano)

Music by Dvorak, Shostakovich, Beethoven and sarah gibs.

Lichfield Festival20201013During the second year of their residency at the Lichfield Festival in 2019, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performed two major works featuring `codes` in music: Shostakovich's Cello Concerto no. 1, with its theme taken from a musical cryptogram of the composer's initials, and Elgar's Enigma Variations. Plus Elgar's sumptuous song cycle Sea Pictures with soloist Polly Leech - all recorded in the sumptuous acoustics of Lichfield Cathedral. This concert marked the the debut appearance with the orchestra of conductor Ainars Rubikis.

Plus choral music by Bruckner and new BBC NOW recordings of Matthew Taylor's 4th Symphony and works by two of Shostakovich's contemporaries, Russian Alexander Veprik and Frenchman Henri Dutilleux.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Elgar: Sea Pictures

with Polly Leech (mezzo soprano)

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 107

with Andrei Ionita (cello)

Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36

Ainars Rubikis (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Bruckner: Christus factus est; Os justi; Locus iste

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Adrian Partington (conductor)

c.3.35pm

Matthew Taylor: Symphony No. 4

Kenneth Woods (conductor)

c.4.05pm

Alexander Veprik: Song of Mourning; Song of Joy

Christoph-Mathias Mueller (conductor)

c.4.20pm

Dutilleux: Metaboles

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Elgar and Shostakovich from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the Lichfield Festival.

Ligeti And Libby Larsen20190304In the run up to International Women's Day, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers are celebrating women composers and performers all week during the afternoons. Today's programme includes works by Libby Larsen, Deborah Pritchard, Aftab Darvishi, Cecilia McDowall and Victoria Borisova-Ollas. It includes a project from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers & Authors to encourage compositions around the theme of refugees and freedom. Alexander Vedernikov brings the afternoon to a rousing close with the wonderfully powerful 4th Symphony of Shostakovich, which is full of thrusting energy and excitement.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Ligeti

ɀjszaka - Reggel

Zwei Kanons

Drei Phantasien

Idegen f怀ld怀n

Húsv退t

Betlehemi kirကlyok

Lux Aeterna

Magကny

Nonsense Madrigals

Sofi Jeannin (Conductor)

2.55pm

Deep Summer Music

Jessica Cottis (conductor)

3.05pm

Deborah Pritchard: EXODUS

Aftab Darvishi: And the world stopped, lacking you -

Cecilia McDowall: Everyday Wonders: The Girl from

Harriet Mackenzie (violinist)

Richard Pearce (pianist)

James Morgan (conductor)

3.40pm

Victoria Borisova-Ollas: Open ground for orchestra 10'54`

3.50pm

Shostakovich: Symphony No.4

Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

Includes works by Libby Larsen, Deborah Pritchard, Aftab Darvishi and Cecilia McDowall

Lindberg, Kabalevsky And Bartok20190305We welcome the 33-year old Finnish-Ukranian, Dalia Stasevska, principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the opening concert of the afternoon: works by Magnus Lindberg, Dmitry Kabalevsky and Bela Bartok. Soprano, Rachel Nicholls performs, The Crimson Bird, the shocking and consoling work Nicola LeFanu wrote for her to a text by John Fuller. The afternoon ends with Strauss's glorious Symphony for Wind Instruments 'Fr怀hliche Werkstatt'.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Magnus Lindberg: 2 Episodes for orchestra

Dmitry Kabalevsky: Concerto no. 1 in G minor Op.49 for cello and orchestra

Bela Bartok: Concerto Sz.116 for orchestra

Jonathan Roozeman (Cello)

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

3.25pm

Lydia Jane Pugh: Adirai (Misplaced)

Katarina Pustinek Rakar: Das Rufen der Seelen

BBC Singers

Conductor: James Morgan

3.35pm

Nicola Lefanu: The Crimson Bird for soprano and orchestra

Rachel Nicholls (soprano)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

4.05pm

Vaughan Williams: Darest Thou Now O Soul

BBC Symphony Choir

Martyn Brabbins

4.10pm

Strauss: Symphony for Wind Instruments 'Fr怀hliche Werkstatt

BBC Symphony Orchestra Wind

Douglas Boyd (conductor)

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Lindberg, Kabalevsky and Bartok.

Liszt's The Legend Of Saint Elizabeth20120224Louise Fryer presents Liszt's oratorio, The Legend of Saint Elizabeth in a performance in the Frauenkirche, Dresden

Inspired by the creation of a series of frescoes by the Austrian painter Moritz von Schwind, Liszt's great oratorio sets to music the significant episodes in the life of Saint Elizabeth. Unknown to Ludwig, her royal husband, she distributes bread to the poor and, in the most famous scene, when asked by her husband what is in her covered basket, opens it and the bread miraculously turns into roses.

Landgrave Hermann, Landgrave of Thuringen - Reinhard Hagen (bass),

Countess Sophie, his wife - Ulrike Schneider (mezzo-soprano),

Landgrave Ludwig, their son - Ralf Lukas (bass),

Elisabeth, his fiancee and later his wife .....Melanie Diener (soprano),

King Frederick II Hehenstaufen - Matthew Best (bass),

Hungarian Magnate - Sebastian Noack (baritone),

Seneschal - Raimund Nolte (bass),

MDR Radio Chorus, Children's Choirs and Radio Symphony Orchestra,

Howard Arman (conductor).

Louise Fryer presents Liszt's oratorio The Legend of Saint Elizabeth.

Live Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Bbc Symphony Orchestra At 9020201029LIVE from Glasgow City Halls, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon performs Music for Strings, Trumpets and Percussion by Gra?yna Baciewicz, followed by Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major, 'Pastoral'.

Then, Penny Gore continues this week's celebrations of the 90th birthday of the BBC SO with its current chief conductor Sakari Oramo in Bax's Tintagel, Saariaho's 4 Leino songs for soprano and orchestra, with soloist Anu Komsi, finishing with Sibelius' Symphony No. 3 in C major. Then, Jac van Steen takes to the rostrum to conduct the ensemble in Hawar Tawfiq's Unificazione.

2.00pm

Gra?yna Baciewicz- Music for strings, trumpets and percussion

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, 'Pastoral' Op. 68

Nicholas Collon, conductor

3.10pm

Bax: Tintagel

Saariaho: 4 Leino songs for soprano and orchestra

Sibelius: Symphony no. 3 in C major Op.52

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Anu Komsi, soprano

Sakari Oramo, conductor

4.25pm

Hawar Tawfiq: Unificazione

Jac van Steen, conductor

LIVE BBC SSO with music by Baciewicz & Beethoven, followed by celebrations of BBC SO at 90

Live From Cardiff, The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20210219Live from the Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, under conductor Joseph Swensen, with music by Gra?yna Bacewicz, Eleanor Alberga, Thea Musgrave and Carl Nielsen. Presented by Nicola Hayward-Thomas.

Then, Penny Gore introduces music by Jean Sibelius.

2.00pm

Gra?yna Bacewicz: Music for strings, trumpets and percussion

Eleanor Alberga: Violin concerto No. 2, ‘Narcissus

INTERVAL

Thea Musgrave: Green

Carl Nielsen (arr. for orchestra by Swensen): Movements for string quartet

Thomas Bowes (violin)

3.55pm

Sibelius: Prelude

Sibelius: Andantino and Menuetto

The Brass Section of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Conductor Edward Hodgson

From the Hoddinott Hall with music by Gra\u017cyna Bacewicz, Eleanor Alberga, Thea Musgrave.

Live From Salford, Bbc Philharmonic20190403Live from Media City in Salford, Tom McKinney presents a concert with the BBC Philharmonic under the baton of Clemens Schuldt: Beethoven's Coriolan Overture, Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major, with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Simon Hofele, then Stravinsky's suite from his ballet Pulcinella. The concert ends with Mozart's Symphony No. 26 in E flat major, K161a.

The afternoon finishes with another work from the 2018 International Rostrum of Composers, the first of Helen Grime's Two Eardley Pictures - presented by Fiona Talkington.

2.00pm

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture

Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat

Stravinsky: Pulcinella, suite

Mozart: Symphony No. 26 in E flat, K161a

Simon Hofele (trumpet)

Clemens Schuldt (conductor)

3.00pm

Helen Grime: Two Eardley Pictures: No. 1 `Catterline in Winter`

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Clemens Schuldt conducts Beethoven, Haydn, Stravinsky and Mozart.

Live From Salford: Bbc Philharmonic And Bbc Singers20200303Live from Salford - presented by Sarah Walker.

The BBC Philharmonic performing at MediaCity with repertoire including two pieces by the Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim, his Pastorale variee for clarinet, harp and string orchestra, and his piece Pan, featuring soprano Claudia Barainsky, performed as bookends. In the middle comes Elgar's Cello Concerto with soloist Anastasia Kobekina. The orchestra is conducted by Omer Meir Wellber.

Then the afternoon continues with Penny Gore presenting excerpts from a concert given recently by the BBC Singers in which conductor Sofi Jeannin explored German Romantic repertoire, including Abendfeier in Vendedig by Clara Schumann and some arrangements for choir of songs by Schubert.

Next come two pieces by Detlev Glanert, taken from the recent BBC SO's Total Immersion season dedicated to the German composer's work, first his Three Pieces for viola and piano followed by one of his Three Songs on poems by Christoph Klimke, performed by musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

It's followed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with music that lays down roots in ritual and lament. After the meditative stillness of Arvo P䀀rt's sonic sculpture in memory of a dear colleague, we hear the fruits of the first Greek composer ever commissioned for the BBC SO's Barbican concerts: Dimitrios Skyllas's Kyrie Eleison.

2.00pm - Live from Salford

Ben-Haim: Pastorale variee for clarinet, harp and string orchestra

Elgar: Cello Concerto

Ben-Haim: Pan*

John Bradbury, clarinet

Anastasia Kobekina, cello

Claudia Barainsky*, soprano

Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

3.15pm

Clara Schumann: Abendfeier in Venedig

Schubert, arr. Lydia Smallwood: An die Musik*

Schubert: Psalm 43*

Brahms: Six Quartets op.112*

Richard Pearce, piano*

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

3.50pm

Glanert: Three Pieces Op.1, for viola and piano (1982)

Agnieszka Zyniewicz, viola

Matthew Gemmill, piano

Glanert: Three Songs on Poems by Christoph Klimke - no.1; Schatten schlafen (2014)

Jonathan De Garis, baritone

4.10pm

Arvo Part: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten

Dimitrios Skyllas: Kyrie Eleison (World Premiere; BBC & Onassis Cultural Centre co-commission)

Robert Spano, conductor

Music by Ben-Haim and Elgar. Then choral pieces by Clara Schumann and Schubert.

Live From Waterfront Hall Belfast20200904The BBC Orchestras: the Ulster Orchestra perform live.

To round off this week featuring all the BBC's performing groups, the Ulster Orchestra plays Bela Bart k's haunting Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.

And after that live event, Tom McKinney introduces a memorable performance of Beethoven's Missa solemnis given at the 2016 Proms by the BBC Philharmonic and two of Manchester's finest choirs.

Presented by John Toal from the Waterfront Hall, Belfast

Martin?: Concerto for Double String Orchestra, Piano and Timpani

Bart k: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Conductor Jac Van Steen Waterfront Hall, Belfast

at approx 3pm.

From 19 July 2016 Prom 5, presented by Tom McKinney

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis

Camilla Nylund (soprano)

Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano)

Stuart Skelton (tenor)

Hanno Müller?Brachmann (bass)

Hall退 Choir

Manchester Chamber Choir

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Live from the Waterfront Hall, Belfast, the Ulster Orchestra in Bartok and Martinu.

Live Music From Salford20200226The BBC Philharmonic with music by Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
Live Music With The Bbc Philharmonic20190327Bantock The Sea Reivers

Sally Beamish Piano Concerto No 2 ‘Cauldron of the Speckled Seas

Sibelius Symphony No 7

BBC Philharmonic / Rory Macdonald / Martin Roscoe (piano)

from MediaCityUK, Salford

Martin? Dream of the past

BBC Philharmonic / John Storgards

Rec. March 22 2019 at Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham

Bantock and Beamish live from the BBC Philharmonic and presented by Tom McKinney.

Live, Bbc Symphony Orchestra20191122Live from Maida Vale studios in London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra performing Jennifer Higdon's Blue Cathedral, Ries's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Dvorak's Symphony No. 6, under the baton of Ryan Bancroft. Presented by Natasha Riordan.

Then, coming back to the Radio 3 studio, the Ulster Orchestra. our featured ensemble this week, with Mendelssohn's orchestral concert overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, inspired by the same verses Beethoven set in his 1815 cantata of the same name. Presented by Hannah French.

2.00pm LIVE from Maida Vale studios, London. Presented by Natasha Riordan

Jennifer Higdon: Blue Cathedral

Ferdinand Ries: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op.55

Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No.6 in D major, Op. 60

Alexandra Dariescu, piano

Ryan Bancroft, conductor

16.05pm Presented by Hannah French

Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage - concert overture

Mihhail Gerts, conductor

With music by Jennifer Higdon, Ries and Dvorak, conducted by Ryan Bancroft.

Lso At The 2011 Aix-en-provence Festival20120120The London Symphony at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Penny Gore hears about the orchestra's eighteen day residency at France's most prestigious music festival.

Music includes:

2.00pm Debussy La Mer

2.20pm Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 in C minor, op. 65

London Symphony Orchestra

Valery Gergiev (conductor)

then

3.25pm A concert performance from the Salle Pleyel in Paris of one of Rameau's two opera based on the story of the Greek lyric poet, Anacreon. Written in 1757, this 'Acte de ballet', is a blend of extended dance sequences and arias and vocal ensemble pieces in which Anacreon leads a celebration of the power of love and the pleasures of wine.

Rameau Anacreon

Anacreon..... Alain Buet (baritone),

Priestess..... Emmanuelle de Negri (soprano),

Agathocle..... Ed Lyon (haute contre)

Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor).

The LSO performs music by Debussy and Shostakovich at the 2011 Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Lucerne Festival 2017. James Galway Plays Mozart, Riccardo Chailly Conducts Stravinsky20180119Tom McKinney rounds off this Afternoon Concert week of highlights from the 2017 Lucerne Festival with two complete concerts - and a bonus track. Flautist James Galway joins the festival's long-time resident chamber orchestra in Mozart and Riccardo Chailly conducts the all-star Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Stravinsky - including the Swiss premiere of his recently rediscovered Funeral Song - plus Ligeti's Piano Concerto from the young stars-to-be of the Lucerne Festival Academy.

Mozart: Symphony No 29 in A major, K201; Flute Concerto No 2 in D major, K314

Sibelius: Pelleas and Melisande Suite

James Galway (flute)

Lucerne Festival Strings

Conductor Daniel Dodds (violin)

3.15pm

Ligeti: Piano Concerto

David Kadouch (piano)

Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble

Director Matthias Pintscher

3.35pm

Stravinsky: The Faun and the Shepherdess, Op 2

(with Sophie Koch, mezzo-soprano); Scherzo fantastique, Op 3; Fireworks, Op 4; Chant fun耀bre, Op 5; The Rite of Spring

Conductor Riccardo Chailly.

Music by Mozart and Sibelius from the Lucerne Festival Strings and flautist James Galway.

Lucerne Festival 2017: Bernard Haitink Conducts The Chamber Orchestra Of Europe20180117Tom McKinney presents a concert of music by Mozart and Mahler with Bernard Haitink conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at the 2017 Lucerne Festival.

2pm

Mozart: Symphony No 36 in C major, K 425 (Linz)

Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Anna Lucia Richter (soprano)

Christian Gerhaher (baritone)

Conductor Bernard Haitink.

Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at the 2017 Lucerne Festival.

Lucerne Festival 2017: Mirga Grazinyte-tyla Conducts The City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra20180116Tom McKinney presents highlights from the 2017 Lucerne Festival, including a concert by the City of Birmingham SO with their Music Director Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla.

2pm

Peteris Vasks: Cantabile

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85

Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 44

Gautier Capu瀀on (cello)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla

3.30pm

Zimmermann: Contrasts (Kontraste) - music to an imaginary ballet

Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble

Director Heinz Holliger

3.40pm

Bart k: The Wooden Prince

Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra

Conductor Matthias Pintscher

4.35pm

Michel van der Aa: Hysteresis for clarinet, ensemble and soundtrack

Martin Adကmek (clarinet)

Director Matthias Pintscher.

Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla conducts the City of Birmingham SO at the 2017 Lucerne Festival.

Lucerne Festival 2017: Riccardo Chailly Conducts Strauss20180115Tom McKinney presents a week of orchestral highlights from the 2017 Lucerne Festival. He launches the series with the Festival's opening concert, an all-Richard Strauss programme played by the all-star Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Plus 20th and 21st century music played by the stars-to-be of the Lucerne Festival Academy.

2pm

Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Tod und Verkl䀀rung; Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Conductor Riccardo Chailly

3.25pm

Lisa Streich: Segel (world premiere)

Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra

Conductor Gregor A. Mayrhofer

3.40pm

Debussy, orch. Koechlin: Khamma

Koechlin: Les Bandar-log

Conductor Heinz Holliger

4.30pm

Ligeti: Violin Concerto

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)

Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble

Director Matthias Pintscher

Lakes, mountains and some of the world's best music-making: the Lucerne Festival takes place every August and September in the state-of-the-art concert halls of the Culture and Congress Centre on the banks of stunning Lake Lucerne, with its jaw-dropping Alpine backdrop. n Afternoon Concert this week Tom McKinney presents highlights from the 2017 festival - beginning and ending with concerts by the remarkable Lucerne Festival Orchestra, founded by the late Claudio Abbado in 2013, and formed anew every summer by leading international orchestral and chamber musicians. The orchestra's current music director Riccardo Chailly conducts programmes focusing on music from the turn of the 20th century by two very different precocious young composers: the German Richard Strauss and the Russian Igor Stravinsky. We'll also hear concerts by visiting orchestras - the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and conductor Bernard Haitink on Wednesday and the UK's own City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with their Music Director Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla on Tuesday - and on Friday flautist James Galway joins the festival's long-time resident chamber orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Strings. Plus throughout the week Tom also features the 130 highly gifted young players of the Lucerne Festival Academy, who come from all over the world to study and perform music of the 20th century and our own day.

We stay in Switzerland for Opera Matinee on Thursday, with a Geneva production of Rossini's comedy The Barber of Seville, conducted by Jonathan Nott - the second of a trilogy of Rossini operas on Radio 3 this January. Opera on 3 on 6 January featured the Royal Opera's production of his tragedy Semiramide, starring Joyce DiDonato (now available on the Radio 3 website), and Opera Matinee next Thursday (25 January) is his rarely heard Biblical drama Moses in Egypt.

Riccardo Chailly conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in music by Richard Strauss.

Lucerne Festival 201820181224Two high-energy 20th Century works with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth in a concert taken from this year's Lucerne Festival. First, Bartok's Divertimento for String Orchestra, which was the last work he composed just before he fled Hungary during the outbreak of World War II. It is less intense than his preceding works and its outer movements shine out with a joyful optimism. Then, cellist Sol Gabetta joins the orchestra for a rare performance of Martin?'s Cello Concerto No. 1 in D. After Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra the afternoon finishes with a performance of Bruckner's Mass no 2 in e minor interspersed with movements from Henri Tomasi's Fanfares liturgiques. The concert is presented by Jonathan Swain.

2.00pm

B退la Bart k: Divertimento

Martin?: Cello Concerto No. 1 in D

Sol Gabetta, cello

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth, conductor

3.00pm

Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra 'Dialogues

Pierre-Laurent Aimard , piano

Tamara Stefanovich , piano

Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra

Matthias Pintscher , conductor

3.30pm

Bruckner: Os justi

Tomasi: Annonciation, from 'Fanfares liturgiques

Bruckner: Kyrie, from 'Mass No. 2 in E minor

Bruckner: Gloria, from 'Mass No. 2 in E minor

Tomasi: Evangile, from 'Fanfares liturgiques

Bruckner: Credo, from Mass No. 2 in E minor

Tomasi: Apocalypse, from 'Fanfares liturgiques

Bruckner: Sanctus, from 'Mass No. 2 in E minor

Bruckner: Benedictus, from 'Mass No. 2 in E minor

Bruckner: Agnus Dei, from 'Mass No. 2 in E minor

Tomasi: Procession nocturne, from 'Fanfares liturgiques

Lucerne Academy Chorus

Instrumentalists of the Lucerne Conservatory

Ulrike Grosch , conductor

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra performs Bartok and Martin\u016f at the 2018 Lucerne Festival.

Lucerne Festival 2019 And Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana20200518We'll spend this week in Switzerland with concerts from festivals featuring local and visiting groups. Plus music from one of the most representative ensembles in the country, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, based in Lugano. We start at the Lucerne Festival 2019 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Jakub Hr?ša. Then we visit the Ascona Music Festival 2019 with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana under its principal conductor, Markus Poschner.

Presented by Hannah French

2.00pm

Mendelssohn: The Hebrides, op. 26, overture in B minor ('Fingal's Cave')

Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. 313

Emmanuel Pahud, flute

Jakub Hr?ša, conductor

2.40pm

Rossini: Overture to 'L'Italiana in Algeri

Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G, Hob. I:92 ('Oxford')

Bart k: Piano Concerto No. 3

Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques, for piano, winds and percussion

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

Markus Poschner, conductor

3.55pm

Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird, concert suite from the ballet (1945 version)

With music by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rossini, Haydn, Bartok, Messiaen and Stravinsky.

Mahler And Prokofiev From Seoul's Kbs Symphony Orchestra20190916Mahler's monumental Symphony No 9, plus a violin concerto by Prokofiev and an unseasonal piece by Scottish composer Thea Musgrave

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Kicking off a week of programmes featuring Seoul's KBS Symphony Orchestra, music director and principal conductor Yoel Levi is on the podium in Mahler's last completed symphony. They are joined by American violinist Stefan Pi Jackiw in Prokofiev's sensuous Concerto No 2

The programme also celebrates Scottish composer Thea Musgrave, who celebrated her ninetieth birthday last year

2.00pm

Mahler: Symphony No 9

Yoel Levi, conductor

3.30pm

Musgrave: A Song for Christmas

Hannah Holgersson, soprano

Stefan Lindgren, piano

3.40pm

Dvorak: Carnival Overture

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2

Stefan Pi Jackiw, violin

The KBS Symphony Orchestra perform works by Mahler, Prokofiev and Thea Musgrave.

Mahler's First Symphony With Vassily Sinaisky20221020Ian Skelly introduces music making from Schwetzingen alongside piano playing by Christian Hadland, the BBC Philharmonic, and Mahler from featured artist Vasilly Sinaisky.

Johann Strauss II: Unter Donner und Blitzen Polka Op324

Vassily Sinaiksky (conductor)

Felix Mendelssohn: Overture - Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Op28

CBSO

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Schwetzingen 2022

Marin Marais: Marche pour les Matelots, from 'Alcyone

Francois Couperin: La Lutine

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Sauvages

Accademia del Piacere

Fahmi Alqhai (viola da gamba, artistic direction)

Robert Schumann: Waldszenen Op82

Christian Hadland (piano)

3.00

Mahler: Symphony No 1

St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Zoltan Kodaly: Symphony

Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Vassily Sinaisky conducts Mahler's great paean to nature.

Mahler's Resurrection Symphony From The Rte National Symphony Orchestra In Dublin20190930Mahler's all embracing 'Resurrection' Symphony opens a week of concerts by Ireland's RTE National Symphony Orchestra recorded in Dublin during their 2018/19 season.

Plus music by Gerard Victory, a prolific Irish composer who described his output as a 'crowded landscape where plants of every kind imaginable rub shoulders uneasily', and the penultimate Piano Concerto of John Field, performed by Venetian pianist Alessandro Taverna.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

2.00pm

Mahler: Symphony No 2 in C minor ‘Resurrection

Orla Boylan, soprano

Jennifer Johnston, mezzo

RTE Philharmonic Choir

Robert Trevino, conductor

3.25pm

Gerard Victory: Three Irish Pictures

Timothy Henty, conductor

3.40pm

John Field: Piano Concerto No 6

Alessandro Taverna, piano

Mahler's Resurrection Symphony, plus music by Gerard Victory and John Field

Mahler's Symphony No 120231114Ian Skelly presents an afternoon of concert and studio recordings from around Europe, and from the BBC's performing groups.

Today, Mahler's First Symphony is in the 3pm spotlight, performed by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden. The RIAS Chamber Choir performs Haydn sacred works at the Berlin Music Festival, and there are new recordings from the Ulster Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic, including David Matthews' cello work based on surviving fragments of Vaughan Williams' cello concerto.

Including:

c.2pm

Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte for strings

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Elim Chan (conductor)

Haydn: Te Deum, Hob XXIIIc:2

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Justin Doyle (conductor)

David Matthews/Vaughan Williams: Dark pastoral for cello and orchestra

Santiago Cañón Valencia (cello)

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Byrd: The Bells, MB 27.38

Ieva Saliete (harpsichord)

Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op 40

Georgijs Sarkisjans (violin)

Latvian National Symphony Orchestra

Janis Liepins (conductor)

c.3pm

Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D major

Jaap van Zweden (conductor)

Haydn: Sanctus and Agnus Dei from Mass No 9 in C, Hob XXII:9, 'Missa in tempore belli

Johanna Wallroth (soprano)

Anna Stephany (mezzo-soprano)

Martin Mitterrutzner (tenor)

Kresimir Strazanac (baritone)

c.4.05

Gluck: Air des Furies, from 'Orphée et Eurydice

Württemberg Chamber Orchestra

Anna Handler (conductor)

Hélène de Montgeroult: Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 1 No 3

Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano)

Mussorgsky orch Rimsky Korsakov: Night on Bald Mountain

NDR Radio Philharmonic

Andrew Manze (conductor)

Schubert: Alfonso und Estrella (Rosamunde) Overture D797

Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra perform Mahler's First Symphony.

Jaap van Zweden conducts the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Mahler's First Symphony, and the RIAS Chamber Choir sing sacred works by Haydn.

Mahler's Symphony No 720190508Fiona Talkington presents the third of four programmes featuring the S o Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, one of South America's finest ensembles.

Today, Marin Alsop conducts the S o Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in. Mahler's Symphony No. 7.

Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E minor .

Marin Alsop, conductor

Marin Alsop conducts the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No 7.

Manchester Week With The Bbc Philharmonic (1-4)20210322Tom McKinney introduces a selection of studio and concert recordings by the BBC Philharmonic for Manchester Week on Radio 3 including Russian symphonic music and the first instalment of a musical serialisation of Dickens's Oliver Twist.

Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1 (Winter Daydreams)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Vassily Sinaisky

Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3

Stephen Hough (piano)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda

Arnold Bax: Music for the 1948 film 'Oliver Twist' - Part 1

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Rumon Gamba

Mikhail Glinka: Symphony on Two Russian Themes

Eric Coates: Summer Days - suite

BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Wilson

Manchester-based recordings from the BBC Philharmonic

Manchester Week With The Bbc Philharmonic (2-4)20210323Tom McKinney introduces a rich selection of recordings from the BBC Philharmonic of English music for Radio 3's 'Manchester Week', including symphonies by Malcolm Arnold and David Matthews, music by Elgar and the second instalment of Arnold Bax's 'Oliver Twist'.

Edward Elgar: Variations on an original theme ‘Enigma

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Juanjo Mena

David Matthews: Symphony No 8

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Jac van Steen

Ralph Vaughan-Williams: Tuba Concerto (arr. for euphonium)

David Childs (euphonium)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Ben Gernon

Arnold Bax: Music for the 1948 film 'Oliver Twist' - Part 2

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Rumon Gamba

Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No 9

Edward Elgar: Falstaff

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Andrew Davis

The BBC Philharmonic with a celebration of English music

Manchester Week With The Bbc Philharmonic (3-4)20210324Tom McKinney introduces a selection of recordings from the BBC Philharmonic for Radio 3's 'Manchester Week', including a recent recording of music by Sibelius, and Takemitsu.

Jean Sibelius: Valse romantique

Andrea Tarrodi Camelopardalis

Tchaikovsky Pezzo capriccioso for cello and orchestra

(Anastasia Kobekina - cello)

Sibelius Canzonetta

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Anna-Maria Helsing

Toru Takemitsu: Rain coming

BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Storgards

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No 1

The BBC Philharmonic perform Sibelius, Nielsen and Takemitsu in Manchester.

Manchester Week With The Bbc Philharmonic (4-4)20210326Tom McKinney introduces the final selection of music from the BBC Philharmonic for Manchester Week including a performance of a symphony by Bruckner, music from America by Copland and Barber, and the conclusion to the serialisation of Arnold Bax's music for the 1948 film Oliver Twist.

Wolfgang Mozart: Serenade in G `Eine Kleine Nachtmusik` (K 525)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Stephanie Childress

Tom Coult: Rainbow-Shooting Cloud Contraption (first broadcast)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Storgards

Arnold Bax: Music for the 1948 film 'Oliver Twist' - Part 4

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Rumon Gamba

Aaron Copland: Symphony for organ and orchestra

Jonathan Scott (organ)

BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Wilson

Samuel Barber: Mutations from Bach

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Clark Rundell

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No 6

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Juanjo Mena

The BBC Philharmonic perform symphonic music from America, Austria and the UK.

Martha Argerich, Schumann Piano Concerto20141225A true musical legend of our time performs Schumann's Piano Concerto, one of the most popular of all piano concertos.

Katie Derham presents this performance recorded in Berlin at the end of last month

Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54

Martha Argerich (piano)

Berlin Philharmonic, Riccardo Chailly (conductor).

Soloist Martha Argerich joins the Berlin Philharmonic to perform Schumann's Piano Concerto

Maundy Thursday, Live With The Bbc Singers20220414On Maundy Thursday, Penny Gore presents the afternoon from St Paul's, Knightsbridge in London, with the BBC Singers and conductor Andrew Griffiths performing a sequence of music for Holy Week. The live performance, specially curated for Afternoon Concert, includes settings of the Stabat Mater, William Byrd's evocative Tristitia et anxietas, and Lamentations from the award-winning composer Kerensa Briggs.

Plus music from around Europe including Schnittke in Prague, Mozart in Romania, and Augustin Hadelich playing Beethoven's 'Spring' sonata.

Including:

Schnittke: Polyphonischer Tango

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Marko Ivanovic (conductor)

Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, op. 24 ('Spring')

Augustin Hadelich (violin)

Adam Skoumal (piano)

2.30pm LIVE from St Paul's, Knightsbridge

Sister Sulpitia Cesis: Stabat Mater

John Sanders: The Reproaches

Felice Anerio: Stabat Mater a 12

Kerensa Briggs: Lamentations

William Byrd: Tristitia et anxietas

Aleksandra Chimielewska: Nunc scio vere

Kenneth Leighton: Drop, drop slow tears

Szymon Godziemba-Trytek: Miserere mei Deus

Lesya Dychko: Blessed be the name of the Lord

Andrew Griffiths (conductor)

c.4pm

Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A major K.201

East-West Chamber Orchestra

Rostislav Krimer, conductor

James MacMillan: The World's Ransoming

Christine Pendrill (cor anglais)

London Symphony Orchestra

Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

Music for Holy Week with the BBC Singers, live from St Paul's Knightsbridge.

Mendelssohn In Italy With The Bbc Philharmonic20230426Ian Skelly introduces a selection of music evoking the Italy of antiquity, including the BBC Philharmonic performing Mendelssohn's sun-kissed 'Italian' Symphony. Plus more traditional Mediterranean music from Jordi Savall.

Bizet: Roma - II. Allegro Vivace

Orchestre de Paris

Paavo Jarvi (conductor)

Trad: Two traditional songs from Syria and Cyprus

Lior Elmaleh (vocals)

Katerina Papadopoulou (vocals)

Hesperion XXI

Vivaldi: Cello Sonata in E minor RV40

Nicolas Alstaedt (cello)

Jonathan Cohen (harpsichord)

Berlioz: Le Carnaval Romain

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Debussy: 6 Epigraphes Antiques

Ulster Orchestra

Jac van Steen (conductor)

3.00

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4. 'Italian

John Storgards (conductor)

Barbara Strozzi: Godere e tacere

Claire Lefilliatre (soprano)

Dorotheo Mields (soprano)

Hathor Consort

Faure: Suite Masques et Bergamasques

Italy through the musical minds of Bizet, Verdi, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn and Barbara Strozzi.

Mendelssohn's 'lobgesang'20230511Penny Gore introduces an afternoon of live concert recordings from around Europe.

Today's 3pm spotlight falls on Mendelssohn's hour-long Symphony-Cantata 'Lobgesang', in a recording from the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, its music director Alain Altinoglu, the MDR Radio Chorus, Leipzig and soloists led by the soprano Katharina Konradi. Also in today's programme, Scriabin's Prometheus with soloist Andrei Korobeinikov, and an 18th-century concerto for two horns by Antonio Rosetti.

Including:

Rosetti: Concerto for 2 Horns in E flat, M.C57

Bart Aerbeydt, horn

Gijs Laceulle, horn

Freiburg Baroque

Gottfried von der Goltz, conductor

c.2.25pm

Scriabin: Prometheus - The Poem of Fire, op. 60

Andrei Korobeinikov, piano

Latvian National Symphony Orchestra

Andris Poga, conductor

Shostakovich: Prelude and fugue No. 15 in D flat major, Op.87 No.15

Tom Borrow, piano

c.3pm

Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 in B flat, op. 52 ('Lobgesang')

Katharina Konradi, soprano

Miriam Albano, mezzo

Matthew Swensen, tenor

Frankfurt Radio SO

Alain Altinoglu, conductor

Artist Choice - TBC

c.4.35pm

Croce: Miserere mei, a 6

Concerto Palatino

Bruce Dickey, director

Wagner: Der Fliegende Hollander - Overture

Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Mendelssohn's Symphony-Cantata 'Lobgesang'.

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto20230911Ian Skelly starts a new week of afternoons on Radio 3, featuring the best classical music in new recordings by the BBC performing groups, and from concerts around Europe.

Today's programme includes Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales joined by the young Norwegian soloist Johan Dalene, and Delius's Petite Suite no.2 is performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, and the BBC Singers perform music by Betty Jackson and Jonathan Dove. Plus highlights of a concert given by the Venice Baroque Orchestra at the Kissinger Sommer Festival with Tartini played on a violoncello da spalla.

Including:

Betty Jackson: King Psalm 57

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Vivaldi: Sinfonia in G, RV 149 'Il coro delle muse

Andrea Marcon (conductor)

Delius: Petite Suite No 2 for orchestra

Martin Yates (conductor)

Mozart: Twelve Variations on 'Ah vous dirai-je, Maman' K.265

Elisabeth Brauss (piano)

Dvorak: In nature's realm, overture Op.91

Prague Symphony Orchestra

Charles Mackerras (conductor)

c.3pm

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor

Johan Dalene (violin)

Marta Gardoli?ska (conductor)

Jonathan Dove: The Passing of the Year

Alexandra Standing (piano)

Benjamin Goodson (conductor)

Tartini: Cello Concerto in A major

Sergey Malov (violoncello da spalla)

c.4.05

Gershwin (arr. Levickis): Rhapsody in Blue

Martynas Levickis (accordion)

NDR Radio Philharmonic

Delyana Lazarova (conductor)

Johan Dalene plays Mendelssohn's ever-popular Violin Concerto.

Minnesota Orchestra, Copland, Bruch, Dvorak20180221Penny Gore continues a week of music-making from the American Mid-West. This afternoon is devoted to a concert by the Minnesota Orchestra with their Music Director Osmo V䀀nsk䀀, in which they're joined by the American-Korean violinist Esther Yoo to play Bruch's First Violin Concerto. Copland's Lincoln Portrait for orchestra and speaker, and Dvorak's celebration of the United States, his New World Symphony, complete the programme.

2pm

Copland: Lincoln Portrait

Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 26

Dvorak: Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 (From the New World)

Alan C Page (speaker)

Esther Yoo (violin)

Osmo V䀀nsk䀀 (conductor)

The US twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul have a long tradition of first class music making, and all this week Penny Gore introduces, on Afternoon Concert, recordings of their flagship ensembles, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra.

Today's programme is devoted to the Minnesota Orchestra, and a concert from last season in which the American-Korean violinist, and graduate of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists Scheme, Esther Yoo, joined the orchestra to play Bruch's First Violin Concerto, still considered one of the cornerstones of the violin repertoire. It's a cornerstone of the symphonic repertoire that follows: Dvorak's Ninth Symphony. The American themes it explores have earned it the soubriquet 'From the New World'. And it's an American work which opens proceedings: Copland's stately Lincoln Portrait for orchestra and speaker.

The Minnesota Orchestra play Bruch's First Violin Concerto with violinist Esther Yoo.

Minnesota Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Brahms, Stravinsky, Marsalis, Mozart20180219Penny Gore introduces a week of music making from the American Mid-West. In this first programme, the Minnesota Orchestra under its Music Director Osmo V䀀nsk䀀, performs music by Brahms and Stravinsky, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra performs works by Wynton Marsalis and Mozart, joined by guest director and soloist Richard Egarr.

2pm

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op 15

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Rafal Blechacz (piano)

Osmo V䀀nsk䀀 (conductor)

3.35pm

Wynton Marsalis: String Quartet No 1 (At the Octoroon Balls)

Players from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

4.15pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 12 in A major, K414

Richard Egarr (piano/director)

The US twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul have a long tradition of first class music making, and all this week Penny Gore introduces, on Afternoon Concert, recordings of their flagship ensembles, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra. Under the baton of their Finnish Music Director Osmo V䀀nsk䀀, the Minnesota Orchestra starts the week with two staples of the classical repertoire: Brahms First Piano Concerto and Stravinsky's simmering ballet score for The Rite of Spring. The prodigious Polish virtuoso Rafal Blechacz is tasked with tackling Brahms's daunting technical demands.

That's followed by a performance of Wynton Marsalis's String Quartet No 1 featuring players from The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Subtitled 'At the Octoroon Balls', the piece is a celebration of the Creole culture in New Orleans.

To finish, the British early music specialist Richard Egarr joins The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for an authentic 18th century-style performance of Mozart's 12th Piano Concerto, including extra improvised passages that Wolfgang Amadeus himself might have played in the European salons.

The Minnesota Orchestra performs music by Brahms and Stravinsky with director Osmo Vanska.

Monday, 21st-century European Concert Halls20170227Verity Sharp presents a week of concerts from 21st century European concert halls, including the inauguration concert from the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg plus highlights from the Helsinki Music Centre with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hannu Lintu.

2pm:

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg inauguration concert, including:

Dutilleux: Myst耀re de l'instant Parts 1-3

Cyril Dupuy (cimbalom)

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock

Emilio de' Cavalieri: Dalle più alte sfere, aria from 'La Pellegrina

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)

Soloist: Margert K怀ll (baroque harp)

Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Photoptosis

Rolf Liebermann: Furioso

Wagner: Prelude to 'Parsifal

Wolfgang Rihm: Reminiszenz: Triptychon und Spruch in memoriam Hans Henny

Jahnn (Premi耀re)

Pavol Breslik (tenor)

Iveta Apkalna (organ)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor (4th movement: 'Ode to Joy')

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (soprano)

Wiebke Lehmkuhl (mezzo-soprano)

Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)

NDR Chorus

Bavarian Radio Chorus

c. 3.45pm:

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622

Christoffer Sundqvist (clarinet)

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchsetra

Conductor Hannu Lintu.

Featuring the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg inauguration concert.

Monday, American Ensembles And Repertoire20170417Catriona Young introduces a mix of European and Latin American repertoire, played by both the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, a thread which will be explored throughout the whole week. Today, the programme starts in Sao Paulo with a contemporary Brazilian composer, Paul Costa Lima, and his 'Cabinda: Nos Somos Pretos', a symphonic overture commissioned recently by the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra (Osesp), premiered by today's conductor Marin Alsop, the ensemble's Principal Conductor. It's followed by Chopin's First Piano Concerto with Denis Kozhukhin as soloist, and then Prokofiev's Sixth Symphony. Then comes the Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra, at the helm of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, for more Latin American music. First, Piazzolla's Tangazo, which is followed by Ginastera's dances from his ballet Estancia.

2.00pm

Paulo Costa Lima

Cabinda: Nos Somos Pretos, symphonic overture, Op. 104

Marin Alsop, conductor

2.16pm

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

Denis Kozhukhin, piano

3.00pm

Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor, Op. 111

3.42pm

Tangazo: Variations on Buenos Aires

Alondra de la Parra, conductor

4.00pm

Estancia, Op. 8a

Alondra de la Parra, conductor.

Including the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra playing Paulo Costa Lima, Chopin and Prokofiev.

Monday, Bach's Magnificat20230626Fiona Talkington introduces an afternoon of recordings from around Europe.

A new week of afternoon concert begins with a performance of Bach's Magnificat, pairing the Belgian choir Vox Luminis and its director Lionel Meunier with Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Fiona also has a new recording of the BBC Philharmonic with John Wilson and horn player Martin Owen, playing Richard Strauss's first Horn concerto. Georgian virtuoso pianist Khatia Buniatishvili plays Haydn, and Freiburg Baroque Orchestra returns with Dvorak's Rococo-inspired Wind serenade. And throughout the week there'll be a chance to hear music by lesser-known Dutch composers, starting today with Henri뀀tte Bosmans.

Including:

Chopin: Larghetto (Piano concerto No 2)

Alexander Gadjiev, piano

Consone Quartet

Jan Zahourek, double bass

Richard Strauss: Horn concerto No 1 in E flat major, Op 11

Martin Owen (French horn)

John Wilson (conductor)

Henri뀀tte Bosmans: Calm Night

Lucia Swarts, cello

Elena Malinova, piano

Joseph Haydn: Keyboard sonata No 20 in C minor

Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)

c. 3pm

J S Bach: Magnificat in D major, BWV 243a

Lionel Meunier, conductor

Ravel: Introduction and allegro

LUDWIG

Barbara Hannigan, conductor

c. 4pm

Dvo?ကk: Serenade in D minor, Op 44

Anne Katherina Schreiber, conductor

Vox Luminis and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra perform Bach's Magnificat.

Monday, Bbc Concert Orchestra20170605with Katie Derham. An afternoon of music from the BBC Concert Orchestra, including new CD releases and a concert given in March in Watford Colosseum with their Conductor Laureate Barry Wordsworth, drawing on his many years in the world of ballet.

2pm

Arnold: Water (Homage to the Queen)

Gavin Gordon: Les Noces imaginaires

c.2.40pm

Delibes: Coppelia (highlights)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth

c.3.25pm

Chaminade: Concertstück in C sharp minor, Op 40

c.3.45pm

Bliss: Violin Concerto

Victor Sangiorgio (piano)

Lorraine McAslan (violin)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates.

The BBC Concert Orchestra performs music by Arnold, Gordon, Delibes, Chaminade and Bliss.

Monday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales2017030720170306 (R3)Katie Derham presents The BBC National Orchestra of Wales in British music including women composers in the week of International Women's Day (Wednesday).

Hilary Tann's arresting fanfare commemorates the tragic events of Tiananmen Square in 1989, and Adam Walker is the brilliant young soloist in the flute concerto by the orchestra's Composer in Association - Huw Watkins. Rumon Gamba continues his exploration of forgotten tone poems, and Ethel Smyth's Double Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra prepares the way for Thursday's opera - The Boatswain's Mate.

2pm

Hilary Tann: The Open Field

BBC NOW

Tecwyn Evans, conductor

c.2.10

Austin: Spring

Rumon Gamba, conductor

c.2.25

Huw Watkins: Flute Concerto

Adam Walker, flute

Thomas Sondergard, conductor

c.3pm

John Pickard: Symphony No. 5

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

c.3.45pm

Ethel Smyth: Double Concerto

Elena Urioste, violin

Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn

Daniel Blendulf, conductor.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Tann, Watkins, Pickard and Ethel Smyth.

Monday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20170424Penny Gore presents a week of performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including recent concerts and new studio recordings. Today features a concert the orchestra gave at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre with some staples of the romantic repertoire: Strauss, Brahms - and Leonard Elschenbroich is soloist in Elgar's Cello Concerto. Plus a new recording of the Symphony No.1 by the Anglo-Dutch composer Bernard van Dieren, scored for soloists, chorus and orchestra, and based on the same source material as Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.

2pm

Strauss: Die Fledermaus - Overture

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op.98

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)

Christoph Koenig (conductor)

c.3.35pm

Handel: Concerto grosso in G minor, Op.6 No.6

Rachel Podger (director)

c.3.45pm

Dieren: Symphony No. 1, Op.6, (Chinese)

Rebecca Evans (soprano)

Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)

Nathan Vale (tenor)

Morgan Pearse (baritone)

David Soar (bass)

BBC National Chorus Of Wales

William Boughton (conductor).

The BBC NOW performs music by Strauss, Elgar, Brahms, Handel and Dieren.

Monday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20170619Verity Sharp begins this week of music performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, today from a concert recorded at La Seine Musicale in Paris, including repertoire conducted by Thomas Sondergard by Britten, Sibelius and joined by James Ehnes in Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto.

2pm

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

BBC NOW

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

c.2.15pm

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No.1 in A minor

James Ehnes, violin

c.3pm

Sibelius: Symphony No.6 in D minor, Op.104

c.3.30pm

Delius: Paris - the Song of a Great City

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

c.3.50pm

Gershwin: An American in Paris

Eric Stern (conductor).

The BBC NOW performs music by Britten, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Delius and Gershwin.

Monday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20170925Fiona Talkington presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a series of concerts and recordings to launch Afternoon on 3's tone poem theme. The 2pm concert was recorded in Swansea and includes Strauss's Don Juan, and we'll also hear a performance of Saint-Sa뀀ns's devilish tone poem Danse Macabre. Plus symphonies by Beethoven and Brahms.

Strauss: Don Juan, Op.20

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K.467

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op.68 (Pastoral)

Alice Sara Ott (piano)

Jun Markl (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Danse macabre - symphonic poem, Op.40

c.3.40pm

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op.98

Christoph Koenig (conductor).

Fiona Talkington presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performing tone poems.

Monday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20171016Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with one of the most programmatic of symphonies - Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique - paired with a modern-day take on the symphony from Tan Dun. There's more French programmatic music, this time by Saint-Sa뀀ns, along with Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No.1 performed by Matthew Trusler.

2pm

Tan Dun: Internet Symphony No.1 (Eroica)

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op.14

Stephen Hough (piano)

Xian Zhang (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Mark Bowden: Heartland - percussion concerto

Julian Warburton (percussion)

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Pha退ton - symphonic poem, Op.39

Jun Markl (conductor)

Peter Dickinson: Monologue for Strings

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op.19

Matthew Trusler (violin)

Satie: Parade - ballet

Martin Yates (conductor).

~Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with Berlioz and Saint-Saens.

Monday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20210215Penny Gore introduces a week of performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Today, music by Bosmans, Shostakovich, Frank, Anna Clyne, J.S. Bach and Bartok.

2.00pm

Bosmans: Poeme

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107

Frank: Concertino Cusqueကo

Andrei Ionita, cello

Conductor Rebecca Miller

3.00pm

Anna Clyne: Within her arms for 15 strings

Conductor David Angus

J.S. Bach: Brandenburg concerto No 1 in F major, BWV 1046

Lesley Hatfield, violin

Conductor Paul Goodwin

3.35pm

Bartok: Divertimento, Sz 113

Conductor Moritz Gnann

Music by Bosmans, Shostakovich, Frank, Anna Clyne, JS Bach and Bartok.

Monday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales' 90th Anniversary Celebrations20180409From the band's beginnings as the Western Studio Orchestra in the Assembly Rooms Cardiff's City Hall, through the orchestra's adventurous tour in what was, then, East Germany, to its enduring three decade-long partnership with Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka, Kate Molleson celebrates the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th Anniversary with a week of Afternoon Concerts that explore the orchestra's role in Welsh musical life and beyond. Kate begins her journey through the orchestra's nine-decade history with a vintage recording of its first appearance at the BBC Proms in 1971. and explores the role the ensemble plays in showcasing the work of Welsh composers.

Haydn - Symphony No. 92. in G major ' Oxford

Stravinsky - Violin Concerto in D major

Esther Glazer (violin)

BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra

Irwin Hoffman (conductor)

c. 4pm

Hoddinott - Symphony No. 6, Op. 116

Alun Hoddinott (conductor).

Kate Molleson celebrates the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th anniversary.

Monday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales In Afternoon Concert20180122Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Across the week Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with Smetana and Respighi, plus we hear the fruits of the Orchestra's Beethoven Symphony Cycle recorded during a recent tour of North Wales with Principal Guest conductor Xian Zhang, and the cellist Alexey Stadler performs from the Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

2pm

Weber: overture to Oberon, J306

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op 33

Tchaikovsky; Pezzo capriccioso, Op 62

Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92

Alexey Stadler (cello)

Xian Zhang (conductor)

c. 3.15pm

Elgar: Serenade in E minor for String Orchestra, Op 20

BBC NOW

Tadaaki Otaka (cond)

Prokofiev: Scythian Suite from 'Ala i Lolly', Op 20

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

c. 4.30pm

Bartok: Divertimento, Sz113

Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC NOW.

Monday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales Live In Cardiff20171211This week features the BBC performing groups live in concert, beginning today with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at Hoddinott Hall. Tadaaki Otaka conducts an all-Elgar repertoire, starting with the Cockaigne overture, followed by Sea Pictures with contralto Claudia Huckle as soloist, then the Serenade in E minor for string orchestra, ending this concerto with In the south overture (Alassio). The afternoon continues with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, recorded recently at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh under the baton of Thomas Dausgaard, first with Haydn's Symphony No. 88 in G major, then with Mahler's Symphony No. 7.

2.00pm Presented by Nicola Hayward Thomas LIVE from Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff.

Elgar: Cockaigne (In London town) - overture Op.40

Elgar: Sea pictures Op.37

Elgar: Serenade in E minor Op.20 for string orchestra

Elgar: In the south (Alassio) - overture Op.50

Claudia Huckle (contralto)

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

3.45pm - Back to Broadcasting House with Verity Sharp

Haydn: Symphony no. 88 in G major H.1.88

Mahler: Symphony no. 7

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor).

Live from Cardiff music by Elgar with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Monday, Bbc Philharmonic20170220Catriona Young presents a week of performance by the BBC Philharmonic, incorporating Afternoon on 3's British music theme, along with performances conducted by John Wilson. British music today includes Bax's Tintagel, Haydn's Military Symphony, and the Violin Concerto by Thomas Ad耀s titled Concentric Paths. Plus a performance of Bruckner's mighty Seventh Symphony recorded in the Bridgewater Hall in December.

2pm

Bax: Tintagel

John Wilson (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No 100 in G major (Military)

Jamie Phillips (conductor)

c.2.40pm

Thomas Ad耀s: Concentric Paths (Violin Concerto)

Daniel Pioro (violin)

Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

c.3pm

Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E major

Juanjo Mena (conductor).

The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Bax, Haydn, Ades and Bruckner.

Monday, Bbc Philharmonic20170410Penny Gore introduces performances by the BBC Philharmonic in Wagner, Lindberg and Ravel, with violinist Sarah Chang in the concerto by Sibelius

2.00pm

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Prelude to Act One

Andrew Davis, conductor

2.10pm

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47

Sarah Chang, violin

Juanjo Mena, conductor

2.40pm

Mendelssohn: Symphony o.4 In D, Op.90 'Italian

3.05pm

Magnus Lindberg: Vivo

3.15pm

Ravel: Daphnis et Chlo退

Juanjo Mena, conductor.

The BBC Philharmonic in music by Wagner, Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Lindberg and Ravel.

Monday, Bbc Philharmonic20170612Penny Gore presents a week of recordings by the BBC Philharmonic from their home at MediaCity in Salford. In today's programme, the orchestra performs symphonies by Copland and Brahms. Xiayin Wang is the soloist in Ginastera's first piano concerto, with conductor Juanjo Mena.

2.00pm

Symphony No 2 (Short Symphony)

BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (conductor)

Piano Concerto No 1, Op 28

Xiayin Wang (piano), BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c.2.40pm

Milhaud

La cr退ation du monde - ballet, Op 81a

BBC Philharmonic, Jamie Phillips (conductor)

Schumann

Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129

Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello), BBC Philharmonic, Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Ibert

Divertissement for orchestra [from music for 'The Italian straw hat']

c.3.45pm

Symphony No.3 in F major, Op.90

BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor).

BBC Philharmonic in music by Copland, Ginastera, Milhaud, Schumann, Ibert and Brahms.

Monday, Bbc Philharmonic20171009Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic, with a particular focus on works by Elgar. The 2pm concert features Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with soloist David Garrett and a performance of Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony.

Weber: Euryanthe, overture

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Symphony No 4

David Garrett (violin)

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c. 3.30pm

Elgar: In the South

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Esther Yoo (violin)

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

Elgar: Serenade for Strings

John Storgards (conductor).

Tom Redmond presents concerts from the BBC Philharmonic, focusing on works by Elgar.

Monday, Bbc Philharmonic20171204Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic. Today Pietari Inkinen conducts symphonies by Beethoven and Sibelius, with Christian Ihle Hadland as the soloist in Grieg's Piano Concerto. Elvind Holtsmark Ringstad is soloist in Britten's Lachrymae, and Martin Grubinger is the percussionist in Tan Dun's concerto 'The Tears of Nature'.

2pm:

Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 21

Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16

Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat major, Op 82

Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)

Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

c.3.30pm:

Roussel: Pour une fꀀte de printemps

Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

c.3.40pm:

James MacMillan: For Sonny

Britten: Lachrymae

Elvind Holtsmark Ringstad (viola)

Lee Reynolds (conductor)

c.4.15pm:

Tan Dun: The Tears of Nature

Martin Grubinger (percussion)

Juanjo Mena (conductor).

Pietari Inkinen conducts the BBC Philharmonic in symphonies by Beethoven and Sibelius.

Monday, Bbc Philharmonic20180108Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic. Today, Simone Young conducts Brett Dean's Testament, with Jonathan Biss the soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1 and Sally Beamish's City Stanzas (Piano Concerto No 3). Then the Enigma Variations and the Cello concerto by Elgar, with Asier Polo the soloist and Juanjo Mena the conductor.

2pm:

Brett Dean: Testament

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1

Sally Beamish: City Stanzas (Piano Concerto No 3)

Elgar Enigma Variations

Jonathan Biss (piano)

Simone Young (conductor)

c.3.50pm:

Bantock: Thalaba the Destroyer

Michael Seal (conductor)

c.4.20pm:

Elgar: Cello Concerto

Asier Polo (cello)

Juanjo Mena (conductor).

Monday, Bbc Philharmonic20180312Kate Molleson introduces a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic with a focus on Beethoven and his connections, including a performance of Beethoven's 'Emperor' concerto with pianist Louis Schwitzgebel.

c.2pm:

Mozart: Overture, Don Giovanni

Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 5 in E flat major, Op 73 'Emperor

Brahms: Symphony no 2 in D major, Op 73

Louis Schwitzgebel (piano)

Ben Gernon (conductor)

c.3.30pm:

Haydn: Cello Concerto No 1 in C major, Hob.VIIb/1

Matthew Barley (cello)

David Greilsammer (conductor)

c.3.55pm:

Beethoven: Overture, Egmont

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op 14

Juanjo Mena (conductor).

The BBC Philharmonic perform a selection of Beethoven and his connections.

Monday, Bbc Philharmonic20180416Tom Redmond introduces a week of recordings from the BBC Philharmonic, including music by Rebel, Richard Strauss, Thomas Ad耀s and Ravel.

2pm:

Rebel - Les 退l退mens (selection)

Richard Strauss - Divertimento: Les tours de passe-passe

Thomas Ad耀s - Three Studies from Couperin

Ravel - Le tombeau de Couperin

Michael Seal (conductor)

c.2.55pm:

Harrison Birtwistle - Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum

David Greilsammer (conductor)

c.3.07pm:

Debussy - Ib退ria

Ben Gernon (conductor)

c.3.30pm:

Mica Levi - Everlast (UK premiere)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.3.45pm:

Saint-Sa뀀ns - Cello Concerto no 1

Dvo?ကk - Silent Woods

Roussel - Suite in F

Andrei Ionita (cello)

Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).

Tom Redmond introduces a week of recordings from the BBC Philharmonic.

Monday, Bbc Philharmonic20210614Tom McKinney starts a week of live and recorded performances by the BBC Philharmonic with music by Eric Coates, Aaron Copland, C退cile Chaminade, Johannes Brahms, Paul Bein-Haim, EJ Moeran and Arthur Bliss.

Eric Coates - The Selfish Giant

Aaron Copland - Four Dance Episodes from ‘Rodeo

Paul Ben-Haim - Pan

Claudia Barainsky (soprano)

Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)

Johannes Brahms - Serenade No.2 in A major, Op.16

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

C退cile Chaminade - Callirho뀀 (suite)

Moritz Gnann (conductor)

EJ Moeran - Violin Concerto

Tasmin Little (violin)

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Arthur Bliss - Mel退e fantasque

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Presented by Tom McKinney

The BBC Philharmonic with music by Copland, Chaminade, Brahms, Bein-Haim, Moeran and Bliss

Monday, Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk20180625Tom McKinney introduces a live concert from the orchestra's home in Salford, including Rachmaninov's second symphony. This week there is also a focus on music by Aaron Copland, with John Wilson conducting the orchestra.

2pm:

Copland - Old American Songs, Set 2

Rachmaninov - Symphony no 2 in E minor Op 27

Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)

BBC Philharmonic

Ben Gernon (conductor)

c.3.15pm:

Robert Farnon - Lake of the Woods

Edward German - Nocturne from Romeo and Juliet, incidental music

John Wilson (conductor)

c.3.30pm:

Copland - Symphony no 3

c.4.10pm:

Stravinsky - Fireworks

Ludovic Morlot (conductor)

c.4.15pm:

Arthur Sullivan - The Yeomen of the Guard, Overture

c.4.20pm:

Roussel - Suite in F

Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

c.4.35pm:

Copland - Dance Symphony

John Wilson (conductor).

Tom McKinney introduces a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford.

Monday, Bbc Philharmonic On Tour20170626Penny Gore presents a week of performances from the BBC Philharmonic on tour in Spain, Austria, Germany and China.

Including:

2pm

Glinka

Ruslan and Ludmilla, overture

BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Dvorak

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104

Pablo Ferrandez (cello), BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c.2.50pm

Tan Dun

The Tears of Nature

Martin Grubinger (percussion), BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Peter Eotvos

Speaking Drums

c.3.50pm

Elgar

Enigma Variations

BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor).

The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Glinka, Dvorak, Tan Dun, Peter Eotvos and Elgar.

Monday, Bbc Proms, Rachmaninov's First Symphony20230821Ian Skelly introduces an afternoon of the finest classical music, including another chance to hear John Storg倀rds and the BBC Philharmonic in Rachmaninov's First Symphony. Sarah Connolly joins them in songs by Alma Mahler-Werfel and Dora Peja?evi?.

Also, throughout this week, we hear from a concert recorded at the Orangerie at Schwetzingen Castle in southern Germany, part of this year's Schwetzingen Festival: Bach's The Art of Fugue played by Les inAttendus, a trio of violin, viola da gamba and accordion.

Including:

Debussy orch. Colin Matthews: Preludes; General Lavine - eccentric

Hall退

Mark Elder, conductor

Medley - Piazzolla: Libertango / Ravel: Bolero

Black Dyke Band

Nicholas Childs, conductor

J.S. Bach: The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080; Contrapunctus 1 a 4

Les inAttendus:

Alice Pierot, violin

Marianne Muller, viola da gamba

Vincent Lhermet, accordion

c.2.15pm

BBC Proms (first broadcast live on Wednesday 9th August)

Presented by Tom McKinney

Weber: Oberon, overture

Peja?evi?: Zwei Schmetterlingslieder, op. 52; Verwandlung, op. 37b; Liebeslied, op. 39

Alma Mahler-Werfel (orch. C. & D. Matthews): Die stille Stadt; Licht in der Nacht; Bei dir ist es traut

Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano

John Storgards, conductor

c.2.55pm

Artist choice (TBC)

c.3.10pm

J.S. Bach: The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080; Contrapunctus 3 a 4

c.3.15pm

Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 in D minor

John Storgards, onductor

c.4pm

Mozart: Piano Trio in B flat Major K.502 (3rd movement)

Mithras Trio

Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, arr. for orchestra

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Bernard Haitink, conductor

J.S. Bach: The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080; Contrapunctus 4 a 4

Josep Pons conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Rachmaninov's First Symphony.

Monday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20170501Catriona Young presents a week of performances and recordings by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme includes music from a new CD of works by the leading Scottish modernist composer Erik Chisholm. There's a concert the Orchestra gave at Ayr Town Hall - Valeriy Sokolov is soloist in Barber's Violin Concerto, followed by Vaughan Williams' Symphony No.5. Plus there's a Beethoven theme running across the week: today's work is his Piano Concerto No.4.

And as part of Radio 3's season Breaking Free: Martin Luther's Revolution -

Reformation Bytes

3/5: A Catholic Composer's View on Luther's Influence.

The Catholic composer Stephen Hough muses on the influence of Protestant individualism on the composer or soloist seeking their personal voice.

2pm

Chisholm: From the true edge of the great world - preludes for orchestra

(Song of the Mavis; Ossianic Lay; Port a Beul)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.2.10pm

Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op.58, for piano and orchestra

Jan Lisiecki (piano)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

c.2.45pm

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Barber: Violin Concerto, Op.14

c.3.30pm

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major

Valeriy Sokolov (violin)

Nick Carter (conductor).

The BBC SSO performs music by Chisholm, Beethoven, Ravel, Barber and Vaughan Williams.

Monday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20170522Katie Derham presents a week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme includes a concert the orchestra gave at Sage Gateshead with soprano Erin Wall as soloist in Strauss's Four Last Songs, and Elgar's First Symphony. Plus Julian Anderson's poem for violin and orchestra 'In lieblicher Blaue', and the first of a new recording of piano concertos by Sterndale Bennett which are featured across the week.

2pm

Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op.1

Howard Shelley (piano/director)

c.2.25pm

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Prelude & Liebestod

Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder

c.3.05pm

Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op.55

Erin Wall (soprano)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

c.3.55pm

Julian Anderson: In lieblicher Blaue - poem for violin and orchestra

Carolin Widmann (violin)

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor).

The BBC SSO performs music by WS Bennett, Wagner, Elgar, Strauss and Julian Anderson.

Monday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20170918The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Dvorak and a youthful Felix Mendelssohn, plus Tchaikovsky's epic yet little-heard second piano concerto played by Pavel Kolesnikov

Presented by Verity Sharp

2.00pm

Mendelssohn: String Symphony No.10 in B minor

Arnold: Clarinet Concerto No.2, Op.115

Dvorak: Symphony No.8 in G, Op.88

Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

3.15pm

Haydn: Stabat mater H.20bis: Vidit suum dulcem natum

Mozart: A te, fra tanti affanni (Davide penitente, K.469); Musst ich auch durch tausend Drachen, K.435

Ilker Arcayurek, tenor

Aleksander Markovic, conductor

3.30pm

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.2 in G, Op.44

Pavel Kolsenikov, piano

Aleksander Markovic, conductor.

Verity Sharp with music by Mendelssohn, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky.

Monday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20171120Georgia Mann presents concert performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. In our 2pm concert, Thomas Dausgaard conducts the orchestra and Royal Conservatoire Voices in a concert featuring music by Palestrina, Mozart and Gluck, as well as Handel's choral masterpiece, Zadok the Priest, and Beethoven's Symphony No.9. Later, Martyn Brabbins and the orchestra showcase two works reflecting the diverse and distinctive nature of 20th-century British orchestral music around the time of the Second World War: Roger Sacheverell Coke's Piano Concerto No.3, brings to mind the emotional appeal of Rachmaninov, Delius and Percy Grainger, while Michael Tippett's driven and exuberant First Symphony, draws inspiration from the music of Henry Purcell.

Palestrina: Sicut Cervus

Bach (arr Beethoven for string quintet): Fugue in B flat minor BWV 867

Handel: Zadok the Priest - coronation anthem, HWV.258

Gluck: Dance of the Scythians (Iphig退nie en Tauride)

Mozart: Misericordias Domini - offertory, K.222

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op.125 (Choral)

Louise Alder (soprano)

Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)

Stuart Jackson (tenor)

Neal Davies (bass-baritone)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

c.3.35pm

Coke: Piano Concerto No. 3

Simon Callaghan (piano)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.4.00pm

Tippett: Symphony No. 1

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

Monday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20180423Georgia Mann presents a week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme begins with a concert the orchestra gave in Glasgow City Halls. John Wilson conducts an all-American programme including Bernstein's Serenade with soloist Ning Feng, and Roy Harris's Symphony no.3. Plus part of a new recording of music for saxophone and orchestra, with soloist Tommy Smith.

2pm

Barber The School for scandal - overture Op.5

Bernstein Serenade [after Plato's 'The symposium'] for violin, string orch, harp and percussion

Copland Appalachian spring - suite vers. for orchestra [1945]

Harris Symphony no. 3

Ning Feng (violin)

John Wilson (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Smith Jacobite for saxophone and orchestra

Tommy Smith (saxophone)

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Tchaikovsky The Tempest [Burya] - symphonic fantasia Op.18

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert in Glasgow.

Monday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20210315This week features performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme includes the orchestra in concert in City Halls Glasgow conducted by Matthias Pintscher. Stravinsky's Song of the Nightingale is followed by Schubert's haunting Unfinished Symphony and Berlioz's symphony for viola and orchestra, Harold en Italie.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2pm

Bartok Suite No.2 Sz.34 for small orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

c.2.30pm

Schubert Ganymed, D.544

Schubert Erlkonig, D.328 03.49

Benjamin Appl, baritone

John Wilson, conductor

c.2'40pm

Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971): The Song of the nightingale

Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Symphony no. 8 in B minor D.759 (Unfinished) 27:31

Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869): Harold en Italie - symphony Op.16 for viola and orchestra

Antoine Tamestit, viola

Matthias Pintscher, conductor

With music by Bartok, Schubert, Stravinsky, Schubert and Berlioz.

Monday, Bbc So At The Bbc Proms Dubai20170327Katie Derham presents a week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers at the BBC Proms Dubai.

2.00pm

The BBC Proms Dubai: Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the Dubai Opera House for a concert of music by Carpenter, Fairouz, Britten and Walton recorded last week during the orchestra's visit to Dubai.

Gary Carpenter: Dadaville

Edward Gardner (conductor)

2.08pm

Mohammed Fairouz: Pax universalis

2.18m

Britten: Piano Concerto

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

2.55pm

Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor

3.40pm

Katie Derham presents the rest of the afternoon: Judith Weir's Forest and Cooke's 1st Clarinet Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Judith Weir: Forest

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

3.54pm

Arnold Cooke Clarinet Concerto No. 1

Michael Collins (clarinet and conductor)

BBC Symphony Orchestra.

The BBC SO performs music by Carpenter, Fairouz, Britten, Walton, Weir and Cooke.

Monday, Bbc Sso20170403Catriona Young presents a week of performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with a special focus on the music of Walton and Beethoven - including highlights from a recreation of the mammoth 4-hour concert in 1808 at which Beethoven premiered several works including his 5th Symphony and Choral Fantasia.

2pm:

Telemann: Overture a 4 in C major TWV.55:C1

Haydn: Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105

Mozart: Divertimento in F major K.138

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major Op.21

Laura Samuel (violin/director)

Stella McCracken (oboe)

Julian Roberts (bassoon)

Martin Storey (cello)

c. 3.15pm:

Walton: Partita for orchestra

Conductor Martyn Brabbins

c. 3.35pm

Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage - Ritual Dances

Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth

c. 4pm

Beethoven: Fantasia in C minor Op.80 for piano, chorus and orchestra

Malin Christensson (soprano)

Charlie Drummond (soprano)

Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)

Stuart Jackson (tenor)

David Horton (tenor)

Benjamin Appl (baritone)

Jan Lisiecki (piano)

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices

Conductor Thomas Dausgaard.

The BBC SSO performs music by Telemann, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Walton and Tippett.

Monday, Bbc Symphony Orchestra20171023Jonathan Swain presents a week of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme includes a concert the orchestra gave last month on tour in Bonn, for which they were joined by Isabelle Faust for Berg's lyrical Violin Concerto. Plus new recordings of Rachmaninov's ever-popular Second Piano Concerto with soloist Yevgeny Sudbin, and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with Tenebrae, conducted by Nigel Short.

2pm

Beethoven: Overture Leonore No.2

Berg, rev. Jarman: Violin Concerto

Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C major, Op.61

Isabelle Faust (violin)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Bernstein: Chichester Psalms

Nigel Short (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op.18

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

Gershwin: An American in Paris

Michael Collins (conductor).

BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Bonn plus new recordings of Rachmaninov and Bernstein.

Monday, Bbc Symphony Orchestra20180212Kate Molleson presents a week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers. Today includes a concert the Orchestra gave at its home in Maida Vale Studios; Robin Tritschler joined as soloist in Britten's Illuminations. Plus an award-winning recording of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, for which the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus were joined by a stellar group of soloists - Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton and David Soar. Andrew Davis conducts.

2pm

Turina: La procesion da Rocio

Britten: Les Illuminations

Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

Robin Tritschler (tenor)

Duncan Ward (conductor)

c.2.55pm

Brahms: Tragic Overture

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

c.3.10pm

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op 38

Sarah Connolly (mezzo)

Stuart Skelton (tenor)

David Soar (bass)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Andrew Davis (conductor).

BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Turina, Britten and Elgar from Maida Vale Studios.

Monday, Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Bbc Singers20170515Britten and Harvey from the BBC Singers, plus Mozart and Shostakovich from the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Thailand

Presented by Katie Derham

2.00 pm

Britten: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (AMDG)

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

2.20pm

Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco

Harvey: I Love the Lord

Harvey: The Annunciation

Marco Blauw (trumpet)

Sound Intermedia (electronics)

2.40pm

Victoria Borisova-Ollas: Open Ground

Jessica Cottis, conductor

2.50pm

HRH King Bhumibol Adulyadej: Kinari Suite

Shostakovich: Festive Overture

Mozart: Piano Concerto in D minor, K466

Walton: Symphony No.2

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (members)

Edward Gardner, conductor.

Featuring music by Britten, Harvey, Borisova-Ollas, Shostakovich, Mozart and Walton.

Monday, Bbc Symphony Orchestra And Chorus20170710Fiona Talkington introduces performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, including highlights from a concert at the Kissinger Sommer Festival last month in Bavaria, and a tribute to the BBCSO's former Chief Conductor Ji?퀀 B?lohlကvek, who died in May.

Detlev Glanert: Weites Land

Fryderyk Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, Op.21

Jan Lisecki (piano)

2:50pm

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op.97 (Rhenish)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Recorded last month at the Kissinger Sommer Festival, Bavaria

3:30pm

Frederick Delius: Song of the High Hills

Olivia Robinson (soprano)

Christopher Bowen (tenor)

BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

4:00pm

Tribute to Ji?퀀 B?lohlကvek

Bohuslav Martin?: Symphony No. 2

Ji?퀀 B?lohlကvek (conductor).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus plays Glanert, Chopin, Schumann, Delius and Martinu.

Monday, Beethoven In Scotland20220606Penny Gore launches another week of the best classical music for your afternoons, featuring exclusive recordings from BBC orchestras and ensembles around Europe. This week, as Petroc Trelawny traverses Scotland for Radio 3's Breakfast, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra feature in Penny's 3pm spotlight each day. Today, Yutaka Sado conducts Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. Also, Caf退 Zimmermann play music by CPE and JS Bach in Prague, and the RAI Symphony Orchestra present joyous music by the young American composer Quinn Mason.

Including:

RR Bennett: Celebration for Orchestra

BBC Scottish SO

John Wilson, conductor

JS Bach: Sinfonia, from 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29

CPE Bach: Trio Sonata in B flat, Wq. 161/2

(Church of St Simon and St Jude, Prague)

Quinn Mason: A Joyous Trilogy

RAI National Symphony Orchestra

John Axlerod, conductor

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op.68

Yasushi Akutagawa: Triptyque

Yutaka Sado, conductor

(Rec. 11/11/21 City Halls, Glasgow)

Mozart: Prelude and Fugue No. 4, K. 404a (from the collection Six Preludes and Fugues for violin, viola and cello (arrangement of various compositions by J. S. Bach)

Yutaka Sado conducts Beethoven's Sixth Symphony.

Monday, Beethoven's Eroica20230320Fiona Talkington begins a week of Afternoon Concert featuring performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and from some of the great German orchestras.

Today in the 3pm spotlight, the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra performs Beethoven's mighty `Eroica` Symphony in Wismar with conductor Andrew Manze. Also this afternoon, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays Janacek's lesser-known Lachian Dances. Plus every day this week you can hear Buxtehude's organ music played by Ton Koopman at the Holmen Church, Copenhagen's oldest example of Renaissance architecture, vocal music from the ensemble Voces8 in Hattersheim, and pieces by Toru Takemitsu from the BBC Philharmonic.

Including:

Verdi: Overture, La Forza del Destino

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Palestrina: Magnificat Primi Toni

c. 2.15pm

Takemitsu: To the edge of dreams

Jacob Kellermann (guitar)

Christian Karlsen (conductor)

Mozart: Voi avete un cor Fedele

Lydia Teuscher (soprano)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

c. 2.35pm

Eduardas Balsys: Reflections of the sea

Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra

Modestas Pitr?nas (conductor)

Buxtehude: Prelude, Fugue & Chaconne in C

Ton Koopman (organ)

Beethoven: Symphony No.3 in E flat major, Op.55 `Eroica`

Andrew Manze (conductor)

Mel Bonis: Piano Trio, Op.76 `Soir et Matin`

Trio S?ra

c. 4pm

Janacek: Lachian Dances

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Andrew Manze conducts Beethoven's Third Symphony.

Monday, Beethoven's 'eroica' Symphony20221031Penny Gore presents a week of Afternoon Concert. Today's programme includes a concert given by Emmanuel Tjeknavorian and the Reflektor Ensemble, culminating in Beethoven's mighty Eroica Symphony. Plus there's highlights from a piano recital Dejan Lazi? gave at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival in August, and the first in a recently recorded session of French choral music by the BBC Singers and conductor Robert Hollingworth.

Presented by Penny Gore

2pm

Mozart Fantasy in D minor, K.397

Dejan Lazi? (piano)

Beethoven Allegro from Triple Concerto in C major, Op.56

Andrea Obiso (violin), Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Maximilian Kromer (piano)

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian (conductor)

Tailleferre (text Jean-Thierry Boisseau) Aube (for a cappella choir)

Robert Hollingworth (conductor)

Dejan Lazi? Istrian Rhapsody, Op.18b

Bruch Romance, Op.85

Timothy Ridout (viola)

3pm

Beethoven Symphony no.3 in E flat major, Op.55 ‘Eroica

Brahms Vivace non troppo from Double Concerto in A minor, Op.102

Andrea Obiso (violin), Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)

Respighi Pines of Rome (Pini di Roma), symphonic poem

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Juraj Val?uha (conductor)

Music by Beethoven, Tailleferre and Respighi.

Monday, Beethoven's First Symphony20210920This week Afternoon Concert features the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin performing Brandenburg Concertos by Bach, and symphonies by Beethoven. Today's programme also includes the BBC Singers performing Stravinsky in neoclassical mode, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Bartok.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Including:

CPE Bach: Sinfonia No. 4 in G, Wq. 183/4

Bernhard Forck (conductor)

Stravinsky: Mass for chorus and wind instruments

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Gabriella Teychenn退 (conductor)

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F, BWV 1046

c.3pm

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C, op. 21

Boccherini: Cello Concerto no.3

Milo Ferrazzini (cello)

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Alessandro Calcagnile (conductor)

c.3.45pm

Bartok: Music for strings, percussion and celesta, Sz.106

Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

The Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin plays Beethoven's First Symphony.

Monday, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony From Tokyo20230109Christoph Eschenbach conducts the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No 7 in A, plus more recordings made in the Japanese capital.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Eminent German conductor Christoph Eschenbach was a welcome guest last year on the podium of the Metropolitan Theater, Tokyo. He leads them in works by Dvorak and Beethoven, as well as one of Mozart's delightful flute concertos

Japanese violinist Mayumi Hirasaki presents baroque violin sonatas, while we have Chopin played by Spanish pianist Mart퀀n Garc퀀a Garc퀀a.

2.00pm

Carnival Overture, op. 92

NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo

Christoph Eschenbach, conductor

Popper arr. Kotaro Kobayashi

Hungarian Rhapsody, op. 68.

Kisekino Cello Ensemble

Corelli

Violin Sonata in G minor, op. 5/5

Mayumi Hirasaki, baroque violin

Lorenzo Ghielmi, harpsichord

Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, op. 31

Mart퀀n Garc퀀a Garc퀀a, piano

Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1024

Duration of work: 15:00 min.

3.00pm

Symphony No. 7 in A, op. 92

Impromptu in G flat, op. 51

Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. 313

Stathis Karapanos, flute

Christoph Eschenbach conducts the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

Monday, Beethoven's Triple Concerto20220110This week Afternoon Concert celebrates Beethoven concertos with a different one each day at 3pm - today it's his mighty Triple Concerto performed by Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff, and Lars Vogt. There's Mendelssohn from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and highlights from a concert Nils M怀nkemeyer and Dorothee Oberlinger gave at the Schwetzingen Festival.

Presented by Ian Skelly

c.2pm

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream - Overture

Francois Leleux (conductor)

c.2.15

Mendelssohn Symphony no.4 in A major, Op.90 (Italian)

c.2.50

Hildegard von Bingen O Ecclesia

Bach Adagio e piano, from 'Trio Sonata in G, BWV 1039

Nils M怀nkemeyer (viola), Dorothee Oberlinger (recorders)

c.3pm

Beethoven Concerto in C major, Op.56 for violin, cello and piano

Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Lars Vogt (piano)

NDR Elbphilharmonie

Karina Canellakis (conductor)

c.3.45

Elgar Enigma Variations, Op.36

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Anu Tali (conductror)

Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt perform Beethoven's Triple Concerto.

Monday, Blomstedt Conducts Beethoven20220321Veteran maestro Herbert Blomstedt conducts the legendary Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony, plus there's Frank Bridge's celebration of spring and smaller-scale works by Chopin and Debussy.

Presented by Ian Skelly

2.00pm

Premiere rhapsodie

Mark Simpson, clarinet

Richard Uttley, piano

Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

3.00pm

Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op.55 ('Eroica')

Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

Enter Spring

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth, conductor

Herbert Blomstedt conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's 'Eroica'.

Monday, Brahms From Bavaria20221128Ian Skelly includes in his selection of music this week pieces with a link to Bavaria, including a performance of Brahms's Third Symphony from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He also has some recent recordings of music by Richard Strauss, Heinrich Schutz, Wagner, Vivaldi and Messiaen.

Edward Elgar: Three Bavarian Dances - No 1

Bournemouth Sinfonietta

Norman Del Mar (conductor)

Richard Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg

BBCSO

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Heinrich Schutz: `Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen` Psalm 84

Ensemble Promena

RIAS Chamber Chorus

Justin Doyle (conductor)

Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (arr. Brett Dean)

Members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Antonio Vivaldi: Recorder Concerto in D RVW 428 `Il Giardinello`

Maurice Steger (recorder/director)

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

3.00

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 3 in F

Yannick Nezet-Seguin (conductor)

D'orrida selce alpine SWV6

Ich weiss dass mein erl怀ser lebt SWV393

Die mit tr䀀nen s䀀en SWV378

Siehe mein fürsprecher im Himmel SWV304

Musica Ficta

Bo Holten (director)

Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques

Pierre Laurent-Aimard (piano)

Royal Danish Orchestra

Sylvain Cambreling (conductor)

JS Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G

Maurice Steger (director)

Featuring the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Monday, Brahms's Double Concerto20230213Ian Skelly introduces an afternoon of concert recordings from the BBC ensembles and orchestras from abroad.

At 3pm, beginning a focus on concertos and symphonies by Brahms throughout the week, violinist Suyoen Kim and cellist Bumjun Kim join forces in his Double Concerto, with Christoph Eschenbach conducting the KBS Symphony Orchestra in South Korea. Also, virtuoso horn player Radovan Vlatkovi? performs music by Handel and Richard Strauss in Munich, Sinfonietta Riga plays Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, and the BBC Philharmonic performs the rarely heard Lustspiel overture by Ferruccio Busoni.

Including,

Busoni: Lustspiel ouverture, Op 38

Neeme J䀀rvi, conductor

Handel: Va tacito e nascosto, from 'Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Sonja Runje, mezzo

Radovan Vlatkovi?, horn

Munich Radio Orchestra

Ivan Repuši?, conductor

CPE Bach: Symphony in F, Wq 183/3

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Richard Egarr, conductor

Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D, Op 25 (Classical)

Alexei Ogrintchouk, conductor

Brahms: Double Concerto in A minor for violin and cello, Op 102

Suyoen Kim, violin

Bumjun Kim, cello

Christoph Eschenbach, conductor

Haydn: Mass in B flat major H.22.14 (Harmoniemesse): Gloria

Malin Hartelius, soprano

Judith Schmid, mezzo

Christian Elsner, tenor

Franz-Josef Selig, bass

Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Mariss Jansons, conductor

R. Strauss: Serenade in E flat for 13 winds, Op 7

Radovan Vlatkovic, horn

Christof Eschenbach conducts Brahms's Double Concerto with Suyoen Kim and Bumjun Kim.

Monday, Brahms's Third Symphony20220307Roderick Cox conducts Brahms, and Barbara Hannigan conducts Haydn, Busoni and Canadian composer Claude Vivier

Presented by Penny Gore

Soprano Barbara Hannigan has achieved great acclaim on the conductor's podium and, this afternoon, conducts the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in a diverse programme of music old and new. Also Roderick Cox, winner of the 2018 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award, leads the BBC Philharmonic in the warmest, most glowing of Brahms' four symphonies

2.00pm

Berceuse 退l退giaque, op. 42

G怀teborg Symphony Orchestra

Barbara Hannigan, conductor

Anonymous

Emperadriu de la ciutat joyosa (Llibre vermell de Montserrat)

Antonio Cesti

Intorno all'idol mio, from 'Orontea

Cristina Segura, mezzo-soprano

Ensemble Exclamatio

Lonely Child

Aphrodite Patoulidou, soprano

Monteverdi

Disprezzata Regina

3.00pm

Symphony no.3 in F

Roderick Cox, conductor

C退cile Chaminade

Callirho뀀 Suite, op. 37

G怀teborg Opera Orchestra

Henrik Schaefer, conductor

Symphony No. 26 D minor, Hob. I:26 ('Lamentatione')

Roderick Cox conducts Brahms, and Barbara Hannigan conducts Haydn.

Monday, Capu\u00e7on Conducts Mozart20220620Our featured artist this week is violinist Renaud Capu瀀on, today conducting the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in a delightful, little-known Mozart work highlighting wind instruments. We also showcase two distinguished living British composers: Judith Bingham celebrates her 70th birthday this week and has curated a sequence of pieces by her and others which we will hear across the week. There's also the world premiere performance of David Matthews's Tenth Symphony, perhaps best described as his own 'pastoral' symphony

Presented by Ian Skelly

2.00pm

Vladigerov

Vardar Rhapsody, Op.16

Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mark Kadin, conductor

Bartok

44 Duos for Violin (selection)

Vassily Chmykov and Deborah Nemtanu, violins

The Spirit of Truth

Tallis

If ye love me

BBC Singers

Owain Park

Symphony no.10

BBC Philharmonic

Jac van Steen, conductor

3.00pm

Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K.297b

Renaud Capu瀀on, conductor

Schubert

Rosamunde Overture

Stravinsky

The Rite of Spring

Suisse Romande Orchestra

Jonathan Nott, conductor

Renaud Capu\u00e7on conducts Mozart's wind Sinfonia concertante, plus music by Judith Bingham.

Monday, Concerts From Switzerland20170508Starting a week of concerts recorded recently in Switzerland, Verity Sharp introduces performances by the ensemble Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, conducted by J退r退mie Rhorer, including Mozart's Symphonies 39 and 41. Also, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, with J怀rg Widman as both soloist and conductor at the helm of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Widman returns to conduct the ensemble in his own Mass for large orchestra, closing this afternoon's programme.

2.00pm

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat, K.543

J退r退mie Rhorer, conductor

2.27pm

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A

director J怀rg Widmann (clarinet)

2.56pm

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C, K.551 (Jupiter)

3.25pm

J怀rg Widman: Mass (2005), for large orchestra

J怀rg Widmann, conductor.

Verity Sharp with concerts from Switzerland, with music by Mozart and Jorg Widmann.

Monday, Dvorak In Dresden20220328Fiona Talkington with concert performances from the BBC Performing Groups and from around Europe. This afternoon, Fiona begins a week of performances by the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra with Dvorak's Sixth Symphony, there's Chopin from pianist Alexander Tharaud recorded in the Warsaw where the composer grew up and early music with the Netherlands Bach Society and the star recorder player Lucie Horsch. Korean cellist Sang-Eun Lee performs Haydn's first cello concerto with the KBS Symphony Orchestra in a concert recorded in Soeul.

Ottorino Respighi - Il Tramonto

Sarah Richmond (mezzo-soprano)

Ulster Orchestra

David Brophy (conductor)

Nicola Fiorenza - Recorder Concerto in A minor

Lucie Horsch (recorder)

Lidewij van der Voort (violin)

Siebe Henstra (harpsichord)

Shunske Sato (conductor)

Eric Whitacre - Water Night

WDR Big Band Cologne

WDR Chorus

Stefan Parkman (conductor)

Fryderyk Chopin - Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor

Alexander Tharaud (piano)

3pm

Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No.6 in D major, Op. 60

Tomas Netopil (conductor)

c. 3.45pm

Antonio Cifra - Canon terza

John Ravenscroft - Trio Sonata in A op.2/6

Lucie Horsch recorder

Astor Piazzolla - Thriller

Astor Piazzolla Quintet

Julian Vat (conductor)

c.4pm

Joseph Haydn - Cello Concerto No.1 in C major

Sang-Eun Lee (cello)

Tania Miller (conductor)

Music by Respighi, Fiorenza, Whitacre, Chopin, Ravenscroft, Dvorak, Piazzolla and Haydn.

Monday, Dvorak With The Czech Philharmonic20230130Presented by Ian Skelly, with the best classical music for the afternoon in concert performances from BBC orchestras and ensembles from around Europe.

Czech orchestras are in the 3pm spotlight all this week, starting today with Petr Popelka conducting the Czech Philharmonic in Dvorak's Seventh Symphony, in a recording from Bad Kissingen. Also this afternoon, the Czech focus continues with music from last year's Summer Festivities of Early Music in Prague, lutenist Thomas Dunford plays Vivaldi at the Regensburg Early Music Days, and Vassily Sinaisky conducts two different BBC orchestras in Respighi and Glinka.

Including:

Suk: Beneath the Apple Tree Suite, Op. 20: Bacchanale

Libor Pesek, conductor

Vivaldi: Lute Concerto in D, RV 93

Thomas Dunford, lute

Ensemble Jupiter

Respighi: Roman Festivals

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

c.2.50pm

Diego Ortiz: Recercada primera sobre el canto de La Spagna

Alonso Mudarra: Claros y frescos r퀀os (Tres libros de música en cifras para vihuela, Seville 1546)

Francesco Canova da Milano: La Spagna

Julieta Viကas, soprano

La Bellemont

Rafael Muကoz, vihuela de mano

Laura Puerto, spanish baroque double harp

Sara Ruiz, viola da gamba

(from the 2022 Summer Festivities of Early Music, Prague)

c.3pm

Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, op. 70

Petr Popelka, conductor

c.3.40pm

Luys de Narvaez: Si tantos halcones la gar瀀a combaten

Alonso Mudarra: Fantasia que contraze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico

Diego Pisador: Endechas

Glinka: Valse-fantasie in B minor

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Tomasi: Concerto for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra

Zd?nek Rys, oboe

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Marek Sedivy, conductor

The Czech Philharmonic perform Dvorak's Seventh Symphony.

Monday, Dvorak's New World Symphony20220912This week in Afternoon Concert Ian Skelly features music from summer festivals around Europe. Today includes the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour at the Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival, performing Elgar's Cello Concerto with soloist Daniel Muller-Schott, and Dvorak's New World Symphony. Plus highlights from the International Sacred Music Festival, Fribourg performed by Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande ɀcurie under Alexis Kossenko.

Presented by Ian Skelly

2pm

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

c.2.05

Zelenka: Overture from Overture-Suite in F major, ZWV.188

Alexis Kossenko (conductor)

c.2.15

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor

Daniel Muller-Schott (cello)

c.3pm

Dvorak: Symphony no.9 in E minor, Op.95 'From the New World

c.3.45

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37

Lars Vogt (piano)

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Karina Canellakis (conductor)

Music by Zelenka, Elgar, Dvorak and Strauss.

Monday, Enigma Variations20220530Ian Skelly introduces performances with BBC ensembles and orchestras from across Europe. Today, the Santa Cecilia Academy, conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano, perform Elgar's Enigma Variations and Britten's Violin Concerto with soloist Simone Lamsma. La Cappella Marciana sing Renaissance and contemporary music, and the BBC Philharmonic with Sibelius's Karelia Suite.

Including:

Vivaldi: Vedr  con mio diletto, Manlio's aria from 'Il Giustino, RV 717

Shak耀d Bar, soprano

Darmstadt Baroque Soloists

Alessandro Quarta, conductor

Benjamin Britten: Violin Concerto, op. 15

Simone Lamsma, violin

Santa Cecilia Orchestra

Antonio Pappano, conductor

Adrian Willaert: Ave dulcissime

Claudio Monteverdi: O gloriose martyr

Christina Kubisch: Two movements from 'Il viaggio della voce' - Travelling voices

Marco Gemmani, director

3.00pm

Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations, op. 36

Dvorak: Violin Sonata in F major, Op 57

Tai Murray, violin

Gilles Vonsattel, piano

Sibelius: Karelia Suite

John Storgards, conductor

Geoffrey Bush: A Little Concerto on themes of Thomas Arne for piano and strings

Simon Callaghan, piano

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Antonio Pappano conducts Elgar's Enigma Variations, Britten's Violin Concerto and more.

Monday, European Concert Showcase20171127Tom McKinney presents a selection of the finest concerts from across Europe all this week, celebrating 50 years of the European Broadcasting Union's music exchange - a swapping service between European broadcasters. Today Herbert Blomstedt, who turned 90 this year, conducts Mendelssohn's Symphonies Nos 3 and 4 in a concert with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic plays Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances in a concert recorded in March 2017 in the opening gala week at the new Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg.

2pm:

Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), Op 26

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A, 'Italian

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor, 'Scottish

conductor Herbert Blomstedt

c.3.25pm:

Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op 45

Jan Lisiecki (piano)

conductor Yannick N退zet-S退guin.

Herbert Blomstedt conducts Mendelssohn with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Monday, Faure And Pelleas20211213Fiona Talkington introduces performances from around the world, including the Ulster Orchestra who launch a key theme of the week - music inspired by the play Pelleas and Melisande. Including:

Borodin: Symphony No 2

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Francisco Valero-Terribas (conductor)

JS Bach: Keyboard Concerto in G Minor BWV10

Georgijs Osokins (piano)

Kremerata Baltica

Gidon Kremer (director)

3.00

Faure: Suite - Pelleas and Melisande

Daniele Rustioni (conductor)

Mozart: Piano Quintet in E flat K452

Nelson Goerner (piano)

Andrey Godik (oboe)

Sharon Kam (clarinet)

Michael von Sch怀nermark (bassoon)

David Guerrier (horn)

Britten: Serenade for tenor horn and strings

Toby Spence (tenor)

Radek Baborကk (horn)

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Anu Tall (conductor)

Debussy: Petite Suite

The Ulster Orchestra perform Faure's orchestra suite Pelleas and Melisande.

Monday, Franck's Symphony In D20230227An afternoon of concert recordings from around Europe.

At 3pm, Cristian Macelaru conducts the French National Orchestra in Franck's great symphony, probably the Belgian composer's best-known work, in a recent recording from Paris. Also today, music by Rossi and Monteverdi from Les Arts Florissants, and soprano Veronique Gens is in Monte-Carlo to perform Berlioz' setting of six poems by Th退ophile Gautier, Les Nuits d'ete.

Presented by Penny Gore

Including:

Rossi : Sonata sopra l'aria di Ruggiero terzo libro

Paul Agnew, conductor

Scriabin: Etude in D sharp minor, Op.8/12

Daniil Trifonov, piano

Monteverdi: Excerpts from 'Selva morale e spirituale

Chopin: Two Nocturnes; Berceuse

Emanuel Ax, piano

Schreker: Fantastic Overture

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

3.00pm

Franck: Symphony in D minor, Op.48

Cristian Macelaru, conductor

Berlioz: Les Nuits d'ete, Op.7

Veronique Gens, soprano

Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra

Kazuki Yamada, conductor

Cristian Macelaru conducts the French National Orchestra in Franck's Symphony in D.

Monday, From The New World20220418Penny Gore introduces a week of recordings from BBC performing groups and other ensembles from around Europe. Today at 3pm, Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto with Beatrice Rana as soloist and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Among other things, we also feature Bartok's Romanian folk dances with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Including:

Corelli: Sonata a 4, WoO 4

Iberian Ensemble

R. Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54

Beatrice Rana, piano

Andrew Davis, conductor

Mozart: Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, K. 584

Peter Mattei, baritone

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Christoph Eschenbach, conductor

c.3pm

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, ‘From the New World

Aziz Shokhakimov, conductor

Dowland: Fantasia no. 1 in G

Hopkinson Smith, lute

Bartok: Romanian folk dances, Sz 68

Jamie Philips, conductor

Chopin: Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66 / Ballade No. 3 in A flat, op. 47

Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, piano

Dvorak in Bavaria, plus Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto and music by Bartok and Dowland

Monday, Gil Shaham Plays Brahms20220627Penny Gore introduces recordings by BBC ensembles, performances from the 2021 London International Festival of Early Music, and music played recently in the Low Countries, including Brahms's Violin Concerto with Gil Shaham and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra also performs Luc Van Hove's Symphony No. 4, under conductor Elim Chan. Plus Faur退's Pelleas and Melisande with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Marin Marais's Suite No. 3, Guillaume Connesson's Maslenitsa with the Brussels Philharmonic; and James MacMillan's Sun-Dogs with the Netherlands Radio Choir.

Including:

Connesson: Maslenitsa

St退phane Den耀ve, conductor

Purcell: Rejoice in the Lord alway

Ensemble Pro Victoria

Faur退: Pelleas and Melisande

Fran瀀ois Leleux, conductor

James MacMillan: Sun-Dogs

Benjamin Goodson, director

3.00pm

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77

Gil Shaham, violin

Elim Chan, conductor

Marin Marais: Suite No.3 in F major

Liam Byrne, viola da gamba

Jonas Nordberg, lute

Luc Van Hove: Symphony No. 4

Music by Brahms, Faure, Connesson, Marais, Purcell and James MacMillan.

Monday, Haydn's London Symphony20230703Ian Skelly presents a new week of Afternoon Concert, featuring recent recordings from the BBC and European orchestras. Today the Sinfonietta Riga performs Haydn's London Symphony, no.104, Gautier Capu瀀on is soloist in Walton's lyrical cello concerto, and there are highlights from a Schwetzingen Festival concert featuring the French classical and jazz composer Michel Godard.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Including:

Trad Sephardic: Madre un manseviko

Francesco Cavalli: Vivo per te from 'La Calisto

Nataša Mirkovi? (vocals)

Michel Godard (serpent)

Bruno Helstroffer (theorbo)

Airelle Besson (trumpet)

Debussy: Pr退lude

Monday, Haydn's Oxford Symphony20230417Presented by Fiona Talkington, with live concert recordings from BBC orchestras and ensembles around Europe.

As Radio 3 celebrates his 80th birthday this week, Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts a symphony each day at 3pm. Today, Gardiner leads the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Haydn's 92nd, popularly known as the 'Oxford' symphony. From the same concert at the 2016 Mozart Festival Würzburg, we also hear Stravinsky's 'Dumbarton Oaks' Concerto. Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's fantasy-overture inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, the French group Ensemble Les Surprises perform music by Henry Desmarets, and the young Bulgarian percussionist Vivi Vassileva plays Villa-Lobos and JS Bach in arrangements for vibraphone and guitar.

Including:

c.2:10pm

Tchaikovsky: Hamlet Overture, Op.67

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Villa-Lobos/Lucas Campara Diniz: Excerpts from 'Cuatro Estaciones Porteကas

Viviane Vassileva, vibraphone

Lucas Campara Diniz, guitar

Desmarets: Usquequo Domine

Louis Noel Bestion de Camboulas, conductor

Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G, Hob. I:92 ('Oxford')

John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Ravel: Bol退ro

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart

Teodor Currentzis, conductor

Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat ('Dumbarton Oaks')

JS Bach/Viviane Vassileva: Italian Concerto, BWV 971

John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Monday, Hymn To St Cecilia20211122Fortuitously, Benjamin Britten's birthday fell on St Cecilia's day, the patron saint of music. The BBC Singers join organist Anna Lapwood for music by him and by rising young composer Kristina Arakelyan. There's also the first part of one of the first ever operas, orchestral music by Dvorak and John Foulds, and a delightful late work by Richard Strauss.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Dvorak: Legend no. 1

Ulster Orchestra

Jac van Steen, conductor

Foulds: Holiday Sketches

BBC Concert Orchestra

Ronald Corp, conductor

Emilio de' Cavalieri: Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo: Act One

Vox Luminis

Lionel Meunier, conductor

c.3pm

Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia

Britten/Lapwood: Four Sea interludes

Kristina Arakelyan: Seascapes

Anna Lapwood, organ

Ben Palmer, conductor

Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto

Alexei Ogrintchouk, oboe

BBC Philharmonic

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Celebrating the patron saint of music and Britten's birthday with the BBC Singers

Monday, Javier Perianes Plays Grieg20211004Tom McKinney with the best classical music performed by BBC ensembles and orchestras across Europe.

Grieg's A minor begins this week's focus on Romantic piano concertos - Javier Perianes playing all the right notes in the right order. Also, a Beethoven overture from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, a chamber arrangement of music by Lili Boulanger, a new recording of EJ Moeran from the BBC Philharmonic and a vibrant Mendelssohn symphony from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Plus, there's Baroque vocal music from Capella Marianna in Prague and a highlight from last year's London International Festival of Early Music.

Including:

Beethoven: Overture, King Stephan

Anja Bihlmaier, conductor

Brahms: Geistliches Lied

BBC Singers

Richard Pearce (organ)

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

c. 2.15pm

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, Op.107 `Reformation`

Douglas Boyd (conductor)

Moeran: Lonely Waters

Claire Barnett-Jones (mezzo)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Lili Boulanger: Pie Jesu

Mikael Augustsson (bandoneon)

Per Texas Johansson (saxophone)

Anna Lindal & Eva Lindal (violins)

Johan Graden (piano)

Juan Romero (percussion)

c.3pm

Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16

Javier Perianes (piano)

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Klaus M䀀kel䀀 (conductor)

Zangius: Magnificat Secundi Toni

Vojtech Semerad (conductor)

Joseph Lupo: Pavan

Thomas Lupo: Fantazia in 5 parts

Fretwork

Grieg's Piano Concerto, plus music by Brahms, Mendelssohn and Lili Boulanger.

Monday, Johan Dalene Plays Barber20220801Penny Gore introduces another chance to hear Johan Dalene's Proms performance of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, alongside music by two American composers, Leonard Bernstein and George Walker, and Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony. Plus today's Proms Artist Choice and listener requests.

Bernstein: Candide - overture

George Walker: Variations for Orchestra

Barber: Violin Concerto

INTERVAL

Johan Dalene chooses a piece of music that especially inspires him

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor

Johan Dalene (violin)

Jordan de Souza (conductor)

4.00pm

Listener Request: the first of this week's listener suggestions for a favourite violin concerto

Johan Dalene plays Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto at the BBC Proms.

Monday, Jordi Savall At 8020211108Penny Gore presents a selection of music from the BBC performing groups and European Broadcasting Union. As Jordi Savall celebrates his eightieth birthday, we'll hear excerpts from a concert he gave exploring the fusion of east and west. Plus, Mozart concertos feature across the week, today's with Martin Helmchen as soloist with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Mozart's Piano Concerto No 17. And we round off the afternoon with Ravel's tribute to Couperin, and the friends he lost in the First World War - his Tombeau de Couperin.

Presented by Penny Gore

2pm

Coates: London Bridge - march

BBC Philharmonic

Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C major, Op.48

RTVE Symphony Orchestra

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c.3pm

Jordi Savall East meets West - A dialogue of the souls - excerpt

Jordi Savall (rebab, soprano viola da gamba and rabel)

Pedro Estevan (percussion)

c.3.15

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.17 in G major, K.453

Martin Helmchen (piano)

Fabio Luisi (conductor)

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Ulster Orchestra

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Music by Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Ravel.

Monday, Kirill Petrenko In Berlin20211011Ian Skelly kicks off a week of visits to Berlin for exciting orchestral recordings, as well as highlights from concerts given earlier this year by early music ensemble Holland Baroque. Today, Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky's third orchestral suite, and the music of John Adams, Ives and Mozart. Holland Baroque transports us to Brabant in the year 1653. Plus, Noah Bendix-Balgley is the soloist in Bruch's ever-popular first violin concerto.

Including:

Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Kirill Petrenko, conductor

JS Bach: Trio Sonata in C, BWV 529

Ives: The Unanswered Question

Mozart: Notturno in D, K. 286

Verdonck: Amor Jesu dulcissimus

Benedictus

Monday, Mendelssohn's First Symphony20211101Penny Gore begins another week of unique recordings from the BBC Orchestras and Choirs, and from some of Europe's best ensembles.

Thierry Fischer conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Mendelssohn's First Symphony, as Penny starts an exploration of the German composer's symphonies throughout the week at 3pm. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play Beethoven Coriolan overture and Vaughan Williams's On Wenlock Edge, featuring tenor Benjamin Hulett, and Alessandro Taverna is the soloist in Saint-Saens's Second Piano Concerto.

Plus the first in this week's series of short pieces by living composers performed by BBC orchestras: Sarah Lianne Lewis's Mind the gap.

Including:

Glinka: Valse-fantasie in B minor

Michael Seal, conductor

JS Bach: Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, Cantata BWV33

Terry Wey, alto

Patrick Grahl, tenor

Tobias Berndt, bass

Windsbach Boys' Choir Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Martin Lehmann, conductor

Beethoven: Coriolan overture

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge

Benjamin Hulett, tenor

John Wilson, conductor

c.3pm

Mendelssohn: Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op. 11

Thierry Fischer, conductor

Sarah Lianne Lewis: Mind the gap, for ensemble

Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 22

Bent Sorensen: Evening Land

Alessandro Taverna, piano

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi, conductor

Thierry Fischer conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Monday, Mozart Concertos20220404This week Afternoon Concert celebrates French orchestras; today it's the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Chamber Orchestra in concertos by Mozart. Plus Tchaikovsky is inspired by the past, New Generation Artist Alessandro Fisher sings Britten, and a new recording of Doreen Carwithen's 4 Piano Preludes.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2pm

Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op.33

Alisa Weilerstein (cello)

Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra

Tiberiu Soare (conductor)

c.2.25

Ravel La Valse

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Ion Marin (conductor)

c.2.40

Doreen Carwithen 4 Piano Preludes

Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano)

c.3pm

Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622

Rapha뀀l S退v耀re (clarinet)

Jean-Fran瀀ois Helsser (conductor)

c.3.30

Britten Les Illuminations

Alessandro Fisher (tenor)

Ulster Orchestra

Ilyich Rivas (conductor)

c.4.00

Mozart Piano Concerto no.23 in A major, K.488

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Music by Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Doreen Carwithen

Monday, National Youth Orchestra Of Canada20170703Verity Sharp presents a concert from the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Plus the first of many performances this week from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and a new piece from the New Music Biennial Weekend as part of Hull City of Culture.

2pm:

Bloch: Schelomo

Daniel Hass (cello)

Canadian National Youth Orchestra

Conductor Perry So

2:20pm:

Christopher Goddard: Spacious Euphony

2:35pm:

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat, Op. 100

3.10pm:

Bernstein: Candide Overture

Conductor Alondra de la Parra

3.15pm:

Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

16:00

Hannah Peel: Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia (world premiere)

Hannah Peel (vocals)

Tubular Brass.

With the Canadian National Youth Orchestra in music by Bloch, Goddard and Prokofiev.

Monday, Nielsen In Belfast20230313Penny Gore presents an afternoon of live concert recordings from around Europe, with a focus this week on the Ulster Orchestra.

Today, Michael Seal conducts the orchestra in Nielsen's First Symphony, which the composer dedicated to his wife and imbued with Danish melodies. Jac van Steen leads the orchestra in music by the late-Romantic Dutch composer Alphonsus Diepenbrock. Also today, Debussy's depiction of the sea from Paris, the Black Dyke Band at the World Band Festival in Lucerne, and music from the Spanish early music ensemble Accademia del Piacere in Schwetzingen.

Including:

Marais: 13 Couplets from 'Les folies d'Espagne

Shostakovich: Festival Overture Op. 96

Nicholas Childs, conductor

Debussy: La Mer

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Mikko Franck, conductor

J.S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor BWV903

Mariam Batsashvili, piano

3.00

Nielsen: Symphony No.1 in G minor, Op. 7

Michael Seal, conductor

Fredrick Schjelderup: A Fantasy Of Joy

Diepenbrock: Music from Marsyas

Jac van Steen, conductor

Couperin: Les Regrets / Lully: Rochers vous ꀀtes sourds, from 'La naissance de V退nus, LWV 27

The Ulster Orchestra plays Nielsen's First Symphony.

Monday, Orchestre National De France20220207This week, Afternoon Concert features performances by French orchestras - today the Orchestre National de France, with music by Saint-Saens, Dutilleux and Ravel. Plus Mozart's Symphony no.34, and the Wind Octet by Ruth Gipps.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2pm

Camille Saint-Sa뀀ns Bacchanale, from 'Samson et Dalila

Christian M?celaru (conductor)

c.14.15

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 34 in C, K. 338

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin

James Conlon (conductor)

c.3pm

Camille Saint-Sa뀀ns Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, op. 61

Daniel Lozakovich (violin)

c.3.30

Ruth Gipps Wind Octet, Op 65

Members of BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Jonathan Bloxham (conductor)

c.3.40

Henri Dutilleux Myst耀re de l'instant

c.4.00

Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata in D, BWV 912

Claire Huangci (piano)

c.4.10

Maurice Ravel Daphnis et Chlo退, Suite No. 2

Monday, Pablo Gonz\u00e1lez Conducts Brahms20220523Ian Skelly introduces performances with a Spanish flavour, today featuring the RTVE Symphony Orchestra performing Brahms's First Symphony in Madrid and 17th-century choral music from the Cererols Choir in Barcelona.

Including:

Anselm Ferrer: Ave Maria

Richard Strauss: Don Juan

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Donald Runnicles, conductor

Joan Cererols (1618-1676): Dies Irae

Marc Diaz, conductor

Mendelssohn: Capriccio in E minor Op.81/3

Casals Quartet

3.00

Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor

Pablo Gonzကlez, conductor

J退sus Torres: Transfiguration for cello, accordion and string orchestra

Asler Polo, cello

Iကaki Alberdi, accordion

RTVE Symphony Orchestar

Joan Marc: Requiem - Sanctus/Benedictus, Angus Dei, Communio, Absolta

Marc D퀀az, conductor

Performances with a Spanish flavour, including the RTVE Symphony Orchestra playing Brahms.

Monday, Peter Donohoe Plays Pejacevic20220228Ian Skelly starts a new week of afternoons, featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra in new concerto recordings at 3pm each day. Today, Peter Donohoe is the soloist in a new recording of Pejacevic's Piano Concerto. Also, music by Mendelssohn and Wallen, recordings from the early music group Ars Antique Austria, and the BBC Philharmonic play Roberto Gerhard's full ballet score of Don Quixote after the novel by Cervantes.

Including:

Ludovic Bource: The Artist (excerpt)

Ernst van Tiel (conductor)

Smyth: Komm süsser Tod

BBC Singers

David Hill (conductor)

Felix Mendelssohn: Overture The Hebrides

Roderick Cox (conductor)

Amy Bryce: So All Voices Can Fly

Philip Cobb (trumpet)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Richard Pearce (organ)

Neil Ferris (conductor)

Errollyn Wallen

See That I am God

c. 3pm

Pejacevic: Piano Concerto in G Minor Op33

Peter Donohoe (piano)

Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote Ballet

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Peter Donohoe in a new recording of Pejacevic's Piano Concerto.

Monday, Puccini's Il Tabarro At The Bbc Proms20220808Fiona Talkington introduces another chance to hear Puccini's one-act operatic masterpiece `Il Tabarro` at the BBC Proms - a score that swirls and throbs with the energy of the River Seine.

Natalya Romaniw stars as the unhappily married Giorgetta, whose affair is the catalyst for murder. Two orchestral favourites set the watery scene: Respighi's Fountains of Rome - by turns glistening in the sunlight and swathed in dawn mist - and the irrepressible musical antics of Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Respighi: Fountains of Rome

INTERVAL

Puccini: Il Tabarro

Michele.... George Gagnidze (baritone)

Giorgetta.... Natalya Romaniw (soparno)

Luigi.... Ivan Gyngazov (tenor)

La Frugola.... Daniela Barcellona (mezzo-soprano)

‘Tinca'.... Alasdair Elliott (tenor)

‘Talpa'.... Simon Shibambu (bass)

Ballad-Seller.... Jung Soo Yun (tenor)

Lovers..... Laura Lolita Perešivana (soprano) and Ryan Vaughan Davies (tenor)

Philharmonia Voices

Hall退

Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

Soprano Natalya Romaniw is today's Prom's Artist and chooses a piece by Leoncavallo that's dear to her heart.

Our Listeners' Choice theme this week is 'Piano Concertos', so we enjoy a favourite by Saint-Saens.

And there's a performance from the York Early Music Festival International Young Artists Competition every day this week, too. Today it's a concerto for 2 cellos by Benedetto Marcello, performed by the Italian ensemble Understories.

Puccini's Il Tabarro at the BBC Proms

Monday, Rachmaninov In Munich20230206Penny Gore kicks off this week of programmes with a performance of Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto in Munich. Concert recordings from around Europe include Medieval pieces from Ensemble Celadon and choral music by Schutz and Schein from the Leipzig Cantorey, featured every day this week, and of course there are regular contributions from the BBC performing groups. Today, there's music by Holst, Messiaen, Haydn, Mozart, Scriabin and Richard Strauss

Including:

Gustav Holst - Walt Whitman Overture, Op.7

Ulster Orchestra

JoAnn Falletta (conductor)

Jehan de L'Escurel - Belle, com loiaus amans / Abundance de felonie

Joseph Haydn - Symphony No.1 in D, Hob.I:1

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Richard Egarr (conductor)

c.2.30pm

Richard Strauss - Romanze for clarinet & orchestra

Karl-Heinz Steffens clarinet)

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

Karl Anton Rickenbacher (conductor)

JS Bach - Fugue in G minor, BWV.1026

Chouchane Siranossian (violin)

Jonathan Pesek (cello)

Leonardo Garcia Alarcon (harpsichord)

Olivier Messiaen - Les Offrandes oubli退es, m退ditation symphonique

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Mikko Franck (conductor)

3pm

Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, Op.30

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

James Gaffigan (conductor)

Heinrich Schütz - Gesang der drei M䀀nner im feurigen Ofen, SWV.448

Concerto Vocale Leipzig

Sachsisches Baroque Orchestra

Gotthold Schwarz (conductor)

c.4pm

Alexander Scriabin - Symphony No.4, Op.54 'The Poem of Ecstasy

Orchestre de Paris

Klaus M䀀kel䀀 (conductor)

Seong-Jin Cho performs Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto in Munich.

Monday, Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto20220516This week Afternoon Concert features some of our best-loved piano concertos, each day at 3pm, and we've early music from Madrid. Today, Behzod Abduraimov performs Rachmaninov's ever-popular Piano Concerto no.2 with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, as part of a concert from which we also hear Prokofiev's Seventh Symphony. Plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Spain-Dunk's Lament for String Orchestra, and the Ulster Orchestra perform Mozart's Jupiter Symphony.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Suleiman Yudakov Procession de fetes de Khorezm

Aziz Shokhakimov (conductor)

c.2.05

Josquin Ave Maria - Virgo serena

Ockeghem Alma redemptoris mater

Mouton Nesciens Mater

Stile Antico

c.2.20

Mozart Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551 'Jupiter

Michael Collins (conductor)

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor, Op.18

Behzod Abduraimov (piano)

c.3.40

Susan Spain-Dunk Lament for string orchestra

c.3.45

Prokofiev Symphony no.7 in C sharp minor, Op.131

Bahzod Abduraimov plays Rachmaninov, plus music by Mozart and Prokofiev.

Monday, Rachmaninov's Second Symphony20230102Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert, featuring highlights from the Lucerne and Verbier Festivals. Today's programme includes pianist Mao Fujita playing Clara Schumann and Liszt, and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Rachmaninov's mighty Symphony no.2. Plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Japan with music by Bacewicz and Sibelius.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

c.2pm

Bacewicz Overture for Symphony Orchestra

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

Clara Schumann 3 Romances, Op.21

Mao Fujita (piano)

Silvestrov arr Ivan Karabits Elegy for String Orchestra

Berlin Philharmonic

Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225, motet

RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin

Ensemble Promena

Justin Doyle (conductor)

c.3pm

Rachmaninov Symphony no.2 in E minor, Op.27

Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

c.4pm

Liszt Ballade no.2 in B flat major, S.171

Sibelius Finlandia

Nielsen Clarinet Concerto, Op.57

Andrea Scaffardi (clarinet)

Malmo Symphony Orchestra

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Music by Bacewicz, Bach and Rachmaninov.

Monday, Radio France Philharmonic20171002Penny Gore presents the Radio France Philharmonic in two concerts to launch Radio 3's new Afternoon Concert programme.

Our first concert at 2pm features works inspired by musical trends from the USA. Ravel's Piano Concerto in G is heavily influenced by the sounds of jazz, which Ravel heard during a US concert tour in 1928, and in Dvorak's Symphony No.9 'From the New World', the composer draws inspiration on the music of native Americans. For our second concert, showcases the orchestra in works from the Classical era, Haydn's Symphony 'La Passione', and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat, K.595, a previous winner of the highly-acclaimed Clara Haskil Competition.

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

Dvorak: Symphony No.9 'From the New World

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

Mikko Franck (conductor)

c. 3.30pm

Haydn: Symphony in F minor, Hob.I:49 'La Passione

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat, K.595

Adam Laloum (piano)

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Sir Roger Norrington (conductor).

Penny Gore presents a week of concerts from the Radio France Philharmonic.

Monday, Rattle At Radio 320170911Penny Gore presents a week of concerts featuring Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic.

In the 2016 BBC Proms Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic paired Boulez and Mahler to great effect. This concert, recorded last September at the opening of the new season at the Philharmonie in Berlin, has the same pairing. Boulez's 10-minute piece combines fragments of sound from a group of 15 instruments including piano, celesta, cimbalom, glockenspiel, tubular bells, and mandolin. Mahler's Seventh Symphony demands great virtuosity from a large orchestra - the Berlin Philharmonic makes a persuasive case for this mighty work.

Followed by a peformance of Bartok's last orchestral work which also showcases the virtuosity and sound colours of the orchestra.

Boulez: Eclat

Mahler: Symphony No.7

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

conductor Simon Rattle.

Penny Gore presents a week of concerts with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic.

Monday, Reformation20220509Penny Gore begins another week of the best classical music for your afternoon, featuring concert recordings from around Europe. At 3pm each day this week, orchestral works from the Czech Republic and Poland, with Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony in Katowice today. Also, the Italian ensemble la fonte musica explore the late medieval Apennine Peninsula, through the lens of the Flemish composer Johannes Ciconia who found fame in Italy. Plus music by Stoyanov and Lutoslawski.

Including:

Sequences of music by Johannes Ciconia and others

Alena Dantcheva, soprano

Francesca Cassinari, soprano

Gianluca Ferrarini, tenor

Teodoro Baù, fiddle

la fonte musica, ensemble

Michele Pasotti, medieval lute, conductor

Stoyanov: Rhapsody for Symphony Orchestra

Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mark Kadin, conductor

c.2.30pm

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, op. 26

Simon Trp?eski piano

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice

Kazuki Yamada, conductor

c.3pm

Mendelssohn: Symphony No.5 in D minor, op. 107 ('Reformation')

Lutoslawski: Dance preludes

Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet

Martin Klett, piano

Novak: Ludi symphoniaci

Brno Philharmonic

Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony, performed in Katowice.

Monday, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra20170320Penny Gore presents a week of concerts from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota. The ensemble serves the 'Twin Cities' of Minneapolis-St Paul and is one of the world's leading chamber orchestras. Today's selection includes music by CPE Bach and two masterpieces by Beethoven - his Fourth Piano Concerto and the 'Eroica' Symphony.

2pm:

CPE Bach: Symphony No 4 in C, Wq.180

conductor Christian Zacharias

2.10pm:

Thierry Escaich: Baroque Song

2.25pm:

CPE Bach: Symphony in F, Wq. 181

2.45pm:

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4 in G, Op.58

Christian Zacharias (piano/director)

3.15pm:

Ives: The Unanswered Question

3.25pm:

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op. 55 'Eroica

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra performs music by CPE Bach, Escaich, Beethoven and Ives.

Monday, Scheherazade At The Proms20220725Ian Skelly offers another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 'Two Scheherazades' Prom from last Thursday alongside a Prom Artist choice of music and ideas inspired by its theme from listeners.

Koday; Hary Janos Suite

Jac van Steen, conductor

BBC PROM pt 1

Maurice Ravel: Sheherazade - ouverture de Feerie

Sally Beamish: Hive (world premiere performance)

Catrin Finch (harp)

BBC NOW

Ariane Matiakh, conductor

INTERVAL

Prom Artist Choice: Catrin Finch introduces a piece of music for the interval.

Ravel: Introduction and Allegro

Skaila Kanga (harp)

Nash Ensemble

BBC PROM pt2

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Lesley Hatfield (violin)

Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov with 1,001 stories from the Proms.

Monday, Schubert's Ninth20211115Tom McKinney with the best classical music performed by BBC ensembles and orchestras across Europe.

Schubert's Ninth, the 'Great', begins this week's focus on great Romantic symphonies - Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a performance recorded in Glasgow in July. Also, Smetana from The Ulster Orchestra, Renaissance music performed by the Youth of La Capella Reial de Catalunya, new music by Sarah Frances Jenkins from the Vale of Glamorgan Festival, all alongside music by Stravinsky, Beethoven and Jozef Suk.

2pm

Smetana: Sarka [Ma vlast]

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Giaches de Wert: Il dolce sonno mi promise pace

Jove Capella Reial de Catalunya

Lu퀀s Vilamaj  (conductor)

Stravinsky - Concerto for piano & wind instruments

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Beethoven - Romance No.1 for violin & orchestra in G, Op.40

Chloe Hanslip (violin)

Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

Sarah Frances Jenkins - Trallali, Trallaley, Trallalera

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Geoffrey Patterson (conductor)

c. 3pm

Franz Schubert - Symphony No.9 in C, D.944, 'Great

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

c. 4pm

Jozef Suk - Ten Songs, Op.15

Arnold Schoenberg Choir

Erwin Ortner (choirmaster)

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Schubert's Ninth Symphony, the 'Great'.

Monday, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony20210913Ian Skelly launches the autumn on Afternoon Concert, including specially recorded music from this summer's Salzburg Festival and exploring the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra's relationship with some of today's greatest conductors. Today, Daniel Harding conducts the orchestra in Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony. Throughout the week, Ian also presents music from each of the BBC Orchestras, plus recordings from the Basel Sinfonietta and the Astor Piazzolla Quintet celebrating their namesake composer's centenary.

Including:

Weber: Ruler of the Spirits, Overture

BBC Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins

Ruth Gipps: Symphony No. 2, op. 30

Basel Sinfonietta, Jessica Horsley

Music by Falconieri

L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (from the 2021 Salzburg Festival)

c.3pm

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 ('Unfinished')

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding

Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder

Claire Barnett-Jones (mezzo-soprano)

Music by Giramo

Daniel Harding conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Monday, Schumann's First Symphony20221205Penny Gore introduces an afternoon of live concert recordings by BBC orchestras and ensembles around Europe.

Today in the 3pm spotlight, Matthias Pintscher conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Robert Schumann's Symphony No.1, and Richard Strauss's Oboe Concerto with soloist Cristina G mez, from a concert in Aberdeen in September. The orchestra also plays music by Julia Perry, and Penny introduces excerpts from a concert by Christina Pluhar and her ensemble L'Arpeggiata at the recent Baltic Sea Festival.

Beethoven: Rondo a Capriccio, Op 129

Anja Bihlmaier, conductor

Haydn: Agnus Dei, from 'Mass in honorem B.V.M. in E flat, Hob XXII:4

Xavier Mendoza, baritone

Roger Padull退s, tenor

@lvaro Carnicero, organ

Escolania de Montserrat

Capella de Música de Montserrat

Orquestra Simf nica del Vall耀s

Xavier Puig, conductor

Cristoforo Caresana (arr. Christina Pluhar): La veglia, per la nascita di Gesù

C退line Scheen, soprano

Dorota Szczepanska, soprano

Luciana Mancini, mezzo-soprano

Vincenzo Capezzuto, alto

Alessandro Giangrande, tenor

Jo o Fernandes, bass

Christina Pluhar, musical direction, theorbo

Erno Dohnanyi: American Rhapsody Op.47 for orchestra

BBC Philharmonic

Matthias Bamert, conductor

CPE Bach: Violin Sonata in C major, Wq. 73 / 149 (H504)

Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violin

James Baillieu, piano

Julia Perry: Homunculus, for harp, celeste and percussion

Geoffrey Paterson, conductor

Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B? major, Op. 38, 'Spring

Matthias Pintscher, conductor

Traditional (Apulia): Pizzica di San Vito, Tarantella (Vincenzo Capezzuto, countertenor)

Cristoforo Caresana (arr. Christina Pluhar): La pastorale

Mozart: Piano Sonata No 17 in B flat major, K 570

Christian Ihle Hadland, piano

Strauss: Oboe concerto

Cristina G mez, oboe

Matthias Pintscher conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Monday, Serenade20220117Ian Skelly presents an afternoon of performances from around Europe and from BBC ensembles, including recordings from last year's George Enescu Festival in Romania. Tiberiu Soare conducts Tchaikovsky's Serenade in C for strings, and there are two sparkling concerto performances - Alisa Weilerstein playing Haydn and Alexandra Dariescu with Clara Schumann. Plus the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Jack Liebeck, starting the afternoon with music by Bartok and Malcolm Arnold.

Including:

Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances

Arnold: Sinfonietta No. 3

Ben Gernon, conductor

Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C, Hob. VIIb:1

Alisa Weilerstein, cello

Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra

Tiberiu Soare, conductor

c.3pm

Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C

Enescu: Trois m退lodies, op.4/1

Manuel Fischer-Dieskau, cello

Cyprien Katsaris, piano

C Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 7

Alexandra Dariescu, piano

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Adam Fischer, conductor

Music from the BBC Philharmonic and the George Enescu Festival including Bartok and Haydn.

Monday, Shostakovich's Symphony No 1520220815Presented by Penny Gore. Including another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic and John Storgards in their recent Proms performance of music by Shostakovich, Kalevi Aho and Kaija Saariaho. Plus today's Proms Artists' Choice.

2pm

Kalevi Aho: Eight Seasons (Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra)

Interval

c.2.55pm

Kaija Saariaho: Vista

Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No.15

Carolina Eyck (theremin)

John Storgards (conductor)

BBC Philharmonic with Chief Guest conductor John Storgards at the BBC Proms.

Monday, Sibelius' First Symphony20210927Penny Gore begins a week focusing on symphonies performed in The Netherlands at 3pm each day. Also, music from this year's summer festivals, and from some of the top orchestras and chamber ensembles around Europe, including the BBC performing groups.

Today, Sibelius' Symphony No.1 comes from The Hague, Francesco Piemontesi is the soloist Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 with with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Mirga Grazynite-Tyla, and the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers perform music by Florence Price and Johannes Brahms. Plus music for jazz band with the WDR Big Band Cologne.

Including:

Florence Price: Concert Overture No. 2

Jane Glover, conductor

Johannes Brahms: 4 Quartets, Op. 92, for soprano, alto, tenor, bass and piano

Sofi Jeannin, director

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat, K. 595

Francesco Piemontesi, piano

Mirga Grazynite-Tyla, conductor

c.3pm

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, op. 39

Residentie Orkest The Hague

Anja Bihlmaier, conductor

Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor

Jennifer Pike, violin

Igor Levit, piano

Nicolas Alstaedt, cello

Traditional (African-American - arr. Norman Luboff): Deep River

Traditional (African-American): Hallelujah

Cecile Verny, vocals

Music by Sibelius, Brahms, Florence Price, and for jazz big band.

Monday, Sibelius In The Hague20220124Penny Gore presents this week a selection of music from the BBC performing groups and European Broadcasting Union, including music by Baroque group Arcangelo as well as the Latvian Radio Choir. Today, Sibelius' Symphony No. 1 with the Residentie Orchestra The Hague, the BBC Singers with music by Owain Park, and also Weber's Clarinet Concerto No. 1 with Jorg Widmann both soloist and conductor at the helm of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

Mendelssohn: Athalie: War March of the Priests

BBC Philharmonic

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Mahler: Adagietto, from 'Symphony No. 5' (arr. G退rard Pesson)

Sigvards K?ava, conductor

Handel: Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 390a; Süsser Blumen Ambraflocken, HWV 204

Lydia Teuscher, soprano

Jonathan Cohen, director

Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op 73

Jorg Widmann, clarinet & conductor

c.3pm

Sibelius: Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op.39

Anja Bihlmaier, conductor

Owain Park: A Winter Bloom

Owain Park, conductor

Ibert: Concerto for Cello and Wind Instruments

Members of the German Symphony Orchestra

Johannes Zurl, conductor

Huw Watkins: Sinfonietta

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Grant Llewellyn, conductor

Music by Mendelssohn, Mahler, Weber Sibelius, Park, Ibert and Watkins.

Monday, Sibelius's Fourth Symphony20220314This week, Afternoon Concert features Scandinavian symphonic music - today John Storgards conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Sibelius's Fourth Symphony. There's also Mozart, Darius Milhaud's eclectic ballet score La Creation du Monde, Concentus Musicus Wien with Purcell, and Marek Janowski and the Dresden Philharmonic in music by Franz Lehar.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Walton Orb & Sceptre

John Storgards (conductor)

Horn Concerto no 4 in E flat major, K.495

Tim Thorpe (horn)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Grant Llewelllyn (conductor)

Copland

2 Pieces for Violin and piano - Nocturne

Elena Urioste (violin)

Michael Brown (piano)

Niemand liebt dich so wie ich, from 'Paganini

Camilla Nylund, soprano

Maximilian Schmitt, tenor

Marek Janowski (conductor)

Henry Purcell

Suite from 'King Arthur, Z. 628

Stefan Gottfried (conductor)

Sibelius Symphony No.4 in A minor

CPE Bach

Sonata in A minor Wq.57`2

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

Vilja Song, Hanna's aria from 'The Merry Widow

Camilla Nylund (soprano)

La Creation du Monde, Op.81a

Josep Colom退 (violin)

Michel Cordoba (violin)

Oscar Alabau (cello)

Joaquin Arrabal (double bass)

Barcelona Symphonic Wind Band

Jos退 Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana

Fantasia on one note

Music by Sibelius, Milhaud, Lehar and Purcell

Monday, Sibelius's Second Symphony20230710Fiona Talkington presents an afternoon of the best classical music in great performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and other BBC ensembles, plus concert performances from across Europe.

The BBC Scottish feature in today's 3pm highlight, Sibelius's Symphony No.2 in a performance from Glasgow in March. The BBC Scottish also perform Beethoven's dramatic Coriolan overture and Richard Strauss's ebullient tone poem Don Juan, both conducted by Donald Runnicles. And, from Radio France, Janacek's oratorio The Eternal Gospel, based on a medieval legend in which an angel announces the coming of the Kingdom of Love on Earth to a Cistercian monk, Joachim of Flora.

Including:

Beethoven: Coriolan - Overture

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchetsra

Donald Runnicles (cond.)

Mozart: Martern aller Arten (Die Entführung aus dem Serail)

Regula Mühlemann (soprano)

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Tarmo Peltokoski (cond.)

Sibelius: Humouresques Nos.1, 5, 2

Alexandra Soumm (violin)

Aimo Pagin (piano)

c.2.30pm

Richard Strauss: Don Juan

Bach: Goldberg Variations - Aria & Vars.1, 13, 7

Gambelin Duo

Taavi Oramo (cond.)

Dobrinka Tabakova

Of the Sun Born

BBC Singers

Grace Rossiter (cond.)

c4pm

Janacek: The Eternal Gospel

Katerina Knezikova (soprano)

Nicky Spence (tenor)

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus

Jakub Hrusa (cond.)

The BBC SSO perform Sibelius's Symphony No 2 and Strauss's Don Juan.

Monday, Sibelius's Second Symphony From Amsterdam20230220Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert featuring performances from the Netherlands.

Today the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra performs symphonies by Sibelius and Otto Ketting, and Les Ambassadeurs La Grande Ecurie present the first part of a concert recorded at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. Plus there's a concerto at the end of each programme this week - today Arabella Steinbacher performs Prokofiev's 1st Violin Concerto.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

Including:

Les Ambassadeurs La Grande Ecurie Premiere Suite in F major

(Francois Francoeur - Ouverture (from Le Troph退e), Francois Francoeur - Air Grave / Air Gai, Henri-Montan Berton - Air vif (air added to Campra's - Camille Reine des Volques), Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer - Rondeau gracieux et tendre (from Zade), Francois Francoeu - Chaconne (from le Ballet de la Paix)

Alexis Kossenko (conductor)

Otto Ketting: Symphony no.4

Hanna Lintu (conductor)

Chopin: Nocturne No. 8 in D flat, op. 27/2

Martin Kas퀀k (piano)

c.3pm

Sibelius: Symphony no.2 in D major, Op.43

Vivaldi: Gelido in ogni vena, from 'Farnace, RV 711

Lea Desander (mezzo-soprano)

Ensemble Jupiter

Thomas Dunford (conductor)

c.3.55

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no.1 in D major, Op.19

Arabella Steinbacher (violin)

German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

Music by Ketting, Sibelius and Prokofiev.

Monday, Sibelius's Symphony No 4 With The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20230116Penny Gore with performances by BBC ensembles and music across Europe, including Sibelius's Symphony No. 4 with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, under Ryan Bancroft, and works by Amanda Maier-R怀ntgen, Telemann and Schurbert. Also Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4, Ravel's Ma mere l'oye with the Orchestra National de France, and Elizabeth Maconchy's Nocturne with the Ulster Orchestra.

Including,

Sibelius: Karelia - suite Op.11: Alla marcia

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Dalia Stasevska, conductor

Amanda Maier-R怀ntgen: Finale: Presto, from String Quartet in A

Cecilia Zilliacus & Jannica Gustafsson, violins

Ylvali Zilliacus, viola

Kati Raitinen, cello

Mozart: Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat major, K 495

Tim Thorpe, horn

Grant Llewellyn, conductor

Elizabeth Maconchy: Nocturne

Jac van Steen, conductor

Schubert: Sonata in A major D.664 for piano; 3th mvt Allegro

Stephen Hough, piano

Purcell: An Evening Hymn, Z. 193 (Now that the sun hath veiled his light)

Michael Schade, tenor

Concentus Musicus Wien

Stefan Gottfried, director

3pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63

Ryan Bancroft, conductor

Amanda Maier-R怀ntgen: Andante - un poco animato - Tempo I, from String Quartet in A

Telemann: Flute Concerto in D, TWV 51:D1

Sebastian Wittiber, flute

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Richard Egarr, conductor

Ravel: Ma mer l'oye

Christian Macelaru, conductor

Tchaikovsky: Valse-scherzo in C major, Op 34, arr. for violin and piano

Esther Yoo, violin

Zhang Zuo, piano

Music by Sibelius, Amanda Maier-R\u00f6ntgen, Mozart, Elizabeth Maconchy, Schubert and Purcell.

Monday, Sibelius's Third Symphony From Switzerland20230123Ian Skelly introduces an afternoon of performances from across Europe with a nod in the direction of monsters, myths and legends, including music by Grieg, Holst, Rehnqvist and Wagner and a performance at 3pm of Sibelius's Third Symphony from the Gion Antoni Derungs Festival in Switzerland.

Including:

Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 1

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

Karin Rehnqvist: Jag lyfter Mina h䀀nder (I Raise My Hands)

Eero Palvainen, theorbo

Bjorn Gafert, organ

Daniel Holst, cello

Eric Ericsson Chamber Choir

Grete Pedersen (conductor)

Gustav Holst: The Perfect Fool -Ballet Music

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis (conductor)

James MacMillan: O chi mi na morbheanna (The Mist Covered Mountains of Home)

The King Singers

3.00

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No 3 in C Op52

Orchestra della Svizzera italiana

Philippe Bach (conductor)

Alfonso Ferrabosco: Pavan On Four Notes

William Lawes: Almaine in D minor

Richard Dering: Fantasia in A minor

L'Acheron

George Enescu: 'Pavane' from Suite No 2 in D Op10

Daria Parkhomenko (piano)

William Alwyn: Lyra Angelica for harp and string orchestra

Osian Ellis (harp)

London Philharmonic Orchestra

William Alwyn (conductor)

Unique performances from across Europe

Monday, Songs Of Love And Friendship20220103Penny Gore introduces starts a week focusing on recent recordings of Rachmaninov's piano concertos from around Europe, beginning this afternoon with Nikolai Lugansky and the Berlin Philharmonic. Also today, violinist Antje Weithaas and harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani play Bach at the 2021 Schwetzingen Festival, the Ulster Orchestra play Wagner's musical love letter to his wife Cosima, and the world premiere recording of music by Roxanna Panufnik.

Also, just before 3pm throughout the week, New Year New Music: Radio 3 presenters share the newest music that means the most to them.

Including:

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

Robert Houlihan, conductor

JS Bach: Violin Sonata No. 3 in E, BWV 1016

Antje Weithaas, violin

Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord

c.3pm

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, op. 1

Nikolai Lugansky, piano

Tugan Sokhiev, conductor

Roxanna Panufnik: Songs of Love and Friendship (premiere)

Daniel Rowland, violin

Netherlands Radio Choir

Benjamin Goodson, conductor

Chausson: Symphony in B flat, op. 20

New music by Roxanna Panufnik, and Nikolai Lugansky plays Rachmaninov in Berlin.

Monday, Steven Osborne Plays Mozart20221114Fiona Talkington introduces a sequence of live recordings from BBC groups and ensembles around Europe.

Beginning a week in which the 3pm spotlights fall on the BBC Philharmonic, Steven Osborne joins the orchestra for Mozart's Piano Concerto No.17, K595. There's choral music by Johann Friedrich Agricola from the recent Berlin Music Festival, Thomas Sondergard conducting Sibelius' final 7th symphony in Denmark, and the BBC Singers perform Samuel Barber.

Including:

c.2.15pm

Agricola: Magnificat

Vocalensemble Sirventes Berlin

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin

Stefan Schuck, conductor

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C, op. 105

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Sondergard, conductor

Beethoven: Overture to 'Egmont, op. 84

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Ondrej Lenard, conductor

c.3pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.27 in B flat K595

Steven Osborne, piano

Clemens Schuldt, conductor

c.3.45pm

Barber: Reincarnations

Grace Rossiter, conductor

Zemlinsky: Sinfonietta

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Matthias Pintscher, conductor

Steven Osborne joins the BBC Philharmonic for Mozart's Piano Concerto No 17, K595

Monday, Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto20211018Penny Gore begins another week of unique recordings from the BBC Orchestras and Choirs, and from some of Europe's best ensembles. Today, Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks and Rameau's Les Boreades, Jennifer Pike plays Bach, and there's William Grant Still and Nielsen from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

RR Bennett: Country Dances

BBC Scottish SO

John Wilson, conductor

JS Bach: Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor, BWV 1001

Jennifer Pike, violin

Mozart: Mass (K.257) in C major 'Credo

Elizabeth Poole, soprano

Sian Menna, mezzo-soprano

Christopher Bowen, tenor

Stuart MacIntyre, baritone

BBC Singers

BBC Concert Orchestra

Stephen Cleobury, conductor

c.2.45pm

Rameau: Les Boreades

Stravinsky: Concerto in E, ‘Dumbarton Oaks

Ryan Bancroft, conductor

William Grant Still: Phantom Chapel & Fairy Knoll

Clare Hammond, piano

Nielsen: Symphony No. 2 (The Four Temperaments)

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Monday, Symphonie Fantastique20211129Penny Gore starts another week of special performances from around Europe and from the BBC's orchestras.

Today, Alain Altinoglu conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, and Philippe Jaroussky joins L'Arpeggiata at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. Plus Sir John Eliot Gardiner in Salzburg with Robert Schumann, and Erwin Schulhoff's playful jazz-inspired Suite for Chamber Orchestra.

Including:

Berlioz: Le carnaval romain

BBC Philharmonic

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Koechlin: Vers la voûte 退toil退e

Ariane Matiakh (conductor)

Schulhoff: Suite for Chamber Orchestra

Prague Philharmonia

Emmanuel Villaume (conductor)

c.3pm

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Schumann: Requiem für Mignon, op. 98b

Emily Armour (soprano)

Sam Cobb (soprano)

Alison Ponsford-Hill (soprano)

Angharad Rowlands (soprano)

Rebekah Jones (mezzo)

Kate Symonds Joy (mezzo)

Michael Lafferty (bass)

Camerata Salzburg

Monteverdi Choir

Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Music by Bo뀀sset, Bataille and Moulini退 and Charpentier

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)

Christina Pluhar (conductor, theorbo)

Berlioz from Frankfurt and Philippe Jaroussky with L'Arpeggiata

Monday, Tchaikovsky In Switzerland 1-220221003Presented by Fiona Talkington, with a wide range of music in live performances by BBC groups and from around Europe.

Today, Fabio Luisi conducts Tchaikovsky's romantic Fifth Symphony with the Swiss Romande Orchestra in Geneva, the BBC Singers and their chief conductor Sofi Jeannin perform music by Purcell, plus music from Prague by the Czech composer Leopold Kozeluch.

Including:

Purcell: My heart is inditing

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

Schumann: Arabeske, Op.18

Elisabeth Brauss, piano

Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E

Stanislav Masaryk, trumpet

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Ondrej Lenard, conductor

c.3pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64

Suisse Romande Orchestra Fabio Luisi, conductor

Purcell: Rejoice in the Lord alway

Kozeluch: Sinfonia in G minor

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Vaclav Luks, conductor

Fabio Luisi conducts Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony

Monday, Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony20211025The Royal Danish Orchestra and Thomas Sondergard launch a week of music making from Denmark with Tchakovsky's dramatic, fate-ridden Fourth Symphony. Also in today's programme Ian Skelly introduces orchestral items by Gershwin, early music from Hopkinson Smith, and a major orchestral piece by Denmark's own Hans Abrahamsen.

Including:

Gershwin: Cuban Overture

Tivoli Copenhagen Philharmoninc Orchestra

Wayne Marshall (conductor)

Anthony Holborne:

Muy Linda

My Self: Galliard

As It Fell On A Holie Eve

Hopkinson Smith (lute)

Hans Abrahamsen: 10 Pieces for Orchestra (nos/ 1-6)

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi (conductor)

c.3pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op.36

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

Gershwin: Gershwin in Hollywood

Ian Skelly opens a week of symphonic recordings from Denmark.

Monday, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto20230403Penny Gore introduces an afternoon of concert and studio recordings from BBC ensembles and orchestras across Europe.

Today, the 3pm spotlight is on Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and soloist Dalibor Karvay. Also today, there's sacred choral music by Zelenka, and Byrd's 400th anniversary is celebrated with Holy Week music by the composer featured today and throughout the week. Plus, Ravel in Prague, Berlioz in Cardiff, Anne-Sophie Mutter plays one of Sibelius' serenades for violin and orchestra, and the BBC Philharmonic performs the seldom-heard In memoriam overture by Arthur Sullivan.

Including:

Ravel: Menuet antique

Prague Philharmonia

Emmanuel Villaume, conductor

Dvorak (arr. Julian Riem for cello, harp and piano): Song to the Moon, aria from 'Rusalka

Raphaela Gromes, cello

Anneleen Lenaerts, harp

Julian Riem, piano

Zelenka: Responsory 'Omnes amici mei

Myriam Arbouz, soprano

Thomas Hobbs, tenor

Benot Arnould, baritone

Le Banquet C退leste

Damien Guillon, countertenor and conductor

Sullivan: In memoriam - overture in C major

Richard Hickox

Chopin: Two Nocturnes, op. 27

Elisso Virsaladze, piano

Berlioz: Le Corsaire - overture, Op 21

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thierry Fischer, conductor

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major Op 35

Dalibor Karvay, violin

Ondrej Lenကrd, conductor

Manuel de Falla (arr. Marcel Grandjany): Spanish Dance No. 1, from 'La Vida breve

Joost Willemze, harp

Byrd: Ne irascaris, Domine

Tallis Scholars

Peter Phillips, director

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No 1

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Josep Pons, conductor

Sibelius: 2 Serenades Op.69 for violin and orchestra: no.1 in D major

Dresden State Orchestra

Andr退 Previn, conductor

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in Slovakia, plus music by Ravel, Dvorak and Byrd.

Monday, The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20180205Fiona Talkington begins a week of performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The programme starts with a concert the orchestra gave in Haddington with Martyn Brabbins conducting. Rowan Pierce joined the orchestra for concert arias by Mozart and the solo soprano part in Mahler's Fourth Symphony. Thomas Dausgaard conducts Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony and Clare Howick is soloist in a new recording of Gordon Jacob's Violin Concerto.

2pm

Wagner: Tristan and Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod

Mozart: Un moto di gioia - aria K579; Vado, ma dove? - aria K583; Voi avete un cor fedele - aria K217

Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G major

Rowan Pierce (soprano)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.3.35pm

Jacob: Concerto for violin and string orchestra

Clare Howick (violin)

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

c.3.55pm

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor, 'Scottish

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor).

Monday, The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20180305Jonathan Swain begins a week of concerts featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with music by four English composers: Edward Elgar, William Walton, Dorothy Howell and Richard Rodney Bennett. Also on the programme: a recording of Beethoven's breakthrough Eroica Symphony.

2pm

Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town) - overture, Op 40

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85

Walton: Symphony No 1 in B flat minor

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

3.20pm

Dorothy Howell: Piano Concerto in D minor

Danny Driver (piano)

Rebecca Miller (conductor)

3.45pm

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 55 (Eroica)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

4.30pm

Richard Rodney Bennett: Summer Music; Sinfonietta

John Wilson (conductor)

English music features largely in today's Afternoon Concert. To begin, there's the two sides of Edward Elgar: on the one hand his playful overture Cockaigne; on the other his powerful Cello Concerto, a rite-of-passage for many a cellist, today in the capable hands of Leonard Elschenbroich. William Walton's First Symphony caused the composer plenty of problems before he finally arrived at a version with which he was satisfied. Indeed, the first public performance had to be given without the finale. That finale is intact in this afternoon's recording.

Elsewhere, John Wilson conducts music by the versatile Sir Richard Rodney Bennett; there's a rarely heard piano concerto from Dorothy Howell, and a performance given last November in Leeds of Beethoven's Third Symphony, the 'Eroica'.

Jonathan Swain begins a week of concerts featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Monday, The Bbc Symphony Orchestra20180129Tom McKinney presents a week of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Today includes a concert the orchestra gave at the Barbican with music by Britten, Tchaikovsky and Alasdair Nicolson. The BBC Symphony Orchestra accompany Tenebrae in a new recording of choral music by Schoenberg and his teacher Zemlinsky. Plus a new recording of Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto with Yevgeny Sudbin.

2pm

Britten: Sinfonia da requiem, Op 20

Alasdair Nicolson: Shadows on the Wall - 5 hauntings for voice and orchestra

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1 in G minor, Op 13 (Winter daydreams)

Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-soprano)

Ben Gernon (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Zemlinsky: Psalm 23

BBCSO

Nigel Short (conductor)

Judith Weir: Forest

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.3.55pm

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

c. 4.45pm

Tchaikovsky Voyevoda

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor).

Monday, The Best Of 2017, Bbc Symphony Chorus20171225This week Afternoon Concert features the 'Best of 2017' from the BBC performing groups. Today features a Christmas Concert performed by the BBC Symphony Chorus with their new choral director Neil Ferris, with a striking sequence of carols. Their selection mixes reflection, fireside warmth, and celebration, and features Christmas favourites alongside newer compositions and arrangements from Kerry Andrew, Mark Boden, Michael Higgins, Bernard Hughes, Cecilia McDowall and Becky McGlade.

Presented by Penny Gore

Mark David Boden: Awake glad heart

Cecilia McDowall: O Oriens

Howard Skempton: Adam lay ybounden

Arr Michael Higgins: The Angel Gabriel

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: There is no rose

Malcolm Archer: A little child there is yborn

Will Todd: Christus est stella

Randall Thompson: Alleluia

William Mathias: A babe is born

Becky McGlade: In the bleak mid-winter

Arr Bob Chilcott: In dulci jubilo

Morten Lauridsen: O magnum mysterium

Kerry Andrew: Out of the Orient Crystal Skies

Fredrick Sixten : Mary's Lullaby (Stille Nacht)

Bernard Hughes: Christmas bells

Richard Elfyn Jones: Good King Wenceslas

Richard Pearce (organ)

Neil Ferris (conductor).

The BBC Symphony Chorus, conducted by Neil Ferris, in carols from Maida Vale Studios.

Monday, The Ulster Orchestra20180319Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme includes descriptive works by Grieg, Nielsen and Debussy and as part of Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme.

2pm

Grieg - Suite: Peer Gynt

Selections from Suite No. 1, Op.46, and Suite No. 2, Op.55.

Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op 43

Nielsen - Symphony No 5 Op 50

Simon Trp?eski (piano)

Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor)

3.35pm

Carl Nielsen - En Saga Drøm Op 39

Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)

3.45pm

Debussy - Pr退lude

Monday, Ulster Orchestra20170313Katie Derham showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme includes a romantic concerto by Rachmaninov, and music as part of Afternoon on 3's British music season by Britten, Holst, Walton and Ad耀s.

2pm

Britten: Russian Funeral

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

2.05pm

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano)

Rafael Payare (conductor)

2.50pm

Holst: Egdon Heath Op.47

Jac van Steen (conductor)

3.05pm

Walton: Suite Henry V

3.30pm

Thomas Ad耀s: Three Studies

Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)

3.45pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82

Ben Gernon (conductor).

The Ulster Orchestra plays music by Britten, Rachmaninov, Holst, Walton, Ades and Sibelius

Monday, Ulster Orchestra20171030Tom McKinney showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme continues Afternoon Concert's celebration of the descriptive power of Tone Poems, including works by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, James Macmillan and Prokofiev, as well as rare performance of John Ireland's Piano Concerto, written in 1930.

2pm

Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op.95

Moeran: In the Mountain Country

Ireland: Piano Concerto in E Flat

Ireland: The Forgotten Rite

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet (1880)

Leon McCawley (piano)

Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

3.20pm

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.3 in E flat, Op.75

Barry Douglas (piano)

Rafael Payare (conductor)

3.50pm

James MacMillan: Britannia

Borodin: Overture to Prince Igor

Prokofiev, arr. C Palmer: War and Peace Suite

Andrew Gourlay (conductor).

Monday, Ulster Orchestra Live20211206This week's programmes feature the BBC performing groups in live and recent concerts. Today includes a performance from the Ulster Orchestra and conductor Jessica Cottis, live from Ulster Hall in Belfast. Radio 3 New Generation Artist baritone William Thomas joins the orchestra for Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, before Sibelius's En Saga and Wagner's Forest Murmurs from Siegfried. Plus Bach's Viola da Gamba Sonata no.2 from former NGA Nicholas Altstaedt, and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings from the BBC Philharmonic.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Brahms: Tragic Overture

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Bach: Sonata no.2 in D major BWV.1028 for viola da gamba

Nicholas Altstaedt (cello)

Jonathan Cohen (harpsichord)

c.2.30pm

Ulster Orchestra - LIVE from Ulster Hall

Presented by John Toal

Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death

Sibelius: En Saga

Wagner: Waldweben

William Thomas (baritone)

Jessica Cottis (conductor)

c.3.30pm - Back to the studio with Ian Skelly

Eleanor Alberga Succubus Moon

Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)

Psophos Quartet

Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C major, Op.48

Jack Liebeck (director)

Live from Ulster Hall, the Ulster Orchestra perform Mussorgsky, Sibelius and Wagner.

Monday, Vaughan Williams 150: Symphony No 620221010Presented by Ian Skelly, starting a week of afternoons as part of Radio 3's 150th anniversary celebrations of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Throughout the week Ian will be introducing live recordings, by BBC ensembles and from around Europe, of music by Vaughan Williams alongside some of the composers who influenced him, his contemporaries and students.

Today, Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a new recording of Vaughan Williams's Sixth Symphony, the King's Singers perform Tallis and Stanford at the Occitanie Montpellier Festival, we hear the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by RVW's teacher Ravel, and Michael Collins plays Finzi's Five Bagatelles.

Including:

Tallis: God grant with grace

Ravel: Bol退ro

Frankfurt Radio SO

Alain Altinoglu, conductor

Vaughan Williams: Over Hill, Over Dale (from Three Shakespeare Songs)

Byrd: Vigilate, from 'Cantiones Sacrae' (1589)

c.2.30pm

Finzi: Five Bagatelles, Op. 23

Michael Collins, clarinet/director

Vaughan Williams: England, my England (1941)

Roderick Williams, baritone

BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

c.3pm

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6

Vaughan: Williams Bushes and Briars

Stanford: Quick! We have but a second

Stanford: Irish rhapsody No. 4 in A minor Op.141 (The Fisherman of Loch Neagh and what he saw)

Ulster Orchestra

Vernon Handley, conductor

Gustav Holst: The Perfect Fool

Andrew Davis, conductor

Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra as Radio 3 celebrates Vaughan Williams

Monday, Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony20221212In a week of programmes celebrating the orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Filled with portent of war, Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony no.4 packs a colossal punch. There's also a coronation overture by his pupil, Elizabeth Maconchy, a Poulenc masterpiece premiered by the forebears of today's BBC Singers and Shostakovich's delightful Piano Concerto no.2

2.00pm

Randall Thompson

Alleluia

Paul Brough, conductor

Proud Thames

Michael Seal, conductor

Bach

Prelude and fugue in G sharp minor, BWV 863

(The Well-Tempered Clavier)

Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord

Mendelssohn

Ruy Blas

Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

Vivaldi

Violin Concerto in B flat, RV 362 ('La caccia')

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Gottfried von der Goltz, violin

Italian Concerto

3.00pm

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Figure Humaine

David Hill, conductor

Kirill Gerstein, piano

Semyon Bychkov, conductor

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 4.

Monday, Verdi's Requiem At The Bbc Proms20220718Ian Skelly launches 8 weeks of the BBC Proms on Afternoon Concert, with another chance to hear the opening Prom of the 2022 season, as Sakari Oramo conducts with BBC Symphony Orchestra in Verdi's dramatic and powerful Requiem. Plus today's Proms Artist choice.

Also including:

2.00pm

Debussy: Prelud退

Monday, Vikingur Olafsson Plays Grieg20230306Fiona Talkington with an afternoon of music featuring exclusive recordings from across Europe and from BBC ensembles.

Today at 3pm, the Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson performs the Grieg Concerto with Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic, from a concert at the 2022 Rheingau Music Festival. Also, Collegium Marianum perform 18th-century chamber music from a Czech monastery, Aaron Copland finds inspiration from a remote religious community in the Pennsylvanian wilderness, and Jack Liebeck joins the BBC Philharmonic in the first of Vivaldi's Seasons.

Including:

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - 'Spring

Jack Liebeck (violin/director)

Nielsen: Springtime in Funen

Inga Nielsen (soprano)

Kim von Binzer (tenor)

Jorgen Klimt (bass)

University Choir of Lille Muko

St Klemens School Children's Choir

Odense Symphony Orchestra

Tamas Veto (conductor)

Sunleif Rasmussen: Andalag No 1 for flute and clarinet

Members of Lapland Chamber Orchestra

Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture - `Fingal's Cave`

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Richard Hickox (conductor)

3.00

Grieg: Piano Concerto in a minor

Vikingur Olafsson (piano)

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Sigvald Kaldalons: Ave Maria (encore)

Brentner: Concerto II in D minor Op4

(rercorded in the B?evnov Monastery, Prague)

R. Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos - `Es gibt ein reich`

Rene Fleming (soprano)

Munich Philharmonic

Christian Thielemann (conductor)

Debussy: L'isle Joyeuse

Louis Schwizgebel-Wang (piano)

Copland: Appalachian Spring

BBC Concert Orchestra

Keith Lockhart (conductor)

Grieg's Piano Concerto plus works by Nielsen, Mendelssohn and Rasmussen.

Monday, Walton's First Symphony20220411Fiona Talkington begins starts another week of afternoons with live recordings from around Europe and BBC orchestras, including symphonies at 3pm from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today, Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC SSO in the first of William Walton's two symphonies, completed in the 1930s, and Jorg Widmann joins them for his own arrangement of Weber's Clarinet Quintet. Sara Ferrandez is the soloist in Hoffmeister's Viola Concerto, and there's vocal music by Caccini and Strozzi recorded in the Monastery of Sant Pere de Galligants in Girona.

Including:

Lully: Excerpts from 'Ballet de la Nuit

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Weber: Clarinet Quintet Op.34 (arr. Widmann)

Jorg Widmann (clarinet)

Schnittke: Moz-Art a la Haydn

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.3pm

Walton Symphony No.1

Caccini: Romanesca

Strozzi: L'Eraclito amoroso

Cristina Segura (mezzo)

Ensemble Exclamatio

Hoffmeister: Viola Concerto in D

Sara Ferrandez (viola)

RTVE Symphony Orchestra

Chloe van Soeterstede (conductor)

Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC SSO in William Walton's First Symphony.

Monday, Widmann Conducts Schumann20220131Fiona Talkington with performances from around the world including Robert Schumann's second symphony from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jorg Widmann. Plus music from the International Baroque Music Days festival at Melk Abbey in Austria, including a performance of Buxtehude's masterly Membra Jesu Nostri - a series of cantatas offering meditations on the body of Christ - performed by La Risonaza and Fabio Bonizzoni, which will be featured across the week.

Wojciech Kilar: Orawa

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Krzysztof Urbanski (conductor)

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri - Ad Pedes

La Risonanza

Fabio Bonizzoni (director)

Brahms: Handel Variations

Claire Huangci (piano)

3pm

Robert Schumann: Symphony no 2 in C major, Op 61

Jorg Widmann (conductor)

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri - Ad genua

Mozart: Symphony No 41 'Jupiter

Mozarteum Orchestra

Jorg Widmann conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Schumann's Second Symphony.

Monday: Bbc Philharmonic20181126Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, and Holst recorded by the BBC Philharmonic from MediaCityUK earlier this year. A recently discovered work by Stravinsky, found in 2014 by a librarian at St. Petersburg Conservatory, is heard alongside one of the earliest orchestral works by Holst's and an overture by Muller-Hermann - based on the play Brand by Henrik Ibsen.

2.00pm

Funeral Song

Violin Concerto in E minor

Carolin Widmann, violin

Tchaikovsky

Symphony No 5

Ben Gernon, conductor

Brand - Symphonic Fantasy after Ibsen

Ilan Volkov, conductor

c. 3.30pm

Arriaga

Overture in D

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Orpheus

John Storg倀rds, conductor

c. 4.30pm

Cotswolds Symphony

Andrew Davis, conductor

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Stravinsky, Mendelssohn and Holst from the BBC Philharmonic recorded in MediaCityUK.

Monday: Handel's Samson20180910Tom Redmond launches a week of concerts recorded in Belgium, with a performance of Handel's intensely dramatic oratorio Samson, based on Milton's tragic poem on the Biblical story of Samson which he wrote in 1741, just after he completed Messiah. Today's concert was recorded at the Baroque church of Saint-Loup in Belgium as part of Les Wallonies Festival, with the rising-star Argentinian conductor Leonardo Garc퀀a Alarc n.

George Frideric Handel: Samson

Matthew Newlin, Samson, tenor

Klara Ek, Dalila, soprano

Lawrence Zazzo, Micah, countertenor

Luigi di Donato, Manoa, bass

Luigi di Donato, Harapha, bass

Namur Chamber Choir

Millenium Orchestra

Leonardo Garc퀀a Alarc n, conductor

c. 4.30 pm

Felix Mendelssohn: Die Schone Melusine - overture Op.32

Li耀ge Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Christian Arming, conductor

Recorded in Philharmonic Hall, Li耀ge

Tom Redmond presents Handel's Samson, recorded at Les Wallonies Festival in Namur, Belgium

Mozart And Salieri In Salzburg20230609Ian Skelly presents concert performances from around Europe.

Today's 3pm highlight is Mozart's Piano Concerto No.24, performed in Mozart's birth city, Salzburg, by pianist Robert Levin. From the same concert, Mozart's operatic arias are contrasted with those of his contemporary and alleged rival, Antonio Salieri. Also today, Florence Price's large-scale orchestral piece Songs of the Oak, Sibelius's Finlandia, and Aaron Copland's evocative Appalachian Spring.

Including:

Salieri: Les Daniaides, overture

Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg

Gemma New (conductor)

Mozart: Che scompiglio, che flegello (from La finta semplice)

Maria Kataeva (mezzo-soprano)

Sibelius: Finlandia

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

John Taverner: Ave Maria; Kyrie Leroy

Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford

Contrapunctus

Owen Rees (cond.)

Amor, pietoso Amore (from Il ricco d'un giorno)

Maria Kataeva (mezzo soprano)

Florence Price: Songs of the Oak

Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra

John Jeter (conductor)

c3pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor

Robert Levin (piano)

Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg

Mozart: Parto, ma tub en mio (from La Clemenza di Tito)

Copland: Appalachian Spring

BBC Concert Orchestra

Keith Lockhart (conductor)

Arvo Part: Fratres

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Taavi Oramo (conductor)

Mozart's Piano Concerto No 24 from Salzburg, alongside music by Salieri.

Mozart And Strauss20190710Continuing with our week of concerts by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, today we feature the ensemble under the baton of Susanna M䀀lkki performing two Mozart pieces, first the overture to his opera Don Giovanni, followed by his Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, with the South Korean virtuosa Yeol Eum Son as soloist. The afternoon continues with Metamorphosen, Richard Strauss' tone poem, more like a study for 23 strings, played by the Swiss ensemble, this time under conductor Julien Leroy.

Also, a newly commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2.00pm

Mozart: Don Giovanni, overture

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K.488 / 26.22' + applause

Yeol Eum Son, piano

Susanna M䀀lkki, conductor

2.35pm

R. Strauss - Metamorphosen, for strings

Julien Leroy, conductor

3.10pm

Sarah Tandy: The Dream Without a Name

Sarah Tandy Sextet

Susanna M\u00e4lkki conducts the Suisse Romande Orchestra.

Mozart, Brahms And Mendelssohn With The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20190115Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concerts from Glasgow and Essen, with music by Ravel, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Britten. Plus cellist Bruno Delepelaire joins the orchestra for a performance of Matthias Pintscher's concerto 'Un Despertar' and Nikolak Znaider is the soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto.

2.00pm

Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin

Pintscher - Un Despertar

Mozart - Symphony No.39 in E flat major, K.543

Bruno Delepelaire (cello)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

recorded at Glasgow City Halls

c.3.30pm

Britten - 4 Sea Interludes [Peter Grimes]

Brahms - Violin Concerto

Mendelssohn - Symphony No.3

Trad. arr. Cree - Eightsome Reels

Nikolaj Znaider (violin)

recorded at the Philharmonie, Essen

Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, recorded in Glasgow and Essen.

Mozart, Brahms, Saint-saens, Musgrave20181003Mozart's joyful Exsultate, jubilate with Radio 3 New Generation Artist the soprano Fatma Said plus the first symphony of Brahms, conducted by Omer Meir Wellber, live from the BBC Philharmonic studio with presenter Tom McKinney.

The orchestra also wax lyrical with pianist Louis Lortie in Saint-Saens' Rhapsodie d'Auvergne, and in Thea Musgrave's Song of the Enchanter.

2pm

Mozart: Overture, Don Giovanni; Exsultate, jubilate

Brahms: Symphony No 1

Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)

Fatma Said (soprano)

LIVE from BBC Philharmonic Studio Salford

c.3pm

Saint-Sa뀀ns Rhapsodie d'Auvergne

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Louis Lortie (piano)

c.3.15pm

Thea Musgrave Song of the Enchanter

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Music by Mozart and Brahms live from the BBC Philharmonic Studio presented by Tom McKinney

Mozart: La Finta Giardiniera201109152.30pm

The period instruments of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra tackles Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, join a distinguished cast in the young Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera and are joined by fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout in Mendelssohn

Beethoven Coriolan Overture

Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor).

Mozart Three arias from Act 2 of La finta giardiniera:

The Count's Aria, 'Care pupille, pupille belle', (Topi Lehtipuu, tenor);

Sandrina's Aria, 'Una voce sento al core', (Sophie Karthauser, soprano);

Ramiro's Aria, 'Dolce d'amor compagna', (Marie-Claude Chappuis, mezzo).

Mendelssohn Piano Concerto no 2 in D minor.

Kristian Bezuidenhout (period piano), Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor).

Mozart La finta giardiniera (Act 2 Finale).

Don Anchise - Jeffrey Francis, tenor

Violante Onesti - Sophie Karthauser, soprano

Belfiore - Topi Lehtipuu, tenor

Arminda - Alexandrina Pendatchanska, soprano

Ramiro - Marie-Claude Chappuis, mezzo

Serpetta - Sunhae Im, soprano

Roberto - Michael Nagy, bass

Ren退 Jacobs (conductor).

Beethoven Symphony no 3 in E flat 'Eroica'.

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.

Mozart's 40th Symphony20231228Ivor Bolton conducts Mozart's Symphony No 40, and there's more from Bach's Mass in B minor.

Presented by Penny Gore

A specially-recorded performance of Mozart's best-loved symphony with, appropriately enough, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. There's more of Bach's Mass in B minor and plenty of festive music.

2.00pm

Hely-Hutchinson

A Carol Symphony: The First Nowell

City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Gavin Sutherland, conductor

Greg Lake

I believe in Father Christmas

Vasari Singers

Jeremy Backhouse, conductor

Rossini

Quartet No 4 in B flat for flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon

Ensemble Wien-Berlin

Leroy Anderson

A Christmas Festival

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Christopher Bell, conductor

Schubert

Symphony No 9 in C: Andante con moto

Orchestra Mozart

Claudio Abbado, conductor

3.00pm

Symphony No 40 in G minor

Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg

Ivor Bolton, conductor

Mass in B minor: Credo

Dorothee Mields, soprano

Alex Potter, countertenor

Peter Kooij, Baritone

Choir & Orchestra of the Collegium Vocale, Ghent

Philippe Herreweghe, conductor

Liszt/Jacob

Polish (Christmas Tree Suite)

RTE Concert Orchestra

Shostakovich

Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor

Augustin Hadelich, violin

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Juraj Valcuha, conductor

Ivor Bolton conducts Mozart's Symphony No 40.

Mozart's 'jupiter' Symphony20230508Penny Gore introduces an afternoon of recordings from the BBC ensembles and orchestras around Europe.

In the 3pm spotlight today, Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Mozart's 'Jupiter' Symphony at the Mozart Festival in Würzburg. Recent recordings from the BBC Philharmonic include overtures by Glinka and and Weber conducted by Kristiina Poska and Elena Schwarz. Also, Jennifer Johnston sings Elgar's Sea Pictures, a set of five songs which were premiered at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival in 1899, and excerpts from Handel's opera Alcina, from a concert at the recent Resonanzen festival in Vienna with Les Arts Florissants.

Including:

Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla, Overture

Kristiina Poska, conductor

Elgar: Sea Pictures

Jennifer Johnston, mezzo

National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

Leonard Slatkin, conductor

Weber: Der Freischutz, Overture

Elena Schwarz, conductor

c.3pm

Mozart: Symphony No.41 'Jupiter

Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor

Stuart Beatch: When sleep is nigh

BBC Singers

Will Dawes, conductor

Handel: Excerpts from Alcina

Blandine de Sansal, mezzo

Paul Agnew, director

c.4.05

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C, op. 105

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Paavo J䀀rvi, conductor

Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Mozart's 'linz' Symphony20230519Fiona Talkington concludes a week of Afternoon Concert featuring the Ulster Orchestra in the 3pm spotlight, performing symphonies and concertos at Ulster Hall, Belfast. Today it's Mozart Symphony no.36, the ‘Linz'. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performs Martinu's The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca, Evgeny Kissin plays Bach, and there are highlights from a concert of early English music given by L'Ach退ron performing in Antwerp.

Including:

Monteverdi: Rimanti in pace, from Terzo Libro de Madrigali

Ferrabosco: Fantasia in C

Fran瀀ois Joubert-Caillet (viola da gamba/conductor)

Martinu: The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca

Jakub Hrusa (conductor)

JS Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903

Evgeny Kissin (piano)

Ravel: Trois po耀mes de Mallarm退

Ema Nikolovska (soprano)

LUDWIG Orchestra

Barbara Hannigan (conductor)

c.3pm

Mozart: Symphony no.36 in C major, K.425 ‘Linz

Leslie Suganandarajah (conductor)

Simpson: May, from The Monthes

Gibbons: Go from my window

JC Bach: Anime, che provate - Queste selve gia d'amore, from 'Amor vincitore, W. G19

Elisabeth Hetherington (soprano)

Das Neue Mannheimer Orchester

Anders Muskens (conductor)

c.3.55

Bloch: Schelomo: Rhapsodie h退braque, B. 39

Christoph Croise (cello)

Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra

Christian Knüsel (conductor)

Ward: Fantasia VII in C minor

Lupo: Fantasia in A minor

The Ulster Orchestra plays Mozart's Symphony No 36, plus music by Monteverdi and Martinu.

Mozart's Mitridate, Re Di Ponto20210527Christophe Rousset conducts Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto, from the Royal Opera House's 2017 production.

Mozart was 14 when he wrote this early opera seria masterpiece telling the tragic story of the king of Ponto, a warrior whose sons Farnace and Sifare are in love with his fianc退e Aspasia, which leaves them torn between loyalty to him or betrayal with the enemy. Christophe Rousset conducts the ROH Orchestra and chorus, with a cast lead by Michael Spyres in the title role, Albina Shagimuratova as Aspasia, Bejun Mehta as Farnace and Salome Jicia as Sifare.

Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto

Mitridate - Michael Spyres (tenor)

Aspasia - Albina Shagimuratova (soprano)

Sifare - Salome Jicia (soprano)

Farnace - Bejun Mehta (treble)

Ismene - Lucy Crowe (soprano)

Marzio - Rupert Charlesworth (tenor)

Abate - Jennifer Davis (soprano)

Royal Opera House Chorus

Royal Opera House Orchestra

Christophe Rousset (conductor)

Mozart's opera Mitridate, re di Ponto, from the Royal Opera House

Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 In Salzburg20230607Ian Skelly presents concert performances from across Europe.

Today's 3pm highlight is Mozart's tempestuous Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, performed in Mozart's birthplace, Salzburg, by pianist Seong-Jin Cho. Leonard Slatkin conducts Debussy's tone poem La Mer (The Sea) in Dublin, and we have early music highlights performed by Jordi Savall with his ensemble Hesperion XXI.

Including:

Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito, overture

Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra

Ivor Bolton (conductor)

Richard Strauss: Morgen!

Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano)

Simon Rattle (piano)

Trad. Lamento, Ronda doble, Rotundellus

La Capella Reial de Catalunya

Jordi Savall (director)

Debussy: La Mer

National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

c3pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Andreas Orozco-Estrada (conductor)

Trad. Foliada, Ductia, Pode por Santa Maria

Ravel: La Valse

BBC Philharmonic

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Seong-Jin Cho plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20, plus Debussy's La Mer from Dublin.

Mozart's Prague Symphony With The Coe20230608Ian Skelly presents concert performances from across Europe.

Today's 3pm highlight is Mozart's Prague Symphony performed by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Also today, Nielsen's radiant Helios Overture and dramatic Symphony No.2 'The Four Temperaments' performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and glorious Renaissance choral music from the Choir of The Queen's College Oxford: John Taverner's Gloria tibi Trinitas.

Including:

Nielsen: Helios Overture

Fabio Luisi (conductor)

John Taverner: Gloria tibi Trinitas: Gloria & Credo

Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford

Contrapunctus

Owen Rees (conductor)

Robert Schumann: Adagio & Allegro in A

Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Alasdair Beatson (piano)

c3pm

Mozart: Symphony No.38 'Prague

Andres Orozco-Estrada (conductor)

John Taverner: Gloria tibi Trinitas: Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei

c4pm

Nielsen: Symphony No.2 `The Four Temperaments`

Johann Strauss II: The Blue Danube waltz

BBC Concert Orchestra

Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

Mozart's 'Prague' Symphony, Taverner's Gloria tibi Trinitas and Nielsen's Symphony No 2.

Music For Good Friday20180330Georgia Mann presents a concert from Barcelona with Jordi Savall conducting his new reconstruction of J S Bach's lost St Mark Passion.

J S Bach: St Mark Passion, BWV 247

David Szigetvကri (tenor - Evangelist)

Konstantin Wolff (bass - Jesus)Em?ke Barကth (soprano)

Marta Math退u (soprano)

Raffaele P退 (countertenor)

Reinoud van Mechelen (tenor)

Cor Infantil Amics de la Uni 

La Capella Reial de Catalunya

Le Concert des Nations

Conductor Jordi Savall.

Georgia Mann presents Jordi Savall's new reconstruction of JS Bach's lost St Mark Passion.

Music From Wales20200406Tom McKinney introduces a week of concerts and studio recordings reflecting the scope and variety of the work of BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including today, performances of music by Grieg, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. And there's a chance to hear about their project to promote new music in the country - 'Composition Wales'.

Grieg: Peer Gynt suite No. 1, Op. 46

Rachmaninov Piano concerto No. 2 in C minor

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, ‘Pathetique

Joseph Swenesen (conductor)

Recorded at the Bath Forum as part of the 2019 Bath Mozartfest.

Warlock: Serenade for String Orchestra

Lesley Hatfield (director)

Copland: Quiet City

Simon Hofele (trumpet)

BBC NOW

Duncan Ward (conductor)

Nicholas Maw: Spring Music

William Boughton (conductor)

A week of concerts and recordings reflecting the work of BBCNOW

Music From Wales20200407Tom McKinney introduces another selection of concerts and studio recordings from BBC NOW and foregrounds the music-making of the orchestra's wind players.

Including:

Bruckner: Ecce sacerdos magnus.

Stravinsky: Symphonies of wind instruments

Weir: Psalm 148

Maconchy: And death shall have no dominion

Bruckner: Mass No. 2 in E minor

BBC National Chorus of Wales

The Wind Section of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Adrian Partington (conductor)

Martin: Ballade

Donal Bannister (trombone)

Francois Xavier Roth (conductor)

Bartok: Divertimento

Strings of BBC Now directed by Lesley Hatfield

Ben-Haim: Cello Concerto

Raphael Wallfisch (cello)

Lukas Borowicz (conductor)

Veprik: Pastorale

Christophe Matthias Mueller (conductor)

Arutiunian: Trumpet Concerto

Simon Hofele (trumpet)

Duncan Ward (conductor)

A week of orchestral and choral music from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Music From Wales20200408Tom McKinney continues his profile of BBCNOW with a recording of a concert from Bangor of music by Mozart and Haydn, directed by violinist Rachel Podger.

Haydn: Symphony no. 8 in G major H.1.8 (Le Soir)

Mozart: Concerto no. 1 in B flat major K.207 for violin and orchestra

Mozart: Adagio in E major K.261 for violin and orchestra

Haydn: Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105 for oboe, bassoon, violin, cello & orchestra

Mozart: Concerto no. 5 in A major K.219 for violin and orchestra

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Rachel Podger (Musical Directing)

Alice Neary (Cello)

Jaroslaw Augustyniak (Bassoon)

Jose Luis Vegara (Oboe)

Concerts and studio recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Music From Wales20200410Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Bach's St John Passion for Good Friday, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by John Butt.

J.S. Bach: St. John Passion

Gwilym Bowen (Evangelist) - tenor

David Soar (Christ) - bass

Ashley Riches (Pilate) - bass

Elizabeth Watts - soprano

William Towers - counter-tenor

Nick Pritchard - tenor

BBC National Chorus of Wales

John Butt (director)

Bach's St John's Passion from BBCNOW and John Butt.

Music, By Women Composers Plus Interviews With Marin Alsop And Alice Farnham20190308We celebrate International Women's Day with a feast of music by women composers including Thea Musgrave's Turbulent Landscape.

As part of Radio 3's ‘Women in front' we'll hear interviews with conductor Marin Alsop with her mentee Lina Gonzalez-Granados; and with live studio guest the conductor Alice Farnham who will be sharing with us some of her favourite pieces by female composers and a track from the BBC Archive that hasn't been heard since its first broadcast. The Our Classical Century Piece is Elizabeth Maconchy's Proud Thames

Presented by Kate Molleson

Dani Howard: Argentum

Florence Price: Sinner Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass

Elizabeth Maconchy: Serenata Concertante

Isidora Žebeljan: The Horses of Saint Mark

Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Michael Seal (conductor)

3.00

Elizabeth Maconchy: Proud Thames

3.05pm

Alison Willis: Non omnis moriar

Joanna Marsh: Weighing the Earth

Walid Zaido (Syrian drums/percussion)

BBC Singers

James Morgan (conductor)

3.15pm

Thea Musgrave: Turbulent Landscape

Osmo Vanska (conductor)

International Women's Day. Music by women composers plus studio guest Alice Farnham.

Musical Landscapes20220825Ian Skelly introduces a selection of muisc for the afternoon, inspired in part by landscape, including the BBC Philharmonic's recent Prom of music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Sibelius, and Elgar. Plus some more listener suggestions of favourite cello concertos.

Patrick Hadley: Tone Poem: Kinder Scout.

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Sibelius: Oma maa. op92

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

Paavo Jarvi, conductor

From the Proms, Part 1:

Anna Thorvaldsdottir ARCHORA (First performance)

Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor

Kian Soltani, cello

Ndr Elbphiharmonie Orchestra In Hamburg20190218This week features a series of concerts recorded live at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, one of the most exciting halls in Europe today and home of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. The afternoon opens with Pietari Inkinen conducting the ensemble in Paul Hindemith's Kammermusik No. 4, Op. 36/3, 'Violin Concerto' with Frank Peter Zimmermann as soloist, followed by Sibelius' Symphony No. 1. The afternoon continues with the orchestra's principal conductor, Thomas Hengelbrock, welcoming soloist Piotr Anderszewski in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491. This concert ends with Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2.00pm

Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 4, Op. 36/3 'Violin Concerto

Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39

Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin

Pietari Inkinen, conductor

3.05pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor

Piotr Anderszewski, piano

Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor

Music by Mozart, Mahler, Hindemith and Sibelius with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Ndr Elbphilharmonie Hamburg20210108Tom McKinney concludes this week of concerts given by the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg with performances of music by Wagner, Richard Strauss and Shostakovich.

Wagner: Siegfried's Rhine Journey; Siegfried's Funeral March; Brunnhilde's Final Scene [Gotterdammerung]

Richard Strauss: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite, Op.60

Nina Stemme (soprano)

Marek Janowski, conductor

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.4 in C minor, Op.43

Krzysztof Urbaniak, conductor

Tom McKinney with performances of Wagner, Strauss and Shostakovich from Hamburg.

Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (1-3)20210104Tom McKinney introduces recent concert recordings of pieces by Messiaen, Shostakovich and Haydn from the Hamburg-based NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra,

Messiaen: Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine

Cedric Tiberghien, piano

Nathalie Forget, ondes martenot

Ulrike Payer, celesta

Ingo Metzmacher, conductor

Shostakovich: Symphony No.13 in B flat minor, Op.113 `Babi Yar`

Mikhail Petrenko, bass

Haydn: Cello Concerto No.1 in C, Hob.VIIb:1

Truls Mork, cello

Krzysztof Urbaniak, conductor

Tom McKinney introduces recent concert recordings from the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.

Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (2-3)20210105Tom McKinnney introduces recent concert recordings of pieces by Haydn, Alfred Schnittke, Tchaikovsky and Wagner from Hamburg-based NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Haydn: Symphony No.80 in D minor, Hob.1:80

Alfred Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No.1

Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony in B minor, Op.58

Stefan Wagner and Rodrigo Reichel, violins

Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod [Tristan and Isolde]

Nina Stemme, soprano

Marek Janowski, conductor

Tom McKinney with recent concert recordings by Hamburg-based NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (3-3)20210106Tom McKinney introduces a recent concert from the Hamburg-based NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, including Webern's Im Sommerwind, Berg's Violin Concerto and Brahms's Symphony No 3.

Webern: Im Sommerwind

Berg: Violin Concerto

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.3 in F

Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin

Alan Gilbert, conductor

Tom McKinney with recent concert recordings by Hamburg-based NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra In Hamburg20190219The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under conductor Krzysztof Urbanski at Hamburg's magnificent Elbphilharmonie hall performing Wojcieh Kilar's symphonic poem for strings Orawa, then Bartok's Violin Concerto No. 1 with soloist Frank Peter Zimmermann, finishing with Dvorak's Symphony No. 7. Then, Urbanski returns to the rostrum for another concert with the North German ensemble, this time to perform a couple of suites taking us to the stratosphere and beyond: first, it's Gustav Holst's The Planets, which is followed by Star Wars, taken from the John Williams' renowned soundtrack.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2.00pm

Wojciech Kilar: Orawa

Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 1, Sz. 36

Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70

Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin

Krzysztof Urbanski, conductor

3.20pm

Holst: The Planets, Op. 32

John Williams: Star Wars, suite

Kilar, Bartok, Dvorak, Holst and John Williams from the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra In Hamburg20190220Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducting the NDR Elbphilharmonie, at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, in a concert featuring Carl Nielsen's overture Helios, also Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the virtuoso Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos as soloist, finishing with Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 in E flat.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2.00pm

Nielsen: Helios, Op. 17, overture

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat, Op. 82

Leonidas Kavakos, violin

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor

Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts the NDR Elbphilharmonie in Nielsen, Shostakovich, Sibelius

Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra In Hamburg20190222Closing a week of concerts from the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg, Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 'Eroica', with its Chief Conductor, Thomas Hengelbrock at the helm. It's followed by Our Classical Century piece of the week: Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. And back in Hamburg again, the American conductor Alan Gilbert picks up the baton for Mahler's Symphony No. 3, with the Women of the Bavarian Radio Chorus accompanying the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2.00pm

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' in E flat major, Op. 55

Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor

2.50pm / Our Classical Century

Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

3.10pm

Mahler: Symphony No. 3

Alan Gilbert, conductor

Mahler and Beethoven performed by the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra20180327Fiona Talkington presents the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras performing at the 2017 Robeco SummerNights in Amsterdam.

Rebel: Le Chaos (from 'Les El退mens')

Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67

Haydn: The Representation of Chaos (from The Creation)

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (1947 version)

Conductor Markus Stenz

3.20pm

Weill: Symphony No 2

Conductor Lahav Shani

3.50pm

Ravel: Bolero

Stanislav Kochanovsky, conductor

4.05pm

Tchaikovsky: 'Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64

Conductor Otto Tausk.

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra play music by Beethoven, Haydn and Stravinsky.

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra20180328Georgia Mann presents the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Copland, Mozart, Rossini and Bizet from the 2017 Robeco SummerNights festival in Amsterdam.

Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man

Joey Roukens: Chase

Mozart: Overture; Parto, parto (from La Clemenza di Tito, K621)

Rossini: Overture; Una voce poco fa (from The Barber of Seville)

Shostakovich: Romance, from The Gadfly

Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Falla: Seguidillas; Farruca; Jota (from The Three-Cornered Hat - Suite No 2)

Bizet: Pr耀s des remparts de S退ville; Les tringles des sistres tintaient (from Carmen)

Arturo Mကrquez: Danz n 2

Karin Strobos (mezzo-soprano)

Conductor Antony Hermus.

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra play music by Copland, Mozart, Rossini and Bizet.

New Year Celebrations From Saffron Hall20200107Georgia Mann presents a concert given by the BBC Concert Orchestra and their Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey at Saffron Hall on Saturday.

Martin James Bartlett is the soloist in Rachmaninov's perennial favourite Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini. And there's a sprinkling of seasonal Strauss favourites to welcome the new year. Followed by a brand new recording of a Savoy Theatre curtain-raiser. Plus, as part of New Year, New Music, Petroc Trelawny introduces a piece of music he loves.

J Strauss II: Overture Die Fledermaus

Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1st mvt)

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

Bacewicz: Overture for Orchestra

Mozart: Symphony No.25 (1st movt)

J Strauss II: Perpetuum Mobile; Musikalischer Scherzo

Eduard Strauss: Alpine Rose (Alpenrose) Polka

J Strauss II: Champagne Polka

J Strauss II: On the Beautiful Blue Danube

Martin James Bartlett (piano)

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

3.40pm

Savoy curtain raisers:

Music Ernest Ford, words Harry Greenbank: Mr Jericho

Michael de Vere, Earl of Margate - Henry Waddington (bass-baritone)

Horace Alexander de Vere, Viscount Ramsgate, an omnibus driver - Ed Lyon (tenor)

Mr Jericho, a jam manufacturer - Ben McAteer (baritone)

Lady Bushey - Fiona Kimm (contralto)

Winifred, her daughter - Eleanor Dennis (soprano)

Georgia Mann presents a seasonal concert by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Bramwell Tovey.

New Year New Music20180102This week, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen features in a special 'New Year New Music' series of Afternoon Concert. Today he talks about his recordings of music by John Adams

Presented by Jonathan Swain

John Adams: Nave and Sentimental Music

Mother of Man

Chain to the Rhythm

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

2.50pm

Wagner: Parsifal - Prelude

Howard Skempton: Largo

Kaija Saariaho: Harp Concerto

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op. 55 'Eroica

Xavier de Maistre, harp

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Hannu Lintu, conductor.

Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen talks about conducting John Adams.

New Year New Music20180105With Jonathan Swain.

This week, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen features in a special 'New Year, New Music' series of Afternoon Concert. Today he looks at Arvo P䀀rt's Fourth Symphony, 'Los Angeles', commissioned for Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Arvo P䀀rt: Symphony No 4, 'Los Angeles

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

2.35pm

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op 61

Dvorak: Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70

Pekka Kuusisto, violin

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Hannu Lintu, conductor.

Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen talks about Arvo Part.

New Year New Music: Thursday Opera Matinee20180104This week, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen features in a special 'New Year, New Music' series of Afternoon Concert. Today he looks at high modernism and introduces extracts from Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre

Philharmonia Orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

followed by Thursday Opera Matinee:

Jonathan Swain presents the world premiere performance of Aulis Sallinen's opera Castle in the Water to a libretto by Lassi Nummi

Finland's Olavinlinna Castle was built in the middle ages to safeguard the strategically important region of Savo. Over the years, it has seen many changes of regime, clashing swords and thundering cannons. The Castle in the Water, a new opera commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival, pictures stages in the Castle's and region's colourful past, and takes a tentative look into the future

Aulis Sallinen describes his composition as: 'A chronicle for speaker, four singers, orchestra and Olavinlinna'. The work is based on the collection of poetry, 'The Castle in the Water' by Lassi Nummi, from which Sallinen has chosen two texts as mottos for the whole work

Aulis Sallinen: Castle in the Water

Kari Heiskanen, speaker

Tiina-Maija Koskela, soprano

Tuija Knihtil䀀, mezzo-soprano

Jussi Jyllys, tenor

Tommi Hakala, baritone

Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra

Ville Matvejeff, conductor.

The world premiere performance of Aulis Sallinen's opera Castle in the Water.

New Year, New Music20180103This week, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen features in a special 'New Year New Music' series of Afternoon Concert. Today he talks about electronic music

Presented by Jonathan Swain

Esa-Pekka Salonen: Cello Concerto

Nicolas Altstaedt, cello

Finnish National Opera Orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

2.20pm

Schubert: Wanderers Nachtlied, D768

Harvey: Nachtlied.

Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen talks about electronic music.

Nielsen's 'inextinguishable' Symphony20220218Hannu Lintu conducts the Suisse Romande Orchestra in powerful works by Sibelius and Nielsen, and there's earlier music by Purcell and Bohemian contemporary of Bach, Jan Dismas Zelenka.

Presented by Penny Gore.

This week's final visit to the International Baroque Music Days festival in Melk, Austria, as well as a blockbuster concert of Finnish and Danish music from the Suisse Romande Orchestra.

2.00pm

Zelenka: Overture-Suite in F

Zefiro Ensemble

Alfredo Bernardini, conductor

Ponchielli: Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

Purcell: Suite from 'The Fairy Queen

Concentus Musicus Wien

Stefan Gottfried, conductor

3.00pm

Sibelius: Tapiola

Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, ('Inextinguishable')

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Hannu Lintu, conductor

Liszt: Venezia e Napoli

Ragna Schirmer, piano

Hannu Lintu conducts the Suisse Romande Orchestra in works by Sibelius and Nielsen.

Nielsen's Symphony No 3, 'sinfonia Espansiva'20220831Presented by Ian Skelly. From the Proms - Prom 41: another chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard, in Ravel's La Valse, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 with soloist Behzod Abduraimov, and Nielsen's Symphony No. 3, 'Sinfonia espansiva', with the orchestra joined by soprano Elisabeth Watts and baritone Benjamin Appl.

Also, our Artist's choice: Benjamin Appl

Prom 41 - Part 1

Ravel: La valse

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1

Behzod Abduraimov (piano)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

2.50pm

Schubert: Seligkeit D.433

Benjamin Appl, baritone

James Baillieu, piano

3.00pm

Prom 41 - Part 2

Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, ‘Sinfonia espansiva

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

Benjamin Appl (baritone)

3.40pm

Artist's Choice - Benjamin Appl

Schubert: String Quintet in C, D956 - 2nd movement

From the Proms - Prom 41. Music by Ravel, Beethoven and Nielsen.

Nielsen's Symphony No 5, Op 5020231005Penny Gore introduces an afternoon of the best classical music from BBC ensembles and concert halls around Europe.

Today at 3pm, Nielsen's Symphony No.5, a modernistic symphony exploring contrast and opposition - influenced by World War I - is performed by the NDR Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt. Also, Black History Month repertoire in recordings specially made for the programme with the BBC Singers and Sofi Jeannin, including music by Adolphus Hailstork and Ken Burton. And Javier Perianes' recital, recorded at La Alhambra Palace in Granada, in homage to fellow Spaniard Alicia De Larrocha. Plus the BBC Philharmonic playing Wagner's overture to The Flying Dutchman.

Including:

Maconchy: Proud Thames - coronation overture

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Michael Seal, conductor

Adolphus Hailstork: God be merciful

Sofi Jeannin, director

William Grant Still: Danzas de Panama - suite for strings: no.4; Cumbia y Congo

Annex Quartet

Debussy: La soir退e dans Grenade, from 'Estampes, L.100

Javier Perianes, piano

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, Overture

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, op. 50

NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

George Walker: Lyric for strings

Cleveland Orchestra

Edwin London, conductor

Ken Burton: A Prayer

CPE Bach: Symphony (Wq.183`2) in E flat major

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Gustav Leonhardt, director

JS Bach: French suite no. 2 in C minor [arr. Garcia / Moriniere], BWV 813

Thibaut Garcia & Antoine Moriniere, guitars

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Overture

Munich Chamber Orchestra

Alexander Liebreich, conductor

Nielsen's modernistic symphony, exploring contrast and opposition, and influenced by WWI.

Nordic Sounds (1-4)20210111Penny Gore introduces music performed by Nordic ensembles this week. Today, symphonies by Sibelius and Mahler, who met in 1907 and completely disagreed about what a symphony should be: for Sibelius it meant 'profound logic and inner connection', but for Mahler 'a symphony must be like the world - it must embrace everything'. That contrast is perfectly caught today in Sibelius's Seventh Symphony from Oslo and Mahler's Third in an archive highlight from the 2010 Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, coupled with a new work by Swedish composer Britta Bystr怀m.

2.00pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C, op. 105

Oslo Philharmonic

Conductor Klaus M䀀kel䀀

2.25pm

Britta Bystr怀m: Der Vogel der Nacht (world premiere)

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor

Monica Groop, mezzo-soprano

Adolf Fredrik Music School Boys' Choir

Women of the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

This series of Afternoon Concert features concerts from all of the Nordic nations: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Plus a special treat in our Thursday Opera Matinee: an archive performance of Verdi's Il Trovatore with the legendary Swedish tenor Jussi Bjorling, recorded live at Swedish Royal Opera in 1960.

Nordic orchestras perform symphonies by Sibelius and Mahler.

Nordic Sounds (2-4)20210112Penny Gore introduces recent performances by Nordic ensembles, today featuring concerts from Denmark and Norway. Edward Gardner conducts the Bergen Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and ؀rjan Matre's Lyric Pieces, a selection of short musical reflections on piano pieces by Edvard Grieg; then Leif Ove Andsnes plays Grieg's very own Piano Concerto in A minor with Concerto Copenhagen. The afternoon closes with the Oslo Philharmonic under its new conductor Klaus M䀀kel䀀 in brand-new music by Sauli Zinovjev and Mahler's First Symphony.

2.00pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64

؀rjan Matre: Lyric Pieces (Musical comments on six of Edvard Grieg's piano pieces)

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor Edward Gardner

3.10pm

Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

Conductor Lars Ulrik Mortensen

3.45pm

Sauli Zinovjev: Wiegenlied (Lullaby - world premiere)

Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D

Nordic ensembles perform symphonies by Tchaikovsky and Mahler and Grieg's Piano Concerto.

Nordic Sounds (3-4)20210113Penny Gore continues this week's Nordic Sounds theme with a recent concert by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo.

Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64

Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A flat, op. 55

Alina Pogostkina, violin

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic play Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Elgar's Symphony No 1.

Nordic Sounds (4-4)20210115Penny Gore closes this week featuring recent performances by Nordic ensembles with music by Ravel and Sibelius from Norway and Rachmaninov and Thomas Ad耀s from Finland.

2.00pm

Ravel: La Valse

Marius Neset: MANMADE - Saxophone Concerto (world premiere)

Marius Neset, saxophone

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor Edward Gardner

2.40pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 in D minor, op. 104

Oslo Philharmonic

Conductor Klaus M䀀kel䀀

3.15pm

Thomas Ad耀s: Concentric Paths - Violin Concerto, op. 24

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, op. 45

Pekka Kuusisto, violin

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Nicholas Collon

Music by Ravel and Sibelius from Norway, and Rachmaninov and Thomas Ades from Finland.

Nordic Sounds, Opera Matinee20210114Penny Gore continues this week of Nordic performances with a real treat: Verdi's 'Il Trovatore' recording live at Swedish Royal Opera in 1960. It stars the celebrated Swedish tenor Jussi Bjorling as Manrico and the soprano Hj怀rdis Schymberg as Leonora, in a tragic story of mistaken identity, witchcraft and vengeance. Plus recent concert performances from Copenhagen: music from Sweden by Franz Berwald and from Denmark by Niels Gade.

2.00pm

Verdi: Il Trovatore, opera in 4 Acts

Manrico: Jussi Bj怀rling, tenor,

Leonora: Hj怀rdis Schymberg, soprano

Azucena: Kerstin Meyer, mezzo-soprano

Il conte di Luna: Hugo Hasslo, baritone

Ferrando: Erik Saed退n, bass

Ines: Ingeborg Kjellgren, soprano

Ruiz: Olle Sivall, tenor

Un vecchio zingaro: Bertil Alsterg倀rd, bass

Un messo: Sture Ingebretzen, tenor

Swedish Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra

Herbert Sandberg, conductor

3.00pm

Franz Berwald: Overture to 'Estrella de Soria

Niels Gade: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, op. 5 ('On Sjølund's Beautiful Plains')

Concerto Copenhagen

Lars Ulrik Mortensen, conductor

Verdi's Il Trovatore from the Swedish Royal Opera archives starring tenor Jussi Bjorling.

Northern Lights: Ulster Orchestra Live From The Guildhall Londonderry20151207The BBC orchestras and the BBC Singers are live all this week beginning with the Ulster Orchestra in a concert as part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season. It includes Sibelius's mighty one-movement 7th Symphony and pieces by Gade and Nielsen.

Ulster Orchestra LIVE from the Guildhall Londonderry

Presented by John Toal

2.00pm

Niels W Gade: Echoes of Ossian op.1

Niklas Willen (conductor)

2.15pm

Wilhelm Stenhammar: Two Sentimental Romances for violin and small orchestra

Stefan Tarara (violin)

2.27pm

Carl Nielsen: Helios Overture

2.41pm

Sibelius: Symphony No.7

3.07pm

Presented by Penny Gore

Christian Lindberg: The Erratic Dreams of Mr Gronstedt

Emil Jonason (clarinet)

Christian Lindberg (conductor).

Live from Guildhall, Londonderry, Ulster Orchestra in Gade, Stenhammar, Nielsen, Sibelius.

O Radiant Dawn20191203BBC Singers' concert for Advent, featuring James MacMillan's seraphic motet O radiant dawn. Plus Schumann from the BBC Philharmonic and their new Chief Conductor Omer Meir Wellber.

Sarah MacDonald: O come, O come Emmanuel

Roderick Williams: O Adonai

Praetorius: Magnificat quinti toni; Joseph, lieber Joseph mein; In dulci iubilo

James Long: Vigilate

John Joubert: There is no rose

James MacMillan: O radiant dawn

Graham Ross: I sing of a maiden

Matthew Whittall: Christmas Hath a Darkness: Four Carols for Advent

Matthew Martin: Adam lay ybounden

Jonathan Wikeley: Balulalow

Francis Jackson: I know a flower

Matthew Martin: Rose Magnificat

Alan Bullard: Glory to the Christ Child

Conductor Graham Ross

Presented by Ian Skelly

3.30pm

Penny Gore presents the BBC Philharmonic in concert

Janက?ek, arr. David Matthews: On an Overgrown Path (Book 1)

Conductor John Storgards

4pm

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 1

Alina Pogostkina (violin)

Conductor Clemens Schuldt

4.20pm

Schumann: Symphony No 4

Offenbach's La Belle Hel\u00e8ne20200528Opera matinee: Jacques Offenbach's La Belle H退l耀ne.

Penny Gore introduces a Lausanne Opera performance of one of the most enduring operettas in the repertoire, Offenbach's brilliant parody of the story of Helen's elopement with Paris, which set off the Trojan War.

Offenbach's masterpiece from the French Second Empire is followed by Honegger's powerful Symphonie Liturgique, written in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Offenbach: La Belle H退l耀ne, op退ra bouffe in three acts

Julien Dran, tenor, P ris, son of King Priam of Troy

Michel Fau, tenor buffo, M退n退las, King of Sparta

Christophe Lacassagne, baritone, Agamemnon, King of Kings

Jean-Claude Saragosse, baritone, Calchas, grand soothsayer to Jupiter

Jean-Francis Monvoisin, tenor, Achille, King of Phtiotis

Pier-Yves Tꀀtu, tenor, Ajax I, King of Salamis

Ho뀀l Troadec, tenor, Ajax II, King of the Locrians

Julie Robard-Gendre, soprano, H退l耀ne (Helen of Troy), Queen of Sparta

Paul Figuier, countertenor, Oreste, son of Agamemnon

Marie Daher, soprano, Bacchis, Helen's maid

B退atrice Nani, mezzo-soprano, Loena

Laur耀ne Patern , soprano, Parthoenis

Jean-Rapha뀀l Lavandier, [spoken role], Philocome

Richard Lahady, [spoken role], Euthycl耀s

Lausanne Opera Chorus

Lausanne Sinfonietta

Pierre Dumoussaud, conductor

Followed at approx. 4pm by more recent performances from the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, this week's featured orchestra.

Henri Tomasi: Trumpet Concerto

H倀kan Hardenberger, trumpet

Mario Venzago, conductor

Honegger: Symphony No. 3 (Liturgique)

Bach orch. Stokowski: Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott from Cantata no. 80 BWV.80

Offenbach's La Belle Hel\u00e8ne from the Opera de Lausanne

Opera Matine: Porin, By Vatroslav Lisinski20200123Today's Opera Matinee:

The historical opera Porin by Croatia's first opera composer, Vatroslav Lisinski. It was performed last year in the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb.

Ljubomir Puškari?, baritone - Kocelin, the leader of the Frankish army and the governor in Croatia

Kristina Kolar, soprano - Irmengarda, his sister

Irena Parlov, mezzo-soprano - Klotilda, her maid

Siniša Galovi?, tenor, Klodvik - Kocelin's notary

Stjepan Franetovi?, tenor - Porin, Croatian nobleman

Luciano Batini?, bass, Sveslav - a former Croatian soldier

Evelin Novak, soprano - Zorka, his prot退g退e

Croatian Radio-Television Chorus - Frankish noblemen / Croatian men and women

Nina Cossetto, Chorus director

Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra

Pavle Dešpalj, conductor

Presented by Hannah French

Hannah French presents this week's Opera Matinee: Porin, by Vatroslav Lisinski.

Opera Matinee20200319A rare chance to hear Reynaldo Hahn's exotic opera The Island of Dreams, plus the BBC Philharmonic in Russian and Finnish music

Hahn's compact first opera tells of the love between a young French naval officer and a beautiful Tahitian woman - a love, though, that can only last for as long as he is stationed on the island

To follow, there's an evocative early symphony from Jean Sibelius from the BBC Philharmonic, which is joined by Canadian violinist James Ehnes for the spiky first concerto by Prokofiev

Presented by Kate Molleson

2.00pm

L'le du rꀀve (The Island of Dreams), a Polynesian idyll in three acts

H退l耀ne Guilmette, soprano - Mah退nu

Ludivine Gombert, soprano - T退ria, a woman from Tahiti / Famana, a noblewoman

Anak Morel, mezzo-soprano - Or退na, a Tahitian princess

Cyrille Dubois, tenor - Pierre Loti, in fact Georges de Kerven, an officer in the French navy

Le Concert Spirituel Chorus

Munich Radio Orchestra

Herv退 Niquet, conductor

3.05pm

Arensky

Suite No 3 ‘Variations' Op.33

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

3.35pm

Violin Concerto No.1

James Ehnes (violin)

Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

4.00pm

Symphony No.2 in D, Op.43

John Storgards, conductor

A rare chance to hear Reynaldo Hahn's exotic opera The Island of Dreams.

Opera Matinee20210401Penny Gore presents Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride, recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2011.

The Tsar has been looking for a bride, and assembled some 2000 girls for inspection. The one he's taken with is Marfa, but she is already promised in marriage to her childhood sweetheart Ivan. The situation is already complicated enough, but Marfa is also loved by another powerful man, Grigory, who's one of the Tsar's secret police. It's a love-triangle which has all the makings of catastrophe.

Marfa Sobakina - Marina Poplavskaya (soprano)

Grigory Gryaznoy - Johan Reuter (baritone)

Lyubasha - Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)

Ivan Sergeyevich Lkov - Dmitry Popov (tenor)

Elisa Bomelius - Vasily Gorshkov (bass)

Vasily Sobakin - Paata Burchuladze (bass)

Dunyasha Saburova - Jurgita Adamonyte (mezzo-soprano)

Domna Saburova - Elizabeth Woollett (soprano)

Malyuta-Skuratov - Alexander Vinogradov (bass)

Petrovna - Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo-soprano)

Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus

Conductor - Sir Mark Elder

Followed by

Mozart: Haffner Symphony No. 35 in D major K385

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Sir Mark Elder conducts Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride, with Johan Reuter as Grigory.

Opera Matinee And Take Five20190613This week's featured opera is 'Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali' (Conventions and Inconveniences of the Stage) or 'Viva la Mamma!' by Donizetti, introduced by Elizabeth Alker plus music marking Radio 3's celebration of youth and music, Take Five. Today's featured young musician is the soprano Soraya Mafi.

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, opera in two acts

Cast:

Donna Agata Scannagalli, Luigia's mother, a Neapolitan - Laurent Naouri (baritone)

Daria Garbinati, prima donna - Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)

Procolo, Daria's husband - David Bizic (bass)

Luigia Castragatti, seconda donna - Melody Louledjian (soprano)

Guglielmo Antolstoinoff, primo tenore, a German - Luciano Botelho (tenor)

Biscroma Strappaviscere, conductor - Pietro di Bianco (baritone)

Cesare Salsapariglia, druggist and poet - Enric Martinez-Castignani (baritone)

Pippetto - Katherine Aitken (mezzo-soprano)

Impresario - P退ter Kကlmကn (bass)

Director of the Theatre - Rodrigo Garcia (bass)

Men of the Grand Th退 tre of Geneva Chorus

Roberto Balistreri (chorus director)

Geneva Chamber Orchestra

Gergely Madaras (conductor)

Elizabeth Alker introduces an opera by Donizetti and music marking Radio 3's Take Five.

Opera Matinee Double Bill, La Cucina And Adina20201015Andrew Synnott's La Cucina (The Kitchen) tells the story of sous chef Bianca, her tyrannous head chef, and the slightly disastrous baking of a cake. In this production of Rossini's Adina, depicting the wedding of the middle-aged Caliph to young Adina, part of the set was a huge wedding cake. The idea was to connect the two productions at last year's Wexford Festival. Rossini wrote Adina after his popular The Barber of Seville and La Cenerentola but it is rarely performed. La Cucina, to a libretto by Rosetta Cucchi, is the first work by a living Irish composer to appear on the festival's main stage. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Andrew Synnott: La Cucina

Bianca, a sous-chef - Mကire Flavin, soprano

Alberto Famosissimo, a chef - Luca Nucera, actor

Zeno, a supplier - Sheldon Baxter, baritone

Tobia, the supplier's helper - Manuel Amati, tenor

Camillo, the cook's aid - Emmanuel Franco, baritone

Wexford Festival Orchestra

Michele Spotti, conductor

c.2.40pm

Rossini: Adina

Adina, a slave girl - Rachel Kelly, mezzo-soprano

Selimo, Adina's former lover - Levy Sekgapane, tenor

The Caliph, father (unbeknownst to him) of Adina - Daniele Antonangeli, bass

Ali, a young man - Manuel Amati, tenor

Mustafa, gardener at the seraglio - Emmanuel Franco, bass

Wexford Festival Chorus

Wexford Festival 2019: Rossini's Adina and the premiere of Andrew Synnott's The Kitchen

Opera Matinee With Georgia Mann20181025The Opera Matinee is Dantons Tod (Danton's Death), an opera by Gottfried von Einem to a libretto on Georg Büchner's 1835 play of the same name. It was first performed in 1947. This powerful drama deals with themes of legalized governmental terror, something which the world at the time realized had not been eradicated with the end of the war. Susanna M䀀lkki conducts a production from the Vienna State Opera starring Wolfgang Koch and Herbert Lippert.

The rest of the afternoon includes Vaughan Williams' Symphony No 6 played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted Sir Andrew Davis.

2.00pm

Gottfried von Einem: Dantons Tod (Danton's Death)

Georges Danton - .. Wolfgang Koch (baritone)

Camille Desmoulins - .. Herbert Lippert (tenor)

H退rault de S退chelles - .. J怀rg Schneider (tenor)

Robespierre - .. Thomas Ebenstein (tenor)

Lucile - .. Olga Bezsmertna (soprano)

Saint Just - .. Ayk Martirossian (bass)

Hermann - .. Clemens Unterreiner (bass)

Simon - .. Wolfgang Bankl (bass)

Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra

Susanna M䀀lkki (conductor)

Act 1

2.40pm

Act 2

3.15pm

Jonathan Dove: Gaia Theory

Josep Pons (conductor)

3.40pm

Kenneth Leighton: God's Grandeur; What Love Is This of Thine?

BBC Singers

Paul Spicer (conductor)

3.50pm

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 6

4.20pm

Britten (arr. Colin Matthews): A Charm of Lullabies, Op.41

Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano)

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Synopsis - Dantons Tod

The opera's first act establishes Danton's confrontation with Robespierre. In the first scene Danton and Camille Desmoulins express their desire for an end of the daily executions to a group of their friends playing cards. Scene two introduces the volatile crowd. Robespierre enters and in an aria sways the crowd and promises more executions. Danton confronts him. After Danton leaves, Robespierre and his colleague Saint-Just decide that he and Camille must be killed. In the last scene of the act Danton announces to Camille and his wife Lucile that he is to be arrested, but he refuses to flee.

Act 2 depicts Danton's trial and death. Two scenes before the Revolutionary Tribunal are separated by one with Danton and Camille in prison. Lucile comes to see Camille; she has lost her reason. In the trial scenes the crowd swings between demanding Danton's death and falling under the spell of his eloquent oratory. At the end, in the Place de la R退volution, the condemned prisoners sing 'La Marseillaise' in counterpoint to the crowd dancing the Carmagnole. Danton and Camille are guillotined. After the crowd disperses, Lucile enters and sits on the steps of the guillotine. She cries Es lebe der Konig (Long live the king) and is arrested as the curtain falls.

Dantons Tod (Danton's Death), an opera by Gottfried von Einem first performed in 1947.

Opera Matinee, A Week In Berlin20181011Penny Gore introduces a performance of Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas coupled in an imaginative programme with Strauss's existential tone poem Death and Transfiguration. Also Gidon Kremer joins conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and Berlin's German Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's violin concerto.

2.00pm

Dido - .Marie-Claude Chappuis, mezzo-soprano

Belinda - .Robin Johannsen, soprano

Aeneas....Matthias Winckhler, baritone

Sorceress - .Katharina Magiera, contralto

Bavarian Radio Choir

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin

Alexander Liebrich, conductor

3.00pm

Metamorphosen

3.25pm

Sibelius

Lemminkainen Suite

Gidon Kremer, violin

Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, conductor

Synopsis - Dido & Aeneas

Act 1

Dido's court

The opera opens with Dido in her court with her attendants. Belinda is trying to cheer up Dido, but Dido is full of sorrow, saying 'Peace and I are strangers grown'. Belinda believes the source of this grief to be the Trojan Aeneas, and suggests that Carthage's troubles could be resolved by a marriage between the two. Dido and Belinda talk for a time: Dido fears that her love will make her a weak monarch, but Belinda and the Second Woman reassure her that 'The hero loves as well.' Aeneas enters the court, and is at first received coldly by Dido, but she eventually accepts his proposal of marriage.

Act 2

Scene 1: The cave of the Sorceress

The Sorceress/Sorcerer is plotting the destruction of Carthage and its queen, and summons companions to help with evil plans. The plan is to send her 'trusted elf' disguised as Mercury, someone to whom Aeneas will surely listen, to tempt him to leave Dido and sail to Italy. This would leave Dido heartbroken, and she would surely die. The chorus join in with terrible laughter, and the Enchantresses decide to conjure up a storm to make Dido and her train leave the grove and return to the palace. When the spell is prepared, the witches vanish in a thunderclap.

Scene 2: A grove during the middle of a hunt

The Sorceress' messenger, in form of Mercury, attempts to convince Aeneas to leave Carthage.

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Dido and Aeneas are accompanied by their train. They stop at the grove to take in its beauty. A lot of action is going on, with attendants carrying goods from the hunt and a picnic possibly taking place, and Dido and Aeneas are together within the activity. This is all stopped when Dido hears distant thunder, prompting Belinda to tell the servants to prepare for a return to shelter as soon as possible. As every other character leaves the stage, Aeneas is stopped by the Sorceress's elf, who is disguised as Mercury. This pretend Mercury brings the command of Jove that Aeneas is to wait no longer in beginning his task of creating a new Troy on Latin soil. Aeneas consents to the wishes of what he believes are the gods, but is heart-broken that he will have to leave Dido. He then goes off-stage to prepare for his departure from Carthage.

Act 3

Scene 1: The harbour at Carthage

Preparations are being made for the departure of the Trojan fleet. The sailors sing a song, which is followed shortly by the Sorceress and her companions' sudden appearance. The group is pleased at how well their plan has worked, and the Sorceress sings a solo describing her further plans for the destruction of Aeneas 'on the ocean'. All the characters begin to clear the stage after a dance in three sections, and then disperse.

Scene 2: The palace

Dido and Belinda enter, shocked at Aeneas' disappearance. Dido is distraught and Belinda comforts her. Suddenly Aeneas returns, but Dido is full of fear before Aeneas speaks, and his words only serve to confirm her suspicions. She derides his reasons for leaving, and even when Aeneas says he will defy the gods and not leave Carthage, Dido rejects him for having once thought of leaving her. After Dido forces Aeneas to leave, she states that 'Death must come when he is gone.' The opera and Dido's life both slowly come to a conclusion, as the Queen of Carthage sings her last aria, 'When I am laid in Earth', also known as 'Dido's Lament.' The chorus and orchestra then conclude the opera once Dido is dead by ordering the 'cupids to scatter roses on her tomb, soft and gentle as her heart. Keep here your watch, and never, never part.

A performance of Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas, music by Strauss, Weinberg and Sibelius

Opera Matinee, Dvorak's Rusalka20200618Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Dvorak's `fairy-tale` opera ‘Rusalka' - the one which features the celebrated aria 'Song to the Moon' - recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2012. This was the Royal Opera's first fully staged production of Dvo?ak's opera in a radical interpretation by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito. It starred the Finnish soprano Camilla Nylund in the title role with conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin making his Royal Opera debut.

Rusalka.....Camilla Nylund (Soprano)

Vodnik, Spirit Of The Lake.....Alan Held (Baritone)

Prince.....Brian Hymel (Tenor)

Foreign Princess.....Petra Lang (Mezzo-Soprano)

Jezibaba.....Agnes Zwierko (Mezzo-Soprano)

Voice Of Huntsman.....Daniel Grice (Bass Baritone)

Gamekeeper.....Gyula Orendt (Baritone)

Kitchen Boy.....Ilse Eerens (Soprano)

Wood Nymph.....Anna Devin (Soprano)

Wood Nymph.....Madeleine Pierard (Soprano)

Wood Nymph.....Justina Gringyte (Mezzo-Soprano)

Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Conductor.....Yannick N退zet-S退guin.

A production of Dvorak's fairy-tale masterpiece.

Opera Matinee, Gounod's Faust20200924Hannah French introduces a recording made in 2014 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, of Gounod's Faust, once one of the most famous and most performed operas. Based on Goethe's dramatic poem, it's a tale of romance, temptation and tragedy, and the clash between religion and satanic powers. Faust, sung by the Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja, has become bored with life and its limitations, and makes a pact with the Devil, represented by M退phistoph退l耀s, baritone Bryn Terfel: the Devil promises that he will satisfy Faust's hedonistic requests in exchange for his soul. Gounod's Faust contains many musical highlights including the Soldiers' Chorus, and Marguerite's stunning Jewel Song - sung tonight by soprano Sonya Yoncheva. The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House are conducted by Maurizio Benini.

2.00pm

Gounod - Faust, in five acts

Faust - Joseph Calleja (Tenor)

M退phistoph退l耀s - Bryn Terfel (Baritone)

Marguerite - Sonya Yoncheva (Soprano)

Valentin - Simon Keenlyside (Baritone)

Wagner - Jihoon Kim (Bass Baritone)

Si退bel - Renata Pokupic (Mezzo-soprano)

Martha Schwerlein - Diana Montague (Mezzo-soprano)

Royal Opera House Orchestra

Royal Opera House Chorus

Maurizio Benini (Conductor)

With tenor Joseph Calleja in the title role, recorded at the Royal Opera House in 2014.

Opera Matinee, Halka20201105A chance to hear one of the great Polish national operas, Halka, by 19th-century composer Stanislaw Moniuszko, recorded at the Theater an der Wien in Austria, last year. Halka is a deeply lyrical work, packed with good tunes and full of Polish character telling the story of a mountain-girl Halka, spurned by her lover Janusz, and of the tragic consequences that follow. The libretto is by the radical Warsaw poet Wlodzimierz Wolski and the opera is sung in Polish. It's introduced by Tom McKinney.

With:

Corinne Winters (sop) Halka - a mountain girl

Tomasz Konieczny (bar) Janusz - a squire

Piotr Beczala (ten) Jontek - a young man of the mountains

Alexey Tikhoirov (bass) Stolnik - master of the pantry

Lukas Jakobski (bass) Dziemba - major-domo

Arnold Schoenberg Chorus

ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna conducted by Lukasz Borowicz

A co-production by Theatre an der Wien and Teatr Wielki Warsaw

Directed by Mariusz Trelinski

Recorded in December 2019

Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Stanislaw Moniuszko's opera Halka

Opera Matinee, La Ville Morte20210304Tom McKinney introduces a recording of Nadia Boulanger's most significant work, her collaboration with her teacher Raoul Pugno, the opera La Ville Morte (The Dead City) as orchestrated by Mauro Bonifacio and starring Katarina Karneus. This is a premiere performance from G怀teborg of the completed opera.

Based on D'Annunzio's 'La Citt

Opera Matinee, Offenbach's Tales Of Hoffmann20200702A performance of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann recorded in Vienna last year to celebrate the composer's 200th anniversary.

The opera is based on an 1851 play depicting the spiritual and moral decline of the poet ETA Hoffmann, through the stories of three successive loves - Olympia, Giulietta, and Antonia. Completed in the final few months of his life it was Offenbach's last attempt at recognition for serious opera rather than the frivolous works for which he was best known. He died four months before the premiere.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann

Hoffmann - Dmitry Korchak, tenor

Olympia / Antonia / Giulietta - Olga Peretyatko, soprano

The Muse / Nicklausse - Ga뀀lle Arquez, mezzo-soprano

Councillor Lindorf / Copp退lius / Miracle / Dapertutto - Luca Pisaroni, bass-baritone

Andr耀s / Cochenille / Frantz / Pitichinaccio - Michael Laurenz, tenor

Voice of Antonia's mother - Zoryana Kushpler, mezzo-soprano

Spalanzani, an inventor - Igor Onishchenko, tenor

Nathana뀀l, a student - Lukhanyo Moyake, tenor

Crespel, Antonia's father - Dan Paul Dumitrescu, bass

Luther.... Alexandru Moisiuc, bass

Hermann, a student - Samuel Hasselhorn, baritone

Peter Schl退mil, in love with Giulietta - Clemens Unterreiner, baritone

Vienna State Opera Chorus

Vienna State Opera Orchestra

Fr退d退ric Chaslin, conductor

A performance of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann recorded at the Vienna State Opera in 2019.

Opera Matinee, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin20200625It's the tragic story of a young girl who falls passionately in love and a man whose youthful arrogance dooms them both to a life of misery. Simon Keenlyside and Krassimira Stoyanova bring both experience and dynamic energy to the protagonists in Tchaikovsky's lyric tragedy, recorded at the Royal Opera House in London in February 2013. Tatyana and Onegin meet on her family's country estate in Russia. She falls instantly in love, and pours out her feelings in a letter. But Onegin rejects her, saying he's not cut out for married life. To make his point, he flirts with her sister, Olga, who's engaged to his best friend, Lensky. The two men fight a duel, Lensky is killed, and Onegin flees. Years later, he turns up to a ball in St Petersburg and sees Tatyana again, now a married woman. He realises, too late, that he loves her after all. Robin Ticciati conducts the orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Presented by Hannah French.

2pm

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

Tatyana - Krassimira Stoyanova, soprano

Eugene Onegin - Simon Keenlyside, baritone

Madame Larina - Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano

Filipyevna - Kathleen Wilkinson, mezzo-soprano

Olga - Elena Maximova, mezzo-soprano

A Peasant Singer - Elliot Goldie, tenor

Lensky - Pavol Breslik, tenor

Monsieur Triquet - Christoph Montagne, tenor

A Captain - Michel De Souza, baritone

Zaretsky - Jihoon Kim, bass

Prince Gremin - Peter Rose, bass

Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus

Robin Ticciati, conductor

Robin Ticciati conducts Tchaikovsky's lyric tragedy at the Royal Opera House in London.

Opera Matinee, The Devil On Earth20200514Franz von Supp退 (with the rather spectacular full name of Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo Cavaliere Supp退-Demelli) composed more than 200 stage works and was the leading light of nineteenth-century Austrian operetta, enjoying a success that rivaled that of Frenchman Jacques Offenbach. This production of Der Teufel auf Erden - The Devil on Earth (or possibly The Devil In All Of Us) - was recorded last July to mark the bicentenary of Supp退's birth. The operetta had an unsuccessful run of twenty performances in 1878 at Carltheater Wien, where Supp退 was conductor, and was not performed again until 1984 as a radio broadcast.

The plot (to a libretto by Karl Juin and Julius Hopp) depicts a revolt in Hell: in Scene One the inhabitants demand Freedom of the Press, abolition of serfdom and a democratically elected parliament. Satan and Mephistopheles want to crush this revolt but their henchmen Lucifer, Samuel and Beelzebub are on holiday on earth. So they go to earth to find them and bring them back. However in this production from Chemnitz opera, the director asked the artist performing the role of the devil, Alexander Kuchinka, to rewrite the libretto. He's changed the plot significantly and in this version the first scene is set in Hell, as in the original, Scene Two in a 17th century nunnery, Scene Three in a 19th century military cadet school and Scene Four in a 21st Century dance school.

Later in the afternoon we return to this week's featured ensemble, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, for a concert given at Maida Vale Studios in 2019, including the dramatic Overture No.1 by Louise Farrenc and Grieg's much-loved Piano Concerto in A minor with BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist soloist Elizabeth Brauss, conducted by Francois Leleux.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

2pm

Franz von Supp退: Der Teufel auf Erden (The Devil on Earth), operetta in three acts

Ruprecht, a lowly worker in hell - Alexander Kuchinka, vocals

Rupert, an off-duty angel - Matthias Winter, baritone

Mutter Alglaja, a mother superior - Dagmar Schellenberger, soprano,

Oberst Donnersbach, group captain - Gerhard Ernst, vocals

Amanda, a nun / Amalia, a ward / Amira, a dance student - Marie H䀀nsel, soprano

Isabella, a nun / Isolde, a ward / Iska, a dance student - Sophia Maeno, mezzo-soprano

Isidor, a scoundrel / Isbert, a cadet / Ismail, a dance student - Andreas Beinhauer, baritone

Reinhart, a scoundrel / Reinwald, a cadet / Reiner, a dance student - Benjamin Bruns, tenor

Haderer, hell's gatekeeper / Thomas, cloister gatekeeper / Vice-lieutenant Nebel / Duty officer Spiess / Ball organizer - Matthias Otte, vocals

Head of the dance school - Carsten Kn怀dler, (spoken role)

Chemnitz Opera Chorus

Robert Schumann Philharmonie

Jakob Brenner, conductor

c.4pm

Farrenc: Overture in E minor Op.23

Grieg: Concerto in A minor Op.16 for piano and orchestra

Elisabeth Brauss, piano

Francois Leleux, conductor

Franz von Suppe's operetta Der Teufel auf Erden in a production from Theater Chemnitz.

Opera Matinee, The Marriage Of Figaro20201126Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Mozart's great masterpiece, recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2012 and featuring Ildebrando D'Arcangelo in the title role, Alexsandra Kurzak as Susanna, conducted by Antonio Pappano.

Figaro.....Ildebrando D' Arcangelo (Bass)

Susanna.....Aleksandra Kurzak (Soprano)

Bartolo.....Carlo Lepore (Bass)

Marcellina.....Ann Murray (Mezzo-Soprano)

Cherubino.....Anna Bonitatibus (Mezzo-Soprano)

Count Almaviva.....Lucas Meachem (Baritone)

Basilio.....Bonaventura Bottone (Tenor)

Antonio.....Jeremy White (Bass)

Don Curzio.....Harry Nicoll (Tenor)

Barbarina.....Susana Gaspar (Soprano)

Countess Almaviva.....Rachel Willis Sorensen (Soprano)

Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Conductor Antonio Pappano

Opera Matinee - Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro

Opera Matinee, Werther20210325Tom McKinney introduces a recording of Jules Massenet's 'Werther' from Covent Garden followed by music from the BBC Philharmonic, including the third instalment of Arnold Bax's 'Oliver Twist

Vittorio Grigolo and Joyce DiDonato star in this recording of Massenet's dark drama of doomed love set against the stifling constrictions of a stultifying bourgeois marriage. Goethe's epistolary novel about the brooding Werther who develops an obsession for the unattainable Charlotte took Europe by storm in the 1770s. Massenet's operatic version focuses on the bitter-sweet pains and pleasures of a forbidden romance, with the lovers seemingly doing their best to make each other unhappy rather than accepting their fate. This is a recording made of Benot Jacquot's strikingly beautiful production for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2016.

Werther - Vittorio Grigolo (tenor)

Charlotte - Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)

Albert - David Bizic (baritone)

Magistrate - Jonathan Summers (bass baritone)

Schmidt - Francois Piolino (tenor)

Johann - Yuriy Yurchuk (baritone)

Sophie - Heather Engebretson (soprano)

K䀀thchen - Emily Edmonds (mezzo-soprano)

Brühlmann - Rick Zwart (baritone)

Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra

Antonio Pappano (conductor)

Followed by music For Radio 3's Manchester Week:

Sergei Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda

Arnold Bax: Music for the 1948 film 'Oliver Twist' - Part 3

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Rumon Gamba

Massenet's operatic masterpiece from Covent Garden

Opera Matinee: Alceste20191003Gluck's Alceste, the story of the Queen of Thessaly and her desire to sacrifice her life for her husband, in a performance recorded at the National Theatre in Munich.

Presented by Tom McKinney

Plus more from Ireland's RTE National Symphony Orchestra in their 2018/19 concert season. Veronika Eberle and Amihai Grosz join the orchestra for Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat K.364 under their Principal Guest Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann

2.00pm

Gluck: Alceste

Charles Castronovo, tenor - Admeto

Dorothea R怀schmann, soprano - Alceste

Michael Nagy, baritone - High Priest of Apollo / Hercules

Manuel Günther, tenor - Evandro

Sean Michael Plumb, baritone - Herald / Apollo

Callum Thorpe, bass - Oracle / Thanatos

Anna El-Khashem, Caspar Singh, Noa Beinart, Frederic Jost - Chorus Leaders

Bavarian State Opera Chorus & Orchestra

Antonello Manacorda, conductor

4.15pm

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat K.364

Veronika Eberle, violin

Amihai Grosz, viola

Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor

Gluck's Alceste recorded at the National Theatre in Munich.

Opera Matinee: Andrea Chenier20181108Giordano's Andrea Ch退nier recorded at La Scala, Milan, starring Yusif Eyvazov and Anna Netrebko. Riccardo Chailly conducts. Presented by Tom Redmond

Andrea Ch退nier was premiered at La Scala in 1896 and this special performance was recorded in December last year to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the legendary conductor Victor de Sabata.

The opera describes the life and untimely death of the French poet Andr退 Marie Ch退nier who was guillotined in 1794 just before the end of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution. He falls in love with Maddalena , daughter of the Countess of Coigny, who had initially treated him with disdain but changes her view of him when her mother is murdered by the revolutionaries. Ch退nier is sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal, and Maddalena visits him in prison. She bravely bribes the jailer to let her take the place of another condemned prisoner, and the couple express their love for each other as they go to meet their death.

2.00 pm

Giordano: Andrea Ch退nier

Andrea Ch退nier....Yusif Eyvazov

Maddalena di Coigny.....Anna Netrebko

Carlo G退rard....Luca Salsi

La mulatta Bersi....Annalisa Stroppa

La Contessa di Coigny....Mariana Pentcheva

Madelon....Judit Kutasi

Roucher....Gabriele Sagona

Pietro Fl退ville....Costantino Finucci

Fouquier Tinville....Gianluca Breda

Mathieu....Francesco Verna

Un incredibile....Carlo Bosi

L'Abate....Manuel Pierattelli

Schmidt....Romano Dal Zovo

Il maestro di casa/Dumas....Riccardo Fassi

Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan

Riccardo Chailly, conductor

c. 4.00 pm

Sibelius: The Bard

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Rory Macdonald, conductor

c. 4.05 pm

Anton Urspruch: Piano Concerto

Emmanuel Despax, piano

Eugene Tzigane, conductor

Tom Redmond presents Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chenier recorded at La Scala, Milan

Opera Matinee: Andree's Fritiofs Saga, World Premiere20191121From G怀teborg Opera in Sweden, a world premiere of a late-Romantic opera: Elfrida Andr退e's Fritiofs saga (Frithiof's Saga), never performed during her lifetime. It's the love story between Viking hero Fritiof, tenor Markus Pettersson, and the king's daughter Ingeborg, soprano Julia Spors退n, whose relationship leads to political conflict, the wrath of the gods, exile and reconciliation, a tale based in Old Norse mythology. Marit Strindlund conducts the G怀teborg Opera orchestra and chorus. For a full synopsis, see below.

It's followed by the Ulster Orchestra in Roxanna Panufnik's Four World Seasons for violin and orchestra, with Tasmin Little as soloist.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2pm

Fritiofs saga (Frithiof's Saga) - Opera in three acts by Elfrida Andr退e

Ingeborg- Julia Spors退n (soprano)

Fritiof - Markus Pettersson (tenor)

King Helge - Mats Almgren (bass)

Guatemi - Ann-Kristin Jones (mezzo-soprano)

King Ring - Carl Ackerfeldt (baritone)

Hilding - Anders Lorentzson (bass)

Bj怀rn - Peter Loguin (bass)

Old Woman - Anna-Karin Simlund (contralto)

First Woman - Karin Hammarlund (soprano)

Second Woman - Rakel Haskiya (soprano)

Third Woman - Karin Andersson (contralto)

Voice from above - Yvonne Helander (contralto)

First Slave - Charlie T. Borg (bass)

Second Slave - Erik Enqvis ( tenor)

Third Slave - Thomas Sonefors (bass)

Fourth Slave - Tore Sverredal (tenor)

Voice from the yard - Olof S怀derberg (tenor)

A Warrior - Thomas J怀nsson (baritone)

Voice from below - Herbj怀rn Thordarsonm (bass-baritone)

G怀teborg Opera Chorus

Marit Strindlund, conductor

4.30pm

Roxanna Panufnik: Four World Seasons, for violin and orchestra

Tasmin Little, violin

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

Elfrida Andree's saga, inspired by an Old Norse myth, never performed during her lifetime

Opera Matinee: Arthur Sullivan's Haddon Hall20191219Elizabeth Alker presents a round-up of the best of the BBC Performing Groups this year. Today's opera matinee is the BBC Concert Orchestra performing Arthur Sullivan's Haddon Hall, his first work after his famous partnership with W.S Gilbert ended. With a libretto by Sydney Grundy, it's based on the legend of sixteenth century Haddon Hall heiress Dorothy Vernon's elopement with John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland. The action is set against the backdrop of the English Civil War between the Royalists and the Roundheads.

Arthur Sullivan: Haddon Hall

John Manners, a Royalist - Ed Lyon (tenor)

Sir George Vernon, a Roundhead - Henry Waddington (bass-baritone)

Oswald, a Royalist - Adrian Thompson (tenor)

Rupert Vernon, a Roundhead - Ben McAteer (baritone)

The McCrankie - Donald Maxwell (baritone)

Dorothy Vernon - Sarah Tynan (soprano)

Lady Vernon - Fiona Kimm (contralto) -

Dorcas - Angela Simkin (mezzo)

BBC Singers

John Andrews, conductor

3.50pm

Brahms, orch. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet, Op 25

The Ulster Orchestra

Mihhail Gerts, conductor

Opera Matinee: Bartok Double Bill20210128Tom McKinney introduces 'Judith: Concerto for Orchestra/Bluebeard's Castle', a novel production of music by Bartok devised by Katie Mitchell for Bavarian State Opera which was recorded early last year in Munich.

Judith - Nina Stemme (Soprano)

Johh Lundgren - Bluebeard (bass)

Bavarian State Orchestra conducted by Oksana Lyniv.

The Bavarian State Opera perform a duo of works by Bartok devised by Katie Mitchell.

Opera Matinee: Bellini's Il Pirata20190530Premiered at La Scala in 1827, Bellini's Il Pirata was an immediate success. The story is set in Sicily in the 13th century and concerns the exiled Count Gualtiero, who has become a pirate. He returns to discover that his fianc退e, Imogene, in order to save her father's life, has married Gualtiero's enemy, Ernesto.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Imogene, wife of Ernesto....Sonya Yoncheva (soprano)

Gualtiero, former Count of Montalto....Piero Pretti (tenor)

Ernesto, Duke of Caldora....Nicola Alaimo (baritone)

Itulbo, Gualtiero's lieutenant....Francesco Pittari (tenor)

Goffredo, a hermit....Riccardo Fassi (bass)

Adele, Imogen's companion....Marina de Liso (soprano)

La Scala Chorus

La Scala Orchestra

Riccardo Frizza (conductor)

Sonya Yoncheva and Pierro Pretti star at La Scala Milan.

Opera Matinee: Bellini's La Sonnambula20190425In a performance recorded at the Slovene National Theatre, one of Bellini's best-loved operas, La sonnambula, is a heady brew of passion and jealousy that has excited and moved audiences ever since its premiere in 1831

Amina is about to marry Elvino, but her plans are disrupted when a stranger, Count Rodolfo, arrives and provokes Elvino's jealousy. Later that night when Amina sleepwalks towards Rodolfo, Elvino assumes she's been unfaithful to him

Presented by Hannah French

2.00pm

Bellini: La sonnambula - opera in two acts

Lisa - Valentina ?uden (soprano)

Amina - Petya Ivanova (soprano)

Teresa - Irena Petkova (mezzo-soprano)

Elvino - Martin Sušnik (tenor)

Count Rodolfo - Luka Brajnik (baritone)

Slovene National Theatre Chorus & Orchestra

Simon Robinson (conductor)

4.10pm

Haydn: L'isola disabitata - overture

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no 2

Laura Samuel (violin)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Liebreich (conductor)

Bellini's opera La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) recorded at the Slovene National Theatre.

Opera Matinee: Bellini's Norma20181018Opera matin退e - Presented by Kate Molleson

From La Fenice Theatre in Venice, Bellini's opera Norma, recorded last May. Soprano Mariella Devia sings the title role as the doomed High Priestess who loses everything, even her life - one of the most taxing female roles in the entire operatic canon - in this tragic story set in occupied Ancient Gaul. Riccardo Frizza conducts the orchestra and chorus of La Fenice Theatre, plus a starry cast.

Norma, daughter of Oroveso, High Priestess of the Druids - Mariella Devia: soprano

Pollione, Roman proconsul in Gaul - Stefan Pop: tenor

Adalgisa, priestess in the grove of the Irminsul statue - Carmela Remigio: mezzo-soprano

Oroveso, chief of the Druids - Luca Tittoto: bass

Clotilde, Norma's friend - Anna Bordignon: soprano

La Fenice Theatre Orchestra

La Fenice Theatre Chorus

Riccardo Frizza , conductor

Into the Forest: Bellini's Norma from La Fenice with Mariella Devia in the title role

Opera Matinee: Bellini's Norma20200220The greatest tragic Italian opera before Verdi's, conducted by Antonio Pappano. A performance from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, starring Sonya Yoncheva in the title role of Norma, the druidic priestess in ancient Gaul who breaks her vows of chastity with an enemy Roman - and pays the ultimate price. Highlights include Norma's beautiful aria 'Casta diva' ('Virtuous goddess') and her fiery duet with her unfaithful lover Pollione, sung by Joseph Calleja.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Norma, high priestess of the druids - Sonya Yoncheva (Soprano)

Pollione, Roman official - Joseph Calleja (Tenor)

Adalgisa, a younger priestess - Sonia Ganassi (Contralto)

Oroveso, chief druid, Norma's father - Brindley Sherratt (Bass)

Flavio, Pollione's friend - David Junghoon Kim (Tenor)

Clotilde, Norma's friend - Vlada Borovko (Soprano)

Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Conductor Antonio Pappano

Followed at 4.30pm by another highlight from the 2019 Verbier Festival.

Mozart: Symphony No 31 in D major, K.297/300a (Paris)

Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra

Conductor Leonidas Kavakos

Opera Matinee: Bellini's Norma From The Hamburg State Opera20210107Tom McKinney with the 2020 production of Bellini's 'Norma' from the Hamburg State Opera, conducted by Matteo Baltrami and with Marina Rebeka in the title role of the doomed Druid priestess.

Vincenzo Bellini: Norma

Marina Rebeka, soprano (Norma)

Marcelo Puente, tenor (Pollione)

Diana Haller, mezzo-soprano (Adalgisa)

Liang Li, bass (Oroveso)

Gabriele Rossmanith, soprano (Clotilde)

Dongwon Kang, tenor (Flavio)

Hamburg State Opera Chorus

Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra

Matteo Baltrami, conductor

Tom McKinney with a 2020 production of Bellini's opera Norma from the Hamburg State Opera.

Opera Matinee: Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini20190221In our Opera Matin退e: Berlioz's first opera, Benvenuto Cellini, a semi-comical story, largely fictional, based on the flamboyant Florentine sculptor who manages to triumph against all odds in both love and art as he gains the heart of his lover Teresa while fulfilling a significant commission by Pope Clement VII. The American tenor John Osborn takes the title role, while the South African soprano Pretty Yende is Teresa. Philippe Jordan conducts a starry cast at the helm of the Paris National Opera Orchestra and Chorus, in a recording made last year.

Presented by Penny Gore

Benvenuto Cellini.....John Osborn (Tenor)

Teresa.....Pretty Yende (Soprano)

Giacomo Balducci.....Maurizio Muraro (Bass)

Fieramosca.....Audun Iversen (Baritone)

Pope Clement VII.....Marco Spotti (Bass)

Francesco.....Vincent Delhoume (Tenor)

Bernardino.....Luc Bertin-hugault (Bass)

Pompeo.....Rodolphe Briand (Tenor)

Innkeeper.....Se-Jin Hwang (Tenor)

Ascanio.....Michele Losier (Mezzo-soprano)

Paris Opera Theatre Chorus

Paris Opera Orchestra

Philippe Jordan (Conductor)

Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini from the Paris National Opera with John Osborn as Cellini.

Opera Matinee: Bizet's The Pearl Fishers20191226From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a performance of Bizet's 1863 tale of eternal friendship and conflict in love. Set in Ceylon, pearl divers Nadir and Zurga talk about the time their friendship was nearly destroyed when they both fell in love with the same woman - the beautiful Hindu priestess Leila. When a veiled princess arrives in the village, Nadir immediately recognises it as Leila, who he still loves, and which will test their friendship once again. The themes of love, betrayal and vengeance are brought to life in Bizet's exotic score, which includes ravishing music such as the famous duet, Au fond du temple saint. Antonio Pappano conducts a cast including John Osborn and Gerald Finley as the rival pearl divers and Nicole Cabell as the object of their affection.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2pm

The Pearl Fishers - Opera in three acts by Georges Bizet

Bizet / The Pearl Fishers

L退la - Nicole Cabell (soprano)

Nadir - John Osborn (tenor)

Zurga - Gerald Finley (baritone)

Nourabad - Raymond Aceto (bass)

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Antonio Pappano, conductor

A tale of eternal friendship turns to conflict in love. From the Royal Opera House.

Opera Matinee: Cav And Pag20200507Opera Matin退e: Penny Gore introduces the double bill of Cavalleria rusticana by Mascagni and Pagliacci by Leoncavallo, from Barcelona.

Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera in one act, adapted from a play and short story by Giovanni Verga

Elena Pankratova, soprano, Santuzza, a peasant girl

Roberto Alagna, tenor, Turiddu, a young villager recently returned from the army

Mar퀀a Luisa Corbacho, contralto, Mamma Lucia, Turiddu's mother

Gabriele Viviani, baritone, Alfio, a carter

Mercedes Gancedo, mezzo-soprano, Lola, wife of Alfio

3.10pm: Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera in a prologue and two acts

Roberto Alagna, tenor, Canio, head of the troupe (Pagliaccio/Pierrot, Colombina's Husband)

Aleksandra Kurzak, soprano, Nedda, Canio's wife, in love with Silvio (Colombina, Pagliaccio's wife, in love with Arlecchino)

Gabriele Viviani, baritone, Tonio the fool (Taddeo, Colombina's servant)

Vicen瀀 Esteve, tenor, Beppe, actor (Arlecchino, Colombina's lover)

Duncan Rock, baritone, Silvio, Nedda's lover

Amics de la Uni  Children's Chorus, Granollers

Josep Vila i Jover, chorus director

Gran Teatre del Liceu Chorus and Orchestra

Henrik Nကnကsi, conductor

4.25: Another highlight of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's season:

Tchaikovsky Suite no. 4 in G major Op.61 (Mozartiana)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Recorded 12/03/20 in Glasgow City Halls

Penny Gore presents Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci.

Opera Matinee: Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto20190627An opera buffa in the Mozartian mould, this tale of who should (or shouldn't) marry whom is a riot of fun and Cimarosa's only work still to be regularly performed, in a recording by the Op退ra Royal de Wallonie, Li耀ge.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Domenico Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto (The Secret Marriage)

Carolina - C退line Mellon (soprano)

Paolino - Matteo Falcier (tenor)

Il Conte Robinson - Mario Cassi (bass)

Elisetta - Sophie Junker (soprano)

Fidalma - Annunziata Vestri (mezzo-soprano)

Il Signor Geronimo - Patrick Delcour (bass)

Orchestra of the Op退ra Royal de Wallonie

Ayrton Desimpelaere (conductor)

An opera buffa in the Mozartian mould; a tale of who should (or shouldn't) marry whom!

Opera Matinee: D'indy's Fervaal20201231From the Radio France and Montpellier Festival 2019, Michael Schønwandt conducts Vincent D'Indy's rarely heard, Wagner-inspired, epic drama 'Fervaal'. Tenor Michael Spyres takes the title role as the son of the Celtic king destined to save his people from invasion and destruction at the hands of the Saracens. But fate has other plans as he falls in love with Guilhen, daughter of the enemy Emir... The tragic end of their relationship is foretold in the prophecy: 'only death will bring new life'.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2.00pm

D'Indy: Fervaal - Prologue and 3 Acts

Fervaal - Michael Spyres (tenor)

Guilhen - Ga뀀lle Arquez (mezzo-soprano)

Arfagard - Jean-S退bastien Bou (baritone)

Kato - Elisabeth Jansson (mezzo-soprano)

Grympuig - Nicolas Legoux (bass)

Ferkemnat/Moussah - R退my Mathieu (tenor)

Lennsmor - Eric Huchet (tenor)

Geywihr/Farmer - Matthieu L退croart (baritone)

Penwald/uduann - Eric Martin-Bonnet (bass)

Messenger/Farmers - Pierre Doyen (baritone)

Gwellkingubar/Farmer - J退r䀀me Boutillier (baritone)

Berddret - Anas Seguin (bass)

Helwrig - Guilhem Worms (bass-baritone)

Farmer/Shepherd/Bard - Fran瀀ois Rougier (tenor)

Latvian Radio Choir

Montpellier Occitanie National Opera Chorus and Orchestra

Conductor Michael Schønwandt

From Radio France and Montpellier Festival 2019, with Michael Spyres in the title role.

Opera Matinee: Don Giovanni20180927Georgia Mann presents Mozart's Don Giovanni recorded this summer at the Teatro Regio, Turin starring Carlos @lvarez, Erika Grimaldi & Mirco Palazzi. Daniele Rustioni conducts.

After the enormous success of The Marriage of Figaro, one of the managers of Prague's Nostitz Theatre commissioned Mozart for another work. He wanted to work with the librettist Da Ponte again who, captivated by the story of Don Juan, was happy to oblige. The action follows the adventures of the roguish, womanising Giovanni, mixing comedy, tragedy and drama with the supernatural as his acts of betrayal and even murder finally catch up with him.

2.00pm

Mozart: Don Giovanni K.527

Don Giovanni, a nobleman.....Carlos @lvarez, baritone

Donna Anna, a noblewoman.....Erika Grimaldi, soprano

Donna Elvira, Giovanni's scorned lover.....Carmela Remigio, soprano

Don Ottavio, Donna Anna's fianc退.....Juan Francisco Gatell, tenor

Leporello, Don Giovanni's manservant.....Mirco Palazzi, bass

Zerlina, a peasant girl.....Roc퀀o Ignacio, soprano

Masetto, Zerlina's fianc退.....Fabio Maria Capitanucci, bass

Il Commendatore, Donna Anna's father.....Gianluca Buratto, bass

Chorus & Orchestra of the Teatro Regio, Turin

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

This afternoon's broadcast is the second in a trilogy of Mozart's Da Ponte operas: next Thursday we'll hear Cos쀀 fan tutte performed by Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

Georgia Mann presents Mozart's Don Giovanni recorded at the Teatro Regio, Turin

Opera Matinee: Donizetti's Lucia Di Lammermoor20200521An archive recording of Donizetti's masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor, staged at the Royal Opera House in London and first heard in 2016. The soprano Diana Damrau is the innocent Lucia who is forced into marriage to save the family fortunes, although she's in love with another man - Edgardo, sung in this performance by Charles Castronovo. In this tragic drama inspired by Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor, Daniel Oren conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Following the opera, we return to this week's Swiss theme this week with a performance from the 2019 Lucerne Festival.

Presented by Hannah French.

2.00pm

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in 3 Acts

Lucia Ashton - Diana Damrau (soprano)

Enrico Ashton, her brother - Ludovic T退zier (baritone)

Normanno, huntsman - Peter Hoare (tenor)

Alisa, Lucia's companion - Rachael Lloyd (mezzo-soprano)

Edgardo Ravenswood - Charles Castronovo (tenor)

Raimondo Bidebent, Calvinish chaplain - Kwangchul Youn (bass)

Arturo Bucklaw, Lucia's bridegroom - Taylor Stayton (tenor)

Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Daniel Oren, conductor

4.30pm

Arnold Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra, op. 16

Members of the Lucerne Festival Alumni Ensemble

Riccardo Chailly, conductor

An archive recording from the Royal Opera House in London, starring Diana Damrau.

Opera Matinee: Dvorak's King And Charcoal Burner20201008Dvorak's comic opera King and Charcoal Burner tells the folkloric story of the legendary King Matyas and his adventures with the collier Matej and his daughter Liduska in the dense forests of central Bohemia. Originally written in 1871 when Dvorak was still eking out a living as a violist at Prague?s Provisional Theatre and was yet to receive any public performances, the first version was returned to the young composer described by its conductor, Bedrich Smetana, as 'unperformable'. Several subsequent revisions were made but today's concert performance, recorded last September at the Dvorak's Prague International Festival, is the modern day premiere of the original score.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Dvorak: King and Charcoal Burner

Kate?ina Kn?ž퀀kovက, soprano... Liduška, Mat?j's daughter

Richard Samek, tenor... Jen퀀k, a young charcoal burner

Roman Hoza, baritone... King Maty 

Jozef Benci, bass... Mat?j, coal-burner in the K?ivoklကt forests

Lucie Hilscherovက, contralto... Anna, Mat?j's wife

Josef Moravec, tenor... Jind?ich, Burgrave of K?ivoklကt

Dana Burešovက, soprano... Krကlovna

Jana Sibera, soprano... Eva

Jan Š?ကva, bass... Sekက?ek

Ondrej Kopl퀀k, tenor... First hunter (knight)

Michal Onufer, bass... Second hunter (knight)

Prague Philharmonic Choir

Luk  Vasilek, chorus director

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Tom  Brauner, conductor

Dvorak's folkloric opera King and Charcoal Burner, recorded in Prague in 2019.

Opera Matinee: Ethel Smyth's F\u00eate Galante20200305Presented by Penny Gore.

Ethel Smyth's one-act opera Fꀀte galante, which was described by the composer as a Dance Dream. It was inspired by the commedia dell'arte and aristocratic open-air festivities of old, with costumes and masques. The piece, written in the neo-classical style to pay homage to its legacy, has dark connotations though, as it features the death of Pierrot, hanged by a jealous king. This version was recorded last year by the Lontano Ensemble under conductor Odaline de la Martinez, accompanying a cast including Felix Kempe as Pierrot and Charmian Bedford as Columbine.

It's followed by another excerpt from the recent BBC Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion cycle, dedicated to the music of the German composer Detlev Glanert. Today we've selected his Three Pieces for Clarinet, performed by musicians of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Then the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Michael Seal, present a concert with pieces by female composers, among them Dani Howard, Florence Price, Elzabeth Maconchy and Isidora Žebeljan. Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen makes an appearance too.

The afternoon closes with the ensemble performing Shchedrin's Carmen Suite, inspired in the opera by Georges Bizet, under the baton of Gergely Madaras.

2.00pm

Ethel Smyth: Fꀀte galante - a Dance-Dream in One Act: Poetic version by Edward Shanks, after Maurice Baring's story

Columbine - Charmian Bedford (soprano)

The Queen - Carolyn Dobbin (mezzo-soprano)

Pierrot - Felix Kemp (baritone)

The King - Simon Wallfisch (baritone)

The Lover - Mark Milhofer (tenor)

Harlequin - Alessandro Fisher (tenor)

Odaline de la Martinez, conductor

2.50pm

Glanert: Three Pieces for Clarinet (2003)

Raymond Brien, clarinet

Matthew Gemmill, piano

3.10pm

Dani Howard: Argentum

Florence Price: Sinner Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass

Elizabeth Maconchy: Serenata Concertante*

Isidora Žebeljan: The Horses of Saint Mark

Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violin*

Michael Seal, conductor

4.10pm

Bizet-Shchedrin: Carmen Suite

Gergely Madaras, conductor

A Dance Dream in One Act. Poetic version by Edward Shanks, after Maurice Baring's story.

Opera Matinee: Falla's La Vida Breve20190214A new recording of Falla's vivid, passionate opera from the BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena, followed by Elgar & Novak from the BBC Symphony Orchestra

2.00pm

Falla: La vida breve

Nancy Fabiola Herrera - Mezzo-soprano

Aquiles Machado - Tenor

Cristina Faus - Mezzo-soprano

Gustavo Pena - Singer

Josep Miquel Ramon - Baritone

Jose Antonio Lopez - Baritone

Vicente Coves - Guitar

Raquel de Luna - Dancer

Segundo Falcon - Singer

Spanish Radio Chorus

Juanjo Mena - Conductor

Visit the programme page for La Vida Breve synopsis

3.05pm

Elgar: Serenade for strings

Edward Gardner (conductor)

3.15pm

Novak: Eternal Longing

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

3.35pm

Musgrave: Songs for a Winter Evening

Lisa Milne (soprano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Osmo Vanska (conductor)

4.00pm

Beethoven: Symphony no.6 'Pastoral

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

The BBC Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras perform works by Falla, Elgar and Novak.

Opera Matinee: Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten20180614Kate Molleson presents a Bavarian State Opera production of Franz Schreker's psychological tragedy Die Gezeichneten - 'The Stigmatised'. A heady mix of sex, violence, deformity and art set in 16th-century Genoa, the opera has been aptly characterised as a kind of cross between The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.

Duke Adorno - Tomasz Konieczny (bass)

Count Tamare - Christopher Maltman (baritone)

Lodovico Nardi - Alastair Miles (bass-baritone)

Carlotta Nardi - Catherine Naglestad (soprano)

Alviano Salvago - John Daszak (tenor)

Guidobaldo Usodimare - Matthew Grills (tenor)

Menaldo Negroni - Kevin Conners (tenor)

Michelotto Cibo - Sean Michael Plumb (baritone)

Gonsalvo Fieschi - Andrea Borghini

Julian Pinelli - Peter Lobert

Paolo Calvi - Andreas Wolf

Capitano di giustizia - Tomasz Konieczny

Ginevra Scotti - Paula Iancic

Martuccia - Heike Gr怀tzinger

Pietro - Dean Power

Ein Jüngling - Galeano Salas

Dessen Freund, Diener, Ein riesiger Bürger - Milan Siljanov

Ein M䀀dchen - Selene Zanetti

Senator 1 - Ulrich Ress

Senator 2 - Christian Rieger

Senator 3 - Kristof Klorek

Dienerin - Niamh O'Sullivan

Bavarian State Opera Chorus

Bavarian State Opera Children's Chorus

Bavarian State Opera Orchestra

Ingo Metzmacher (conductor).

Kate Molleson presents Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten from the Bavarian State Opera.

Opera Matinee: Gluck's Orfeo Ed Euridice20190620Tom McKinney presents a performance of Gluck's three-act opera from Italian Radio, recorded at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome.

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)

Orfeo ed Euridice, opera in three acts, based on the myth of Orpheus

Librettist: Ranieri de Calzabigi (1714-1795)

Cast:

Orfeo.......Carlo Vistoli (countertenor)

Euridice....Mariangela Sicilia (soprano)

Amore......Em?ke Barကth (soprano)

Rome Opera Chorus

Roberto Gabbiani (chorus director)

Rome Opera Orchestra

Gianluca Capuano (conductor)

Tom McKinney presents a performance of Gluck's three-act opera from Italian Radio.

Opera Matinee: Gounod's Le Tribut De Zamora20180607Jonathan Swain celebrates Charles Gounod's 200th birthday on 17 June with a broadcast of his final opera, Le Tribut de Zamora, a tall tale of love, war, heroism and madness in 10th-century Spain.

Xama ... Judith van Wanroij (soprano)

Hermosa, Xama's long-lost mother ... Jennifer Holloway (mezzo-soprano)

Mano뀀l, Xama's fianc退 ... Edgaras Montvidas (tenor)

Ben-Sad, envoy of the caliph of Cordoba ... Tassis Christoyannis (baritone)

Handjar, brother of Ben-Sad ... Boris Pinkhasovich (baritone)

Igl退sia, Xama's friend / A young slave ... Juliette Mars (mezzo-soprano)

King of tenth-century Asturias / An Arab

soldier ... J退r䀀me Boutillier (baritone)

Mayor / Judge ... Artavazd Sargsyan (tenor)

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Munich Radio Orchestra

Conductor Herv退 Niquet.

Jonathan Swain celebrates Gounod's 200th birthday with his final opera Le Tribut de Zamora

Opera Matinee: Gy\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e1g's Fin De Partie20190711World premiere of 'Fin de partie', Gy怀rgy Kurtကg's first ever opera, written at the age of 91, recorded recently at La Scala theatre in Milan. Based on a famous play by Samuel Beckett and featuring four characters only, this is an existential reflection on the passing of time and the meaning of life, which unfolds in one act. La Scala Chorus and Orchestra, and a cast of soloists lead by the bass Frode Olsen, are conducted by Markus Stenz.

Then, the afternoon continues with another recording by the Suisse Romande Orchestra, our ensemble of the week, with its Music and Artistic Director, Jonathan Nott, conducting Schoenberg's Erwartung, Op. 17, a monodrama also in one act, featuring the soprano Angela Denoke in the sole role.

Closing the afternoon, a newly commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.

Presented by Kate Molleson.

2.00pm

Kurtag: Fin de partie, in one act

Hamm..........Frode Olsen (bass)

Clov..............Leigh Melrose (baritone)

Nell...............Hilary Summers (contralto)

Nagg............Leonardo Cortellazzi (tenor)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan

Markus Stenz, conductor

4.04pm

Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17, monodrama in one act

Angela Denoke, soprano

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Jonathan Nott, conductor

4.40

Roderick Williams: Three Songs from Ethiopia Boy

Chris Beckett (poet)

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Chineke! Orchestra

Eduardo Portal (conductor)

World premiere of Kurt\u00e1g's first-ever stage work, based on Beckett, from La Scala, Milan.

Opera Matinee: Handel's Rinaldo20190124A story of love, war and redemption, set at the time of the First Crusade, Handel's Rinaldo was the first Italian language opera written specifically for the London stage. Le Caravans退rail directed by Bertrand Cuiller bring a top-rate cast to this enduring story, recorded at the opening concert of the Musica Antiqua Festival (known as the MAfestival) in Bruges last year. After the opera, more Bach from the Monteverdi Choir plus the world premiere of Marko Ivanovi?'s song cycle based on the poems of Dorothy Parker 'Little Words'. Katarina Karn退us joins the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.

Handel: Rinaldo

Rinaldo.....Paul-Antoine B退nos (countertenor)

Goffredo.....Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano)

Almirena.....Emmanuelle de Negri (soprano)

Armida.....Aurore Bucher (soprano)

Argante.....Thomas Doli退 (bass)

Ensemble Le Caravans退rail

Bertrand Cuiller (Director)

c.4.15pm

Bach: Jesus schl䀀ft, was soll ich hoffen?, BWV 81

English Baroque Soloists

John Eliot Gardiner , conductor

Recorded at Dvo?ကk Hall, Rudolfinum

c.4.30pm

Marko Ivanovi?: Little Words

Katarina Karn退us , mezzo-soprano

Marko Ivanovi? , conductor

Smetana Hall,

A story of love, war and redemption set at the time of the First Crusade

Opera Matinee: Janacek's Fate20191107Fate, written in 1904, is the strangest of Leoš Janက?ek's peculiar operas. The relationship of the main character, composer Živný, with M퀀la Vကlkovက ends with a tragedy caused by M퀀la's insane mother. Živný also becomes a character in his own opera, whose third act remains in God's hands. Everything is shrouded in mysterious shadows of the past, while the future is lit by lightning, which Živný calls down on himself and his destiny - his Fate

Presented by Kate Molleson

2.00pm

Fate, opera in three acts

Martin Šrejma, tenor - Živný, a composer

Veronika Holbovက, soprano - M퀀la Valkovက

Petra Alvarez Šimkovက, soprano - Mila´s mother

Tom  Ko?퀀nek, tenor - Doctor Suda

Jakub Kettner, baritone - Lhotský, a painter

Luk  Ba?ကk, baritone - Verva/Kone?ný

National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Chorus & Orchestra

Jakub Klecker, conductor

3.20pm

Antheil

Symphony no.4

BBC Philharmonic

John Storgards, conductor

4.05pm

Prokofiev

Symphony no.6

Jac van Steen, conductor

Janacek's opera Fate, recorded at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre.

Opera Matinee: Janacek's Katya Kabanova20191114Brno hosts the largest festival dedicated to Janက?ek's operas and it was at the 2018 Janက?ek Brno festival that today's opera matinee Kကtya Kabanovက was recorded - conducted by Ondrej Olos and in a production by Robert Carsen with soprano Pavla Vykopalovက in the title role. Kကtya Kabanovက is based on Vincenc ?ervinka's Czech translation of The Storm, a play by Alexander Ostrovsky. The action takes place in a small, isolated Russian town on the banks of the river Volga. In this repressive society in which rules and appearances are all that matter, Katya feels trapped. Unhappily married to Tichon, who is dominated by his bitter and controlling mother Kabanicha, she longs to escape. When Tichon goes away on a journey, Kကtya lets Tichon's foster-sister Varvara persuade her to meet her young neighbour Boris. While Varvara enjoys a tryst with her own lover Kudrj , Boris and Kကtya meet and fall in love. When Tichon returns Katya's guilt and regret prove more than she can bear. For a full synopsis, see below.

2pm

Leoš Janက?ek: Kကtya Kabanovက

Katya Kabanova - Pavla Vykopalovက (soprano)

Boris Grigorjevi?, Katya's lover - Magnus Vigilius (tenor)

Tichon Kabanov, Katya's husband - Gianluca Zampieri (tenor)

Kabanicha, Tichon's mother - Eva Urbanovက (contralto)

Dikoy, Boris' uncle - Ji?퀀 Sulženko (bass-baritone)

Varvara, foster daughter of the family - Lenka ?ermကkovက (mezzo-soprano)

Kudryash, Varvara's lover - Jaroslav B?ezina (tenor)

Kuligin, friend of Kudryash - Igor Loškကr (baritone)

Feklusha - Jitka Zerhauovက (mezzo-soprano)

Žena. a woman in the crowd - Hana Prochကzkovက (contralto)

Janက?ek Theatre Chorus

Janက?ek Theatre Orchestra

Ondrej Olos (conductor)

c.3.35pm

Arthur Bliss: Meditations on a Theme by John Blow

BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Sir Andrew Davis, conductor

c.4.10pm

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 3 'Pastoral

Elizabeth Watts, soprano

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

From the 2018 Brno festival, Janacek's tragic opera depicts a woman desperate for love.

Opera Matinee: Korngold's Die Tote Stadt And Stravinsky's Petrushka20191017Opera Matin退e - from La Scala, Milan, Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Plus Stravinsky's Petrushka with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jessica Cottis.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Korngold's Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City) recorded live earlier this year at La Scala opera house in Milan, with the tenor Klaus Florian Vogt as Paul and the soprano Asmik Grigorian as Marietta in this tragic tale of love, angst and remorse where the living and the dead play their part. La Scala Chorus, Orchestra and soloists are conducted by Alan Gilbert.

Continuing this week's recordings from the Prague Spring Festival '19, the afternoon finishes with Stravinsky's suite from the ballet Petrushka, performed by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jessica Cottis.

2.00pm

Erich Wolfgang Korngold:

Die tote Stadt (The Dead City), opera in three acts

Paul - Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor)

Marietta, a dancer - Asmik Grigorian (soprano)

Frank, Paul's friend / Fritz, the Pierrot - Markus Werba (baritone)

Brigitta, Paul's housekeeper - Cristina Damian (contralto)

Juliette, a dancer - Marika Spadafino (soprano)

Lucienne, a dancer - Daria Cherniy (mezzo-soprano)

Victorin, a regisseur - Sergei Ababkin (tenor)

Count Albert / Gastone, a dancer - Sascha Emanuel Kramer ( tenor)

La Scala Chorus & Orchestra, Milan

Alan Gilbert, conductor

4.20pm

Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka - suite

Jessica Cottis, conductor

Korngold's Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City) at La Scala, Milan, plus Stravinsky's Petrushka.

Opera Matinee: La Traviata20210624Today's Opera Matinee is a performance of Verdi's ever-popular La Traviata from the Grand Th退 tre in Bordeaux, conducted by Paul Daniel. Rachel Willis-Sørensen sings courtesan Violetta, Benjamin Bernheim her Alfredo, and Lionel Lhote his father Germont who asks her to make the ultimate sacrifice to preserve his family honour. Plus more from this week's featured orchestra, the BBC Scottish, with music by Anthony Payne.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

2pm

Verdi La Traviata

Violetta - Rachel Willis-Sørensen (soprano)

Alfredo - Benjamin Bernheim (tenor)

Germont - Lionel Lhote (baritone)

Giuseppe - Woosang Kim (tenor)

Flora - Ambroisine Br退 (mezzo-soprano)

Doctor Grenvil - Alex Rosen (bass)

Gastone - J退r退my Duffau (tenor)

Baron Douphol - Marc Scoffoni (baritone)

Marquis d'Obigny - Tristan Hambleton (bass)

Annina - Julie Pasturaud (soprano)

Commissioner - Cl退ment Godart (bass)

Chorus of the Op退ra National de Bordeaux

Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine

Paul Daniel (conductor)

c.4.10pm

The Spirit's Harvest

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins.

Fiona Talkington presents a production of Verdi's La Traviata from Bordeaux.

Opera Matinee: Le Timbre D'argent20181129Le timbre d'argent (The Silver Bell), by Camille Saint-Sa뀀ns. Performed by Op退ra Comique in a recording from 2017.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Conrad.....Edgaras Montvidas (tenor)

H退l耀ne.....H退l耀ne Guilmette (soprano)

Spiridion.....Tassis Christoyannis (baritone)

B退n退dict.....Yu Shao (tenor)

Rosa.....Jodie Devos (soprano)

Patrick.....Jean-Yves Ravoux (tenor)

Frantz..... Matthieu Chapuis (tenor)

Circ退/ Fiammetta.....Rapha뀀lle Delaunay (ballerina)

Accentus

Les Si耀cles

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

Synopsis

On a Christmas night, Conrad, an obscure Viennese painter, rebels against misery. Unlucky in love and society, he can't take it any longer. During a deep crisis of despair, his physician appears to him in the guise of a devil. He offers him a magical object, his silver bell, each ringing of which will make him rich in abundance, while causing the death of an innocent. Upon waking, bewitched Conrad strikes the bell: gold flows but the dead are already collapsed on his doorstep.

Le timbre d'argent (The Silver Bell), by Camille Saint-Saens performed by Opera Comique.

Opera Matinee: Leopold Kozeluch's Gustav Vasa20190509Opera from around the world, presented by Georgia Mann.

Leopold Koželuch: Gustav Vasa, opera in three acts

Mario Zeffiri, tenor, Gustav Vasa (Gustav Ericsson Wasa)

Cornelius Uhle, bass-baritone, Christian II of Denmark (Christiern II)

Niall Chorell, tenor, Søren Norby (Severin Norrby), naval officer in the fleet of Charles II

Martina Jankovက, soprano, Christina Gyllenstierna, widow of Sten Sture

Helena Juntunen, soprano, Cecilia of Eka (Cecilia M倀nsdotter Eka), Gustav's mother

Monica Groop, mezzo-soprano, Margareta Vasa (Margaretha Wasa), Gustav's sister

Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano, Guardian Angel of Sweden

Helsinki Chamber Choir

Helsinki Baroque Orchestra

Aapo H䀀kkinen, conductor

Koželuch's only surviving opera, Gustav Vasa, is resurrected two centuries after the composer's death! The Czech-born composer Leopold Koželuch was a significant competitor of Mozart, and among their contemporaries, even more acknowledged of the two.

Gustav Vasa explores the important event in the history of the Swedish nation: the battle between Sweden and Denmark at the beginning of the 16th century.

A performance by the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and Helsinki Chamber Choir.

Opera Matinee: Lucia Di Lammermoor20191031Tom McKinney continues his week of Scottish-flavoured afternoons with a performance of Donizetti's masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor, inspired by the novel by Walter Scott.

Written in an inspired outpouring of creativity, Donizetti's three act Lucia di Lammermoor is one of the most important and popular masterpieces in the Romantic Italian Bel Canto tradition. A story of love, hate and passion centred around the love triangle of Lucia, Edgardo and Enrico. It has been in the Vienna State Opera's repertory since 1926. This recording from Vienna was made this summer with the Russian soprano Olga Peretyatko in the title role.

CAST

George Petean, baritone, Lord Enrico Ashton

Olga Peretyatko, coloratura soprano, Lucia

Juan Diego Fl rez, tenor, Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood

Lukhanyo Moyake, tenor, Lord Arturo Bucklaw, Lucia's bridegroom

Jongmin Park, bass, Raimondo Bidebent

Virginie Verrez, mezzo-soprano, Alisa, Lucia's handmaid

Leonardo Navarro, tenor, Normanno, huntsman and retainer of Enrico

Vienna State Opera Chorus

Stage Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

Vienna State Opera Orchestra

Evelino Pid , conductor

The Vienna State Opera presents a performance of Donizetti's tragic opera.

Opera Matinee: Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor20200910Tom McKinney presents Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor from the 2019 Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival.

Cast:

Jadwiga............Monika Ledzion-Porczy?ska, mezzo-soprano

Zbigniew..........Mariusz Godlewski, baritone

Miecznik, sword-bearer.........Tomasz Konieczny, bass-baritone

Sko?uba............Rafa? Siwek, bass

Marta................Joanna Krasuska-Motulewicz, mezzo-soprano

Hanna...............Edyta Piasecka, soprano

Cze?nikowa, Chamberlain's wife..............Malgorzata Walewska, mezzo-soprano

Stefan...........Arnold Rutkowski, tenor

Grze?............Pawe? Cicho?ski, tenor

Maciej..........Marcin Bronikowski, baritone

Stara niewiasta, Old woman..........Oksana Go?ombowska, contralto

Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Chorus

Violetta Bielecka, chorus director

Orchestra of the 18th Century

Grzegorz Nowak, conductor

Opera Matinee: Monteverdi's L'orfeo20181115The earliest complete opera that survives to our day, based on an ancient Greek fable. This Baroque jewel is conducted by Leonardo Garc퀀a Alarc n at the helm of a starry young cast & ensemble, with Valerio Contaldo in the title role as the hapless Thracian who fails to bring his dead lover Euridice, the unmistakable voice of soprano Mariana Flores, back from the Underworld, only to be rescued at the end by the gods.

After the opera we return to this week's focus on the endlessly versatile BBC Concert Orchestra in music by Jean-Michel Damase & Ina Boyle.

Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo

Orfeo (Orpheus) - Valerio Contaldo (tenor)

Euridice (Eurydice) & La Musica (Music) - Mariana Flores (soprano)

Messaggiera (Messenger) - Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano)

Speranza (Hope) / Proserpina (Proserpine) - Anna Reinhold (mezzo-soprano)

Ninfa (Nymph) - Estelle Lefort (soprano)

Plutone (Pluto) - Konstantin Wolff (bass)

Caronte (Charon) - Salvo Vitale (bass)

Spirito (Spirit) & Eco (Echo) - Nicholas Scott (tenor)

Pastore (A Shepherd) - Leandro Marziotte (countertenor)

Pastore (A Shepherd) - Matteo Bellotto (bass)

Pastore (A Shepherd) - Philippe Favette (bass)

Pastore (A Shepherd) & Apollo - Alessandro Giangrande (tenor)

Namur Chamber Choir

Cappella Mediterranea

Leonardo Garc퀀a Alarc n (conductor

c.3.55pm

Jean-Michel Damase: S退r退nade for Flute and String Orchestra

Ransom Wilson, flute

Perry So, conductor

c.4.15pm

Ina Boyle: Concerto for violin & orchestra

A Sea Poem: Theme, variations & finale for orchestra

Benjamin Baker, violin

Ronald Corp, conductor

Monteverdi's seminal tale of love and death from the Ambronay Festival

Opera Matinee: Monteverdi's The Return Of Ulysses20210513Penny Gore presents Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses in a Royal Opera production staged at the Roundhouse in London in 2018. Christian Curnyn conducts the Early Opera Company.

In this story based on Homer's Odyssey, Ulysses, sung by Roderick Williams, is returning home to Ithaca after twenty years away at the Trojan War. Penelope, sung by Caitlin Hulcup, is his faithful and patient wife, but her suitors grow in number and in a twist of the drama, she initially rejects her husband, as she doesn't recognise him. Fortunately, Ulysses convinces her of his identity and love, and they're happily reunited.

Monteverdi: The Return of Ulysses (sung in English in a translation by Christopher Cowell)

Ulysses / Human Frailty - Roderick Williams (Baritone)

Penelope - Caitlin Hulcup (Mezzo-soprano)

Antinous / Time - David Shipley (Bass)

Minerva / Fortune - Catherine Carby (Mezzo-soprano)

Melantho / Love - Francesca Chiejina (Soprano)

Telemachus - Samuel Boden (Tenor)

Eurycleia - Susan Bickley (Mezzo-soprano

Eumaeus - Mark Milhofer (Tenor)

Irus - Stuart Jackson (Tenor)

Amphinomus - Nick Pritchard (Tenor)

Peisander - Tai Oney (Counter-tenor)

Eurymachus - Andrew Tortise (Tenor)

The Return of Ulysses Community Ensemble

Early Opera Company Orchestra

Christian Curnyn (Conductor).

A recording from the Roundhouse in London with Roderick Williams in the title role.

Opera Matinee: Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito20180628Tom McKinney introduces a performance from the 2017 Salzburg Festival of Mozart's last opera, a tale of sexual obsession and divided loyalties, set in Ancient Rome.

Director Peter Sellars and conductor Teodor Currentzis created a special performing-version of this opera for the Festival: shortening some of the recitatives but also including some music from Mozart's Mass K. 427, as well as the 'Adagio und Fuge, K. 546' and the Masonic Funeral Music, K. 477.

2pm:

Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito - opera seria in two acts, K621

Libretto by Caterino Tommaso Mazzol

Opera Matinee: Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro20190502Mozart's perennially popular opera recounts a single 'day of madness' in which the schemes of the Count Almaviva to exploit those around him backfire & he repents his devious ways. The servant couple Susanna and Figaro conspire with the forsaken Countess to outwit her husband and teach him a lesson in fidelity until, as if my magic, the opera ends in universal celebration!

Presented by Penny Gore

2.00pm

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

The Count Almaviva - .. Simone Alberghini (baritone)

The Countess Almaviva - Serena Farnocchia (soprano)

Figaro - Paolo Bordogna (bass)

Susanna - Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano)

Cherubino - Paola Gardina (mezzo-soprano)

Marcellina - Manuela Custer (soprano)

Bartolo - Fabrizio Beggi (bass)

Basilio - Saverio Fiore (tenor)

Don Curzio - Joshua Sanders (tenor)

Antonio - .. Matteo Peirone (bass)

Barbarina - .. Mariasole Mainini (soprano)

First Girl - Manuela Giacomini (soprano)

Second Girl - .. Claudia De Pian (mezzo-soprano)

Teatro Regio Chorus

Orchestra of the Teatro Regio, Turin

Speranza Scappucci, conductor

Recorded in July 2018 at the Teatro Regio, Turin

Mozart's much-loved comic opera in a performance from the Teatro Regio, Turin.

Opera Matinee: Nino Rota's The Italian Straw Hat20190516This afternoon sees 'Godfather' composer Nino Rota in lighter vein with a delightful comic opera recorded last year at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. Rota composed this opera, one of ten, in 1945 but it was not produced until ten years later - it's gone on in Italy to be one of best-loved of 20th century operas

Set in a madcap Paris, Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze (usually translated as 'The Italian Straw Hat') has been described as an extended chase sequence: groom-to-be Fadinard chases around Paris on the day of his wedding day desperately searching for a replacement straw hat after his horse has eaten his. This being an Italian opera buffa, the plot becomes ever more absurd as misunderstandings and mishaps inevitably accrue.

Presented by Penny Gore

2.00pm

Rota : Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze

Fadinard, a bridegroom - Piero Adaini, tenor

Elena, Fadinard's bride - Zuzana Markovက, soprano

Nonancourt, Elena's father - Gianluca Buratto, bass

La Baronessa di Champigny - Anna Malavasi, mezzo

Beaupertuis - Bruno de Simone, baritone

Anaide, Beaupertuis' wife - Anna Maria Sarra, soprano

Emilio, Anaide's lover - Dario Giorgel耀, baritone

V退zinet, Elena's uncle - Marco Miglietta, tenor

Teatro San Carlo Chorus & Orchestra

Valerio Galli, conductor

A delightful comic opera from Godfather composer Nino Rota.

Opera Matinee: Orlando Furioso20180712Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso recorded in the Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca as part of the Festival della Valle d'Itria.

Based on the epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto and with a libretto by Grazio Braccioli, Vivaldi's three act opera centres around a malicious sorceress, Alcina, and the wicked confusion she creates on her magic island. It is tour de force for the cast of singers and a production is a must see for lovers of baroque opera. This recording, made at the atmospheric Palazzo Ducale, in Martina Franca, in southern Italy, was given as part of the Festival della Valle d'Itria before the production was transferred with great acclaim to Vivaldi's home city of Venice.

Sonia Prina - (contralto) Orlando

Michela Antenucci - (soprano) Angelica

Lucia Cirillo - (soprano) Alcina

Loriana Castellano - (contralto) Bradamante

Konstantin Derri - (tenor) Medoro

Luigi Schifano - (tenor) Ruggiero

Riccardo Novaro - (bass) Astolfo

Orchestra: I Barocchisti

Conductor: Diego Fasolis

Synopsis

Act 1

In a delightful garden in which two springs are seen, Medoro escapes from a shipwreck into the arms of his beloved Angelica. Alcina magically helps Medoro and he recounts how he was first captured, then shipwrecked. Orlando is jealous of Medoro, but Angelica lies and says Medoro is her brother.

Alcina is attracted to the knight Ruggiero. She uses her magic to make him forget Bradamante and love her instead. Bradamante discovers Ruggiero's 'betrayal.' She shows him the ring he gave her therefore breaking Alcina's spell. Ruggiero feels guilty for his actions.

Act 2

In a grove with green secluded spots, Astolfo reflects how he loves Alcina, but is tormented by her unfaithfulness.

Meanwhile, in a mountainous alpine region with a high, precipitous cliff, Angelica and Medoro swear their love and part ways. To rid herself of Orlando, Angelica sends him to fight a monster who guards an elixir of youth.

Orlando enters a cavern and is trapped. Realizing Angelica's faithlessness, he digs his way out.

Angelica and Medoro marry in a countryside at the foot of a hill. They carve their vows on a nearby tree. Orlando finds the tree, and on reading the inscription, becomes so furious that he starts destroying the trees.

Act 3

The place is at the Entrance Hall before the Temple of Hecate. Astolfo believes Orlando dead. With Ruggiero and Bradamante, he plots revenge against Alcina. The secret of Alcina's power lies in an urn, which is locked in the temple of Hecate. They await Alcina's return.

Inside the temple of Hecate, Bradamante disguises herself as a man. Alcina falls in love with her. Orlando, still raving mad about the marriage of Angelica and Medoro, fights with the temple statues, inadvertently destroying Alcina's power.

In a deserted island. Alcina tries to attack the sleeping Orlando, but is prevented by Ruggiero and Bradamante. Astolfo returns to arrest Alcina. Orlando regains his reason and forgives Angelica and Medoro.

Episode image by Studio Amati Bacciardi.

Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso.

Opera Matinee: Peter Heise's The King And The Marshall20200312Presented by Elizabeth Alker.

Peter Heise's 1850 opera 'Drot og Marsk' is based on the 13th-century true story of the murder of Danish king Eric Glipping. The king is an inveterate womaniser and when he seduces Ingeborg, the wife of Marshal Stig, the marshal organises a conspiracy to kill him. Stig is banished and Ingeborg commits suicide.

This version was recorded last May by the Royal Danish Opera Chorus and Orchestra under the baton of Michael Schønwandt, accompanying a cast including Peter Lodahl as King Erik, Johann Reuter as Marshall Stig and Sine Bundgaard as Ingeborg.

The opera is followed by more from this week's featured performing group - The Ulster Orchestra. Rafael Payare conducts Shostakovich's Festive Overture, which was written to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia. They close with Webern's orchestration of Bach's Ricercar from The Musical Offering presented to Frederick the Great in 1747.

2.00pm

Peter Heise: Drot og Marsk (The King and The Marshall

Marshall Stig - Johann Reuter (baritone)

King Erik - Peter Lodahl (tenor)

Rane Johnsen - Gert Henning-Jensen (tenor)

Fru Ingeborg - Sine Bundgaard (soprano)

Aase - Sofie Elkjaer Jensen (soprano)

Count Jakob to Halland - Morten Staugaard (actor)

Jens Grand - Simon Duus (bass-baritone)

Herold - Teit Kanstrup (baritone)

Royal Danish Opera Orchestra

Michael Schønwandt, conductor

4.40pm

Shostakovich: Festive Overture

Bach arr. Webern: Ricercar

Rafael Payare, conductor

Peter Heise's opera based on the true story of the murder of Danish king Eric Glipping.

Opera Matinee: Ponchielli's La Gioconda20191205Sex and death in Venice - plus the Dance of the Hours for light relief. Canny marketing too - the name La Gioconda is borrowed from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Not that Ponchielli's opera has any connection at all with the painting. What it does have is everything you'd expect from a nineteenth-century Italian opera with a text by Verdi's favourite librettist (Arrigo Boito): illicit love, scheming wickedness, witchcraft, spying, disguise, deception, undying loyalty, ultimate tragedy - and great tunes. Presented by Penny Gore.

Gioconda, a singer - Anna Pirozzi (soprano)

Laura Adorno, a Genoese lady - Dolora Zajick (mezzo-soprano)

Alvise Badoero, Laura's husband and State Inquisitor - Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (bass)

La Cieca, Gioconda's blind mother - Mar퀀a Jos退 Montiel (contralto)

Enzo Grimaldo, a Genoese prince - .. Brian Jagde (tenor)

Barnaba, spy for the Inquisition - .. Gabriele Viviani (baritone)

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Opera Matinee: Puccini Double Bill.20180621Georgia Mann presents Opera Matinee, consisting of a Puccini double-bill, recorded at the Teatro Monumental, Madrid by the Chorus and Orchestra of Spanish Radio.

Puccini: Le villi

Guglielmo Wolf - Vladimir Chernov (baritone)

Roberto - Leonardo Caimi (tenor)

Ana - Carmen Solis (soprano)

RTVE Chorus

RTVE Symphony Orchestra

Miguel Angel G mez Martinez (conductor)

3.10: Edgar

Edgar - Marcello Giordani (tenor)

Fidelia - Carmen Solis (soprano)

Tigrana - In退s Moraleda (mezzo-soprano)

Franck - Josep Miquel Ram n (baritone)

Gualtiero - Carmelo Cord n (bass)

In Le villi, Puccini's first work for the stage, Roberto and Anna are engaged to be married. But Roberto must leave before the ceremony to collect an inheritance, and Anna worries that she will never see him again. Her anxiety is fully justified, as he falls into the hands of Le villi, the fairies.

In Edgar, Puccini's second opera, the hero is torn between the sacred love for the pure-hearted Fidelia and the profane love for the wild and feisty Tigrana. His over-complicated love life leads to tragedy.

Georgia Mann presents Opera Matinee consisting of a Puccini double bill.

Opera Matinee: Puccini's Il Trittico20180531Penny Gore presents a production of Puccini's Il trittico from the Bavarian State Opera, conducted by Kirill Petrenko

Jealousy and murder, loss and suicide, romance and trickery all feature in Puccini's trilogy of one-act operas, taking us from the gritty banks of the River Seine, to a convent doomed to tragedy, finally on to knock-about comedy

2.00pm

Puccini: Il tabarro

Michele, a barge-owner................Wolfgang Koch (baritone)

Luigi, a stevedore .......................Yonghoon Lee (tenor)

Giorgetta, Michele's wife........Eva-Maria Westbroek (soprano)

2.50pm

Puccini: Suor Angelica

Sister Angelica........................Ermonela Jaho (soprano)

The Princess, Angelica's aunt....Michaela Schuster (contralto)

The Abbess......................Claudia Mahnke (mezzo-soprano)

The Monitress................Helena Zubanovich (mezzo-soprano)

The Mistress of the Novices..Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)

Sister Genovieffa....................Anna El-Khashem (soprano)

Sister Osmina.............Annette Beck-Sch䀀fer (mezzo-soprano)

Sister Dolcina..........................Paula Iancic (soprano)

3.40pm

Puccini: Gianni Schicchi

Gianni Schicchi....................Ambrogio Maestri (baritone)

Lauretta, Schicchi's daughter.............Rosa Feola (soprano)

Zita, cousin of Buoso Donati.....Michaela Schuster (contralto)

Rinuccio, Zita's nephew..................Pavol Breslik (tenor)

Gherardo, Buoso's nephew....................Dean Power (tenor)

Nella, Gherardo's wife................Selene Zanetti (soprano)

La Ciesca....................Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)

Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Children's Chorus

Bavarian State Opera Orchestra

Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

We continue this week's survey of recent performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with:

4.35pm

Mark David Boden: Clarinet Concerto (World Premiere)

Robert Plane (clarinet)

BBC NOW

Jac van Steen (conductor).

Penny Gore presents a production of Puccini's Il trittico by the Bavarian State Opera.

Opera Matinee: Puccini's Manon Lescaut20200116Today's Opera Matinee was recorded at the Erkel Theatre in Budapest in 2019: Puccini's first great operatic triumph - Manon Lescaut.

Manon, who has shown a taste for pleasure, is on her way to a convent on the orders of her parents when she meets the young student Des Grieux. The pair fall in love and elope to Paris, but when the elderly Geronte offers Manon a life of wealth and luxury, her head is turned.

Hungarian soprano Gabriella L退tay Kiss sings the title role of Manon, with the late Marcello Giordani as Des Grieux and bass Andrကs Palerdi as the older, wealthier man, G退ronte de Ravoir. Balကzs Kocsကr conducts the Hungarian State Opera Chorus & Orchestra.

2pm

Manon Lescaut, an opera in four acts, by Giacomo Puccini

Gabriella L退tay Kiss, soprano - Manon Lescaut

Marcello Giordani, tenor - Chevalier des Grieux

Levente Molnကr, baritone - Lescaut (Manon's brother, a sergeant)

Andrကs Palerdi, bass - G退ronte de Ravoir (Treasurer General)

P退ter Balcz , tenor - Edmond (a student)

J zsef Mukk, tenor - Lamplighter

Andrကs Kiss, bass-baritone - Innkeeper / Naval Captain

Sကndor Egri, bass - Sergeant

Melinda Heiter, mezzo-soprano - Musician

Lကszl  Be怀thy-Kiss, tenor - Dancing Master

Balကzs Kocsကr, conductor

4.10pm

Celia Swart: In my web

Herz Ensemble

4.20pm

Bela Bartok: Violin Concerto No.2

Renaud Capu瀀on, violin

BBC Symphony Orchestra

P退ter E怀tv怀s, conductor

Presented by Penny Gore

Penny Gore introduces Opera Matinee: Puccini's Manon Lescaut from Budapest Opera.

Opera Matinee: Rameau's Les Boreades20190523Rameau Les Bor退ades, opera in five parts

Hannah French introduces this performance of Rameau's last trag退dies en musique, recorded at the Utrecht Early Music Festival.

Jean Philippe Rameau's Les Bor退ades, is an appropriate work to play in this week of Afternoon Concerts which feature Radio France's orchestras since it was at the Maison de la Radio in Paris, that the ORTF gave the modern premiere of a version of Rameau's opera in 1964.

Les Bor退ades (The Descendants of Boreas) explores the idea of mutual love between Alphise, queen of Bactria, and Abaris, a foreigner of unknown origin who has been brought up by the high priest of Apollo. From the romping horns in the prelude through the many ballet scenes to the presentation of a magic arrow by Cupid to Alphise and on to the end, where darkness gives way to light, this is Rameau at his most colourful. The coup de th退 tre is perhaps the moment that the arrow is used to quell the rage of the Boreads: they want to be feared but can they be loved?

Alphise: Deborah Cachet (soprano)

S退mire, L'Amour, Polimnie: Caroline Weynants (soprano)

Abaris: Juan Sancho (tenor)

Calisis: Benedikt Kristjကnsson (tenor)

Adamas: Benoit Arnould (baritone)

Bor退e: Nicolas Brooymans (bass)

Boril退e: Tomကs Selc (bass)

Apollon: Lukaš Zeman (bass)

Collegium Vocale 1704 and Collegium 1704

Vကclav Luks (conductor)

then at approx 4pm more from this week's featured French orchestras

Barber: School for Scandal, op. 5, overture

Orchestre National de France, Lan Shui (conductor)

Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 ('The Age of Anxiety'), for piano and orchestra (1965 version)

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

Rameau's Les Boreades from the Utrecht Early Music Festival, introduced by Hannah French.

Opera Matinee: Rameau's Les Indes Galantes20200402Rameau's Les Indes Galantes, an opera-ballet inspired by love in exotic places like Turkey, Peru and Persia, in a recording taken from the International Baroque Opera Festival in Beaune, France, with La Chapelle Harmonique and singers, under the baton of Valentin Tournet. Then, we welcome back the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, our ensemble of the week, to perform Mozart's Symphony No 35 in D major and Takemitsu's Requiem for Strings, conducted by the orchestra's Conductor Emeritus, Donald Runnicles.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

2.00pm

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes Galantes, opera-ballet in one prologue and three acts

Emilie, Phani - Emmanuelle de Negri, soprano

Val耀re, Carlos, Damon - Philippe Talbot, tenor

Bellone, Huascar, Alvar - Luigi de Donato, bass

Osman, Adario - Guillaume Andrieux, baritone

H退b退, Zima - Ana Quintans, soprano

Amour - Julie Roset, soprano

La Chapelle Harmonique Chorus and Orchestra

Valentin Tournet, conductor

3.25pm

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No.35 in D major, K.385

Toru Takemitsu: Requiem for Strings

Donald Runnicles, conductor

From the International Baroque Opera Festival in Beaune, France. Then Mozart and Takemitsu

Opera Matinee: Rimsky-korsakov's The Golden Cockerel20171109As part of Radio 3's season Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture, Penny Gore presents our opera matin退e featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel, a satire of Russian absolutism and imperialism, inspired on a poem by Pushkin. Ivor Bolton conducts the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro Real in Madrid with the bass Dmitiri Ulyanov as Tsar Dodon, the tenor Sergei Skorokhodov as Tsarevich Gvidon and the soprano Venera Gimadieva as the Tsaritsa of Shemakha. Between Acts 2 and 3 there is a short interlude based on The Golden Cockerel, a concert fantasy by Efrem Zimbalist and Hymn to the Sun by Fritz Kreisler. The opera is followed by Shostakovich's Symphony No 12, performed by the National Orchestra of Wales under conductor Thomas Sondergard.

2.00pm

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel, opera in three acts

[Between Acts 2 and 3 there is a short interlude based on The Golden Cockerel, 'Concert Phantasy' by Efrem Zimbalist and 'Hymn to the Sun' by Fritz Kreisler]

Tsar Dodon - Dmitiri Ulyanov (bass)

Tsarevich Gvidon - Sergei Skorokhodov (tenor)

Tsarevich Afron - Alexey Lavrov (baritone)

General Polkan - Alexander Vinogradov (bass)

Amelfa, a housekeeper - Olesya Petrova (contralto)

Astrologer - Alexander Kravets (tenor altino)

Tsaritsa of Shemakha - Venera Gimadieva (coloratura soprano)

Little Golden Cockerel - Sara Blanch (soprano)

Teatro Real Chorus

Teatro Real Orchestra

Ivor Bolton (conductor)

4.15pm

Shostakovich: Symphony No 12 in D minor, Op 112 (The Year 1917)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel and Shostakovich's Symphony No 12 with the BBC NOW.

Opera Matinee: Rossini's Adina20190606Elizabeth Alker introduces a new co-production with Wexford Festival Opera of Rossini's one-act comic opera 'Adina', recorded in August 2018 at the Rossini Opera Festival which is held each year in Pesaro, Italy, where Rossini was born.

Rossini Adina, comic opera in one act

Librettist: Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini

Cast:

Adina......Lisette Oropesa (soprano)

Califo......Vito Priante (baritone)

Selimo....Levy Sekgapane (tenor)

Ali.............Matteo Macchioni (tenor)

Mustafa....Davide Giangregorio (bass-baritone)

Teatro della Fortuna M. Agostini Chorus

Gioachino Rossini Symphony Orchestra

Diego Matheuz (conductor)

Elizabeth Alker introduces a performance from Italy of Rossini's one-act comic opera.

Opera Matinee: Rossini's Barber Of Seville20180118Tom McKinney presents Rossini's comic favourite The Barber of Seville from Geneva, conducted by Jonathan Nott. Plus a world premiere by Matthew Kaner at the 2017 Lucerne Festival.

The enterprising Sevillian barber Figaro takes the operatic world by storm as he fixes up his boss Count Almaviva's elopement with Rosina. This being comic opera, pretty much everything that can go wrong does go wrong, giving Rossini the excuse for two and a half hours of sparkling music.

The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia)

Count Almaviva - Bogdan Mihai (tenor)

Figaro, the Barber of Seville - Bruno Taddia (baritone)

Rosina - Lena Belkina (mezzo-soprano)

Doctor Bartolo, Rosina's guardian - Bruno de Simone (bass)

Don Basilio, a music teacher - Marco Spotti (bass)

Berta, Dr Bartolo's servant - Mary Feminear (mezzo-soprano)

Fiorello, Count Almaviva's servant - Rodrigo Garcia (baritone)

Ambrogio, Dr Bartolo's servant - Peter Baekeun Cho (bass)

Officer - Aleksandar Chaveev (bass)

Chorus of the Grand Th退 tre, Geneva (Chorus Director Alan Woodbridge)

Suisse Romande Orchestra

Conductor Jonathan Nott

4.35pm

Matthew Kaner: Encounters (world premiere)

Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra

Conductor Jeffrey Means

The Barber of Seville is the second of a trilogy of Rossini operas on Radio 3 this January: Opera on 3 on 6 January featured the Royal Opera's production of his tragedy Semiramide, starring Joyce DiDonato (now available on the Radio 3 website), and Opera Matinee next Thursday (25 January) is his rarely heard Biblical drama Moses in Egypt.

Tom McKinney presents Rossini's comic favourite The Barber of Seville.

Opera Matinee: Rossini's Ricciardo E Zoraide From The Rossini Opera Festival20181206Opera matin退e: marking the 200th anniversary of the premi耀re of Rossini's drama Ricciardo e Zoaride, super-star tenor Juan Diego Fl rez and the soprano Pretty Yende are the lovers of the title in this Oriental tale of jealousy, disguises and kidnappings, taken from the 2018 Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Italy. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts a wonderful cast accompanied by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra and the Ventidio Basso Theatre Chorus, recorded at the Adriatic Arena in August.

Presented by Kate Molleson.

Zoraide - Pretty Yende (soprano)

Ricciardo - Juan Diego Fl rez (tenor)

Agorante -Sergei Romanovsky (tenor)

Ircano - Nicola Ulivieri (bass)

Zomira - Victoria Yarovaya (mezzo-soprano)

Ernesto - Xabier Anduaga (tenor)

Fatima - Sofia Mchedlishvili (soprano)

Elmira - Martiniana Antonie (mezzo-soprano)

Zamorre - Ruzil Gatin (tenor)

Giacomo Sagripanti (conductor)

For full synopsis visit the programme page

Rossini's Ricciardo e Zoraide from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.

Opera Matinee: Rossini's The Barber Of Seville20200709A barber who never cuts any hair and a young woman in lockdown - an opera for our times? Georgia Mann presents Rossini's comic masterpiece from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Figaro the barber helps Count Almaviva to spring his rich and sassy lover Rosina from the clutches of her guardian Dr Bartolo - through various implausible disguises and many close shaves. The sheer humour and energy of Rossini's opera soon made it a popular favourite: even Beethoven is supposed to have told Rossini 'Be sure to write more Barbers!' But there's an underlying poignancy too - especially if you know Mozart's sequel, The Marriage of Figaro, where Almaviva is already tired of Rosina and chasing Figaro's fiancee Susanna.

Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) - comic opera in 2 acts

Figaro, Sevillian barber - .. Vito Priante (bass)

Rosina - .. Daniela Mack (mezzo-soprano)

Count Almaviva - .. Javier Camarena (tenor)

Dr Bartolo - Jose Fardilha (bass)

Don Basilio, music teacher - Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)

Berta, Bartolo's housekeeper - Madeleine Pierard (soprano)

Fiorello, Almaviva's servant - .. Gyula Nagy (baritone)

Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra

Conductor Henrik Nanasi

Opera Matinee: Rossini's The Siege Of Corinth20180705Today's Opera Matinee is a rare opportunity to hear Rossini's first French opera, Le si耀ge de Corinthe (The Siege of Corinth). It was a reworking of his earlier opera for Naples, Maometto II. The basic situations and relationships between the characters are maintained from the earlier opera.

After the siege and destruction of Missolonghi in 1826 by Turkish troops during the Greek War of Independence, Rossini was able to capitalize on the topicality of his subject by moving the story back a few decades to the time when Sultan Mehmed II had indeed besieged the Greek city of Corinth in the 1450s.

Penny Gore introduces a recording made at last year's Rossini Festival in Pesaro starring the soprano Nino Machaidze and the bass Luca Pisaroni conducted by Roberto Abbado.

Rossini: Le si耀ge de Corinthe

Pamira..... Nino Machaidze (soprano)

Mahomet II..... Luca Pisaroni (bass)

N退ocl耀s..... Sergey Romanovsky (tenor)

Cl退om耀ne..... John Irvin (tenor)

Adraste..... Xabier Anduaga (tenor)

Hi退ros..... Carlo Cigni (bass)

Ism耀ne..... Cecilia Molinari (mezzo-soprano)

Omar..... Iurii Samoilov (tenor)

Ventidio Basso Theatre Chorus

Giovanni Farina (director)

RAI National Symphony Orchestra

Roberto Abbado (conductor)

2.00pm

Act 1

3.00pm

Act 2

4.05pm

Act 3.

Episode image by Studio Amati Bacciardi

Synopsis

Vestibule of the senate palace at Corinth

Cl退om耀ne, Governor of Corinth, recommends surrender to Mahomet II and his Turkish army but N退ocles, an officer in the Greek army wishes to press the attack. Cl退om耀ne is so impressed by N退ocles's bravery that he proposes N退ocles marry his daughter, Pamyre. To Cl退om耀ne's anger however, Pamyre has fallen in love with a mysterious stranger (Mahomet in disguise) who recently visited the city.

Cl退om耀ne is taken captive during N退ocles's assault. Mahomet offers a bargain - Cl退om耀ne's freedom in return for the hand of his daughter. Cl退om耀ne protests - preferring her still to marry N退ocles but she refuses and is traded to Mahomet in return for the governer's freedom.

Mahomet's tent

Mahomet and Pamyre's wedding plans are disrupted by N退ocles, who has come to demand Pamyre's return. Pretending that he is her brother, Pamyre flees with N退ocles. Mahomet is furious and swears bloody revenge on Corinth.

The tombs of Corinth, illuminated by a multitude of fires

In the tombs of Corinth, the Greeks prepare for their last stand. Cl退om耀ne laments Pamyre's betrayal as a chorus of Greek women are heard praying in the distance. Mahomet makes one last attempt to win Pamyre through diplomatic means but is rebuffed. He resolves to take back Pamyre through military means instead. N退ocles reunites Pamyre with her father as the Greeks recall past victories and pray for success in the coming battle. Their prayers are in vein however as the Turkish forces overwhelm them. Descending to the catacombs in search of his would-be bride, Mahamot discovers that Pamyre has committed suicide along with the other women of Corinth.

Rossini's Le si\u00e8ge de Corinthe (Siege of Corinth) from Pesaro. Introduced by Penny Gore.

Opera Matinee: Rossi's L'orfeo20181122Following last week's triumph with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, another opera inspired by the same ancient myth of the shepherd who loses his wife Eurydice and goes to the Underworld to fetch her. From the Opera National Bordeaux, in a recording made last year, Luigi Rossi's tragi-comic opera in 3 acts and a prologue, with the soprano Judith van Waroij in the title role.

Presented by Penny Gore

Orfeo - Judith van Wanroij (soprano)

Eurydice - Francesca Aspromonte (soprano)

Aristeo - Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano)

Proserpina, Venere - Giulia Semenzato (soprano)

Augure, Pluton - Nahuel di Pierro (bass)

Nutrice, Amore - Ray Chenez (countertenor)

Satiro - Renato Dolcini (baritone)

Vecchia - Dominique Visse (countertenor)

Endimione, Caronte - Victor Torres (baritone)

Momo - Marc Mauillon (tenor)

Apollo - David Tricou (tenor)

The Three Graces - Alicia Amo (soprano), Violaine Le Chenadec (soprano), Floriane Hasler (mezzo-soprano)

The Three Fates - Guillaume Guti退rrez (tenor), Olivier Coiffet (tenor), Virgile Ancely (bass-baritone)

Pygmalion Ensemble

Rapha뀀l Pichon, conductor

Before marrying her love, Orfeo, the beautiful Euridice consults the oracle, who warns them of bad omens surrounding in their futures. Despite the oracle's words, the two lovers move forward with their plans, driven by an unbounded love. Their marriage upsets Venus, who wanted Euridice to marry her prot退g退 Aristeo, and the goddess's anger soon bears fruit: Euridice is bitten by a snake and dies. The desperate Orfeo decides to journey to the Underworld to rescue her. The god of the Underworld agrees to give Euridice back to him, provided that he does not look at her until they reaching the world of the living. Unfortunately, Orfeo cannot control himself... he breaks his promise and turns around to see Euridice, thus losing her for ever. Mad with despair, he dies himself.

Following the opera, a recital given recently by musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.

Granados: La maja dolorosa

Antoine: Piano Quartet in B minor, Op. 6

Kelly: Six Songs, Op. 6

Stephan: Groteske

Butterworth: Love Blows as the Wind Blows

Opera matinee: Rossi's L'Orfeo with the Pygmalion Ensemble under Raphael Pichon

Opera Matinee: Rubinstein's The Demon20181101A thrilling live recording of Anton Rubinstein's steamy opera The Demon, recorded earlier this year at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, with Egils Sili?š in the title role

Poet Milkhail Lermontov's original poem was considered so sacrilegious, it was banned in Russia until nearly twenty years after his death

The Demon of the title is a fallen angel, damned to spend eternity alone. When he falls in love with Tamara, who is about to marry Prince Gudal's son, he kills the bridegroom. He tracks Tamara down to a convent and woos her: 'Tamara, love me! You will be the queen of the universe, my eternal companion,' he whispers into her soul. When Tamara yields and kisses him, her mortal body dies but her eternal soul is saved by the Angel. The Demon is left empty and alone, cursing the universe

2.00pm

The Demon, opera in three acts

Prince Gudal ... Alexander Zymbalyuk, bass

Tamara ... Asmik Grigorian, soprano

Prince Sinodal ... Igor Morosow, baritone

Sinodal's servant ... Roman Ialcic, bass

Tamara's nurse ... Larisa Kostiuk, mezzo-soprano

Demon ... Egils Sili?š, bass-baritone

Courier ... Antoni Comas, tenor

Angel ... Yuriy Mynenko, countertenor

Gran Teatre del Liceu Chorus & Symphony Orchestra

Mikhail Tatarnikov, conductor

4.05pm

Haydn

Symphony no.44 ‘Trauer

Brahms

Variations on a theme of Haydn

Ulster Orchestra

Andrew Gourlay, conductor

Synopsis - The Demon

Time: Unspecified

Place: Georgia

Act 1

Scene 1 Prologue

During a storm in the Caucasian mountains a chorus of evil spirits call upon the Demon to destroy the beauty of God's creation. The Demon sings of his hatred for the universe and rejects an Angel's plea for him to reconcile with heaven.

Scene 2

Tamara, awaiting her wedding with Prince Sinodal, is by a river with her attendants. The Demon sees her and falls in love with her. He promises her that 'all the world will kneel before her' if she returns his love. Tamara is fascinated but frightened by him and returns to the castle.

Scene 3

Prince Sinodal's caravan is making its way to Prince Gudal's court for his marriage to Tamara but is delayed by a landslide. The Demon appears and vows that Prince Sinodal will never see Tamara again. The carvan is attacked by Tatars, and Prince Sinodal is mortally wounded. Before he dies he tells his servant to bring his body to Tamara.

Act 2

Scene 4

The festivities for the wedding have already begun. A messenger announces that Prince Sinodal's caravan has been delayed.[8] Tamara senses the presence of the Demon and is fearful. When Prince Sinodal's body is brought into the castle, Tamara is overcome by grief, but to her horror, keeps hearing the supernatural voice of the Demon and his promises. She begs her father to let her enter a convent.

Act 3

Scene 5

The Demon intends to enter the convent where Tamara is now living, believing that his love for her has opened his spirit to goodness. An Angel tries in vain to stop him.

Scene 6

Tamara prays in her convent cell but is constantly troubled by thoughts of the Demon, who appears to her in her dreams. The Demon now appears in reality, declares his love for her and begs her to love him in return. Tamara tries to resist her attraction to him but fails. The Demon kisses her in triumph. The Angel suddenly appears and shows her the ghost of Prince Sinodal. In horror, Tamara struggles out of the Demon's arms and falls dead.

Epilogue and Apotheosis

The Angel proclaims that Tamara has been redeemed by her suffering, while the Demon is damned to eternal solitude. The Demon curses his fate. In the final Apotheosis Tamara's soul is carried to Heaven accompanied by angels.

Egils Silins sings the title role in a live recording of Rubinstein's opera, The Demon.

Opera Matinee: Salieri's Sparkling Opera La Fiera Di Venezia20181220A rare chance to hear one of Salieri's finest and sparkliest operas. La Fiera di Venezia, with an international cast of young singers and crack period instrument group L'Arte del Mondo in a performance recorded in May at this year's Schwetzingen Festival in Germany

The beautiful but low-born Falsirena tries ingenious ways of seducing Duke Ostrogoto, despite his engagement to a noblewoman: she poses successively as an unemployed opera singer, a French baroness and a German soap-seller against the background of the dazzling Venetian carnival

SALIERI - LA FIERA DI VENEZIA

Falsirena.....Francesa Lombardi Mazzulli (Soprano)

Grifagno .....Furio Zanasi (baritone)

Calloandra .....Dilyara Idrisova (soprano)

Ostrogoto .....Krystian Adam (tenor)

Christallina .....Natalia Rubi? (soprano)

Rasoio .....Emanuele d'Aguanno (tenor)

Belfusto..... Giorgio Coaduro (baritone)

L'Arte del Mondo Chorus

Werner Erhardt (music director)

Opera Matinee: The Maid Of Pskov20190919Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov, telling of the brutal reign of Ivan the Terrible, in a performance recorded at the famous Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow

Presented by Hannah French

In the 16th century, Ivan the Terrible launched a brutally repressive campaign against the cities of Pskov and Novgorod. Novgorod is soon subdued by the Tzar's unstoppable army, but the future of sister-city Pskov somehow seems to hinge on Princess Olga Tokmanova, a young noblewoman with a mysterious past.

Plus more chamber music by Scottish composer Thea Musgrave, recorded at last year's Stockholm International Composer Festival.

2.00pm

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Maid of Pskov

Stanislav Trofimov, bass - Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich ('Ivan The Terrible')

Denis Makarov, bass - Prince Yuri Tokmakov

Ilya Selivanov, tenor - Mikhail

Dinara Alieva, soprano - Princess Olga Tokmakova

Ivan Maximeyko, tenor - Boyar Nikita Matuta

Bolshoi Theatre Chorus & Orchestra

Tugan Sokhiev, conductor

4.15pm

Musgrave: Music for Horn and Piano; Narcissus

Markus Maskuniitty, horn

Stefan Lindgren, piano

Anna Riikonen, flute

Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov, recorded at the famous Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

Opera Matinee: The Marriage Of Figaro20180920Penny Gore introduces Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro recorded last year at Bavaria's State Opera starring Christian Gerhaher, Federica Lombardi and Alex Esposito. Constantinos Carydis conducts Christof Loy's production

Mozart's opera, to a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, caused a storm in the eighteenth century for its revolutionary portrayal of class, intrigue and morals.

2.00pm

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, K.492

Count Almaviva, local nobleman.....Christian Gerhaher, bass

Countess Rosina Almaviva.....Federica Lombardi, soprano

Cherubino, the Count's page.....Solenn' Lavanant-Linke, soprano

Figaro, valet to the Count.....Alex Esposito, bass

Susanna, the Countess's maid.....Olga Kulchynska, soprano

Bartolo, doctor and lawyer.....Paolo Bordogna, bass

Marcellina, Bartolo's housekeeper.....Anne Sofie von Otter, soprano

Basilio, music teacher.....Manuel Günther, tenor

Don Curzio, judge.....Dean Power, tenor

Antonio, the Count's gardener and Susanna's uncle.....Milan Siljanov, bass

Barbarina, Antonio's daughter.....Anna El-Khashem, soprano

Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra

Constantinos Carydis, conductor

This afternoon's broadcast kicks off a trilogy of Mozart's Da Ponte operas: next Thursday features Don Giovanni

Penny Gore introduces Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro recorded at Bavaria's State Opera

Opera Matinee: Verdi's Nabucco, From Maribor In Slovenia20190404Opera matin退e: Verdi's Nabucco at the Maribor Slovene National Theatre. Verdi's third opera is based on the Old Testament story of the plight of the Jews as they are conquered and exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar). This serves as the backdrop for a romantic, tragic story involving Nabucco's daughter Abigaille and Ismaele, nephew of the king of Jerusalem. Stefano Romani conducts a cast led by the baritone Genadij Vaš?enko in the title role, the soprano Rebeka Lokar as Abigaille and the tenor Miro Solman as Ismaele. Listen out for wonderful moments for the chorus. Presented by Georgia Mann.

Followed by performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra - on tour in Monte Carlo with Bartok's First Violin Concerto - and delightfully witty music for mezzo-soprano and four percussionists by Ligeti.

2pm

Verdi: Nabucco

Nabucco - .. Genadij Vaš?enko (baritone)

Abigaille - .. Rebeka Lokar (soprano)

Fenena - Irena Petkova (mezzo-soprano)

Ismaele - .. Miro Solman (tenor)

Zaccaria - .. Ivan Tomašev (bass)

High priest of Baal - Marko Mandir (bass)

Abdallo - .. Dušan Topolovec (tenor)

Anna - .. Valentina ?uden (soprano)

SNG Maribor Opera Chorus

SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra

Stefano Romani (conductor)

4.10pm

Bart k: Violin Concerto No 1

Renaud Capu瀀on (violin)

P退ter E怀tv怀s (conductor)

From the BBC SO's Total Immersion: Ligeti

Ligeti: S퀀ppal, dobbal, nကdihegedüve

Ema Nikolovska (mezzo)

Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music

Julian Warburton (conductor)

Sibelius: Spring Song

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Stefano Romani conducts a Slovenian performance led by Genadij Vascenko and Rebeka Lokar.

Opera Matinee: Verdi's Rigoletto From Stockholm20191024Opera Matin退e - from the Swedish Royal Opera, Stockholm - Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi. Plus Richard Strauss' Burleske for piano and orchestra and Poulenc's Sinfonietta from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Presented by Kate Molleson.

Verdi's Rigoletto recorded last November at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, with the baritone Karl-Magnus Fredriksson in the title role, soprano Ida Falk Winland as Gilda and tenor Leonardo Capalbo in this tragic tale of love, deceit and revenge. Swedish Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra are conducted by Lionel Bringuier. Following in this week's focus on the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the afternoon continues with a new recording of Richard Strauss's Burleske for piano & orchestra, written when he was just 21. And the programme concludes with a performance of Francis Poulenc's lively and vibrant Sinfonietta, composed in 1947.

2.00pm

Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto (an opera in three acts)

Duke of Mantua - Leonardo Capalbo (tenor)

Rigoletto, the Duke's jester - Akarl-Magnus Fredriksson (baritone)

Gilda, Rigoletto's daughter - Ida Falk Winland (soprano)

Sparafucile, an assassin - John Erik Eleby (bass)

Maddalena - Katarina Leoson (mezzo-soprano)

Giovanna, Gilda's nurse - Susann V退gh (mezzo-soprano)

Count Monterone - Kristian Flor (baritone)

Marullo - Anton Eriksson (baritone)

Borsa, a courtier - Jihan Shin (tenor)

Count Ceprano - Jens Persson (bass)

Countess Ceprano - Emma Vetter (mezzo-soprano)

A Page - Ella Morin (soprano)

Swedish Royal Opera Orchestra

Lionel Bringuier, conductor

4.00pm

Richard Strauss: Burleske for piano & orchestra

Michael McHale (piano)

Michael Collins (conductor)

4.20pm

Francis Poulenc: Sinfonietta

Andrei Feher (conductor)

Verdi's Rigoletto from the Swedish Royal Opera, Stockholm.

Opera Matinee: Vivaldi's Arsilda, Regina Di Ponto20210211Today's Opera Matinee featuring a Czech production of Vivaldi's Arsilda, Regina di Ponto, composed in the autumn of 1716 for the Venetian theatre of St. Angelo.

Vivaldi: Arsilda, Regina di Ponto, RV 700

Lenka Mကcikovက, soprano (Mirinda)

Helena Hozovက, soprano (Nicandro)

Mireille Lebel, mezzo-soprano (Arsilda)

Aneta Petrasovက, mezzo-soprano (Lisea)

Kangmin Justin Kim, countertenor (Barzane)

Fernando Guimar es, tenor (Tamese)

Abadie Lisandro, bass (Cisardo)

Collegium Vocale 1704

Collegium 1704

Vကclav Luks, conductor

Followed by:

Krzysztof Penderecki: Adagio

Leoš Janက?ek: Suite for Strings

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Robert Kruž퀀k, conductor

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Today's Opera Matinee features Arsilda Regina di Ponto, by Vivaldi.

Opera Matinee: Vivaldi's Dorilla In Tempe From Wexford20200430Presented by Elizabeth Alker.

Antonio Vivaldi's 1726 opera Dorilla in Tempe is based on themes from Greek myth. The story takes place in Tempe. Like the music, the plot intertwines pastoral and heroic elements and centres on the shepherd Nomio, who is in fact Apollo in disguise. Nomio falls in love with Dorilla, the daughter of Admeto, King of Thessaly, who is herself in love with the shepherd Elmiro. Admeto is forced by the gods to save his kingdom by offering his daughter as a sacrifice to the sea-serpent Pitone, but she is rescued just in time by Nomio. Nomio claims the hand of Dorilla as his reward, but she remains reluctant and escapes with Elmiro. The pair are captured, and Elmiro is sentenced to death. Finally, however, the intervention of Nomio, revealing his divine identity, saves the situation and Dorilla and Elmiro are reunited.

This production was recorded last November by the Wexford Festival Chorus and Orchestra under the baton of Andrea Marchiol, accompanying a cast including Manuela Custer as Dorillla, Marco Bussy as Admeto, V退ronique Vald耀s as Nomio and Jos退 Maria lo Monaco as Elmiro.

The opera is followed by more from this week's featured performing group - The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Klaus M䀀kel䀀 conducts Kodကly's Dances of Galကnta, which was written to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Budapest Philharmonic Society in 1933 and is based on the folk music of the region.

2.00pm

Antonio Vivaldi: Dorilla in Tempe

Dorilla - Manuela Custer (soprano)

Admeto, King of Thessaly - Marco Bussy (bass)

Nomio/Apollo - V退ronique Vald耀s (contralto)

Elmiro - Jos退 Maria lo Monaco (soprano)

Filindo - Rosa Bove (contralto)

Eudamia - Laura Margaret Smith (mezzo-soprano)

Ninfa - Rebecca Hardwick (soprano)

Ninfa - Lizzie Holmes (soprano)

Pastora - Meriel Cunningham (mezzo-soprano)

Pastora - Emma Lewis (mezzo-soprano)

Wexford Festival Orchestra

Andrea Marchiol, conductor

4.40pm

Zoltကn Kodကly: Dances of Galကnta

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Orchestra

Klaus M䀀kel䀀 (conductor)

Vivaldi's opera Dorilla in Tempe from the 2019 Wexford Festival in Ireland.

Opera Matinee: Wagner's The Flying Dutchman20190418Our opera matin退e is Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, in a concert version recorded recently at the RAI Auditorium in Turin, Italy, with the baritone Tomas Tomasson in the title role, accompanied by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, the Coro Maghini and the Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, under the baton of James Conlon. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2.00pm / Wagner - The Flying Dutchman, in 3 acts

The Dutchman - T mas T masson, baritone

Daland, a Norwegian sea captain - Kristinn Sigmundsson, bass

Senta, Daland's daughter - Amber Wagner, soprano

Mary, Senta's nurse - Sarah Murphy, mezzo-soprano

Erik, a huntsman - Rodrick Dixon, tenor

Daland's steersman - Matthew Plenk, tenor

James Conlon, conductor

James Conlon conducts a concert version from Turin with Tomas Tomasson in the title role.

Opera Matinee: Weber's Oberon20180503This week's Opera Matinee features some of the best operatic music you've never heard. Productions of Weber's fantasy opera Oberon are like hen's teeth (or perhaps unicorns' horns) because the plot is even more crazy than most in opera, there's too much talking, and Weber died young before he could replace the spoken dialogue with music. But for this broadcast of a lively new production from Bavarian State Opera we've minimised the talking to leave you with the music Weber did compose. And it's absolutely brilliant.

(Special shout-out to Wagner fans: see if you can spot the bits RW cribbed. It's not a tough assignment: some of them are gobsmackingly obvious...)

Presented by Penny Gore

Weber: Oberon

Oberon - Julian Pr退gardien (tenor)

Titania, Puck - Alyona Abramowa (mezzo-soprano)

Hüon of Bordeaux - Brenden Gunnell (tenor)

Rezia - Annette Dasch (soprano)

Sherasmin, Hüon's squire - Johannes Kammler (baritone)

Fatime, Reiza's attendant - Rachael Wilson (mezzo-soprano)

Mermaid - Anna El-Khashem (mezzo-soprano)

Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra

Conductor Ivor Bolton.

Penny Gore presents a production of Weber's fantasy opera Oberon from Bavarian State Opera

Opera Matinee: Zandonai's Francesca Da Rimini20190110Riccardo Zandonai's gripping opera Francesca da Rimini from La Scala, Milan, conducted by Fabio Luisi. The opera, based on the play by the controversial Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, is a heady brew of doomed love, lust, jealousy and betrayal, and is Zandonai's best-known and most compelling work

Presented by Penny Gore

2.00pm

Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini

Francesca da Rimini.....Maria Jos退 Siri (Soprano)

Paolo il Bello.....Roberto Aronica (Tenor)

Giovanni Lo Sciancato.....Gabriele Vivani (Baritone)

Malatestino dall'Occhio.....Luciano Ganci (Tenor)

Samaritana.....Alisa Kolosova (Mezzo-soprano)

Ostasio.....Constantino Finucci (Bass)

Biancafiore.....Sara Rossini (Mezzo-soprano)

Garsenda.....Valentina Boi (Soprano)

Altichiara.....Diana Haller (contralto)

Adonella.....Alessia Nadin (Soprano)

Smaragdi.....Idunnu Munch (Mezzo-soprano)

Ser toldo Berardengo.....Matteo Desole (Tenor)

Il Giullare.....Elia Fabbian (Bass)

Il Balestriere.....Hun Kim (Tenor)

Il Torrigiano.....Lasha Sesitashvili (Baritone)

La Scala Chorus

La Scala Orchestra

Fabio Luisi (Conductor)

4.25pm

As part of New Year, New Music, Radio 3 presenters introduce some of the latest pieces of music they love

4.30pm

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Semyon Bychkov (Conductor)

Opera On 3: Agostino Steffani's Niobe20210520Thursday afternoons are opera on Radio 3.

Tom McKinney presents- Agostino Steffani's Niobe, regina di Tebe

A rare chance to hear Agostino Steffani's Niobe, from the Royal Opera House in London. Based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, it tells the story of Queen Niobe whose pride insults the Gods. As punishment, her children are killed and in her grief she turns to stone. Veronique Gens sings Niobe, and male soprano Jacek Laszczkowski her husband Anfione, a role originally written for a castrato. Thomas Hengelbrock conducts his own Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, and discusses why Steffani's music, which had such an influence on Handel, deserves to become better known.

Anfione - Jacek Laszczkowski (Soprano)

Niobe - Veronique Gens (Soprano)

Nerea - Delphine Galou (Contralto)

Clearte - Tim Mead (Alto)

Tiberino - Lothar Odinius (Tenor)

Manto - Amanda Forsythe (Soprano)

Tiresia - Bruno Taddia (Baritone)

Poliferno - Alastair Miles (Bass)

Creonte - Iestyn Davies (Countertenor)

Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor).

Our Thursday afternoon opera - Agostino Steffani's Niobe.

Opera On 3: Verdi's Falstaff Starring Bryn Terfel20191128Verdi's final opera, Falstaff, in a performance recorded last year at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden starring Bryn Terfel.

After a string of successful operatic tragedies and melodramas, Verdi took his final leave of the stage with a quicksilver comedy that casts a wise but wry glance at the foibles of human nature. Falstaff, the fat knight, is full of vanity and self-deceit; but his attempts to seduce the merry wives of Windsor are carried out with such self-aggrandising swagger, confidence and sheer verve that he sweeps all before him. In ripe old age Verdi achieved an Indian summer in which the flow of melody and novel orchestration complemented every twist and turn of Shakespeare's riotous plot.

Sir John Falstaff - Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)

Alice Ford - Ana Mar퀀a Martinez (soprano)

Ford - Simon Keenlyside (baritone)

Nannetta - Anna Prohaska (soprano)

Fenton - Fr退d退ric Antoun (tenor)

Mistress Quickly - Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)

Meg Page - Marie McLaughlin (mezzo-soprano)

Dr Caius - Peter Hoare (tenor)

Bardolph - Michael Colvin (tenor)

Pistol - Craig Colclough (bass-baritone)

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Nicola Luisotti (conductor)

followed at c.4.25pm by:

Bruch Violin Concerto no. 1 in g minor

Fumiaki Miura (violin)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Act I

Dr Caius bursts into Sir John Falstaff's room in the Garter Inn, accusing him of unseemly behaviour the previous night. He further accuses Falstaff's two henchmen, Bardolph and Pistol, of having robbed him while he was drunk. Unable to obtain reparations, Dr Caius leaves in a fury.

Falstaff informs Bardolph and Pistol that in order to repair his finances he plans to seduce Alice Ford and Meg Page, both wives of prosperous Windsor citizens.

Alice Ford and Meg Page laugh over the identical love letters they have received from Sir John Falstaff.

Ford arrives and learns of Falstaff's plan to seduce his wife. He immediately becomes jealous. While Alice and Meg plan how to take revenge on their importunate suitor, Ford decides to disguise himself in order to pay a visit to Falstaff.

Act II

Feigning penitence, Bardolph and Pistol rejoin Falstaff's service. They show in Mistress Quickly, who informs Falstaff that both Alice and Meg are madly in love with him.

Bardolph now announces that a ‘Mister Brook' (Ford in disguise) wishes to speak to Falstaff. ‘Brook' offers him wine and money if he will seduce Alice Ford, Falstaff agrees to the plan, telling his surprised new friend that he already has a rendezvous with Alice that very afternoon.

As Falstaff leaves to prepare himself, Ford gives way to jealous rage.

Mistress Quickly, Alice and Meg are preparing for Falstaff's visit. Falstaff arrives and begins his seduction of Alice, nostalgically boasting of his aristocratic youth as page to the Duke of Norfolk. But just at that point Mistress Quickly suddenly returns in a panic to inform Alice that Ford really is on his way, and in a jealous temper.

The terrified Falstaff seeks a hiding place, eventually ending up in a large laundry basket. Fenton and Nannetta also hide. Hearing the sound of kissing, Ford is convinced that he has found his wife and her lover Falstaff together, but is furious to discover Nannetta and Fenton instead. To general hilarity, Falstaff is thrown into the River Thames.

Act III

A wet and bruised Falstaff laments the wickedness of the world, Mistress Quickly persuades him that Alice was innocent of the unfortunate incident at Ford's house. In a letter which Quickly gives to Falstaff, Alice asks the knight to appear at midnight, disguised as the Black Huntsman.

Ford, Nannetta, Meg and Alice prepare the second part of their plot: Ford secretly promises Caius that he will marry Nannetta that evening. Mistress Quickly overhears them -

As Fenton and Nannetta are reunited, Alice explains her plan to trick Ford into marrying them. On the stroke of midnight, Alice appears. She declares her love for Falstaff, but suddenly runs away, saying that she hears spirits approaching.

Nannetta, disguised as the Queen of the Fairies, summons her followers who attack the terrified Falstaff, pinching and poking him until he promises to give up his dissolute ways. In the midst of the assault Falstaff suddenly recognizes Bardolph, and realizes that he has been tricked. Falstaff accepts that he has been made a figure of fun. Dr Caius now comes forward with a figure in white. When the brides remove their veils it is revealed that Ford has just married Fenton to Nannetta, and Dr Caius to Bardolph! With everyone now laughing at his expense, Ford has no choice but to forgive the lovers, and bless their marriage. Before sitting down to a wedding supper with Sir John Falstaff, the entire company agrees that the whole world may be nothing but a jest filled with jesters, but he who laughs last, laughs best!

Verdi's Falstaff in a performance starring Bryn Terfel recorded at the Royal Opera House.

Orchestra Unwrapped20200106Presented by Georgia Mann, with this week's featured orchestra the BBC Concert Orchestra. Today, a concert recorded last September at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in which Tom Service and conductor Alice Farnham recreate the spirit of the first performance of Mozart's Paris Symphony with its rowdy audience participation, before considering the line-up and the many cultural functions of a modern day orchestra. After that we'll hear a brand new recording of a late 19th-century Savoy Theatre curtain-raiser, typically performed before the main bill. Plus, as part of New Year, New Music, Sara Mohr Pietsch introduces a piece of music she loves.

Orchestra Unwrapped with Tom Service.

Mozart Symphony No.31 ‘Paris

John Williams: Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Graham Fitkin: Metal

Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet (Suite 2, mvt 1)

Hermann: Murder from Psycho

John Williams: Main Theme from Jaws (bb1-29 only)

Elgar: Nimrod from Enigma Variations

Tabakova: Orpheus' Comet

Laurie Johnson: Las Vegas (Animal Magic)

Stravinsky: Firebird 1919 version (horn solo to end)

Alice Farnham, conductor

3.30pm

Savoy curtain raisers:

Music Fran瀀ois Cellier, words Harry Greenbank: Captain Billy

Captain Billy, a pirate - Ben McAteer (baritone)

Samuel Chunk, landlord of the Blue Dragon - Henry Waddington (bass-baritone)

Christopher Jolly - Ed Lyon (tenor)

Widow Jackson - Fiona Kimm (contralto)

Polly, her daughter - Eleanor Dennis (soprano)

With Georgia Mann. The BBC Concert Orchestra and the audience are under the spotlight.

Orchestral Tour Of Germany20200224Elizabeth Alker introduces a week of recordings from some of the leading German orchestras recorded in halls and cities across the country. She begins today with a concert from Freiberg and another from the capital, Berlin.

Antonin Dvorak: Serenade in E

Serge Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 1

(Hilary Hahn - violin)

Robert Schumann: Symphony No 4 in D minor

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart

Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)

Ravel: Sheherazade

(Marianne Crebassa - Mezzo-soprano)

Prokofiev: Selection from 'Romeo and Juliet

-Montagues and Capulets

-The Young Juliet

-Friar Lawrence

-Dance

-Romeo at Juliet's Before Parting

-Dance of the Antilles Girls

-Romeo at the Grave of Juliet-

-Masks

-Death of Tybalt

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Tugan Sokhiev (conductor)

Concerts from Freiberg and Berlin

Orchestral Tour Of Germany20200225Today's tour of German orchestras and cities begins in Hamburg with the NDR Elbphilharmonie performing Shostakovich and Bruckner and moves south to Cologne with the city's WDR Symphony Orchestra playing music by Widmann and Mozart. Introduced by Elizabeth Alker.

Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat

(Nicolas Altstaedt - cello)

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E flat 'Romantic

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)

Jorg Widmann: Funeral March for Piano and Orchestra

Luisa Imorde (piano)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem

Christina Landshamer (soprano)

Marie Henriette Reinhold (contralto)

Martin Mitterrutzner (tenor)

WDR Chorus

WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne

Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor)

Music from Hamburg and Cologne

Orchestral Tour Of Germany20200228Elizabeth Alker introduces recordings of concerts made by orchestras in Germany including a performance of Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet symphony by the Berlin Philharmonic and Scriabin from Hamburg.

Hector Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, dramatic symphony

Kate Lindsey (mezzo soprano)

Andrew Sharples (tenor)

Shan Yang (bass-baritone)

Berlin Radio Chorus

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Daniel Harding (conductor)

Alexander Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy

NDR Elbphilharmonic Orchestra

George Benjamin (conductor)

Music from Berlin and Hamburg

Orchestre De La Suisse Romande (1-4)20201102Tom McKinney introduces recent concert recordings from the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by its principal conductor, Jonathan Nott, today featuring music with a strong French influence. Including:

Debussy: Jeux

Debussy: Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra in G

(Jean-Frederic Neuburger - piano)

Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

Paul Dukas: Symphonic Scherzo - The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Eric Montalbetti: Flute Concerto ('Memento Vivere') First performance

(Emmanuel Pahud - flute)

Ravel (arr. Marius Constant): Gaspard de la Nuit

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott

Tom MvKinney with recordings from the Geneva-based orchestra.

Orchestre De La Suisse Romande (2-4)20201103Tom McKinney introduces music making by the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande from its home in Geneva in music by Bruckner, Mozart, Shostakovich and Schumann.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in Bb K595

(Paul Lewis -piano)

Bruckner: Symphony No 6 in A

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Andris Poga.

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1 in Eb

(Gautier Capucon - cello)

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott

Schumann: Symphony No 2 in C

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Marek Janowski

Tom McKinney with concerts recorded in Geneva.

Orchestre De La Suisse Romande (3-4)20201104Tom McKinney with a concert recorded at their home in Geneva in Switzerland last year by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under its principal conductor, Jonathan Nott.

Haydn: Overture to 'Il mondo della luna

Haydn: Cello Concerto No 1 in C

(Jean-Guihen Queyras - cello)

Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in Bb

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott

More music from Switzerland introduced by Tom McKinney.

Orchestre De La Suisse Romande (4-4)20201106Tom McKinney introduces his final offerings from the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande for this week, which include music by Swiss-born Frank Martin and an ascent into the Alps with Richard Strauss.

Schumann: Symphony No 3 in E flat, 'Rhenish

Orchestre de la Swiss Romande conducted by Marek Janowski

Frank Martin: Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments, Timpani, Percussion and Strings

Richard Dubugnon - Helvetia II. Via Lemanica Op61/2 (first performance)

Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony

Loc Schneider (flute)

Nora Cismondi (oboe)

Dmitry Rasul-Kareyev (clarinet)

C退leste-Marie Roy (bassoon)

Julia Heirich (horn)

Stephen Jeandheur (trumpet)

Alexandre Faure (trombone)

Arthur Bonzon (timpani)

Orchestre de la Swiss Romande conducted by Bertrand de Billy

Tom McKinney rounds up his week of music making from Switzerland

Orchestre De La Suisse Romande With Tom Mckinney20180709Tom McKinney introduces a week of concert recordings by the Suisse Romande orchestra including performances of the Ravel Piano Concertos and tone poems by Richard Strauss . The orchestra marks its centenary this year.

Including:

c14.02 Johann Strauss II: Waltz - The Blue Danube

c14.14 Edouard Lalo: Symphonie Espagnol Op.21

(soloist: Renaud Capucon)

c14.54 Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

c15.35 Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto for the left hand

(piano - Alexandre Tharaud)

c16.03 Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott.

Tom McKinney introduces concert recordings of performances by the Suisse Romande Orchestra

Orchestre De La Suisse Romande With Tom Mckinney20180710Tom McKinney continues his week of concert recordings by the Suisse Romande orchestra with music by Dvorak and Strauss.

Including:

c14.02 Antonin Dvorak: Concerto in B minor for cello and orchestra

(cello - Xavier Phillips)

c14.45 Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life)

c15.33 Franz Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H

(organ - Vincent Thevenaz )

c15.49 Arnold Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra

c.16.13 Sergei Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

(piano - Sergei Babayan)

c16.38 Maurice Ravel: Bolero

L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott.

Tom McKinney introduces concert recordings of the Suisse Romande Orchestra.

Orchestre De La Suisse Romande With Tom Mckinney20180711Tom McKinney continues his week of concert recording by the Suisse Romande orchestra with music by Rossini and Schubert

Including:

c14.02 Gioachino Rossini: Overture: La scala di sete (The Silken Ladder)

c14.09 Gioachino Rossini (arttributed): Bassoon Concerto

(bassoon - Sergio Azzolini)

c 14.36 Franz Schubert: Symphony No 6 in C

L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott.

Tom McKinney continues his week of concert recordings by the Suisse Romande Orchestra.

Our Classical Century: Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue20181123In Our Classical Century, a series exploring the most representative and seminal pieces of Classical Music in the last hundred years, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, with Marc-Andr退 Hamelin on the piano and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard. Also, William Harris' hymn Bring us, o Lord God, in celebration of the BBC Symphony Chorus' 90th anniversary, which is heard in a recording directed by Neil Ferris. After that, a concert given last month by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre in London, starting with Beethoven's Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus. Followed by Mason Bates' Anthology of Fantastic Zoology, finishing with another Beethoven masterpiece, his Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor' with Jeremy Denk as soloist. The afternoon begins, though, with concert given earlier this year by the BBC Singers at Milton Court, in London, with John Wilson conducting. The programme includes Jonathan Dove's The Passing of the Year, Richard Rodney Bennett's Sea Change, and Joseph Horovitz's Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo.

Presented by Penny Gore

14.00

Dove: The Passing of the Year

Bennett: Sea Change

Horovitz: Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo

John Wilson (conductor)

15..20

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

Marc-Andr退 Hamelin, piano

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

15.50

Harris: Bring us, O Lord God

Neil Ferris (Chorus Director)

15.58

Beethoven: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus

Bates: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 in Eb major, 'Emperor

Jeremy Denk (Piano)

Crisitian Macelaru (Conductor)

Our Classical Century: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Paris In Springtime (1-5)20210503This week, Afternoon Concert features concerts from the city of Paris. Today's programme includes the Orchestre de Paris and conductor Paavo J䀀rvi in music by Tchaikovsky, Debussy and Ravel at the city's Philharmonie in September last year. There's also music by Berlioz from the Orchestre National d'΀le de France and a saxophone concerto composed by jazz pianist Martial Solal in 2014.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Berlioz: Overture 'Le Corsaire', Op.21; Les Nuits d'退t退

Karine Deshayes (soprano)

Fabien Gabel (conductor)

c.2.35pm

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35

Debussy: La Mer

Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe Suite No.2

Gil Shaham (violin)

Paavo J䀀rvi (conductor)

c.4.00pm

Martial Solal: Saxophone Concerto

Jean-Charles Richard (soprano & baritone saxophones)

Orchestre National de France

Jesko Sirvend (conductor)

The series also features the acclaimed period-instrument ensemble Les Si耀cles with their founder-conductor Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth (programme 2) and the forces of the Paris Opera: you can hear their 2020 Bastille Day concert in programme 3 and their staging of Massenet's 'Manon' as Opera Matinee (programme 4).

Tom McKinney presents recent concert recordings by Parisian orchestras.

Paris In Springtime (2-5)20210504~Afternoon Concert continues its focus on Parisian orchestras. Today's programme includes an all-Berlioz concert from the acclaimed period-instrument ensemble Les Si耀cles and conductor Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth, followed by the Orchestre de Paris with conductor Gianandrea Noseda in Mozart and Brahms.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Berlioz: Overture to 'Benvenuto Cellini'; Overture to 'B退atrice et B退n退dict'; Overture: Carnaval Romain; Rom退o et Juliette, Op.17 (highlights); Harold in Italy, Op.16

Tabea Zimmerman (viola)

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K.364

Brahms: Symphony No.2 in D, Op.73

Philippe Ache (violin)

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Tom McKinney presents recent concert performances by Parisian orchestras.

Paris In Springtime (3-5)20210505~Afternoon Concert continues its focus on Parisian orchestras, featuring today the Paris Opera Chorus and Orchestra with conductor Philippe Jordan in last year's 'Solidarity Concert' for Bastille Day, including music by Dukas, Richard Strauss, Faur退, Saint-Sa뀀ns and Mozart.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Rouget de Lisle, arr. Ambroise Thomas: La Marseillaise

Dukas: Fanfare from 'La P退ri

Richard Strauss: Feierlicher Einzug der Ritter des Johanniter-ordens

Faur退: Madrigal, Op.35

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Calme des nuits, Op.68'1

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, K.492 (highlights); Symphony No.41 in C, K.551 `Jupiter`

Julie Fuchs (soprano)

St退phane Degout (baritone)

Philippe Jordan (conductor)

Tom McKinney presents the Paris Opera's 'Solidarity Concert' for Bastille Day 2020.

Paris In Springtime (4-5)20210506Today's Thursday Opera Matinee is a performance of one of Massenet's most popular opera, Manon, recorded last year at the Op退ra Bastille in Paris.

Pretty Yende stars as Manon Lescaut in this five-act drama based on the 1731 novel by Abb退 Pr退vost. Lescaut, a well-meaning young man, is led astray by his love for a young woman he finds irresistible. Many other men also fall for her - some willing to buy her off with a luxurious lifestyle. Manon is the original Material Girl, and cannot resist their offers...

Presented by Tom McKinney.

2pm

Manon Lescaut - .. Pretty Yende (soprano)

Le Chevalier des Grieux - .. Benjamin Bernheim (tenor)

Lescaut - .. Ludovic T退zier (baritone)

Le Comte des Grieux - .. Roberto Tagliavini (bass)

Monsieur de Br退tigny - .. Pierre Doyen (tenor)

Poussette - .. Cassandre Berthon (soprano)

Javotte - .. Alix Le Saux (mezzo-soprano)

Rosette - .. Jeanne Ireland (mezzo-soprano)

Innkeeper - .. Philippe Rouillon (baritone)

First Guard - .. Julien Joguet (bass)

Second Guard - .. Laurent Laberdesque (baritone)

Paris Opera Chorus

Paris Opera Orchestra

Dan Ettinger (conductor)

Opera Matinee: Massenet's Manon from the Paris Opera, presented by Tom McKinney.

Paris In Springtime (5-5)20210507~Afternoon Concert concludes its week of performances by Parisian orchestras. Today's programme includes two concerts from the Orchestre National de France.

The first is their debut under their new music director Cristian M?celaru, featuring music by Debussy, Saint-Sa뀀ns and Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with soloist Benjamin Grosvenor.

The orchestra then picks up its jazz hat for two concertos by jazz pianist Martial Solal.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Debussy: Pr退lude

Penderecki, Franck, Chaves, Js Bach, Beethoven20190506Georgia Mann presents the first of four programmes featuring the S o Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, one of South America's finest ensembles.

Today, Krzysztof Penderecki conducts his own works, and Louis Langr退e directs the orchestra in Franck's Symphony in D minor, at one time a staple of the repertoire, but now something of a rarity.

Krzysztof Penderecki: Hymn to Saint Daniel

OSESP Academic Chorus

OSESP Chorus

S o Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (OSESP)

Krzysztof Penderecki, conductor

Krzysztof Penderecki: Symphony No. 4 ('Adagio') .

Franck; Symphony in D minor, op. 48

Louis Langr退e, conductor

Celso Loureiro Chaves: Violin Concerto ('Museum of Inexpensive Things')

Museu das Coisas Inúteis

Luiz Filip, violin

Pedro Neves, conductor

Bach: Allegro assai, from 'Violin Sonata No. 3 in C, BWV 1005

Beethoven; Symphony No. 1 in C, op. 21

First in a series of concerts given by the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra.

Performances From Poland (1-4)20210712Fiona Talkington begins a week of performances by Polish artists and ensembles.

The Polish Radio Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia play music by one of most important Polish composers of the 20th century, Witold Lutoslawski, and Polish conductor Krzysztof Urbanski leads the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in selections from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet suites. Plus the Warsaw-based Royal String Quartet with Mozart's Adagio and Fugue in C minor.

Including:

2pm

Lutoslawski: Little Suite

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No.1 in D minor (with soloist Anna Maria Staskiewicz)

Michal Klauza (conductor)

c.2.35pm

Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546

c.2.45pm

Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 4

Simon Crawford-Philips (conductor)

c.3.10pm

Prokofiev: Excerpts from 'Romeo and Juliet suites, op. 64, 64b and 101 (arr. Urbanski)

Krzysztof Urbanski (conductor)

Fiona Talkington presents music by Lutoslawski, Prokofiev and Mozart.

Performances From Poland (2-4)20210713Fiona Talkington continues this week of afternoons featuring performances from Poland, including music by Vivaldi, Stravinsky and Brian Eno.

Rinaldo Alessandrini and his Concerto Italiano are joined by the Polish Radio Chorus for music by Vivaldi and Bononcini, and the acclaimed Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski joins the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25. There's more Mozart from the Warsaw-based Chain Ensemble, plus music by Bacewicz and an arrangement of Brian Eno's Music for Airports 2 recorded in the Polish Radio studios.

Including:

2pm:

Vivaldi: Credo in E minor, RV 591

Polish Radio Chorus, Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini

c.2.10pm

Stravinsky: Four Studies for Orchestra

Lutoslawski: Interlude for Orchestra

Sinfonia Varsovia

Simon Crawford-Philips (conductor)

c.2.30pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K. 503

Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

c.3.05pm

Brian Eno: Music for Airports 2/1 (arr. arr. Evan Ziporyn)

Hubert Zemler (percussion), Wojtek Traczyk (double bass), Mikolaj Palosz (cello)

Jacek Kita (piano, electronics), Wojciech Blazejczyk (guitar)

c.3.30pm

Leo: Miserere mei, Deus

Bononcini: Stabat Mater

Fiona Talkington presents music by Vivaldi, Stravinsky and Brian Eno.

Performances From Poland (3-4)20210714Penny Gore introduces more recordings by Polish artists and ensembles. Christian Vasquez conducts the Polish Radio Orchestra in a selection of music by South American composers, and the Polish conductor Krzysztof Urbanski leads the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and pianist Behzod Abduraimov in Rachmaninov's Paganini Variations.

Including:

c.2.15pm

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43

Behzod Abduraimov (piano)

Krzysztof Urbanski (conductor)

c.2.35pm

Revueltas: Sensemaya

Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes, op. 23

Chavez: Symphony No. 2 ('Sinfonia India')

Christian Vasquez (conductor)

Penny Gore introduces the Polish Radio Orchestra performing South American music.

Performances From Poland (4-4)20210715Continuing this week of afternoon performances from Poland, Fiona Talkington introduces Mozart's choral music from Gdansk, and his fourth violin concerto with Agata Szymczewska. Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony is conducted by Krzysztof Urbanski, and there's more South American music from the Polish Radio Orchestra and Christian Vasquez.

Including:

2pm

Mozart: Regina coeli, K. 276/321b

Polish Chamber Choir Schola Cantorum Gedanensis

Akademie fur Alte Musik, Berlin

Jan Lukaszewski (conductor)

c.2.05pm

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K. 218 (with soloist Agata Szymczewska)

c.2.30pm

Dvorak: Serenade in D minor, op. 44

Michal Klauza (conductor)

c.2.55pm

Aldemaro: Fuga con pajarillo

Inocente Carreno: Margaretina. Glosa sinfonica

Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw

Christian Vasquez (conductor)

c.3.20pm

Mozart: Missa solemnis in C, K. 337

Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K. 618

c.3.45pm

Bacewicz: Piano Quintet No. 1

Silesian String Quartet

Piotr Salajczyk (piano)

c.4.15pm

Bacewicz: Scherzo for Piano (arr. Urbanski)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A, op. 90 ('Italian')

WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne

Krzysztof Urbanski (conductor)

Fiona Talkington introduces a Mozart-fest from Poland

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater20231109Penny Gore presents great concert performances from the BBC performing groups and from across Europe. Today's 3pm highlight is Pergolesi's Stabat Mater - Rene Jacobs conducts B'Rock Orchestra. Also today, John Storgards conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music from Prokofiev's ballet Cinderella, and the Hungarian National Philharmonic perform the swashbuckling overture to Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.

c2pm

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks – Overture

Dmitry Sinkovsky (cond.)

c2.20pm

Prokofiev: Cinderella Suite No.2

John Storgards (cond.)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in F sharp Op.78

Zhang Zuo (piano)

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman – Overture

Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

Adam Fischer (cond.)

c3pm

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

Birgitte Christensen (soprano), Helena Raskar (mezzo soprano)

Rene Jacobs (cond.)

Rene Jacobs conducts B'Rock Orchestra in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.

Rene Jacobs conducts B'Rock Orchestra in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, and the BBC Philharmonic perform music from Prokofiev's ballet Cinderella.

Petrenko Conducts Zemlinsky20221124Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Zemlinsky's headily romantic Lyric Symphony. Plus there's music by Brahms, Stravinsky and Italian composer Leone Sinigaglia, a contemporary of Respighi.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Alexander Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony is written on the largest scale, for huge orchestra and two vocal soloists - it's lush and soaring, perhaps the most Mahlerian symphony Mahler didn't write... Brahms's crisp tribute to Handel is also on the bill, as well as music by Stravinsky and Schoenberg.

2.00pm

Rapsodia piemontese for violin and orchestra, Op.26

Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Kirill Petrenko, conductor

Rameau

Nouvelles Suites de Pi耀ces de Clavecin

Emanuil Ivanov, piano

Romance in A for violin and orchestra, Op.29

Funeral Song, Op.5

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Karina Canellakis, conductor

3.00pm

Lise Davidsen, soprano

Christian Gerhaher, baritone

Handel Variations, Op.24

Chamber Symphony no.2, Op.38

Antonello Manacorda, conductor

Kirill Petrenko conducts Zemlinsky's headily romantic Lyric Symphony.

Pictures At An Exhibition In Frankfurt20230529Penny Gore introduces concert and studio recordings by the BBC performing groups and by groups performing across Europe.

Today at 3pm, Alain Altinoglu conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an exhibition, and Chausson's Poeme, Op. 25. Also, the BBC Philharmonic plays music by Gabriel Piern退, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays Verdi's overture to La Forza del destino. The Ensemble amacordplus perform a number of motets from composers within the Bach family, and from others of the period in Germany.

Including:

Walton: Fa瀀ade (Popular Song)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Ravel: Jeux d'eau

Zhang Zuo, piano

J.M. Bach: Sei, lieber Tag, willkommen

Erlebach: Wer bin ich, Herr

Ensemble amarcordplus

M. Haydn: Concerto for Organ, Viola & Strings in C Major, P. 55; 3rd movement

Andra Darzina, viola

Jurgen Essl, organ

Urban Camerata

Piern退: Ramuntcho - suite no. 1; Overture

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Verdi: The Force of Destiny (Overture)

Xian Zhang, conductor

Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an exhibition

Alain Altinoglu, conductor

Schein: Ist nicht Ephraim mein teurer Sohn

Schein: Nun danket alle Gott, motet

Chopin: Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

Chausson: Poeme, Op 25

Schütz: Ich weiss, dass mein Erl怀ser lebt

Schütz: Herr, auf Dich traue ich, Psalm 71

Alain Altinoglu conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Mussorgsky.

Pierre Sancan's Piano Concerto20230427Ian Skelly introduces music for a Thursday afternoon including an opportunity to hear a selection of pieces by Frenchman Pierre Sancan, a contemporary of Messiaen and Dutilleux. The programme includes a performance of Sancan's Piano Concerto alongside music by Debussy, Offenbach, Penderecki, Schubert and Mozart.

Sancan: Commedia dell'arte Overture

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Debussy: Cello Sonata

Nicolas Alstaedt (cello)

Igor Levit (piano)

Offenbach: Le Voyage dans la lune - Ballet des flacons de neige

Philharmonia Orchestra

Antonio De Almeida (conductor)

Trad: Five traditional songs from Spain, Israel, Syria and Cyprus

Lior Elmaleh (vocals)

Katerina Papadopoulou (vocals)

Hesperion XXI

Jordi Savall

James Kaye: Queensbury March

Black Dyke Band

Nicholas Childs (conductor)

3.00

Pierre Sancan: Piano Concerto

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

Mozart: Symphony No 40 in g minor

Prague Phiharmonic orchestra

Emmanuel Villaume (conductor)

Penderecki: Chaconne (in Memoria del Giovanni Paolo II)

Ulster Orchestra

Jacek Kaspceck (conductor)

Schubert: Mass No 6 in Eb D950 - Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei

Golda Schultz (soprano)

Katharina Magiera, (contralto)

Julian Pr退gardien (tenor)

Maciej Kwa?nikowski (tenor)

Tareq Nazmi (bass)

Vienna Singverein

Camerata Salzburg

Franz Welser-Most (conductor)

Sancan: Overture Joyeuse

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and the BBC Philharmonic perform music by Sancan.

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra20200603The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Garrick Ohlsson play Dukas, Barber and Debussy, plus Stravinsky's tribute to Debussy, his Symphonies of Wind Instruments.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Dukas: Fanfare; La P退ri .

Barber: Piano Concerto, op. 38

Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Debussy: La Mer

Garrick Ohlsson, piano

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice

Domingo Hindoyan, conductor

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Garrick Ohlsson in Dukas, Barber and Debussy.

Portraits Day20120507As part of Radio 3's Portraits Day, Louise Fryer is joined by acclaimed actress and director Fiona Shaw to explore musical portraits of fictional, mythical and legendary characters: from Shakespeare's doomed monarch King Lear and the Finnish forest spirit Tapi, to mythological Medea and Taras Bulba, Gogol's Ukrainian Cossack. Fiona shares her insights into bringing fictional characters to life and music's ability to portray unique and inspiring individuals, real or imagined.

First performed in December 1953, Shostakovich's Symphony No 10 is a multi-layered portrait - of the composer himself through the use of his self-referencing DSCH motif, of the recently deceased Stalin who is represented in the second movement, and of Elmira Nazirova the student with whom he was in love and whose theme can be heard in the third movement.

2.00pm

Berlioz: King Lear Overture

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

2.20pm

Sibelius: Tapiola

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

2.40pm

Barber: Medea suite (excerpts)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

conductor Marin Alsop

3.00pm

Janacek: Taras Bulba

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

3.30pm

Shostakovich: Symphony No 10

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).

Louise Fryer presents music by Berlioz, Sibelius, Barber, Janacek and Shostakovich.

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra20191018The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra with works by Weber, Richard Strauss, Mussorgsky and Janacek, conducted by Alexander Liebrich. Also from Novကk and Suk under Ondrej Lenကrd.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Closing our week of music from the Czech Republic, we hear two concerts given recently by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. First we have the ensemble conducted by Alexander Liebrich in Carl Maria von Weber's overture to his opera Oberon, followed by Richard Strauss' Oboe concerto, with Vil退m Veverka as soloist, then Mussorgsky's mighty orchestral poem Night on Bald Mountain, finishing with Janက?ek's rhapsody for orchestra Taras Bulba.

Then conductor Ondrej Lenကrd takes to the rostrum, with the same ensemble, to perform Novကk's 'In the Tatras', describing the mountain range of Eastern Europe, and, closing the concert and this week's Czech performances, Josef Suk's Symphony No. 2 in C minor, 'Asrael', inspired by the Old Testament.

2.00pm

Carl Maria von Weber: Overture to 'Oberon

Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D, AV 144

Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain

Leoš Janက?ek: Taras Bulba, rhapsody for orchestra

Vil退m Veverka, oboe

Alexander Liebreich, conductor

3.10pm

V퀀t?zslav Novကk (1870-1949) - In the Tatras, op. 26 (V Tatrကch, op. 26)

Josef Suk: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, op. 27 ('Asrael')

Ondrej Lenကrd, conductor

Works by von Weber, Richard Strauss and Janacek with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Prague Spring Festival20190121Opening concert of the 2018 Prague Spring International Music Festival: the Czech Philharmonic performs Ma Vlast which has opened the Festival every year since 1952 on 12th May, the anniversary of Smetana's death. The concert was dedicated to the memory of Ji?퀀 B?lohlကvek, long-time President of the Festival.

After the opening concert we'll hear the first of four Bach motets this week, performed by the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner plus Julian Rachlin joins the Prague Symphony Orchestra to play Mendelssohn's perennially popular violin concerto, and Katarina Karn退us sings Wagner's sumptuous Wesendonck Lieder which set five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck with whom the composer had fallen in love.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Smetana: Mက vlast

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Tomကs Netopil , conductor

Opening concert of the 2018 Prague Spring Festival, recorded at Smetana Hall

c.3.15pm

Bach: Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet!, BWV 70

John Eliot Gardiner , conductor

Recorded at Dvo?ကk Hall, Rudolfinum

c.3.40pm

Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw, op. 46

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64

Ysaÿe: Sonata for Solo Violin No. 3 in D minor, op. 27 ('Ballade')

Julian Rachlin , violin

Tom  Brauner , conductor

c.4.25pm

Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91

Katarina Karn退us , mezzo-soprano

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Marko Ivanovi? , conductor

Opening concert of the 2018 Prague Spring Festival featuring Ma Vlast by Smetana

Prague Spring Festival20190122Dvo?ကk's dramatic cantata The Spectre's Bride, a Bach Chorale & the premiere of the suite from West Side Story arranged for piano trio, all performed at the Prague Spring Festival.

The Spectre's Bride was commissioned for the 1885 Birmingham festival but first tried out in the Bohemian city of Pilsen a few months earlier. Based on a poem by Karel Jarom퀀r Erben, about a young girl who is abducted by a ghost she believes to be the spirit of her lover, it is a wonderful example of Dvo?ကk's ability to combine folkloric qualities with brilliant compositional technique - with the added bonus of a solid morality tale. Later in the afternoon we'll hear a concert by the Smetana Trio featuring music by Zemlinsky, Smetana and an arrangement of some very familiar Bernstein.

Dvo?ကk: The Spectre's Bride, op. 69

Eva Hornyကkovက , soprano

Richard Samek , tenor

Adam Plachetka , bass-baritone

Prague Philharmonic Choir

Luk  Vasilek , choirmaster

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Christian Arming , conductor

Recorded at Smetana Hall

c.3.15pm

Bach: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12

Monteverdi Choir

English Baroque Soloists

John Eliot Gardiner , conductor

Recorded at Dvo?ကk Hall, Rudolfinum

c.3.40pm

Zemlinsky: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 3

Bernstein: Suite from 'West Side Story', for piano trio (Premiere)

Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor, op. 15

Smetana Trio:

Jitka Cechova , piano

Radim Kresta , violin

Jan Pကlen퀀?ek , cello

Recorded at the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia, Prague

Dvorak's The Spectre's Bride, choral Bach and West Side Story arranged for piano trio

Prague Spring Festival20190123Leif Ove Andsnes plays Britten's dazzling piano concerto with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra under Lionel Bringuier, followed by the vibrant musical colours and exotic scents of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. The concert opens with Arthur Honegger's musical depiction of rugby in his Symphonic Movement.

Honegger: Rugby, H. 67

Britten: Piano Concerto, op. 13

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Leif Ove Andsnes , piano

Lionel Bringuier , conductor

Recorded at Smetana Hall

Leif Ove Andsnes in Britten's dazzling piano concerto with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra.

Prague Spring Festival20190125The Afternoon starts with the closing concert of the 2018 Prague Spring International Music Festival in which James Judd conducts the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra in an all-Bohemian programme featuring music by Zden?k Fibich, Eugen Sucho? & Leoš Janက?ek. After the concert we'll hear the last of our Bach Cantatas for the week plus Tchaikovsky' proving himself a genius of orchestral colour & Brahms proving his mastery of the large-scale chamber form.

Fibich: Comenius, op. 34

Suchon: Žalm zeme podkarpatskej, op. 12

Janacek: Sinfonietta

Jan Vac퀀k, tenor

Slovak Philharmonic Chorus

Jozef Chabro?, chorusmaster

James Judd, conductor

Recorded at Smetana Hall

c.3.15pm

Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140

Monteverdi Choir

English Baroque Soloists

John Eliot Gardiner , conductor

Recorded at Dvo?ကk Hall, Rudolfinum

c.3.40pm

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, fantasy overture

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Marko Ivanovi? , conductor

c.4pm

Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A, op. 26

Julian Rachlin , violin

Sarah McElravy , viola

Boris Andrianov , cello

Itamar Golan , piano

An all-Bohemian concert featuring music by Zdenek Fibich, Eugen Suchon and Leos Janacek

Prague Spring Festival '1920191014From the Prague Spring Festival '19 a concert featuring Mozart's Horn Concerto and Symphony No. 40 in G minor, starting with a piece by the Czech composer Šimon Vose?ek. Also, staying in the Czech Republic, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G major, performed by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Starting a week with material from the Prague Spring International Festival 2019, plus other material recorded recently in the Czech Republic, today we feature a concert with promising young British conductor Ben Glassberg. He was at the helm of the Prague Philharmonia, as part of the Prague Spring Festival earlier this year to conduct Hypnos, a piece commissioned for the occasion by Czech composer Šimon Vose?ek. Also in the programme were two works by Mozart, first his Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat, with Alexandre Collard as soloist, finishing with his Symphony No. 40 in G minor.

The afternoon continues with a recent concert given by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by the Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, with the American John Axelrod conducting Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, followed by Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G, with soprano Chen Reiss as soloist.

2.00pm

Šimon Vose?ek : Hypnos (premiere of a work commissioned by the Prague Spring)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat, K. 417

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550

Alexandre Collard, horn

Ben Glassberg, conductor

3.00pm

Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major

Chen Reiss, soprano

John Axelrod, conductor

Music by Vosecek and Mozart with the Prague Philharmonia under Ben Glassberg.

Prague Spring Festival '1920191015Haydn's Symphonies 82 and 83, from his set of Paris symphonies, as well as his Cello Concerto No. 2, plus Leopold Mozart's Symphony in B major with Les Arts Florissants. Plus Janacek's Sinfonietta and Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Continuing with recordings taken at the Prague Spring International Festival earlier this year, today we hear works by Haydn - and a rare symphony by Leopold Mozart - with the specialist period-instrument French ensemble Les Arts Florissants, conducted by its founder William Christie. First comes Symphony No. 83, 'La Poule', 'The Hen', followed by the Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, with soloist Cyril Poulet, then Leopold Mozart's Symphony in B flat, and to finish, a work by Haydn again, his Symphony No. 82, 'The Bear'.

The afternoon finishes with more material recorded recently in the Czech Republic, featuring composers of this land. It's a concert given by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Radek Baborကk, starting with Janacek Sinfonietta and finishing with Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World'.

2.00pm

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 83 in G minor, Hob. I:83 ('La Poule')

Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major Hob. VIIb:2

Leopold Mozart: Sinfonia in B flat

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 82 in C, Hob. I:82 ('Bear')

Cyril Poulet, violoncello

William Christie, conductor

3.40pm

Leoš Janက?ek: Sinfonietta

Anton퀀n Dvo?ကk: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95 ('From the New World')

Radek Baborကk, conductor

Music by Haydn and Leopold Mozart with Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie.

Prague Spring Festival '1920191016Smetana's Mက vlast (My Homeland) with the Bamberg Symphony Ochestra.

Presented by Penny Gore.

From the Prague Spring Festival '19, Smetana's most famous work: Mက vlast (My Homeland) with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jakub Hr?ša, recorded at Smetana Hall in the Czech capital.

2.00pm

Bed?ich Smetana: Mက vlast (My Homeland)

Jakub Hr?ša, conductor

The Bamberg Symphony Ochestra perform Smetana's Ma vlast (My Homeland) under Jakub Hrusa.

Prokofiev's Ballet Romeo And Juliet (excerpts)20220830Presented by Ian Skelly. From the Proms - Prom 38: another chance to hear the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali, in Tchaikovsky's suite Swan Lake; Missy Mazzoli's Violin concerto with soloist Jennifer Koh, and a selection of excerpts from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet.

Also, Artist's choice: Santtu-Matias Rouvali, as well as our Listener's choice, brass concertos.

Gluck: Overture, 'Iphig退nie en Aulide

Otto Klemperer, conductor

Missy Mazzoli: A Thousand Toungues

Emily D'Angelo, soprano

Mikayel Hakhnazaryan, cello

JS Bach: Suite (Partita) in C minor, BWV 997

Lucie Horsch, recorder

Thomas Dunford, lute

2.30pm

Prom 38 - Part 1

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (suite)

Missy Mazzoli: Violin Concerto (Procession)

Jennifer Koh (violin)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)

Artist's choice - Jennifer Koh

3.45pm

Prom 38 - Part 2

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)

Listener's Choice - brass concertos

From the Proms - Prom 38. Music by Tchaikovsky, Missy Mazzoli and Prokofiev.

Prokofiev's Cinderella20230619Ian Skelly introduces the perfect afternoon of classical music, including live concert recordings from the BBC's ensembles and from around Europe.

Prokofiev's ballet score to the classic fairy tale of Cinderella takes the 3pm spotlight, in a recording from the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart, with the Finnish conductor Dima Slobodeniouk. Also today, a Mozart symphony from Salzburg, Evgeny Kissin plays Rachmaninov in Rome, new recordings from the BBC Singers, and Ben Gernon conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a recent studio recording of Brahms's Variations on the St Anthony chorale.

Including:

Rachmaninov: Lilacs, op. 21/5

Evgeny Kissin, piano

Berlioz: Le Corsaire - overture (Op.21)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thierry Fischer, conductor

Alan Bullard: Peace in the World (2nd movement of cycle ‘Images of Peace')

Grace Rossiter, conductor

c.2.20pm

Mozart: Symphony No. 30 in D, K.202/186b

Europa Galante

Fabio Biondi, conductor

Chopin: Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante in E flat, op. 22

Ryan Martin Bradshaw, piano

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Marek Sedivy, conductor

Prokofiev: Cinderella, Op.87, ballet music

Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor

Kristina Arakelyan: An ode to the world

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

Tchaikovsky: Voyevoda

Juanjo Mena, conductor

c.16.05pm

Brahms: Variations on the St Antony Chorale

Ben Gernon, conductor

Prokofiev's ballet score Cinderella from Stuttgart.

Prokofiev's Cinderella From Prague20220222Fiona Talkington with concert performances from around Europe including Prokofiev's 'Cinderella' from Prague and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Saint-Saens' Symphony No.3. Plus there'll be more from the Catalan ensemble Vespres d'Arnadi and the mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital.

Beethoven - Drei Equale, WoO.30

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Anthony Weedon (conductor)

Vivaldi - Mandolin Concerto in C, RV.425

Avi Avital (mandolin)

Norwegian Radio Orchestra

Miguel Harth-Bedoya (conductor)

Brahms - Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op.56a

Prague Symphony Orchestra

Tomas Brauner (conductor)

Milhaud - Violin Sonata, Op.257

Antje Weithaas (violin)

Mahan esfahani (harpsichord)

3pm

Prokofiev - Suite from `Cinderella` (excerpts from Op.107 & 109)

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Holly Mathieson (conductor)

c. 3.45pm

Pergolesi - Salve Regina in C minor

Marta Mateu (soprano)

Dani Espasa (conductor)

c. 4pm

Suk - Piano Pieces, Op.7

Lukas Vondracek (piano)

c. 4.25pm

Saint-Saens - Symphony No.3 in C minor, Op.78 `Organ`

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Presented by Fiona Talkington

The Prague Symphony Orchestra perform Prokofiev and Brahms.

Prokofiev's Classical Symphony20231206Ian Skelly presents great concert performances from across Europe and from the BBC performing groups, this week shining the spotlight on the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Today's 3pm highlight is a performance of Prokofiev's sprightly Symphony No.1, the 'Classical', from a concert given in Cardiff in June. Plus, more brass music from the Wallberg Band.

Berlioz: Beatrice and Benedict – overture

Ryan Bancroft (cond.)

c2.20

Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe – Suite No.2

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Yannick Nezet-Seguin (cond.)

Mozart: Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat K417

Felix Klieser (horn)

Camerata Salzburg

Prokofiev: Symphony No.1 in C “Classical ?

Maxim Rysanov (cond.)

Debussy: Nocturnes

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus

Mikko Franck (cond.)

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs Prokofiev's Classical Symphony

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs Prokofiev's Symphony No.1, the 'Classical Symphony'. Plus, brass band music from the Wallberg Band.

Prokofiev's Romeo And Juliet From Andrew Manze20221018Ian Skelly introduces music from the NDR Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Manze alongside Shakespearian-inspired items from Verdi, Johann Strauss II, and Shostakovich. Also, piano music from Christian Hadland.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata in C K330. iii. Allegretto

Andre Tchaikovsky, piano

Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth - Act 3 - Ballo

New Philharmonia Orchestra

Riccardo Muti

Georg Philipp Telemann: Trio Sonata in D minor TWV 42:d3

Arcangelo

Cecile Chaminade: Th耀me vari耀 for piano Op89

Christian Hadland (piano)

Johann Strauss II: Kunstler Quadrille

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Joseph Haydn: Harmoniemesse - Gloria. H22.14

Malin Hartelius, soprano

Judith Schmid, alto

Judith Bingham, alto

Christian Elsner, tenor

Franz-Josef Selig, bass

Bavarian Radio Choir

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mariss Jansons (conductor)

3.00

Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suites Nos 1&2 (Excerpts)

Andrew Manze (conductor)

Featured Artist Andrew Manze selects a piece of music for the afternoon:

Hector Berlioz: Symphony Romeo and Juliet - Part 3 Scene d'amore

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davies (conductor)

Wolfgang Amdeus Mozart: Piano Quartet in Eb K493

Christian Hadland, piano

Escher String Quartet

Dmitri Shostakovich: King Lear Film Score

Music from Prokofiev's much-loved Shakepeare-inspired ballet.

Prokofiev's Symphony No 5 In B Flat20220902Ian Skelly presents. Including another chance to hear Prom 40 with Vasily Petrenko conducts Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony, alongside works by Copland and George Walker. Plus today's Proms artist's choice.

Also featured:

Gershwin Variations on I Got Rhythm

Mark Bebbington (piano)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Leon Botstein (conductor)

Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19: III. Andante

Peter Moore (trombone)

James Baillieu (piano)

2.15pm

Prom 40 - Part 1

Copland: Appalachian Spring - suite

George Walker: Trombone Concerto

Peter Moore, trombone

Vasily Petrenko, conductor

c.3.10

Proms artist's choice - Vasily Petrenko

Gliere The Bronze Horseman - extracts

BBC Philharmonic

Edward Downes (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major

Listener's choice - brass concertos

Another chance to hear Vasily Petrenko and the RPO in Copland and Prokofiev at the Proms.

Prom 1 Repeat, First Night Of The Bbc Proms20170717Afternoon on 3 with Fiona Talkington.

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Edward Gardner in music by Tom Coult, Beethoven and also John Adams, as they celebrate the American composer's 70th birthday with his work Harmonium.

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill and Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall, London

2.00pm

Tom Coult: St John's Dance

(BBC commission: world premiere)

2.05pm

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor

2.40pm

John Adams: Harmonium

Igor Levit, piano

BBC Proms Youth Choir

BBC Symphony Chorus

Edward Gardner, conductor

John Adams's Harmonium is an intricate tapestry of sound, with bright vocal threads and driving brass and percussion rhythms. Marking the composer's 70th birthday this year, it features the BBC Proms Youth Choir.

Award-winning pianist Igor Levit is the soloist in Beethoven's groundbreaking Third Piano Concerto, and this year's First Night opens with the world premiere of St John's Dance by rising British composer Tom Coult.

[First broadcast on Friday 14th July]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The First Night of the 2017 Proms, with the BBC SO conducted by Edward Gardner.

Prom 1 Repeat: First Night Of The Proms20180716~Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington.

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, National Youth Choir of Great Britain and BBC Proms Youth Ensemble conducted by Sakari Oramo in music by Holst, Vaughan Williams and Anna Meredith.

Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region

Holst: The Planets

c.3.10 pm

Interval: On the opening night of the 2018 BBC Proms, Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny look forward to two months of world-class music-making in the company of guests, and go backstage to chat to some of the performers in tonight's Prom.

c.3.40 pm

Anna Meredith: Five Telegrams

BBC co-commission with 14-18 NOW and Edinburgh International Festival

BBC Symphony Chorus

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

An all-British season launch, featuring two major figures who composed responses to the First World War. Holst's much-loved The Planets (premiered in 1918) and Vaughan Williams's choral masterpiece Toward the Unknown Region contrast with a new work by Anna Meredith, featuring the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and the BBC Proms Youth Ensemble. Five Telegrams draws on communications sent by young soldiers in 1918, taken from a British Field Service Postcard.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and massed choral forces conducted by Sakari Oramo.

Prom 1 Repeat: First Night Of The Proms20190722~Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann.

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and choral forces, conducted by Karina Canellakis in music by Dvo?ကk, Janက?ek, and a World Premiere by Zosha Di Castri

Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Zosha Di Castri: Long Is the Journey - Short Is the Memory

(BBC commission: world premiere)

Dvo?ကk: The Golden Spinning Wheel

c.2.50pm

Interval: On the opening night of the 2019 BBC Proms, Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny look forward to two months of world-class music-making in the company of guests, and go backstage to chat to some of the performers in tonight's Prom.

c.3.10pm

Janက?ek: Glagolitic Mass

Asmik Grigorian, soprano

Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano

Ladislav Elgr, tenor

Peter Holder, organ

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Chorus

Karina Canellakis, conductor

The BBC's Our Classical Century series concludes with a new work that marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's mission to the Moon.

Janက?ek's monumental Glagolitic Mass, steeped in Moravian rhythms, is heard alongside Dvo?ကk's fairy-tale tone-poem The Golden Spinning Wheel. Karina Canellakis conducts the massed forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and BBC Singers in one of the 20th century's great choral masterpieces.

BBC Symphony Orchestra and choral forces conducted by Karina Canellakis.

Prom 10 Repeat: Aurora Orchestra, Beethoven's 'eroica'20170727Another chance to hear Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, with the Aurora Orchestra. The concert begins with Strauss's Metamorphosen.

Presented by Tom Service from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica

Nicholas Collon, conductor

No symphony pulses more vigorously with the rhythms of political protest than Beethoven's 'Eroica', whose defiant opening chords mark the arrival of the Romantic symphony. In their novel introduction, BBC Radio 3's Tom Service and conductor Nicholas Collon dismantle and reassemble this groundbreaking work, with the help of live excerpts, before the Aurora Orchestra gets under the skin of the work by performing the complete symphony from memory.

The concert also includes Richard Strauss's 1945 Metamorphosen. Scored for 23 solo strings, this ecstatic, elegiac work closes with an 'Eroica' quotation that mourns the devastation brought about by another, even darker, political regime.

First broadcast on Saturday 22nd July

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven's Symphony No 3.

Prom 10 Repeat: Faure, Franck And Widor's Toccata20180725~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna making her Proms debut with a programme that includes French 19th- and 20th-century music by Fauré, Franck and Widor.

Presented by Martin Handley from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Widor: Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor, Op 42

Franck: Trois Pièces - Pièce héroïque

Fauré: Pavane (arr. Apkalna)

J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G major, BWV 572

Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball: Variations on a Theme by Paganini (A Study for the Pedals)

Thierry Escaich: Deux Évocations

Aivars Kalejs: Toccata on the Chorale 'Allein Gott

Iveta Apkalna, organ

Widor's thrilling Organ Symphony No. 5, with its famous final-movement Toccata, offers sprawling, extrovert drama, a mood it shares with prize-winning French composer-organist Thierry Escaich's exuberant Évocations, with their nods to Baroque and Renaissance music.

Works by Franck and Bach's great G major Fantasia, with its 'wonderful variations and foreign tones', complete the programme given on the Royal Albert Hall's famous 'Father' Willis organ.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Iveta Apkalna makes her Proms debut on the famous organ of the Royal Albert Hall.

Prom 10-pierre-laurent Aimard, Tabea Zimmermann20090728Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2009

Another chance to hear a Prom tracing the musical cross-fertilisation between East and West, and France and Spain with a leading French orchestra conducted by Jun Markl. Takemitsu's Ceremonial showcases the Japanese sho, a bamboo-piped mouth organ, which also features in Hosokawa's recent Cloud and Light, inspired by an image of the Buddha.

Bizet never visited Spain but even Spaniards, such as Sarasate, adored his Carmen. Ravel, by contrast, imbibed a love of Spain from his Basque mother, though the gypsy in his Tzigane is probably Hungarian.

Akiko Suwanai (violin)

Mayumi Miyata (sho)

Orchestre National de Lyon

Jun Markl (conductor)

Takemitsu: Ceremonial: An Autumn Ode

Debussy, orch Caplet: Pagodes (Estampes)

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

Takemitsu: Green

Sarasate: 'Carmen' Fantasy

Ravel: Tzigane

Hosokawa: Cloud and Light

Debussy: La mer

4.15pm

Highlights from the 2008 Aldeburgh Festival, including:

Schumann: Marchenbilder for viola and piano, Op 113

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

Tabea Zimmermann (viola).

Another chance to hear a Prom which traces East/West musical cross-fertilisation.

Prom 11 Repeat: 1969, The Sound Of A Summer20190730~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Stephen Bell, with singers Vanessa Haynes and Tony Momrelle, and the Will Gregory Moog Ensemble.

Presented by Lemn Sissay at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Joni Mitchell: Woodstock

Walton: Battle of Britain Suite

Bacharach/David: Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

Fred Neil: Everybody's Talkin' At Me

John Barry: Midnight Cowboy

John Barry: Ski Chase from On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Lennon/McCartney: Get Back

George Harrison: Something

George Harrison: Here Comes The Sun

Interval: Proms Plus

Poets Jacob Polley and Rachael Allen read their poetry and respond to themes in the music of tonight's concert. If the summer of 1969 was a time of hedonism and optimistic exploration of space does that echo down the decades? Hosted by New Generation Thinker and author Preti Taneja. Produced by Zahid Warley.

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3 (1st movt)

Legrand: What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life

Quincy Jones: On Days Like This

Will Gregory: Journey to the Sky

Whitfield/Strong: I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Bacharach/David: I Say A Little Prayer

Vanessa Haynes and Tony Momrelle (singers)

Stephen Bell (conductor)

Woodstock, the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, the ongoing Vietnam War, The Beatles' final album (Abbey Road) - 1969 was a pivotal year.

This Prom explores the film and popular music of 1969 to revive the soundtrack of a special summer.

The BBC Concert Orchestra under Stephen Bell presents a typically wide-angled view, taking in music inspired by the era-defining Woodstock festival, excerpts from the films Battle of Britain, The Italian Job, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Midnight Cowboy, and ‘Here Comes the Sun' from The Beatles' final album Abbey Road.

As the USA's victory in the space race inspired new music to match the emerging digital era, the Moog synthesizer broke into the mainstream with the album Switched-on Bach. A concert evoking the end of the Swinging Sixties, with a cross-generational appeal that offers both a sunburst of nostalgia and iconic revivals.

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Stephen Bell and the Will Gregory Moog Ensemble.

Prom 11 Repeat: Mahler Symphony Of A Thousand20180724~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear the BBC NOW with Principal Conductor Thomas Sønderg倀rd and a star-studded cast, plus no fewer than five choirs, perform Mahler's mighty Eighth Symphony.

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Mahler: Symphony No 8 in E flat major, 'Symphony of a Thousand

Tamara Wilson (soprano)

Camilla Nylund (soprano)

Jo退lle Harvey (soprano)

Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano)

Claudia Huckle (contralto)

Simon O'Neill (tenor)

Quinn Kelsey (baritone)

Morris Robinson (bass)

Southend Boys' Choir

Southend Girls' Choir

BBC National Chorus of Wales

BBC Symphony Chorus

London Symphony Chorus

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thomas Sønderg倀rd (conductor)

It is the best thing I have ever done,' said Mahler of his Eighth Symphony - for which tonight the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thomas Sønderg倀rd, in his final season as Principal Conductor, join forces with no fewer than five choirs. One of the grandest symphonic statements of the repertoire, concluding with a dramatic setting of the mystical closing scene from Goethe's Faust, its mammoth scale matches the impressive space of the Royal Albert Hall.

Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thomas Sondergard in Mahler's dramatic Eighth Symphony

Prom 12 Repeat: Beethoven, Shostakovich And Rachmaninov20180726~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karina Canellakis with cellist Alisa Weilerstein in Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto. Plus Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.

Presented by Katie Derham from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat, Op 107

c. 2.35pm

Proms Plus

Composer Andrew Norman talks to Louise Fryer about his new work 'Spiral' ahead of its UK premiere tonight, and talks about his inspiration and ideas.

c. 2.55pm

Andrew Norman: Spiral (UK premiere)

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Alisa Weilerstein (cello)

Karina Canellakis (conductor)

Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Karina Canellakis and BBC SO in Beethoven, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov.

Prom 12 Repeat: National Youth Orchestra Of Great Britain20190731~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain with Mark Wigglesworth and Nicola Benedetti in works by Auerbach, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Katie Derham

Lera Auerbach: Icarus (London premiere)

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major

c.2.55pm

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - suite (excerpts)

Nicola Benedetti (violin)

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

Explosive energy and enthusiasm are the hallmarks of every performance by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, made up of the UK's most talented musicians aged from 13 to 18. The ensemble's annual visit to the Proms is always a festival highlight.

This year Mark Wigglesworth conducts the orchestra in a suite from Prokofiev's passionate ballet Romeo and Juliet and they are joined by violinist Nicola Benedetti for Tchaikovsky's warmly lyrical Violin Concerto.

The concert opens with Lera Auerbach's bracing symphonic poem Icarus, inspired by the myth of the heroic but ill-fated son of Daedalus who flew too close to the sun.

Prom 12-calefax Ensemble At Cheltenham20090730Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2009

A Prom by the BBC Philharmonic celebrating the music of three great British composers who died in 1934 - Edward Elgar, Frederick Delius and Gustav Holst.

Elgar's overture Cockaigne is a lively and colourful musical portrait of Edwardian London, with snapshots of cockneys, courting couples, church bells and a brass band playing in the park. Delius captures the sense of peace of the high Norwegian mountains, while Holst explores the peace (and war) of worlds much further afield in The Planets, with its mystical ending.

Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town)

Delius: The Song of the High Hills

Holst: The Planets

Rebecca Evans (soprano)

Toby Spence (tenor)

BBC Singers

Charles Mackerras (conductor)

4.15pm

Highlights from a concert given by virtuoso Dutch wind ensemble Calefax at the 2008 Cheltenham Festival.

Including:

Anon., arr. Boekhoorn: Libre Vermell

Boccherini, arr. Berix: Fandango (String Quintet No 77)

Ravel, arr. Hekkema: Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs).

Presented by Penny Gore. A Prom celebrating the music of Elgar, Delius and Holst.

Prom 14 Repeat: Bbc Philharmonic Performs Sibelius, Schubert And Zimmermann20180727~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Guest Conductor John Storgards with Elizabeth Watts and Louis Lortie in music by Schubert, Sibelius, Wagner and Zimmermann.

Presented by Sarah Walker from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - overture

Schubert orch. Lizst: Die junge Nonne, Gretchen am Spinnrade, Lied der Mignon, Erlk怀nig

Zimmermann: Symphony in One Movement

2.45

Interval Proms Plus

Lauren Elkin has published a book with the title Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London. She talks with New Generation Thinker and wild ice-skater Dr Seကn Williams about the joys and difficulties of a wandering life and the inspiration that travel has brought to composers and writers from the 18th century to now. Hosted by Rana Mitter.

3.15

Schubert orch Liszt: Fantasy in C, D760, 'Wanderer

Sibelius: Symphony No 7 in C major

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

Louis Lortie (piano)

John Storgards (conductor)

Sibelius's genre-bending Seventh unfolds in a continuous musical gesture of expansive, if characteristically enigmatic, nobility. Centenary composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Symphony in One Movement is another assault on tradition that kicks against Wagner's rousing overture to The Mastersingers of Nuremberg. Four popular Schubert songs and his formidable 'Wanderer' Fantasy get a colourful orchestral upscaling.

Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The BBC Philharmonic and John Storgards in music by Schubert, Sibelius and Zimmermann.

Prom 14 Repeat: Holst, The Planets20170802Afternoon on 3 - with Georgia Mann

Another chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor John Wilson perform Holst's The Planets, with the CBSO Youth Chorus joining for the ethereal ending.

Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.9

Holst: The Planets

John Wilson, conductor

Proms favourite, John Wilson, makes his first appearance at the Proms as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's new Associate Guest Conductor. Here he swaps Hollywood and Broadway classics for another of his personal passions: the great British symphonic classics. Holst's galactic suite conjures up the epic scope of a movie blockbuster in luminous music of infinite vistas, while Vaughan Williams's enigmatic final symphony also revels in an augmented sound-world: it's a piece Wilson sees as a suitably radical counterpart to The Planets.

[First broadcast on Tuesday 25th July]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Producer Ellie Mant.

Another chance to hear BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Holst's The Planets.

Prom 14 Repeat: The Creation20190802~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear Haydn's Creation with the BBC Proms Youth Choir, BBC Philharmonic and Omer Meir Wellber.

Presented by Sarah Walker at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Haydn: The Creation (sung in German): Part 1

c.2.40pm

Interval: Proms Plus Talk: Rev. Lucy Winkett discusses Haydn's setting of the Bible in The Creation

Haydn: The Creation: Parts 2 and 3

Sarah-Jane Brandon, soprano

Benjamin Hulett, tenor

Christoph Pohl, baritone

Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

The BBC Philharmonic is joined by the BBC Proms Youth Choir to perform Haydn's late masterpiece. From its opening Representation of Chaos, through the creation of stars, seas and storms, a magnificent musical sunrise and of course every animal from whales to eagles and even a worm, the Creation is one of the great musical dramas, teeming with life and energy.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Omer Meir Wellber conducts the BBC Philharmonic and BBC Proms Youth Choir.

Prom 14-steven Isserlis And Thomas Ades20090731Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2009

The first Proms performance of Holst's Choral Symphony, setting words by Keats, complemented by Delius's English Rhapsody, inspired by an old Lincolnshire folksong.

The concert ends with Elgar's ever-popular Enigma Variations, the work whose musical pictures of the composer and his friends (14 humans and one dog) finally brought him the recognition he deserved when it was premiered in 1899.

Susan Gritton (soprano)

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC National Chorus of Wales

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

David Atherton (conductor)

Holst: Choral Symphony

Delius: Brigg Fair

Elgar: Enigma Variations

4.30pm

Highlights from a concert given by Steven Isserlis and Thomas Ades at the 2008 Aldeburgh Festival.

Including:

Steven Isserlis (cello)

Thomas Ades (piano)

Schumann: Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor.

Presented by Penny Gore. A Prom featuring Holst's Choral Symphony, plus Delius and Elgar.

Prom 1520090729Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2009

A Prom featuring Smetana's rustic Bohemian comedy The Bartered Bride, set at a Slavic fair, and Bartok's Dance Suite, which incorporates folk themes from Hungary, Romania and as far afield as Africa.

These works are followed by Martinu's Concerto for two pianos, composed just after his First Symphony in 1943, and which betrays some of the tensions of two years earlier when he, like Bartok, was forced to flee to America. The piece ultimately finds release in an outpouring of the composer's characteristically effervescent vitality.

Smetana: Overture (The Bartered Bride)

Bartok: Dance Suite

Martinu: Concerto for two pianos

Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)

Jaroslava Pechocova, Vaclav Macha (pianos)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

A Prom featuring music by Smetana, Bartok, Martinu and Stravinsky.

Prom 15 Repeat: Paul Lewis Plays Beethoven's 'emperor' Concerto20180730BBC Philharmonic in music by Tansy Davies, Beethoven and Brahms.
Prom 16 Repeat: Mussorgsky, Pictures At An Exhibition20170728Afternoon on 3 - with Verity Sharp

Another chance to hear the BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov with Steven Osborne for the world premiere of Julian Anderson's piano concerto, The Imaginary Museum.

Presented by Kate Molleson from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Liszt: Hamlet

Julian Anderson: Piano Concerto, The Imaginary Museum (world premiere)

Liszt: From the Cradle to the Grave

Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Steven Osborne (piano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

conductor Ilan Volkov

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The BBC SSO in the world premiere of Julian Anderson's piano concerto.

Prom 16 Repeat: Stravinsky, Debussy And Wagner20180731~Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann.

Another chance to hear the Hall退 conducted by Mark Elder with the Hall退 Choir and Youth Choir and soloists Sophie Bevan and Anna St退phany in music by Wagner, Debussy and Stravinsky.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Tom Redmond

Wagner: Tannh䀀user - overture

Debussy: La damoiselle 退lue

Interval: Proms Plus

An exploration of the relationships between birds and humans with Professor Tim Birkhead and prize-winning author of H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald, hosted by New Generation Thinker Lucy Powell.

c.2.55

Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale

Stravinsky: The Firebird - suite (1945 version)

Sophie Bevan (soprano)

Anna St退phany (mezzo-soprano)

Hall退 Choir (female voices)

Hall退 Youth Choir (female voices)

Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

Sophie Bevan and Anna St退phany are the soloists in centenary composer Claude Debussy's Wagner-infused mythical-fantasy cantata La damoiselle 退lue.

Wagner's relationship with Paris soured over his opera Tannh䀀user but Stravinsky was practically adopted by the city.

The second half features two of the latter's most colourful scores, whose striking resemblances result from the fact that Stravinsky broke off work on The Nightingale (the opera on which the symphonic poem is based) in order to write his first ballet, The Firebird.

Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The Halle Choir, Youth Choir and Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder at the 2018 BBC Proms.

Prom 16-andris Nelsons, Stephen Hough20090803Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2009

Another chance to hear the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's new music director Andris Nelsons making his debut. The programme celebrates John Casken's birthday with his evocative Orion over Farne, transporting us to the night sky.

Plus Stephen Hough continuing his exploration of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concertos with the neglected No 2, and Stravinsky's first commission for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, The Firebird.

Stephen Hough (piano)

Andris Nelsons (conductor)

John Casken: Orion over Farne

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 2 in G

Stravinsky: The Firebird

4.15pm

Piano Music

Schubert: Sonata for piano in C minor, D958

Cedric Tiberghien (piano)

Gwilym Simcock: Fun and games

Gwilym Simcock (piano).

Another chance to hear Andris Nelsons' Proms debut. With Casken, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky.

Prom 17 Repeat: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , 220190805~Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington.

Another chance to hear the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Yannick N退zet?S退guin playing Sibelius and Richard Strauss and are joined by violinist Gil Shaham in Prokofiev

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Sibelius:

Symphony No 1 in E minor

c.2.40pm

Interval: Proms Plus talk: Journalist and string-instrument expert Ariane Todes and Russian music expert and critic David Nice explore Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 and the Russian school of violin-playing.

c.3pm

Prokofiev:

Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor

Richard Strauss:

Der Rosenkavalier - suite

The second concert from Yannick N退zet-S退guin and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra pays tribute to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood.

A passionate champion of new music, Wood gave the UK premieres of many major works featured this season, including both Sibelius's turbulent Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto - played here by Georgian soloist Lisa Batiashvili - whose initial simplicity and directness give way to spiky virtuosity in the finale.

The concert closes in Vienna, with the waltz-filled and lushly orchestrated suite from Richard Strauss's popular opera Der Rosenkavalier.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Yannick Nezet\u2010Seguin.

Prom 17 Repeat: Parry, Vaughan Williams And Holst20180802~Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann.

Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Martyn Brabbins with soloists Francesca Chiejina and Ashley Riches, and violinist Tai Murray. As well as being the composer of that Last Night favourite, Jerusalem, Hubert Parry (died 1918) was in many ways the father of contemporary English music, teaching both Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst. This celebration of his legacy features Parry's own hope-filled Fifth Symphony alongside Vaughan Williams' elegiac The Lark Ascending and two memorials inspired by the First World War: Holst's Ode to Death and Vaughan Williams's Pastoral Symphony.

Presented by Ian Skelly from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Parry: Symphony No. 5 in B minor

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

c.2.45pm

Interval: Proms Plus: Melissa Harrison, author of a monthly Nature Notebook in The Times, and farmer and writer John Lewis-Stempel contemplate contemporary British landscapes and depicting the challenges of rural life today. Hosted by New Generation Thinker Will Abberley.

c.3.10pm

Parry: Hear my words, ye people

Holst: Ode to Death

Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony (No. 3)

Tai Murray (violin)

Francesca Chiejina (soprano)

Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, at the 2018 BBC Proms.

Prom 18 Repeat: Britten And Mahler20190806~Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Edward Gardner performing Mahler's Das Lied von Erde; Leif Ove Andsnes joins them in part one for Britten's Piano Concerto.

Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Martin Handley

Britten: Piano Concerto, Op.13

(revised version, 1945)

c.2:35

INTERVAL - Proms Plus Talk: Hannah French and former Proms Controller Sir Nicholas Kenyon discuss Henry Wood's relationship with 20th-century music in the second of three events celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Proms founder-conductor's birth.

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

Claudia Mahnke (mezzo-soprano)

Stuart Skelton (tenor)

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Claudia Mahnke and Stuart Skelton are the soloists in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. This sweeping orchestral song-cycle is a powerful, personal statement of loss, orchestrated with infinite variety and skill.

It's paired with another mould-breaking work Britten's Piano Concerto. Premiered at the Proms in 1938 with the 24-year-old composer as soloist, the work is as much a celebration of orchestral texture as pianistic bravura, bursting with youthful energy and invention. Norwegian pianist and Proms regular Leif Ove Andsnes is the soloist.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner, and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.

Prom 18 Repeat: Currentzis Conducts Beethoven20180801~Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann.

Another chance to hear the thrilling Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis conduct his ensemble MusicAeterna in the 2nd and 5th Symphonies.

Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D major

2.30pm

Interval: Proms Plus

Shahidha Bari introduces a series of the best comic readings from literature to tie in with Beethoven's penchant for 'musical jokes'.

2.55pm

Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor

One of the boldest, most exhilarating new voices in classical music, Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis, and his period-instrument ensemble MusicAeterna are together ripping up the classical rulebook with thrilling, award-winning results.

In the hands of MusicAeterna a classic programme of Beethoven symphonies - the vivacious, 'smiling' Second and the emotionally charged Fifth - becomes something altogether more punk and provocative.

First broadcast on Saturday 28 July.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

BBC Proms repeat: Teodor Currentzis conducts MusicAeterna in Beethoven Symphonies 2 and 5.

Prom 18 Repeat: Sirens And Scheherazade20170731Afternoon on 3 - with Fiona Talkington

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Gaffigan perform Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. And Anders Hillborg's Sirens with the BBC Symphony Chorus and soloists.

Presented at the Royal Albert Hall, London by Ian Skelly

Korngold: The Sea Hawk - overture

Anders Hillborg: Sirens (UK premiere)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Hannah Holgerrson (soprano)

Ida Falk Winland (soprano)

James Gaffigan (conductor)

First broadcast on Friday, July 28th

James Gaffigan and the BBC Symphony Orchestra take you on a maritime journey from the exotic oceans of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade to the siren-filled waters of Homer's Odyssey as imagined by Swedish composer Anders Hillborg - with two Swedish sopranos and the BBC Symphony Chorus - and the stormy seas of Korngold's stirring film score for The Sea Hawk.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

James Gaffigan and the BBC Symphony Orchestra take you on a maritime journey.

Prom 18-bamberg Symphony Orchestra20090804Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2009

Another chance to hear the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra's return to the Proms under its British-born principal conductor Jonathan Nott.

The programme features Jorg Widmann's Con brio, inspired by Beethoven, Mozart's Third Violin Concerto, featuring young German soloist Arabella Steinbacher making her Proms debut, and Bruckner's Third Symphony, which was dedicated to Wagner.

Arabella Steinbacher (violin)

Jonathan Nott (conductor)

Jorg Widmann: Con brio (UK premiere)

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216

Bruckner: Symphony No 3 in D minor

4.15pm

Piano Music

Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Corelli

Freddy Kempf (piano)

Recorded at the 2009 Mananan Festival

Liszt: Les jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este (Annees de pelerinage - 3me Annee)

Philippe Cassard (piano).

Another chance to hear the Bamberg SO performing music by Widmann, Bruckner and Mozart.

Prom 19 Repeat: Strauss, Schumann And Macmillan20190808~Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann.

Another chance to hear BBC SSO & Thomas Dausgaard with pianist Alexander Melnikov. Schumann's Piano Concerto and James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie.

Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra

c.2.35pm

Interval; Proms Plus: Composer Sir James MacMillan, 60 this year, discusses The Confession of Isobel Gowdie and talks about his inspiration and ideas. Recorded earlier at Imperial College Union. Producer Helen Garrison.

c.3pm

Part 2

Schumann: Piano Concerto

James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie

Alexander Melnikov (piano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

‘I always wanted a great bravura piece by him,' wrote Clara Schumann of her husband. Her hope was answered in Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto a work whose broad, symphonic scope explores and tests the relationship between soloist and orchestra.

Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov joins the BBC Scottish SO and its Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard for a programme that also includes the sweeping drama of Strauss's tone-poem Also sprach Zarathustra, with its memorable opening sunrise (heard on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey) and the violence and compassion of Sir James MacMillan's early masterpiece The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, inspired by the execution of a 17th-century ‘witch' and premiered at the Proms in 1990.

BBC SSO, Thomas Dausgaard and pianist Alexander Melnikov.

Prom 19-berlioz, Mendelssohn20090805Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2009

Another chance to hear a Prom featuring Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini overture and la mort de Cleopatre, followed by Mendelssohn's triumphant Hymn of Praise. Wildly popular with Victorian audiences, it's not often heard today, and the Halle under music director Mark Elder, revive the work as part of 2009's Mendelssohn celebrations.

Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)

Sally Matthews (soprano)

Sarah Castle (mezzo-soprano)

Steve Davislim (tenor)

Halle Choir

Halle Youth Choir

Halle Orchestra

Mark Elder (conductor)

Berlioz: Overture (Benvenuto Cellini); La mort de Cleopatre

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 2 in B flat (Lobgesang).

Another chance to hear the Halle in a Prom featuring works by Berlioz and Mendelssohn.

Prom 2 Repeat: A Bohemian Rhapsody20190723~Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann.

Another chance to hear Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Jakub Hr?ša and violinist Joshua Bell in an all-Czech programme of Dvorak and Smetana

Presented by Martin Handley at the the Royal Albert Hall, London

Dvo?ကk: Violin Concert in A minor

c.2.30pm

Interval: Proms Plus: An introduction to Smetana's Mက vlast with Czech-born former manager of the BBC World Service, Sir John Tusa, recorded earlier this evening at Imperial College Union and introduced by Petroc Trelawny. Producer Helen Garrison.

c.2.55pm

Smetana: Mက vlast

Joshua Bell, violin

Jakub Hr?ša, conductor

Following his thrilling Proms debut in 2017, Czech conductor Jakub Hr?ša returns with two popular masterpieces from his homeland.

With its song-like slow movement and irrepressible, folk-infused finale, Dvo?ကk's Violin Concerto is one of the best-loved in the repertoire. American virtuoso Joshua Bell joins the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra as soloist.

Journey through the Czech countryside in the second half with Smetana's symphonic suite Mက vlast (‘My Country') - a colourful celebration of a nation's landscape, castles and warriors, with the sweeping melody of ‘Vltava' at its heart.

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Jakub Hr\u016f\u0161a and violinist Joshua Bell.

Prom 2 Repeat: Daniel Barenboim Conducts Sibelius And Elgar20170718Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann

Another chance to hear Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin joined by violinist Lisa Batiashvili in Sibelius's Violin Concerto, followed by Elgar's First Symphony

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill at the Royal Albert Hall, London

2.00pm

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor

c.2.30pm

Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat major

Lisa Batiashvili, violin

Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Fresh from two remarkable Elgar recordings with his Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim launches this year's cycle of Elgar symphonies with a performance of the First - a work of thrilling emotional contrasts and a slow movement of Mahlerian richness and beauty.

He pairs it with one of the great Romantic violin concertos, once described by musicologist Donald Francis Tovey as 'more original, more masterly and more exhilarating' than any of its rivals, in which former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Lisa Batiashvili is the soloist.

[First broadcast on Sat 15th July]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in music by Sibelius and Elgar.

Prom 2 Repeat: Ravel20180718~Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington

Another chance to hear the second half of Saturday's Prom with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Alain Altinoglu, in Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe

BBC Symphony Chorus

City of London Choir

Alain Altinoglu, conductor

You can hear the first half of this repeat of Prom 2 in tomorrow's Afternoon Concert (Thursday 19th July):

Faure: Pavane

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Faur退's serene, gently pulsing Pavane, elegantly recalling the French court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries. Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 - the composer's final piano concerto, and a work of unusually introspective lyricism.

Schumann: Piano sonata in F sharp minor, Op. 11 played by Francesco Piemontesi.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Alain Altinoglu perform Ravel.

Prom 20 Repeat: Pekka Kuusisto And The Bbc Sso20190809~Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann

Another chance to hear Sibelius' Violin Concerto and Fifth Symphony performed with special Finish folk music introductions.

Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Trad: Finnish Folk Music

Sibelius: Violin Concerto

c.2.45pm Interval

Proms Plus Talk: Kate Molleson talks to Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Leah Brand about the music in this concert.

c.3.05pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 (original version, 1915)

Pekka Kuusisto (violin)

Taito Hoffr退n (singer)

Ilona Korhonen (singer)

Minna-Liisa Tammela (singer)

Vilma Timonen (kantele)

Timo Alakotila (harmonium)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Violinist Pekka Kuusisto memorably set the entire Proms audience singing a Finnish folk song in 2016. Now he returns for a Prom joined by fellow Finnish folk musicians, which sprinkles rustic Finnish folk music among two pinnacles of Finnish orchestral sophistication: Sibelius's great Romantic Violin Concerto (with Kuusisto as soloist) and his Fifth Symphony - a work suffused with light and autumnal warmth.

Thomas Dausgaard conducts the symphony's original, four-movement version, allowing a glimpse into the creative process of a work that Sibelius revised over a period of four years.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

BBC SSO, Thomas Dausgaard and violinist Pekka Kuusisto.

Prom 20 Repeat: Stephen Hough Plays Brahms20170801Afternoon on 3 with Fiona Talkington

Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, at this year's BBC Proms, with music by Brahms, Haydn and David Sawer.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor

David Sawer: the greatest happiness principle

Haydn: Symphony No 99 in E flat major

Stephen Hough (piano)

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

Though booed at its premier in 1859, Brahms's First Piano Concerto has gone on to become one of the most-beloved of piano concertos. A giant of a piece with an emotional scope to match, it is at its most tender in the slow movement - a 'gentle portrait' of Clara Schumann. Tempering this intensity is Haydn's graceful Symphony No 99 and David Sawer's 'the greatest happiness principle', with its dancing, rhythmically charged textures. Inspired by Jeremy Bentham's Utopian philosophies, it is performed in this BBC Proms concert as part of the PRS for Music Foundation's Resonate scheme, promoting British music of the past 25 years, in partnership with the Association of British Orchestras and BBC Radio 3.

First broadcast on Saturday 29 July

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic with music by Brahms, Haydn and David Sawer.

Prom 21 Repeat: Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, 'choral'20170803Afternoon on 3 - with Fiona Talkington

Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, with soloists Erin Wall, Sonia Prina, Simon O'Neil, and Alexander Vinogradov, perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony, under conductor Xian Zhang.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch at the Royal Albert Hall, London

James MacMillan: A European Requiem

Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor, 'Choral

Iestyn Davies (countertenor)

Jacques Imbrailo (baritone)

Erin Wall (soprano)

Sonia Prina (mezzo)

Simon O'Neil (tenor)

Alexander Vinogradov (bass)

City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus

Xian Zhang (conductor)

Freedom, hope and brotherhood are the notions that underpin both Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Sir James MacMillan's new choral work A European Requiem - a plea for unity in a troubled world. Xian Zhang and the BBC NOW perform this European premiere.

[First broadcast on Sunday, July 30th]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales, soloists, with Beethoven 9th Symphony.

Prom 21 Repeat: Olivier Latry20190807~Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington.

Another chance to hear Olivier Latry (organ), with a selection of musical favourites and novelties including works by Bach, de Falla, Beethoven, Liszt, Saint-Sa뀀ns, Gigout, Khachaturian and Widor.

Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Aram Khachaturian - Gayane - Sabre Dance (transcr. Kiviniemi)

Manuel de Falla - El amor brujo - Ritual fire dance (transcr. Latry)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Adagio in F major (for mechanical clock)

Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

Eug耀ne Gigout - Air c退l耀bre de la Pentec䀀te

Franz Liszt (arr. Guillou) - Prelude and Fugue on the name BACH, S 260

Charles?Marie Widor - Bach's Memento - No. 4: Marche du veilleur de nuit

Camille Saint?Sa뀀ns - Danse macabre (arr. Lemare)

Celebrated French organist Olivier Latry returns to the Proms for the first time in over a decade for a programme centred around transcriptions and arrangements for the ‘King of Instruments'. The organist of Paris's Notre-Dame Cathedral roams through 250 years of music in a wide-ranging recital programme that stretches from Bach to Falla. There's a rhythmic charge to the recital, which includes virtuosic transcriptions of Khachaturian's frenzied Sabre Dance, Falla's hypnotic Ritual Fire Dance and Saint-Sa뀀ns's devilish Danse macabre, as well as Bach's dramatic Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and Bach arrangements by French organist-composers Widor and Gigout.

Organist Olivier Latry performs Bach, de Falla, Liszt and Saint-Sa\u00ebns.

Prom 22 Repeat: A London Symphony20180806~Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson

Another chance to hear the BBC SSO & Andew Manze at the BBC Proms in 2 'London' symphonies: by Haydn and Vaughan Williams. From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Haydn: Symphony No 104 'London

2.30pm: Interval

Proms Plus - Novelists John Lanchester and Diana Evans discuss depicting contemporary London in their fiction with presenter Rana Mitter.

2.50pm

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 2 'London

Andrew Manze (conductor)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Andrew Manze and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra open with Haydn's lively, assertive final symphony - composed and first performed in London during the composer's second triumphant residency.

First performed in March 1914, Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony evokes the chimes of Westminster, a chilly November in Bloomsbury and the bright lights of the Strand in a city that would soon be scarred by war.

BBC SSO and Andrew Manze in perform 'London' symphonies by Haydn and Vaughan Williams.

Prom 22 Repeat: Monteverdi's Vespers20170804Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann

Another chance to hear the French baroque ensemble Pygmalion under director Rapha뀀l Pichon perform Monteverdi Vespers of 1610.

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610

Giuseppina Bridelli, mezzo-soprano

Eva Zacik, mezzo-soprano

Emiliano Gonzalez?Toro, tenor

Magnus Staveland, tenor

Virgile Ancely, bass

Renaud Bres, bass

Geoffroy Buffi耀re, bass

Rapha뀀l Pichon, director

Before there was Bach's Mass in B minor or Beethoven's Missa solemnis there was Monteverdi's Vespers, a choral masterpiece of unprecedented musical scope and audacious beauty. The work's textural extremes, multiple choirs and sonic effects are brought to life in a performance marking the 450th anniversary of the composer's birth.

Award-winning French Baroque ensemble Pygmalion makes its Proms debut under its director Rapha뀀l Pichon, together with an exciting line-up of young soloists.

First broadcast on Monday 31st July

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Another chance to hear French Baroque ensemble Pygmalion perform Monteverdi's Vespers.

Prom 23 Repeat: Handel, Israel In Egypt20170807Afternoon on 3 - with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by William Christie in Handel's Israel in Egypt, one of the composer's most dramatic oratorios.

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Handel Israel in Egypt (1739 version)

Anna Devin, soprano

Rowan Pierce, soprano

Christopher Lowrey, countertenor

Jeremy Budd, tenor

Dingle Yandell, bass-baritone

Callum Thorpe, bass

Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

William Christie, conductor

Filled with frogs, locusts, hailstones and rivers of blood, Israel in Egypt is one of Handel's most extravagant oratorios and, by placing the chorus in the spotlight, Handel uses the collective voices to tell the story of an entire people.

In this performance of the 1739 version, William Christie conducts the period ensemble the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, joined by the group's own choir, in the launch of a series of Handel oratorios to be performed over the coming seasons at the Proms.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this year's Proms Artists.

Producer Peter Thresh.

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Handel's Israel in Egypt.

Prom 23 Repeat: Swan Lake20190812~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

From the BBC Proms, another chance to hear BBC Philharmonic with Principal Conductor Ben Gernon in Arnold, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky.

Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Sarah Walker

Arnold: Peterloo Overture

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

c.2.40pm

Interval:

Proms Plus

In 2017, Sacha Dench of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust flew the 7,000 mile migration route of Whooper Swans from Siberia to the UK in a paraglider. Drawing on her experience, the ‘Human Swan' talks about the birds that have become symbolic of love, beauty, and mystery with dance critic Sarah Crompton, former Arts Editor-in-Chief at The Telegraph. Hosted by New Generation Thinker Hetta Howes. Produced by Torquil MacLeod.

c. 3:05

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (excerpts)

Juan P退rez Floristကn (piano)

Ben Gernon (conductor)

The BBC Philharmonic and their Principal Guest Conductor Ben Gernon open with Malcolm Arnold's Dramatic 'Peterloo Overture' in the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Masacre at St Peter's Fields in Manchester. Excerpts from 'Swan Lake' the first of Tchaikovsky's great ballet scores, include the colourful sequence of national dances and the heart-breaking final scene in which Odette and her beloved Siegfried are united for ever in death, breaking the spell of the sorcerer Rothbart. Juan P退rez Floristကn is soloist in Rachmaninov's 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini', with its famous lyrical 18th Variation.

Another chance to hear BBC Philharmonic with Principal Conductor, Ben Gernon.

Prom 24 Repeat: A Hero's Life20180807~Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson.

Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Otto Tausk at the BBC Proms with the cellist Daniel Müller?Schott in Dvo?ကk's Cello Concerto. Plus performances of Strauss' Ein Heldenleben and the Prelude to Act 2 of Dame Ethel Smyth's opera, The Wreckers.

Presented by Ian Skelly from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Smyth: The Wreckers - On the Cliffs of Cornwall (Prelude to Act 2)

Dvo?ကk: Cello Concerto in B minor

c. 2.50pm INTERVAL

c. 3.15pm

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Daniel Müller?Schott (cello)

Otto Tausk (conductor)

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Triumphant horns and a flirtatious, vivacious solo violin set the tone for Strauss's vivid autobiographical tone-poem Ein Heldenleben - 'A Hero's Life', outwardly inspired by 'an ideal of great and manly heroism'. The orchestra is also at the forefront in Dvo?ကk's Cello Concerto, sounding as an equal partner to the soloist - German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, who returns to the Proms under conductor Otto Tausk - in an intensely personal work that marries a pervasive sense of longing with real passion. And in the centenary year of British women gaining the right to vote, Ethel Smyth's evocative Act 2 Prelude from The Wreckers celebrates a key British composer who, as a suffragette, spent two months in Holloway Prison.

BBC NOW conducted by Otto Tausk in Strauss, Dvorak and Ethel Smyth.

Prom 25 Repeat: Tchaikovsky, Glinka And Joby Talbot20180809~Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson.

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Vedernikov at the BBC Proms. Glinka, Tchaikovsky and the world premiere of Joby Talbot's Guitar Concerto with Miloš Karadagli?.

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Glinka: Summer Night in Madrid (Spanish Overture No.2)

Joby Talbot: Guitar Concerto (BBC Commission World Premiere)

2.35pm Interval

Proms Plus

Composer Joby Talbot, whose Guitar Concerto receives its world premiere in this evening's Prom, discusses the influence of dance in this new work and along with choreographer Christopher Wheeldon looks at how composers and choreographers work together to create new pieces. Hosted by Andrew McGregor and recorded earlier this evening at the Imperial College Union, London.

3pm

Tchaikovksy: The Nutcracker - Act 1

Miloš Karadagli? (guitar)

Finchley Children's Music Group

Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Guitarist Miloš Karadagli? is the soloist in a new concerto written especially for him by Joby Talbot. Taking inspiration from Karadagli?'s Montenegrin heritage, Talbot's typically rhythmic piece incorporates Balkan dances into its propulsive flow.

Dance also runs through both Glinka's heat-soaked Summer Night in Madrid, accompanied by pulsing castanets, and the expansive waltzes of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker, whose complete Act 1 is here performed for the first time at the Proms.

BBCSO and Alexander Vedernikov in Tchaikovsky, Glinka and Talbot at the Royal Albert Hall.

Prom 25 Repeat: Tchaikovsky, Sibelius And Weinberg20190813~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Dalia Stasevska in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6; and cellist Sol Gabetta joins for Weinberg's Cello Concerto.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Sibelius: Karelia Suite

Mieczys?aw Weinberg: Cello Concerto

c.2.40pm

Interval:

Proms Plus Talk: Shahidha Bari presents readings of Tchaikovsky's letters, many of which were suppressed because of what they revealed about his sexuality. She is joined by composer Rolf Hind. Recorded earlier at Beit Hall, Imperial College.

c.3pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 in B minor, 'Path退tique

Sol Gabetta (cello)

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

Dalia Stasevska makes her Proms debut as the BBC Symphony Orchestra's newly appointed Principal Guest Conductor.

Cellist Sol Gabetta joins them to celebrate the centenary of one of the 20th century's great unsung heroes, Mieczys?aw Weinberg, whose Cello Concerto - premiered by Rostropovich in 1957, a decade after it was written - deserves a place alongside those of his great friend and colleague Shostakovich.

The programme also includes Tchaikovsky's much-loved ‘Path退tique' Symphony, with its thrilling Scherzo, and Sibelius's suite Karelia a stirring celebration of Finland's proud history.

BBC SO, conducted by Dalia Stasevska, with cellist Sol Gabetta.

Prom 25-bbcnow, Thierry Fischer20090810Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2009:

Another chance to hear Thierry Fischer conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Sillages - a new triple concerto for flute, oboe and clarinet by Michael Jarrell. The Albert Hall stage is crowded with the massive forces needed for Berlioz's Symphonie funebre et triomphale; the Prom then finishes with Beethoven's Symphony No 3, which was originally dedicated to Napoleon.

Emmanuel Pahud (flute)

Francois Lelux (oboe)

Paul Meyer (clarinet)

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Berlioz: Overture: Les francs-juges

Michael Jarrell: Sillages (BBC co-commission)

Berlioz: Symphonie funebre et triomphale

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (Eroica)

4.30pm

A selection of chamber music from the 2008 Edinburgh Festival, including:

Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op 54, No 2

Ysaye String Quartet.

Another chance to hear a Prom with the BBCNOW in Berlioz, Michael Jarrell and Beethoven.

Prom 26 Repeat: Late Night Serpent And Fire20180808~Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson.

Another chance to hear soprano Anna Prohaska and leading early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico at the BBC Proms in a programme that takes inspiration from two great queens, Cleopatra and Dido.

Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, excerpts

The Fairy Queen - Chaconne: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman

Christoph Graupner: Dido, Queen of Carthage, excerpts

Antonio Sartorio: Julius Caesar in Egypt, excerpts

Matthew Locke: The Tempest - Curtain Tune

George Frideric Handel: Julius Caesar in Egypt - 'Che sento? Oh Dio! ... Se piet

Prom 26 Repeat: Mozart And Brahms20170808Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear Paavo J䀀rvi conducting the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in Mozart and Brahms, plus the UK premiere of a new work by Erkki-Sven Tüür.

Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Martin Handley

Erkki-Sven Tüür: Flamma (UK premiere)

Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat major

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major

Vilde Frang, violin

Lawrence Power, viola

Paavo J䀀rvi, conductor

The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and its Artistic Director Paavo J䀀rvi return to the Proms, joined by British violist Lawrence Power and Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang for Mozart's genial Sinfonia concertante.

Sitting somewhere between a concerto and a symphony, it's a perfect showcase for the virtuosity of this ensemble and its sunny good humour offers a striking contrast to Erkki-Sven Tüür's arresting Flamma - a vivid musical portrait of fire as both purifying force and agent of destruction.

Smoke clears and sunshine returns in Brahms's optimistic Second Symphony, with its free-flowing melodies and irrepressible closing dance.

[First broadcast on Thursday 3rd August]

Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms artists.

Paavo Jarvi conducts the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in Mozart and Brahms.

Prom 26 Repeat: Mozart's Requiem20190814~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and Nathalie Stutzmann with Fatma Said, Kathryn Rudge, Sunnyboy Dladla and David Shipley perform Mozart's Requiem.

Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Nicola Heywood Thomas

Brahms:

Tragic Overture, Op 81

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WW 90: Prelude and Liebestod

Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K 626 (compl. Süssmayr)

Fatma Said (soprano)

Kathryn Rudge (mezzo soprano)

Sunnyboy Dladla (tenor)

David Shipley (bass)

BBC National Chorus of Wales

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)

Love and loss, life and death collide in an emotionally charged concert given by Nathalie Stutzmann and the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales.

Turbulent shifts of mood characterise Brahms's Tragic Overture, and their ripples continue through the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's powerful operatic exploration of forbidden love, Tristan and Isolde.

At the heart of the programme is Mozart's Requiem - the composer's final work, left unfinished at his early death, and his own musical epitaph. Soloists include former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Fatma Said and Kathryn Rudge.

The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales with Nathalie Stutzmann.

Prom 26-bbcnow, Fischer20090811Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2009:

Another chance to hear Felix Mendelssohn's First Symphony, written when he was only 15, and his lyrical Violin Concerto in a performance given at the Royal Albert Hall. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales under principal conductor Thierry Fischer also perform music by distinguished Swiss composer Heinz Holliger - (S)irato is an anguished lament for Holliger's Hungarian teacher Sandor Veress, to whom the piece is dedicated.

The Prom concludes with Prokofiev's ballet score for Romeo and Juliet - selected by the conductor - which reveals all the intimacy, tragedy and tenderness of Shakespeare's drama.

Isabelle Faust (violin)

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 1 in C minor; Violin Concerto in E minor

Heinz Holliger: (S)irato

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)

4.30pm

Chamber music from the 2009 Edinburgh Festival, including:

Brahms: Sonata in E flat for clarinet or viola and piano, Op 120, No 2

Paul Meyer (clarinet)

Eric Le Sage (piano).

BBCNOW in Mendelssohn: Symphony No 1; Violin Concerto. Plus Holliger and Prokofiev.

Prom 28 Repeat: National Youth Orchestra Performs Mussorgsky, Ligeti And Debussy20180810~Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson.

Another chance to hear the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the BBC Proms with conductor George Benjamin and pianist Tamara Stefanovich

Presented by Tom Redmond at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Mussorgsky, arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: A Night on the Bare Mountain

George Benjamin: Dance Figures

Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Encore:

Knussen: Prayer Bell Sketch

c.2.50pm

During the interval, Tom Redmond is joined by guests live at the Royal Albert Hall, including members of the National Youth Orchestra

c.3.10pm

Ligeti: Lontano

Debussy: La mer

Tamara Stefanovich (piano)

George Benjamin (conductor)

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain return to conjure a series of vivid worlds, both real and imagined.

The sea roars and shimmers in Debussy's La mer, Mussorgsky paints eerie visions of a Witches' Sabbath, while Ligeti's Lontano summons the 'dream worlds of childhood'.

Ravel's brooding Concerto for the Left Hand was commissioned by a pianist who lost an arm in the First World War.

The National Youth Orchestra under George Benjamin performs Mussorgsky, Ligeti and Debussy

Prom 28 Repeat: Rachmaninov, Borodin And Huw Watkins20190815~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and the Philharmonia Chorus conducted by Tadaaki Otaka with Natalya Romanov, Oleg Dolgov and Iurii Samoilov.

Presented by Nicola Heywood-Thomas at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Takemitsu:

Twill by Twilight

Huw Watkins:

The Moon

c.2.35pm

Interval:

Proms Plus

The American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was a pioneer of Gothic and horror fiction and verse, including ‘The Raven'. His poem The Bells inspired the Rachmaninov piece in tonight's concert. Laura Purcell, author of The Corset and The Silent Companions and Iain Sinclair, whose books include Downriver, join presenter Matthew Sweet. Produced by Torquil MacLeod.

c.2.55pm

Rachmaninov:

The Bells, Op. 35

Borodin:

Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances

BBC National Chorus of Wales

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Sleigh bells, wedding bells, warning bells and mourning bells all peal through Rachmaninov's choral symphony The Bells - which sets a text by Edgar Allan Poe with broad brushstrokes and bright colours.

Borodin's exotically seductive Polovtsian Dances also features, alongside a world premiere by Huw Watkins inspired by the 50th anniversary of the first manned mission to the Moon.

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales with the Philharmonia Chorus and Tadaaki Otaka.

Prom 28-bbc Philharmonic, Karen Geoghegan20090813Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2009:

A Prom featuring Stravinsky's Scenes de ballet, continuing the Proms survey of the composer's complete ballets, plus Mozart's Bassoon Concerto, featuring Karen Geoghegan, and Mahler's powerful Sixth Symphony.

Karen Geoghegan (bassoon)

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Stravinsky: Scenes de ballet

Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K191

Mahler: Symphony No 6 in A minor

4.30pm

A recital given by Gabriela Montero at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival.

Including:

Chopin: Ballade No 4 in F minor for piano, Op 52

Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No 1, S514

Gabriela Montero (piano).

BBC Philharmonic. Stravinsky: Scenes de ballet. Mozart: Bassoon Concerto. Plus Mahler.

Prom 29-bbc Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda20090814Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2009:

Another chance to hear a Prom in which the BBC Philharmonic under its Italian-born chief conductor Gianandrea Noseda pay tribute to his native land. Featuring the symphony Mendelssohn composed while holidaying in Rome, music by Rossini, Peter Maxwell Davies' serenade Roma amor and Respighi's celebration of the capital's famous pines.

Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)

Rossini: Mura felice (La donna del lago); Rossini: Nacqui all'affanno e al pianto...Non piu mesta (La Cenerentola)

Peter Maxwell Davies: Roma amor

Respighi: Pines of Rome

4.30pm

Music from a recital given by Keith Lewis and Melvyn Tan at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival, including:

Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op 98

Hahn: Quand je fus pris au pavillon; L'air; Les etoiles

Keith Lewis (tenor)

Melvyn Tan (piano).

BBC Philharmonic Italian tribute: featuring Mendelssohn, Rossini, Maxwell Davies, Respighi

Prom 3 Repeat: Bbc Young Musician 40th Anniversary20180717~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

BBC Proms repeat: BBC Young Musician celebrates its 40th birthday with a concert featuring illustrious past winners and finalists, including Nicola Benedetti, Freddy Kempf and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, as well as this year's winner, Lauren Zhang.

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Ben Foster: Fantasia on the Young Musician Theme

David Bruce: Sidechaining

Steve Reich: Drumming, Part 1

Giovanni Sollima: Violoncelles, vibrez!

Iain Farrington: Gershwinicity

INTERVAL: Clemency Burton-Hill looks back over the history of the BBC Young Musician with the help of some of its winners.

Saint-Sa뀀ns, arr Farrington: Carnival of the Animals (excerpts)

Ravel: Tzigane

James MacMillan: Britannia

Mussorgsky, arr Wood: The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition

Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

Michael Collins (clarinet)

Ben Goldscheider (horn)

Jennifer Pike (violin)

Alexander Bone (alto saxophone)

David Childs (euphonium)

Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone)

Emma Johnson (clarinet)

Alexandra Ridout (trumpet)

Colin Currie (percussion)

Owen Gunnell (percussion)

Adrian Spillett (percussion)

Sam Walton (percussion)

Natalie Clein (cello)

Laura van der Heijden (cello)

Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)

Guy Johnston (cello)

Nicola Benedetti (violin)

Martin James Bartlett (piano)

Freddy Kempf (piano)

Lara Melda (piano)

Lauren Zhang (piano)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Andrew Gourlay

BBC Young Musician has launched the careers of scores of artists since it began in 1978. We mark the competition's 40th anniversary with the help of an array of previous winners and finalists, joining this year's finalists; and we take a look at the competition's rich history.

First broadcast Sunday 15 July.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Past winners and finalists celebrate 40 years of BBC Young Musician.

Prom 3 Repeat: Bernard Haitink Conducts Mozart And Schumann20170720Afternoon on 3 - with Fiona Talkington

Another chance to hear Bernard Haitink conduct the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in symphonies by Mozart & Schumann. Isabelle Faust joins them for Mozart's Violin Concerto in G K216.

Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London

2pm

Mozart: Symphony No 38 in D major 'Prague', K 504

c.2.30pm

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 in G major, K 216

c.2.55pm:

Schumann: Symphony no.2 in C major

Isabelle Faust (violin)

conductor Bernard Haitink

The two symphonies that frame this Prom each offer a defiant, optimistic challenge to the status quo. Mozart's pioneering 'Prague' Symphony rewrites the rule book for the genre, while in Schumann's Second Symphony the composer overcomes the demons of his own mental health to produce a work of invigorating, captivating extremes.

Conductor Bernard Haitink - a Proms regular for over half a century - returns with frequent collaborators, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. They are joined by award-winning German violinist Isabelle Faust, the soloist in Mozart's graceful Violin Concerto No. 3.

[First broadcast on Sunday 16th July]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra or Europe in music by Mozart and Schumann.

Prom 30 Repeat: Walton, Belshazzar's Feast20170810Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, performed by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and the Bournemouth Symphony orchestra, conducted by Kirill Karabits.

Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Martin Handley

Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major

Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten - Symphonic Fantasy

Prokofiev: Seven, They Are Seven

Walton: Belshazzar's Feast

David Butt Philip, tenor

James Rutherford, baritone

Kirill Karabits, conductor

Gods, demons and mortals do battle in a concert full of musical legends and fairy tales. Prokofiev's revolution-inspired cantata Seven, They Are Seven is played for the first time at the Proms, alongside Walton's choral spectacular Belshazzar's Feast.

[First broadcast on Monday 7th August]

Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms artists.

Producer Clive Portbury.

Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, performed the Bournemouth Symphony orchestra.

Prom 30-bbc So, Knussen20090812Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2009:

Another chance to hear a Prom conducted by Oliver Knussen, the BBC SO's new artist-in-association.

It features Respighi's dawn-to-dusk tour of Rome's most famous fountains, Helen Grime's dramatic evocation of the atmosphere before a storm and Stravinsky's 1936 ballet Jeu de cartes - a musical poker game in three 'deals'.

The concert concludes with Balakirev's 'oriental fantasy' inspired by the Caucasus, where Casella propelled an already virtuosic keyboard piece into even more exotic extremes, and Knussen's own thrilling Horn Concerto.

Martin Owen (horn)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Oliver Knussen (conductor)

Respighi: Fountains of Rome

Helen Grime: Virga

Stravinsky: Jeu de Cartes

Oliver Knussen: Horn Concerto

Balakirev, orch Casella: Islamey.

BBC SO/Knussen in Respighi, Helen Grime, Stravinsky, Knussen and Balakirev (orch Casella).

Prom 3120090817Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2009:

Another chance to hear the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain's annual Proms visit with their new principal conductor, Vasily Petrenko. Stephen Hough plays Tchaikovsky's most famous Piano Concerto, the First, before the young players of the NYO perform multi-coloured orchestral showpieces by Lutoslawski and Respighi.

Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor

Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra

Respighi: Roman Festivals

Stephen Hough (piano)

4.00pm

BBC Orchestras

Arnell: Harlequin in April, Op 63

BBC Concert Orchestra

Martin Yates (conductor)

Elgar: Song Cycle, Op 59

Susan Gritton (soprano)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

NYO in Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 (with Stephen Hough), plus Lutoslawski, Respighi.

Prom 31 Repeat: Bernstein, Gershwin And Ives20180815~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo V䀀nsk䀀 play music by Bernstein and Ives at the BBC Proms. They're joined by pianist Inon Barnatan in Gershwin's piano concerto.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Bernstein: Candide - overture

Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major

2.40pm

Ives: Symphony No. 2

Inon Barnatan, piano

Osmo V䀀nsk䀀, conductor

A great American orchestra marks Leonard Bernstein's 100th-anniversary year with a concert of 20th century American classics that represent Bernstein in his multiple guises as composer, conductor and pianist.

The breathless exuberance of Bernstein's Candide overture is extended by Inon Barnatan in Gershwin's Concerto in F major, which filters the composer's popular jazz idiom through classical structures and Lisztian virtuosity.

Premiered by Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in 1951, Ives's attractive Second Symphony melds European techniques with an all-American sound-world.

Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vanska in music by Bernstein, Gershwin and Ives.

Prom 31 Repeat: Brahms, Bruckner And Strauss And The Anvil, By Emily Howard20190816~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear the Philharmonia with Lise Davidsen and Esa-Pekka Salonen, in music by Brahms, Strauss and Bruckner

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Brahms: Variations on the St Anthony Chorale

Strauss: Four Songs, Op. 27

c.2.45pm: Interval: Proms Plus Talk: William Mival considers Bruckner's symphonic techniques

c.3.05pm: Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E flat major 'Romantic

(1878-80 version, ed. Nowak)

Lise Davidsen, soprano

Philharmonia Orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra perform a programme of Austro-German orchestral classics with Bruckner's ‘Romantic' Symphony at its heart. Soprano Lise Davidsen joins them for a sequence of Strauss songs including the ecstatic ‘Morgen!'.

c.4.15pm Emily Howard: The Anvil

Text by Michael Symmons Roberts

(BBC / Manchester International Festival commission - world premiere)

Kate Royal (soprano)

Christopher Purves (baritone)

BBC Singers

Halle Choir

Halle Youth Choir

Halle Ancoats Community Choir

BBC Philharmonic

Ben Gernon (conductor)

Two hundred years ago today more than 60,000 people travelled from all over the North West of England to St. Peter's Square just a couple of hundred yards from where the Bridgewater Hall stands today. They came united in their wish for the right to vote. As speeches began troops, some on horse-back descended on the crowd killing 15 people and injuring more than 600. The Peterloo Massacre as it became known was a pivotal moment in Britain's road to democracy. The Anvil was Commissioned by Manchester International Festival and the BBC to commemorate the events of the day and performed at this year's Manchester International Festival, at the Bridgewater Hall, as part of a day of performance, music and poetry.

The Philharmonia with Lisa Davidsen and Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Royal Albert Hall

Prom 3220090819Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2009:

Another chance to hear a Prom from the 2009 season's Piano Day with the Britten Sinfonia joined by three piano duos to play Faure's Dolly suite, followed by Mozart's playful and intimate Double Concerto. Plus Saint-Saens' zoological suite contrasted with Lutoslawski's virtuosic reworking of Paganini's famous Caprice, as well as a new work for two pianos by Anna Meredith.

Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)

Philip Moore, Simon Crawford-Phillips (pianos)

Lidija and Sanja Bizjak (pianos)

Ludovic Morlot (conductor)

Faure, orch Rabaud: Dolly (suite)

Mozart: Concerto in E flat for two pianos, K365

Anna Meredith: Left Light (BBC commission)

Lutoslawski: Variations on a Theme by Paganini for two pianos

Saint-Saens: The Carnival of the Animals.

Britten Sinfonia and three piano duos in Faure, Mozart, Meredith, Lutoslawski, Saint-Saens

Prom 32 Repeat: Britten, Brian Elias, Purcell And Elgar20170811Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and Ryan Wigglesworth with Leonard Elschenbroich, Toby Spence and Henry Waddington perform Britten, Elias, Purcell and Elgar.

Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London, by Petroc Trelawny

Britten: Ballad of Heroes

Brian Elias: Cello Concerto

Purcell, arr Elgar: Jehova, quam multi sunt

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)

Toby Spence (tenor)

Henry Waddington (bass)

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Ryan Wigglesworth joins the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales for a programme that spans four centuries, from Purcell's dramatic choral motet 'Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei', to the world premiere of Brian Elias's Cello Concerto, whose intricate, spiral structure creates a dream-like musical narrative.

The concert opens with Britten's most overtly political work - an impassioned musical stand against fascism that anticipates the composer's War Requiem; and reaches its culmination with Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations, which includes the much-loved 'Nimrod'.

[First broadcast on Wednesday 9th August]

Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms artists

Producer Clive Portbury.

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales perform Britten, Elias, Purcell and Elgar.

Prom 3320090818Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2009:

Another chance to hear the grand finale of the Piano Day at the Proms. A plethora of pianists join forces for some of the most striking multiple-keyboard music in the repertoire by Antheil, Adams and Bartok, ending with Stravinsky's visceral portrayal of Russian peasant wedding celebrations.

Tatiana Monogarova (soprano)

Elena Manistina (mezzo-soprano)

Vsevolod Grivnov (tenor)

Kostas Smoriginas (bass)

John Constable, Alissa Firsova, Rolf Hind, Tom Poster, Ashley Wass and Llyr Williams (pianos)

Philip Moore and Simon Crawford-Phillips (pianos)

Colin Currie and Sam Walton (percussion)

BBC Singers

Synergy Vocals

London Sinfonietta

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Antheil: Ballet mecanique

John Adams: Grand Pianola Music

Bartok: Sonata for two pianos and percussion

Stravinsky: Les noces (sung in Russian)

4.00pm

BBC Orchestras

Delius: Hiawatha - tone poem

BBC Concert Orchestra

David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)

Judith Bingham: Ghost Towns of the American West

David Hill (conductor).

Jonathan Swain with the finale of Proms 2009 Piano Day: Antheil, Adams, Bartok, Stravinsky

Prom 33 Repeat: Brahms's A German Requiem20180813~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear Richard Farnes conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Thea Musgrave's Phoenix Rising at the BBC Proms. The BBC Symphony Chorus and soloists join for Brahms's German Requiem.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall.

Thea Musgrave: Phoenix Rising

c.2.25

Interval: Proms Plus:

Presenter Ian Skelly introduces Brahms' 'A German Requiem', together with Reverend Lucy Winkett. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union.

c.2.45

Brahms: A German Requiem

Golda Schultz (soprano)

Johan Reuter (baritone)

Richard Farnes (conductor)

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms artists.

Inspired by the death of his mother, Brahms's tender, consoling A German Requiem couldn't be further from Verdi's and Berlioz's settings of the standard Latin Mass text. It's the first of three Requiems this season marking 100 years since the end of the First World War.

Richard Farnes makes his Proms debut directing the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, along with soloists Golda Schultz and Johan Reuter.

Thea Musgrave's Phoenix Rising (marking the composer's 90th birthday this year) also traces a journey from darkness to light -enacting the conflict both spatially and musically- in some of the composer's most dramatic writing.

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Richard Farnes in Brahms's A German Requiem

Prom 33 Repeat: Mahler, Schubert And Glanert20190819~Afternoon Concert with Hannah French

The BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Semyon Bychkov in Detlev Glanert, Schubert, and Mahler's Symphony No.4, with soprano Christina Gansch.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Detlev Glanert: Weites Land ('Musik mit Brahms' for orchestra)

UK premiere

Franz Schubert: Einsamkeit for soprano and orchestra (orch. D. Glanert)

c.2:35pm

INTERVAL - Proms Plus

Before the Mahler symphony which includes a song presenting a child's view of heaven - this discussion hears about children's concepts of innocence and experience New Generation Thinker Emma Butcher and Patrice Lawrence, award winning writer of the young adult novel Orangeboy. Presented by New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen. Produced by Jacqueline Smith.

c. 3:00pm

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G major

Christina Gansch (soprano)

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Semyon Bychkov traces the evolution and genealogy of Austro-German music in a fascinating Prom featuring three works from three different centuries.

Schubert's influence on Mahler is clear from the weary loveliness and fretful anxiety of Einsamkeit (‘Loneliness'), heard here in an elegant orchestration by contemporary composer Detlev Glanert.

Mahler's Fourth Symphony, bright with sleigh bells and innocent wonder, glances back to Classical models from the vantage point of fin-de-si耀cle Vienna, while Glanert takes Brahms's Fourth Symphony into the 21st century in his lyrical Weites Land (‘Open Land').

Followed by performances by the Aurora Orchestra of works by winners of the Proms Inspire Competition.

BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, with soprano Christina Gansch.

Prom 3420090820Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2009:

Another chance to hear a Prom in which the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under its new principal conductor Kirill Karabits perform ballet music by Stravinsky and Khachaturian. Talented Lithuanian-born violinist Julian Rachlin joins them in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

Khachaturian: Spartacus (excerpts)

Khachaturian: Hopak (Gayane)

Julian Rachlin (violin)

Kirill Karabits (conductor).

A Prom with the Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits in Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Khachaturian

Prom 34 Repeat: Bbc Philharmonic And Juanjo Mena Perform Britten And Copland20180814~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena with soprano Sally Matthews in music by Britten, Walton, Barber and Copland.

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall .

Walton: Overture 'Portsmouth Point

Copland: Connotations

Britten: Les illuminations

c. 2.50

Interval: Proms Plus

Film-maker and biographer Humphrey Burton and Britten scholar Heather Wiebe explore Aaron Copland's influence on Benjamin Britten and Leonard Bernstein and Britten's relationship with America, in conversation with Louise Fryer. Recorded earlier today at the Imperial College Union.

c. 3.10

Barber: Antony and Cleopatra - Two scenes

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes

Sally Matthews (soprano)

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms artists.

In Bernstein's centenary year, Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic celebrate with a transatlantic Prom, uniting music by British and American composers connected not just by generation but in many cases personal friendship. Commissioned and premiered by Bernstein, Copland's Connotations is a portrait of 'the tensions aspirations and drama inherent in the world today'. Its knotty confrontations find contrast in the sensuous beauty of Britten's orchestral song-cycle Les illuminations, while the sea provides inspiration both for Walton's bustling, bonhomous Portsmouth Point overture and Britten's boldly dramatic Four Sea Interludes from his opera 'Peter Grimes'. Sally Matthews joins the orchestra for two extracts from Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra which complete the programme.

BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena in Britten and Copland from the Royal Albert Hall.

Prom 34 Repeat: West, Eastern Divan Orchestra20190820~Afternoon Concert with Hannah French.

Another chance to hear the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with conductor Daniel Barenboim and pianist Martha Argerich in Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Lutos?awski

Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Franz Schubert

Symphony No. 8 in B minor, 'Unfinished

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor

c.3pm

interval

c.3.20pm

Witold Lutos?awski

Concerto for Orchestra

Martha Argerich (piano)

Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra return to the Proms with a programme of emotion and sensation.

Legendary Argentine pianist Martha Argerich is the soloist in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 - an outpouring of Romantic intensity sustained from the arresting opening chords right through to the thrilling finale.

Polish folk dances pulse through Lutos?awski's vibrant Concerto for Orchestra, with its echoes of Stravinsky and Bartok. Its bracing rhythmic energy and reticent beauty offer the perfect foil to the melodic richness of Tchaikovsky's concerto.

Followed by performances by the Aurora Orchestra of works by winners of the Proms Inspire Competition.

Daniel Barenboim is joined by Martha Argerich in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1.

Prom 35 Repeat: Enigma Variations20190822~Afternoon Concert with Hannah French.

Another chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra celebrates conductor Martyn Brabbins's 60th birthday today in music by Vaughan Williams, Brahms and Elgar's Enigma variations.

Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M. C. B.

(BBC commission: world premiere)

Theme (Anon.)

Var. 1: (Dai Fujikura)

Var. 2: (David Sawer)

Var. 3: (Sally Beamish)

Var. 4: (Colin Matthews)

Var. 5: (Iris ter Schiphorst)

Var. 6: (Brett Dean)

Var. 7: (Wim Henderickx)

Var. 8: (Richard Blackford)

Var. 9: (Harrison Birtwistle)

Var. 10: Sixty Salutations (Judith Weir)

Var. 11: (Gavin Bryars)

Var. 12: (Kalevi Aho)

Var. 13: (Anthony Payne)

Var. 14: Finale: The Art of Beginning (John Pickard)

Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music

c.2.50pm

Interval: Pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris and scholar Kate Kennedy explore the connections between Brahms, Elgar and Vaughan Williams, composers featured in this concert.

c.3.20pm

Brahms: Song of Destiny

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Nadine Benjamin, soprano

Idunnu Münch, mezzo-soprano

William Morgan, tenor

David Ireland, bass-baritone

English National Opera Chorus

BBC Singers

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Elgar's ‘Enigma' Variations is the inspiration for a new work commissioned from 14 living composers as a special birthday tribute to conductor Martyn Brabbins, who turns 60 today.

Elgar's original set also features, as do Vaughan Williams's exquisite Serenade to Music and Brahms's ‘Little Requiem', the Song of Destiny.

Followed by performances by the Aurora Orchestra of works by winners of the Proms Inspire Competition Daniel Liu and Will Harmer.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins.

Prom 3620090821Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2009:

Another chance to hear a Prom in which The Sixteen perform some of Handel's greatest choral works. The Royal Albert Hall has been transformed into Westminster Abbey for a concert which features the four anthems that Handel wrote for George II's coronation in 1727, including the famous Zadok The Priest.

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)

Alastair Ross (organ)

Harry Christophers (conductor)

Handel: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon); Coronation anthem: Let thy hand be strengthened; Semele (excerpts); Coronation anthem: My heart is inditing; Coronation anthem: The King shall rejoice; Motet: Salve Regina; Organ Concerto in F, Op 4, No 4 (original version); Coronation anthem: Zadok the Priest

4.00pm

BBC Orchestras

David Matthews: Symphony No 3

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Elgar: The Sun Goeth Down

Susan Gritton (soprano)

BBC Concert Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

Harry Christophers and The Sixteen in Handel choral hits, including Coronation Anthems.

Prom 36 Repeat: Mahler, Wagner And Webern20180816~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen with Anja Kampe, Robert Dean Smith and Franz-Josef Selig perform music by Webern, Mahler and Wagner at the BBC Proms

Presented by Andrew McGregor at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 10 - Adagio

c. 2.30

Interval: Proms Plus

Stephen Fry and John Deathridge introduce Wagner's 'Die Walküre'. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union.

c. 2.50

Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 1

Anja Kampe (soprano), Sieglinde

Robert Dean Smith (tenor), Siegmund

Franz-Josef Selig (bass), Hunding

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms artists.

The Philharmonia Orchestra and its Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen take a musical journey from aphorism to epic. Barely six minutes long, Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra distils expression down to its most concentrated form, every musical gesture carrying infinite weight and colour. By contrast, Wagner's Die Walküre, the second instalment of his monumental Ring cycle, explores musical expansion and amplitude, offering an all-consuming vision of illicit love. At the midpoint is the Adagio from Mahler's 10th Symphony - music that grasps towards eternity and immortality but that was to remain tragically unfinished at the composer's death.

Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen in Webern, Mahler and Wagner, Royal Albert Hall.

Prom 36 Repeat: Schubert And Mahler20170814Afternoon on 3 with Catriona Young

Another chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor, Thomas Dausgaard, perform works by Schubert and Mahler.

Presented at the Royal Albert Hall, London by Ian Skelly

Schubert: Symphony No.8 'Unfinished

Mahler: Symphony No.10, compl. Deryck Cooke

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor, Thomas Dausgaard, offer two contrasting answers to the problem of performing unfinished symphonies. Although Schubert started work on his Eighth Symphony nearly six years before his death, he never completed it and the two existing movements of this lyrical, proto-Romantic work are mostly performed without a scherzo or finale. Mahler's final symphony grapples with darkness and doubt in music of rare anguish and intensity. It is presented here in the performing version by Deryck Cooke, which allows us to hear the work complete, in all its knotty, generous invention.

[First broadcast on Saturday 12th August]

Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms artists.

The BBC SSO and Thomas Dausgaard play music by Schubert and Mahler at the Proms.

Prom 37 Repeat: Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 320170815Afternoon on 3 - with Catriona Young.

Another chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard and pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk perform music by Rachmaninov.

Presented by Kate Molleson from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor

2.40pm

Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 in E minor

Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano)

Latvian Radio Choir

In this all-Rachmaninov Prom, prize-winning pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk makes his Proms debut in the composer's demanding Third Piano Concerto, while the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra steps into the spotlight for the mercurial Second Symphony, with its hauntingly beautiful Adagio and impassioned finale. The Latvian Radio Choir complements each work with Russian Orthodox chant, illuminating these blazing orchestral works with the hypnotic sound-world that seeped into Rachmaninov's works.

[First heard on 13 August 2017]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The BBC SSO, Thomas Dausgaard and pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk perform music by Rachmaninov

Prom 37 Repeat: The Childhood Of Christ20190823~Afternoon Concert with Hannah French.

Another chance to hear Maxime Pascal conduct the Hall退, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Genesis Sixteen and a starry solo quartet, Julie Boulianne, Allan Clayton, Roderick Williams and Neal Davies.

Presented by Andrew McGregor at the Royal Albert Hall.

Hector Berlioz: The Childhood of Christ

Julie Boulianne (mezzo-soprano)

Allan Clayton (tenor)

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Neal Davies (bass)

Maxime Pascal (conductor)

Maxime Pascal and the Hall退 continue our series marking 150 years since the death of Hector Berlioz with the composer's vividly dramatic oratorio The Childhood of Christ.

Simple and often disarmingly direct, with emotions that unfold in some of the composer's most beautiful melodies (including the much-loved ‘Shepherds' Farewell'), the oratorio follows the Holy Family as they flee from Bethlehem into Egypt, where they find safety and welcome.

Proms Plus: Inspired by Berlioz's trickery, Shahidha Bari and Nick Groom explore the long tradition of literary hoaxes, with readings from some of the most creative and audacious examples. Producer Ciaran Bermingham.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Maxime Pascal conducts the Halle and a starry line up of soloists.

Prom 38 Repeat: Solomon's Knot20190821~Afternoon Concert with Hannah French

Another chance to hear Solomon's Knot makes its Proms debut with an all-Bach programme.

Presented by Hannah French at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

JS Bach:

Cantata No. 19 'Es erhub sich ein Streit', BWV 19

Cantata No. 130 'Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir', BWV 130

Cantata No. 149, 'Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg', BWV 149

Cantata No. 50, 'Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft', BWV 50

Performing with small forces and without a conductor, Baroque-music collective Solomon's Knot brings a contemporary clarity and freshness to all its performances. The ensemble makes its Proms debut with an all-Bach programme of cantatas composed for the Feast of St Michael - the saint who, appropriately, protects against the evils of darkness and night.

The programme includes the richly scored cantatas Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir and Es erhub sich ein Streit, as well as the dramatic Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg, with its glorious chorale finale.

Solomon's Knot makes its Proms debut with an all-Bach programme at the Royal Albert Hall.

Prom 38-ravel, Unsuk Chin, Stravinsky20090826Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2009:

A Prom featuring Ravel's La valse, a work begun as a homage to the Viennese waltz but which was twisted by the composer's wartime experiences into a darker vision of a society whirling to disaster.

It is followed by Stravinsky's seminal, riot-inducing ballet The Rite of Spring, and Unsuk Chin's new Cello Concerto, which was written specially for Alban Gerhardt, an early member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.

Alban Gerhardt (cello)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Ravel: La valse

Unsuk Chin: Cello Concerto (BBC commission)

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring.

BBC Proms 2009: Ravel: La valse. Stravinsky: Rite of Spring. Unsuk Chin: Cello Concerto.

Prom 39 Repeat: Debussy, Ravel And Mark-anthony Turnage20170817Afternoon on 3 - with Catriona Young.

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kazushi Ono - Ravel's Piano Concerto with soloist Inon Barnatan, and Mark-Anthony Turnage's Hibiki with children's choirs.

Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Debussy: Pr退lude

Prom 39-greenwood, Stravinsky, Birtwistle20090824Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2009:

A Prom featuring a work composed by Jonny Greenwood, a member of the rock bank Radiohead and the BBC composer-in-residence. Popcorn Superhet Receiver is a gritty work scored for strings, which was inspired by the medium of radio.

It is followed by the central act of Harrison Birtwistle's complex opera The Mask of Orpheus, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in celebration of the composer's 75th birthday, which is then contrasted with the classically-poised Stravinsky ballet Apollo.

Jonny Greenwood: Popcorn Superhet Receiver

Stravinsky: Apollo

Birtwistle: The Arches (The Mask of Orpheus)

Orpheus (the man) - Alan Oke (tenor)

Orpheus (myth/puppet) - Thomas Walker (tenor)

Euridice (the woman) - Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)

Euridice (the myth)/Persephone - Anna Stephany (mezzo-soprano)

Hecate - Claron McFadden (soprano)

Charon/Caller/Hades - Andrew Slater (bass-baritone)

Fury 1/Woman 1 - Rachel Nicolls (soprano)

Fury 2/Woman 2 - Anna Dennis (soprano)

Fury 3/Woman 3 - Louise Poole (mezzo-soprano)

Judge 1 - Christopher Gillett (tenor)

Judge 2 - Hakan Vramsmo (baritone)

Judge 3 - Tim Mirfin (bass)

BBC Singers

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Ryan Wigglesworth (2nd conductor)

Tim Hopkins (director)

4.30pm

Radio 3 New Generation Artists

Music from soprano Elizabeth Watts, including:

Debussy: Ariettes oubliees for voice and piano

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

Gary Matthewman (piano).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra in works by Jonny Greenwood, Stravinsky and Birtwistle.

Prom 4 Repeat: Daniel Barenboim And Staatskapelle Berlin20170719Afternoon on 3 with Fiona Talkington.

Another chance to hear Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin perform the UK premiere of Birtwistle's Deep Time, followed by Elgar's Second Symphony.

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

2.00pm

Sir Harrison Birtwistle: Deep Time

(BBC co-commission with the Staatskapelle Berlin: UK premiere)

2.27pm

Elgar: Symphony No 2 in E flat major

Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin bring the generous scope of their interpretation of Elgar's Second Symphony to their second concert of the season, celebrating a work whose modernity and astonishing textural effects startle even now.

Dedicated to the memory of Peter Maxwell Davies, who died last year, Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Deep Time continues his career-long fascination with time and its manipulation in a sweeping new orchestral work that swaps the relentless tick-tock of the everyday for something more powerful and more alien.

[First broadcast on Sunday 16th July]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in music by Birtwistle and Elgar.

Prom 4 Repeat: Shostakovich's 'leningrad' Symphony20180719~Afternoon Concert with Tom McKinney

Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic and Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena in Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. They are joined by Mark Simpson for Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto.

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Magnus Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto

c.2.30pm

Interval: Proms Plus: An introduction to Shostakovich's 'Leningrad' Symphony with musicologist, presenter and writer Anastasia Belina.

c.2.50pm

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad

Mark Simpson (clarinet)

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

In his final season as its Chief Conductor, Juanjo Mena leads the BBC Philharmonic in a concert contrasting darkness and light. Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto is a modern classic, a glorious collision of tradition and innovation that is at once emotionally direct and ferociously virtuosic; a graduate of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artist scheme and BBC Young Musician winner, Mark Simpson is the soloist. Darkness streaks across the second half with Shostakovich's heart-wrenching tribute to the Soviet victims of the Second World War - the powerful 'Leningrad' Symphony.

Followed by another chance to hear music from Prom 2 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Alain Altinoglu:

Faure: Pavane

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

BBC Symphony Chorus

City of London Choir

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Faur退's serene, gently pulsing Pavane, elegantly recalling the French court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries. Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 - the composer's final piano concerto, and a work of unusually introspective lyricism.

The BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena and Mark Simpson in Shostakovich and Lindberg.

Prom 4 Repeat: The Planets20190724~Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann

Another chance to hear the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Karabits play Holst's The Planets and before that music by John Adams and Barber's Violin Concerto.

Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto

Gustav Holst: The Planets

Nemanja Radulovi?, violin

Trinity Boys Choir

Kirill Karabits, conductor

A concert of 20th-century classics from Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra continues the 50th anniversary celebrations of the first manned mission to land on the Moon.

Space travel has never been more richly imagined than in Holst's suite The Planets, but in order to

get there you'll need to take a Short Ride in a Fast Machine, courtesy of John Adams's exhilarating, propulsive Minimalist masterpiece.

The lyrical beauty of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, with its exquisite slow movement, offers a contrasting moment of contemplation. Dynamic Franco-Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulovi? makes his Proms debut as soloist.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits and Nemanja Radulovi\u0107

Prom 40 Repeat: Brahms, Berg, Larcher And Schumann20170818Afternoon on 3 - with Catriona Young.

Another chance to hear the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Robin Ticciati in Schumann and Thomas Larcher, and with Christian Tetzlaff in Berg's Violin Concerto.

Presented by Penny Gore from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Brahms: Tragic Overture

Berg: Violin Concerto

Thomas Larcher: Nocturne - Insomnia (UK premiere)

Schumann: Symphony No 3 in E flat major 'Rhenish

Christian Tetzlaff (violin)

Robin Ticciati (conductor)

Brahms's Tragic Overture is not so much tragic as a 'serious' follow-up to his more frivolous Academic Festival Overture.

Dedicated 'To the memory of an angel', Berg's luminous Violin Concerto is an intensely moving personal testament to the death of a young woman, quoting Bach's funeral chorale 'Es ist genug'.

Thomas Larcher's nocturnal wanderings receive their UK premiere before a joyous journey down the Rhine in Schumann's Third Symphony, which climaxes in a musical homage to Cologne Cathedral.

[First heard on 15 August 2017]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Schumann and Thomas Larcher at the Proms.

Prom 40 Repeat: Joshua Bell And The Academy Of St Martin In The Fields.20180817~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields play Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream overture, Beethoven's graceful Fourth Symphony and Frank Bridge's elegiac Lament. Bell himself is the soloist in Saint-Sa뀀ns's Third Violin Concerto.

Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - overture

Saint?Sa뀀ns: Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor

2.45pm: Interval

Proms Plus - Marking the centenary of the end of the First World War, historians Saul David and Laura Rowe discuss the sinking of the RMS Lusitania and the effect that this terrible tragedy had on American public opinion about the conflict. Presented by New Generation Thinker Anindya Raychaudhuri.

3.05pm:

Bridge: Lament

Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat major

Joshua Bell, director/violin

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields returns to the Proms with director and soloist Joshua Bell in a wide-ranging programme, rich in melody and narrative.

Saint-Sa뀀ns's Third Violin Concerto is the Romantic display concerto par excellence but shares its light-footed musical grace with Beethoven's Fourth Symphony and Mendelssohn's overture.

Bridge's Lament is an elegy for those who died following the torpedoing of the RMS Lusitania.

Joshua Bell, Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Mendelssohn, Saint-Saens and Beethoven.

Prom 40 Repeat: Queen Victoria's 200th Anniversary20190826~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear Stephen Hough join the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by @dကm Fischer, then accompany Alessandro Fisher to celebrate Queen Victoria's birth.

Presented by Hannah French at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Part 1

Sullivan: Victoria and Merrie England - ballet suite No 1

Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 25

c.2:45pm

Interval - Proms Plus

With Queen Victoria's piano centre-stage in this concert, historians Lee Jackson and Kathryn Hughes discuss what kept Her Majesty's subjects amused indoors and outdoors. Lee Jackson is the author of Palaces of Pleasure. Kathryn Hughes has written about George Eliot, Mrs Beeton, and Victorians Undone: Tales of Flesh in the Age of Decorum. Hosted by Rana Mitter. Produced by Fiona McLean.

c.3:05pm Part 2

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Gruss aus der Ferne; Standchen; Gruss an den Bruder; Aus Wilhelm Meister; Lebewohl

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56 (Scottish)

Stephen Hough (piano)

Alessandro Fisher (tenor)

@dကm Fischer (conductor)

The Proms celebrates the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth with a glimpse into the monarch's musical life.

The programme features music by her favourite composer, Mendelssohn, including his lively ‘Scottish' Symphony and First Piano Concerto, performed by Stephen Hough on Victoria's own piano, loaned by HM The Queen from the Royal Collection.

The concert also includes a suite from Arthur Sullivan's ballet Victoria and Merrie England, composed to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, as well as songs by Prince Albert.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, \u00c1d\u00e1m Fischer and Stephen Hough.

Prom 40-stravinsky, Beethoven20090825Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2009:

A Prom featuring Stravinsky's Orpheus, as part of a series of the composer's ballets, followed by the annual performance of Beethoven's Choral Symphony, with by Ilan Volkov in his last Proms appearance as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's chief conductor.

Rebecca Evans (soprano)

Caitlin Hulcup (mezzo-soprano)

Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor)

James Rutherford (bass)

City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Stravinsky: Orpheus

Beethoven: Symphony No 9 (Choral)

4.30pm

Performances by Radio 3 New Generation Artists:

Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op 42

Pavel Haas Quartet.

A Prom featuring Stravinsky's ballet Orpheus and Beethoven's Choral Symphony.

Prom 41 Repeat: Edward Gardner Conducts Elgar And Vaughan Williams20180822~Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington.

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Edward Gardner perform music by Vaughan Williams and Lili Boulanger. Jean-Guihen Queyras joins them in Elgar's Cello Concerto.

Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Lili Boulanger: Pour les funerailles d'un soldat

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op 85

2.45pm

Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem

Alexandre Duhamel (baritone)

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)

Sophie Bevan (soprano)

Neal Davies (bass-baritone)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Edward Gardner (conductor)

War casts its long shadow over this Prom given by Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - part of this season's musical survey suggested by the centenary of the end of the First World War.

A precursor to Britten's War Requiem (see Prom 72), Vaughan Williams's cantata Dona nobis pacem is a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of the violence of war, its expansive lyricism a natural foil for the compressed drama of Lili Boulanger's choral miniature Pour les fun退railles d'un soldat.

Elgar's much-loved Cello Concerto, composed in the wake of the conflict, completes this emotive concert, with French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras as soloist.

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with Edward Gardner at the Royal Albert Hall

Prom 41 Repeat: Rimsky-korsakov, Rachmaninov, Lyadov And Glazunov20190827~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

The London Philharmonic and pianist Alexander Ghindin, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, play music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Lyadov and Glazunov.

Presented by Penny Gore from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Rimsky-Korsakov: Mlada - suite

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor (original version, 1891)

Interval

Lyadov: Baba-Yaga; Kikimora; From the Apocalypse

Glazunov: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major

Alexander Ghindin, piano

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto is the centrepiece of an all-Russian programme by Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO, which also includes the dance-filled suite from Rimsky-Korsakov's Mlada and Glazunov's big-hearted Fifth Symphony.

Another chance to hear The London Philharmonic, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski

Prom 42 Repeat: Clara Schumann Piano Concerto20190829~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

The Ulster Orchestra with Rafael Payare and Mariam Batsashvili in works by Beethoven, Clara Schumann, Sofia Gubaidulina and Shostakovich.

Presented by Hannah French from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major

Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto

Sofia Gubaidulina: Fairytale Poem

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F minor

Mariam Batsashvili (piano)

Rafael Payare (conductor)

Belfast's Ulster Orchestra and its dynamic music director Rafael Payare present the Proms premiere of Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto, performed here by BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mariam Batsashvili.

Begun when the then Clara Wieck was just 13 years old, it's a work whose mellow mood and lyrical melodies conceal no little technical intricacy and formal innovation.

Sunny good humour also runs through both Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 - famously described as a musical ‘comedy of manners' - and Shostakovich's First Symphony, lively with satirical wit and mischief.

The Ulster Orchestra and Rafael Payare with pianist Mariam Batsashvili at the BBC Proms.

Prom 42 Repeat: Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi And Khatia Buniatishvili In Sibelius, Part And Grieg20180820~Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington

The Estonian Festival Orchestra and Paavo J䀀rvi (conductor) play Symphonies by Sibelius and Arvo P䀀rt at the BBC Proms and they're joined by Khatia Buniatishvili for Grieg's Piano Concerto.

Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Arvo P䀀rt: Symphony No 3

Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor

c. 3.35

Interval: Proms Plus. Presenter Ian Skelly introduces Sibelius' 5th Symphony together with Radio 3's New Generation Thinker, Leah Broad. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union.

c. 3.55

Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat major

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms artists

A concert with a Nordic flavour from Paavo J䀀rvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra (making its Proms debut) pairs music by Grieg and Sibelius with Estonia's own national composer, Arvo P䀀rt.

Celebrated Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili - a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist - performs one of the great Romantic piano concertos.

Beloved for its generous melodies and dramatic gestures, Grieg's concerto is matched for sonic drama by Sibelius's stirring Fifth Symphony.

Arvo P䀀rt's eclectic Third Symphony, with its echoes of Renaissance polyphony and Orthodox chant, opens the concert.

The Estonian Festival Orchestra conducted by Paavo Jarvi perform Sibelius, Part and Grieg.

Prom 42 Repeat: Les Siecles And Francois-xavier Roth20170821Afternoon on 3 - with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear selection of French music with Les Si耀cles and Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth, featuring pianist C退dric Tiberghien.

Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London

2pm

Saint-Sa뀀ns: La princesse jaune - overture

2.10pm

Delibes: Lakm退 - ballet music

2.15pm

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, 'Egyptian

2.50pm

Franck Les Djinns

3.00pm

Lalo: Namouna - Suites Nos. 1 & 2 (excerpts)

3.20pm

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Samson and Delilah - Bacchanal

C退dric Tiberghien (piano)

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

The hugely acclaimed period instruments of Les Si耀cles return to the Proms this year with C退dric Tiberghien as the soloist in Saint-Saens' Egyptian Concerto.

This all-French programme, inspired by the East, also features the fragrant Indian gardens of Delibes's Lakm退, the eroticism of Samson and Delilah, and the adventures of Lalo's Namouna. Oriental demons surface in Les Djinns, complementing the vibrantly coloured music of Java and the Middle East that suffuses Saint-Sa뀀ns's Piano Concerto.

First broadcast on Wednesday 16 August

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Producer Samuel Hickling.

Another chance to hear French music at the Proms with Les Siecles and Francois-Xavier Roth

Prom 43 Repeat: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony20190830~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Sakari Oramo in Beethoven's Symphony No.9. Plus world premieres of works by Dieter Ammann and Jonathan Dove

Presented by Penny Gore at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Jonathan Dove: We Are One Fire

BBC commission: world premiere

Dieter Ammann: Piano Concerto

BBC co-commission with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthaus Wien, Lucerne Festival, Münchner Philharmoniker and Taipei Symphony Orchestra, supported by Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council: world premiere

c.2.35pm Interval - Proms Plus Talk: Sean Williams introduces readings from the works of Friedrich Schiller.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in D minor, 'Choral'(70 mins)

Anu Komsi (soprano)

Hilary Summers (contralto)

Michael Weinius (tenor)

Mika Kares (bass)

Andreas Haefliger (piano)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Neil Ferris (conductor)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Sakari Oramo conducts the annual Proms performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony - Finnish soprano Anu Komsi leads an international cast of soloists.

It is paired with two world premieres: a new choral work by Jonathan Dove and a much-anticipated Piano Concerto by Swiss composer Dieter Ammann, performed by his compatriot Andreas Haefliger.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Another chance to hear Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

Prom 43 Repeat: Daniel Barenboim And The West, Eastern Divan Orchestra20180821~Afternoon Concert with Jonathan Swain.

Another chance to hear the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and conductor Daniel Barenboim play music by Tchaikovsky, David Robert Coleman and Scriabin at the BBC Proms.

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

2.35pm

Interval Proms Plus: BBC New Generation Thinkers Jules Evans and Hetta Howes compare figures from the past and present who have searched for a sense of transcendence and experienced ecstatic states. Hosted by Christopher Harding.

3pm

David Robert Coleman: Looking for Palestine

London premiere

Alexander Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy

Elsa Dreisig, soprano

Lisa Batiashvili, violin

Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Followed by recordings from this week's Proms artists.

Daniel Barenboim and his pioneering West-Eastern Divan Orchestra return to the Proms for a concert marrying passion and politics.

One of the most richly Romantic works in the repertoire - Tchaikovsky's heart-rending Violin Concerto, performed here by Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili - is paired with Scriabin's ecstatic, orgiastic 'The Poem of Ecstasy', an attempt to bridge the divide between spirituality and sexuality in music.

At the centre of the concert is David Robert Coleman's 'Looking for Palestine' for soprano and orchestra, a work commissioned by the ensemble, and one that speaks to its uniquely political identity.

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim play Tchaikovsky, Coleman and Scriabin

Prom 43 Repeat: Saint-saens, 'organ' Symphony20170822Afternoon on 3 - with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear the RPO and conductor Charles Dutoit perform music by Falla, Lalo and Saint-Sa뀀ns's 'Organ' Symphony. With Joshua Bell, Cameron Carpenter and St退phanie d'Oustrac.

Presented by Ian Skelly from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Manual de Falla El amor brujo

2.25pm:

ɀdouard Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Op 21

3pm:

Saint?Sa뀀ns: Symphony No 3 in C minor, 'Organ

St退phanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano)

Joshua Bell (violin)

Cameron Carpenter (organ)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Charles Dutoit (conductor)

Tonight's celebration of the sun-scorched landscapes of Spain opens with Falla's flamenco ballet El amor brujo, rich in Andalusian folk melodies and featuring the famous 'Ritual Fire Dance'.

Joshua Bell is the soloist in Lalo's Symphonie espagnole, whose title conceals a virtuosic violin concerto steeped in the sounds of Spain, while Cameron Carpenter takes to the organ console in Saint-Sa뀀ns's mighty 'Organ' Symphony. 'With it I have given all I could,' observed the composer. 'What I did I could not achieve again.

[First heard on 17 August 2017]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Producer Anthony Sellors.

The RPO and conductor Charles Dutoit perform music by Falla, Lalo and Saint-Saens.

Prom 43-falla, Andriessen, Ravel20090827Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2009:

A Prom in which Esa-Pekka Salonen makes his first appearance at the Royal Albert Hall as the Philharmonia's new principal Conductor. It features Falla's El amor brujo, a fiery flamenco vision of a midnight exorcism, the Labeque sisters giving the UK premiere of radical Dutch composer Louis Andriessen's new concerto, plus Ravel's magical fairy-tale evocations of Mother Goose and the relentless crescendo of his Bolero.

Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

Falla: El amor brujo

Louis Andriessen: The Hague Hacking

Ravel: Mother Goose; Bolero

4.00pm

Performances by Radio 3 New Generation Artists, including:

Franck: Violin Sonata in A

Jennifer Pike (violin)

Tom Blach (piano)

Milhaud: Sonatina for flute and piano, Op 76

Sharon Bezaly (flute)

Love Derwinger (piano)

Beethoven: 12 Variations on Ein Madchen oder Weibchen for cello and piano, Op 66

Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)

Jose Gallardo (piano).

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia in music by Falla, Andriessen and Ravel.

Prom 44 Repeat: Cbso And Ludovic Morlot Perform Debussy, Ravel And Boulanger20180823~Afternoon Concert with Jonathan Swain.

Another chance to hear the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Youth Chorus and conductor Ludovic Morlot perform music by Lili Boulanger, Debussy and Ravel at the BBC Proms.

Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Debussy: Pr退lude

Prom 44-prokofiev, Bartok, Dvorak20090828Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2009:

A Prom in which Hungary's leading orchestra makes a welcome return to the Royal Albert Hall, under principal conductor Ivan Fischer. With Prokofiev's klezmer-tinged Overture on Hebrew Themes, Bart k's expansive Second Violin Concerto, with the dynamic Leonidas Kavakos, and Dvorak's most darkly dramatic and passionate symphony - the Seventh.

Leonidas Kavakos (violin)

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Ivan Fischer (conductor)

Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes

Bartok: Violin Concerto No 2

Dvorak: Symphony No 7 in D minor

4.15pm

Performances by Radio 3 New Generation Artists, including:

Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op 114

Claudio Bohorquez (cello)

Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet)

Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)

Haydn: Piano Sonata in E minor, H XVI 34

Ingrid Fliter (piano).

Ivan Fischer conducts his Budapest Festival Orchestra in Prokofiev, Bartok and Dvorak.

Prom 45 Repeat: Jonathan Nott And The Orchestre De La Suisse Romande20180829~Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson

Another chance to hear the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and conductor Jonathan Nott at the BBC Proms.

Presented by Katie Derham at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Debussy: Jeux

Ravel: Violin Sonata in G major (orch. Yan Maresz) (UK premiere of this orchestration)

Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911)

Renaud Capu瀀on, violin

Jonathan Nott, conductor

Geneva's renowned Orchestre de la Suisse Romande celebrates its 100th anniversary by making its Proms debut under its English Music Director Jonathan Nott.

The orchestra continues this season's strand of French music with works by Debussy and Ravel - the mercurial dance-fantasy Jeux, Debussy's last orchestral work, and a new orchestration of Ravel's jazz-infused Second Violin Sonata with soloist Renaud Capu瀀on - as well as a Russian piece synonymous with Paris: Stravinsky's colourful folk-ballet Petrushka, heard here in its original version.

Jonathan Nott conducts the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky

Prom 45 Repeat: Mahler, 'resurrection' Symphony20170824Afternoon on 3 - with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear Mahler's Symphony No.2 'Resurrection'. Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC SO, BBC Symphony Chorus, and Bach Choir with soprano Elizabeth Watts and mezzo Elisabeth Kulman.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Mahler: Symphony No.2 'Resurrection

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo)

The Bach Choir

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

In this season's second Mahler symphony, the composer wrestles with the essential questions of humanity in a work that took over six years to complete. Faith, mortality and the hope of resurrection are the subject of this epic musical exploration, which culminates in a glowing, transcendent choral finale. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo are joined by soloists Elizabeth Watts and Elisabeth Kulman as well as the combined forces of the BBC Symphony Chorus and The Bach Choir for a work whose scale and scope come into their own in the Royal Albert Hall.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Producer Graham Rogers.

The BBC SO, BBC Symphony Chorus and Bach Choir in Mahler's Symphony No 2.

Prom 46 Repeat: City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra20190902~Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson,

Another chance to hear the CBSO and Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla perform music by Weinberg, Howell and Knussen, and are joined by cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason in Elgar's cello concerto.

Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Dorothy Howell:

Lamia

(Henry Wood Novelties: world premiere, 1919)

Elgar:

Cello Concerto in E minor

Encore: Weinberg: prelude from 24 Preludes Op.100 for solo cello

c.2.45pm:

Interval: An exploration of the life and work of Mieczys?aw Weinberg with musicologist and broadcaster Erik Levi.

c.3.05pm:

Knussen:

The Way to Castle Yonder

Symphony No. 3

(London premiere)

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla, conductor

The CBSO and Music Director Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla celebrate the centenary of Mieczys?aw Weinberg the man Shostakovich hailed as ‘one of the most outstanding composers' of his day - with a rare performance of his Symphony No. 3, a work that combines folk melodies and dances with confessional urgency.

That intensity is shared by Elgar's passionate Cello Concerto, performed here by 2016 BBC Young Musician winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

The concert opens with Dorothy Howell's radiant tone-poem Lamia (first performed, like Elgar's concerto, 100 years ago) and also includes The Way to Castle Yonder, a suite from the much-missed Oliver Knussen's opera Higglety Pigglety Pop!

CBSO and Mirga Gra\u017einyt\u0117-Tyla with cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Prom 46 Repeat: Schoenberg, Gurrelieder20170825Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear Sir Simon Rattle conducting Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall.

2.00pm

Schoenberg: Gurrelieder

Tove: Eva-Maria Westbroek

Waldemar: Simon O'Neill

Wood-Dove: Karen Cargill

Klaus the Fool: Peter Hoare

Peasant: Christopher Purves

Speaker: Thomas Quasthoff

CBSO Chorus

Orfe  Catal

Prom 46-glanert, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich20090901Presented by Ian Skelly.

BBC Proms 2009

A Prom featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra performing a new piece by Detlev Glanert, which offers a foretaste of his opera The Wooden Ship. Denis Matsuev, winner of the 1998 Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition makes his Proms debut in Rachmaninov's variations of Paganini's famous Caprice.

The programme concludes with celebrated Shostakovich interpreter Semyon Bychkov conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's Symphony No 11. Written in 1957, the work ostensibly commemorates the failed anti-Tsarist uprising of 1905, but under the surface it rages at the Soviet authorities.

Denis Matsuev (piano)

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Detlev Glanert: Shoreless River

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 (The Year 1905)

4.30pm

Mozart: Variations on Unser dummer Pobel meint, K455

Eduard Kunz (piano).

BBC Proms 2009: BBC Symphony Orchestra in Detlev Glanert, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov.

Prom 47 Repeat: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra20190903~Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson

Another chance to hear the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig with Andris Nelsons and Michael Sch怀nheit in works by JS Bach and Bruckner.

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London

JS Bach:

Fantasia in G minor, BWV 542

Cantata No. 147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben', BWV 147 - Chorale 'Jesus bleibet meine Freude' (transcr. Schmidt-Mannheim)

Prelude in E flat major, BWV 552

Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 645

Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552

c. 2.45pm:

Interval: Proms Plus Talk: Petroc Trelawny talks to Stephen Johnson about the relationship between music and architecture.

Bruckner: Symphony No 8 in C minor (1890 version, ed. Nowak)

Michael Sch怀nheit (organ)

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Andris Nelsons (conductor)

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra returns to the Proms for the first time under new Music Director Andris Nelsons.

At the heart of their programme is Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 - a work as vast in scope as size, a mighty orchestral monologue whose monumental finale the composer considered ‘the most significant movement of my life'.

Before the broad unfolding of Bruckner, Michael Schonheit presents the meticulous detail of Bach in a series of solo organ works including the lovely chorale ‘Wachet auf'.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Andris Nelsons and Michael Sch\u00f6nheit.

Prom 47: Elgar, Prokofiev And Venables20180827~Afternoon Concert with Jonathan Swain.

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Elgar and Prokofiev at the Royal Albert Hall. They're joined by Pekka Kuusisto in the premiere of a quirky new violin concerto by Philip Venables.

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings

Philip Venables/Bart k: Venables Plays Bart k (BBC Commission World Premiere)

Prokofiev: Symphony No 5 in B flat major, Op 100

Pekka Kuusisto (violin)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Maverick Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto made a memorable Proms debut in 2016. Now he returns to premiere a new violin concerto written especially for him by award-winning young British composer Philip Venables. The piece grows out of a recording the composer found of himself as a teenager playing one of Bartok's Hungarian Sketches to his teacher's teacher, Rudolf Botta, a Hungarian refugee - and the journey that ensued.

The concerto is framed by two works suffused with sunny optimism - Elgar's lovely Introduction and Allegro for strings and Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony, a piece that rejoices in ‘the strength and beauty of the human spirit'.

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform works by Elgar, Prokofiev and Venables

Prom 48 Repeat: A Patchwork Passion20170823Afternoon on 3 - with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear the BBC Singers with Chief Conductor Designate Sofi Jeannin and the City of London Sinfonia in Passiontide music from the last five centuries.

Together they tell the familiar Passion story as you've never heard it before, moving from the earliest-known responsorial setting by Johann Walter (1496-1570) through Passion music by Schütz, Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn and Stainer, right up to contemporary settings by Sofia Gubaidulina and Sir James MacMillan.

Thomas Elwin (tenor)

Oliver Johnston (tenor)

David Shipley (bass)

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Producer Janet Tuppen.

BBC Singers, City of London Sinfonia and Sofi Jeannin in A Patchwork Passion at the Proms.

Prom 48 Repeat: London Symphony Orchestra And Simon Rattle Play Ravel20180828~Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson

Another chance to hear Sir Simon Rattle conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in Ravel at the BBC Proms, featuring Magdalena Koženက in Sh退h退razade and L'enfant et les sortil耀ges.

Presented by Tom Service at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Ravel: Mother Goose (ballet)

Ravel: Sh退h退razade

with Magdalena Koženက (mezzo soprano)

2.50pm

Interval: Proms Plus:

Composer Kerry Andrew has published her first novel Swansong and she performs many traditional songs. She talks to writer Katherine Langrish, author of Seven Miles of Steel Thistles and a `Troll Trilogy` about the cultural legacy of fairy tales and the lessons we can learn from them. Presented by Rana Mitter.

3.10pm

Ravel: L'enfant et les sortil耀ges

Magdalena Koženက (Child)

Patricia Bardon (Mother/Shepherd/Dragonfly)

Jane Archibald (Fire/Nightingale/Princess)

Anna St退phany (Chair/White Cat/Chinese Cup/Squirrel)

Elizabeth Watts (Shepherdess/Bat/Owl)

Sunnyboy Dladla (Teapot/Little Old Man/Tree-Frog)

Gavan Ring (Grandfather Clock/Black Cat)

David Shipley (Tree/Armchair)

London Symphony Chorus

Conductor Sir Simon Rattle

Followed by recordings from this week's Proms artists

Sir Simon Rattle, the London Symphony Orchestra and an all-star cast, including Magdalena Kožena and Patricia Bardon, present Ravel's magical opera L'enfant et les sortil耀ges.

Ravel's fairy-tale ballet Mother Goose and sensuous song-cycle Sh退h退razade complete the programme.

The London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle perform Ravel at the Royal Albert Hall

Prom 48 Repeat: Rachmaninov, Prokofiev And Silvestri20190905~Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson.

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Cristian M?celaru. Rachmaninov's mighty Symphony No. 2 plus Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 with pianist Seong-Jin Cho.

Presented by Penny Gore at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Constantin Silvestri: Three Pieces for strings

Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor

c.2.40pm

Interval: An exploration of the Russian symphonic tradition, with musicologist Geoffrey Norris.

Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

Cristian M?celaru (conductor)

Tracing a thrilling journey from doubt to triumph, Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2 sits at the centre of this concert from a brooding opening it moves through a lovely slow movement to an ecstatic close - one of the most exciting in the repertoire. Romanian conductor Cristian M?celaru makes his Proms debut with the BBC SO.

There's more drama and still greater virtuosity in Prokofiev's demanding Piano Concerto No. 2, performed here by 2015 Chopin International Piano Competition winner Seong-Jin Cho. The concert opens with the folk-inspired Three Pieces for strings by the Romanian composer-conductor Constantin Silvestri, who defected to the West in 1956 and died in London 50 years ago.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

BBC SO, conducted by Cristian M\u0103celaru, with pianist Seong-Jin Cho.

Prom 48-liszt, Wagner, Berlioz20090903Presented by Ian Skelly.

BBC Proms 2009:

The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, bringing together young Arab and Israeli musicians in what conductor Daniel Barenboim calls 'an orchestra against ignorance', celebrates its tenth birthday with a two-day Proms residency. The ensemble was founded in Weimar, taking its name from a poetry collection by Goethe, and this concert revisits those roots with music by Liszt, Wagner and Berlioz.

Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

Liszt: Les Preludes

Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

4.30pm

Barber: Cello Sonata, Op 6

Claudio Bohorquez (cello)

Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano).

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performs Liszt's Les Preludes, plus Wagner and Berlioz.

Prom 49 Repeat: European Union Youth Orchestra20180830~Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson

Another chance to hear the European Union Youth Orchestra and conductor Gianandrea Noseda at the BBC Proms.

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall

Agata Zubel: Fireworks (UK premiere)

Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor

2.45pm

Interval: PRS Foundation's ‘Keychange

This year, music festivals around Europe signed up to a scheme designed ‘to transform the music industry for current and future generations'. With the help of artistic administrators and musicians, including members of the EUYO and composer Agata Zubel, Hannah Conway explores the PRS Foundation's ‘Keychange', an initiative which seeks to redress male dominance in music.

3.05pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The UK premiere of Agata Zubel's Fireworks is a celebration of freedom and of the present moment, written to mark the 100th anniversary of Polish independence.

The Polish theme continues in Chopin's lyrical and much-loved Second Piano Concerto, with the winner of the 2015 International Chopin Competition, Seong-Jin Cho, making his Proms debut.

In the second half, Gianandrea Noseda and the European Union Youth Orchestra turn up the intensity with one of the great Romantic symphonies, Tchaikovsky's stirring Fifth.

Gianandrea Noseda and the European Union Youth Orchestra in Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Zubel

Prom 49-mendelssohn, Berg20090902Presented by Ian Skelly.

BBC Proms 2009

A Prom in which members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra perform Mendelssohn's Octet and Berg's musical monument to friendship. Among the Arab and Israeli musicians playing side-by-side in the ensemble are Daniel Barenboim's violinist son Michael and his pianist prot退g退 Karim Said, a relative of the orchestra's co-founder, the late Edward Said.

Michael Barenboim (violin)

Karim Said (piano)

Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Octet

Berg: Chamber Concerto.

Members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Mendelssohn: Octet. Berg: Chamber Concerto.

Prom 5 Repeat: Sibelius, Rachmaninov And Shostakovich20170721Afternoon on 3 - with Georgia Mann

Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thomas Sondergard with Behzod Abduraimov. Symphonies from Sibelius and Shostakovich alongside Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto.

Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

2.00pm:

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7

2.25pm:

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

3.00pm:

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

Behzod Abduraimov (piano)

Thomas Sønderg倀rd (conductor)

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Thomas Sondergard conducts the BBC NOW in Sibelius, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich.

Prom 50 Repeat: Beethoven, Stravinsky And Gerald Barry20170828Afternoon on 3 with Jonathan Swain

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla perform Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, with works by Stravinsky and Gerald Barry.

Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Beethoven: Overture 'Leonore' No.3

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D major

Gerald Barry: Canada (BBC commission, world premiere)

Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor

Leila Josefowicz (violin)

Allan Clayton (tenor)

conductor Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla

The CBSO and Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla explore the theme of political and artistic freedom. Beethoven's Leonore overture No. 3, written for his rescue opera Fidelio, celebrates the triumph of truth over tyranny in music of radiant beauty, while his Fifth Symphony rewrites the rules for the Classical symphony.

In his new work, maverick composer Gerald Barry is inspired by revolutionary events in Canada's history, also setting the text from Fidelio's Prisoners' Chorus; and violinist Leila Josefowicz amps up the drama in the fierce brilliance of Stravinsky's neo-Classical concerto.

Followed by music from this week's Proms Artists.

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

Prom 50 Repeat: Mozart's Clarinet Concerto And Mahler's Symphony No 520180831~Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson.

Another chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard at the BBC Proms, from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major

with Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)

2.30pm

Interval: Proms Plus

Writer and critic Norman Lebrecht investigates Leonard Bernstein's relationship with the music of Mahler.

2.50pm

Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Recreating a Proms concert conducted by Leonard Bernstein in 1987, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard pair two of the best-loved and most beautiful works in the repertoire.

Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, with its sublime slow movement, is the composer at his sunniest and most mellow, despite the fact that he was to die two months after its completion.

Mahler's Fifth Symphony, by contrast, is the urgent work of a composer starting a new adventure, charged with new musical possibilities and a new love, expressed with impossible tenderness in its famous Adagietto.

BBC SSO, Thomas Dausgaard and Annelien Van Wauwe perform Mozart and Mahler

Prom 50: Orchestre De Paris20190904Another chance to hear Daniel Harding conducting the Orchestre de Paris in Schumann, Widmann and Beethoven

2.00pm

Robert Schumann: Genoveva - overture

J怀rg Widmann: Babylon Suite

London premiere

c. 2.40pm:

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, 'Pastoral

Daniel Harding, conductor

Another chance to hear Orchestre de Paris from 2019's Proms

Prom 51 Repeat: Sibelius, Saint-saens And Elgar-payne20170829Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann

The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Sibelius, Elgar's Symphony No.3 (completed by Anthony Payne), and Saint-Sa뀀ns's Second Piano Concerto with Javier Perianes.

Presented by Ian Skelly from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Sibelius: Sc耀nes historiques, Suite No. 1

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor

Elgar/Payne: Symphony No.3

Javier Perianes (piano)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

This year's Elgar cycle concludes with the originally unfinished Third Symphony. The concert also features the vivid, descriptive miniatures of Sibelius's Sc耀nes historiques and Saint-Sa뀀ns's brilliantly youthful Second Piano Concerto.

Followed by music from this week's Proms Artists.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius and Elgar's Symphony No 3 at the Proms.

Prom 51-haydn, Szymanowski, Brahms20090904Presented by Ian Skelly.

BBC Proms 2009:

A Prom in which Osmo Vanska conducts Haydn's 'Clock' Symphony as part of a bicentenary celebration of the 'father' of the form. It is followed by Szymanowski's serene Stabat mater, partly inspired by the tragic death of his teenage niece, and Brahms' Hungarian-accented Violin Concerto, featuring American virtuoso Joshua Bell.

Helena Juntunen (soprano)

Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)

Scott Hendricks (baritone)

Joshua Bell (violin)

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Osmo Vanska (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No 101 in D (Clock)

Szymanowski: Stabat mater

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D

4.30pm

Strauss: Das Rosenband; Liebeshymnus; Morgen; Ich wollt' ein Strausslein binden; Muttertandelei

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

Gary Matthewman (piano).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vanska perform Haydn, Szymanowski and Brahms.

Prom 52 Repeat: Edward Gardner Conducts The Bergen Philharmonic In Sibelius And Wagner20180903~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic in music by Sibelius and Wagner at the BBC Proms, with Alina Ibragimova joining them for the world premiere of Rolf Wallin's Violin Concerto.

Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Wagner: Flying Dutchman - overture

Rolf Wallin: Violin Concerto (world premiere)

2.35pm

Interval: Proms Plus

Composer Rolf Wallin talks about the influences and ideas that went into the making of his Violin Concerto.

2.55pm

Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in D major

Alina Ibragimova, violin

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Edward Gardner, conductor

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

A concert with a Nordic flavour from Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra climaxes in Sibelius's Second Symphony, whose folk-like melodies are a musical celebration of Finnish life and identity.

Violinist Alina Ibragimova is the soloist in Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin's concerto - the second of two new violin concertos premiered this season (see also Prom 47).

And the evening opens with Wagner's propulsive overture to The Flying Dutchman, an opera set along the coast of Norway from the orchestra's base in Bergen.

Edward Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic perform Sibelius, Wagner and a Wallin world premiere

Prom 52 Repeat: Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky And Ryan Wigglesworth20190906~Afternoon Concert with Kate Molleson

Another chance to hear the Britten Sinfonia with Marc-Andr退 Hamelin and Ryan Wigglesworth, playing Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall.

Mozart: Concerto in E flat major for two pianos

Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 4, 'Mozartiana

Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1897

c.2.45pm: Interval: Musicologist Jonathan Cross introduces Stravinsky's Divertimento: The Fairy's Kiss.

c.3.05pm:

Ryan Wigglesworth: Piano Concerto

BBC co-commission with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: world premiere

Stravinsky: Divertimento 'The Fairy's Kiss

Marc-Andr退 Hamelin, piano

Ryan Wigglesworth, piano and conductor

Arranging four pieces by Mozart in his Suite No. 4, Tchaikovsky pays homage to the composer he regarded as a ‘divinity'.

Tchaikovsky himself was the inspiration for Stravinsky's ballet The Fairy's Kiss, shot through with Tchaikovsky's melodies.

Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth also features as both pianist - alongside Marc-Andr退 Hamelin in Mozart's Concerto for two pianos - and composer, with the world premiere of his own Piano Concerto.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms artists.

The Britten Sinfonia with Marc-Andre Hamelin and Ryan Wigglesworth.

Prom 52-schnittke, Shostakovich20090907Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2009:

A Prom featuring the LSO and its Russian conductor Valery Gergiev performing Shostakovich's wartime symphony No 8. It is paired with an early work by Schnittke, written in response to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Introduced by Suzy Klein.

Elena Zhidkova (mezzo-soprano)

London Symphony Chorus

London Symphony Orchestra

Valery Gergiev (conductor)

Schnittke: Nagasaki

Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 in C minor

4.00pm

Purcell and his forebears

Purcell: Suite from Dioclesian

Ars Nova Copenhagen

Concerto Copenhagen

Andrew Lawrence-King (conductor)

Tallis: Why Fum'th in Fight

Byrd: Vigilate

Stile Antico

Purcell: O sing unto the Lord, Psalm 96

Tallis: Come Holy Ghost

Byrd: Spiritus Domini; Confirma hoc Deus; Factus est repente

Stile Antico.

LSO/Valery Gergiev in Schnittke: Nagasaki. Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 in C minor.

Prom 53-purcell, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn20090908Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2009:

Sir Roger Norrington leads a celebration of Radio 3's four Composers of the Year. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Sir Roger Norrington (conductor)

Purcell: Abdelazar - suite

Handel: Xerxes - Ombra mai fu; Alcina - Ah, mio cor!; Water Music - Suite No 2 in D

Haydn: Scena di Berenice

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)

4.00pm

Purcell and his forebears.

Purcell: Triumphing Dance (Dido and Aeneas); Triumph, victorious love (Dioclesian)

Ars Nova Copenhagen

Concerto Copenhagen

Andrew Lawrence-King (conductor)

Tallis: Man Blest no Doubt

Byrd: Quis est homo

Stile Antico

Purcell: The Voice of the Turtle; A Scotch Tune (Amphitryon); My Beloved Spake (The Song of Songs); Thou Genius of this Isle; The Cold Genius (King Arthur); The Soldiers Song (The Knight of Malta); Wondrous Machine (Ode to St Cecilia)

Andrew Lawrence-King (conductor).

OAE/Sir Roger Norrington perform Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn.

Prom 54 Repeat: Iv\u00e1n Fischer And The Budapest Festival Orchestra Perform Enescu, Bartok And Mahler20180904~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear Ivကn Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra at the BBC Proms.

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Albert Hall, London

Enescu: Suite No. 1 - Pr退lude

Prom 54 Repeat: Orchestra Of La Scala, Milan, And Riccardo Chailly20170831Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann.

Another chance to hear the Filarmonica della Scala with conductor Riccardo Chailly, joined by violinist Leonidas Kavakos, in Brahms's Violin Concerto, followed by music by Respighi.

Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major

Respighi: Fountains of Rome; Pines of Rome

Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Riccardo Chailly, conductor

Riccardo Chailly returns to the Proms, this time as Music Director of the Filarmonica della Scala (Orchestra of La Scala, Milan), which makes its Proms debut. They bring with them a little piece of Italy in two of Respighi's Rome-inspired tone-poems. Richly vivid in orchestral colour, these works delight in the kind of huge sonorities that come into their own in the Royal Albert Hall. The concert opens with one of the great violin concertos - Brahms's joyous, virtuosic musical homage to his friend and mentor, the virtuoso violinist Joseph Joachim.

[First broadcast on Friday, August 25th]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Riccardo Chailly conducts the Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, at the Proms.

Prom 54-michael Nyman20090909Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2009.

Michael Nyman makes his Proms debut performing well known works from The Draughtman's Contract to The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. His band also gives the world premiere of The Musicologist Scores, specially commissioned by the BBC. Introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Anu Komsi (soprano)

Michael Nyman Band

Michael Nyman (director/piano)

Michael Nyman:

The Draughtsman's Contract (selection)

The Musicologist Scores (BBC commission)

Blume; Psalm (Six Celan Songs)

Memorial (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover).

Michael Nyman performs his well-known works. Anu Komsi (soprano), Michael Nyman Band.

Prom 55 Repeat: Iv\u00e1n Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra Perform Brahms, Liszt And Sarasate20180906~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear Ivကn Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra at the BBC Proms with guest violin and cimbalom players in a riot of Hungarian dances and folk tunes.

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Albert Hall, London.

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in C sharp minor

Brahms: Hungarian Dance No 1 in G minor

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 3 in B flat major

Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen

Brahms: Hungarian Dance No 11 in C minor

2.45pm

Interval: Proms Plus

An introduction to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller culture and heritage with writers Louise Doughty and Damian Le Bas. Presented by New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau.

3.05pm

Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor

J zsef Lendvay Sr and J zsef Lendvay Jr (violins),

Jen? Lisztes (cimbalom),

Ivကn Fischer (conductor)

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Hungarian folk tunes run through the veins of Ivကn Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, while Gypsy rhythms set their pulses dancing.

This concert - a true celebration of Hungary's national music - traces the development of folk songs and dance, from their colourful, rough-hewn originals into virtuosic concert-hall reimaginings by Liszt, Brahms and Sarasate.

In the second half comes Brahms's dramatic First Symphony, whose darkness and drama eventually give way to an ending of transcendent musical triumph.

Ivan Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Hungarian dances and folk tunes.

Prom 55-adams, Mozart, Strauss20090910Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2009.

The BBC SSO under chief conductor designate Donald Runnicles performs Richard Strauss' gargantuan orchestral canvas inspired by family life in the Strauss household. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Shai Wosner joins the orchestra in Mozart's stormy D minor concerto, and the Prom opens with John Adams' witty tribute to the Russian polymath, Nicolas Slonimsky.

Shai Wosner (piano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Donald Runnicles (conductor)

John Adams: Slonimsky's Earbox

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466

Strauss: Symphonia domestica

4.30pm

Purcell and his forebears.

Byrd: Infelix ego

Stile Antico.

BBC SSO/Donald Runnicles performs Adams, Mozart and Strauss.

Prom 56 Repeat: Henry Wood Tribute20190909~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Presented by Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

Ireland: Piano Concerto

2.45pm: Interval: Proms Plus Talk: Petroc Trelawny considers the legacy of Sir Henry Wood, and talks to some of the performers in this Prom.

Dobrinka Tabakova: Timber & Steel

Debussy, orch Wood: La cath退drale engloutie

Granados, orch Wood: Spanish Dance ‘Andaluza

Wagner, orch Wood: Traume for violin and orchestra

Grainger, orch Wood: Handel in the Strand

Ravel: La Valse

Leon McCawley (piano)

Nathaniel Anderson-Frank (violin)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Bramwell Tovey

A 150th-anniversary tribute to Henry Wood, founder-conductor of the Proms, featuring works he premiered and arranged, and reflecting his wide musical tastes, from Wagner to John Ireland, Ravel to Percy Grainger.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

BBC Concert Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey and pianist Leon McCawley at the Royal Albert Hall.

Prom 56 Repeat: Mozart And Bruckner20180907~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo play Bruckner's Symphony No 5 and Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 with soloist Benjamin Grosvenor at the BBC Proms

Presented by Sarah Walker at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K467

with Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

2.30pm

Interval: Proms Plus

Conductor and musicologist John Butt introduces Bruckner's Symphony No 5.

2.50pm

Bruckner: Symphony No 5 in B flat major

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Former BBC Young Musician winner Benjamin Grosvenor may only be 26 but this exceptional pianist is an artist of startling emotional and technical maturity. Here he joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo as the soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 (sometimes known by the nickname ‘Elvira Madigan'), with its trickling slow movement and good-humoured buffo levity. Bruckner's Fifth Symphony, with its astonishing fugal finale, offers a more serious counterpoint in the second half.

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo play Mozart and Bruckner at the Royal Albert Hall

Prom 57 Repeat: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra20190911~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Long Yu, play music by Qigang Chen, Mozart and Rachmaninov at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Qigang Chen: Wu Xing (The Five Elements)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Eric Lu, piano

Long Yu, conductor

China's Shanghai Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with an East-meets-West concert including music by Qigang Chen and Rachmaninov's exhilarating Symphonic Dances. Leeds Piano Competition winner Eric Lu joins them for Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23.

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra's Proms debut. Music by Qigang Chen, Mozart and Rachmaninov.

Prom 57: Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky20090911Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2009:

The BBC Symphony Orchestra concludes the Proms survey of Stravinsky's ballets with the dazzling Agon. Stephen Hough completes his Proms marathon of Tchaikovsky's piano concertos with the curiously neglected Concert Fantasia, and cellist Steven Isserlis returns to the Rococo Variations. The concert ends with more Tchaikovsky - his dramatic tale of forbidden love and eternal punishment. Introduced by Penny Gore.

Stephen Hough (piano)

Steven Isserlis (cello)

David Robertson (conductor)

Stravinsky: Agon

Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasia in G, Op 56; Variations on a Rococo Theme; Francesca da Rimini

4.30pm

Purcell and his forebears.

Purcell: Blow up the trumpet; God is gone up; Blow up the trumpet in Sion; My heart is inditing

Ars Nova Copenhagen

Concerto Copenhagen

Andrew Lawrence-King (conductor).

BBC SO/David Robertson performs Stravinsky's Agon and Tchaikovsky's Concerto Fantasia.

Prom 58 Repeat: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra And Louis Langree20170901Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann

Another chance to hear the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with conductor Louis Langr退e perform music by Bernstein, Copland and Tchaikovsky

Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Martin Handley

2pm

Bernstein: On the Waterfront - symphonic suite

Copland: Lincoln Portrait

c.2.40

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor

Louis Langr退e, conductor

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with Music Director Louis Langr退e, bringing works by two celebrated American composers. Bernstein's symphonic suite drawn from his soundtrack to On the Waterfront is a cinematic journey through the docks and slums of post-war New Jersey, telling the story of one man's heroic fight against corruption and intimidation. In a year in which America has inaugurated a new president, Copland's Lincoln Portrait offers a musical homage to another. Lincoln's greatest speeches are set against a stirring orchestral tone-poem: America in music. The climax of the concert is another passionate statement of musical nationalism: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.

[First broadcast on Sunday 27th August]

Followed by a selection of music by this week's Proms artists.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra perform music by Bernstein, Copland and Tchaikovsky.

Prom 58 Repeat: Tchaikovsky, Jan\u00e1cek, Szymanowski And Linda Catlin Smith20190910~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov with soprano Georgia Jarman perform Szymanowski's Love Songs of Hafiz alongside a new work by Linda Catlin Smith.

Presented by Andrew McGregor at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Linda Catlin Smith - Nuages

Janက?ek - The Fiddler's Child

Szymanowski - Love Songs of Hafiz, Op. 26

c.2:45pm

Interval: Proms Plus Talk: Kate Molleson talks to cultural historian Rosamund Bartlett about Tchaikovsky and the Russian folk tradition.

c.3:05pm

Part 2

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 2 in C minor, 'Little Russian

Georgia Jarman (soprano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Folk songs and folk tales run through this programme from the BBC SSO and Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov.

A runaway success at its premiere, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.2 takes a different Ukrainian folk melody as the theme for each of its four movements, including the dizzyingly inventive finale, while a gruesome Czech legend provides the starting point for Janက?ek's atmospheric orchestral ballad The Fiddler's Child.

Szymanowski's exotic songs based on texts by the 14th-century Persian mystic poet Hafiz and a world premiere by Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith complete the concert.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov and soprano Georgia Jarman.

Prom 6 Repeat: An American In Paris And Turangalila20180720~Afternoon Concert with Tom McKinney

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Gershwin's An American in Paris and Messiaen's epic Turangalla Symphony.

Presented by Penny Gore from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Gershwin: An American in Paris

c. 2.15pm Interval: Proms Plus

In the centenary year of Leonard Bernstein's birth, the first in a series of talks exploring his life and work. Presenter Petroc Trelawny discusses Bernstein's legacy and his championship of contemporary music with conductor and keyboard player Wayne Marshall and Nigel Simeone, editor of 'The Leonard Bernstein Letters'.

c. 2.35pm

Messiaen: Turangalla Symphony

Angela Hewitt (piano)

Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Gershwin's An American in Paris - a giddy, gloriously tuneful musical evocation of 1920s Paris - takes a stroll through the bustling City of Light, swept along by the jazz rhythms that were its throbbing pulse. The rhythmic impulse continues through Messiaen's hypnotic orchestral love song, the Turangalla Symphony. Premiered by Leonard Bernstein in 1949, this Tristan and Isolde-inspired work is a celebration of sensual pleasure and boundless ecstasy.

Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall.

Prom 6 Repeat: The Rite Of Spring20190725~Afternoon Concert with Hannah French

Another chance to hear Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music and the Juilliard School with Edward Gardner and James Ehnes in works by Stravinsky, Britten and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Ian Skelly

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Metacosmos

(UK premiere)

Benjamin Britten: Violin Concerto

c. 2:55 Interval

Proms Plus Talk: In the first of a series of talks focusing on Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood, musicologist and broadcaster Hannah French explores his relationship with the Royal Academy of Music.

c. 3:20

Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

James Ehnes (violin)

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Earthy, pagan dances meet the Music of the Spheres in this concert of 20th- and 21st-century orchestral works. Stravinsky's infamous ballet score The Rite of Spring pulses with rhythmic energy and urgency, while Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir's luminous and intricately textured Metacosmos travels deep into space. At the centre of the programme is Britten's elegiac Violin Concerto, written on the cusp of the Second World War. Violinist James Ehnes joins Edward Gardner and musicians from both London's Royal Academy of Music and New York's Juilliard School.

Edward Gardner conducts Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music and the Juilliard School.

Prom 60 Repeat: Vienna Philharmonic And Bernard Haitink20190912Presented by Penny Gore

Another chance to hear The Vienna Philharmonic with conductor Bernard Haitink and pianist Emanuel Ax in Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto and Bruckner's 7th Symphony presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Martin Handley.

2.00pm

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major

c. 2.35pm - interval

Martin Handley talks to tonight's conductor Bernard Haitink about his life and career.

c. 2.55 pm

Symphony No. 7 in E major (ed. Nowak)

Emmanuel Ax piano

Bernard Haitink conductor

In a year that marks both his 90th birthday and the 65th anniversary of his conducting debut, Bernard Haitink conducts the first of the Vienna Philharmonic's two concerts this season.

Emanuel Ax is the soloist in Beethoven's revolutionary Piano Concerto No. 4 - written by the composer as his own farewell to the performing stage.

A farewell of a different kind runs through Bruckner's Symphony No. 7. Completed shortly after Wagner's death, the work's heartfelt slow movement, with its poignant closing elegy, pays homage to the man and mentor Bruckner described as his ‘dearly beloved Master'.

Another chance to hear the Vienna Philharmonic with Bernard Haitink and Emanuel Ax.

Prom 61 Repeat: Renee Fleming Sings Strauss20170904Another chance to hear Renee Fleming sings Strauss and Barber with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, conducted by Sakari Oramo. Plus Nielsen's Symphony No 2. With Katie Derham.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Andrea Tarrodi: Liguria UK premiere

Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op 24

Strauss: Daphne - Transformation Scene, 'Ich komme - ich komme

Nielsen: Symphony No 2 'The Four Temperaments

Ren退e Fleming, soprano

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Star American soprano Ren退e Fleming returns to join Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra for the shimmering 'transformation' music that closes Richard Strauss's opera Daphne, and Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a nostalgic portrait of the America of a simpler age.

The RSPO also brings music by its Swedish compatriot Andrea Tarrodi - Liguria, a vivid musical 'walking tour' through Italian fishing villages as well as Nielsen's Second Symphony, 'The Four Temperaments', whose four movements offer different character portraits, from a choleric opening Allegro to a melancholic slow movement.

Renee Fleming sings Strauss and Barber with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic at the Proms.

Prom 61 Repeat: Vienna Philharmonic And Andres Orozco-estrada20190913~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor Andr退s Orozco?Estrada in Dvorak's New World Symphony and Leonidas Kavakos in Korngold's Violin Concerto.

Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall.

Dvo?ကk: The Noonday Witch

Korngold: Violin Concerto

c.2:45pm INTERVAL: Musicologist Ben Winters discusses Korngold and America.

c.3:05pm

Dvo?ကk: Symphony No 9 in E minor, 'From the New World

Leonidas Kavakos (violin)

Vienna Philharmonic, Andr退s Orozco?Estrada (conductor)

Dvo?ကk's ‘New World' Symphony, with its wistful slow movement, is the centrepiece of the second concert from the Vienna Philharmonic - a programme of Central European works that showcases the orchestra's distinctively rich sound. Andr退s Orozco-Estrada pairs it with the composer's colourful, folk-infused tone poem The Noonday Witch, in which a mother's threats inadvertently summon a witch into her home. Cinematic drama is also a hallmark of Korngold's richly orchestrated and unashamedly romantic Violin Concerto, performed here by soloist Leonidas Kavakos.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Vienna Philharmonic, Andres Orozco-Estrada and violinist Leonidas Kavakos.

Prom 63 Repeat: Taneyev, Rachmaninov And Tchaikovsky20170905Afternoon on 3 with Katie Derham

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov in Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony. Kirill Gerstein joins them for Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 1

From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Penny Gore

Taneyev: Overture - The Oresteia

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.1

Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Continuing his season-long Tchaikovsky Project, which included performances earlier this summer with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov conducts an all-Russian programme that climaxes with the composer's vividly programmatic symphony Manfred. Translating the struggles of Byron's hero (who celebrates his 200th anniversary this year) into music proved a challenging task for the composer but the result is a glorious musical epic, full of drama and colour.

Kirill Gerstein is the soloist for Rachmaninov's youthful Piano Concerto No. 1, concluding our cycle of the composer's piano concertos with a work whose stormy beauty is a natural companion for Taneyev's brooding Oresteia overture.

Prom 64 Repeat: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra And Daniele Gatti20170906Afternoon on 3 with Katie Derham

Another chance to hear the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Daniele Gatti perform music by Wolfgang Rihm and Bruckner's 9th Symphony at the Proms

Rihm: In-Schrift

Bruckner: Symphony No 9 in D minor

Daniele Gatti, conductor

Amsterdam's mighty Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is regularly named as one of the world's finest orchestras. Here it returns to the Proms for the first time in almost a decade, under its new Chief Conductor Daniele Gatti. The main work on their programme is Bruckner's Ninth Symphony - the composer's great, unfinished farewell to the form, and his final testament of faith. Written in 1995 for St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Rihm's In-Schrift is an exploration of space and its sonic possibilities. With no high strings and additional low brass, Rihm creates a sound-world of striking darkness, illuminated only by the piercing brilliance of percussion.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perform Bruckner's 9th Symphony at the Proms.

Prom 64 Repeat: Verdi Requiem20180905~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear Verdi's Requiem at the BBC Proms.

Presented by Georgia Mann at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Verdi: Requiem

Lise Davidsen, soprano

Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano

Dmytro Popov, tenor

Tomasz Konieczny, bass

London Philharmonic Choir

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Andr退s Orozco?Estrada, conductor

Rising conductor Andr退s Orozco-Estrada continues this season's sequence of Requiems with Verdi's mighty concert-hall setting - an ‘opera in church vestments'. Embracing the full gamut of human emotion, from the most tender and fragile of hopes to the visceral terror of the Day of Judgement, it's a work that transforms private grief into an astonishing public statement. An international team of soloists includes the exciting young Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen and renowned mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly.

Andres Orozco-Estrada conducts the London Philharmonic in Verdi's Requiem.

Prom 66 Repeat: Haydn And Mahler20170907Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann.

Another chance to hear the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Daniele Gatti play Haydn and Mahler. Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Haydn: Symphony No. 82 in C major, 'The Bear

Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G major

Chen Reiss, soprano

Daniele Gatti, conductor

From its jingling opening sleigh bells to its charming closing song for soprano and orchestra, Mahler's Fourth Symphony is one of the composer's sunniest and most appealing works, lively with birdsong and youthful energy.

It's a mood it shares with Haydn's ebullient and richly orchestrated Symphony No. 82, nicknamed 'The Bear' for the lurching melody of its final movement, with its suggestion of dancing bears at a country fair.

For their second concert, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Daniele Gatti are joined by Israeli soprano Chen Reiss, making her Proms debut.

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Daniele Gatti play Haydn and Mahler at the Proms.

Prom 68 Repeat: Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky And Shostakovich20170908Afternoon on 3 - with Georgia Mann

Another chance to hear the Mariinsky Orchestra play Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch from the Royal Albert Hall

Prokofiev: Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op 74

Tchaikovsky: Piano concerto no.3 in E flat major

Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 in D minor

Denis Matsuev, piano

Mariinsky Chorus

Valery Gergiev, conductor

Who better than Russia's foremost opera orchestra and chorus to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution? Along with Artistic Director Valery Gergiev they perform Prokofiev's epic Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution - a work that captures the violence of the Bolshevik Revolution and the birth of the Soviet Union in bold orchestral textures and rich, folk-infused choral writing.

The cruelty of the Stalinist regime is captured in Shostakovich's evocative Fifth Symphony, and regular collaborator Denis Matsuev joins the orchestra as soloist in Tchaikovsky's final work - the single-movement Piano Concerto No. 3.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The Mariinsky Orchestra play Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich at the Proms.

Prom 7 Repeat: Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique20170724Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Joshua Weilerstein perform Rebel, Berlioz and the UK premiere of Pascal Dusapin's Outscape at this year's BBC Proms.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Jean-F退ry Rebel: Le Chaos from 'Les El退mens

Pascal Dusapin: Outscape* (BBC co-commission: UK premiere)

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14

Alisa Weilerstein (cello)*

Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)

Visions of chaos give way to a diabolical scene in a musical thrill-ride that takes us from creation itself to the wild dances of a Witches' Sabbath. Jean-F退ry Rebel's suite The Elements is one of Baroque music's most unusual works, opening with a vivid portrait of Chaos. The same audacity surfaces a century later in Berlioz's quasi-autobiographical Symphonie fantastique, whose large orchestral forces and colourful textures make it a perfect fit for the Royal Albert Hall.

Star cellist Alisa Weilerstein is soloist for the UK premiere of Pascal Dusapin's nature-inspired concerto Outscape - a work written for her - while her brother, rising young star Joshua Weilerstein, conducts.

First broadcast on Wednesday 19 July

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Producer Samuel Hickling.

Joshua Weilerstein conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Rebel, Dusapin and Berlioz.

Prom 7 Repeat: Schumann, Schoenberg And Mozart20190726~Afternoon Concert with Hannah French.

Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic and Omer Meir Wellber in music by Ben Haim, Schumann and Schoenberg. They are joined by Yeol Eum Son for Mozart's Piano Concerto No 15.

Presented by Sarah Walker at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.15(K450)

Ben-Haim: Symphony No.1

c.3pm

Interval: Proms Plus: Can music heal the mind and body? Music in hospitals used to be heard only in lifts or on patients' headphones. Now, the NHS is using music therapy in innovative clinical programmes. New Generation Thinker Daisy Fancourt discusses her award winning research with a fellow researcher. Chaired by actor, musician and New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton. Producer Luke Mulhall

Schoenberg: Five Pieces Op.16

Schumann: Symphony No.4

Yeol Eum Son (piano)

Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)

Omer Meir Wellber makes his Proms debut as the BBC Philharmonic's Chief Conductor. South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son joins them as soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No.15 (K450) with its intricate wind writing and lively hunting-horn finale. Schumann's mould-breaking Fourth Symphony, with its opening journey from darkness to blazing light, is paired with Schoenberg's revolutionary Five Orchestral Pieces and Paul Ben-Haim's 1940 Symphony No.1 - an emotive musical statement at a time of international conflict.

BBC Philharmonic, Omer Meir Wellber and Yeol Eum Son.

Prom 9 Repeat: Beethoven, Fidelio20170725Afternoon on 3 with Verity Sharp

Another chance to hear Juanjo Mena conduct Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio' with a cast led by Stuart Skelton and Ricarda Merbeth.

Presented by Donald Macleod at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Beethoven: Fidelio

Stuart Skelton, tenor (Florestan)

Ricarda Merbeth, soprano (Leonore)

James Cresswell, bass (Rocco)

Louise Alder, soprano (Marzelline)

Benjamin Hulett, tenor (Jaquino)

Detlef Roth, bass-baritone (Don Pizarro)

David Soar, bass (Don Fernando)

Andrew Masterson, tenor (First Prisoner)

Tomothy Bagley, bass-baritone (Second Prisoner)

Orfe n Donostiarra

BBC Philharmonic

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

The first of three politically charged stage works this season is Beethoven's only opera, 'Fidelio' - a passionate musical protest against political oppression, first performed in Vienna in the wake of the French Revolution to an audience mostly consisting of Napoleon's troops. At its heart is the stirring 'Prisoners' Chorus', a poignant hymn to freedom and the power of the human spirit. The BBC Philharmonic brings its highly acclaimed performance to the Proms with a cast starring Australian tenor Stuart Skelton as the imprisoned Florestan, and soprano Ricarda Merbeth as his faithful and resourceful wife Leonore.

[First broadcast on Friday 21st August]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Juanjo Mena conducts Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio' with a cast led by Stuart Skelton.

Prom 9 Repeat: Strauss, Brahms And Brostr\u00f6m20190729~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Markus Stenz with Jeroen Berwaerts and H倀kan Hardenberger in a new double trumpet concerto by Tobias Brostr怀m.

Presented by Nicola Heywood-Thomas at the Royal Albert Hall, London

R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Tobias Brostr怀m: Nigredo: Dark Night of the Soul (concerto for two trumpets and orchestra)

c.2.50pm Interval - Proms Plus Talk:

An introduction to the music in tonight's Prom with researcher, writer and presenter Katy Hamilton. Presented by Flora Willson at the Imperial College Union.

Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68

Jeroen Berwaerts (trumpet)

H倀kan Hardenberger (trumpet)

Markus Stenz (concductor)

The mischievous escapades of the irrepressible Till Eulenspiegel - Germany's beloved folk-hero - introduce a concert that celebrates the dramatic power of the orchestra.

Markus Stenz conducts the BBC NOW in its first concert of the season, pairing Strauss's lively tone-poem with Brahms's turbulent Symphony No. 1 - the work that announced him as the ‘heir to Beethoven'.

Trumpeters H倀kan Hardenberger and Jeroen Berwaerts are rival soloists in a rhythmically charged new double concerto by Swedish composer Tobias Brostr怀m.

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Markus Stenz, Jeroen Berwaerts and H\u00e5kan Hardenberger.

Prom 9 Repeat: World Orchestra For Peace20180723~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore

Another chance to hear the World Orchestra for Peace and conductor Donald Runnicles perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem and Eriks Esenvalds' Shadow.

Eriks Esenvalds: Shadow (BBC commission, world premiere)

Benjamin Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem

c2.50pm Interval: Proms Plus

The Narrative Voice: Dr Sarah Dillon is joined by the novelist Richard Beard, whose memoir The Day That Went Missing was published to great acclaim last year. They'll be discussing the literary voice: first, third or rarely seen second person narrators, comic narrators and slippery unreliable narrators. Illustrated with a selection of readings, Sarah and Richard will investigate some of the best voices in fiction. The reader is Fenella Woolgar.

c3.10pm

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No 9 in D minor, 'Choral

Erin Wall (soprano)

Judit Kutasi (mezzo-soprano)

Russell Thomas (tenor)

Franz-Josef Selig (baritone)

BBC Proms Youth Choir

Simon Halsey (conductor)

Donald Runnicles (conductor)

In the centenary year of the end of the First World War, the World Orchestra for Peace - founded by Georg Solti as an expression of international musical harmony - returns to the Proms with one of classical music's most potent statements of brotherhood and fellowship, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Composed in the shadow of the Second World War, Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem adds its own emotive warning against war. The concert opens with a new, First World War-themed work by Latvian composer Ā'riks Ešenvalds, commissioned for the talented young singers of the BBC Proms Youth Choir.

Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

The World Orchestra for Peace and Donald Runnicles in Beethoven's 'Choral' Symphony.

Prom 9, Mahler: Symphony No 920090722Bernard Haitink conducts the LSO in a performance of Mahler's 9th Symphony.
Prom 9-craig Ogden20090727Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2009

Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Philharmonic in some lesser-known works of the the English repertoire.

EJ Moeran's Symphony, introduced to the Proms in 1938 by Henry Wood, was written partly in Norfolk and partly in County Kerry, and seems to evoke the landscapes, seashores and folk idioms of both locations. Finzi's neo-Classical Grand Fantasia caps an unaccompanied and clearly Bach-inspired piano solo with a jaunty Toccata. This is followed by a performance of Elgar's Second Symphony, which was partly written on the Cornish coast at Tintagel.

Leon McCawley (piano)

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Moeran: Symphony in G

Finzi: Grand Fantasia and Toccata

Elgar: Symphony No 2 in E flat

4.15pm

Highlights from a recital given by Craig Ogden at the 2008 Cheltenham Festival.

Craig Ogden (guitar)

Bach: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E flat, BWV998

Tippett: The Blue Guitar

Piazzolla: La Muerte del Angel - tango.

Presented by Penny Gore. A Prom with the BBC Philharmonic in lesser-known English works.

Prom Repeat: Stage@thedock, Hull20170726Afternoon on 3 with Verity Sharp

Another chance to hear Tom Redmond introduce a special Prom from Hull - the UK City of Culture 2017 - from Sage@The Dock, the city's outdoor amphitheatre. Overlooking water it features the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Nicholas McGegan performing music with a maritime flavour, and taking pride of place in the programme is Handel's justly famous Water Music, first performed 300 years ago at a river party for a Hanoverian king. No matter the weather, there is promise of storms and shipwrecks, calm seas and seductive sirens.

Telemann: Water Music - overture

Delius: Summer Night on the River

Handel: Water Music - Suite No. 3 in G major

Grace Evangeline Mason: RIVER (BBC commission: first concert performance)

Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage

Rameau: Nas - overture

Grace Williams: Sea Sketches - High Wind; Calm Sea in Summer

Handel: Water Music - Suite No. 2 in D major

Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

[First broadcast on Saturday 22nd July]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

Producer Ellie Mant.

Tom Redmond introduces a Prom with a maritime flavour from Hull.

Proms 2009: Prom 1 (repeat)20090720Louise Fryer presents another chance to hear the opening concert from the 2009 Proms.

Stravinsky: Fireworks

Chabrier: Ode a la musique

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 3 in E flat

Poulenc: Concerto for 2 pianos

Elgar: In the South (Alassio)

Brahms: Alto Rhapsody

Bruckner: Psalm 150

Ailish Tynan (soprano)

Alice Coote (mezzo)

Stephen Hough (piano) (Tchaikovsky)

Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos) (Poulenc)

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

4.00pm

Highlights from concerts recorded at LSO St Lukes.

Purcell, real. Tippett: Music for a while

Tippett: Boyhood's end

Finzi: Oh fair to see, Op 13

Britten: Winter words, Op 52

James Gilchrist (tenor)

Anna Tilbrook (piano).

The opening concert of the 2009 Proms.

Proms 2009: Prom 2 (repeat)20090721BBC Proms 2009

Louise Fryer presents another chance to hear Haydn's Creation recorded at the BBC Proms. Paul McCreesh conducts a huge ensemble in a recreation of the giant performances that Haydn himself directed in the last decade of his life.

Haydn: The Creation (sung in English, with text edited by Paul McCreesh)

Gabriel - Rosemary Joshua (soprano)

Uriel - Mark Padmore (tenor)

Raphael - Neal Davies (bass)

Adam - Peter Harvey (bass)

Eve - Sophie Bevan (soprano)

Chetham's Chamber Choir

Members of the Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir

Gabrieli Consort

Gabrieli Players

Paul McCreesh (conductor)

4.30pm

Highlights from LSO St Luke's.

Alwyn: Fantasy-waltzes

Bax: Dream in exile

Ashley Wass (piano).

Haydn's Creation from the BBC Proms. Gabrieli Consort and Players under Paul McCreesh.

Proms 2009: Prom 20 (repeat)20090806Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2009

Another chance to hear a Prom in which the Scottish Chamber Orchestra continue their Stravinsky ballet series with the complete choral version of the neo-Classical Pulcinella, and the bicentenary survey of Mendelssohn's symphonies with the Reformation. Young French-Canadian maestro Yannick Nezet-Seguin makes his Proms debut, as does prize-winning American pianist Nicholas Angelich in Schumann's popular Concerto in A minor.

Nicholas Angelich (piano)

Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)

Andrew Staples (tenor)

Brindley Sherratt (bass)

Yannick Nezet-Segun (conductor)

Stravinsky: Pulcinella

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5 in D (Reformation)

4.15pm

Piano Music:

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 31, No 3

Shai Wosner (piano).

Proms 2009: Stravinsky: Pulcinella. Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5. Schumann: Piano Concerto.

Proms 2009: Prom 24 (repeat)20090807Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2009

Another chance to hear a Prom including a new work, From Trumpet, by young Paris-based British composer Ben Foskett, followed by Beethoven's Fourth Symphony. In Berlioz's spectacular Te Deum, conductor Susanna Mälkki marshalls massed choirs, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the mighty Royal Albert Hall organ.

Simon Preston (organ)

Jörg Schneider (tenor)

Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral

Trinity Boys Choir

BBC Symphony Chorus

The Bach Choir

Crouch End Festival Chorus

Susanna Malkki (conductor)

Ben Foskett: From Trumpet (BBC commission)

Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat

Berlioz: Te Deum

4.15pm

Piano Music

Haydn: Sonata for piano in F, H XVI 23

Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)

Mozart: Piano Sonata in C minor, K457

Cedric Tiberghien (piano).

A Prom featuring Ben Foskett: From Trumpet; Beethoven: Symphony No 4 and Berlioz: Te Deum.

Proms 2009: Prom 8 (repeat)20090724BBC Proms 2009

Louise Fryer presents another chance to hear a Proms celebrating the 800th anniversary of the University of Cambridge. The concert features a convocation of college choirs, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and alumni including conductor Andrew Davis and soloists Simon Keenlyside and Thomas Trotter.

As professor of music, Stanford taught Vaughan Williams, who wrote his Wasps overture for a university staging of Aristophanes's comedy. Vaughan Williams later set verses by former university orator George Herbert in his Five Mystical Songs. Judith Weir and Jonathan Harvey, who this year celebrates his seventieth birthday, also studied at Cambridge. Ryan Wigglesworth, a Cambridge lecturer and fellow of Corpus Christi College, has crafted a new work especially for this concert. The performance ends with a glorious symphonic work for full orchestra and organ by Camille Saint-Saens, who was honoured with a doctorate by the university in 1893.

Arr David Willcocks: National Anthem

Vaughan Williams: OVerture (The Wasps)

Ryan Wigglesworth: The Genesis of Secrecy (BBC commission; world premiere)

Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs

Stanford: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A

Jonathan Harvey: Come, Holy Ghost

Judith Weir: Ascending into Heaven

Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3 (Organ)

Thomas Trotter (organ)

Simon Keenlyside (baritone)

Choirs of Clare, Gonville and Caius, King's and St John's Colleges, Cambridge

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Andrew Nesthinga (conductor)

Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

4.15pm

Highlights from LSO St Luke's

Bridge: Piano Sonata

Ashley Wass (piano).

Including Vaughan Williams: The Wasps; Five Mystical Songs. Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3.

Proms 2021: Bbc Now And Abel Selaocoe20210901Tom McKinney with another chance to hear cellist Abel Selaocoe's inventive Prom with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales bringing together traditional African music with Rameau.

Abel Selaocoe - Qhawe (arr. Ian Gardiner)

Abel Selaocoe - Zawose (arr. Ian Gardiner)

Jean?Philippe Rameau - Les bor退ades: ‘Entr退e d'Abaris

Giovanni Sollima - L. B. Files

Sidiki Demb退l退 - Shaka (arr. Ian Gardiner)

Abel Selaocoe - As You Are (arr. Benjamin Woodgates)

Abel Selaocoe - Lerato (arr. Benjamin Woodgates)

Jean?Philippe Rameau - Les Indes galantes: ‘La fꀀte des fleurs - Orage

Simo Lagnawi - Bambara (arr. Abel Selaocoe and Alan Keary, orch. Ian Gardiner)

Chesaba:

Abel Selaocoe, cello/voice

Sidiki Demb退l退, kora and percussion

Alan Keary, bass guitar

Gnawa London:

Simo Lagnawi, guembri

Driss Yamdah, Amine el Manony, Djina Jones (Krakebs)

Bantu Voices

Clark Rundell, conductor

Another chance to hear cellist Abel Selaocoe's inventive Prom with the BBC NOW.

Proms 2021: Bbc Philharmonic20210816Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic and Ben Gernon perform groundbreaking symphonic masterpieces by Beethoven and Haydn. Elisabeth Brauss joins them for Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488.

Original concert presented by Tom McKinney

Haydn: Symphony No.103 (Drumroll)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K.488

Beethoven: Symphony No.4 in B flat, Op.60

Elisabeth Brauss, piano

Ben Gernon, conductor

Drum roll please! The BBC Philharmonic returns to the Royal Albert Hall for the first time since August 2019 opening their concert of Classical masterpieces with Haydn's exuberant and life-affirming Symphony No 103, a work alert to the taste of Londoners in the 1790s and the 2020s. BBC New Generation Artist Elisabeth Brauss joins them for Mozart's intimate Piano Concerto No 23 (K 488) with its sunny outer movements enclosing a heartbreaking, melancholy Adagio. Their concert ends with Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, a work that immediately opens a new chapter in symphonic writing with its dark, searching introduction giving way to an effervescent volcano of energy. Ben Gernon conducts.

The BBC Philharmonic and Ben Gernon perform Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Proms 2021: Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20210819The BBC SSO and Martyn Brabbins perform Stravinsky's Pulcinella and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

Stravinsky: Pulcinella

Carolyn Sampson, soprano

Tim Mead, counter-tenor

Benjamin Hulett, tenor

Simon Shibambu, bass-baritone

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Concert presented by Kate Molleson

Can a composer reuse the past and at the same time move in a forward direction? It's the question that goes to the heart of Igor Stravinsky's music - works that often take their inspiration from historical models but remain defiantly, distinctively modern

Martyn Brabbins joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to mark the 50th anniversary of Stravinsky's death with a concert pairing the composer's ballet Pulcinella - a witty, charming take on Baroque dance and commedia dell'arte - with the heart-rending Stabat mater by Pergolesi, whose music inspired it

The BBC SSO and Martyn Brabbins with Stravinsky's Pulcinella and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater

Proms 2021: Bbc Symphony Orchestra20210830Tom McKinney offers a chance to catch Prom 16 again with Dame Sarah Connolly, Martyn Brabbins and the BBC SO in Beethoven, Berlioz and Anthony Payne plus a selection of music from across Europe.

Anthony Payne: Spring's Shining Wake

Hector Berlioz: Les nuits d'退t退

Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, ‘Pastoral

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Sarah Connolly with Martyn Brabbins and the BBC SO in Beethoven, Berlioz and Anthony Payne

Proms 2021: First Night Of The Proms20210809Penny Gore presents an afternoon of music including another chance to hear the First Night of the 2021 BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall, London, conducted by Dalia Stasevska. Penny also introduces a selection of recordings from orchestras around Europe, and throughout the week we'll hear pieces by winners of the 2020 BBC Young Composer competition.

The Prom is presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny.

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Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music

Poulenc: Organ Concerto

c.2.45

MacMillan: When Soft Voices Die (BBC co-commission with Help Musicians: world premiere)

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major

Elizabeth Llewellyn, soprano

Jess Dandy, contralto

Allan Clayton, tenor

Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone

Daniel Hyde, organ

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Dalia Stasevska, conductor

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers perform Vaughan Williams, Poulenc and Sibelius.

Proms 2021: Glassberg Opera Gala20210902Tom McKinney with music from across Europe including the popular opera-inspired Prom from the middle of the month with an exciting line-up of soloists including Sally Matthews, Christine Rice and Nicky Spence with the BBC Philharmonic and Ben Glassberg.

Francesca Caccini - La liberazione di Ruggiero - suite (5 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Fidelio - ‘Abscheulicher! - Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern

Fidelio - Gott! welch Dunkel hier! - In des Lebens Frühlingstagen

Fidelio - ‘O namenlose Freude!' (3 mins)

Christoph Willibald Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice - ‘Che far  senza Euridice?

Giacomo Puccini

La boh耀me - ‘Che gelida manina

La boh耀me - ‘S쀀. Mi chiamano Mim쀀

La boh耀me - ‘O soave fanciulla

Georges Bizet

Carmen - Prelude

Carmen - ‘La fleur que tu m'avais jet退e

George Frideric Handel. Rodelinda - ‘Io t'abbraccio

Engelbert Humperdinck

Hansel and Gretel - ‘Der kleine Sandmann bin ich

Hansel and Gretel - ‘Abends, will ich schlafen gehn

Hansel and Gretel - Dream Pantomime (3 mins)

Leos Janက?ek - Jen?fa - closing scene

Sally Matthews, soprano

Natalya Romaniw, soprano

Nardus Williams. soprano

Christine Rice, mezzo-soprano

Nicky Spence, tenor

Freddie De Tommaso, tenor

Ben Glassberg, conductor

Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic and Ben Glassberg's opera-inspired Prom.

Proms 2021: Gra\u017einyt\u0117-tyla And The Cbso20210818Fiona Talkington introduces another chance to hear Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla's recent appearance at the 2021 BBC Proms with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, as they perform three contrasting symphonies by Ruth Gipps, Thomas Ad耀s and Brahms.

The Prom is presented by Georgia Mann.

Gipps: Symphony No. 2 in B major

Thomas Ad耀s: The Exterminating Angel Symphony (London premiere)

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major

Three contrasting symphonies by Ruth Gipps, Thomas Ad\u00e8s and Brahms

Proms 2021: Kirill Karabits And The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra20210824Johannes Moser is the soloist in the most beloved of all cello concertos. The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kirill Karabits are ‘possessed' by a ghostly Baroque ancestor in Mason Bates's Auditorium and bring Janက?ek's Taras Bulba to life.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

The Prom is presented by Martin Handley.

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Mason Bates: Auditorium (UK premiere)

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor

c.3pm

Janက?ek: Taras Bulba

Johannes Moser, cello

Kirill Karabits, conductor

Plus for the rest of the afternoon Ian Skelly introduces music performed by Concerto Copenhagen.

From the Proms: The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra perform Bates, Elgar and Janacek.

Proms 2021: Manchester Collective20210903Tom McKinney introduces music making from across Europe, including another chance to hear the Manchester Collective Prom with harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani.

Henryk Miko?aj G recki: Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40

Edmund Finnis: The Centre is Everywhere

Julius Eastman: The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc

Dobrinka Tabakova: Suite in Old Style, ‘The Court Jester Amareu

Joseph Horovitz: Jazz Harpsichord Concerto

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

Rahki Singh (violin/director)

Proms 2021: Martin Baker Plays The Royal Albert Hall Organ20210811Penny Gore introduces another chance to hear the celebrated organist Martin Baker's recital of masterworks by Bach and his own improvisations at the 2021 BBC Proms, the first of this season's two organ recitals marking the Royal Albert Hall's 150th anniversary.

The Prom is presented by Kate Molleson

Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552 ‘St Anne

Martin Baker: Improvisation on Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552 ‘St Anne

Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in G major, BWV 572 (Pi耀ce d'orgue)

Martin Baker: Improvisation on Bach's Fantasia in G major, BWV 572 (Pi耀ce d'orgue)

Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582

Martin Baker: Improvisation on English Melodies

Martin Baker (organ)

Martin Baker plays Bach and improvises on the famous Albert Hall organ.

Proms 2021: Mozart's Requiem20210908Penny Gore introduces another chance to hear the Britten Sinfonia's recent Prom. David Bates conducts the orchestra, the National Youth Chamber Choir and soloists in Mozart's Requiem in D minor and a selection of music by Rameau and Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

The Prom is presented by Petroc Trelawny

Including:

Rameau: selection of works TBC

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphony No. 2 in D major

c.2.40pm

Mozart: Requiem in D minor (compl. Süssmayr)

Samantha Clarke (soprano)

Claudia Huckle (contralto)

Nick Pritchard (tenor)

William Thomas (bass)

David Bates (conductor)

The Britten Sinfonia and National Youth Chamber Choir perform Mozart's Requiem.

Proms 2021: Nicola Benedetti And The Nyo20210820Penny Gore introduces another chance to hear the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conducted by Jonathon Heyward at the 2021 BBC Proms. Including London premieres of music by Laura Jurd and Jessie Montgomery, Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto with Nicola Benedetti, and Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony. Penny also presents recordings from around Europe.

The Prom is presented by Andrew McGregor.

Laura Jurd: CHANT (London premiere)

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor

Jessie Montgomery: Banner (London premiere of chamber-orchestra version)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica

Nicola Benedetti (violin)

Jonathon Heyward (conductor)

Nicola Benedetti performs Prokofiev with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

Proms 2021: Nubya Garcia20210906Penny Gore introduces another chance to hear the British saxophonist, composer, DJ and bandleader Nubya Garcia's recent BBC Proms debut. Named a ‘major voice' by The New York Times, Nubya Garcia is one of the brightest of a new generation of jazz talent known for her unique brand of ‘eclectic, danceable, political jazz' that draws on influences from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Penny also presents live recordings from some of Europe's best orchestras.

Another chance to hear Nubya Garcia's Proms debut

Proms 2021: Philharmonia Orchestra20210831Tom McKinney with music from across Europe and another chance to hear the Philharmonia's Prom from earlier in the month featuring music by Mozart, Bach, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D major, 'Classical

Johann Sebastian Bach: Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K 491

Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No 9 in E flat major

Vikingur Olafsson (piano)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Paavo J䀀rvi (conductor)

Proms 2021: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra20210817Vasily Petrenko conducts the RPO in Vaughan Williams and Mendelssohn, and is joined by violinist Sayaka Shoji in Respighi's Concerto gregoriano

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Respighi: Concerto gregoriano

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D major, 'Reformation

Sayaka Shoji, violin

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Concert presented by Martin Handley

Conductor Vasily Petrenko appears for the first time at the Proms in his new role as Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. They are joined by Japanese violinist Sayaka Shoji for Respighi's Concerto gregoriano - a spiritual serenade in which the soloist becomes a wordless cantor, whose plainsong-inspired melodies soar over the orchestra

Two more tributes to the musical past complete the programme: Vaughan Williams's haunting Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis takes inspiration from Tudor polyphony; while Mendelssohn's ‘Reformation' Symphony climaxes in Martin Luther's stirring chorale ‘A mighty fortress is our God'.

Vasily Petrenko conducts the RPO in Vaughan Williams, Respighi and Mendelssohn.

Proms 2021: Ryan Bancroft Conducts Bbc Now20210813Including another chance to hear Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Saint-Sa뀀ns's First Cello Concerto, with Guy Johnston, and Brahms's Fourth Symphony, at the 2021 BBC Proms. For the rest of the afternoon, Penny Gore introduces music from around Europe and new music from a 2020 BBC Young Composer winner.

The Prom is presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas.

Purcell, arr. Stokowski: When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament)

Elizabeth Ogonek: Cloudline (BBC co-commission: world premiere)

Saint?Sa뀀ns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op 98

Guy Johnston (cello)

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Saint-Sa\u00ebns's First Cello Concerto and Brahms's Fourth Symphony at the 2021 BBC Proms.

Proms 2021: Ryan Bancroft Conducts Dvorak's New World Symphony20210823Ian Skelly introduces another chance to hear Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform the world premiere of Augusta Read Thomas's Dance Foldings and Dvorak's Ninth Symphony at the 2021 BBC Proms.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London

The Prom is presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas

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Augusta Read Thomas: Dance Foldings (BBC commission: world premiere)

c.2.30

Ives: Three places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1)

c.2.50

Dvo?ကk: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95; 'From the New World

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Plus for the rest of the afternoon, Ian Skelly presents music including Mozart from Concerto Copenhagen.

Proms 2021: Scottish Chamber Orchestra20210812Another chance to hear Maxim Emelyanychev conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Mozart's much-loved final three symphonies, composed over a period of just two months in the summer of 1788. Penny Gore also introduces recordings from around Europe, and a piece by one of the winners of BBC Young Composer 2020.

The Prom is presented by Kate Molleson.

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, 'Jupiter

Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor)

Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the BBC Proms.

Proms 2021: The Aurora Orchestra With Nicholas Collon20210826Ian Skelly introduces another chance to hear the Aurora Orchestra return to the Proms for Stravinsky's colourful The Firebird suite - performed from memory - joined by Pavel Kolesnikov for Rachmaninov's popular Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. The Proms is introduced by Tom Service, with the help of Nicholas Collon, at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Stravinsky's ‘The Firebird' suite

The Firebird Suite (1945)

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

Tom Service, presenter

Nicholas Collon, conductor/presenter

The Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon, perform Stravinsky and Rachmaninov.

Proms 2021: The Bbc Philharmonic20210825Ian Skelly introduces another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic with Chief Guest Conductor John Storg倀rds, as part of this year's Proms, in Schumann's Symphony No. 3 and Britta Bystr怀m's 'Parallel Universes', a piece commissioned by the BBC, inspired by cosmologist Max Tegmark's notion of a ‘hierarchical multiverse'. Liza Ferschtman joins them, making her Proms debut, for Sibelius's Violin Concerto. The Prom is presented by Petroc Trelawny, from the Royal Albert Hall, in London.

Britta Bystr怀m: Parallel Universes (BBC commission: world premiere)

Sibelius: Violin Concerto

Robert Schumann: Symphony No.3 in E flat major 'Rhenish

Liza Ferschtman (violin)

John Storg倀rds (conductor)

The BBC Philharmonic and John Storg\u00e5rds perform Schumann, Britta Bystr\u00f6m and Sibelius.

Proms 2021: The Golden Age Of Broadway20210810Another chance to hear the BBC Concert Orchestra's recent Prom, as conductor Richard Balcombe is joined by special guest soloists for a night at the musicals, including toe-tapping favourites from South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Anything Goes, Annie Get Your Gun and High Society.

Penny Gore also introduces a selection of recordings from around Europe, and a piece by one of the winners of BBC Young Composer 2020.

The Prom is presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Rodgers: South Pacific, Overture

Berlin: There's No Business Like Showbusiness (from Annie Get Your Gun)

Gershwin: The Rhythm's Alright With Me (medley)

Porter: You're the Top (from Anything Goes)

Rodgers: My Funny Valentine (from Babes in Arms); Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' (from Oklahoma!); (When I Marry) Mister Snow (from Carousel); Some Enchanted Evening & This Nearly Was Mine (from South Pacific); Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (from On Your Toes)

Loewe: Gigi, Overture; Show Me (from My Fair Lady); On the Street Where You Live & I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (from My Fair Lady)

Gershwin: Someone to Watch Over Me (from Oh, Kay!); Promenade (‘Walking the Dog') (from Shall We Dance)

Loesser: Luck Be a Lady (from Guys and Dolls); Joey, Joey, Joey (from The Most Happy Fella)

Kern: All the Things You Are (from Very Warm for May)

Porter: You're Sensational (from High Society); The Trolley Song (from Meet Me in St Louis); Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (from High Society)

Singers: Louise Dearman, Katie Hall, Nadim Naaman, Jamie Parker, Clarke Peters

Richard Balcombe (conductor)

A night at the musicals with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Proms 2021: Vladimir Jurowski And The London Philharmonic20210827From the BBC Proms: Vladimir Jurowski makes his final appearance as chief conductor of the LPO with a programme of 20th-century music, including Stravinsky, Hindemith, and Walton's cello concerto with Steven Isserlis.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London

The Prom is presented by Marin Handley.

c.2.15

Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes

c.2.35pm

Walton: Cello Concerto

c.3.10pm

JS Bach: 14 Canons (Goldberg Variations) arr F.Goldmann (UK premiere)

Hindemith: Symphony 'Mathis der Maler

Steven Isserlis, cello

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

Plus for the rest of the afternoon, Ian Skelly presents music including a performance from Concerto Copenhagen.

Vladimir Jurowski conducts a programme including Stravinsky, Hindemith, and Walton.

Proms At ... Bold Tendencies Multi-storey Car Park, Peckham (repeat)20170830Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann

Another chance to hear the Proms return to a Peckham car park to join Christopher Stark and The Multi-Story Orchestra for a concert rooted in the sounds and communities of the city.

Presented from Peckham by Tom Service

2pm

Bach: Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 645 (orch. Granville Bantock)

Kate Whitley: I am I say

John Adams: Harmonielehre

Ruby Hughes, soprano

Michael Sumuel, bass-baritone

The Multi-Story Youth Choir

Christopher Stark, conductor

Following the success last year of their Proms debut on their home turf in Peckham, Christopher Stark and The Multi-Story Orchestra return for a programme that picks up two of the threads running through this year's Proms, and continues our showcase for talented young musicians.

The classical symphony gets an appropriately urban, contemporary makeover in the pulsing rhythms and metallic glitter of John Adams's Harmonielehre, while Kate Whitley's 'I am I say', written for local schoolchildren to perform, is inspired by nature but also firmly rooted in the sounds and communities of the city.

The concert opens with Bach's 'Wachet auf' (Sleepers, Awake) in Granville Bantock's unexpectedly rich orchestration.

[First broadcast on Saturday 26th August]

Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms Artists.

Christopher Stark and Multi-Story Orchestra perform a Prom concert in a Peckham car park.

Proms At ... Holy Sepulchre Repeat20190828~Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear the Prom from Holy Sepulchre London. BBC Singers and Sofi Jeannin perform Benjamin Britten's Sacred and Profane, Judith Weir's Missa del Cid and Joanna Lee's At this man's hand.

Presented by Ian Skelly from The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Holborn, London.

Programme

William Walton: Where does the uttered music go?

Benjamin Britten: Sacred and Profane

John Ireland: The Holy Boy

Thea Musgrave: Rorate coeli

Elizabeth Maconchy: Three Donne Songs - No. 1: A Hymn to God the Father

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Valiant-for-truth

Judith Weir: Missa del Cid

Joanna Lee: At this man's hand (BBC commission: world premiere)

Sofi Jeannin conductor

The BBC Singers and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin take the Proms to the ‘Musicians' Church', Holy Sepulchre London (aka St Sepulchure-without-Newgate), where Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood first learnt the organ and was later laid to rest.

This varied conspectus of 20th-century English choral music opens with the setting of lines by the then Poet Laureate, John Masefield, that Walton composed for the unveiling of the church's Henry Wood memorial window in 1946, and is brought up to date with a new commission by Joanna Lee, At this man's hand, setting the verse by Masefield that is inscribed on the window itself.

Another chance to hear the BBC Singers and Sofi Jeannin perform Weir's Missa del Cid.

Proms At ... Southwark Cathedral Repeat20170816Afternoon on 3 with Catriona Young

Another chance to hear the BBC Singers with Chief Conductor David Hill perform the world premiere of In The Land Of Uz, by the group's Composer In Association, Judith Weir. Joined by tenor Adrian Thompson and The Nash Ensemble, In the Land of Uz is a dramatised reading of the biblical Book of Job, from which all the text is taken.

The BBC Singers also perform Palestrina's masterful Missa 'Confitebor tibi' in the sumptuous acoustic of Southwark Cathedral.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Offertorium 'Confitebor tibi, Domine'; Missa 'Confitebor tibi

Judith Weir: In the Land of Uz (BBC commission: world premiere)

Adrian Thompson, tenor

David Hill, conductor

[First broadcast Saturday 12th August]

Followed by a selection of music by this week's Proms artists.

The BBC Singers perform the world premiere of Weir's In The Land of Uz at the Proms.

Puccini's La Boh\u00e8me, A Tragic Love Story20200716Opera Matinee: Puccini's La boh耀me from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Four struggling bohemians are living together in Paris, when one freezing Christmas Eve, a girl called Mim쀀 knocks on their door looking for a candle light. Their lives are changed forever and Puccini's tragic love story of Mimi and Rodolfo became the stuff of operatic legend. Recorded in 2017, this production was the house's first new production of the work for 40 years. A stellar cast is led by Nicole Car and Michael Fabiano, with Antonio Pappano in the pit.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Mim쀀 - Nicole Car (soprano)

Rodolfo - Michael Fabiano (tenor)

Marcello - Mariusz Kwiecie? (baritone)

Musetta - Simona Mihai (soprano)

Schaunard - Gyula Nagy (baritone)

Colline - Luca Tittoto (bass)

Benot - Jeremy White (bass)

Alcindoro - Wyn Pencarreg (baritone)

Royal Opera House Chorus & Orchestra

Antonio Pappano (conductor).

At approx. 3.45pm

Guildhall School of Music and Drama musicians at BBC Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion: Anders Hillborg

Anders Hillborg: Duo for cello and piano

Ben Tarlton (cello), Ben Smith (piano)

at approx 4.05pm

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tito Munoz (conductor)

Puccini's La boh\u00e8me from the Royal Opera House, conducted by Antonio Pappano

Queyras Plays Dvorak20230925Penny Gore presents an afternoon of concert and studio recordings from around Europe, and from the BBC's performing groups.

Today, Dvorak's Cello Concerto is in the 3pm spotlight, with Jean-Guihen Queyras and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. The Basel Chamber Orchestra plays Mozart's Symphony No.5 in Wurzburg, and they're joined by counter-tenor Franco Fagioli for arias from Mozartian operas. Plus Respighi's Pines of Roma played by the Prague Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

Zemlinsky: Cymbeline - incidental music (Op.14), Prelude

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Antony Beaumont, conductor

Mozart: Se l'augellin sen fugge, from 'La finta giardiniera

Franco Fagioli, countertenor

Daniel Bart, conductor

c.2.15pm

Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183

Janacek: The Ballad of Blan퀀k

Tom  Netopil, conductor

Robert Kyr: From Darkness into light

Concerto Palatino

Bruce Dickey, director

Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104

Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello

Petr Popelka, conductor

Mozart: Ah se a morir mi chiama, from 'Lucio Silla

c.4pm

Respighi: Pines of Rome, symphonic poem

Anna Hron, conductor

Dvorak's Cello Concerto with Jean-Guihen Queyras and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Rachmaninov, Elgar, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20190114Russian choral masterpieces and an Elgar favourite from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers. Plus pianist Behzod Abduraimov joins the orchestra for a performance of Rachmaninov's tour-de-force 3rd Piano Concerto.

Presented by Tom McKinney

2.00pm

Trad. Russian - Thy tomb, O Saviour (Grob tvoy, spase)

Elena Sharkova (conductor)

Rachmaninov - Concerto No.3 in D minor for piano & orchestra, Op.30

Behzod Abduraimov (piano)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

c.2.50pm

Trad. Russian - The Resurrection Evlogitaria

Rachmaninov - 3 Symphonic Dances for orchestra, Op.45

c.3.35pm

Rachmaninov - Vespers (shortened version)

c.4.30pm

Elgar - Variations on an original theme (`Enigma`), Op.36

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Russian choral works with the BBC Singers.

Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky And Moeran From The Rte National Symphony Orchestra In Dublin20191004A week of concerts performed by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin draws to a close firstly with an all Russian programme conducted by Alexander Vedernikov and featuring Belarusian mezzo Oksana Volkova who sings Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death.

We round the week off with the only completed symphony of E.J Moeran, who though English was of Irish extraction and was greatly influenced by Irish folk music.

2.00pm

Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead Op.29

Mussorgsky arr Shostakovich: Songs and Dances of Death

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Oksana Volkova, mezzo

Alexander Vedernikov, conductor

3.20pm

E.J Moeran: Symphony in G minor

Timothy Henty, conductor

Music by Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky and Moeran.

Rachmaninov's All Night Vigil20200212The Baltic Sea Festival: The Swedish Radio Choir sings Rachmaninov's Vespers in a concert which commemorated the sinking of the MS Estonia on the night of 28 September 1994 en route from Tallinn to Stockholm. Of the 989 on board, only 137 were rescued alive.

Jaakko M䀀ntyj䀀rvi completed his ten minute choral piece Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae, `a meditation` shortly afterwards. The work incorporates three texts: the Catholic funeral mass, the Book of Psalm's hymn 107, and a news broadcast about the accident from Nuntii Latini, a programme that broadcasts world news in classical Latin on Finnish national radio. A soloist from the choir intones the news text against a thundering drone, a wordless melody that is reminiscent of an old sailor's song, and with the requiem lyrics as the dirge: `May eternal light shine on them, Lord.` Fiery whispers mimic the murmur of the stormy sea, and of the communication radio of MS Estonia that, 29 minutes past midnight, sent its final message. `Have mercy, Lord,` laments the choir.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Anon: Blagoslovi, dusje moja gospoda

Sven-David Sandstr怀m: In paradisum

Jaakko M䀀ntyj䀀rvi (1963): Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae

Rachmaninov: Vespers (All-Night Vigil), op. 37

Johan Pejler (bass) and Sofia Niklasson (soprano), Annika Hudak (contralto), Love Tronner (tenor),

Swedish Radio Choir, T倀nu Kaljuste (conductor)

A performance of Rachmaninov's Vespers commemorating the loss of the MS Estonia.

Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto With Lukas Vondracek20220224Tom McKinney with concert performances from around Europe including Rachmaninov's Second PIano Concerto from Prague and music by Smetana, Mozart, Walter Piston and David Maslanka. Plus there'll be more from the Catalan ensemble Vespres d'Arnadi and the mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital.

David Maslanka - Mother Earth (fanfare)

Barcelona Symphonic Wind Band

Jos退 Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana (conductor)

Smetana - Dance of the Comedians [The Bartered Bride]

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Christoph Koenig (conductor)

Otto Winter-Hjelm - Symphony No.2 in B minor

Norwegian Radio Orchestra

Miguel Harth-Bedoya (conductor)

c. 2.35pm

Mozart - Chi s

Rachmaninov's Third Symphony20230601Penny Gore introduces Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 3 with Andris Poga conducting, today's 3pm work in a week-long focus on the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Also today, Renaissance madrigals from around the time of Gesualdo, performed by La Compagnia del Madrigale, Marc-Antoine's Charpentier's Te deum, with soloists, choir and orchestra of the Ensemble Les Surprises, and the BBC performing groups with music by Korngold, Shostakovich and Bellini.

Including:

Korngold: Robin Hood and his Merry Men (from The Adventures of Robin Hood)

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201 (1st movement)

Gerd Heidger, conductor

c.2.20pm

d'India: Ecco morir  dunque

Gesualdo: Io tacer 

Chaminade: Th耀me vari退 for piano, Op 89

Christian Hadland, piano

Shostakovich: Festive Overture Op.96

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leonard Slatkin, conductor

Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, op. 44

Andris Poga, conductor

Bellini: I Capuleti ed i Montecchi (Overture)

BBC Concert Orchestra

c.4.05pm

Charpentier: Te deum

Ensemble Les Surprises, soloists, choir and orchestra

Louis-No뀀l Bestion de Camboulas, conductor

Saint-Saens: Morceau de concert, Op 94, arr. for horn and harp

Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn

Ellie Johnston, harp

Nenna: Ecco, o dolce, o gradita

Tagliavia: Ancidetemi cruda

Revueltas: Sensemayက

Houston Orchestra

Andr退s Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Rachmaninov's Third Symphony in Frankfurt, and Renaissance madrigals.

Rachmaninov's Vespers20150709Penny Gore presents the Rachmaninov Vespers, one of the greatest works of the Russian Orthodox Church, recently performed by the BBC Symphony Chorus. Then continuing a week of recent recordings made by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Penny Gore presents Elgar's 1st Symphony conducted by Edward Gardner and soprano Anna Prohaska singing Five Shakespeare Sonnets by Rufus Wainwright.

Penny Gore (presenter)

14:00

Stephen Jackson (conductor)

15:05

Symphony No.1 in A flat

Edward Gardner (conductor)

16:00

Anna Prohaska (soprano)

BBCSO

Jayce Ogren (conductor).

Penny Gore presents Rachmaninov's Vespers performed by the BBC Symphony Chorus.

Radamisto, Act 3-classic Relief20090313Act 3 of Handel's Radamisto followed by a special concert in aid of Comic Relief.
Radamisto, Acts 1 And 220090312Handel Operas 2009

Jonathan Swain presents the first opera Handel wrote for the new Royal Academy of Music - not a music college like the present-day Academy, but an opera company financed by the upper classes out of their own pockets. Handel was appointed 'Master of the Orchester with a Sallary' and relished the chance to work with the top Italian singers the Academy engaged - including, for the first time in Radamisto, the famous castrato Senesino in the title role.

Handel: Radamisto (Acts 1 and 2)

Radamisto, Prince of Thrace - Ralf Popken (countertenor)

Zenobia, his wife - Juliana Gondek (soprano)

Polissena, his sister - Lisa Saffer (soprano)

Tigrane, Prince of Pontus - Dana Hanchard (soprano)

Tiridate, King of Armenia - Michael Dean (bass-baritone)

Fraarte, Tiridate's brother - Monika Frimmer (soprano)

Farasmane, Radamisto's father - Nicolas Cavallier (bass)

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Nicholas McGegan (conductor).

Jonathan Swain presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's Radamisto.

Radio 3 Breakfast Christmas Carol Competition 202120211220Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Singers live at our Maida Vale studios to hear the six finalists.

Meanwhile Ian Skelly has aquatic Debussy, Haydn from Scotland and festive music from Peter Cornelius and William Grant Still

2.00pm

La mer

BBC Philharmonic

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

2.30pm

Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Singers live in Maida Vale studios for a festive concert featuring the six finalists in the 2021 Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition. The BBC Singers are joined by the New Young Voice Collective, a dynamic choir of 10-18 year olds featuring some of the most talented musicians from east London.

Caroline Jaya-Ratnam, piano

Owain Park, conductor

c.3.40pm

Symphony no.35 in B flat

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Peter Whelan, conductor

The Christmas Tree

Benjamin Appl, baritone

James Baillieu, piano

William Grant Still arr. Greg Kostraba

Christmas in the Western World

Toledo Clarinets:

Chelsea Tipton, clarinet

Elliott Ross, bass clarinet

Greg Kostraba, piano

Petroc joins the BBC Singers live at our Maida Vale studios to hear the finalists.

Radio 3 Carol Competition 202220221219Penny Gore presents an afternoon of festive music from BBC ensembles and around Europe. Today, including a live performance from the BBC Singers at Maida Vale Studios presented by Petroc Trelawny, during which we hear the six finalists in this year's BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition.

Including:

Delius - Sleigh Ride

BBC Concert Orchestra

Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

c. 2.15pm

Veracini - Overture for orchestra No.6 in G minor

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Maurice Steger (conductor)

2.30pm

Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Singers live in Maida Vale studios for a festive concert featuring the six finalists in the 2021 Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition

c.3.45pm

Franck - R退demption [Interlude Symphonique]

Orchestre Nationale de France

Andris Poga (conductor)

The BBC Singers perform live from Maida Vale Studios.

Radio 3 Christmas Carol Competition20231218Fiona Talkington presents a week of Afternoon Concert, featuring new recordings from the BBC Performing Groups and the European Broadcasting Union. Today's programme includes performances from pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, recorded in Munich in October. And at 2.30 we hand over to Petroc Trelawny for a live performance by the BBC Singers of the carols by this year's Radio 3 Christmas Carol Competition finalists.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

2pm

Chopin Mazurka in D flat, Op.30'3

Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

Malcolm Arnold [1921-2006]/Christopher Palmer

Fantasy on Christmas carols (from the film ‘The Holly and The Ivy')

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Marianna Martines Sinfonia in C major

BBC Concert Orchestra

Johannes Wildner (conductor)

Radio 3 Carol Competition – LIVE

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

New Young Voice Collective

Members of the BBC Symphony Chorus

Iain Farrington (piano)

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

c.3.50

Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat, Op.61

Bach orch Elgar Fantasia and fugue in C minor (BWV.537) [orig. for organ]

Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

4.10

Henry Purcell arr Alison Balsom King Arthur – Suite

Alison Balsom (trumpet)

English Concert

Trevor Pinnock (director)

The BBC Singers perform music composed by the finalists in the Radio 3 Carol Competition.

Pianist Yulianna Avdeeva plays Chopin's Mazurka in D flat, and the BBC Singers perform music composed by the finalists in the Radio 3 Carol Competition. With Fiona Talkington.

Radio 3 Goes To Hollywood20201118Presented by Penny Gore, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

A concert from City Halls, Glasgow, featuring Koechlin's tribute to Hollywood stars.

Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Unsuk Chin Clarinet Concerto

Koechlin The Seven Stars Symphony

Kari Kriikku, clarinet

Ilan Volkov, conductor

The BBC Scottish SO play Koechlin's symphonic portrayal of seven Hollywood stars.

Radio France Philharmonic20200415Continuing our survey of French orchestral life, Hannah French presents a concert by the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra with Mikko Franck, Melody Louledjian and Nikolai Lugansky.

Stravinsky: Four Russian Peasant Songs

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 16

Rachmaninov: Prelude No. 5, from 'Thirteen Preludes, op. 32

Debussy: La Damoiselle 退lue, L. 62

Ravel: Bol退ro

Melody Louledjian, soprano

Emanuela Pascu, mezzo-soprano

Nikolai Lugansky, piano

Anthony Devriendt, horn

St退phane Bridoux, horn

Bruno Fayolle, horn

Hugues Viallon, horn

Radio France Children's Chorus (Matrise de Radio France)

Sofi Jeannin, chorus director

Mikko Franck, conductor

Given in the Auditorium, Radio France Broadcasting House, Paris, last September.

The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of Russian and French music.

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra20190520Fiona Talkington introduces recordings made at the Philharmonie concert hall in Paris.

Opened in January 2015, this set of spaces in the north of Paris has at its core a symphonic concert hall of 2,400 seats designed by Jean Nouvel. The Radio Philharmonic is heard there today in performances conducted by Ingo Metzmacher and Mikko Franck.

Debussy: Jeux

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) - Symphony No. 2 ('Le Double')

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Ingo Metzmacher, conductor

followed at approx 3.20pm by

Copland: Quiet City

Faur退: Suite from Pell退as et M退lisande, op. 80

Philip Glass: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (French Premiere)

Bernstein: Symphonic Dances, from 'West Side Story

Gidon Kremer (violin), Giedr? Dirvanauskait? (cello)

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikko Franck, conductor

Ravel And The Ballet20140307Ravel collaborated with some of the leading choreographers and impresarios of his day including Fokine, Diaghilev and Nijinsky, though not always in happy circumstances. But the musical results were characteristically immaculate and include some of Ravel's most popular works. Ravel specialist Deborah Mawer joins Katie to introduce Mother Goose, Valses nobles et sentimentales, La Valse and the full-length ballet Daphnis and Chloe, Ravel's longest work.

2.15pm

Ma m耀re l'oye - complete ballet

BBC SO

Marc Minkowski (conductor)

2.45pm

Suisse Romande Orchestra

conducted by Ernest Ansermet

3.10pm

Daphnis et Chlo退 - complete ballet

Edinburgh Festival Chorus

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Donald Runnicles (conductor)

4.10pm

conducted by Ernest Ansermet.

Katie Derham with Ravel's works for the ballet including La valse and Daphnis and Chloe.

Ravel, Debussy, Barber And Poulenc From Paris20190524Hannah French introduces performances from the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre National de France.

Today's programme features two of Ravel's most popular works, Barber's famous Adagio and Rachmaninov's lyrical second piano concerto.

Ravel: La Valse (piano version)

Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor, FP 61

Astor Piazzolla: Improvisation on 'Libertango' (encore)

Debussy: Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra

Ravel: Daphnis et Chlo退, Suite No. 2

Khatia Buniatishvili (piano), Gvantsa Buniatishvili (piano)

Claude Delangle (saxophone)

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikko Franck (conductor)

followed at approx 3.00pm

Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings

Martin?: Violin Concerto No. 1, H. 226

Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin),

Orchestre National de France, Lan Shui (conductor)

and at approx 3.45pm

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op. 18

Nikolai Lugansky (piano),

Orchestre National de France, Emmanuel Krivine, (conductor)

Hannah French introduces Ravel, Poulenc and Rachmaninov from France's leading orchestras.

Ravel, Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra20181226Colourful and luxuriant music by Maurice Ravel is on the menu for today's programme. Including pieces inspired by two dance forms: the waltz and the bolero. These performances were recorded at the 30th Anniversary of Riccardo Chailly's Debut at the Lucerne Festival. Presented by Fiona Talkington

2.00pm

Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales

Ravel: La Valse

Ravel: Suite No. 1 from 'Daphnis et Chlo退

Ravel: Suite No. 2 from 'Daphnis et Chlo退

Ravel: Bol退ro

Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Riccardo Chailly , conductor

Riccardo Chailly conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in music by Ravel.

Red Nose Day20110318Louise Fryer presents a feast of musical humour.

Rossini, arr. Spike Jones: William Tell Overture

Spike Jones and his City Slickers

Bernstein: One Hundred Easy Ways (from Wonderful Town)

Kim Criswell as Ruth Sherwood

BCMG

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

Victor Borge: Variations on Happy Birthday

Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33 no. 2 (‘Joke')

Lindsay Quartet

Tom Lehrer: Alma

c. 13:30

Basil Brush joins Louise in the studio

attrib. Rossini: Cats duet

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)

Victoria De Los Angeles (soprano)

Gerald Moore (piano)

Lenny Henry introduces his recording of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.

Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

Lenny Henry (narrator)

Nouvel Ensemble Instrumental du Conservatoire National Sup退rieur de Paris

Jacques P退si (conductor)

c. 14:15

Comedian Armando Iannucci joins Louise and chooses some of his favourite pieces of music

c. 14:30

Following on from this morning's Composer of the Week, Donald Macleod reveals which ‘Unbelievable Spoofs' were real and which were - well, spoofs.

Mozart: Queen of the Night's Aria from The Magic Flute

Florence Foster Jenkins, `soprano`

Mozart, arr. Flanders and Swann: Ill Wind

Grieg: Piano Concerto

Eric Morecambe & Andrew Privet (Andre Previn)

Gilbert and Sullivan: ‘When I was a lad I served a term' from HMS Pinafore

Richard Suart as the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, KCB

Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera

Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

c. 14:55

Special guest Stephen Mangan (Green Wing, Episodes) joins Louise in the studio and plays music with a comical twist.

Malcolm Arnold: A Grand Grand Overture (recorded at the first ever Hoffnung concert in 1956)

Hoffnung (alias Morley College) Symphony Orchestra

Malcolm Arnold (conductor)

A Dudley Moore musical parody

Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Shelley (conductor)

c. 15:30

Live from Bangor, the BBC NOT NOW band fiddle with Sibelius. Followed by fifteen minutes of fun at the expense of Richard Wagner, including comedian Anna Russell and Bugs Bunny.

c. 16:00

Afternoon on 3 joins the BBC Singers and conductor Paul Brough live from Maida Vale, where they perform works including the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah conducted by Radio 3's Red Nose Conducting Competition winner Dennis Gound.

With presenter Christopher Cook.

Parry: Music, when soft voices die

Holst: Ode to CKS and the Oriana

Joseph Horovitz: It was a lover and his lass

Handel: Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah) conducted by competition winner Dennis Gound

c. 16:30

Mozart: A Musical Joke

Comedians and the BBC's performing groups join Louise Fryer in a Comic Relief edition.

Reger Inspired, By Mozart20230913Ian Skelly presents an afternoon of new recordings by the BBC performing groups, and concert performances from around Europe.

Today's programme includes Max Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Singers perform excerpts from John Tavener's Veil of the Temple. Plus highlights of a concert given by the Venice Baroque Orchestra at the Kissinger Sommer Festival with Vivaldi played on a violoncello da spalla.

Including:

Galuppi: Sinfonia in G

Andrea Marcon (conductor)

Tavener: Extracts from The Veil of the Temple

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Stravinsky: The Firebird, concert suite from the ballet (1919 version)

NDR Radio Philharmonic

Delyana Lazarova (conductor)

c.3pm

Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart

Michael Sanderling (conductor)

Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Cellos in G minor, RV 531

Sergey Malov (violoncello da spalla)

Irene Liebau (cello)

c.3.40

Wagner: Prelude to 'Parsifal

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart

Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)

Max Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart.

Renaud Capu\u00e7on Performs Bach, Mendelssohn And P\u00e4rt20220217Renaud Capu瀀on plays concertos by Bach and conducts the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in Mendelssohn's dashing 'Italian' Symphony.

Presented by Penny Gore

French violinist Renaud Capu瀀on leads the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra as soloist in two of Bach's sublime violin concertos and then swaps bow for baton in music by Arvo P䀀rt and the fourth of Felix Mendelssohn's five symphonies. Finn Hannu Lintu leads the orchestra in Sibelius and Nielsen, and there's more early music from the International Baroque Music Days festival in Melk, Austria.

2.00pm

Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor

Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne

Renaud Capu瀀on, violin/conductor

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor ('From the New World')

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Oksana Lyniv, conductor

3.00pm

Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E

Arvo P䀀rt: Tabula rasa

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A ('Italian')

Francois Sochard, violin (P䀀rt)

Renaud Capu瀀on, conductor, violin

Vivaldi: Lute Concerto in D

Miguel Rincon, lute

Zefiro Ensemble

Alfredo Bernardini, conductor

Debussy: La mer

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov, conductor

Renaud Capu\u00e7on plays two concertos by Bach and conducts Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony.

Respighi, Rossini, Tchaikovsky20190208The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in three great orchestral frescoes by Respighi; more Rossini from the mezzo-soprano Victoria Simmonds; and the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Aleksey Semenenko. And also Our Classical Century piece this week: Walton's Crown Imperial

Ottorino Respighi is best known for his trilogy of orchestral tone poems: Roman Festivals, Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome

Presented by Penny Gore

Donizetti: Don Pasquale Overture

Puccini: Capriccio sinfonico

Respighi: Feste Romane

Respighi: Fontane di Roma

Respighi: Pini di Roma

John Wilson (conductor)

3.15pm

Langgaard: Violin Concerto

Linus Roth (violin)

Antony Hermus (conductor)

3.25pm

Rossini: The Thieving Magpie Overture

Rossini: La pace mia smarrita from Moses in Egypt

Victoria Simmonds (mezzo-soprano)

Richard Farnes (conductor)

3.40pm

Richard Rodney Bennett: A History of the Dansant

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

3.50pm

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto op.35

Aleksey Semenenko, violin

Holly Mathieson, conductor

4.20pm

Walton: Crown Imperial

BBC Concert Orchestra

Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

The BBC SSO performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Aleksey Semenenko.

Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra20231211Ian Skelly introduces a performance of Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra with Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, under James Gaffigan. Also, folk music from Croatia with the HRT Tamburitza Orchestra and musicians of the LADO National Folk Dance Ensemble of Croatia. The BBC Concert Orchestra feature part of Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto with soloist Lucy Parham, and the National Orchestra of Wales with the overture of Coleridge-Taylor Song of Hiawatha.

Including,

2pm

Leroy Anderson: The Typewriter for orchestra and typewriter

Alasdair Malloy, soloist

Leonard Slatkin, conductor

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, marked Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2, 'Moonlight' - 3rd mvt Presto agitato

Stephen Hough, piano

Rameau: Les Indes galantes – suite

Concert des Nations

Jordi Savall, conductor

Clara Schumann: Concerto for piano and orchestra in A minor, Op.7: 3rd movement; Allegro non troppo

Lucy Parham, piano

Barry Wordsworth, conductor

3pm

R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30

James Gaffigan, conductor

Hummel: Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (s49/w1) in E major, 1st mvt; Allegro

Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet

Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Neville Marriner, conductor

Coleridge-Taylor: Scenes from The Song of Hiawatha - overture Op.30`3

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Rumon Gamba, conductor

James Gaffigan conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra. Also on the programme, Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto and Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha Overture.

Rite Of Spring From Denmark20230522Ian Skelly introduces an afternoon of recordings from around Europe.

Throughout this week, Ian is featuring ensembles and artists from Denmark and Sweden. The week begins with a performance of Stravinsky's ground-breaking ballet score The Rite of Spring, featuring the Danish National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of rising star Stanislav Kochanovsky. The same orchestra and conductor performs Debussy's Pr退lude

Rivers: Arnold, Elgar, Wallen, Beamish20190514Featuring little-known English music from Elgar and Arnold, a beautiful concerto by Sally Beamish and evocative works by Roussel, John McCabe and Errollyn Wallen

2.00pm

Malcolm Arnold

The Bridge on the River Kwai

London Symphony Orchestra

Richard Hickox (conductor)

2.30pm

Edward Elgar

BBC Concert Orchestra

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Martin Yates (conductor)

2.35pm

Mighty River

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Nicholas Collon (conductor)

2.50pm

Johann Strauss II

Blue Danube - waltz, op.314

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Donald Runnicles (conductor)

3.00pm

Cello Concerto ‘River

Robert Cohen (cello)

Swedish Chamber Orchestra

Ola Rudner (conductor)

3.25pm

Samuel Coleridge Taylor

Sea drift - choral rhapsody Op.69 for 8 voices

BBC Singers

Paul Brough (conductor)

3.30pm

Albert Roussel

Evocations - symphonic poem Op.15

Fran瀀ois le Roux (baritone)

Alessandro Fisher (tenor)

Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)

CBSO Chorus

BBC Philharmonic

Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

4.15pm

Symphony no.4 ‘Of Time and the River

Vernon Handley (conductor)

Music inspired by rivers from Arnold, Elgar, Errollyn Wallen, Sally Beamish and Roussel.

Rivers: Maconchy, Ellington, Smetana20190513Celebrating rivers and the flow of water, this afternoon's programme features watery music by Elizabeth Maconchy and Duke Ellington, as well as iconic works by Smetana and Beethoven and an exotic concerto by Saint-Saens. Presented by Penny Gore.

2.00pm

Proud Thames - coronation overture

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Michael Seal (conductor)

2.05pm

Camille Saint-Saens

Concerto no. 5 in F major Op.103 (Egyptian) for piano and orchestra

Louis Schwizgebel (piano)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

2.30pm

Ma Vlast

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

3.45pm

Symphony no. 6 in F major Op.68 (Pastoral)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

4.25pm

The River Suite (excs)

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

Watery music by Elizabeth Maconchy, Duke Ellington, Smetana and Beethoven.

Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto In A Minor, Op 5420231215Ian Skelly introduces a performance of Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, with soloist Martha Argerich, accompanied by the Berlin Philharmonic under conductor Daniel Barenboim; also, Lili Boulanger's D'un matin de printemps in a small orchestra version; Radio 3's former New Generation Artist, mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston sings Schubert's Des Fischers Liebesglück, D.933. And the BBC Philharmonic in Manuel de Falla's Three Cornered Hat, Suite No 1, under Juanjo Mena.

Including,

2pm

Peter Maxwell Davies: Ojai festival overture

Peter Maxwell Davies, conductor

Lili Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps (vers. small orchestra)

Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra

Mark Stringer, conductor

Walton: Symphony no. 1 in B flat minor: 4th: Maestoso - brioso - vivacissimo – maestoso

London Symphony Orchestra

Colin Davis, conductor

Schubert: Des Fischers Liebesglück, D.933

Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano

Kunal Lahiry, piano

3pm

Martha Argerich, piano; Berlin Philharmonic

Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Manuel de Falla: Three Cornered Hat, Suite No 1

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Fauré: Piano Quintet No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 89: III. Allegretto moderato

Quatuor Ebenne

Michael Dalberto, piano

Martha Argerich performs with the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

Martha Argerich performs Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54, with the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

Romeo And Juliet, By Niccolo Vaccai20190328Giulietta e Romeo by Nicola Vaccai

From the Festival della Valle d'Itria

Now known mainly as an exceptionally gifted singing teacher Niccola Vaccai was also a prolific composer of some 16 operas. He was born into a family of doctors in 1790 and was on a career journey towards practising Law when he found his real vocation of music. Bravely, he managed to shake off the family expectations of a 'respectable' career and followed his dream of becoming a composer. At the same time as establishing his composing career he also became a much sought after singing teacher. In the early nineteenth century Vaccai studied with the great Paisiello in Naples.

This afternoon's Opera Matinee is Romeo and Juliet, based on the Shakespeare play. It's really his masterpiece. After a career in which he found success in Venice, Naples, Rome and even London, Vaccai was in the end completely overshadowed and outclassed by Bellini and his works have sunk into obscurity. This charming opera abounds with music instantly recognised as in the Italian style.

This recording was made at the festival of the Itria Valley in the Puglia region of Italy.

Capellio..... Leonardo Cortellazzi (tenor)

Giulietta.....Leonor Bonilla (soprano)

Romeo.....Raffaella Lupinacci (contralto)

Adele.....Paoletta Marrocu (soprano)

Tebaldo.....Vasa Stajkic (bass)

Frate Lorenzo.....Christian Senn (bass)

Orchestra Accademia Teatro alla Scala

Sesto Quatrini.....(conductor)

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Niccolo Vaccai.

Rossini In Religious Mood20210122Hannah French presents a new recording by the BBC Singers of Rossini's Petite messe solennelle, conducted by Sofi Jeannin, followed by recent recordings by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Rossini: Petite messe solennelle

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

Walton: Partita for Orchestra

Edward Gardner, conductor

Vaughan Williams: 4 Last Songs (Orch. A. Payne)

Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)

Martyn Brabbins

Finzi: Five Bagatelles for clarinet & piano, Op. 23

Michael Collins, clarinet and conductor

Rossini, Walton, Vaughan Williams and Finzi.

Rossini, Mozart And Tchaikovsky20190709Today, conductor Paolo Arrivabeni takes to the rostrum to conduct the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, our featured ensemble this week, in a concert which opened with Rossini's overture to La Gazza Ladra. It's followed by Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, with Michel Westphal as soloist, finishing with Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian). The second part this afternoon sees the ensemble conducted by Emmanuel Krivine in a concert featuring Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Russian virtuoso Evgeny Kissin as soloist, and Zemlinsky's fantasy The Little Mermaid, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen.

Also, a newly commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2.00pm

Rossini: La Gazza Ladra, overture

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 (‘Little Russian')

Michel Westphal, clarinet

Orchestra de la Suisse Romande

Paolo Arribaveni, conductor

3.17pm

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat,. S. 124

Zemlinsky: The Little Mermaid, fantasy after Andersen

Evgeny Kissin, piano

Emmanuel Krivine, conductor

4.30pm

9Bach: Yn dy Lais - In Your Voice

Paolo Arrivabeni conducts the Suisse Romande Orchestra.

Rossi's Orpheus20201119Opera Matinee, presented by Penny Gore.

Luigi Rossi's 17th-century opera on the myth of Orpheus from the candlelit space of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, performed by the Early Opera Company, conducted by Christian Curnyn and directed by Keith Warner. Rossi's version of the myth casts two sopranos in the leading roles. Mary Bevan sings the role of the musician Orpheus who is betrothed to Eurydice, sung by Louise Alder, but bad omens threaten their future together. The shepherd Aristaeus, sung by mezzo-soprano Caitlin Hulcup, is also in love with Eurydice and is driven mad by her rejection of him. This version of the tale includes Eurydice's death and Orpheus's journey into Hades to bring her back. But Rossi's opera, written for a lavish Paris staging, ends on a happier note. This little-known opera includes some charming music, beautiful arias and ensembles.

Cast:

Orpheus - Mary Bevan (soprano)

Eurydice - Louise Alder (soprano)

Aristeus - Caitlin Hulcup (mezzo-soprano)

Engymion/Charon - Philip Smith (baritone)

Venus - Sky Ingram (soprano)

Cupid - Keri Fuge (soprano)

Satyr/Pluto - Graeme Broadbent (bass)

Momus/Alkippe/Jove - Mark Milhofer (tenor)

Aegea - Verena Gunz (mezzo-soprano)

Thalia/Hymen/Clotho - Lauren Fagan (soprano)

Euphrosyne/Lachesis - Jennifer Davis (soprano)

Aeglea/Atropos/Bacchus .....Emily Edmonds (mezzo-soprano)

The Orchestra of the Early Opera Company

Christian Curnyn (conductor)

Opera matinee: Luigi Rossi's opera Orpheus from the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

Roth Conducts Petrushka20221121Francois-Xavier Roth conducts Stravinsky's dazzling ballet Petrushka, and there's smaller-scale music from mezzo Magdalena Kozena and pianist Simon Rattle.

Presented by Ian Skelly

In the first of a week of programmes celebrating the orchestras of Berlin, Francois-Xavier Roth leads the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in the second of Igor Stravinsky's three great ballets for Diaghilev. Originally written for the 1911 Paris season of the Ballets Russes, it tells of a doomed love triangle between three showground puppets brought mysteriously to life.

Simon Rattle swaps podium for piano stool and, with a group of musician friends, joins his wife mezzo Magdalena Kozena in chamber music and song. He also conducts a rare performance of Roberto Gerhard's exquisite ballet Don Quixote.

2.00pm

Three Songs from William Shakespeare

Magdalena Kozena, mezzo-soprano

Kaspar Zehnder, flute

Christopher Richards, clarinet

Amihai Grosz, viola

Giovanni Guzzo, violin

Rahel Rilling, violin

David Adorjan, cello

Simon Rattle, piano

Dances from 'Don Quixote

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Simon Rattle, conductor

3.00pm

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth, conductor

Richard Strauss

Three Songs of Ophelia, Op.67/1-3

Brahms

Violin Concerto in D, Op.77

Christian Tetzlaff, violin

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin

Robin Ticciati, conductor

Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Roth conducts Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra20200928Penny Gore presents a week of concerts from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Today's programme includes a chance to hear Schumann's theatrical oratorio, Scenes from Goethe's Faust, with a top line-up of soloists including Christian Gerhaher as Faust and Christiane Karg as Gretchen. Plus Haydn's Symphony No 102 conducted by Ivကn Fischer

2pm

Schumann Scenes from Goethe's Faust

Faust - Christian Gerhaher (baritone)

Gretchen - Christiane Karg (soprano)

Louise Alder (soprano)

Ann Hallenberg (contralto)

Ariel - Werner Güra (tenor)

Tareq Nazmi (bass)

Mephistopheles - Kurt Rydl (bass)

Netherlands Chamber Choir

National Children's Choir

Laurens Collegium Rotterdam

John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

c.3.50pm

Haydn Symphony No 102 in B flat, Hob.1:102

Ivကn Fischer (conductor)

Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra20200929Penny Gore continues a week of concerts from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Today's programme comprises two full concerts from the orchestra, including two masterpieces of the piano repertoire by Beethoven and Ravel performed by Lang Lang and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

2pm

Wagner Overture to Tannh䀀user

Beethoven Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat, Op.19

Lang Lang (piano)

c.2.50pm

Brahms Symphony no.4 in E minor, Op.98

Paavo J䀀rvi (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Rihm Sostenuto

Ravel Piano Concerto in G major

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

c.4.05pm

Franck Symphony in D minor, Op.48

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Rossini Overture to The Italian Girl in Algiers

Ivကn Fischer (conductor)

Symphonies by Brahms and Franck from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra20200930Penny Gore continues a week of concerts from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Today's programme features a concert the orchestra gave back in January; a premiere from Martijn Padding, Simone Lamsma is soloist in Britten's Violin Concerto, and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

2pm

Martijn Padding Softly Bouncing

Britten Violin Concerto, Op.15

Simone Lamsma (violin)

c.2.50pm

Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Jaap van Zweden (conductor)

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perform Britten and Stravinsky.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra20201002Penny Gore concludes her week of performances from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Today's programme features a concert that includes Brett Dean's Trumpet Concerto with soloist H倀kan Hardenberger, and a rare chance to hear Scriabin's large-scale symphonic poem Prometheus, scored for piano, chorus and orchestra. Plus a performance of Beethoven's ‘Choral' Symphony from the Royal Concertgebouw's traditional Christmas Matinee concert last year.

2pm

Beethoven Excerpts from Creatures of Prometheus, Op.43

Brett Dean Dramatis personae for trumpet and orchestra

H倀kan Hardenberger (trumpet)

c.2.55pm

Scriabin Prometheus - The Poem of Fire, Op.60

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

Netherlands Radio Chorus

Andris Nelsons (conductor)

c.3.15pm

Beethoven Symphony no.9 in D minor, Op.125 ‘Choral

Tamara Wilson (soprano)

Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)

Norbert Ernst (tenor)

Franz-Josef Selig (bass)

Royal Concergebouw Orchestra

Franz Welser- M怀st (conductor)

The Royal Concertgbouw Orchestra performs Scriabin and Beethoven's 'Choral' Symphony.

Royal Concertgebouw, Beethoven, Rimsky-korsakov20110930The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam recorded live earlier this month at the Lucerne Festival

Beethoven

The Ruins of Athens, op. 113, overture

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat, op. 73

Yefim Bronfman (piano),

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Scheherazade, op. 35, symphonic suite

Andris Nelsons (conductor).

Andris Nelsons leads the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Beethoven and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Rtve Madrid20191223In this festive week, Afternoon Concert features concerts from all over Europe. Today's focuses on the RTVE Symphony Orchestra in Madrid. They begin with two 20th century Russian masterpieces - Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.2, premiered in Paris in 1924, this time with fellow-Russian pianist Nikolai Demidenko; and Shostakovich's so-called `answer to just criticism` - his tour-de-force Symphony No.5.

Trombonist Christian Lindberg turns conductor for the next two pieces - the first of which is his own Concerto for trumpet and trombone `Un sueကo morisco`, followed by Carl Nielsen's own 5th Symphony, composed just after the end of World War I.

Presented by Hannah French.

2pm

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.16

Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op.47

Nikolai Demidenko, piano

RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Madrid

Pablo Gonzကlez, conductor

3.25pm

Christian Lindberg: Un sueကo morisco (Concerto for trumpet and trombone)

Nielsen: Symphony No.5, Op.50

Pacho Flores, trumpet

Ximo Vicedo, trombone

Christian Lindberg, conductor

Music by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Nielsen and Christian Lindberg from Madrid.

Rubinstein's Piano Concerto20230623Ian Skelly rounds off this week of afternoons, with a sequence of music including recordings from BBC orchestras and concerts around Europe.

Anton Rubinstein's Fourth Piano Concerto, a work admired and played by Rachmaninov, is performed at 3pm today by Martin Kasik and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Also this afternoon, Richard Strauss's symphonic fantasy on music from his opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow), Nielsen's Aladdin Suite conducted by Fabio Luisi in Copenhagen, more from the Berlin Philharmonic and soprano Louise Alder at Barcelona's Sagrada Familia, and the brass of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play music by Imogen Holst.

Including:

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet; Dance of the 5 couples

Claudio Abbado, conductor

R. Strauss: Symphonic Fantasy from 'Die Frau ohne Schatten

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Tarmo Peltokoski, conductor

c.2.35pm

Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165

Louise Alder, soprano

Kirill Petrenko, conductor

Terry Camsey: Melody Of The Heart

Richard Marshall, cornet

Black Dyke Band

Nicholas Childs, conductor

Rubinstein Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, op. 70

Martin Kas퀀k, piano

Marko Ivanovic, conductor

Stephen McNeff: The Starlight Night

BBC Singers

Grace Rossiter, conductor

Foulds: An Arabian Night

Cynthia Fleming, violin

Katharine Wood, cello

BBC Concert Orchestra

Ronald Corp, conductor

Imogen Holst Leiston suite for brass quartet

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

c.3.55pm

Nielsen: Aladdin Suite

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi, conductor

Martin Kasik plays Anton Rubinstein's Fourth Piano Concerto.

Ruslan And Lyudmila20120203Opera matinee - Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila from the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.

Katie Derham presents the first full opera staging in this iconic theatre after its four hundred million pound renovation. Vladimir Jurowski conducts a fairy tale opera which lies at the very heart of Russian operatic culture

continued from yesterday afternoon

Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla, opera in five acts (eight tableaux),

Svetozar Great Prince of Kiev - Vladimir Ognovenko (bass),

Lyudmila his daughter - Albina Shagimuratova (soprano),

Ruslan a Kievan knight Lyudmila's betrothed - Mikhail Petrenko (bass),

Ratmir a Khazar prince - Yuri Minenko (counter tenor),

Farlaf a Varangian knight - Almas Shvilpa (bass),

Gorislava a captive of Ratmir - Alexandrina Pendachanska (soprano),

Finn a good sorcerer - Charles Workman (tenor),

Naina an evil sorceress - Elena Zaremba (mezzo-soprano),

Bayan a bard - Charles Workman (tenor),

Staging, sets and costumes .....Dmitri Cherniakov

Bolshoi Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

Followed at 3.10pm by

Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919)

Ulster Orchestra, Pascal Roph退 (conductor)

Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, Path退tique

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jurjen Hempel (conductor).

Katie Derham presents the conclusion of Glinka's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila.

Russian Works20091006Jonathan Swain presents an colourful orchestral and operatic repertoire with a Russian focus, conducted by Valery Gergiev and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Debussy, orch Colin Matthews: Symphony in B minor

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Valery Gergiev (conductor)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture (The Maid of Pskov, Op 4)

Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra

2.20pm

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op 35

Sergei Krylov (violin)

Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in E minor, Op 39

Vienna Philharmonic

3.40pm

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Maid of Pskov, Op 4 (Act 3)

Soloists, Mariinsky Theatre and Chorus Orchestra

4.20pm

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

NDR Symphony Orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor).

Jonathan Swain with music by Debussy, Rimsky Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Stravinsky.

Ryan Bancroft Conducts The Bbc Now20201016In a concert recorded earlier in Black History Month as part of a socially-distanced Autumn season, the Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales Ryan Bancroft leads the orchestra in music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, James B Wilson, Errollyn Wallen and Florence Price. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Four Novelletten, Op.52

James B Wilson: The Green Fuse

Errollyn Wallen: Nnenna

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet

Florence Price: Octet

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Florence Price: Ethiopia's shadow in America

Daniel Blendulf (conductor)

c.3.40pm

Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto

Tai Murray (violin)

Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)

c.4.05pm

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: The Song of Hiawatha - Overture

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Music by Errollyn Wallen, James B Wilson, Florence Price & Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Bach, Beethoven20180223Penny Gore concludes a week of concert recordings from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Today the focus is on the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, with two full concerts. The first features works by Dvorak, Walton and Mendelssohn; in the second, the innovative pianist Jeremy Denk joins the orchestra to play Bach and Beethoven, and conduct music by Shostakovich. In between the two concerts, there's chamber music from members of the orchestra, performing a clarinet trio by American composer Paul Schoenfield.

2pm

Dvorak: Romance in F minor, Op 11

Walton: Sonata for Strings

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90 (Italian)

Maureen Nelson (violin)

3.10pm

Paul Schoenfield: Trio for clarinet, violin and piano

Members of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra:

Alexander Fiterstein (clarinet), Francisco Fullana (violin), Timothy Lovelace (piano)

3.40pm

J S Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903

Shostakovich (arr. Barshai): Chamber Symphony in F major, Op 73a (based on String Quartet No 3)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58

Jeremy Denk (piano/conductor)

The US twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul have a long tradition of first class music making, and all this week Penny Gore introduces, on Afternoon Concert, recordings of their flagship ensembles, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra. Today, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra showcases the talented players among its ranks with Dvorak's Romance in F minor, featuring solo violin, and contemporary American Composer Paul Schoenfield's virtuosic Trio for clarinet, violin and piano.

In the second of today's complete concerts, one of the Orchestra's Artistic Partners, the pianist Jeremy Denk, presents one of his typically eclectic programmes, including solo keyboard music by Johann Sebastian Bach, an orchestral arrangement of one of Shostakovich's String Quartets, and Beethoven's ever-popular Fourth Piano Concerto.

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra play music by Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Beethoven.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Mozart, Dvorak, Bach, Stephen Paulus20180220Penny Gore continues a week of concerts from the Minnesota Orchestra and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Today's programme features music spanning the centuries, from Bach's First Brandenburg Concerto to the world premiere of Sally Beamish's Third Piano Concerto. Also along the way, another concerto: Ginastera's zestful Harp Concerto, and music by the late American composer Stephen Paulus.

2pm

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphony No 1 in G major, Op 11 No 1

Mozart: Serenade No 12 in C minor, K388

Dvorak: String Quartet No 12 in F major (American) arr. for string orchestra

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

3.05pm

J S Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F major, BWV 1046

Ginastera: Harp Concerto

Stephen Paulus: Mass for a Sacred Place

Kathy Kienzle (harp)

Minnesota Chorale

Osmo V䀀nsk䀀 (conductor)

4.20pm

Sally Beamish: Piano Concerto No 3 (City Stanzas) - World Premiere performance

Jonathan Biss (piano)

Mischa Santora (conductor)

The US twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul have a long tradition of first class music making, and all this week Penny Gore introduces, on Afternoon Concert, recordings of their flagship ensembles, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra. Today, there's a chance to hear two concerts from their 2016/17 seasons. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra begin with a programme that pairs Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges with Mozart, before offering a rare chance to hear the orchestration of Dvorak's 'American' String Quartet.

After that, a short ride down the Interstate 94 takes us to Minneapolis, and a concert from the Minnesota Orchestra with Music Director Osmo V䀀nsk䀀. The Orchestra's principal harp, Kathy Kienzle, is in the spotlight for Ginastera's Harp Concerto, and the programme ends with a work by the late American composer and frequent Minnesota Orchestra collaborator Stephen Paulus.

To finish today, the world premiere performance of Sally Beamish's Third Piano Concerto, given a year ago by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Jonathan Biss. Subtitled 'City Stanzas', it was commissioned by today's soloist as part of a project to create new piano concertos inspired by the five concertos of Beethoven. Sally Beamish took Beethoven's First Piano Concerto as a starting point and re-imagined it in a modern urban environment.

Recordings of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra in concert.

Saint-saens's Organ Symphony20221027Organist Juan de la Rubia raises the rafters in Saint-Saens's Third Symphony, plus music by Wagner, Haydn and Brahms.

Presented by Penny Gore

A favourite with audiences (and organists) for over 130 years, Saint-Saens was commissioned by our very own Royal Philharmonic Society to write a piece for orchestra and his own instrument - it was first performed in London in 1886 and shortly afterwards dedicated to the memory of Franz Liszt.

2.00pm

Coronation March

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Neeme Jarvi, conductor

Stravinsky

Piece no.3 (3 Pieces for clarinet)

Dario Castello

Sonata seconda

Lucie Horsch, recorder

Thomas Dunford, lute

Tannhauser Overture

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alain Altinoglu, conductor

3.00

Symphony no.3 in C minor, Op.78 'Organ

Juan de la Rubia, organ

RTVE Symphony Orchestra

Pablo Gonzalez, conductor

Lotta Wennakoski

Arteria

Symphony no.82 in C, Hob.I:82 'The Bear

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, conductor

Intermezzi, Op.117

Adam Laloum, piano

Samuel Coleridge-taylor's Violin Concerto20231201Penny Gore presents, with a 3pm highlight of the BBC Concert Orchestra joined by violinist Rupert Marshall Luck for a performance of Samuel Coleridge Taylor's Violin Concerto. Plus singer Ruslana Lotsman and the Orchestra of Folk and Popular Music of Ukrainian Radio perform more traditional Ukrainian folk songs.

Including:

2pm

Nigel Hess: A Celebration Overture

Richard Balcombe

Johannes Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben?

BBC Singers

Benjamin Goodson

Mikhail Glinka: Valse-fantasie in B minor arr. for orchestra

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Paavo Jarvi

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folk Song

Timothy Ridout

James Baillieu

Traditional Ukrainian/Bohdan Kryvopust: Heaven and earth

Ruslana Lotsman (singer)

Children's Choir of Ukrainian Radio

Mykhailo Pikulskyi (conductor)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto in G minor

Rupert Marshall Luck (violin) / Martin Yates

Traditional Ukrainian/Bohdan Kryvopust: Oh the Steep Hill Hums

Emmanuel Chabrier/Charles Koechlin arr: Bourree fantasque, arr. for orchestra

Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

Heinz Holliger

Toivo Kuula: Prelude and fugue Op.10 for orchestra

Martyn Brabbins

Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen: Blue White Gold

Dreamers' Circus (trio)

Aarhus Symphony Orchestra

Christian Øland (conductor)

BBC Concert Orchestra and Rupert Marshall Luck perform Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto.

BBC Concert Orchestra and Rupert Marshall Luck perform Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto, plus Ukrainian folk song from the Orchestra of Folk and Popular Music of Ukrainian Radio.

Schubert, Saint-saens And Musgrave20181005Schubert arranged by Liszt and Saint-Saens' innovative Fourth Piano Concerto with Louis Lortie, plus cellist Josephine Knight joins the orchestra for the world premiere of Thea Musgrave's From Darkness into the Light, presented by Tom McKinney.

There's a UK premiere too: Alissa Firsova's Die Windsbraut (The Bride of the Wind), and Bohemian tales with Dvorak, Bartok and Suk.

2pm

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Schubert's Fourth Symphony From Prague20220223Fiona Talkington with concert performances from around Europe including Schubert's Fourth Symphony and Ravel's Sh退h退razade from Prague and a Handel organ concerto from Barcelona. Plus there'll be more from the Catalan ensemble Vespres d'Arnadi and the mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital.

Copland - Fanfare for the common man

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)

Handel - Organ Concerto in B flat, Op.4'6

Alvaro Carnicero (organ)

Escolania de Montserrat

Capella de Musica de Montserrat

Orquestra Simfonica del Valles

Xavier Puig (conductor)

c. 2.20pm

Ravel - Sh退h退razade

Grace Durham (mezzo-soprano)

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Holly Mathieson (conductor)

c. 2.40pm

Avner Dorman - Mandolin Concerto

Avi Avital (mandolin)

Norwegian Radio Orchestra

Miguel Harth-Bedoya (conductor)

3pm

Schubert - Symphony No.4 in C minor, D,417 `Tragic`

Ion Marin (conductor)

c. 3.30pm

Domenec Terradellas - Plaudite populi

Marta Matheu (soprano)

Dani Espasa (conductor)

Janacek - Suite for orchestra

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Jakub Hrusa (conductor)

Fiona Talkington introduces performances of Schubert, Ravel and Handel.

Schubert's 'great' Symphony20231020Penny Gore with another afternoon of great performances from BBC ensembles and European concert halls.

The 3pm highlight is Schubert's 9th Symphony, the 'Great', in a recent concert performance from the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and conductor Manfred Honeck. Also today, there's more from a concert given by Frankfurt Radio Brass at Weilburg Castle, and the full Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra presents fascinating pairings of music by Arvo Part, Nielsen and Ravel, including his song cycle Shéhérazade. Plus Ravel's orchestral overture inspired by the same theme, played by the Radio France Philharmonic.

Including:

Copland: Rodeo - 4 Dance Episodes: no.4; Hoe-down

BBC Philharmonic

John Wilson, conductor

Ravel: Sheherazade, ouverture de feerie

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Mikko Franck, conductor

Arvo Part: Psalom for string orchestra (excerpt)

Nielsen: Excerpts from 'Aladdin

Constantinos Carydis, conductor

Lennon/J.S. Bach: Imagine / Jesu bleibet meine Freude

Bartok: Transylvanian Dances

Schubert: Symphony No.9 ‘Great' in C, D. 944 ('Great')

Manfred Honeck, conductor

Oscar Petersen / J.S. Bach: Hymn to Freedom / Wachet auf

Ravel: Shéhérazade, song cycle

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, soprano

Rossini: Overture to 'La gazza ladra

Manfred Honeck conducts the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in Schubert's 'Great' 9th Symphony.

Manfred Honeck conducts the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in Schubert's Ninth Symphony, the 'Great'.

The 3pm highlight is Schubert's 9th Symphony, the 'Great', in a recent concert performance from the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and conductor Manfred Honeck. Also today, there's more from a concert given by Frankfurt Radio Brass at Weilburg Castle, and the full Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra presents fascinating pairings of music by Arvo Part, Nielsen and Ravel, including his song cycle Sh退h退razade. Plus Ravel's orchestral overture inspired by the same theme, played by the Radio France Philharmonic.

Schubert: Symphony No.9 ‘Great' in C, D. 944 ('Great')

Ravel: Sh退h退razade, song cycle

Schubert's Symphony No 620231106Penny Gore presents great concert performances from the BBC performing groups and from across Europe. Today's 3pm featured performance is Schubert's Symphony No 6 with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Rene Jacobs conducts another baroque ensemble, B'Rock Orchestra, in one of Bach's best-loved sacred cantatas for solo voice, and Ben Gernon leads in the BBC Philharmonic in Anna Clyne's orchestral work Abstractions.

c2pm

Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus – Overture

Pablo Heras-Casado (cond.)

William Grant Still: Serenade

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Avlana Eisenberg (cond.)

Saint-Saens: Rhapsody Auvergne

Louis Lortie (piano)

Edward Gardner (cond.)

c2.25pm

Bach: Cantata No.170 Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust

Helena Rasker (mezzo-soprano)

Rene Jacobs (cond.)

Copland: An Outdoor Overture

John Wilson (cond.)

c3pm

Schubert: Symphony No.6 in C

c3.35pm

BBC Philharmonic / Ben Gernon (cond.)

Weber; Der Freischutz – Overture

c4.05pm

Bach orch. Respighi: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582

Leonard Slatkin (cond.)

Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in Schubert's Symphony No 6.

Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in Schubert's Symphony No 6, and the BBC Philharmonic perform Anna Clyne's Abstractions.

Schumann's Second Symphony20230918Ian Skelly presents concert performances from across Europe and new recordings from the BBC performing groups.

This week, as Radio 3's Breakfast show tours Northern Ireland, the Ulster Orchestra is featured every day at 3pm. Today it's a performance of Robert Schumann's Symphony No.2. Pianist Francesco Piemontesi is the soloist in Mozart's turbulent Piano Concerto No.20 with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen, Samantha Ege plays music by Margaret Bonds, and Sharom Kam performs Weber's Clarinet Concerto No.2 in Frankfurt.

Including:

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No.1 - Carillon

Yan Pascal Tortelier (cond.)

Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water

Samantha Edge (piano)

Marschner: Hans Heiling - Overture

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Cornelius Meister (cond.)

Weber: Clarinet Concerto No.2

Sharon Kam (clarinet)

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Vaclav Luks (cond.)

Saint-Saens: Danse macabre

Alexandra Soumm (violin), Aimo Pagin (piano)

Schumann: Symphony No.2

Angus Webster (cond.)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Daniele Rustioni (cond.)

A new recording of Schumann from the Ulster Orchestra and conductor Angus Webster.

Schumann's Symphony No 120230327Ian Skelly presents a new week of Afternoon Concert featuring recent recordings by the Royal Concertgebouw, including today works by Dvorak, Bruckner and Debussy. There's a focus on Schumann, with his symphonies across the week performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales - today it's his Symphony no.1, 'Spring'. Plus Les Talens Lyriques perform Leclair Deuxi耀me R退cr退ation de musique, Op.8.

Presented by Ian Skelly

2pm

Dvorak Slavonic Dance in B major, Op.72'1

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Ivan Fischer (conductor)

Valentin Silvestrov 3 Bagatelles, op. 4

Natacha Kudritskaya (piano)

Jean-Marie Leclair Deuxi耀me R退cr退ation de musique, op. 8

Christophe Rousset (conductor)

Ravel La flûte enchant退e, from 'Sh退h退razade

Strauss Ich wollt ein Str䀀u߀lein binden Op.68‘2

Anna Prohaska (soprano)

c.3pm

Schumann Symphony no.1 in B flat major, Op.38 ‘Spring

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Thomas Enhco Watching you sleep and Wadi Rum

David Enhco (trumpet)

Thomas Enhco (piano)

Bruckner Scherzo: Presto from Symphony no.0 in D minor ‘Nullte

c.4pm

Debussy Danse profane

Anneleen Schultemaker (harp)

Bach Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227

Ensemble armacordplus

Music by Leclair, Schumann and Debussy.

Schumann's Symphony No 220230328Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert featuring recent recordings by the Royal Concertgebouw, including today music by Stravinsky. There's a focus on Schumann, with his symphonies across the week performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales - today it's his Symphony no.2. Plus new recordings of Berg from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Musica Ficta performs music by Schütz.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2pm

Stravinsky Scherzo a la Russe

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Ivan Fischer (conductor)

Janacek Taras Bulba

Orchestre National de France

Cristian M?celaru (conductor)

Alphons Diepenbrock Clair de lune, from ‘5 Melodies

Reger Maria Wiegenlied

Anna Prohaska (soprano)

Berg arr Christian von Borries Passacaglia

Andrew Davis (conductor)

c.3pm

Schumann Symphony no.2 in C major, Op.61

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Schütz Lobet den Herren, der zu Zion wohnet, SWV 293

Schütz Fürchte dich nicht, SWV 296

Bo Holten (conductor)

Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85

Gautier Capu瀀on (cello)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Marie Jacquot (conductor)

c.4.35

Berg 3 Pieces for orchestra, Op.6

Music by Berg, Schumann and Elgar.

Schumann's Symphony No 320230330Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert featuring recent recordings by the Royal Concertgebouw, including today music by Julius R怀ntgen. There's Bach inspired music by Berg and Gubaidulina, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales Schumann focus continues with his Symphony no.3, the 'Rhenish'. Plus vocal music from Vox Luminis.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2pm

Julius R怀ntgen Con moto e con delicatezza from Symphonietta humoristica

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Ivan Fischer (conductor)

Berg Violin Concerto

James Ehnes (violin)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Chopin Barcarolle, Op.60

Alexander Gadjiev (piano)

Gubaidulina Reflections on the theme B-A-C-H

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Daniele Rustioni (conductor)

c.3pm

Schumann Symphony no.3 in E flat major, Op.97 ‘Rhenish

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Johann Kaspar Kerll Missa pro decunctis

L'Ach退ron

Lionel Meunier (conductor)

4.05

Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op.107

Kian Soltani (cello)

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Marie Jacquot (conductor)

Music by Berg, Gubaidulina and Schumann.

Schumann's Symphony No 420230331Ian Skelly presents Afternoon Concert featuring recent recordings by the Royal Concertgebouw, including today works by Wagenaar and Franck. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales's Schumann focus concludes with his Symphony no.4, and Vox Luminis perform music by Giovanni Legrenzi.

Presented by Ian Skelly

2pm

Wagenaar Allegro marciale from Sinfonietta Op.32

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Ivan Fischer (conductor)

Chaminade Callirhoe Suite, op. 37

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Mikko Franck (conductor)

Dvorak arr Ridout Sonatina in G major Op.100

Timothy Ridout (viola)

Alasdair Beatson (piano)

Franck Les jardins d'Eros from Psyche

c.3pm

Schumann Symphony no.4 in D minor, Op.120 (orig version)

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Cornelis Dopper Humoreski from Symphony no.7 ‘Zuiderzee

Giovanni Legrenzi Prosa Pro Mortuis: Dies irae

L'Ach退ron

Lionel Meunier (conductor)

c.4pm

Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini, op. 32, symphonic poem

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin

Tugan Sokhiev (conductor)

Music by Franck, Schumann and Chaminade.

Shostakovich And Dutilleux Compared20201014The BBC National Orchestra of Wales play Shostakovich's 2nd piano concerto & Dutilleux's 2nd symphony 'Le Double', written just two years apart. Plus choral music by Florent Schmitt featuring the BBC National Chorus Of Wales & soprano Christine Buffle.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op.102

Martin James Bartlett (piano)

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

c.2.20pm

Dutilleux: Symphony No. 2 `Le double`

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

c.2.50pm

Schmitt: Psalm 47

Christine Buffle (soprano)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs Shostakovich with pianist Martin James Bartlett

Shostakovich In Berlin20230510Presented by Penny Gore, with more recordings from concerts around Europe and BBC ensembles.

We're in Berlin for the 3pm spotlight, as the German Symphony Orchestra plays Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony. They are also joined by Victor Julien-Laferri耀re for the first of Saint-Sa뀀ns's cello concertos, we hear from a concert Stile Antico gave in Antwerp last summer, and excerpts from Charpentier's tragic opera M退d退e from Les Arts Florissants at a recent concert in Vienna.

Including:

Beethoven: Fidelio - Overture

BBC Philharmonic

Eva Ollikainen, conductor

Dowland: Flow my Tears

c.2.10pm

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor. op. 33

Victor Julien-Laferri耀re, cello

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin

Tugan Sokhiev, conductor

Philips: Regina caeli laetare

Dering: Factum est silentium

c.3pm

Shostakovich Symphony No. 9 in E flat, op. 70

Scriabin: Waltz, op. 38

Andrei Korobeinikov, piano

c.3.35pm

Charpentier: Excerpts from M退d退e

Nicholas Scott, countertenor

Blandine de Sansal, mezzo

Edward Grint, bass

Paul Agnew, director

Tugan Sokhiev conducts the German Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony.

Shostakovich In Jerusalem20230929Penny Gore rounds off another week of afternoons with performances from around Europe and BBC ensembles.

Today, cellist Mischa Maisky joins the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra for the first of the composer's two cello concertos, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Schubert's Symphony No.3, and the Officium Ensemble sing more music by Portuguese Renaissance composers at the Granada International Festival. Plus the BBC National Orchestra of Wales playing Berlioz and Gipps.

Including:

Schumann: Allegro appassionato in B minor Op.43 (vers. for cello & orch)

Mischa Maisky, cello

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Sebastian de Vivanco: Surge, Petre, motet

Pedro Teixeira, director

Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D, D. 200

Antonello Manacorda, conductor

Sebastian de Vivanco: Surrexit pastor bonus, motet

Gipps: Knight in armour Op.8 for orchestra

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Estevao Lopes Morago: Montes Israel, motet

3pm

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat, op. 107

Conrad van Alphen, conductor

Victoria: O sacrum convivium, motet

c.3,40pm

Haydn: String Quartet in D major Op.50`6 (Frog)

Consone Quartet

Berlioz: Le Corsaire - overture (Op.21)

Thierry Fischer, conductor

Villa-Lobos: Bachiana brasileira no. 1 for cellos; Preludio (Modinha)

Mischa Maisky, cellos

Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No 1 with Mischa Maisky and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra

Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony20231012Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Shostakovich's penance for offending Stalin is the 3pm centrepiece of today's programme, with the week's final Wagnerian visit to Budapest and inspiring choral music from Herbert Howells, George Walker and Bach

2.00pm

Prelude to 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

Adam Fischer, conductor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

24 Folk Melodies: Deep River

Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

Mussorgsky

Night on a Bare Mountain

Donald Runnicles, conductor

Te Deum

Winchester Cathedral Choir

Andrew Lumsden, conductor

Simon Bell, organ

3.00

Symphony no.5

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

O Lord God of Hosts

BBC Singers

Caroline Jaya-Ratnam, piano

Grace Rossiter, conductor

Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225

St Thomas' Choir, Leipzig

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Andreas Reize, conductor

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.

Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Plus, music by Wagner, Coleridge-Taylor, Mussorgsky and Howells.

Sibelius, Grieg And Beethoven From Seoul's Kbs Symphony Orchestra20190917Concertos by Grieg and Beethoven, music by Sibelius, plus an exquisite miniature for oboe by Thea Musgrave

Presented by Hannah French

In this afternoon's programme, Seoul's KBS Symphony Orchestra presents two of the concert hall's best-loved concertos, by Grieg and Beethoven, with star soloists Denis Kozhukin and Julian Rachlin

This week, Afternoon Concert is also celebrating veteran Scottish composer Thea Musgrave with recordings made at last year's Stockholm International Composer Festival. Today features a tiny piece for solo oboe written for the fiftieth birthday of the performer, Nicholas Daniel

2.00pm

Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela

Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor

Sibelius: Symphony no.2 in D

Denis Kozhukin, piano

Yoel Levi, conductor

3.40pm

Musgrave: Dawn

Nicholas Daniel, oboe

1545

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D

Julian Rachlin, violin

Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

Music by Sibelius, Grieg and Beethoven, plus an exquisite miniature by Thea Musgrave.

Sibelius's Fifth Symphony From Belfast20230517Fiona Talkington continues a week of Afternoon Concert featuring the Ulster Orchestra performing at Ulster Hall, Belfast. Today it's Sibelius's Fifth Symphony, conducted by Adam Hickox. There's a new recording of Ravel's La Valse from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, part of a concert of Barbara Strozzi given by the Hathor Consort in Antwerp in February, and Ilya Gringolts plays Stravinsky in The Netherlands.

Including:

Ravel: La Valse

Lionel Bringuier (conductor)

JS Bach: Ich habe genug, from Cantata BWV.82

Florie Valiquette (soprano)

Les Talens Lyriques

Christophe Rousset (director)

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D major

Ilya Gringolts (violin)

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Hannu Lintu (conductor)

Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, op. 31

Evgeny Kissin (piano)

c.3pm

Sibelius: Symphony no.5 in E flat major, Op.82

Adam Hickox (conductor)

Strozzi: Godere in gioventù, Op.1‘12

La vendetta, Op.2‘9

I Baci, Op.2‘23

Claire Lefili tre (soprano)

Doroth退e Mields (soprano)

Romina Lischka (bass viol, artistic leader)

c.3.45

Wagner: Overture to 'The Flying Dutchman

National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

Adam Hickox conducts Sibelius's Fifth Symphony, plus works by Stravinsky and Strozzi.

Sibelius's Sixth Symphony In Belfast20230518Fiona Talkington continues a week of Afternoon Concert featuring the Ulster Orchestra performing at Ulster Hall, Belfast. Today it's Sibelius's Sixth Symphony. We mark Ascension Day with a performance of Bach's cantata, Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, performed by the Thomanerchor and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and Boris Giltburg performs Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand with the French National Orchestra.

Including:

JS Bach: Der Gerechte k怀mmt um, BWV deest

Andreas Reize (conductor)

Bacewicz: Divertimento for Strings

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Teresa Riveiro Bohm (conductor)

Verdi: String Quartet in E minor arr. Ricardo Minasi

La Scintilla Orchestra

Ricardo Minasi (conductor)

Handel: Chaconne, HWV.435

Eric Lu (piano)

c.3pm

Sibelius: Symphony no.6 in D minor, Op.104

Jac van Steen (conductor)

JS Bach: Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11, cantata

Hanna Zumsande (soprano)

Susanne Langner (mezzo Soprano)

Daniel Johannsen (tenor)

Henryk B怀hm (bass)

Johannes Lang (organ)

c.4pm

Schumann: Fairy Tales for Clarinet, viola & piano, Op.132

Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)

Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad (viola)

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

Rudi Stephan: Liebeszauber

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)

Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin

Hans Zender (conductor)

Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major

Boris Giltburg (piano)

Cristian M?celaru (conductor)

Sibelius's Sixth Symphony, and music by Bach, Bacewicz and Ravel.

Sibelius's Symphony No 2 In D, Op 4320231004Penny Gore introduces a recent concert recording of Sibelius' Symphony No. 2, a happy piece by the Finnish master of the symphony, with the NDR Philharmonic Orchestra under Jukka-Pekka Saraste.

Also today, the BBC Singers celebrate Black History Month, the Solem Quartet play music by Florence Price, and the BBC Philharmonic perform Gershwin's Cuban Overture. And Javier Perianes continues his homage to fellow Spaniard and master of the piano, Alicia de Larrocha, recorded at La Alhambra Palace in Granada.

Including:

J Strauss II: Perpetuum mobile

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

Robert Harris: April Rain Song

Sofi Jeannin, director

Price: Summer moon (originally for piano, arr. for string quartet by William Newell)

JS Bach: Sonata for violin solo no. 1 (BWV.1001) in G minor, Fugue (Allegro)

Rachel Podger, violin

Gershwin: Cuban overture

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Granados: Goyescas - Los requiebros

Javier Perianes, piano

3pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 43

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor

Barbara Strozzi: La Travagliata for voice and continuo, Op.2 no.11

Helen Charlston, mezzo

Toby Carr, theorbo

Steve Reich: Nagoya marimbas for 2 marimbas

Third Coast Percussion

Sibelius in happy mood in his Symphony No 2, played by the NDR Philharmonic Orchestra.

Sibelius's Symphony No 520231205Ian Skelly presents great concert performances from across Europe and from the BBC performing groups. As part of the BBC's Rethinking Disability week, this week's Artist's Choices have been picked by members of the National Youth Open Orchestra. Today's choice, from trombonist Jonah, is an Italian aria sung by Cecilia Bartoli. This week also showcases the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in our 3pm highlight slots. Today, Ryan Bancroft conducts them in Sibelius's Symphony No 5. Plus, more brass music from the Wallberg Band.

Parry: Bridal March of the Birds (from The Birds)

Neeme Jarvi (cond.)

Schubert: Rosamunde – No.5 Entr'act

Swedish Chamber Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (cond.)

Tommaso Giordani: Caro mio bem

Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo soprano)

Gyorgy Fischer (piano)

Brahms: Academic Festival Overture

Grant Llewellyn (cond.)

Rec. Theatr Hafren, Newtown 01/10/00

Saint-Saens: Clarinet Sonata

Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)

Simon Lepper (piano)

Jonathan Bates: Mirror of the Heart

Ivan Meylemans (cond.)

c3pm

Sibelius: Symphony No.5

Ryan Bancroft (cond.)

Valentin Silvestrov: Bagatelle No.3

Helene Grimaud (piano)

Mozart: Oboe Concerto in C

Steven Hudson (oboe)

Anthony Hermus (cond.)

Peter Graham: Angels and Demons

Dvorak: Silent Woods

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Belohlavek (cond.)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Forest Scenes - No.3 The Phantom tells his tale of longing

Waka Hasegawa (piano)

Khachaturian: Violin Concerto – 3rd mvt

Rachel Barton-Pine (violin)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Teddy Abrams (cond.)

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs Sibelius's Symphony No 5

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs Sibelius's Symphony No 5. Plus, brass music by Jonathan Bates and Peter Graham performed by the Wallberg Band.

Sibelius's Violin Concerto20231219Fiona Talkington presents Afternoon Concert, featuring new recordings from the BBC Performing Groups and the European Broadcasting Union. Today's 3 o'clock moment is a performance of Sibelius's Violin Concerto with Ning Feng the soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. There are more performances from pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, recorded in Munich in October, and new recordings from the BBC Singers, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ulster Orchestra.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2pm

Bridge: Sir Roger de Coverley - Christmas dance [1922]

BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Richard Hickox (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Selection from Preludes Op.23 (nos 10, 9, 8, 7)

Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

Debussy orch Caplet: Clair de lune, from 'Suite bergamasque

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Brahms: Two songs for voice, viola and piano Op. 91

Ema Nikolovska (mezzo-soprano)

Timothy Ridout (viola)

Jonathan Ware (piano)

Fanny Mendelssohn: Overture in C major

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor)

Vivaldi: Trio Sonata in D minor RV.63, Op.1`12 (La Follia) for 2 violins and continuo

Hesperion XXI

c.3pm

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47

Ning Feng (violin)

Vassily Petrenko (conductor)

Weinberg: Piano Sonata no.4 in B minor, Op.56

c.4.15

Bach arr Stravinsky: Chorale Variations 'Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Wagner: Meistersinger Overture

Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

Ester Magi: Bukoolika for orchestra

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

Arvo Volmer (conductor)

Sibelius's Violin Concerto with Ning Feng, plus more performances from Yulianna Avdeeva.

Fiona Talkington presents Sibelius's Violin Concerto, played by Ning Feng with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, plus more performances from pianist Yulianna Avdeeva.

Simon Trpceski Plays Rachmaninov20230621Ian Skelly introduces the best classical music for the afternoon, including live concert recordings from around Europe.

Today, Simon Trpceski plays Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto with the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hanover, Alondra de la Parra conducts the second of Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe suites in Copenhagen, and the BBC Singers perform new music by Stephen McNeff.

Including:

Mozart: Nur mutig, mein Herz, Allazim's aria from act 1 of 'Zaide

Mozart: Diggi, daggi, Colas' aria from 'Bastien und Bastienne

Rafael Fingerlos, baritone

Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg

Ivor Bolton, conductor

Ligeti: Romanian Concerto

RTVE Symphony Orchestra

Joshua Weilerstein, conductor

Stephen McNeff: maggie and milly and molly and may

Grace Rossiter, conductor

c.2.25pm

Ravel: Daphnis et Chlo退, Suite No. 2

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Alondra de la Parra, conductor

John Adams: A Short Ride in a Fast Machine

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Thomas Sondergard, conductor

Stephen McNeff: The Horizons of Doubt (world premiere)

3pm

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, op. 30

Simon Trpceski, piano

Ivan Repusic, conductor

Scarini: Sopra lucis creator optime

Veronika Skuplik, violin

The Breathtaking Collective

Simon Trpceski plays Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto.

Sound Of Cinema Live Results Concert20130927The BBC Concert Orchestra plays the top 20 pieces of film music as voted for by listeners.
Sound Of Cinema: Live From Ulster Hall20130920Live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast as part of BBC Radio 3's Sound of Cinema, John Toal introduces matin退e of music from the movies.

14:00

Jerry Goldsmith: Star Trek

Danny Elfman: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings

John Williams: ET Suite: Adventures on Earth; Theme from Schindler's List

John Barry (arr. Nic Raine): Out of Africa; Dances with Wolves

Jerome Moross: Big Country Suite

Ulster Orchestra

Ben Gernon, conductor

Afternoon on 3 continues with recordings from the Ulster Orchestra's summer recordings including Schubert's Death and the Maiden for string orchestra which was recorded at the Happy Days International Beckett Festival 2013 in Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh.

15:10

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1 in C

John O'Conor

Pierre Andr退 Valade, conductor

15:45

Schubert (orch Mahler): Death and the Maiden

Michael Seal, conductor.

Live from the Ulster Hall, a concert of music from the movies with the Ulster Orchestra.

Stabat Mater20210330Penny Gore presents concerts by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers.

Stanford: Justorum animae

Sister Sulpitia Cesis: Stabat Mater

Imogen Holst: A hymne to Christ

Ben Ponniah: Father, forgive them

Stanford: Beati quorum via

Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday

Joanna Marsh: Evening Prayer

Gabriella Teychenn退, conductor

(Specially recorded under lockdown conditions on 25th March 2021.)

Shostakovich: Symphony 9

Copland: Clarinet Concerto

Martin Frost, clarinet

BBC SO

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

Emanuel Despax, piano

Andrew Litton, conductor

The BBC Singers sing a Lenten programme, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra play Brahms.

Stanford From The Wexford Festival20200416Opera Matinee: Stanford - The Veiled Prophet, from the 2019 Wexford Festival.

Presented by Hannah French

Mokanna, The Veiled Prophet: Simon Mechlinski

Zelika, Priestess: Sin退ad Campbell-Wallace

Fatima, Chief Slave in the Harem: Mairead Buicke

Azim, a young warrior: Gavan Ring

Abdullah, Mokanna's Slave: John Molloy

The Caliph Mahadi: Thomas D Hopkinson

A Young Watchman: Dominick Felix

Orchestra of Wexford Opera

David Brophy, conductor

Stanford wrote his romantic opera The Veiled Prophet in 1877, basing it on the 1817 poem 'The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan' by Thomas Moore. It was first performed in Hanover in 1881, in German. In 1893, it was given a single performance in Italian at Covent Garden, and it had to wait until 2019 to be heard in its original English version at the Wexford Festival. Reviewing the performance, The Daily Telegraph noted: 'The Veiled Prophet may be a technically clumsy and naively bombastic affair in the vein of Meyerbeer, but it has heartfelt melodies and youthful ambition that merit an airing.

The opera depicts the tyranny of Mokanna, the hideously disfigured veiled prophet, and his overthrow by the young warrior Azim. The opera ends happily with Azim and his love Zelika united.

Charles Villiers Stanford's opera, The Veiled Prophet, from the 2019 Wexford Festival.

Steven Isserlis Plays Schumann's Cello Concerto20220216Jonathan Nott and the Suisse Romande Orchestra in Ravel, Stravinsky, Schumann and a premiere by Pascal Dusapin, plus early music from Melk.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Steven Isserlis is one of the world's leading advocates of Robert Schumann's neglected Cello Concerto and that's joined in this concert with the Suisse Romande Orchestra by vibrant music from Ravel and Stravinsky and a new work for organ and orchestra by French composer Pascal Dusapin. There's Baroque orchestral music from Ensemble Zefiro, and a touching performance of Barber's celebrated Adagio for Strings

Ravel: Alborada del gracioso

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Jonathan Nott, conductor

Lotti: Overture, from 'Ascanio

Heinichen: Concerto for 2 Oboes in E minor

Emiliano Rodolfi, oboe

Zefiro Ensemble

Alfredo Bernardini, director, oboe

Barber : dagio for strings

Oksana Lyniv, conductor

Haydn: Sonata in C, Hob. XVI:50

Ragna Schirmer, piano

3.00pm

Stravinsky: Feu d'artifice

Pascal Dusapin: Waves, duo for organ and orchestra (Swiss premiere)

Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor

Olivier Latry, organ

Steven Isserlis, cello

Jonathan Nott conducts the Suisse Romande Orchestra in a Pascal Dusapin premiere.

Strauss In Frankfurt20230602Penny Gore introduces recordings by BBC performing groups, and from concerts across Europe.

Including at 3pm today, Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Mozart's Divertimento K. 137 is played by the Mozarteum Orchestra, from the recent Salzburg Mozart Week, the London Philharmonic Orchestra performs one of Piazzolla's Four Seasons from Buenos Aires, and Eva Ollikainen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius' Valse Triste. Plus, more Renaissance madrigals from La Compagnia del Madrigale.

Including:

Gesualdo: Quale spada guerriera

Giovanni de Macque: Tu ti lagni al mio pianto

Piazzolla: Cuatro Estaciones Porteကas - Invierno Porteကo (Arr. Desyatnikov)

Leticia Moreno, violin

Andr退s Orozco-Estrada, conductor

c.2.30pm

Vivaldi: Concerto in D minor RV.566 for 7 instruments and orchestra

Concerto Koln

Werner Ehrhardt, director

Weinberg: Suite for orchestra: Waltz

Siberian State Symphony Orchestra

Vladimir Lande, conductor

Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, Op. 29, D. 804 'Rosamunde': II. Andante

Pacific Quartet Vienna

R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, op. 30

J.S. Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645, from 'Schübler Chorales

Ton Koopman, organ

Mozart: Divertimento in B flat, K. 137

Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg

Ivor Bolton, conductor

Sibelius: Valse Triste

Eva Ollikainen, conductor

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra.

Stravinsky's Ballet The Rite Of Spring20231003Penny Gore introduces Stravinsky's controversial and seminal ballet The Rite of Spring, with the NDR Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Andrew Manze; also, repertoire recorded by the BBC Singers, celebrating Black History Month. Spanish pianist Javier Perianes with a recital in homage to Alicia De Larrocha.

Also today, Fanny Mendelssohn's Trio in D minor, Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Weinberg's cello concertino.

Including:

Coates: The Merrymakers - overture

BBC Philharmonic

John Wilson, conductor

Florence Price: Resignation

Sofi Jeannin, director

Betty Jackson King: Lullaby

Rachel Barton Pine, violin

Matthew Hagle, piano

Manuel de Falla: Fantas퀀a b退tica

Javier Perianes, piano

Fanny Mendelssohn: Trio in D minor Op.11 for piano and strings (1st movt)

Dartington Piano Trio

3pm

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Andrew Manze, conductor

Coleridge-Taylor: 4 Characteristic Waltzes, Op.22: no.2; Valse Rustique

RTE Concert Orchestra

Adrian Leaper, conductor

Christopher H. Harris: Bring me all your dreams

Debussy: La Puerta del vino, from 'Pr退ludes, Book 2

Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Mozart: Abendempfindung, 'Abend ist's', K 523

Fatma Said, soprano

Malcolm Martineau, piano

Mieczys?aw Weinberg: Concertino for cello and string orchestra, Op 43 (3rd movt)

Raphael Wallfisch, cello

Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra

Lukasz Borowicz, conductor

Verdi: Overture to Aida

London Symphony Orchestra

Claudio Abbado, conductor

The NDR Philharmonic Orchestra perform Stravinsky's most controversial and seminal work.

Stravinsky's Symphony In C20230922Ian Skelly presents great concert performances from across Europe and from the BBC performing groups, this week featuring the Ulster Orchestra every day at 3pm. Today, they perform Stravinsky's Symphony in C. Also today, a performance of Carl Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto from Copenhagen, and Ragna Schirmer is the soloist in Mozart's final piano concerto, No.27 in B flat, with the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra.

Including:

Bizet: Farandol (L'Arlesienne Suite No.2)

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Friedrich Kuhlau: The Robbers' Castle - Overture

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Michael Schonwandt, conductor

Florence Price: Heav'n Bound Soldier

Elizabeth Burgess (piano)

BBC Singers

Benjamin Nicholas, conductor

c2.25pm

Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto

Johnny Teyssier (clarinet)

Fabio Luisi, conductor

Stravinsky: Symphony in C

Adam Hickox, conductor

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.27

Ragna Schirmer (piano)

Malin Bromin, conductor

Richard Rodney Bennett: Murder on the Orient Express (music from the 1974 film)

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Stravinsky in a recent performance from Belfast.

Suisse Romande Orchestra And The New Music Biennial20190712Ending the week with our featured ensemble, the Suisse Romande Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno takes to the rostrum to conduct Tchaikovsky's The Tempest, a fantasy inspired by Shakespeare, then Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 2 with Fran瀀ois-Fr退d退ric Guy as soloist, ending with another piece by the Hungarian composer, a suite from his ballet 'The Miraculous Mandarin'. Then the ensemble performs Schoenberg's Verkl䀀rte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4, in the 1943 version for strings, under the baton this time of Julien Leroy.

Then Our Classical Century, featuring highlights from the last one hundred years of great music, is dedicated to the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera and four dances from his ballet 'Estancia'. Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Sim n Bol퀀var Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.

The afternoon closes with a newly-commissioned piece from the New Music Biennial that took place at the South Bank Centre in London earlier this month.

Presented by Kate Molleson.

2.00pm

Tchaikovsky: The Tempest, Op. 18, fantasy after Shakespeare

Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2

Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin, suite, S.73

Fran瀀ois-Fr退d退ric Guy, piano

Orchestra de la Suisse Romande

Gustavo Gimeno, conductor

3.14pm

Schoenberg: Verkl䀀rte Nacht, Op. 4 (1943 version for string orchestra)

Julien Leroy, conductor

3.42pm

Ginastera: Dances from ballet ‘Estancia': Los trabajadores agr퀀colas; Danza del trigo; Los peones de la hacienda; Danza final (Malambo)

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

3.56pm

Sona Jobarteh: Innovation Through Preservation

Sona Jobarteh (director)

Steven Hussey (violin)

Eric Appapoulay (guitar)

Musa Filly Jobarteh (percussion)

Mafu Conteh (harp)

Yusupha Soso (xylophone)

Ivan Hussey (cello)

Andy Waterworth (double bass)

Music by Tchaikovsky, Bartok and Schoenberg.

Summer Festivals20200720A new series of great Proms concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs, launched by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D major (Classical Symphony)

Qigang Chen: Iris D退voil退e (London premiere)

with Meng Meng, Anu Komsi and Piia Komsi (sopranos), Jia Li (pipa), Jing Chang (zheng) and Nan Wang (erhu)

Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor

BBC NOW

Conductor Xian Zhang

George Benjamin: Ringed by the Flat Horizon

Conducted by the composer

Throughout the 2020 Proms season Afternoon Concert celebrates top music-making at Summer Festivals, with four weeks of concerts from 2019 summer festivals across Europe and four weeks of great Proms performances from recent years by the BBC Orchestras and Choirs. This week features all six BBC-associated orchestras including the Ulster Orchestra, plus the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus; the BBC National Chorus of Wales will feature in two weeks' time. The series will also celebrate the 60th birthdays in 2020 of two great British composers, George Benjamin and Mark-Anthony Turnage, and highlight some of the best Proms premieres from James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie in 1990 to the present day.

To launch the series today Chinese-American conductor Xian Zhang makes her Proms debut in a hyper-Romantic 2015 concert featuring two Russian blockbusters and a gorgeous recent work by her compatriot Qigang Chen. Plus George Benjamin conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the piece whose 1980 Proms premiere catapulted him to fame, and film favourites from a 2011 Prom by the BBC Concert Orchestra and their then Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart - who feature throughout this week.

A series of great Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs.

Summer Festivals20200721Fiona Talkington presents great Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs - today the BBC Singers in Palestrina and Judith Weir and Ulster Orchestra in Tchaikovsky. Venezuelan Rafael Payare makes his 2016 Proms debut as Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Ulster Orchestra with Tchaikovsky's Fifth and a brand-new work by Professor of Composition at Queens University, Belfast, Piers Hellawell, plus Haydn with the cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, who was then a BBC New Generation Artist. Plus a 2017 Prom at Southwark Cathedral with Palestrina from BBC Singers and their then chief conductor, David Hill, who are joined by the Nash Ensemble for another world premiere by Master of the Queen's Music Judith Weir.

Piers Hellawell: Wild Flow (world premiere)

Haydn: Cello Concerto No 1 in C major

with Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5

Conductor Rafael Payare

Proms at - Southwark Cathedral

Palestrina: Motet 'Confitebor tibi, Domine'; Missa 'Confitebor tibi

Judith Weir: In the Land of Uz (BBC commission: world premiere)

with Adrian Thompson (tenor), Stephen Farr (organ) and Nash Ensemble

Conductor David Hill

Fiona Talkington presents great Prom concerts of the past by BBC orchestras and choirs.

Summer Festivals20200722Hannah French presents great Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs - today Stephen Hough and the BBC Philharmonic play Brahms's mighty First Piano Concerto.

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor

David Sawer: the greatest happiness principle

Haydn: Symphony No 99 in E flat major

Conductor Mark Wigglesworth

Hannah French presents great Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs.

Summer Festivals20200723Proms Opera Matinee: Hannah French introduces Michael Tippett's masterpiece The Midsummer Marriage from the BBC SO, BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus conducted by Andrew Davis - an acclaimed performance from the 2013 BBC Proms of one of the most unusual but haunting operas ever written, a kind of 1950s Magic Flute. Its three acts are filled with some of the most beautiful operatic music composed since the Second World War, from the chorus's opening hymn to the sun and Mark's rapturous love song to Jenifer through the famous Ritual Dances of Act 2 to the deeply moving aria for the oracle Sosostris at the heart of the final act.

Michael Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage

Mark - .. Paul Groves (tenor)

Jenifer, his fianc退e - .. Erin Wall (soprano)

King Fisher, her father, a rich businessman - .. David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)

Bella, his secretary - .. Ailish Tynan (soprano)

Jack, her mechanic boyfriend - .. Allan Clayton (tenor)

Sosostris - .. Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)

He-Ancient - .. David Soar (bass)

She-Ancient - .. Madeleine Shaw (mezzo-soprano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Andrew Davis

Proms Opera Matinee: Michael Tippett's masterpiece The Midsummer Marriage from the BBC SO.

Summer Festivals20200724Hannah French presents great Prom concerts from recent years by BBC Orchestras and Choirs. Today, a feast of 20th- and 21st-century music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. In this remarkable BBC Prom from 2008, Ilan Volkov - then Principal Conductor of the BBC SSO, now their Principal Guest Conductor - leads a beautifully shaped concert featuring classics of electronic music by the French-American pioneer Edgard Varese and the modern master Jonathan Harvey, plus a Harvey world premiere. The concert is launched by two Proms premieres: from another towering French modernist, Olivier Messiaen, and Harvey's tribute to him on the centenary of his birth.

Jonathan Harvey: Tombeau de Messiaen for piano and tape

C退dric Tiberghien (piano)

Messiaen: Concert

Summer Festivals20200727Tom McKinney begins a week devoted to recordings from European Summer Festivals held in 2019.

Today, we start at the Ansbach Bach week in Germany with performances of two of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos alongside his Cantata 205 given by vocal ensemble Amarcord and the Stuttgart-based orchestra Il Gusto Barocco. Later in the programme we'll hear highlights of an opera gala given by the Tivoli Copenhagen Phil at the Tivoli Concert Hall in Denmark. Also, throughout the week, Tom delves into the archive of the Lugano Festival, and a concert given as part of Martha Argerich's expert curation in 2003 - today's highlight is a performance of Chopin's First Piano Concerto by Nelson Goerner.

2pm

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F, BWV.1046

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D, BWV.1050

Bach: Cantata `Der zufriedengestellte Aeolus`, BWV.205

Hanna Zumsande (soprano)

Nicole Pieper (contralto)

Wolfram Lattke (tenor)

Frank Ozimek (baritone)

Amarcord / Il Gusto Barocco

Jorg Halubek (conductor & harpsichord)

approx. 3.20pm

Chopin - Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor, Op.11

Nelson Goerner (piano)

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Alexander Rabinowitch-Barakovsky (conductor)

approx. 4.05pm

Rossini - Overture to William Tell

Bellini - E' serbata a questo acciaro [I Capuleti ei Montecchi]

Levy Sakgapane (tenor)

Patrick Lange (conductor)

Presented by Tom McKinney

Performances from two 2019 European Summer festivals in Ansbach and Copenhagen.

Summer Festivals20200728Tom McKinney continues his week devoted to recordings from European Summer Festivals held in 2019.

Today's programme begins at Our Festival in J䀀rvenp䀀䀀, Finland, with the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra playing Scandinavian contemporary music by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Andrea Tarrodi. We continue the Baltic theme with music by Britta Bystrom and Andris Dzenitis from the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra Festival in Rezekne, before heading to Romania for a performance of Mozart at the Magic Summer Festival. And we close with more from the Tivoli opera gala concert in Denmark and two arias by Rossini and Gounod.

Also, throughout the week, Tom will be delving into the archive of the Lugano Festival and an all-Chopin concert given as part of the Martha Argerich Project in 2003. Today's highlight is a performance of Chopin's Second Piano Concerto by Alexander Mogilevsky.

2pm

Esa-Pekka Salonen: Stockholm Diary

Andrea Tarrodi: Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings `Acanthes`

Terhi Paldanius (violin)

Malin Broman (conductor, violin, viola)

approx. 2.40pm

Britta Bystrom: Walking in the shade

Andris Dzenitis: Delta Returning

Carion Wind Quintet

Andris Poga (conductor)

approx. 3pm

Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op 2

Alexander Mogilevsky (piano)

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Alexander Rabinowitch-Barakovsky (conductor)

approx. 3.30pm

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216

Mozart: Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550

Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin)

Romanian Sinfonietta Orchestra

Horia Andreescu (conductor)

approx. 4.35pm

Rossini: Una voce poco fa [Barber of Seville]

Gounod: Je veux vivre [Romeo et Juliette]

Nino Machaidze (soprano)

Levy Sakgapane (tenor)

Tivoli Copenhagen Phil

Patrick Lange (conductor)

Presented by Tom McKinney

Recordings from 2019 European Summer Festivals in Jarvenpaa, Rezekne and Bucharest.

Summer Festivals20200729Tom McKinney continues his week devoted to recordings from European Summer Festivals held in 2019.

Today's programme is an all-Swiss affair, with a performance of Bruckner's epic Ninth Symphony from the Verbier Festival Orchestra and conductor Hannu Lintu; and another highlight from the archive of the Lugano Festival in 2003 - pianist Mauricio Vallina playing Chopin's Variations on `La ci darem la mano`.

2pm

Bruckner: Symphony No.9 in D minor

Hannu Lintu (conductor)

approx. 3.05pm

Chopin - Variations on `La ci darem la mano`, Op.2

Mauricio Vallina (piano)

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Alexander Rabinowitch-Barakovsky (conductor)

Bruckner's Ninth Symphony from the 2019 Verbier Festival plus more Chopin from Lugano.

Summer Festivals20200730Opera Matinee: Puccini's Tosca from the Theatre de l'Archeveche, Aix-en-Provence.

Puccini's verismo opera Tosca, which tells the tale of the love between Tosca and Cavaradossi pitted against the plotting of the evil chief of police, Baron Scarpia. A top cast includes Angel Blue as Tosca and Joseph Calleja as her doomed lover Cavaradossi, with Alexey Markov as the plotting Baron Scarpia. Daniele Rustioni conducts the Lyon Opera Chorus and Orchestra.

Tosca..... Angel Blue (soprano)

Prima Donna..... Catherine Malfitano (soprano)

Mario Cavaradossi - Joseph Calleja (tenor)

Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police - Alexey Markov (baritone)

Cesare Angelotti, a former consul - Simon Shibambu (bass)

Sacristan - Leonardo Galeazzi (baritone)

Sciarrone, a police agent..... Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin (bass)

Spoletta, a police agent..... Michael Smallwood (tenor)

Lyon Opera Chorus, Children's Chorus & Orchestra

Daniele Rustioni (conductor)

Following the opera matinee, we head to the Lugano Festival in Switzerland for another highlight from their archive, as pianist Polina Leschenko plays solo music by Chopin. The programme continues in Switzerland at the 2019 Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Basel Festival, and the world premiere of a new piece by Portuguese composer Bruno Soiero and a performance of Saint-Saens 2nd Cello Concerto from Sol Gabetta.

approx. 4.00pm

Chopin - Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise brillante in E flat, Op.22

Polina Leschenko (piano)

approx 4.15pm

Bruno Soiero - Sillages, Sons de Parfums (World Premiere)

Saint-Saens - Cello Concerto No.2 in D minor, Op.119

Sol Gabetta (cello)

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Pierre Bleuse (conductor)

Presented by Tom McKinney

Opera Matinee: Tosca from the 2019 Aix-en-Provence Festival conducted by Daniele Rustioni

Summer Festivals20200731Tom McKinney ends his week devoted to recordings from European Summer Festivals held in 2019.

Today's programme begins at the Vilnius Festival, with music by Baltic composers Peeter V䀀hi and Peteris Vasks alongside a work by the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli. Then there's more from the 2019 Magic Summer Festival in Bucharest, as the Romanian Sinfonietta Orchestra play's Mozart's Symphony No.31. There's also another visit to the 2019 Gstaad Menuhin Festival with a performance of Bizet's Symphony in C from the Basel Chamber Orchestra; and we end with a final performance from the opera gala held at the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen.

Tom's final highlight from the archive of the Lugano Festival in 2003 features pianist Alexander Gurning playing Chopin's Rondo a la Krakowiak with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by Alexander Rabinowitch-Barakovsky.

2pm

Peeter V䀀hi: Concerto for Birbyn? and Chamber Orchestra

Giya Kancheli - Angels of Sorrow

Peteris Vasks - Da pacem, Domine

Vytautas Kiminius (birbyn?)

Dalia Kuznecovait退 (violin)

Elena Daunyt? (cello)

Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra

Jauna Muzika Vilnius Municipal Chorus

Adrija ?epait? (conductor)

approx. 3.10pm

Chopin - Rondo a la Krakowiak in F, Op.14

Alexander Gurning (piano)

Alexander Rabinowitch-Barakovsky (conductor)

approx. 3.25pm

Mozart - Symphony No.31 in D, K.297 `Paris`

Horia Andreescu (conductor)

approx. 4.15pm

Bizet - Ton Coeur n'a pas compris le mien [Les Pecheurs de Perles]

Nino Machaidze (soprano)

Levy Sekgapane (tenor)

Tivoli Copenhagen Phil

Patrick Lange (conductor)

Music from 2019 European Summer festivals in Vilnius, Bucharest, Gstaad and Copenhagen.

Summer Festivals20200803Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs - today the BBC Philharmonic with music by P䀀rt, Rachmaninov and Gliere, from a 2007 Prom. The climax of their concert with conductor Vassily Sinaisky is the Proms premiere of the monumental Third Symphony by Russian composer Reinhold Gliere, inspired by legendary folk hero Ilya Muromets. Plus ecstatic music by Welsh composer Grace Williams from a 2015 Prom given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

2.00pm

Arvo P䀀rt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

with Nelson Goerner (piano)

2.30pm

Gliere: Symphony No 3 in B minor, Op 42 (Ilya Muromets) (Proms premiere)

3.55pm

Grace Williams: Fairest of Stars

Ailish Tynan (soprano)

Conductor Tadaaki Otaka

Throughout the 2020 Proms season Afternoon Concert celebrates top music-making at Summer Festivals, with four weeks of concerts from 2019 summer festivals across Europe and four weeks of great Proms performances from recent years by the BBC orchestras and choirs. This week features all six BBC-associated orchestras including the Ulster Orchestra, plus the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC National Chorus of Wales. The series also celebrates the 60th birthdays in 2020 of two great British composers, George Benjamin and Mark-Anthony Turnage (on Thursday this week), and highlights some of the best Proms premieres from James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie in 1990 to the present day.

Penny Gore presents great BBC Proms of recent years given by BBC orchestras and choirs.

Summer Festivals20200804Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts by BBC orchestras: the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Wagner and Strauss and Ulster Orchestra with Beethoven and Clara Schumann.

In a Prom from 2018 the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor are joined by Swedish soprano Malin Bystr怀m for Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs and by the National Youth Chamber Choir and London Voices for the UK premiere of Per Nørg倀rd's Symphony No 3.

Then, recorded at last year's Proms, the Ulster Orchestra and their outgoing Chief Conductor Rafael Payare perform Russian music, Beethoven's First Symphony and a Proms premiere: Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto, with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mariam Batsashvili as soloist.

2.00pm

Wagner: Parsifal - Prelude to Act 1

Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs

with Malin Bystr怀m (soprano)

Per Nørg倀rd: Symphony No 3 (UK premiere)

Conductor Thomas Dausgaard

3.25pm

Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major, Op. 21

Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7 (Proms premiere)

Sofia Gubaidulina: Fairytale Poem

Shostakovich: Symphony No 1 in F minor, Op. 10

Mariam Batsashvili (piano)

Penny Gore presents great BBC Proms of recent years given by BBC orchestras and choirs.

Summer Festivals20200805Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs: today Pierre Boulez conducts his own music plus works by Var耀se and Stravinsky - the original version of his ballet Petrushka - in a Prom given in 2002.

2.00pm

Var耀se: Int退grales

Boulez: Le visage nuptial; Le soleil des eaux

Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 version)

Francoise Pollet (soprano)

Susan Parry (mezzo-soprano)

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Pierre Boulez

Penny Gore presents great BBC Proms of recent years given by BBC orchestras and choirs.

Summer Festivals20200806Penny Gore with great BBC Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs: today the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Messiaen and the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing Turnage.

Today's programme features two major choral-orchestral works. From a Prom given in 2008, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their then Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer are joined by massed choirs and seven instrumental soloists in Messiaen's gigantic La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur J退sus-Christ. Plus, from the 2017 Proms, the European premiere of Hibiki by Mark-Anthony Turnage, who celebrates his 60th birthday this year.

2.00pm

Messiaen: La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur J退sus-Christ

Adam Walker (flute)

Julian Bliss (clarinet)

Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello)

Adrian Spillett (marimba)

Colin Currie (xylorimba)

Richard Benjafield (vibraphone)

Gerard Bouwhuis (piano)

Philharmonia Voices

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC National Chorus of Wales

3.50pm

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Hibiki (European premiere)

Sally Matthews (soprano)

Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano)

Finchley Children's Music Group

New London Children's Choir

Conductor Kazushi Ono

Penny Gore presents great BBC Proms of recent years given by BBC orchestras and choirs.

Summer Festivals20200807Penny Gore with great Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs - today Nigel Kennedy plays Elgar's Violin Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

2.00pm

Bax: The Garden of Fand

Finzi: Intimations of Immortality (Proms premiere)

with Andrew Kennedy (tenor)

BBC Symphony Chorus

2.55pm

Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61

Nigel Kennedy (violin)

Conductor Paul Daniel

Penny Gore presents great BBC Proms of recent years given by BBC orchestras and choirs.

Summer Festivals20200811The opening concert of the 2019 Turku Music Festival continues the festival's tradition of featuring distinguished international opera singers, with the American baritone Thomas Hampson joining the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Klaus M䀀kel䀀 to sing extracts from Mahler's 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn', plus music by Wagner, Strauss and Saariaho.

We then travel to the medieval city of Utrecht in the Netherlands for the world-famous Utrecht Early Music Festival. In the 21st-century TivoliVredenburg concert hall, acclaimed early music ensemble Gli Angeli Gen耀ve and members of the Sine Nomine Quartet perform settings of the Stabat Mater written 250 years apart.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

2pm

Wagner: Prelude to 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Mahler: Excerpts from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Saariaho: Asteroid 4179: Toutatis

Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

Thomas Hampson, baritone

Klaus M䀀kel䀀, conductor

c.3.30pm

Arvo P䀀rt: Stabat Mater

Aleksandra Lewandowska, soprano

Carlos Mena, countertenor

Andrew Tortise, tenor

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

Ana Quintans, soprano

Stephan MacLeod

Members of the Sine Nomine Quartet:

Patrick Genet, violin

Hans Egidi, viola

Marc Jaermann, cello

Photo: Turku Music Festival 2019, Seilo Ristim䀀ki

Wagner, Mahler, Saariaho and Strauss from Turku, plus Part and Pergolesi in Utrecht.

Summer Festivals20200812The tale of a virtuous woman wrongly accused by two men with ulterior motives provides the story of Handel's oratorio Susanna. The thirteenth chapter of the book of Daniel tells how, during the captivity of the Jews in Babylon, a virtuous young woman was falsely accused of sexual promiscuity by two elders of the community who lusted after her themselves. The prophet Daniel exposed the two elders as liars and vindicated Susanna. The beautiful score is full of Handel's powerful musical dramatisations, from vivid arias to rousing choruses. Recorded in a concert performance in the Handel Hall in the composer's native city of Halle, with the MDR Radio Chorus and the Basel Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Paul McCreesh as part of the 2019 Handel Festival. Acts 2 and 3 can be heard in Afternoon Concert tomorrow.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2pm

Handel: Susanna HWV 66 - Act 1

Susanna - Mary Bevan, soprano

Joacim, Susanna's husband - Tim Mead, countertenor

Chelsias, Susanna's Father - David Soar, bass

First Elder - Thomas Walker, tenor

Second Elder - Derek Welton, bass baritone

Daniel / A servant - Charlotte Shaw, soprano

Richter - Jakob Eberlein, bass

MDR Radio Chorus, Leipzig

Benjamin Goodson, chorus director

Paul McCreesh, conductor

Handel's dramatic oratorio Susanna, with soprano Mary Bevan, from the 2019 Handel Festival

Summer Festivals20200813Opera Matinee this week is a cheerful one-acter set on the picturesque banks of the Vistula, on the edge of Warsaw - and featuring a slightly less famous barber than Rossini's from Seville. Born in what's now Belarus in 1819, Stanis?aw Moniuszko moved to Warsaw and fell very much in love with his new home. The Raftsman is a charming depiction of the city in music, with beautiful melody & rich colour. A simple plot: father wants daughter to marry a socially more acceptable bloke - a hairdresser from Warsaw - rather than the eponymous raftsman. The frustrated raftsman threatens to leave the village to seek out a long-lost brother; and it turns out that the hairdresser is that brother who, of course, magnanimously steps aside. This performance was recorded in the Wielki Theatre of Polish National Opera at last year's Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, marking the 200th anniversary of Moniuszko's birth.

After the short opera, this week's celebration of vocal and choral music in Afternoon Concert continues with the last two acts of Handel's dramatic oratorio Susanna (Act 1 was broadcast yesterday). Susanna premiered after Solomon in 1749 and is one of Handel's less-performed oratorios; it's heard here in a concert performance from the 2019 Handel Festival in the composer's hometown of Halle, near Leipzig.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

2pm

Stanis?aw Moniuszko: Flis (The Raftsman)

Jakub - Mariusz Godlewski, baritone

Zosia - Ewa Tracz, soprano

Franek (The Raftsman) - Matheus Pompeu, tenor

Antoni - Krzysztof B?czyk, bass

Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Chorus

Violetta Bielecka, chorus conductor

Europa Galante

Fabio Biondi, conductor

c.3pm

Handel: Susanna HWV 66 - Acts 2 & 3

Susanna - Mary Bevan, soprano

Joacim, Susanna's husband - Tim Mead, countertenor

Chelsias, Susanna's Father - David Soar, bass

First Elder - Thomas Walker, tenor

Second Elder - Derek Welton, bass baritone

Daniel / A servant - Charlotte Shaw, soprano

Richter - Jakob Eberlein, bass

MDR Radio Chorus, Leipzig

Benjamin Goodson, chorus director

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Paul McCreesh, conductor

Opera Matinee: Moniuszko's Flis (The Raftsman) and the conclusion of Handel's Susanna.

Summer Festivals20200814To end this week's celebration of vocal and choral music with orchestra in Afternoon Concert, we take a second trip to Finland - for Schoenberg's epic cantata Gurrelieder, setting poems by the Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen set in the Gurre Castle in North Zealand. It's the scene of a (historically dubious) medieval tragedy depicting the love of the Danish king Waldemar for his mistress Tove, and Tove's murder by Waldemar's jealous Queen Helvig. Torsten Kerl sings the role of the King with Emily Magee as Tove in this performance at the 2019 Helsinki Festival.

To round off this week of highlights from European summer festivals, we return to the archive of the Martha Argerich Project for a concert given in Lugano in 2012, when Maria Jo o Pires was the soloist in Mozart's D minor piano concerto K.466.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

2pm

Schoenberg: Gurrelieder

Torsten Kerl, tenor, Waldemar

Katarina Karn退us, mezzo-soprano, Waldtaube

Emily Magee, soprano, Tove

Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, tenor, Klaus Narr

Gidon Saks, bass-baritone, Peasant

Salome Kammer, narrator

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

Sinfonia Lahti

Helsinki Music Centre Chorus

Polytech Chorus

Spira Ensemble

Susanna M䀀lkki, conductor

c.3.50pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466

Maria Jo o Pires, piano

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Alexander Vedernikov, conductor

Schoenberg's cantata Gurrelieder and Maria Jo\u00e3o Pires plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20.

Summer Festivals20200824Tom McKinney introduces a selection of music gathered from some of Europe's foremost summer music festivals including a concert from the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta at the Berlin Festival, with violinist Gil Shaham; and, across the week, music for piano and orchestra by Liszt, recorded at the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano, showcasing some of the world's most striking virtuoso pianists.

Including:

Oedeon Partos: Concertino for String Orchestra

Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor

(Gil Shaham - violin)

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Zubin Mehta (conductor)

Recorded at the Berlin Festival in 2019

Franz Liszt: Totentanz for piano and orchestra

Sergio Tiempo (piano)

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Ion Marin (conductor)

Recorded at the Marth Argerich Project in Lugano in 2004.

Tom McKinney introduces a selection of music from Berlin and Lugano.

Summer Festivals20200825Tom McKinney introduces a selection of music gathered from some of Europe's foremost summer music festivals including a concert from the Rotterdam Philharmonic conducted by Lahav Shani, with the violinist Vilde Frang, at the Bremen Music Festival; and the Vox Clamantis Choir at the RheinVokal Fest performing an anthology of 20th century and mediaeval choral music imaginatively bound around a mass by Arvo Part - which the festival has called 'Estonian Visions'.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in Bb K595

(Lahav Shani - piano)

Max Bruch: Violin Concerto in G Minor

(Vilde Frang - violin)

Maurice Ravel: La Valse

Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Lahav Shani (conductor)

Recorded at the Bremen Music Festival in 2019

Gregorian Chant: Introitus 'Spiritus Domini

Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame - Kyrie

Arvo Part: Missa Syllabica - Kyrie & Gloria

Gregorian Chant: Graduale 'Locus Iste

Arvo Part: The Deer's Cry

Perotin: Beata viscera (conductus)

Arvo Part: Missa Syllabica - Credo

John Dunstable: Descendi in ortum meum

Liturgical: Praefacio

Arvo Part: Missa Syllabica - Sanctus

Igor Stravinsky: Pater noster

Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame - Agnus Dei

Arvo Part: Missa Syllabica - Agnus Dei

Gregorian Chant: Communio 'Illumina faciem meam

Arvo Part: Missa Syllabica - Ite missa est

Vox Clamantis directed by Jaan-Eik Tulve

Recorded at the RheinVokal Festival in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in August 2019

Tom McKinney with more musical moments from major European Festivals.

Summer Festivals20200826Tom McKinney introduces a concert of popular Baroque music from the Saintes Festival in western France, recorded last month and performed by Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset.

Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concertos Op 8 Nos 1-4, 'The Four Seasons

Gilone Gaubert-Jacques (violin)

Les Talens Lyriques directed from the harpsichord by Christophe Rousset.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No 4 in A BWV 1055

Concert recorded in the Abbaye aux Dames, Saintes, as part of the 2020 Saintes Summer Festival.

Tom McKinney introduces summer music from France.

Summer Festivals20200827Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Massenet's 'Don Quichotte', inspired in part by Cervantes's fictional 'knight of the doleful countenance', given at the Bregenz Festival in Austria, last year. The programme also features performances from Mecklenburg and Schwetzingen as part of Tom's focus on European summer festivals.

Jules Massenet: Don Quichotte (opera in five acts)

Anna Goryachova, mezzo-soprano, Dulcin退e

Gabor Bretz, bass, Don Quichotte

David Stout, baritone, Sancho

L退onie Renaud, soprano, Pedro

Vera Maria Bitter, mezzo-soprano, Garcias

Paul Schweinester, tenor, Rodriguez

Patrik Reiter, tenor, Juan

Prague Philharmonic Choir

Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Cohen

Recorded at the Festspielhaus, Bregenz as part of the Bregenz Festival last year.

And from Mecklenburg and Schwetzingen :

Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme

Harriet Krijgh (cello)

ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Drcar

Serge Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D 'Classical

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart conducted by Nicholas McGegan

Tom McKinney with more music from European summer festivals

Summer Festivals20200828Tom McKinney introduces more summer music-making, including a concert recorded at Berlioz's birthplace at La Cote-Saint-Andre in France of music inspired by the writings of Lord Byron; violinist Gil Shaham performing Mozart concertos at Schwetzingen; and musicians from the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano rounding up their week of music for piano and orchestra by Liszt.

Louis Theodore Gouvy: Overture 'Le Giaour

Karol Beffa: 'On the Dust I Love' after Byron's poem 'On the Death of a Young Lady

(Albane Carrere - mezzo soprano)

Hector Berlioz: Harold in Italy

(Lawrence Power - viola)

Orchestre National de Metz conducted by David Reiland

Recorded at the Chateau Louis XI as part of the 2019 La Cote-Saint-Andre Festival in France

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No 4 in D K218

(Gil Shaham - violin)

SWR Symphony Orchestra. Stuttgart conducted by Nicholas McGegan

Recorded at Rococo Theatre as part of the 2019 Schwetzingen Festival.

Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2 in A

(Gabriela Montero - piano)

Orchestra della Svizzera italiana conducted by Ion Marin

Recorded as part of the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano.

Tom McKinney with summer performances of Liszt, Berlioz and Mozart

Summer Festivals20200831BBC Orchestras at the Proms. Georgia Mann introduces performances recorded at the BBC Proms of music ranging from Beethoven to Brahms, starting today with an American Night at the Proms, courtesy of the BBC Concert Orchestra and its New York State-born Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart.

Toes were tapping in a concert that started with folk songs and dances - joyously orchestrated and reworked by Aaron Copland - and ended in Chris Brubeck's distinctive blend of classical, jazz, blues and country music and his exhilarating musical journey,Travels in Time for Three - a thrill-ride concerto composed for virtuoso string trio and orchestra. Plus music by Dave Brubeck whose 100th birthday falls this year.

From a BBC Prom on 09 September 2014.

Copland: Rodeo - 4 dance episodes

Copland: Appalachian spring - suite for orchestra

Dave Brubeck, arr. Chris Brubeck: Blue rondo

Summer Festivals20200901BBC Orchestras at the Proms: today there's a Nordic flavour to things with music by Sibelius and Nielsen played by BBC Symphony and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. And Proms-favourite Stephen Hough plays Beethoven's most popular piano concerto.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

From 17 August 2018 Prom 62

Philip Venables (and B退la Bart k): Venables Plays Bartok (World premiere)

with Pekka Kuusisto (violin)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)

at approx. 3.10pm

From 14 August 1999 Prom 36

Nielsen: Rhapsodic Overture 'An Imaginary Journey to the Faroes' (Proms premiere)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major, 'Emperor

with Stephen Hough (piano)

Nielsen: Paraphrase on 'Nearer my God to Thee', FS63 (Proms premiere)

Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in E minor

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Osmo V䀀nsk䀀 (conductor)

BBC Orchestras at the Proms in Beethoven and Sibelius

Summer Festivals20200902BBC Orchestras at the Proms: the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at last year's Proms.

The mischievous escapades of the irrepressible Till Eulenspiegel - Germany's beloved folk-hero - introduce a concert that celebrates the dramatic power of the orchestra. Markus Stenz conducts the BBC NOW in a concert which pairs Strauss's lively tone-poem with Brahms's turbulent Symphony No. 1 - the work that announced him as the ‘heir to Beethoven'. And trumpeters H倀kan Hardenberger and Jeroen Berwaerts are rival soloists in a rhythmically charged new double concerto by Swedish composer Tobias Brostr怀m.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

From 25 July 2019 Prom 9

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

Tobias Brostr怀m: Nigredo (concerto for two trumpets - UK premiere)

with Jeroen Berwaerts; H倀kan Hardenberger (trumpets)

Brahms: Symphony No 1

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Markus Stenz (conductor)

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales play Brahms, Richard Strauss and Tobias Brostr\u00f6m.

Summer Festivals20200903BBC Singers at the 2019 Proms perform Duke Ellington's Sacred Music.

Jazz, showbiz swagger and spirituality came together as never before in Duke Ellington's spectacular Sacred Concerts.

Described by Ellington himself as ‘the most important thing I have ever done', these sacred revues, blending big-band jazz, gospel and Broadway-style melodies, bring all the legendary musician's originality and energy to Christian subjects, and generated three critically acclaimed, boundary-crossing albums. Drawing on these, the Proms premiered a brand-new Sacred Concert - an exhilarating evening of dance, song and spectacle.

Introduced by Georgia Mann.

From 29 August 2019 Prom 54

including: In The Beginning God, Something 'Bout Believing, The Lord's Prayer, Praise God and Dance, My Love, Ain't but the One. Father Forgive, Freedom

Heritage, Tell Me It's The Truth, Heaven, Come Sunday, David Danced.

Carleen Anderson and the UK Vocal Assembly

Peter Edwards and Monty Alexander (piano)

Nu Civilisation Orchestra

and at approx 3.40pm

Prokofiev: Symphony No 5

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)

The BBC Singers and friends in Duke Ellington's Sacred Music at the BBC Proms.

Summer Festivals20200907Tom McKinney with a week of highlights from recent European Summer festivals, starting with music from the 2020 Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Northern Germany. French harpist Xavier de Maistre plays Debussy's set of two dances for the instrument which he said evoked 'gravity and grace', and a concertino by the 19th century Devon-born composer Elias Parish Alvars. Alvars became the principal harpist at the Vienna Opera in 1836, undertook concert tours with his wife Melanie Lewy who was also a harpist, and was described by Berlioz as 'the Liszt of the harp'. We end the afternoon with Mahler's vast nature-inspired Symphony No 3, recorded at last year's Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Poland.

Debussy: Danse sacr退e et Danse profane

Elias Parish Alvars arr Zabaleta: Concertino in E minor for Harp and Orchestra, op. 34

Xavier de Maistre, harp

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Mahler: Symphony No 3 in D minor

Gerhild Romberger, mezzo-soprano

National Forum of Music Boys' Chorus

National Forum of Music Chorus

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Zubin Mehta, conductor

Highlights from summer festivals in Germany and Poland, presented by Tom McKinney

Summer Festivals20200908Tom McKinney continues a week of highlights from recent European Summer Festivals.

Today we're on the shores of Lake Geneva at the Septembre Festival, the longest running classical music festival in Switzerland. Last year the Russian National Orchestra played an all-Russian programme there pairing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto - the best thing to come from a very bad marriage - with Scriabin's Symphony No 1. Composed at the turn of the twentieth century it features six movements instead of the usual four, and features influences of Wagner, Liszt, Franck and Tchaikovsky. At rehearsals for the first full performance which took place in Moscow , the conductor Vasily Safonov introduced it to the players dramatically with the statement, ‘Gentlemen, here is the new Bible'.

At the Berlin Music Festival last year there was another Russian symphonic debut written seven decades after Scriabin's. Alfred Schnittke's iconoclastic work, written in Brezhnev's Soviet Union, has been described as 'The Gulag Archipelago of music' referencing Solzhenitsyn's famous text, and more recently 'a colossal temper tantrum'. It juxtaposes direct quotations from Handel and Beethoven alongside popular music of the time, and opens with a single player on stage and no conductor in sight. The conductor in today's performance, when he does finally appear, is Valery Gergiev.

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, op. 35

Alexandra Conunova, violin

Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 in E, op. 26

Polina Shamaeva, mezzo-soprano

Yury Rostotsky, tenor

Glinka Chorus

Schnittke: Symphony No. 1

Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Valery Gergiev, conductor

Highlights from Summer Festivals in Switzerland and Germany

Summer Festivals20200909Tom McKinney continues a week of highlights from summer festivals around Europe. We start today in Lugano with Martha Argerich playing Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor, which was influenced by Mozart and the Balinese gamelan, with Belgian pianist Alexander Gurning at the famous Swiss mountain resort in 2007. Then we head to Berlin with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra for a performance of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony recorded last year. After a catastrophically terrible reaction to his third symphony in 1877 Bruckner suffered a major crisis of confidence, but he persevered and considered this work to be his 'boldest symphony'. Today it's recognised as one of his most original pieces and contains some of his most beautiful and arresting music.

Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor, FP 61

Martha Argerich, piano

Alexander Gurning, piano

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Erasmo Capilla, conductor

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A, WAB 106

Valery Gergiev, conductor

Highlights from Summer Festivals in Switzerland and Germany

Summer Festivals20200911Tom McKinney concludes a week of highlights from European summer festivals. We start at the seaside resort of Parnu on the Baltic Sea in Estonia for the closing concert of their 2019 festival. It opens with Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür's 2015 exploration of climactic change, mass migration, extremist movements and 'other irreversible processes that increasingly weigh upon our minds and are, in many ways, consequences of reckless human activity'. The title comes from Hosea Chapter 8 verse 7: 'For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind'. Ain Anger grew up on the Estonian island Saaremaa and has been hailed by The Guardian as `one of the great Wagner basses of our time`. He joins the festival orchestra for Mussorgsky's sombre Songs and Dances of Death, before they conclude the concert with Tchaikovsky's joyful Symphony No 2.

We round the week off with a trip to the 2020 Magic Summer Festival in Bucharest recorded just last month featuring Mahler's arrangement of Schubert's famous Death and the Maiden Quartet.

Erkki-Sven Tüür: Sow the Wind

Estonian Festival Orchestra

Paavo J䀀rvi, conductor

Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death

Ain Anger, bass

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, op. 17 ('Little Russian')

Schubert arr Mahler: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 ('Death and the Maiden')

Romanian Chamber Orchestra

Cristian M?celaru, conductor

Summer Festivals: The Proms20200817Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs - today the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with music by Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel and James MacMillan - the famous 1990 world premiere of his The Confession of Isobel Gowdie.

2.00pm

Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain, with Lynn Harrell (cello)

Ravel: Bolero

Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe (complete)

Conductor Donald Runnicles

3.45pm

James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (world premiere)

Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

This week of Afternoon Concert features BBC Proms by six different BBC performing groups, starting with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra today. Tomorrow you can hear two concerts: the BBC Singers in A Patchwork Passion - a retelling of Passion story with music from five centuries of Biblical settings, including works by Schütz, J.S. Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Arvo P䀀rt and James MacMillan; and then Günter Wand conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's Eighth Symphony - the last of his legendary Proms with the orchestra, from 1995. On Wednesday Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic (and BBC Singers again) in Haydn and Schubert, in a Prom from 2006. In Thursday Opera Matinee, Jane Glover conducts a 2012 Prom semi-staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard. And on Friday, following a 2013 concert by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Thomas Sondergard, the BBC Concert Orchestra return to end the week on Friday with a 2003 Prom performance of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf narrated by David Attenborough .

Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts of recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs.

Summer Festivals: The Proms20200818Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs. The first of today's two concerts is a Prom from 2017 given by the BBC Singers, the City of London Sinfonia and soloists under the baton of Sofi Jeannin: it's called A Patchwork Passion, and brings together five centuries of Biblical settings, including works by Schütz, J. S. Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Arvo P䀀rt and Sir James MacMillan.

Then, from 1995, the last of the legendary BBC Proms given by the German conductor Günter Wand with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

2.00pm

A Patchwork Passion - a retelling of the Passion story with music by various composers

Thomas Elwin,tenor

Christopher Bowen,tenor

David Shipley, bass

Conductor Sofi Jeannin

3.30pm

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts of recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs.

Summer Festivals: The Proms20200819Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts from recent years by BBC Orchestras and Choirs. Today's programme of music by Haydn and Schubert was given at the Royal Albert Hall on 30 July 2006.

Haydn: Mass in B flat major 'Heiligmesse

Schubert: Symphony No 9 in C major, D 944

Lucy Crowe, soprano

Alexandra Sherman, mezzo-soprano

Alexander James Edwards, tenor

Matthew Rose, bass

BBC Singers

BBC Philharmonic

Conductor Gianandrea Noseda

Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts of recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs.

Summer Festivals: The Proms20200820Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts by BBC Orchestras and Choirs: Jane Glover conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers in The Yeomen of the Guard by Gilbert and Sullivan - perhaps the most touching operetta they ever wrote - in this Prom from 2012.

Gilbert and Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard

Elsie Maynard - .. Lisa Milne, soprano

Jack Point - .. Mark Stone, baritone

Colonel Fairfax - .. Andrew Kennedy, tenor

Phoebe Meryll - .. Victoria Simmonds, mezzo-soprano

Wilfred Shadbolt - .. Toby Stafford-Allen, baritone

Leonard Meryll - .. Tom Randle, tenor

Lt Sir Richard Cholmondeley - .. Leigh Melrose, baritone

Dame Carruthers - .. Dame Felicity Palmer, mezzo-soprano

Kate, her niece - Mary Bevan, soprano

Sergeant Meryll - Mark Richardson, bass-baritone

BBC Singers

Conductor Jane Glover

Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts of recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs.

Summer Festivals: The Proms20200821Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts by BBC Orchestras and Choirs: Russian music from the BBC NOW and the BBC Concert Orchestra with David Attenborough in Peter and the Wolf.

2.00pm

Colin Matthews: Turning Point (UK premiere)

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 63

Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 in G minor, Op 103 (The Year 1905)

Daniel Hope, violin

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Conductor Thomas Sondergard

3.45pm

Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

David Attenborough, narrator

Conductor Barry Wordsworth

Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts of recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs.

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra20190415This week we feature recently recorded concerts with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Today starts with Daniel Harding at the helm of the ensemble performing Allan Pettersson's Symphonic Movement, written in 1973, followed by Schumann's rarely performed Violin Concerto in D minor, with Alina Ibragimova as soloist, finishing with Berlioz's orchestral suite inspired by Romeo and Juliet. The afternoon ends with Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, with Harding again at the rostrum, conducting the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus as well as vocal soloists, the soprano Christiane Karg and the baritone Matthias Goerne. Presented by Hannah French.

2.00pm

Allan Pettersson: Symphonic Movement

Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor, op. posth.

Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, orchestral suite

Alina Ibragimova, violin

Daniel Harding, conductor

3.15pm

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45

Christiane Karg, soprano

Matthias Goerne, baritone

Music by Pettersson, Schumann, Berlioz and Brahms.

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra20190416The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform two concerts this afternoon. The first, conducted by Ben Gernon, features the overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila by Glinka, then Mats Larsson Gothe's Ricerco 2, with the bassoon player Henrik Blixt as soloist, ending with Beethoven's Symphony 4. The second concert, this one with Omer Meir Wellber conducting the Swedish orchestra, includes two piano concertos, both with Johnathan Biss as soloist: Beethoven's Piano Concerto 1 and Sally Beamish's Piano Concerto 3, 'City Stanzas', then the afternoon finishes with Richard Strauss tone poem Ein Heldenleben. Presented by Hannah French.

2pm

Glinka: Overture to 'Ruslan and Lyudmila

Mats Larsson Gothe: Ricerco 2

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat, op. 60

Henrik Blixt, bassoon (in Gothe)

Ben Gernon, conductor

3.04pm

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, op. 15

Sally Beamish: Piano Concerto No. 3 ('City Stanzas')

Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, op. 40

Jonathan Biss, piano

Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

Music by Glinka, Gothe, Beethoven, Sally Beamish and Richard Strauss.

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra20190417The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs a concert including Anton Webern's arrangement for orchestra of J.S. Bach's Ricercar a 6, followed by Rautavaara's Cello Concerto, 'Towards the Horizon', with Truls Mørk as soloist, ending with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 in D minor, conducted by Klaus M䀀kel䀀. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2.00pm

J.S. Bach (arr. by Anton Webern): Ricercar a 6

Einojuhani Rautavaara: Cello Concerto No. 2, 'Towards the Horizon

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, op. 47

Truls Mørk, cello

Klaus M䀀kel䀀, conductor

Music by Bach, Rautavaara and Shotakovich.

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Friday20210305Tom McKinney introduced his final selection of recent recordings from the Sweden including music by Karin Rehnqvist, Maurice Ravel, Brett Dean, Percy Grainger and Igor Stravinsky conducted by Barbara Hannigan.

Karin Rehnqvist: Timpanuum Songs - Herding Calls

Swedish Radio Choir conducted by Fredrik Malmberg

Maurice Ravel: 'La Vallee des cloches' from Miroirs (arr., Grainger)

Brett Dean: Cello Concerto

(Alban Gerhardt, cello)

Percy Grainger: The Warriors

Swedish Radio Symphony conducted by Daniel Harding

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No 90 in C

Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella. ballet (1965 version)

Marta Swiderska (mezzo)

James Way (tenor)

Antoin Herrera-Lopez Kessel (baritone)

Swedish Radio Symphony conducted by Barbara Hannigan

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Rehnqvist, Ravel, Grainger and Stravinsky.

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Monday20210301Tom McKinney begins a week of music from Sweden with the featured orchestra of the week, The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, plus recordings from the Swedish Radio Choir.

Richard Wagner: Excerpts from 'Gotterdammerung':

Siegfried's Rhine Journey

Funeral March

Immolation Scene

(Nina Stemme, Soprano)

(Swedish Radio Symphony conducted by Daniel Harding)

Carlo Gesualdo: Responseries for Holy Saturday 1-3

`Sicut ovis ad occisionem`

`Jerusalem, surge`

`Plange quasi virgo`

(Swedish Radio Choir conducted by Peter Dijkstra)

Jimmy Lopez: Peru Negro

Daniel Bjarnason: Violin Concerto

(Pekka Kuusisto, violin)

Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)

(Swedish Radio Symphony conducted by Klaus Makela)

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Wagner, Lopez, Bjarnason and Stravinsky.

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tuesday20210302Tom McKinney continues his week with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, featuring music by Beethoven and an interpolated performance of a symphony by Sibelius.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 'Emperor

(Jonathan Biss, piano)

(Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Afkhan)

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No 4 in A minor, Op 63

combined with music by Mahler, Purcell and JS Bach.

(Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding)

Arnold Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande Op5

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven and Sibelius.

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wednesday20210303Tom McKinney with more from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding, including:

Johann Sebastain Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata No 42

Alban Berg: Violin Concerto

(Veronica Eberle, violin)

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 3 in F, Op90

(Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding)

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Bach, Berg and Brahms.

Swiss Summer Festivals (1-4)20190429Fairy tales were a theme running through the 2018 Lucerne Summer Festival, depicting musical images of childhood. Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra's opening concert takes us into the world of Russian fairy-tale with Igor Stravinsky's flamboyantly colourful and lushly orchestrated Firebird. The eponymous bird frees Prince Ivan Czarevich and the beautiful Czarina from captivity in the garden of the evil wizard Kashchei as a reward to the Prince for his kindness. Decades later, another magical garden, the wondrous Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., inspired Stravinsky to compose his neoclassical concerto of the same name. Between the two, Lang Lang joins the orchestra for Mozart's great C minor piano concerto.

We then travel nearly 200 miles south west to Verbier, for a taste of the concert Valery Gergiev performed with the Verbier Festival Orchestra at the start of their 2018 Summer Festival, for more Russian storytelling as we enter the world of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

Presented by Penny Gore

2.00pm

Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat ('Dumbarton Oaks')

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491

Stravinsky: The Firebird, ballet (original version 1909-1910)

Lang Lang, piano

Riccardo Chailly, conductor

Recorded in August 2018 at the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre

c.3.45pm

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, op. 35, symphonic suite

Saint Saens: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A minor, op. 28

Daniel Lozakovich, violin

Valery Gergiev, conductor

Recorded in July 2018 at the Combins Hall, Verbier

The opening concert of the 2018 Lucerne Festival plus Gergiev at the Verbier Festival.

Swiss Summer Festivals (2-4)20190430A showcase for the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra: Haydn's Creation with a star line-up of soloists plus Andrကs Schiff, Vilde Frang & Tabea Zimmermann performing Mozart & Bach. Presented by Penny Gore

2.00pm

Haydn: The Creation, Hob. XXI:2

Miah Persson, soprano

Bernard Richter, tenor

Peter Mattei, baritone

Andreas Bauer, bass

RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin

Gကbor Takကcs-Nagy, conductor

c.3.45pm

Mendelssohn: Excerpts from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - Overture, op. 21; Scherzo; Nocturne; Wedding March, op. 61

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat, K. 364

Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056

Vilde Frang, violin

Tabea Zimmermann, viola

Sir Andrကs Schiff, piano & conductor

Recorded in July 2017 in the Combins Hall, Verbier

Haydn's Creation plus Andras Schiff with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra.

Swiss Summer Festivals (3-4)20190501The Verbier Festival Orchestra with Leonidas Kavakos & Ying Fang perform Berg's haunting violin concerto & Mahler's 4th symphony under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach. Presented by Penny Gore.

2.00pm

Berg: Violin Concerto ('To the memory of an angel')

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G

Ying Fang, soprano

Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Christoph Eschenbach, conductor

Recorded in July 2018 at the Combins Hall, Verbier Festival

Christoph Eschenbach, Leonidas Kavakos and Ying Fang with the Verbier Festival Orchestra.

Swiss Summer Festivals (4-4)20190503Visiting orchestras to the Lucerne Summer Festival perform two giants of the symphonic canon and as this week's Our Classical Century focus, celebrating the most memorable musical moments from last century, we'll hear Nicola Benedetti's performance of Szymanowski's first violin concerto with which she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in May 2004.

The afternoon opens with a Jubilee concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore.

2.00pm

Haydn: Symphony No. 49 in F minor, Hob. I:49 ('La Passione')

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A, S. 125

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36

Yefim Bronfman, piano

Yannick N退zet-S退guin, conductor

Recorded in August 2018 at the Concert Hall, KKL, Lucerne

c.3.30pm

Our Classical Century:

Szymanowski: Violin Concerto 1

Nicola Benedetti, violin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov

c.3.55pm

Dvorak: Othello, op. 93, concert overture

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95 ('From the New World')

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

Recorded in September 2018 in the Concert Hall, KKL, Lucerne

The Rotterdam Philharmonic and the CBSO visit the Lucerne Summer Festival.

Take Five And Youth Orchestras From Around The World20190614As part of Radio 3's celebration of youth and music - Take Five - Elizabeth Alker introduces concerts by youth orchestras from around the world. Today's music includes pieces inspired by South America.

Robert Schumann: Overture to Genoveva, Op 81

Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54

George Gershwin: Cuban Overture

Silvestre Revueltas: Sensemaya

Mozart Camargo Guarnieri: Abertura Festiva

Alberto Ginastera: Estancia - ballet suite

Youth Orchestra of Bahia

Ronaldo Rolim (piano)

Ricardo Castro (conductor)

Today's Take Five guest is the conductor and violinist Stephanie Childress who introduces the Orchestra Rheia, a new London-based group of highly talented musicians she's founded.

The programme also features music by Leonard Bernstein.

Elizabeth Alker introduces music by a youth orchestra from Brazil.

Take Five: European Union Youth Orchestra20190610As part of Radio 3's celebration of music and youth, Elizabeth Alker introduces a series of orchestral concerts by youth orchestras from around the world. Today Gianandrea Noseda conducts the European Union Youth Orchestra in music by Chopin, Tchaikovsky and the contemporary Polish composer Agata Zubel. Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto is performed by the winner of the 2015 International Chopin Piano Competition.

Agata Zubel: Fireworks (Premiere)

Frederyk Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E Minor

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Today's featured Take Five guest is the composer and clarinettist Mark Simpson who meets his musical hero, Simon Rattle.

And Elizabeth will also be speaking with members of the Manchester Collective, young musicians who are doing ground-breaking work to appeal to young and diverse audiences for classical music.

A concert featuring works by Zubel, Chopin and Tchaikovsky

Take Five: National Youth Orchestra Of France20190612As part of Radio 3's celebration of youth and music Elizabeth Alker introduces concerts by youth orchestras from around the world. Today's programme features music from and about France.

Maurice Ravel: Une barque sur l'ocean, from 'Miroirs

Camille Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor, Op 61

Igor Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale

National Youth Orchestra of France

Nicolas Dautricourt (violin)

Fabien Gabal (conductor)

There is also chance to hear from today's featured Take Five guest, Isata Kanneh-Mason, and from the young violinist Momoko Arima with a performance of Ysaye's fiendishly difficult 6th Sonata for solo violin.

Music from, and about, France, including Ravel, Saint-Saens, Stravinsky and Debussy.

Take Five: National Youth Orchestras Of Germany And Spain20190611As part of Radio 3's celebration of youth and music Elizabeth Alker introduces concerts by youth orchestras from around the world. Today's music features music with links to Spain and Germany.

Joaquin Turina: La Procesion del Rocio, Op 9

Richard Strauss: Don Quixote

Bela Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

Asier Polo (cello)

National Youth Orchestra of Spain

Pablo Gonzalez (conductor)

Today's Take Five guest is the trombonist Peter Moore.

Also in the programme:

Anton Bruckner: Overture in G minor (1863)

Paul Hindemith: Symphony 'Mathis der Maler

German National Youth Orchestra

Elias Grandy (conductor)

Music from, and about, Germany and Spain, including works by Strauss, Bartok and Bruckner.

Tchaikovsky In Prague20230622With Ian Skelly, and an afternoon of the best classical music in great performances from around Europe and from BBC ensembles.

In the 3pm spotlight, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. We also hear the same orchestra in Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, and Arvo Part's tribute to Gustave Eiffel. Also today, Kirill Petrenko conducts Mozart's Coronation Mass in the distinctive acoustics of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia, with the Berlin Philharmonic, soloists including the British soprano Louise Alder, and the Spanish choir Orfeo Catala.

Including:

Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K. 618

Kirill Petrenko, conductor

Chopin: Ballade no. 4 in F minor Op.52

Alexander Gadjiev, piano

c.2.20pm

Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

Petr Popelka, conductor

Stephen McNeff: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

BBC Singers

Grace Rossiter, conductor

Dvorak: Piano Quintet no. 2 in A major Op.81: 4th movement Finale

Pavel Haas Quartet

Boris Giltburg, piano

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64

Marko Ivanovic, conductor

Arvo Part: Silhouette, Hommage

Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev20111021Presented by Katie Derham

An afternoon in the company of Russian perforners performing Russian showpieces, symphonies and ballet music.

No other play by Shakespeare has inspired as many composers as Romeo and Juliet and today's programmes features responses by two great Russian composers. With the Fantasy Overture, Tchaikovsky found his voice and penned his first masterpiece. Shakespeare's story and Tchaikovsky's musical portrayal are perfectly matched - the famous love theme in particular is one of his boldest and most beautiful themes; and the programme ends with one of Prokofiev's most popular scores, the Suite from his ballet Romeo and Juliet.

Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence was originally written for string sextet and reflects the time he spent Italy in 1889 while working on the Queen of Spades.

Working under Shostakovich's supervision, Rudolf Barshai transformed Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet into a Chamber Symphony (for string orchestra). Shostakovich composed the Eighth Quartet in 1960 during a visit to war-torn Dresden, and this triggered a response to Shostakovich's memories of his own shattered Leningrad (St Petersburg).

In May 1892, Tchaikovsky began work on a projected Symphony in E flat, but complained to a friend that work wasn't going at all smoothly. However by October he informed a former pupil that the work was completed and only required orchestration. Tchaikovsky began soon afterwards, but stopped after 33 pages and decided to transform the symphony into the rarely performed single movement Piano Concerto no.3. The original sketches were discovered many years later by the Russian musicologist and composer Semyon Bogatyryev, who reconstructed the work in the 1950s.

Katie Derham presents Russian performers in Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev.

Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony20230915Ian Skelly continues a week of afternoons featuring new recordings by the BBC performing groups, and performances from some of Europe's best concert halls.

Today's programme includes Tchaikovsky's mighty Fifth Symphony, a continuation of the composer's ideas around fate and a demonstration of his skills as a masterful orchestrator. It's performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with conductor Ryan Bancroft. The BBC Singers perform Brahms, and there are highlights from a concert given by the Venice Baroque Orchestra at the Kissinger Sommer Festival.

Including:

Brahms: Warum ist das Licht

Benjamin Goodson (conductor)

Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in D, RV 208, 'Grosso Mogul

Sergey Malov (violin)

Andrea Marcon (conductor)

Nielsen: Springtime in Funen

Clara Cecilie Thomsen (soprano)

Jacob Skov Andersen (tenor)

Jens Søndergaard (baritone)

Danish National Children's Choir

Danish National Concert Choir

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi (conductor)

c.3pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 5 in E minor, Op 64

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Beach: Piano Trio in A minor, Op.150

Mithras Trio

c.4pm

Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus, Concerto for Birds and Orchestra, op. 61

Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra

Emilia Hoving (conductor)

Ryan Bancroft conducts Tchaikovsky's orchestral masterpiece.

Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Live With The Bbc Philharmonic20220422Penny Gore introduces a live performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, from MediaCity, Salford, by the BBC Philharmonic. Also this afternoon, Janacek's suite from his opera The Cunning Little Vixen with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Mozart's overture from The Marriage of Figaro, with the Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg, and arias from Cantatas by JS Bach with G怀teborg Baroque. And we pay homage to Harrison Birtwistle with his Violin Concerto, performed by Christian Tetzlaff with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of David Robertson.

Including:

Mozart: Overture - The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492

Jorg Widmann, conductor

JS Bach: excerpts -

Vergnügte Ruh! beliebte Seelenlust!, from 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170

Amanda Flodin, alto

Prelude, from 'Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008' [solo lute]

Dohyo Sol, lute

Zion h怀rt die W䀀chter singen, from 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140

Carl Unander-Scharin, tenor

Gloria sei dir gesungen, from 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140

Sofia Niklasson, soprano; Amanda Flodin, alto; Carl Unander-Scharin, tenor; Karl Peter Eriksson, bass

Magnus Kjellson, claviorgan, leader

Elgar: Sospiri, Op.70

Netherland Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Benjamin Goodson, conductor

Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen suite / dur 18.56' + applause

Keith Lockhart, conductor

Haydn: Piano Sonata in C major, H16 No 50

Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, piano

c.3pm LIVE from MediaCity, Salford

Tchaikovsky Symphony 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Ein ungef䀀rbt Gemüte, from 'Ein ungef䀀rbt Gemüte, BWV 24

Weicht, all ihr ܀belt䀀ter, from 'Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135

Herr, gib dass ich dein Ehre, from 'Was willst du dich betrüben, BWV 107

Harrison Birtwistle: Violin Concerto

Christian Tetzlaff, violin

David Robertson, conductor

Janacek's suite from The Cunning Little Vixen and arias from cantatas by JS Bach.

Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony20230914Ian Skelly curates the best classical music for the afternoon, with new recordings from the BBC performing groups and concert performances from around Europe. Today's programme includes Tchaikovsky's battle with fate in his Fourth Symphony, along with Britten's Sea Interludes, both performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The BBC Singers perform Elgar, and a performance of Ligeti's Concerto Rom nesc from the Ulster Orchestra.

Including:

Glinka: Ruslan i Lyudmila - Overture

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Liszt: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca, from 'Ann退es de p耀lerinage S.161

Alexandre Kantorow (piano)

Alwyn: Concerto Grosso No 1 in B flat

BBC Concert Orchestra

Martin Yates (conductor)

c.3pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4 in F minor, Op.36

Marta Gardoli?ska (conductor)

Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands

Iain Farrington (piano)

Daniel Hyde (conductor)

Ligeti: Concerto Rom nesc

Jonathan Bloxham (conductor)

J.S. Bach (orch. Skrowaczewski): Toccata and fugue (BWV.565) [orig. for organ]

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

A battle with fate in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4 with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Suite20211223Seasonal music from Tchaikovsky, Otto Nicolai and Josef Suk, as well as Vivaldi's Gloria and Haydn's 'Drumroll' Symphony.

A concert from Radio France's state-of-the-art studios in Paris pairs Tchaikovsky with Soviet composer Georgy Sviridov; music for strings by American composer Caroline Shaw teases the ear; and there's also room for much-loved works by Nicolai, Vivaldi and Haydn

Presented by Ian Skelly

2.00pm

Christmas Overture

BBC Concert Orchestra

Barry Wordsworth, conductor

Entr'acte for strings

Calidore String Quartet

A Winter's Tale

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

3.00pm

S退r退nade m退lancolique in B flat minor, op. 26

Snow is Falling, chamber cantata

Suite from Swan Lake, op. 20a

Ji Yoon Park, violin

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Mikko Franck, conductor

Gloria in D, RV 589

Les Arts Florissants

Paul Agnew, conductor

Symphony no.103 in E flat, ‘Drumroll

Ben Gernon, conductor

Seasonal music from Nicolai, Suk and Tchaikovsky, as well as Haydn's 'Drumroll' Symphony.

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto20221017Ian Skelly introduces music making from Andrew Manze in Germany alongside performances of works by Weber, Ligeti, Debussy, Haydn and Tchaikovsky.

Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata No 1 in D Op5 - ii. Allegro (fuga)

Andrew Manze (violin)

Richard Egarr (harpsichord)

Carl Maria von Weber: Overture - The Ruler of the Spirits Op27

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Gy怀rgy Ligeti: Concert Romanesc

ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra

Marin Alsop (conductor)

Gustav Holst: 6 Choral Folksongs - 5. `I Love My Love` Op36B

Holst Singers,

Stephen Layton (conductor)

Claude Debussy: Prelude

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto20231018Fiona Talkington introduces a selection of the best classical music, in great performances from BBC ensembles and concert halls around Europe.

Today, from this summer's Montepellier Festival, Leonidas Kavakos joins the Radio France Philharmonic for Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. There's more from the same festival's recital by Fazil Say, as he plays Beethoven's 'Tempest' Sonata, Grace Rossiter conducts the BBC Singers in music by Ned Rorem, and Shostakovich orchestrates Mussorgsky in a new recording from the BBC Philharmonic and Ben Gernon.

Including:

Coates: Television March

John Wilson, conductor

Ned Rorem: Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love

Grace Rossiter, conductor

Andree: Concert Overture in D major

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Chloe van Soeterstede, conductor

c.2.35pm

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, op. 31/2 ('Tempest')

Fazil Say, piano

3pm

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op.35

Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Mikko Franck, conductor

Fazil Say: Black Earth

Mussorgsky (orch. Shostakovich): Khovantschina, Prelude to Act I (Dawn on the Moscow River)

Ben Gernon, conductor

Leonidas Kavakos plays Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Radio France Philharmonic.

Leonidas Kavakos plays Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Radio France Philharmonic, plus a Beethoven sonata from pianist Fazil Say and Mussorgsky from the BBC Philharmonic.

The 12 Cellists Of The Berlin Philharmonic20220427This week Afternoon Concert features performances from Berlin ensembles. Today it's the 12 cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic with music by Piazzolla, Morricone and Brett Dean. Plus, Steven Isserlis plays Haydn's Cello Concerto No.1 in Frankfurt, pianist Nino Gvetadze plays Chopin and we're in Florida with Delius and Michael Torke.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Piazzolla - Fuga Misterio

c. 2.15

Delius - Daybreak [Florida Suite]

BBC Concert Orchestra

Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

Michael Torke - Everglades, under the stars [Miami Grands]

Miami Piano Circle

Conducted by Georgi Danchev

c. 2.35

Haydn - Cello Concerto No.1 in C, Hob. VIIb:1

Steven Isserlis (cello)

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Richard Egarr (conductor)

3pm

Brett Dean - 12 Angry Men

3.15

Chopin - Barcarolle in F sharp, Op.60

Nino Gvetadze (piano)

c. 3.25

Carl Maria von Weber Concertino in E flat, Op.26

Jakob Plag (clarinet) South Netherlands Philharmonic

Hartmut Haenchen

Music by Haydn, Chopin, Weber, Piazzolla, Delius, Michael Torke and Brett Dean.

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 1-420191007The Bavarian Radio Symphony in concert.

Penny Gore this week introduces performances by one of the world's finest orchestras in recordings. After their triumph at this year's BBC Proms, the orchestra is heard here in performances given in their home city of Munich. The orchestra is conducted by some of the world's leading conductors, including their Principal Conductor, Mariss Jansons. The music this week includes Strauss's Four Last Songs, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Stravinsky's Firebird, Schumann's Fourth Symphony and Bruckner's Mass in F minor in recent performances conducted by Mariss Jansons, Bernard Haitink, Ivကn Fischer, Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth, Jakub Hr?ša and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 36

Kurt Weill: Four Walt Whitman Songs

Respighi: The Pines of Rome

Thomas Hampson (baritone),

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,

Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Rec. Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich 17.05.2019

Followed at approx 3.10pm

Dvo?ကk: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53

Augustin Hadelich, (violin),

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jakub Hr?ša (conductor)

Rec. 19.10.2018 Philharmonie, Munich

and approx 3.50pm

Mozart: Symphony No. 34 in C, K338

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ivကn Fischer, conductor

Rec. 12.04.2019 Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons and Ivan Fischer

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 2-420191008The Bavarian Radio Symphony in concert.

Penny Gore introduces more performances from one of the world's finest orchestras. Today, two conductors famous for their performances on period instruments conduct the Bavarians - fabled for their noble tone - in music by Schumann, Haydn and Stravinsky.

Haydn: Symphony No. 52 in C minor, Hob. I:52

Haydn: Berenice, che fai, Hob. XXIVa:10

Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E minor, Hob. I:44 ('Trauer')

Schumann: Ach neige, du Schmerzensreiche (From Szenen aus Goethes Faust)

Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120

Anna Prohaska (soprano)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Rec. 24.05.2019 Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich

Followed at approx 3.45pm by:

Boulez: Livre pour cordes

Stravinsky: The Firebird, ballet

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

Rec. 05.04.2019 Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich

John Eliot Gardiner and Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Roth conduct the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 3-420191009The Bavarian Radio Symphony in concert: Bernard Haitink conducts Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Penny Gore introduces a performance of Beethoven's mighty Choral Symphony recorded in Munich in February this year and conducted by the masterful 90-year-old Dutch conductor. This is a performance of epic grandeur and liquid grace from an orchestra noted for its nobility of utterance.

Beethoven: Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, op. 112

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Nuno Coelho (conductor)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (Choral)

Sally Matthews (soprano)

Gerhild Romberger (contralto)

Mark Padmore (tenor)

Gerald Finley (bass)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

Rec. 22.02.2019 Gasteig, Munich

Bernard Haitink conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven, Symphony No 9

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 4-420191011The Bavarian Radio Symphony in concert: Mariss Jansons conducts Strauss and Bruckner.

Diana Damrau joins this magisterial orchestra and its Latvian Principal Conductor for music of supreme lyricism and noble grandeur. And the week is rounded off with performances of Bartok and Mozart conducted by Ivကn Fischer.

Presented by Penny Gore.

R. Strauss: Four Last Songs, op. posth.

Bruckner: Mass No. 3 in F minor

Sally Matthews (soprano)

Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)

Ilker Arcayürek (tenor)

Stanislav Trofimov (bass)

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Rec. 25.01.2019 Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich

approx 3.25pm

Bart k: Violin Concerto No. 1, Sz. 36

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat, K. 543

Janine Jansen (violin),

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ivကn Fischer (conductor)

Rec. 12.04.2019 Hercules Hall, Residenz, Munich

Mariss Jansons conducts Strauss and Bruckner with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

The Bbc Concert Orchestra Live20191213Kate Molleson hosts the last in a week of live concerts from the BBC Orchestras - today Hannah French presents a wide-ranging concert live from our Maida Vale Studios. The BBC Concert Orchestra will be conducted by their Principal Guest Conductor Designate, Anna-Maria Helsing

Zemlinsky arranges snowy Korngold, Britten arranges his beloved Mahler and Joby Talbot gives his unique take on Henry Purcell. And at the centre of the programme is Gerald Finzi's exquisite cantata Dies natalis, which sets texts by the metaphysical poet Thomas Traherne

2.00pm

Joby Talbot: Chacony in G minor

Mahler/ Britten: What the wild flowers tell me

Finzi: Dies natalis

Korngold/Zemlinsky: Der Schneemann: Prelude and Serenade

Janacek/Stein: Sinfonietta

Thomas Elwin (tenor)

Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor)

The BBC Concert Orchestra and Anna-Maria Helsing in Talbot, Mahler, Finzi and Janacek.

The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20210719Ian Skelly introduces a week of performances with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Today, a concert with the ensemble under the baton of Martyn Brabbins, recorded in May and featuring two Malcolm Arnold pieces as bookends, his Little suite No 1 and his Concerto for 28 players; also the world premiere of Matthew Taylor's Symphony No 6, as well as Cyril Scott's Early one morning. Also this afternoon, Shostakovich's Symphony No 14 with Mark Wigglesworth conducting the orchestras, part of a set of recordings of the Russian composer's symphonies which is re-released commercially this month.

2.00pm

Arnold: Little Suite No 1, Op 53

Cyril Scott: Early One Morning

Matthew Taylor: Symphony No 6 (World Premiere)

Arnold: Concerto for 28 players, Op 105

Tom Poster, piano

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

c.3.10pm

Shostakovich: Symphony No 14

Mark Wigglesworth, conductor

Music by Malcolm Arnold, Cyril Scott, Matthew Taylor and Dmitri Shostakovich

The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20210720Ian Skelly introduces a concert recorded last month by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under conductor Ryan Bancroft performing Takemitsu's Archipelago S. inspired in his native Japan; Mozart's last piano concerto, No. 27, with soloist Martin James Bartlett, closing with Debussy's evocative tone poem La Mer, The Sea, arranged by Joolz Gale. Then, the Welsh ensemble in Copland's Clarinet Concerto with soloist Robert Plane, under the baton of Eric Stern, before closing the afternoon with the powerful Symphony No 7, the 'Leningrad', by Dmitri Shostakovich, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, part of a set of recordings of the Russian composer's symphonies with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, commercially re-released this month.

2.00pm

Takemitsu: Archipelago S.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major, K 595

Debussy (arr. Joolz Gale): La Mer

Martin James Bartlett, piano

Ryan Bancroft, conductor

c.3.10pm

Copland: Clarinet Concerto

Robert Plane, clarinet

Eric Stern, conductor

c.3.25pm

Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 'Leningrad

Mark Wigglesworth, conductor

Music by Takemitsu, Mozart, Debussy, Copland and Shostakovich

The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20210721Ian Skelly introduces a concert recorded in April this year given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, under the baton of Ryan Wigglesworth, who conducts the world premiere of his Five Waltzes for viola and piano arranged for orchestra, performed by soloist Lawrence Power; the afternoon starts with Stravinsky's Symphonies of wind instruments, though, and also includes Elizabeth Maconchy's Music for brass and woodwind, as well as Hindemith's Der Schwanendreher. The afternoon closes with another Elizabeth Maconchy piece, this time for chorus and orchestra, her And Death Shall Have No Dominion, with the BBC National Chorus of Wales joining the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, all under conductor Adrian Partington.

2.00pm

Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Ryan Wigglesworth: Five Waltzes for viola and piano, arr. for orchestra (World Premiere)

Elizabeth Maconchy: Music for Brass and Woodwind

Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher

Lawrence Power, viola

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

c.3.10pm

Elizabeth Maconchy: And Death Shall Have No Dominion

Adrian Partington, conductor

Music by Igor Stravinsky, Ryan Wigglesworth, Elizabeth Maconchy and Paul Hindemith.

The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20210722Ian Skelly introduces music from a concert recorded earlier this month featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under conductor Martyn Brabbins performing Delius's On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Malcolm Arnold's Concerto for two violins and string orchestra, with soloists Lesley Hatfield and Nick Whiting, followed by John Pickard's Concertante variations (Presteigne concerto), then Walton's Siesta, finishing the concerto with Elgar's Serenade in E minor. After that we hear Daniel Jones's Symphony No. 5 with the Welsh ensemble under the baton of Bryden Thomson.

Next comes Copland's clarinet concert with soloist Robert Plane, with Thomas Sondergard conducting.

The afternoon closes with Hindemith's Symphony (Mathis der Maler) performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Tadaaki Osaka.

2.00pm

Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Arnold: Concerto for two violins and string orchestra, Op 77

John Pickard: Concertante variations (Presteigne concerto)

Walton: Siesta

Elgar: Serenade in E minor, Op 20

Lesley Hatfield & Nick Whiting, violins

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

c.2.50pm

Daniel Jones: Symphony No. 5

Bryden Thomson, conductor

c.3.35pm

Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto

Robert Plane, clarinet

Thomas Sondergard, conductor

c.4.00pm

Hindemith: Symphony (Mathis der Maler)

Tadaaki Otaka, conductor

BBC NOW in music by Delius, Arnold, Pickard, Walton, Elgar, Jones, Nielsen and Hindemith.

The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20210723Ian Skelly closes this week with more performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Today starts with the brass section of the ensemble playing Sibelius's Overture in F minor. Then, a concert given by the ensemble with conductor B. Tommy Anderson featuring Bartok's Hungarian Sketches for orchestra, from his own piano works; followed by Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 with virtuoso soloist Beatrice Rana. The concert finishes with Korngold's Symphony in F sharp.

Then, Robert Plane performs Debussy's Premiere Rhapsodie, accompanied by the ensemble, under the baton of Tadaaki Osaka.

The afternoon closes with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 6, under conductor Mark Wigglesworth, part of a cycle of recordings of the Russian's composer symphonies by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, commercially re-released this month.

2.00pm

Sibelius: Overture in F minor

Brass section, BBC National Orchestra of Wales

c.2.10pm

Bartok: Hungarian sketches Sz.97 for orchestra [from own piano works]

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Op.26

Korngold: Symphony in F sharp Op.40

Beatrice Rana, piano

B. Tommy Andersson, conductor

c.3.45pm

Debussy: Premiere Rhapsodie

Robert Plane, clarinet

Tadaaki Otaka, conductor

c.3.55pm

Shostakovich: Symphony No 6

Mark Wigglesworth, conductor

Music by Sibelius, Bartok, Prokofiev, Korngold, Debussy and Shostakovich.

The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales (1-5)20201130~Afternoon Concert with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Fiona Talkington introduces the first programme this week exploring the work of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Today the orchestra is heard in recordings made last month of 20th-century music for strings and also in Vaughan Williams's London Symphony, in a 2001 performance from Swansea's Brangwyn Hall.

Arvo P䀀rt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

Andrzej Panufnik: Bassoon Concerto

Benjamin Britten: Prelude and Fugue

Grazyna Bacewicz: Concerto for Strings

Jaros?aw Augustyniak (bassoon)

David Angus (conductor)

c. 2.55pm

Arthur Benjamin: Conquest of Everest (suite)

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony

Richard Hickox (conductor)

Lutoslawski: Chantefleurs et Chantefables

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays Anna Clyne, Britten and Vaughan Williams.

The Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales (2-5)20201201~Afternoon Concert with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Fiona Talkington introduces the second programme this week exploring the work of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in recordings made in Cardiff and Bangor, On the bill today is a substantial concerto for sitar which combines North Indian classical raag and taal with western orchestral traditions and a work for cello and ensemble inspired variously by the ‘cello suites of Bach and Britten and a world, 'where ‘stars' can be born overnight with the help of stylists and Saturday night telly. Two works by Sir James MacMillan showcase both the orchestra and the BBC National Chorus of Wales. Also today, a performance of Mahler's Rückert Lieder from January of last year by former Cardiff Singer of the World and Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Catriona Morison, a voice in a million.

Sibelius Finlandia Op 26

Thomas Søndergaard (conductor)

James MacMillan: Seraph for trumpet and strings

William Mathias: Melos

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Katharsis for cello and ensemble

Philippe Schartz (trumpet)

Alice Neary (cello)

Jonathan Bloxham (conductor)

approx 3.10pm

Mahler: Rückert Lieder

Catriona Morison (mezzo soprano)

approx. 3.40pm

Jonathan Mayer: Sitar Concerto No 2

Jonathan Mayer (sitar)

Debashish Chaudhuri (conductor)

Villa Lobos: Bachianias Brasilieras No.1

BBC National Orchestra of Wales cello section.

Ginastera: Ollantay

Gisele Ben-Dor (conductor)

Macmillan: Te Deum

Adrian Partington (conductor)

Tippet: Corelli Fantasia

Richard Hickox (conducting)

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales in works by James MacMillan and Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

The Bbc Now And Bbc Symphony Orchestra Live20191210Kate Molleson continues to host a week of live broadcasts from the BBC's performing groups around the country. Today Nicola Heywood-Thomas presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a Russian programme that's both wintery and nostalgic

We then move from Cardiff to London for a sunny programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra mixing the well-loved, the less well-known and a new work by young French composer Camille Pepin

2pm

Live from Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff

Glazunov: Winter from The Seasons

Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations; Symphony 1 'Winter Dreams

Anastasia Kobekina (cello)

Gergely Madaras (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Live from Maida Vale studios, London

Camille Pepin: Laniakea (UK premiere)

Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1

Aubert: Habanera

Ravel: Rhapsodie Espagnole

Johan Dalene (violin)

Fabien Gabel (conductor)

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays Tchaikovsky and the BBC Symphony Orchestra Ravel

The Bbc Philharmonic (1-4)20201005A week of performances by the BBC Philharmonic featuring symphonies by British composers and the young Schubert. Presented by Tom McKinney.

Rossini: Overture to The Thieving Magpie

Mozart: Violin Concerto in G (K 216)

Carolin Widmann (violin)

Ben Gernon (conductor)

Schubert: Symphony No 1

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Michael Ball: Euphonium Concerto

David Childs (euphonium)

Dorothy Howell: Lamia

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Coates: The Enchanted Garden - ballet

Bainton: Symphony No 2

Vernon Handley (conductor)

Symphonies by British composers and Schubert played by the BBC Philharmonic.

The Bbc Philharmonic (2-4)20201006A week of performances by the BBC Philharmonic featuring symphonies by British composers and the young Schubert. Presented by Tom McKinney.

Schubert: Symphony No 3

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Antheil: Nocturne in Skyrockets

John Storgards (conductor)

Kurt Schwertsik: Herr K. entdeckt Amerika

H K Gruber (conductor)

Bax: Symphony No 3

Vernon Handley (conductor)

Copland: Down a Country Lane

John Wilson (conductor)

Mahler: Symphony No 5

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Symphonies by British composers and Schubert played by the BBC Philharmonic.

The Bbc Philharmonic (3-4)20201007A week of performances by the BBC Philharmonic featuring symphonies by British composers and the young Schubert. Presented by Tom McKinney.

Schubert Symphony No 4 (Tragic)

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Anna Clyne Night Ferry

Ben Gernon (conductor)

Bowen: Symphony No 1

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Symphonies by British composers and Schubert played by the BBC Philharmonic.

The Bbc Philharmonic (4-4)20201009A week of performances by the BBC Philharmonic featuring symphonies by British composers and the young Schubert. Presented by Tom McKinney.

Schubert: Symphony No 5

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Entr'acte, Act IV, Hamlet

Ben Gernon (conductor)

Gipps: Symphony No 3

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Serenade

Ben-Haim: Symphony No 1

Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)

Symphonies by British composers and Schubert played by the BBC Philharmonic.

The Bbc Philharmonic Live20191211As Kate Molleson hosts a week of concerts from the BBC Orchestras - we are live from MediaCityUK, Salford. Sarah Walker presents the BBC Philharmonic in a pair of darkly personal works. Dmitri Shostakovich's powerful first violin concerto was suppressed by the composer until Stalin's death for fear of the consequences of publication; while German-Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim's first symphony from 1940 is infused with grim intensity of a world at war

2.00pm

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1

Paul Ben-Haim: Symphony No. 1

Aleksey Semenenko (violin)

Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)

The BBC Philharmonic plays Shostakovich and Paul Ben-Haim, live from Salford

The Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk20161102Live from Salford, John Storgards conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Grieg, Vaughan WIlliams
The Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk In Salford20191218Live from MediaCityUK in Salford the BBC Philharmonic perform Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto. The soloist is the young German pianist Elisabeth Brauss who is currently a member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists Scheme as has been praised for `the maturity and sophistication of her thoughtful interpretations` The concert concludes with Malcolm Arnold's riotous Commonwealth Christmas Overture which was commissioned by the BBC in 1957 to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the sovereign's Christmas broadcasts.

Presented by Elizabeth Alker.

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor

Malcolm Arnold: Commonwealth Christmas Overture

Elisabeth Brauss, piano

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Elizabeth Alker presents the BBC Philharmonic live from MediaCityUK in Salford.

The Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford20151125The BBC Philharmonic and conductor Alpesh Chauhan are live in concert from MediaCity in Salford, presented by Adam Tomlinson, and featuring BBC New Generation Artist Benjamin Appl. Then back to the studio with Verity Sharp for music performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra

2pm

Strauss: Don Juan

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

2.20pm:

Schubert: Memnon; Prometheus; Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen

Wolf: Denk es, o Seele; Gebet

Benjamin Appl (baritone)

2.40pm:

Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Op 46 Nos 1 and 4; Op 72 Nos 2 and 7

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor).

The BBC Philharmonic in a live concert of music by Strauss, Schubert, Wolf and Dvorak.

The Bbc Philharmonic Perform Chaminade, Ravel And Dukas Live From Salford20190213A feast of French music as Moritz Gnann and the BBC Philharmonic perform Chaminade's Callirhoe Suite, Ravel's Mother Goose & Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Presented from MediaCityUK in Salford by Andrew McGregor

2.00pm

Chaminade: Callirhoe Suite

Ravel orch. Matthews: Oiseaux tristes

Ravel: Mother Goose (complete ballet)

Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Moritz Gnann and the BBC Philharmonic perform works by Chaminade, Ravel and Dukas.

The Bbc Po Live From Salford And The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra In Japan20191129The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra brings the Proms to Japan.

Georgia Mann introduces the closing concert from the orchestra's first ever tour to Japan. And they end with a programme which brings the spirit of the Last Night of the Proms to the Orchard Hall in Tokyo.

And before that a concert live from MediaCityUK, Salford introduced by Hannah French.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major K.595

Martinu: Symphony no. 5, H 310

Steven Osborne (piano)

Ludovic Morlot (conductor)

Followed at approx. 3pm

Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony in the Last Night of the Proms in in Japan:

Rossini: Overture to William Tell - Galop

Ravel: Tzigane - rapsodie de concert

Kosaku Yamada: Red Dragonfly

Puccini: La Boheme Act 2; Quando m'en vo (Musetta's waltz-song)

Maxwell Davies: An Orkney wedding, with sunrise for orchestra and bagpipes

Vadim Repin (violin), Maki Mori (soprano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

and at approx. 3.50pm

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

The BBC Philharmonic live from Salford and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Japan.

The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200204Tom McKinney presents performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at home and away. Today they're in Aberdeen with Mendelssohn, Bruch and Rachmaninov, and Salzburg with Brahms and Elgar.

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture Op.26

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

Bruch: Concerto no. 1 in G minor Op.26 for violin and orchestra

Henning Kraggerud (violin)

Rachmaninov: 3 Symphonic dances Op.45 for orchestra

Brahms: Concerto no. 1 in D minor Op.15 for piano and orchestra

Elizabeth Leonskaja (piano)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Elgar: Symphony no. 1 in A flat major Op.55

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in performance around Scotland and beyond.

The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200205Tom McKinney continues a week of recordings by The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today they're at their home in the City Halls in Glasgow with Weber, Schumann and Brahms.

Weber: Invitation to the dance

Alexander Vedernikov

Schumann: Concerto in A minor Op.129 for cello and orchestra

Johannes Moser (cello)

Brahms: Quartet in G minor Op.25, orch. Schoenberg [orig. Piano Quartet no.1]

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at Glasgow City Halls

The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200207Tom McKinney concludes a week of performances by The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today they're playing Stravinsky and Shostakovich in Inverness, and Elgar in Orkney.

Stravinsky: Symphonies of wind instruments

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Schwertsik: Now you hear me, now you don't Op.102 for marimba and string orchestra

Colin Currie (percussion)

Shostakovich: Symphony no. 10 in E minor Op.93

Maconchy Music for woodwind and brass

Ben Gernon (conductor)

Rudi Stephan Music for Orchestra

Elgar Concerto in E minor Op. 85 for cello and orchestra

Jamal Aliyev (cello)

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Inverness and Orkney

The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200330To start this week, devoted to repertoire performed recently by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, a work that has been deemed as Gra?yna Bacewicz's opus magnum, her Concerto for string orchestra written in 1948, conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya. It's followed by Glazunov's violin concerto in A minor, with Kristof Barati as soloist. Then comes another masterpiece, Schubert's Symphony No. 8, Unfinished, with the ensemble under the baton of Kevin John Edusei. The afternoon returns to the Polish flavour that started the programme as Lukasz Borowicz conducts music from his fatherland: first, Jerzy Gablenz's Piano Concerto in D?flat Major, with soloist Jonathan Plowright, and then Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Fantaisie Polonaise, Op.19.

Presented by Hannah French.

2.00pm

Gra?yna Bacewicz: Concerto for string orchestra

Glazunov: Concerto for violin in A minor, Op. 82

Kristof Barati, violin

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor

2.40pm

Schubert: Symphony no. 8 in B minor, D.759 (Unfinished)

Kevin John Edusei, conductor

3.10pm

Gablenz: Piano Concerto, Op.25

Paderewski: Fantaisie Polonaise, Op.19

Jonathan Plowright, piano

Lukasz Borowicz, conductor

With music by Gra\u017cyna Bacewicz, Glazunov, Schubert, Gablenz and Paderewski.

The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200331The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Anthony Hermus performs Haydn's Symphony No. 22 in E flat major, followed by Donizetti's celebrated Mad Scene from his opera 'Lucia di Lammermoor' with soprano Sara Hershkowitz as the doomed heroine. Then comes an orchestral adventure as the entire saga of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung is performed as arranged by Henk de Vlieger as a single, instrumental piece. The afternoon continues with a flavour of the night as we hear Dvorak's Serenade in D minor for wind instruments, conducted by Sergej Bolkhovets. Then John Wilson takes to the rostrum to conduct the orchestra in Benjamin Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings - the soloists are tenor Stuart Jackson and on the horn, Alberto Men退ndez Escribano. The afternoon ends back with Dvorak and his Symphonic variations, Op. 78.

Presented by Hannah French.

2.00pm

Haydn: Symphony No.22 in E flat major, Hob. I/22

Donizetti: Mad Scene from 'Lucia di Lammermoor

Wagner: The Ring, an orchestral adventure (arr. Henk de Vlieger)

Sara Hershkowitz, soprano

Antony Hermus, conductor

3.45pm

Dvorak: Serenade in D minor Op.44 for wind instruments*

Britten: Serenade Op.31 for tenor, horn & strings

Dvorak: Symphonic variations Op.78

Stuart Jackson, tenor

Alberto Men退ndez Escribano, horn

John Wilson, conductor

*Sergej Bolkhovets, conductor

With music by Haydn, Donizetti, Wagner, Dvorak and Britten.

The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200401The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kevin John Edusei, with the Mexican composer Arturo Mကrquez's Danz n No. 2, inspired in the music of Cuba. Then the orchestra's Conductor Emeritus, Donald Runnicles, takes the baton to perform Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, a selection of six songs for voice soloists and orchestra, inspired by Chinese poetry. It features the mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor and the tenor Paul Groves, accompanied by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Hannah French presents.

2.00pm

A. Mကrquez: Danz n No. 2

Kevin John Edusei, conductor

2.15pm

G. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Kelley O'Connor, mezzo soprano

Paul Groves, tenor

Donald Runnicles, conductor

Arturo M\u00e1rquez's Danz\u00f3n No 2 and Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.

The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200403The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kevin John Edusei, in Mozart's Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat major, with Pavel Kolesnikov as soloist, followed by Strauss's tone poem Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, recreating the adventures and pranks of this German folk hero. Then, to close the afternoon it's Thomas Dausgaard's turn at the rostrum with two world premieres, commissioned by the BBC. First comes Bent Sorensen's Enchantress, five short intermezzos for orchestra, and then, Emma Ruth Richards' The Sail of a Flame, featuring the mezzo-soprano Lucy Schaufer. The afternoon ends with Amy Beach's 'Gaelic' Symphony in E minor.

Presented by Hannah French.

2.00pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K.482

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op.28

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

Kevin John Edusei, conductor

2.50pm

Bent Sorensen: Enchantress (5 intermezzi for orchestra) - BBC Commission, World Premiere

Emma Ruth Richards: The Sail of a Flame* - BBC Commission, World Premiere

Amy Beach: Symphony in E minor, Op.32 (Gaelic)

*Lucy Schaufer, mezzo-soprano

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

With music by Mozart, Strauss, Bent Sorensen, Emma Ruth Richards and Amy Beach.

The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200921Fiona Talkington introduces a week of music, recorded at recent sessions and concerts, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony under a variety of conductors. Today we feature the Overture in E flat by Louise Farrenc, followed by Robert Schumann's Concerto for piano in A minor with soloist Elizabeth Leonskaja; then two Beethoven pieces starting with his Rondo a capriccio, orchestrated by Schulhoff, then his Symphony No. 8 in F major. Next comes the beautiful 'Nozze di Primavera' by the composer, music producer and former head of music at BBC Scotland Martin Dalby. The piece was a wedding gift to his wife and quotes an enchanting ancient wedding hymn. Then three orchestral pieces by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett: Troubadour Music, Aubade and Anniversaries. The afternoon ends with Richard Walthew's Clarinet Concerto with Robert Plane as soloist.

2.00pm

Louise Farrenc: Overture in E flat major, op.24

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

Robert Schumann: Concerto in A minor Op.54 for piano and orchestra

Elizabeth Leonskaja (piano)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Beethoven: Rondo a capriccio, op.129 (Rage over a lost penny), orch. Schulhoff

2.50pm

Beethoven: Symphony No.8 in F major, Op. 93

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

Martin Dalby Nozze di primavera for orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

3.30pm

John Wilson (conductor)

Richard Walthew: Clarinet Concerto, orch. Alfie Pugh

Robert Plane (clarinet)

With music by Louise Farrenc, Robert Schumann, Beethoven, Dalby, Bennett and Walthew.

The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200922Fiona Talkington introduces repertoire from recent concerts and sessions from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under various conductors. Today, Sibelius' The Swan of Tuonela, from his Lemminkainen suite; then Robert Schumann's Concerto for cello and orchestra with Johannes Moser as soloist; followed by Dvorak's Symphony No. 7 in D minor; it's followed by Ibert's Divertissement and the Country Dances by Richard Rodney Bennett. The afternoon continues with some more contemporary repertoire. First Ruth Gipps's Clarinet Concerto with Robert Plane as soloist, followed by two pieces by Martin Suckling: The White Road, for flute and orchestra, with flautist Katherine Bryan, and the Piano Concerto, with Tamara Stefanovich as soloist.

2.00pm

Sibelius: Lemminkainen suite Op.22 :: no.3; The Swan of Tuonela

Karl-Heinz Steffens (conductor)

R. Schumann: Concerto in A minor Op.129 for cello and orchestra

Johannes Moser (cello)

Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

2.35pm

Dvorak: Symphony no. 7 in D minor Op.70

Miguel Harth-Bedoya(conductor)

Ibert: Divertissement

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

3.30pm

Richard Rodney Bennett: Country Dances

John Wilson (conductor)

Michael McHale (piano)

Ruth Gipps: Clarinet Concerto in G minor op.9

Robert Plane (clarinet)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

The White Road, for flute & orchestra

Katherine Bryan (flute)

Tamara Stefanovich (piano)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

With music by Sibelius, Robert Schumann, Dvorak, Ibert, Bennett, Ruth Gipps and Suckling.

The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200923Hannah French introduces music by Ian Hamilton and Gustav Mahler performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, recorded at City Halls in Glasgow

2pm

Iain Hamilton: Clarinet Concerto, Op.7

Robert Plane (clarinet)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.2.30pm

Mahler Symphony No.1

Donald Runnicles (conductor)

Hannah French introduces music by Ian Hamilton and Gustav Mahler performed by the BBC SSO.

The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20200925Hannah French introduces music, recorded at recent concerts and sessions, by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today starts with Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, Schoenberg's Verkl䀀rte Nacht, Hindemith's Concert Music for Brass and Strings, as well as Dukas' Fanfare from La Peri, all under the baton of the orchestra's newly appointed Associate Conductor Alpesh Chauhan. It's followed by Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 1 in C major with the ensemble conducted by Otto Tausk; then, John Wilson takes to the rostrum in Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's Piano Concerto, with Michael McHale as soloist.

2.00pm

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

Schoenberg: Verkl䀀rte Nacht

Hindemith: Concert Music for Brass and Strings

Dukas: La Peri (Fanfare)

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

3.15pm

F. Mendelssohn_ Symphony No. 1 in C major

Otto Tausk (conductor)

3.45pm

Richard Rodney Bennett: Piano Concerto

Michael McHale (piano)

John Wilson (conductor)

Music by Wagner, Schoenberg, Hindemith, Dukas, Mendelssohn and Richard Rodney Bennett.

The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra Live20191212Kate Molleson hosts a week of live concerts from the BBC Orchestras - today's concert is presented by Chris Berrow, Live from City Halls, Glasgow where Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in key works from the last century.

The ‘Sinfonia da Requiem' could be the rawest music Britten ever wrote; an outpouring of personal grief that somehow grows into a furious warning to a world on the brink of the Second World War. Prokofiev's ballet ‘Romeo and Juliet' remakes Shakespeare in the iron and steel of Stalin's USSR - yet somehow gets closer than any other version to the story's tender heart. And Stravinsky reinvents Bach for the Art Deco era, in a chamber concerto that positively buzzes with wit

2.00pm

Britten: Sinfonia da requiem

Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

Photo: Opera Omnia Productions.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in key works by Britten, Stravinsky and Prokofiev.

The Bbc Singers And The Bbc Sso20201210Georgia Mann introduces a week celebrating the BBC Performing Groups.

Today - The BBC Singers, live from the Temple Church, London, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from Glasgow.

Messiaen: La Nativit退 du Seigneur, interspersed with thematically related choral works.

Conductor Nicholas Chalmers

with Ashley Grote (organ)

Live from the Temple Church, London. Presented by Emma Cleobury

15.40: The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, live from Glasgow.

Elfrida Andr退e: Concert Overture in D major

Schumann: Cello Concerto

Sally Beamish: Reckless

Mozart: Symphony No 34, K.338

Steven Isserlis, cello

Chlo退 van Soeterst耀de, conductor

From City Halls, Glasgow.

Presented by Kate Molleson.

The BBC Singers and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, live in concert.

The Bbc Singers In Concert20210402The BBC Singers sing Stainer's Crucifixion.

Stainer: The Crucifixion

Peter Auty - tenor

Jeremy Carpenter - bass

Malcolm Archer - organ

Choristers of Guildford Cathedral

Barry Rose - conductor

(Recorded in Guildford Cathedral on 25 March 2018.)

Augusta Read Thomas: Helios Choro 1

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Brad Lubman, conductor

Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin

Dalia Stasevska, conductor

Music for Good Friday.

The Bbc Singers In Poulenc's Figure Humaine20200714The BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers. Penny Gore presents recent performances by two of the world's most versatile performing groups. Today, the BBC Singers mark the 75th anniversary of their premiering of Poulenc's wartime 'Figure humaine.' This moving tribute to the human spirit sets poems by Paul ɀluard secretly circulated during the Occupation. In this performance, the singers are joined by Misha Mullov-Abbado and his trio who improvise sensitively between the movements of Poulenc's masterpiece. Also today, Joseph Horovitz's classic 'Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo' and Vaughan Williams from the BBC Symphony Orchestra. And, to mark the centenary this year of Bernd Alois Zimmerman, star-trumpeter and recent Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Simon H怀fele plays his Trumpet Concerto `Nobody knows de trouble I see.` Written in 1954 he said at the time that the use of the spiritual as passed down through the generations was inspired by 'the struggle of people of colour in the USA to achieve equality and overcome endemic racial discrimination.

Poulenc: Figure humaine

BBC Singers, Sofi Jeannin (conductor) with Misha Mullov-Abbado (double bass), John Scott (drums) Sam Leak (piano)

at approx. 2.40pm

Joseph Horovitz: Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo

BBC Singers, John Wilson (conductor)

at approx. 3.10pm

Emily Howard: Torus

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Voyevoda - symphonic ballad Op.78

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

Bernt Alois Zimmerman: Trumpet Concerto

Simon H怀fele (trumpet)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)

at approx. 4.20pm

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5 in D major

The BBC Singers in Poulenc's Figure humaine and Horovitz's evergreen Captain Noah.

The Bbc Sso And The Bbc Concert Orchestra20210121Georgia Mann presents recent recordings by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Britten: Diversions, Op.21

Steven Osborne, piano

BBC SSO

Ilan Volkov, conductor

Somervell: Violin Concerto in G major

Anthony Marwood, violin

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Followed by recent recordings by the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Chaminade: Suite No 1 for orchestra, Op 20

BBC CO, conductor Martin Yates

Walter Braunfels: Suite: Don Gil von den grünen Hosen, Op 35

BBC Concert Orchestra,

Johannes Wildner, conductor

John Alden Carpenter Concertino

Michael Chertock (piano)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart

Jean-Michel Damase: Flute Concerto

Anna Noakes (flute)

Martin Yates, conductor

Georgia Mann presents recent recordings by the BBC SSO and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

The Bbc Symphony Orchestra In Japan20200713The BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers: Penny Gore begins a week devoted to two of the world's most versatile performing ensemble. Today the BBC Symphony Orchestra is heard in a range of repertoire recorded on tour in Japan and as well as nearer to home at the Aldeburgh Festival and at London's Royal Albert Hall. We also hear from the Orchestra's world-beating Symphony Chorus.

Britten: 4 Sea interludes & Passacaglia from Peter Grimes

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Concerto in D major Op.35

Alina Pogostkina (violin)

approx. 3pm.

Interval: BBC Singers sing Laura Mvula's 'Look at me now, I wear shoes of eagle's wings from ‘Love like a lion', commissioned for the BBC Singers & Sofi Jeannin (conductor), recorded at the 2018 BBC Proms Dubai.

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)

at approx 3.55pm

Helen Grime: Everyone Sang

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Jonathan Dove: We are one fire

BBC Symphony Chorus, Neil Ferris (conductor)

The BBC Symphony Orchestra play Britten, Tchaikovsky and Brahms on their 2018 Japan tour.

The Bbc Symphony Orchestra On Tour In Japan20181119The BBC Symphony Orchestra tours Japan in 2018! In a week that features the orchestra abroad, the afternoon opens with a concert at the Nippon Tokushu Togyo Shimin Kaikan Hall, in Nagoya. The orchestra's Chief conductor, Sakari Oramo, is at the helm to perform Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto, with Yu Kusgue as soloist, which is followed by Mahler's 5th Symphony. Then, a recording made by the BBC Singers earlier this year at St. Paul's Knightsbridge, in London. Andrew Griffiths conducts repertoire from Eastern Europe across the centuries, including Dvorak's In Nature's Realm, Handl's Mirabile Misterium, Makor's Kyrie, Smetana's Three-Part Choruses for Women's Voices, Janacek's Ave Maria, and Martinu's Romance of the Dandelions.

Presented by Penny Gore.

14.00

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2

14.40

Mahler: Symphony No. 5

Yu Kusgue (piano)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

15.50

Dvorak: In Nature's Realm

Handl: Mirabile Misterium

Makor: Kyrie

Smetana: Sbory trojhlasne pro zenske hlasy - Three-Part Choruses for Women's Voices

Janacek: Ave Maria

Martinu: Romance of the Dandelions

Andrew Griffiths (conductor)

Music by Rachmaninov and Mahler with the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Japan.

The Bbc Symphony Orchestra With Music, By Dvorak, Bartok And Prokofiev20181120The BBC Symphony Orchestra in its studio in Maida Vale, London, with a recording made last month, featuring Dvorak's Othello Overture, followed by Bartok's Violin Concerto No. 2 with Valeriy Sokolov as soloist, ending with Prokofiev's Symphony No. 3. Juraj Valcuha conducts. Then, a recording of Szymanowski's Symphony No. 3, 'The Song of the Night', with Edward Gardner at the helm of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, accompanying tenor Ben Johnson. And finally, Edward Gardner returns again with a new release by the ensemble as virtuosa Alina Ibragimova is the soloist in Huw Watkins' Violin Concerto.

Presented by Penny Gore

14.00

Dvorak: Othello Overture

Bartok: Violin Concerto No.2

Prokofiev: Symphony No.3

Valeriy Sokolov (violin)

Juraj Valcuha (conductor)

15.40

Szymanowski: Symphony No.3 Op. 27, 'The Song of the Night

Ben Johnson (tenor)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Edward Gardner (conductor)

16.05

Huw Watkins: Violin Concerto

Alina Ibragimova (violin)

The BBC Symphony Orchestra with music by Dvorak, Bartok and Prokofiev.

The Berlin Philharmonic20200918Penny Gore presents a week of highlights from the Berlin Philharmonic's last season.

Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Philharmonic with Kirill Petrenko perform Beethoven, Sir Simon Rattle conducts Bartok and Paavo J䀀rvi conducts Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with soloist Janine Jansen.

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37 .

Suk: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, op. 27 ('Asrael')

Daniel Barenboim, piano

Kirill Petrenko, conductor

Concert given in the Philharmonie, Berlin, on 09/01/2020

3.40: Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra play Bart k.

Bart k: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116

Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

Concert given in the Philharmonie, Berlin, on 12/03/2020

Penny Gore presents a week of highlights from the Berlin Philharmonic's 2019/2020 season.

The Berlin Rso In Enescu's Oratorio Ghosts20200527The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra: George Enescu's oratorio Ghosts. Penny Gore introduces a performance of a major work by George Enescu, reconstructed from a recently rediscovered manuscript thought lost in the First World War. Enescu's tone poem is rooted in his lifelong admiration for the poet Mihai Eminescu. It's a Gothic fantasy based on Eminescu's poem, The Ghost, which features a king on horseback riding through the night, a magician and the corpse of a dead queen.

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, op. 55

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, op. 46

at approx 2.35pm

George Enescu: Strigoii (Ghosts), oratorio

reconstructed from the manuscript by Cornel ??ranu

Sabin Pautza, orchestration

Rodica Vica, soprano, The Queen

Tiberius Simur, tenor, Arald

Bogdan Baciu, baritone, The Magus

Alin Anca, bass, narrator

Gabriel Bebeselea, conductor

George Enescu's recently rediscovered oratorio Ghosts and Grieg's Peer Gynt Suites

The Berliners In Spain20111209Katie Derham presents The Berliners in Spain: two concerts given recently in Spain by Berlin's two great orchestras. The Berlin Philharmonic is conducted by Sir Simon Rattle at Madrid's Teatro Real and the Berlin Staatskapelle is directed from the keyboard by Daniel Barenboim at the Charles V Palace in Granada in Mozart's most popular piano concerto.

Chabrier: Espaကa, rhapsody for orchestra

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar and orchestra

Juan Manuel Caကizares (guitar)

J.S. Bach: Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV 226

J.S. Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229

Trinity Baroque

Julian Podger (director)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat, K. 595

Daniel Barenboim (piano)

Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, op. 27

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor).

Two concerts given in Spain, featuring music by Chabrier, Rodrigo, Rachmaninov and Mozart.

The Best From The Bbc Performing Groups20201215Tom McKinnney turns his attention to the BBC's orchestra in the north of England, The BBC Philharmonic, and recordings of music by Beethoven made in the Beethoven anniversary year.

BBC Philharmonic:

Ludwig van Beethoven: Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II

Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore Prohaska - Funeral March

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A

Julia Maria Dan (soprano)

Kitty Whately (mezzo)

Anthony Gregory (tenor)

Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone)

Manchester Chamber Choir

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Mark Wigglesworth

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra:

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No 8 in C minor

BBCSSO conducted by Donald Runnicles

Highlights from recent recordings made by the BBC's Orchestras and Singers.

The Best From The Bbc Performing Groups (1-5)20201214Tom McKinney introduces a selection of recent recordings showcasing the talents of the BBC performing groups beginning today with the BBC Concert Orchestra performing Britten; an arresting performance of Martinu from the Ulster Orchestra and Dutilleux and Shostakovich from Scotland.

BBC Concert Orchestra:

Benjamin Britten; Saint Nicolas

Mark Le Brocq (tenor)

Crouch End Festival Chorus

BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by David Temple

The Ulster Orchestra:

Bohuslav Martinu: Concerto for Double String Orchestra, Piano and Timpani

Ulster Orchestra conducted by Jac van Steen

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra:

Henri Dutilleux: Correspondances for Soprano and Orchestra

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)

BBC SSO conducted by Donald Runnicles

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No 5

BBCSSO conducted by Michael Sanderling

The BBC Concert Orchestra performs Britten's cantata Saint Nicolas.

The Best Of The Bbc Performing Groups (3-5)20201218A week of highlights from the BBC performing groups concludes with a concert of English music from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Bartok from Ulster, introduced by Tom McKinney.

John Woolrich; Ulysses Awakes

Peter Warlock: The Curlew

Judith Bingham: Strange Words

Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite

Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae for viola and strings

Becky Jones (viola)

James Gilchrist (tenor)

Alice Neary (cello)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales directed by Lesley Hatfield

The Ulster Orchestra

Bela Bartok: Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste

Ulster Orchestra conducted by Jac Van Steen

BBC NOW perform a concert of English music. Plus, Bartok from Ulster.

The Black Dyke Band In Concert20120302Today's Afternoon on 3 looks ahead to the Music Nation weekend with a concert given by the Black Dyke Band at the RNCM Festival of Brass: Olympic Portraits. Plus a symphony of Olympian proportions, Messiaen's mighty Turangalila, in a performance given by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano.

Presented by Katie Derham.

Judith Bingham: Four Minute Mile

John Golland: Sounds

Mussorgsky arr. Howarth: Pictures at an Exhibition

Paul Lovatt-Cooper: Home of Legends

Black Dyke Band,

Nicholas Childs (cond)

c. 3pm

Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony

Angela Hewitt (piano),

Jean Laurendeau (ondes Martenot),

Montreal Symphony Orchestra,

Kent Nagano (conductor) .

An Olympic-themed concert by the Black Dyke Band from the 2012 RNCM Festival of Brass.

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (1-4)20200420The Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Hannah French this week explores the work of Denmark's cultural flagship. Performances today include the Mozart Requiem and the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto played by one the leading young string players of today.

Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, op. 35

Augustin Hadelich, violin

Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, op. 44

Stanislav Kochanovsky, conductor

at approx. 3.30pm

Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626

Ylva Stenberg, soprano

Tuuri Dede, mezzo-soprano

Elgan Thomas, tenor

Antoin Herrera-Lopez Kessel, bass

Danish National Concert Choir

Barbara Hannigan, conductor

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky and Mozart's Requiem.

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (2-4)20200421The Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Hannah French this week explores the work of Denmark's cultural flagship. Performances today include a mighty Nielsen symphony conducted by the orchestra's current principal conductor and Dvorak's Cello Concerto played by one of the leading young cellists of today.

Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, op. 102

Soo-Jin Hong, violin

Soo-Kyung Hong, cello

Nielsen: Symphony No. 3 in D minor, op. 27 ('Sinfonia espansiva')

Palle Knudsen, baritone

Fatma Said, soprano

Fabio Luisi, conductor

at c. 3.15pm

Haydn: Symphony No. 82 in C, Hob. I:82 ('Bear')

Alexander Vedernikov, conductor

Elgar: Sea Pictures, op. 37

Karen Cargill, contralto

Thomas Søndergaard, conductor

at c. 4.10pm

Dvo?ကk (1841-1904) - Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104

Andrei Ioni??, cello

Christian Kluxen, conductor

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra play Nielsen, Haydn, Brahms and Elgar.

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (3-4)20200422The Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Hannah French continues her exploration of the work of Denmark's leading orchestra today with memorable performances of Haydn and Mahler.

Haydn: Symphony No. 102 in B flat, Hob.I:102

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G

Anna Lucia Richter, soprano

Lorenzo Viotti, conductor

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Anna Lucia Richter in Mahler's Fourth Symphony.

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (4-4)20200424The Danish National Symphony Orchestra: Penny Gore concludes Afternoon Concert's week-long look at Denmark's premier orchestra with concerts directed by some of the wide range of the orchestra's regular conductors.

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A, S. 125

Alessandro Taverna, piano

Fabio Luisi, conductor

Liszt: Paraphrase on Quartet from Verdi's Rigoletto, S. 434

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, op. 14

c. 3.30pm

Axel Borup-Jorgensen (1924-2012) - Marin, op. 60

Thomas Sønderg倀rd, conductor

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor. op. 33

Andreas Brantelid, cello

John Wilson (conductor)

c. 4.10pm

Dvo?ကk: Symphony No. 8 in G, op. 88

Manfred Honeck, conductor

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra play Liszt, Berlioz, Saint-Saens and Dvorak.

The German Symphony Orchestra Perform Beethoven20220428This week Afternoon Concert features performances from Berlin ensembles. Today it's the German Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic with symphonies by Beethoven and Lutoslawski. Plus we're in Montreal for music by Bach and Richard Strauss, Kirill Gerstein plays Stravinsky, and there's music by Dvorak, Gounod, Graupner, Nino Rota, Grazyna Bacewicz, Joanne Metcalf and Stanislava Stoytcheva.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Grazyna Bacewicz - Overture

BBC Concert Orchestra

Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

c. 2.10

Witold Lutoslawski - Symphony No.1

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

c. 2.35

Nino Rota - La Strada

12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic

c. 2.40

Charles Gounod transc. Franz Liszt - Valse from Faust

Mariam Batsashvili (piano)

c. 2.50

Joanne Metcalf - Gold and Thorns, Fire and Ice

singer pur (choir)

3pm

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.1 in C, Op.21

Cornelius Meister (conductor)

c. 3.25

JS Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.4 in G, BWV.1049

Vincent Lauzer / Caroline Tremblay (recorders)

Pascale Giguere (violin)

Les Violons du Roy

Jonathan Cohen (conductor)

c. 3.45

Igor Stravinsky - Concerto for Piano & Winds

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

John Storgards (conductor)

c. 4.10

Antonin Dvorak - Othello, Op.93

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

c. 4.25

Boris Blacher - Blues, Espagnola and Rumba Philharmonica

c. 4.40

Richard Strauss - Serenade in E flat for 13 Winds, Op.7

Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Rafael Payare (conductor)

Unique performances with BBC orchestras and choirs and other great orchestras

The Inextinguishable20231026Ian Skelly with a selection of performances from BBC ensembles and from concert halls around Europe.

Today's 3pm spotlight is Carl Nielsen's 4th Symphony, 'The Inextinguishable', performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi, recorded at the DR Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark. Plus we have more Norwegian fiddle music from violinist Ragnhild Hemsing.

Including:

Niels Gade: Symphony No.4 in B flat major, Op.20: iv. Finale Allegro molto vivace

Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Christopher Hogwood, conductor

Johan Halvorsen: Norwegian Dance No. 2, for violin and piano

Ragnhild Hemsing, fiddle

Mario Häring, piano

Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A, S. 125

Alexandre Kantorow, piano

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart

Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor

Isaac Hirshow: Kol Gojim

BBC Singers

Paul Brough, conductor

Tom Raskin, tenor

Claude Debussy: Sonata in D minor for cello and piano

Anastasia Kobekina, cello

Elisabeth Brauss, piano

Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 29 ('The Inextinguishable')

Fabio Luisi, conductor

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Voyevoda (Symphonic Ballad)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Edvard Grieg: Andante con moto in C minor

Ragnhild Hemsing, violin

Benedict Kloeckner, cello

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade for Orchestra

BBC Philharmonic

Anja Bihlmaier, conductor

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra perform Nielsen's Symphony No 4.

Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No 4, 'The Inextinguishable'.

Mario H䀀ring, piano

The Last Night Of Bbc Proms Dubai 2019 And #dancepassion20190405The BBC SO, BBC Singers and the Dubai Opera Festival Chorus, conducted by Richard Farnes, with a spectacular Last Night, including traditional favourites and tango music. Two star guests - Finnish accordionist Johanna Juhola and British baritone Roderick Williams - lead the celebrations. Petroc Trelawny presents.

The afternoon continues with more works for orchestra celebrating BBC Radio 3's day of dance - #dancepassion - presented by Georgia Mann.

2.00pm - concert presented by Petroc Trelawny

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman - Overture

Stanford: Songs of the Sea

Chabrieri: Espaကa

Piazzolla, arr John Lenehan: Libertango

Anna Clyne: Masquerade

Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music

Gardel, arr Paul Campbell: Por una cabeza

Verdi: The Force of Destiny - Overture

Arne arr. Malcolm Sargent: Rule Britannia!

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1

Trad arr Paul Campbell: Auld Lang Syne

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Johanna Juhola (accordion)

Dubai Festival Chorus~

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Richard Farnes (conductor)

4.00pm

Sullivan, arranged Mackerras: Pineapple Poll - ballet suite

BBC Concert Orchestra

Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

Falla: Three Cornered Hat Suite 2

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Irving Berlin, arr Gordon Langford: medley from Top Hat

Antheil: Hot-time Dance

BBC Philharmonic

John Storgards (conductor)

The BBC SO, BBC Singers and friends conducted by Richard Farnes at Dubai Opera.

The Mountain King (1-2)20230525Ian Skelly introduces more recordings from around Europe.

This week's focus on Sweden continues with the first act of Hugo Alfv退n's 'ballet-pantomime' The Mountain King, which requires huge orchestral forces to tell the story, and is performed here by the Malm怀 Symphony Orchestra with conductor Patrik Ringborg. There is also more music from guitarists Mats Bergstr怀m and G怀ran S怀llscher, recorded in March at the Helsingborg Guitar Festival, and a selection from the vocal ensemble Voces8, recorded at the Rheingau Festival in Germany. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Swedish organist and composer Elfrida Andr退e, while harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani switches to organ for Handel's Organ Concerto Op 4 No 4.

Including:

Felix Mendelssohn: Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen über dir

JS Bach arr. Schinin

The Mountain King (2-2)20230526Ian Skelly introduces the best of recordings from around Europe.

Concluding his week of music from Denmark and Sweden, Ian introduces Acts 2 and 3 of Hugo Alfv退n's epic 'ballet-pantomime' The Mountain King, performed by Malm怀 Symphony Orchestra with conductor Patrik Ringborg. There's more music for 2 guitars, recorded at Helsingborg Guitar Festival with the Swedish duo of Mats Bergstr怀m and G怀ran S怀llscher. The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Alain Altinoglu perform Dvorak's symphonic poem The Golden Spinning Wheel, based on the macabre folk tale from Erben's 'Kytice', and the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra is joined by cellist Jakob Koranyi in Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi's cello concerto 'Highlands', inspired by the Scottish countryside.

Including:

Mozart: Adagio in E flat major, K 261

Clarissa Bevilacqua, violin

Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg

Ivor Bolton, conductor

Lille Bror S怀derlundh: Little Waltz

Debussy arr. Krause: Cakewalk from Children's Corner

Mats Bergstr怀m, guitar

G怀ran S怀llscher, guitar

Dvorak: The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op 109

Alain Altinoglu, conductor

c. 3pm

Alfv退n: The Mountain King, Acts 2 & 3

Patrik Ringborg, conductor

Sor: Souvenir de Russie

Andrea Tarrodi: Cello Concerto, 'Highlands

Jakob Koranyi (cello)

David Niemann, conductor

The conclusion of Alfven's ballet-pantomime The Mountain King.

The Musical Land Of Oz (1-5)20210426This week, Afternoon Concert features concerts from the other side of the globe. Today's programme includes a concert the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra gave at the Hamer Hall in Melbourne featuring Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto and Brahms's Fourth Symphony. Plus Strauss from the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Stravinsky from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2.00pm

Strauss: Don Juan

Johannes Fritzsch (conductor)

c.2.15pm

Tchaikovsky: Marche slave

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor, Op.16

Yuia Wang (piano)

Brahms: Symphony no.4 in E minor, Op.98

Diego Maltheuz (conductor)

c.3.45pm

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

Orchestras featured later in the series include the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (programme 2), the Australian Haydn Ensemble (programme 3), the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Australian World Orchestra (programme 5). Plus, in our Opera Matinee (programme 4), Asher Fisch conducts the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Fidelio.

Ian Skelly presents concerts by orchestras from right across Australia.

The Musical Land Of Oz (2-5)20210427~Afternoon Concert continues its focus on Australian orchestras.

Today's programme includes two full concerts: the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in music by Ives, Ibert and Haydn, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy with an all-Shostakovich programme culminating in his most popular symphony, the fifth.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2pm

Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg

Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

c.2.10pm

Ives: The Unanswered Question

Ibert: Divertissement

Haydn: Symphony no.103 in E flat, H.I.103 ‘Drumroll

Johannes Fritzsch (conductor)

c.3.10pm

Shostakovich: Passacaglia from Lady Macbeth of Mzensk

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor, Op.77

Ray Chen (violin)

Shostakovich: Symphony no.5 in D minor, Op.47

Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

Ian Skelly presents concerts by orchestras from right across Australia.

The Musical Land Of Oz (3-5)20210428~Afternoon Concert continues its spotlight on Australian orchestras. Today's programme features a concert of music from the Classical period given by the Australian Haydn Ensemble directed by Erin Helyard.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2pm

CPE Bach: Sinfonia in E flat, Wq.179

CPE Bach: Keyboard Concerto in C major, Wq.20

Mozart: Symphony no.29 in A major, K.201

Haydn: Symphony no.52 in C minor, H.I:52

Erin Helyard (harpsichord/director)

Ian Skelly continues his focus on Australian orchestras.

The Musical Land Of Oz (4-5)20210429Today's Thursday Opera Matinee is a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio recorded at the 2020 Perth Festival in Western Australia. Christiane Libor stars as Leonore, who disguises herself as a man to rescue her wrongly imprisoned husband Florestan, sung by Tomislav Mužek. Plus Beethoven's best-loved symphony from another of this week's featured Australian orchestras - the Queensland SO. And the afternoon ends with a return to Western Australia for excerpts from Strauss' Salome.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

2pm

Beethoven Fidelio, opera in 2 acts, Op.72

Leonore/Fidelio - .. Christiane Libor (soprano)

Florestan - .. Tomislav Mužek (tenor)

Don Fernando - .. Adrian Tamburini (bass)

Marzelline - .. Felicitas Fuchs (soprano)

Jaquino - .. Andrew Goodwin (tenor)

Don Pizarro - .. Warwick Fyfe (bass)

Rocco - .. Jonathan Lemalu (bass baritone)

First Prisoner - .. Matthew Lester (tenor)

Second Prisoner - .. David Dockery (bass)

West Australian Opera Chorus

West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Asher Fisch (conductor)

c.3.50pm

Beethoven: Symphony no.5 in C minor, Op.67

Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Johannes Fritzsch (conductor)

c.4.20pm

Strauss Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome

Strauss Final scene from Salome

Gun-Brit Barkmin (soprano)

Opera Matinee - Beethoven's Fidelio from the West Australian Symphony Orchestra

The Musical Land Of Oz (5-5)20210430Ian Skelly rounds off his series of concerts by orchestras from right across Australia with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Australian World Orchestra. There's a complete concert from the Australian Chamber Orchestra directed by Richard Tognetti featuring music by Vaughan Williams and Beethoven alongside a premiere by Anna Clyne. Plus Simone Young conducts the Australian World Orchestra in Messiaen's mighty Turangalila Symphony.

2pm

Schubert arr Tognetti: Quartettsatz in C minor, D.703

Vaughan Williams arr Adam Johnson: The Lark Ascending

Anna Clyne: Stride (world premiere)

Beethoven arr Tognetti: Cavatina from String Quartet no.13 in B flat, Op.130; Grosse Fuge in B flat, Op.133

Richard Tognetti (violin/director)

c.3.00pm

Messiaen Turangalila Symphony

Timothy Young (piano)

Jacob Abela (ondes martenot)

Simone Young (conductor)

Ian Skelly rounds off his series of concerts by orchestras from right across Australia.

The Netherlands And Denmark (1-5)20210705An afternoon of music making from the Netherlands introduced by Tom McKinney including a rich assortment of serenades and symphonies from the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw.

Including:

Franz Schubert: - St䀀ndchen, D. 920

Anitra Jellema, mezzo-soprano

Ben Martin Weijand, piano

Men of the Netherlands Radio Choir

Benjamin Goodson , conductor

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: - Serenade in C, op. 48.

Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra

Jean Sibelius: - Symphony No. 1 in E minor, op. 39

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Klaus M䀀kel䀀 , conductor

c4.40

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - Serenade No. 10 in B flat, K. 361 ('Gran Partita')

Members of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Karina Canellakis , conductor

Tom McKinney introduces music by Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Sibelius.

The Netherlands And Denmark (2-5)20210706As part of his look at recent music making from the Netherlands and Denmark, Tom McKinney introduces recordings of performances of French music from the Netherlands Radio Orchestra and Choir and from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, plus a tribute concert to the Italian film composer Ennio Morricone from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

Camille Saint-Sa뀀ns: - Bacchanale, from 'Samson et Dalila' (arr A. Clearfield)

Gabriel Faur退: - Suite from 'Pell退as et M退lisande, op. 80

Camille Saint-Sa뀀ns: - Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, op. 61

Noa Wildschut, violin

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

James Gaffigan , conductor

Johannes Brahms: - Schicksalslied, op. 54

Netherlands Radio Choir

Karina Canellakis , conductor

Jimmy L pez: - Symphony No. 1: From The Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda (Book 4)

Klaus M䀀kel䀀 , conductor

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: - Souvenir de Florence, op. 70

Members of the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra

c3.50

Ennio Morricone: -

The Verdict (Dopo la condanna) from 'The Big Gundown

Main Theme from 'A Fistful of Dollars

Suite: Man with a Harmonica - Cheyenne - Main Theme from 'Once Upon a Time in the West

Suite: 'Deborah's Theme' and 'Poverty^' from 'Once Upon a Time in America

Overture to 'The Hateful Eight

The Strength of the Righteous from 'The Untouchables

Suite: 'The Good, the Bad, the Ugly' and the Ecstasy of Gold

Christine Nonbo Andersen, soprano

Tuva Semmingsen, mezzo-soprano

Hans Ulrik, saxophone, harmonica, flutes

Danish National Concert Choir

Sarah Hicks , conductor

Presented by Tom McKinney, with music by Saint-Saens, Brahms and Morricone.

The Netherlands And Denmark (3-5)20210707Nocturnal music by Nielsen, Whitacre and Britten recorded recently in the Netherlands plus a symphony by one of Britten's favourite composers, introduced by Tom McKinney

Including:

Eric Whitacre: - Sleep

Netherlands Radio Choir

Benjamin Goodson , conductor

Benjamin Britten: - Nocturne, op. 60

Andrew Staples, tenor

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Daniel Harding , conductor

Franz Schubert: - Symphony No. 3 in D, D. 200

Anton퀀n Dvo?ကk (1841-1904) - Romance, op. 11

Rosanne Philippens, violin

Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra

Carl Nielsen: - Serenata in vano

Camerata RCO (Members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)

Tom McKinney presents music by Britten, Schubert and Dvorak.

The Netherlands And Denmark (4-5)20210708Tom McKinney with more recordings from the Netherlands and Denmark including a thoughtful double bill of music by Poulenc and Richard Strauss on the theme of loss from Barbara Hannigan and balm from Mozart and Beethoven.

Including:

Maurice Ravel: - Tzigane (orch arr. Michael Waterman)

Rosanne Philippens, violin

Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 `Eroica` Op55

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth

c3.15

Strauss: Metamorphosen

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Barbara Hannigan, conductor

Poulenc: La Voix Humaine, opera in one act for soprano and orchestra

Barbara Hannigan, Soprano & conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: - Piano Quintet in E flat, K. 452

Camerata RCO (Members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)

Introduced by Tom McKinney, including Poulenc's La Voix Humaine.

The Netherlands And Denmark (5-5)20210709The week of recent recordings of performances from the Netherlands and Denmark culminates in music by Arensky, Walton, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky plus the premiere of new piece for orchestra by Dutch composer Jacob ter Veldhuis. Introduced by Tom McKinney.

Including:

Antonio Vivaldi: - Concerto in C, RV 559

Sergei Krylov, violin

German Radio Symphony/Ton Koopman

Jacob ter Veldhuis: - Who, What, Where, When, Why (premiere)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth

William Walton: - Viola Concerto

Isabelle van Keulen, viola

NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Keri-Lynn Wilson , conductor

c3.40

Anton Arensky: - Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, op. 35a

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Kevin John Edusei , conductor

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:- Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, op. 23

Beatrice Rana, piano

Klaus M䀀kel䀀 , conductor

Tom McKinney rounds up the week with music by Vivaldi, Walton and Tchaikovsky.

The Planets At The Proms20220823Fiona Talkington continues her week of music for the afternoon with a performance of Holst's The Planets recorded at this year's BBC Proms, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth, alongside a new work for voice and orchestra by Matthew Kaner.

Christoph Willibald Gluck (arr. Sgambati) - Dance of the Blessed Spirits

Yvgenny Kissin, piano

William Herschel - Symphony No 17 in C

Matthias Bammert, conductor

From the BBC Proms, Part 1:

Richard Strauss - Death and Transfiguration

Matthew Kaner - Pearl (First Performance)

Roderick Williams, baritone

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Interval

During the interval Roderick Williams chooses a piece of music to link the two halves of the concert

Gustav Holst - The Evening Watch

Finzi Singers

Paul Spicer, conductor

From the Proms, Part 2

Gustav Holst - The Planets

BBC Symphony Chorus

The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform music by Strauss, Kaner and Holst.

The Royal Northern Sinfonia And Nicholas Daniel20220824Fiona Talkington introduces music for the afternoon, including a chance to hear the Royal Northern Sinfonia at the Proms with oboist Nicholas Daniel and violinist Maria Wloszczowska.

Vaughan Williams - Ten Blake Songs; 'The Piper

John Mark Ainsley, tenor

Gareth Hulse, oboe

Wilfred Josephs - Aelian Dances

Robert Hanell and his Orchestra

From the Proms, Part 1:

Haydn Symphony No. 6 in D major, ‘Le matin

The Snow Queen20201203Hans Abrahamsen: he Snow Queen.

Libretto: Hans Abrahamsen and Henrik Engelbrecht after Hans Christian Andersen.

Barbara Hannigan stars in the English language version premiere of Hans Abrahamsen's award-winning opera. This long-awaited first opera by one of Denmark's leading composers is a multi-faceted exploration of the many layers in Hans Christan Andersen's fairy tale. The story of the snow and ice of winter giving way to spring serves Hans Abrahamsen as a metaphor for the creative process itself and for the place of love and friendship in the world. As one reviewer wrote: 'In a world of snow, he has created a poem out of the fairy tale.

The children, Gerda and Kay, are close friends. They live across an alley from each other and happily chat, play, and tend a rose which is growing in their backyard. The children are content until tragedy strikes: Kay's eye and heart are pierced with fragments of a mirror, and the loving boy Kay then vanishes. The Snow Queen has put him under her spell and taken him to her palace of snow and ice. It is up to Gerda to find him and free him.

Gerda....Barbara Hannigan (soprano)

Kay....Rachael Wilson (mezzo soprano)

Grandmother / Old Lady / Finnish Woman..... Katarina Dalayman (soprano)

Snow Queen / Reindeer / Clock..... Peter Rose (bass)

Princess.....Caroline Wettergreen (soprano)

Dean Power, Prince

Forest Crow.....Kevin Conners (tenor)

Castle Crow.....Owen Willetts (counter tenor)

Bavarian State Opera Chorus

Stellario Fagone, chorus director

Bavarian State Orchestra

Cornelius Meister, conductor

Recorded at The Bavarian State Opera, Munich on 28/12/2019

Followed at approx 3.35pm more recent performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales including a work inspired by inherent simplicity of an iris flower.

Per Nørg倀rd: Iris

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

Prokofiev: Sonata for Solo Violin

Webern: Pasacaglia / 12:07

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto

Robert Plane (clarinet)

Photo (c) W.H怀sl

Hans Abrahamsen's The Snow Queen: an award-winning opera based on Hans Christian Andersen.

The Swedish Nightingale20200214The Baltic Sea Festival: The Swedish Nightingale, a tribute to Jenny Lind, Sweden's first international superstar

Jenny Lind, born two hundred years ago, was Sweden's first international superstar, and counted H C Andersen, Felix Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and even England's Queen Victoria among her admirers. Here, she is celebrated by two of today's Swedish opera stars: Elin Rombo, who was awarded the Jenny Lind grant in 1999, and Annie Ternstr怀m, last year's winner of Young Artists.

Johanna Maria Lind was born in 1820 and retired early from the opera stage. One of the greatest ever Swedish stars, she was never called anything other than Jenny. It is difficult to really comprehend how idolized this young singer was: she achieved tremendous international fame in the five years since she made her debut in Berlin in 1844. H.C. Andersen said of her that no one else had such a profound influence over him as a poet: `She opened the door to the sacred rooms of art for me.` After retiring from the stage aged just 29, she toured far and wide; on her arrival in New York, she was met by 30,000 cheering people and disembarked to a cascade of flowers. The tour manager, the legendary entrepreneur P.T. Barnum, sold concert tickets by auction and the deeply religious Jenny Lind donated almost all of her unimaginable income to charity after the tour. But what significance does Jenny Lind have for us today? Is she just a glimmering fantasy or a face on a Swedish banknote, or can she open the door to the sacred rooms of art even for us?

Also today, Tchaikovsky's evergreen Sleeping Beauty.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Mendelssohn: Hear ye, Israel, from 'Elijah

Bellini: Qui la voce sua soave

Bellini: Overture, Casta diva and Cabaletta 'A bello a me ritorna,' from Norma

Grieg: Last Spring 'Varen' from 2 Elegiac Melodies Op.34

Flotow: Letzte Rose, wie magst du, from 'Martha

Mozart: Or sai chi l'onore, from 'Don Giovanni

Mendelssohn: Suite, from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream

Annie Ternstr怀m, (soprano), the young Jenny and Elin Rombo (soprano) Jenny,

Swedish Radio Choir and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Evan Rogister (conductor)

at approx 3.20pm

Tchaikovsky: Suite from Sleeping Beauty Op. 66a

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale and the country's first international superstar

The Symphonic Universe20201223Professor Brian Cox and the BBC Symphony Orchestra carry us across the universe: music by Sibelius, Ives and Mahler with the BBC SO's principal guest conductor, Dalia Stasevska. Hannah French presents this programme as part of BBC Radio 3's Light in the Darkness season, with commentary from Professor Brian Cox.

Sibelius: Symphony No 5 (third movement, arr. Iain Farrington)

Ives: The Unanswered Question

Mahler: Adagio, from Symphony No 10 (arr. Castelletti)

Conductor Dalia Stasevska

Professor Brian Cox and the BBC Symphony Orchestra carry us across the universe.

The Ulster Orchestra And The Bbc So20210118Georgia Mann presents recent recordings by the Ulster Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Stanford: A Song of Agincourt Op. 168

Howard Shelley, conductor

Daniel Steibelt (1765-1823): Piano Concerto No 3 in E major 'L'orage' Op 33

Ulster Orchestra,

Howard Shelley, conductor and soloist

Holst: Cotswolds Symphony

JoAnn Falletta, conductor

Hellawell: Wild Flow

Paul Watkins, conductor

Mathias: Clarinet Concerto, Op. 68:

Michael Collins (clarinet/conductor)

Roy Harris: Violin Concerto

Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton

The Ulster Orchestra play Stanford and Holst. The BBC Symphony Orchestra play Roy Harris.

The Ulster Orchestra At The Proms20220822Fiona Talkington introduces a selection of music from the afternoon including a chance to hear the recent Prom from the Ulster Orchestra conducted by Daniele Rustioni and soprano Louise Alder performing Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs. Fiona feature some of this week's suggestions from listeners for recordings of cello concertos and today's Prom guest chooses a favourite piece of music for the programme.

Ottorino Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures - 3. The Birth of Venus

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Robert Schumann: Myrthen Op25

1. Widmung

2. Freissin

3. Der Nussbaum

4. Jemand

24. Du Bist wie einer Blume

Christian Gerhaher, baritone

Camilla Tilling, soprano

Gerold Huber, piano

From the BBC Proms - The Ulster Orchestra

Wagner Tannh䀀user - Overture and Venusberg Music

Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs

The Ulster Orchestra Live20191209Kate Molleson hosts a week of live concerts from the BBC Orchestras - today's concert is Live from Guildhall in Londonderry, where John Toal presents the Ulster Orchestra in much-loved works by Grieg and Liszt, as well as the brooding first violin concerto by Sergei Prokofiev with the dynamic young Chinese soloist Ziyu He

The Orchestra then delves into its archive for recent performances of arrangements of Schubert songs lovingly orchestrated by Reger, Britten, Liszt and Brahms; as well as Luciano Berio's loving tribute

2.00pm

Grieg (orch. Anton Seidl): Lyric Suite

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1

Liszt: Les Preludes

Ziyu He (violin)

Ilyich Rivas (conductor)

3.00pm

Schubert:

An die Musik Op.88 No.4 / D.547 (arr. Max Reger)

Die Forelle Op.32 / D.550 (arr. Britten)

Gretchen am Spinnrade D.118 (arr. Max Reger)

Nacht und Tr䀀ume D.827 (arr.Max Reger)

Im Abendrot D.799 (arr. Max Reger)

Die Junge Nonne D.828 (arr. Liszt)

J䀀ger, ruhe von der Jagd! (Ellens Gesang II) D.838 (arr. Brahms)

Katharina Konradi (soprano)

3.25pm

Berio (after Schubert): Rendering

Daniele Rustioni (conductor)

Much-loved works by Grieg, Prokofiev and Liszt live from Londonderry.

The Ulster Orchestra Live From Belfast20200203Live from Belfast the Ulster Orchestra and Irish saxophonist Gerard McChrystal perform the first ever broadcast of two new works by British composer Dave Heath. The concert concludes with Tchaikovsky's 'Pathetique Symphony' which he described many times in letters as `the best thing I ever composed or shall compose`. Later in the afternoon Tom McKinney kicks off a week of recordings by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Bartok's youthful Suite No 1, which caused a sensation at its premiere in Vienna in 1905.

Dave Heath: Ray of Light

Dave Heath: Illumination

Gerard McChrystal (saxophone)

Maxime Pascal (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6

3.20pm

Bartok Suite no. 1 Sz.31 for orchestra

40'50

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

The Ulster Orchestra play works by Dave Heath and Tchaikovsky, live from Belfast

The Ulster Orchestra Performs Chopin, Tchaikovsky And Shostakovich20190319Anna Clyne's powerfully evocative `The Midnight Hour` starts off today's concert from the Ulster Orchestra under Eivind Gullberg Jensen. It draws inspiration from two poems `La musica` by Juan Ram n Jim退nez and Harmonie du soir by Charles Baudelaire. Ingrid Fliter joins them for the ever-popular 2nd Piano Concerto by Chopin. Rafael Payare rounds off the afternoon with Shostakovich's mighty 10th Symphony.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Clyne: The Midnight Hour

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21, F minor

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6, Op. 74, B minor 'Path退tique

Ingrid Fliter (piano)

Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor)

3.35pm

MacMillian: Britannia

Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

3.50pm

Shostakovich: Symphony No.10, Op.93 in E minor

Rafael Payare (conductor)

Music by Anna Clyne, Chopin and Shostakovich performed by the Ulster Orchestra.

The Ulster Orchestra, Liszt, Respighi, Rachmaninov20191119The Ulster orchestra conducted by Ilyich Rivas, in a programme featuring program music and transcriptions, opening with Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No. 1; followed by Respighi's Fountains of Rome, the colourful evocation of water, ever present in the Eternal City; then, Rachmaninov's 5 Etudes tableaux, an orchestration by Respighi taken from selected piano pieces by the Russian composer published under his Op. 33 and Op. 39; after that concert, Ilyich Rivas returns to conduct the orchestra in Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5; then Daniele Rustioni takes to the rostrum to conduct the ensemble in concert including Alfredo Casella's Paganiniana, a divertimento for orchestra inspired on themes by Paganini, written in 1941, followed by two pieces by the Italian-born, British composer Elisabetta Brusa, which bring the afternoon to a close: Simply Largo and Symphony No. 2.

Presented by Hannah French.

2pm

Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1

Respighi: Fountains of Rome

Rachmaninov, orch. by Respighi: 5 Etudes tableaux, Op. 61

Ilyich Rivas, conductor

2.55pm

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100

Illyich Rivas, conductor

3.40pm

Alfredo Casella: Paganiniana, Op. 65

Elisabetta Brusa: Simply Largo

Elisabetta Brusa: Symphony No. 2

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

With music by Liszt, Respighi, Rachmaninov, Alfredo Casella and Elisabetta Brusa.

The Ulster Orchestra, Tarrodi, Tchaikovsky, Bruch20191120The Ulster Orchestra, with Hong-Kong born conductor Elim Chan in the rostrum, conducting a programme including Andrea Tarrodi's Camelopardalis, a piece inspired by a dream riding a giraffe; Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, with rising star cellist Alexey Stadler, making his debut with the ensemble; he then performs Bruch's Kol Nidrei too, a piece inspired by Jewish themes; and the concert finishes with Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, Scottish.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2pm

Andrea Tarrodi: Camelopardalis

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Roccoco Theme, Op. 33

Bruch: Kol Nidrei, Op. 47

Mendelssohn: Symphony No.3 in A minor, Op. 56, 'Scottish

Alexey Stadler, cello

Elim Chan, conductor

Music by Tarrodi, Tchaikovsky, Bruch and Mendelssohn

The Ulster Orchestra, Weber, Korngold, Hindemith20191118Featuring the whole of this week, recent concerts by the Ulster Orchestra, starting with Sergey Neller conducting the ensemble in Weber's Oberon overture, then Korngold's Violin Concerto with soloist Jennifer Pike, a piece written when the composer took a break from writing film music in 1945 and reflected on the Second World War, ending then with Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Weber. Then, Rafael Payare takes the helm in Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, 'Leningrad', inspired by the siege to the city in 1941, again during the war; and to end the afternoon, Szymanowski's Etude Op. 4 No. 3, in a version for orchestra by Grzegorz Fitelberg, conducted by Ilyich Rivas.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2pm

Weber: Oberon - overture

Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

Jennifer Pike, violin

Sergey Neller, conductor

3.05pm

Shostavovich: Symphony No. 7, Op. 60 in C major, 'Leningrad

Rafael Payare, conductor

4.20pm

Szymanowski, arr. Fitelberg: Etude Op. 4 No. 3

Ilyich Rivas, conductor

With music by Weber, Korngold, Hindemith, Shostakovich and Szymanowski.

These Little Limbs20201224BBC SO and Singers perform Berlioz's the Childhood of Christ and Finzi's Dies Natalis: music for Christmas Eve that celebrates the divine wonder of infancy, part of BBC Radio 3's Light in the Darkness season. Interspersed with recent recordings by the wind, brass and string sections of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Hannah French.

Copland: Ceremonial Fanfare

BBC SO brass

Conductor Ryan Bancroft

Hector Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ

Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)

Robert Murray (tenor)

Etienne Dupuis (baritone)

Matthew Rose (bass)

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Conductor Edward Gardner

c. 3.40pm

Jonathan Harvey: Serenade (in Homage to Mozart)

BBC SO wind

Conductor Douglas Boyd

c. 3.55pm

Henri Tomasi: Fanfares Liturgiques

Conductor Anthony Weeden

c. 4.10pm

Tippett: Little Music for Strings

Finzi: Dies Natalis

Alessandro Fisher (tenor)

BBC SO strings

Conductor Martyn Brabbins

BBC SO and Singers perform Berlioz's The Childhood of Christ and Finzi's Dies Natalis.

Thursday- Desplat And Pelleas20211216Penny Gore continues the Pelleas and Melisande theme with a flute concerto by Alexandre Desplat.

Giovanni Gabrieli: Sonata XXI

Netherlands Bach Society:

Lucie Horsch (recorder)

Lidewij van der Voort (violin)

Sebe Henstra (harpsichord)

Tailleferre: Le marchand d'oiseau

Ulster Orchestra

Daniele Rustioni (conductor)

Holst: A Winter Idyll

BBC Philharmonic

Andrew Davis (conductor)

George Benjamin: A mid of Winter

Penelope Walmsley (soprano)

Paul Archibald (trumpet)

London Sinfonietta

George Benjamin (conductor)

Thea Musgrave Songs for a Winter's Evening

Lisa Milne (soprano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Osmo Vanska (conductor)

Holst: A Moorside Suite

Grainger: The Sprig of Thyme

Claire Booth (soprano)

Christopher Glynn (piano)

Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor

Nelson Freire (piano)

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Mikko Franck (conductor)

Alexandre Desplat: Pelleas and Melisande- Symphony concertante for flute and orchestra

Emmanuel Pahud (flute)

Orchestre Nationale de France

Alexandre Desplat (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony No 40 in G Minor

Musiciens du Louvre

Marc Minkowski (conductor)

Alexandre Desplat conducts his own flute concerto inspired by Pelleas and Melisande.

Thursday Opera Matinee, Donizetti's Maria Stuarda20170504Catriona Young presents today's Thursday Opera Matinee, as part of Radio 3's Breaking Free: Martin Luther's Revolution. Donizetti's tragic opera Maria Stuarda portrays the bitter rivalry between the Scottish Mary Stuart and Queen Elizabeth I of England. They never actually met in real life, but in the operatic version the sparks fly in all directions as Donizetti sets a fictitious confrontation between the two queens. In this 2014 production from the Royal Opera House, Bertrand de Billy conducts a star cast with Joyce DiDonato and Carmen Giannattasio.

2pm

Donizetti: Maria Stuarda

Maria Stuarda.....Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)

Elisabetta.....Carmen Giannattasio (soprano)

Leicester.....Ismael Jordi (tenor)

Lord Cecil.....Jeremy Carpenter (baritone)

Talbot .....Matthew Rose (bass)

Anna Kennedy.....Kathleen Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano)

Royal Opera House Orchestra

Royal Opera House Chorus

Bertrand de Billy (Conductor).

Donizetti's Maria Stuarda in a production from the Royal Opera House.

Thursday Opera Matinee, Faccio's Hamlet20170608Thursday Opera matinee with Katie Derham, who presents a rare performance of Franco Faccio's Hamlet, recorded at the 2016 Bregenz Festival. Faccio and his librettist Arrigo Boito based their 'Amleto' on Shakespeare's play, and it was first performed in Genoa in 1865 to some acclaim. There was one revival at La Scala during Faccio's lifetime but after that his life was defined as a leading opera conductor of his day, specialising particularly in Verdi.

2pm

Faccio: Hamlet

Amleto..... Pavel ?ernoch (tenor)

Claudio..... Claudio Sgura (baritone)

Polonio..... Eduard Tsanga (bass)

Orazio..... S退bastien Soul耀s (baritone)

Marcello..... Bartosz Urbanowicz (bass baritone)

Laerte - Paul Schweinester (tenor)

Ofelia..... Iulia Maria Dan (soprano)

Gertrude - Dshamilja Kaiser (mezzo-soprano)

The ghost/A priest - Gianluca Buratto (bass)

Prague Philharmonic Chorus

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Paolo Carignani (conductor).

A rare performance of Franco Faccio's Hamlet, given at the 2016 Bregenz Festival.

Thursday Opera Matinee, Handel's Parnasso In Festa20170323Penny Gore presents a concert performance from Amsterdam of Handel's Parnasso in Festa, an Italian serenata written to celebrate the marriage of Anne, Princess Royal and Prince William of Orange in London in 1734. It is based on a suitably celebratory Greek legend, that of Apollo celebrating the marriage of Thetis and Peleus on Mount Parnassus.

2pm:

Handel: Parnasso in Festa (serenata in 3 parts)

Apollo - David Hansen (countertenor)

Clio .....Robin Johannsen (soprano)

Orfeo .....Kangmin Justin Kim (countertenor)

Cloride .....Silke G䀀ng (mezzo-soprano)

Euterpe - Francesca Ascioti (contralto)

Marte - Ismael Arr niz (bass)

Calliope .....Jenny H怀gstr怀m (soprano)

La Cetra Baroque Orchestra and Vocal Ensemble, Basel

Conductor Andrea Marcon

c.3.20pm:

Followed by more from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, this week's featured ensemble.

Gluck: Excerpts from Orfeo ed Euridice

Ilana Davidson (soprano)

Adriana Zabala (mezzo-soprano)

conductor Christian Zacharias

c.3.50pm:

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

Christian Zacharias (piano/director).

Penny Gore presents a performance of Handel's Parnasso in Festa, an Italian serenata.

Thursday Opera Matinee, Massenet's Thais20170330Katie Derham presents the Thursday Opera Matinee, Thas by Massenet - an exotic fin-de-si耀cle brew of religion and sex in which the two main characters are moving in different spiritual directions. The courtesan Thas gradually finds spiritual peace as she leaves her former life of unrestrained sensuality while the religious zealot Athana뀀l slowly descends into a hell of unbridled lust. It contains the famous 'Meditation.' This concert performance from Barcelona's opera house, the Liceu, has a cast headed by Placido Domingo and Nino Machaidze

Massenet: Thas - opera in 3 acts

Thas...... Nino Machaidze (soprano)

Athana뀀l..... Plကcido Domingo (baritone)

Nicias..... Celso Albelo (tenor)

Crobyle..... Sara Blanch (soprano)

Myrtale..... Marif退 Nogales (mezzo-soprano)

Pal退mon..... Damiကn del Castillo (bass)

Albine..... Mar퀀a Jos退 Suကrez (mezzo-soprano)

La Charmeuse..... Mercedes Arcuri (soprano)

Gran Teatre del Liceu Chorus and Symphony Orchestra

conductor Patrick Fournillier

2.00pm: Act 1

c.2.45pm: Act 2

c.3.30pm: Act 3.

Katie Derham presents a performance of Massenet's opera Thais from the Liceu in Barcelona.

Thursday Opera Matinee, Monteverdi 450: Il Ritorno D'ulisse In Patria20170518Monteverdi 450: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria recorded in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and conducted by legendary early music specialist Ren退 Jacobs

Presented by Katie Derham

Monteverdi's version of the return of Ulysses to his homeland, from the second part of Homer's Odyssey, is a dramatic epic - one of the first modern operas.

Ulisse - St退phane Degout (baritone)

Penelope - Katarina Bradic (mezzo-soprano)

Telemaco / Giove - Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (tenor)

Eurimaco - Pierre Derhet (tenor)

Eumete - Thomas Walker (tenor)

Amore / Giunone - Mirella Hagen (soprano)

Pisandro - Mark Milhofer (tenor)

Anfinomo - Johannes Chum (tenor)

Antino / Tempo - Marcos Fink (bass)

Minerva / L'Humana Fragilit

Thursday Opera Matinee, Otto Nicolai's Il Templario'20170316Otto Nicolai is now best remembered for his German singspiel Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. However, this was somewhat of an anomaly in his operatic output. He actually began his composing career in Italy, and produced some half-dozen operas in the Italian bel canto style, before taking up successive positions in Vienna and Berlin. Il templario is one such work.

Il templario, which premiered in 1840, sets a libretto by Girolamo Maria Marini, based on Walter Scott's medieval novel Ivanhoe. It focuses on the cultural clash between Christian and Jews in the Middle Ages. The French crusader Briano di Bois-Gilbert confronts Vilfredo di Ivanhoe who has offered protection to Briano's Jewish slave Rebecca. Rebecca has saved Vilfredo's life, and has fallen in love with him: for him, she is ready to leave her faith and convert. But Vilfredo is in love with Rovena, and in spite of some initial resistance from his father, he finally marries her, while Rebecca dies out of despair.

The score was destroyed during World War II. However, in 2006 music historian Michael Wittmann reconstructed the German edition which had been subsequently found in Naples. The opera was then revived in Chemnitz in 2008. The vocal score is pure belcanto - perfectly suited to this Salzburg Festival cast, which includes tenor Juan Diego Fl rez.

2pm - Otto Nicolai: Il templario

Cedrico il Sassone ... Adrian S mpetrean (bass)

Vilfredo d'Ivanhoe ... Juan Diego Fl rez (tenor)

Rovena ... Kristiane Kaiser (soprano)

Luca di Beaumanoir ... Armando Pina (baritone)

Briano di Bois Guilbert ... Luca Salsi (baritone)

Isacco di York ... Franz Supper (tenor)

Rebecca ... Cl退mentine Margaine (mezzo-soprano)

Salzburg Bach Chorus

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Andr退s Oroczo-Estrada (conductor).

Katie Derham presents Nicolai's opera Il templario from the 2016 Salzburg Festival.

Thursday Opera Matinee, Rossini's Il Turco In Italia20170302Verity Sharp presents Il Turco in Italia - Rossini's perceptive comedy of Neapolitan life and love, recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2010. A Turkish Prince, Selim, arrives in Naples by boat, looking for an amorous adventure. At the same time, the respectable Don Geronio is struggling to keep his younger wife, Fiorilla, happy. She is more interested in flirting with the young men around her, and she is immediately drawn to the exotic young Turk. Meanwhile, the poet Prosdocimo is trying to find a subject for a new play, and he decides to stir things up in the name of theatre, especially when he discovers Zaida, a young gypsy girl who was jilted by a prince in Turkey, and Don Narciso, the previous lover of Fiorilla, now usurped by Selim.

2pm:

Rossini: Il Turco in Italia

Fiorilla - Aleksandra Kurzak (soprano)

Don Narciso - Colin Lee (tenor)

Don Geronio - Alessandro Corbelli (baritone)

Selim - Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (bass)

Prosdocimo - Thomas Allen (baritone)

Zaida - Leah-Marian Jones (mezzo-soprano)

Albazar - Steven Ebel (tenor)

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Maurizio Benini (conductor).

Verity Sharp presents Rossini's Il Turco in Italia performed at the Royal Opera House.

Thursday Opera Matinee, Verdi's Falstaff20170713Fiona Talkington presents Verdi's Falstaff which was recorded at the Vienna State Opera, featuring baritone Ambrogio Maestri and conducted by Zubin Mehta.

Verdi's comic opera Falstaff, written late in the composer's life, includes lots of horsing around, using a libretto by Arrigo Boito and based on Shakespeare's play 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' and scenes from 'Henry IV'.

Sir John Falstaff, a fat knight - Ambrogio Maestri (baritone)

Ford, a wealthy man - Ludovic T退zier (baritone)

Alice Ford, his wife - Carmen Giannattasio (soprano)

Nannetta, their daughter - Hila Fahima (soprano)

Meg Page - Lilly Jørstad (mezzo-soprano)

Mistress Quickly - Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)

Fenton, one of Nannetta's suitors - Paolo Fanale (tenor)

Dr Caius - Thomas Ebenstein (tenor)

Bardolfo, a follower of Falstaff - Herwig Pecoraro (tenor)

Pistola, a follower of Falstaff - Riccardo Fassi (bass)

Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra

Zubin Mehta (conductor).

A performance given at Vienna State Opera of Verdi's Falstaff.

Thursday Opera Matinee, Verdi's Il Trovatore20170420Katie Derham introduces our opera matin退e: Verdi's Il Trovatore from Vienna State Opera, where the story of mistaken identities around a baby burnt at the stake triggers a tragic chain of hate and revenge. The cast is led by Anna Netrebko as Leonora, Manrico, her lover, is Roberto Alagna, and the gypsy Azucena, is Luciana D'Intino. The orchestra and chorus of the Vienna State Opera are conducted by Marco Armiliato.

Leonora - Anna Netrebko (soprano)

Manrico - Roberto Alagna (tenor)

Count di Luna - Ludovic T退zier (baritone)

Azucena - Luciana D'Intino (mezzo-soprano)

Ferrando - Jongmin Park (bass)

Ines - Simina Ivan (soprano)

Ruiz - Jinxu Xiahou (tenor)

Vienna State Opera Chorus

Vienna State Opera Orchestra

conductor Marco Armiliato.

Katie Derham introduces a performances of Verdi's Il Trovatore given at Vienna State Opera

Thursday Opera Matinee, Verdi's Nabucco201710192pm

Thursday Opera Matinee, presented by Katie Derham.

Placido Domingo sang the title role of Nabucco for the very first time anywhere in the world as part of the Royal Opera House's Verdi 200 celebrations in 2013, and Liudmyla Monastyrska dazzled in the role of Abigaille. Domingo takes on the baritone role of Nebuchadnezzar, King of the Babylonians, in the biblical story which so much resounded in the hearts of Italians at the time. The fight of the Hebrews against oppression and exile took a different twist in a tale of love and patriotism, represented in the celebrated chorus 'Va pensiero', one of Verdi's most famous pieces. Nicola Luisotti conducts the chorus and orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Followed by performances from this week's featured orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Copland and Karl Jenkins.

Verdi: Nabucco (Opera Cities season)

Nabucco.....Placido Domingo (baritone)

Abigaille.....Liudmyla Monastryka (soprano)

Zaccaria.....Vitalij Kowaljow (bass)

Fenena.....Marianna Pizzolato (mezzo-soprano)

Ismaele.....Andrea Care (tenor)

Anna.....Dusica Bijelic (soprano)

Abdallo.....David Butt Philip (tenor)

High Priest of Baal.....Robert Lloyd (bass)

Royal Opera House Chorus & Orchestra

Nicola Luisotti (conductor)

c.4.10pm

Copland: Appalachian Spring - suite

Karl Jenkins: Over the Stone (Tros y Garreg) - harp concerto

Catrin Finch (harp)

Tecwyn Evans (conductor).

Penny Gore presents Verdi's Nabucco, in a 2013 performance from the Royal Opera House.

Thursday Opera Matinee: Bellini's La Sonnambula20170406Catriona Young presents the Thursday Opera Matinee: Bellini's La Sonnambula, recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2011. Young Amina is about to marry Elvino, but her plans are disrupted when a stranger, Count Rodolfo arrives and provokes Elvino's jealousy. Later that night when Amina sleepwalks towards Rodolfo, Elvino assumes she's been unfaithful to him. In Bellini's tune-packed opera, Eglise Gutierrez sings the unfortunate sleepwalking Amina and Celso Albelo her doubting lover.

Lisa - Elena Xanthoudakis (Soprano)

Amina - Eglise Gutierrez (Soprano)

Teresa - Elizabeth Sikora (Mezzo-soprano)

Elvino - Celso Albelo (Tenor)

Count Rodolfo - Michele Pertusi (Baritone)

Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus

Daniel Oren (conductor).

Catriona Young presents Bellini's La Sonnambula performet at the Royal Opera House.

Thursday Opera Matinee: Chabrier's L'etoile20171221Penny Gore presents L'Etoile, Chabrier's sparkling opera, in a performance conducted by Mark Elder and recorded last year at the Royal Opera House

Chabrier's comic opera L'ɀtoile is a rarity but is considered to be a masterpiece of the genre

It was first performed to great success in 1877 and was performed 48 times in its first run. It's a wonderfully ridiculous plot, with each role perfectly characterised in the music

The story begins on King Ouf's birthday (the tenor Christophe Mortagne), which he always celebrates with a public impalement, and this year his victim is the pedlar Lazuli (a role for a mezzo-soprano and sung here by Kate Lindsey), who unwittingly struck the King without knowing who he was. However, when the King's astrologer Siroco (bass-baritone Simon Bailey) tells the King that his star and Lazuli's are so closely bound that they will die on the same day, the King cancels the execution

Mark Elder conducts what was the Royal Opera's first ever production of L'ɀtoile, directed by Mariame Cl退ment

King Ouf I - Christophe Mortagne (tenor)

Siroco - Simon Bailey (bass-baritone)

Prince H退risson de Porc-Epic - Fran瀀ois Piolino (tenor)

Tapioca - Aimery Lef耀vre (baritone)

Lazuli - Kate Lindsey (mezzo-soprano)

Princesse Laoula - H退l耀ne Guilmette (soprano)

Alo耀s - Julie Boulianne (mezzo-soprano)

Patacha - Samuel Sakker (tenor)

Zalzal - Samuel Dale Johnson (baritone)

Smith - Chris Addison (actor)

Dupont - Jean-Luc Vincent (actor)

Royal Opera House Chorus

Royal Opera House Orchestra

Mark Elder (conductor).

Penny Gore presents Chabrier's sparkling opera recorded last year at the Royal Opera House

Thursday Opera Matinee: Donizetti, Rosmonda D'inghilterra20170223Catriona Young presents this week's Thursday Opera Matinee: Donizetti's Rosmonda d'Inghilterra, in a production from the Florence Opera House conducted by Sebastiano Rolli. Set in Woodstock Castle, England, during the 12th century, Donizetti's melodrama concerns Enrico (King Henry II) and his mistress Rosmonda, whom he has hidden in a tower. The page Arturo has been instructed to watch over her, and in doing so, falls in love with her. Meanwhile, Enrico's wife, Queen Leonora is plotting against her hidden rival, and his aged tutor Clifford is determined to lead the mysterious mistress back to a life of virtue.

2pm:

Donizetti: Rosmonda d'Inghilterra

Rosmonda Clifford - Jessica Pratt (soprano)

Eleonora di Guienna - Eva Mei (mezzo-soprano)

Enrico II - Michael Spyres (tenor)

Arturo - Raffaella Lupinacci (contralto)

Clifford - Nicola Ulivieri (bass)

Maggio Musicale Chorus

Director: Lorenzo Fratini

Maggio Musicale Orchestra

Sebastiano Rolli (conductor).

Donizetti's Rosmonda d'Inghilterra, in a production from the Florence Opera House.

Thursday Opera Matinee: Faust, By Charles Gounod20200206Elizabeth Alker presents Gounod's opera Faust, performed at the Slovene National Theatre in Maribor. Premiered in Paris in 1859 it's based on Goethe's play about the German legend of a man who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Gounod's version concentrates on Faust's romantic encounter with Marguerite and the ensuing tragic results. An instant success it established Gounod's international reputation, but also earned him the lasting wrath of the Germans who were enraged by the way he had altered what they saw as their national masterpiece.

Gounod: Faust

Martin Sušnik, tenor, Doctor Faust

Peter Martin?i?, bass-baritone, M退phistoph退l耀s

Sabina Cvilak, soprano, Marguerite

Jaka Mihela?, baritone, Valentin, a soldier, Marguerite's brother

Jadranka Juras, mezzo-soprano, Si退bel, a youth, in love with Marguerite

Dada Kladenik, mezzo-soprano, Marthe Schwertlein, Marguerite's guardian

Marko Mandir, baritone, Wagner, friend of Valentin

SNG Maribor Opera Chorus

SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra

Gianluca Martinenghi, conductor

Faust, by Charles Gounod, performed at the Slovene National Theatre in Maribor.

Thursday- Opera Matinee: Giordano's Siberia20180201In our opera matin退e, Tom McKinney introduces Umberto Giordano's rarely heard opera Siberia with the acclaimed soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Stephana, the mistress of a prince, and the tenor Murat Karahan as officer Vassili, her lover, in this tragic tale of romance, treachery and deception, taken from a performance at last year's Montpellier Festival in France. Domingo Hindoyan conducts a stellar cast as well as the Latvian Radio Chorus and the Montpellier Occitanie National Choir and Orchestra. The opera is followed by a a new recording of Sir Arthur Bliss's Introduction and Allegro from the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis. Then a concert given recently by the BBC Singers at St Paul's Knightsbridge, in London, celebrating the music of Edward Cowie, also including pieces by Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Geoffrey Poole.

2pm

Giordano: Siberia

Stephana - Sonya Yoncheva (soprano)

Vassili - Murat Karahan (tenor)

Gleby - Gabriele Viviani (baritone)

Nikona - Catherine Carby (mezzo-soprano)

Girl - Anas Constant (soprano)

Ivan/Cosack - Marin Yonchev (tenor)

Captain/Walinoff/Governor - Riccardo Fassi (bass)

Alexis, Il Sergente - Alvaro Zambrano (tenor)

Miskinsky the banker/Lame man - Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin (baritone)

Inspector - Laurent S退rou (bass)

Montpellier Occitanie National Orchestra

Domingo Hindoyan (conductor)

c.3.40pm

Bliss: Introduction and Allegro

Andrew Davis (conductor)

c.3.55pm

Edward Cowie: Okavango Dawn Rite

Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs

Edward Cowie: Cathedral Music 1

Elgar: They are at rest

Geoffrey Poole: Imerina

Nicholas Kok (conductor).

Tom McKinney introduces Giordano's opera Siberia with Sonya Yoncheva as Stephana.

Thursday Opera Matinee: Ivan Zajc's Nikola Subic Zrinski20190411Ivo Lipanovi? conducts a performance of the Croatian opera Nikola Šubi? Zrinski, from the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb.

Written in 1876 by Ivan Zajc, who overhauled musical life in Zagreb during his 30-year reign as director of the city's opera, it tells the true story of the Battle of Szigetvကr and Captain Nikola Zrinski who led his forces into a heroic last stand against the Ottoman army and Suleiman the Magnificent. Well received at its premiere its enduring appeal in Croatia is due in large part to its climactic chorus, 'U boj, u boj!' ('To battle, to battle!') which has been adopted as a popular patriotic song.

Nikola Šubi? Zrinski - Ljubomir Puškari? (baritone)

Eva - Kristina Kolar (soprano)

Jelena - Valentina Fijacko Kobi? (soprano)

Mehmed Sokolovi? - Stjepan Franetovi? (tenor)

Suleiman the Magnificent - Ivica ?ikeš (bass)

Lovro Jurani? - Domagoj Doroti? (tenor)

Suleiman's doctor... Leon Košavi? (baritone)

Gašpar Alapi?... Ozren Biluši? (bass)

Vuk Paprutovi? ... Mario Bokun (tenor)

Mustafa - Siniša Galovi? (tenor)

Ali Portuk - Miroslav Živkovi? (baritone)

Ibrahim Beglerbeg - Vjekoslav Hude?ek (bass)

Timoleon - Davor Radi? (baritone)

HRT Chorus

HRT Symphony Orchestra

Ivo Lipanovi? (conductor)

Presented by Tom McKinney

Ivo Lipanovic conducts Ivan Zajc's opera Nikola Subic Zrinski, recorded in Zagreb.

Thursday Opera Matinee: Massenet's Werther20170629Penny Gore presents a performance from April 2017 of Jules Massenet's four-act opera 'Werther' at the Vienna State Opera. The opera is loosely based on the German novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 'The Sorrows of Young Werther', in which a sensitive young poet, shattered by rejection, takes his own life.

2pm

Massenet: Werther

Werther - Ludovic T退zier, baritone

Charlotte - Sophie Koch, mezzo-soprano

Albert ....... Adrian Er怀d, baritone

Sophie - Maria Nazarova, soprano

Le Bailli - Alexandru Moisiuc, bass

Johann - Marcus Pelz, baritone

Schmidt - Peter Jelosits, tenor

Vienna State Opera Chorus

Vienna State Opera School Children's Choir

Johannes Mertl (director)

Vienna State Opera Orchestra

Fr退d退ric Chaslin (conductor).

Penny Gore presents a performance of Massenet's Werther given at the Vienna State Opera.

Thursday Opera Matinee: Moniuszko's Halka20190314One of Poland's most loved operas, Halka was recorded at last year's Chopin and his Europe festival in Warsaw.

The story is of village girl Halka who, despite the love of local lad Jontek, falls into the clutches of lecherous nobleman Janusz. He makes her pregnant but then abandons her; the baby dies and when, in her grief, she learns that Janusz has become engaged, she plots her revenge

2.00pm

Moniuszko: Halka (opera in four acts, sung in Italian)

Tina Gorina, soprano - Halka

Monika Ledzion-Porczynska, soprano - Zofia

Matheus Pompeu, tenor - Jontek

Robert Gierlach, baritone - Janusz

Rafal Siwek, bass - Stolnik

Karol Kozlowski, tenor - Wie?niak

Krzysztof Szyfman, bass - Dziemba

Mateusz Stachura, baritone - Dudarz, Go?cie

Pawel Cichonski, tenor - Go?cie

Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Chorus

Europa Galante

Fabio Biondi, conductor

4.05pm

Chopin: Ballade no.3 in A flat

Alexei Lubimov, fortepiano

4.15pm

Ries: Variations on Rule Britannia

Wilms: Variations on Wilhelmus Van Nassauwe

Tobias Koch, fortepiano

Concerto Koln

Gianluca Capuano, conductor

One of Poland's most loved operas, recorded at last year's Chopin and his Europe festival

Thursday Opera Matinee: Monteverdi 450, L'orfeo20170511Monteverdi 450 - Verity Sharp introduces Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo, the earliest complete opera that survives to our day, based on an ancient Greek fable. This Baroque jewel is conducted by Ottavio Dantone at the helm of the Lausane Chamber Orchestra and Opera Chorus, with Fernando Guimaraes in the title role as the hapless Thracian who fails to bring his dead lover Euridice, sung by Federica Di Trapani, back from the Underworld, only to be rescued at the end by the gods.

2.00pm

Monteverdi - L'Orfeo

La Musica (Music) / Messaggiera (Messenger) - Jos耀 Maria Lo Monaco (soprano)

Orfeo (Orpheus) - Fernando Guimaraes (tenor)

Euridice (Eurydice) - Federica Di Trapani (soprano)

Speranza (Hope) / Proserpina (Proserpine) - Delphine Galou (soprano)

Caronte (Charon) / Plutone (Pluto) / Un pastore (A Shepherd) - Nicolas Courjal (bass)

Primo pastore (First Shepherd) / Un spirito (A Spirit) / Apollo - Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (tenor)

Pastore secondo (Second Shepherd) / Un pastore (A Shepherd) / Un spirito (A Spirit) - Alessandro Giangrande (tenor)

Ninfa (Nymph) - Mathilde Opinel (soprano)

Lausanne Opera Chorus

Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

Ottavio Dantone, conductor.

Verity Sharp presents a performance of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, conducted by Ottavio Dantone.

Thursday Opera Matinee: Pavarotti In Donizetti's La Fille Du Regiment20170921To commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death, tenor Luciano Pavarotti leads a stellar cast in Donizetti's La Fille du R退giment in an archive recording from New York's Metropolitan Opera. He is joined by soprano Joan Sutherland in this 1973 recording conducted by Richard Bonynge

Presented by Verity Sharp

Ever since its first performance in 1840, Donizetti's sparkling comic opera has delighted audiences across the world. It was a particularly apt vehicle for the 'star couple' of Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland, heard here at the height of their vocal powers under the baton of Sutherland's husband, Richard Bonynge

Donizetti: La Fille du R退giment

Marie - Joan Sutherland, soprano

Tonio - Luciano Pavarotti, tenor

Marquise of Birkenfeld - Regina Resnik, soprano

Sergeant Sulpice - Fernando Corena, bass

Hortentius - Andrea Velis, bass

Duchesse of Krakentorp - Jean Kraft, soprano

Peasant - Charles Kuestner, tenor

Corporal - Andrij Dobriansky, bass

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra

Richard Bonynge, conductor

3.50pm

Eric Chisholm: Violin Concerto

Matthew Trussler, violin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins, conductor.

Luciano Pavarotti stars in Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment, in a 1973 recording.

Thursday Opera Matinee: Prokofiev's The Gambler20171116In today's Opera Matinee, Verity Sharp presents Prokofiev's The Gambler in a recording from the Vienna State Opera as part of Radio 3's season Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture.

Prokofiev's 4-act opera is based on a novel by Dostoevsky, who understood the lure of the gaming tables only too well, being addicted to gambling himself. Set in Roulettenburg, a fictional German spa town, the opera deals with the ups and downs of winning and losing and obsessive greed. Prokofiev wrote his own libretto and completed the score in 1917, in his late 20s. It is written in his most exciting early style with high energy and motoric rhythms.

Prokofiev: The Gambler

The General - Dmitry Ulyanov (bass)

Pauline - Elena Guseva (soprano)

Alexei - Misha Didyk (tenor)

Babulenka - Linda Watson (mezzo-soprano)

The Marquis .....Thomas Ebenstein (tenor)

Blanche - Elena Maximova (mezzo-soprano)

Mr Astley - Morten Frank Larsen (baritone)

Simone Young (conductor)

2pm Act 1

2.25pm Act 2

3pm Act 3

3.25pm Act 4

4.05pm

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Nicholas Collon (conductor).

Verity Sharp presents Prokofiev's The Gambler in a recording from the Vienna State Opera.

Thursday Opera Matinee: Purcell, The Fairy Queen20170413Penny Gore introduces Purcell's sparkling Shakespearean masque in a performance conducted by early music specialist Jordi Savall and recorded at the Pau Casals Hall, Barcelona, last summer

Thought to have been written not long before the composer's early death, for the wedding anniversary of William and Mary, the score was lost and not rediscovered until a little over a hundred years ago. In fact the first modern performance was conducted in London by none other than Gustav Holst, with introductions from Ralph Vaughan Williams

The fine young cast includes finalists of the Sixth Academy of the International Ancient Music Centre Foundation and former New Generation Artist Benjamin Appl

2pm

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629

Rachel Redmon, soprano

Ingeborg Dalheim, sopano

Luc퀀a Mart퀀n-Cart n, soprano

Alex Potter, countertenor

David Sagastume, countertenor

Malcolm Bennett, tenor

V퀀ctor Sordo, tenor

Benjamin Appl, baritone

Juliကn Millကn, baritone

Le Concert des Nations

La Capella Reial de Catalunya

Jordi Savall, conductor.

Penny Gore introduces Purcell's Shakespearean The Fairy Queen masque.

Thursday Opera Matinee: Verdi's Rigoletto20170622Thursday Opera Matin退e: Verity Sharp introduces Verdi's tragic and provocative tale of the cynical court jester who, against his better nature, wreaks havoc with the lives of others. But then the tables are turned and he's doomed to bring about the death of the one person he holds most dear - his daughter Gilda. Dimitri Platanias is the hunchback jester, Ekaterina Siurina his daughter Gilda, and Vittorio Grigolo the handsome, amoral duke who poses as a penniless student to gain Gilda's love. John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera, in a recording from 2012.

Duke Of Mantua - Vittorio Grigolo (tenor)

Rigoletto - Dimitri Platanias (baritone)

Gilda - Ekaterina Siurina (soprano)

Maddalena - Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)

Sparafucile - Matthew Rose (bass)

Giovanna - Elizabeth Sikora (mezzo-soprano)

Monterone - Gianfranco Montresor (baritone)

Marullo - Zheng Zhou (baritone)

Borsa - Pablo Bemsch (tenor)

Count Ceprano - Jihoon Kim (bass-baritone)

Countess Ceprano - Susana Gaspar (soprano)

Usher - Nigel Cliffe (tenor)

Page - Andrea Hazell (mezzo-soprano)

Conductor, John Eliot Gardiner.

Verity Sharp introduces a performance of Verdi's opera Rigoletto, with Dimitri Platanias.

Thursday, A Symphony Beyond Words20220203Fiona Talkington with performances from around the world including Nielsen's third symphony - the Sinfonia Espansiva - which features vocalise for soprano and baritone performed by Elizabeth Watts and Benjamin Appl and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with conductor Geoffrey Paterson. Plus music from the International Baroque Music Days festival at Melk Abbey in Austria, and a concert inspired by birds.

Weber: Overture - Oberon

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri - Ad pectus

La Risonanza

Fabio Bonizzoni (director)

Brahms: Variations on the St Anthony Chorale

John Wilson (conductor)

Birtwistle: Endless Parade

Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Daniel Harding (conductor)

3pm

Nielsen: Symphony no 3, Op 27 (Sinfonia espansiva)

Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

Benjamin Appl (baritone)

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5

Tamas Kocsis (violin)

Ulster Orchestra

Sinead Hayes (conductor)

Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Mikko Franck (conductor)

Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919)

Geoffrey Paterson conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Nielsen's Symphony No 3.

Thursday, Alim Beisembayev Plays Tchaikovsky20220616Ian Skelly introduces performances by the SWR Symphony Orchestra, including Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with Alim Beisembayev. Plus there's music by Mussorgsky, Chopin, Ravel, Handel, Glinka, Schumann and Augusta Holm耀s, alongside highlights from the recent Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival.

Modest Mussorgsky - Night on a Bald Mountain

Yi-Chen Lin (conductor)

c. 2.20

Mikhail Glinka - Valse-fantasie in B minor

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

c. 2.30

Frederic Chopin - Waltz in A flat, Op.42

Mariam Batsashvili (piano)

c. 2.35

Maurice Ravel - La Valse

Lionel Bringuier (conductor)

c. 2.50

John Williams arr. David Riniker - Catch me if you can

12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic

3pm

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1 in B minor, Op.23

Alim Beisembayev (piano)

c. 3.40

GF Handel - Amen, alleluia in D minor

Jakub Jozef Orlinski (countertenor)

Il Pomo d'Oro

Zefira Valova (conductor)

c. 3.45

Robert Schumann - Piano Quartet in E flat, Op.47

Denis Kozhukhin (piano)

Boris Brovtsyn (violin)

Amihai Grosz (viola)

Jens Peter Maintz (cello)

c. 4.15

Augusta Holm耀s - Memento mei Deus

BBC Singers

Hilary Campbell (conductor)

Alim Beisembayev and the SWR Symphony Orchestra play Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto.

Thursday, Bbc Music Day Opera Matinee: Giordano's Andrea Chenier20170615As part of BBC Music Day, Afternoon on 3 celebrates The Power of Music with what some say is the most powerful musical experience of all - opera! Soaring voices and a plot with love, revolution and death keep us at the edge of our seats as Penny Gore introduces Umberto Giordano's Andrea Ch退nier in David McVicar's 2015 production from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. With tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the title role and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as Maddalena de Coigny, conducted by Antonio Pappano. Giordano's melodramatic story is a passionate tale of the ill-fated love of a dashing poet and an aristocratic lady, set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. It is based loosely on the life of the French poet, Andr退 Ch退nier, who was executed during the French Revolution. Giordano wrote some of his best music for the lead tenor, which is a role that has been tackled by some of the world's greatest tenors.

2pm

Giordano: Andrea Ch退nier

Andrea Ch退nier - Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)

Maddalena de Coigny - Eva-Maria Westbroek (soprano)

Carlo Gerard - Zeljko Lucic (Baritone)

Bersi - Denyce Graves (mezzo-soprano)

Madelon - Elena Zilio (mezzo-soprano)

Contessa de Coigny - Rosalind Plowright (soprano)

Roucher - Roland Wood (baritone)

Pietro Fl退ville - Peter Coleman-Wright (baritone)

Fouquier Tinville - Eddie Wade (baritone)

Mathieu - Adrian Clarke (baritone)

Un incredible - Carlo Bosi (tenor)

Abb退 - Peter Hoare (tenor)

Schmidt - Jeremy White (bass)

Major Domo - John Cunningham (bass-baritone)

Dumas - Yuriy Yurchuk (bass-baritone)

Royal Opera House Orchestra

Royal Opera House Chorus

Antonio Pappano (Conductor).

A performance of Giordano's opera Andrea Chenier given at the Royal Opera House.

Thursday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20210218Penny Gore introduces performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales of music by Hoddinott, Vaughan Williams, Holt, Bruckner and Henze.

2.00pm

Hoddinott: Lizard

Conductor Jac van Steen

2.30pm

Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi

Lawrence Power, viola

Conductor Martyn Brabbins

2.50pm

Simon Holt: Troubled Light for orchestra

3.10pm

Bruckner: Symphony No 7

Conductor Joseph Swensen

4.25pm

Henze: Symphony No 8

With music by Hoddinott, Vaughan Williams, Holt, Bruckner and Henze.

Thursday, Bbc Philharmonic20210617Tom McKinney continues the week of live and recorded performances by the BBC Philharmonic with music by Haydn, Dvo?ကk, Ravel, Busoni, John Foulds and Kurt Schwertsik.

John Foulds - April - England

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Joseph Haydn - Cello Concerto in C major, Hob.VIIb:1

Anastasia Kobekina (cello)

Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor)

Maurice Ravel - Ma m耀re l'oye (ballet)

Moritz Gnann (conductor)

Antonin Dvo?ကk - Serenade for strings in E major, Op.22

Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)

Kurt Schwertsik - Baumgesang

H.K. Gruber (conductor)

Ferruccio Busoni - Indian Fantasy

Nelson Goerner (piano)

Neeme J䀀rvi (conductor)

Presented by Tom McKinney

The BBC Philharmonic perform Haydn, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, Ravel, Busoni, Foulds and Schwertsik.

Thursday, Bbc Philharmonic Live20220526Ian Skelly is at Media City UK with the BBC Philharmonic for a live concert of Schumann, Julia Perry and Chopin, featuring pianist Alexander Gadjiev. Also in the programme, another nod in the direction of Spain as guitarist Sean Shibe plays Rodrigo and organist Olivier Latry performs on the organ of the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona.

Including:

Bach/Widor: `Marche du veilleur de nuit` from ‘Bach's Memento

Olivier Latry, organ

Beethoven: Egmont Overture

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Rodrigo: 3 Songs for voice and guitar -

`Pastorcito Santo` (3 Villancicos No 1)

`Coplilas de Belen` (3 Villancicos No 2)

`Adela` (12 Canciones espagnoles No 2)

Alessandro Fisher, tenor

Thibaut Garcia, guitar

Shostakovich: String Quartet No 11 in F minor, Op122

Casals Quartet

2.45

LIVE FROM THE PHILHARMONIC STUDIO IN MEDIA CITY UK, SALFORD:

Schumann: Overture, Die Braut von Messina

Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor

Julia Perry: Short Piece

Juho Pohjonen, piano

Leslie Suganandarajah, conductor

Bach: Ricercar a 6 (The Musical Offering)

Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez

Sean Shibe (guitar)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Manze, conductor

The BBC Philharmonic, live in concert, perform music by Schumann, Julia Perry and Chopin.

Thursday, Bbc Philharmonic Play Kurt Weill20221117Ian Skelly introduces a selection of live concert recordings from BBC orchestras and European ensembles.

In the 3pm spotlight today, Elena Schwarz conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Kurt Weill's dramatic second symphony, and Sibelius's tone poem Tapiola. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Richard Strauss's Don Juan, and pianist Barry Douglas plays music from Prokofiev's score to Romeo and Juliet from this summer's Montpellier Festival.

Including:

Sibelius: Finlandia

Berlin Philharmonic

Kirill Petrenko, conductor

J.C. Bach: Sinfonia from 'Temistocle

Concerto Koln

Edward Cowie: Lyre Bird Motet

BBC Singers

Owain Park, conductor

c.3.25pm

R Strauss: Don Juan, Op 20

Donald Runnicles, conductor

Prokofiev: Ten Pieces from 'Romeo and Juliet, op. 75' (nos.1-5 - Folk Dance; Scene; Menuet; Juliet the young girl; Masks)

Barry Douglas, piano

c.3pm

Weill: Symphony No.2

Elena Schwarz, conductor

c.3.45pm

Agricola: Die mit Thr䀀nen s䀀en

Vocalensemble Sirventes Berlin

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin

Stefan Schuck, conductor

c.4.30pm

Sibelius: Tapiola

Elena Schwarz conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Kurt Weill's Second Symphony.

Thursday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20170525Katie Derham continues her week of recent performances and recordings by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today features a complete performance of Haydn's Creation, performed at Glasgow City Halls earlier this month with soloists Rowan Pierce, James Gilchrist, Matthew Rose and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus conducted by Thomas Dausgaard. Plus more from a new recording of piano concertos by William Sterndale Bennett.

2pm

Haydn: The Creation

Rowan Pierce (soprano)

James Gilchrist (tenor)

Matthew Rose (bass)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

c.3.40pm

Debussy: Pr退lude

Thursday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20211209This week features live and recent concerts by the BBC performing groups. Today it's the turn of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, recorded in September at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh with a varied programme including Sibelius's Violin Concerto and Symphony no.7. Plus former New Generation Artists Christian Ihle Hadland and the Escher Quartet perform Mozart's Piano Quartet in E flat major.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

Britten: An American Overture

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata in A major

Mark Simpson (clarinet)

Richard Uttley (piano)

c.2.30pm

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, recorded in September at Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Bach (arr. Crespo): Es ist genug (Cantata BWV.60)

Lindberg: Choral (based on Es ist genug)

Sibelius: Violin Concerto

Beethoven: Overture ‘Leonore' no.3

Sibelius: Symphony no.7

Pekka Kuusisto (violin)

Joana Carneiro (conductor)

c.4pm

Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat major, K.493

Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert performing Bach, Beethoven and Sibelius.

Thursday, Bbc Singers At St Paul's Knightsbridge20230406At 2.30pm, Penny Gore introduces a sequence for Maundy Thursday from the BBC Singers, conducted live at St Paul's, Knightsbridge, by their principal conductor Sofi Jeannin. Their performance includes music by Scarlatti, Karin Rehnqvist, Poulenc, Byrd and Judith Bingham.

Also today, music for Holy Week by Zelenka, Lili Boulanger and Franz Schrecker from the BBC Philharmonic, Barber's Adagio with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Haydn.

Including,

2pm

Lili Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Zelenka: Lamentatio II for Maundy Thursday

Damien Guillon, counter tenor & conductor

Le Banquet C退leste

Massenet: M退ditation, from 'Thas

Renaud Capu瀀on, violin

Anne-Sophie Bertrand, harp

Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 62 in E flat major, Hob.XVI:52

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano

2:30pm

LIVE from St Paul's Knightsbridge, London

Raphaella Aleotti: Miserere mei, Deus

Byrd: Lamentations

Maddalena Casulana: Morir non puo

Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat Mater a 10 voci

Karin Rehnqvist: Jag lyfter mina hander

Poulenc: Quatre motets pour un temps de p退nitence

Ghislaine Reece-Trapp: Omnes amici mei

Judith Bingham: Watch with me

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

c.3:55pm

Franz Schreker: Ekkehard (Op.12): Symphonic Overture

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

Barber: Adagio for strings

Jac van Steen, conductor

Zelenka: Responsory 'In monte Oliveti

Myriam Arbouz, soprano

Thomas Hobbs, tenor

Benot Arnould, baritone

Damien Guillon, countertenor and conductor

The BBC Singers perform a live sequence for Maundy Thursday from St Paul's, Knightsbridge.

Thursday, Bizet's Youthful Enterprise20211028Ian Skelly introduces more recordings featuring major Danish orchestras. Today he has Gershwin at the opera with Wayne Marshall, Fabio Luis conducting Bizet in the concert hall, and Haydn journeying to London.

Including:

Mendelssohn: Nunc Dimittis & Psalm 43

BBC Singers

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Suite

Tivoli Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra

Wayne Marshall (conductor)

Hans Abrahamsen: 10 Pieces for Orchestra Nos 8&9

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi (conductor)

Luis de Narvaez: Baxa de contropunto & Siee diferencias sobre

Hopkinson Smith (lute)

c.3pm

Bizet: Symphony in C

Chopin: Nocturne in Bb Op9/1

Alice Sara Ott (piano)

Sullivan: 'The Long Day Closes

Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)

Verdi: Arias and duets from 'Un Ballo in Maschera

Yana Kleyn (soprano)

Christopher Maltman (baritone)

Audrey Saint-Gil (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No 104 'London

Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

Wayne Marshall (piano and conductor)

Music making from Denmark including Haydn, Verdi and Bizet's Symphony in C

Thursday, Brahms's Double Concerto20220623This week's featured artist, violinist Renaud Capu瀀on, is today joined by German cellist Daniel Muller-Schott in Brahms's concerto for the two instruments. There's also music from the London International Festival of Early Music and more from composer Judith Bingham's 70th birthday concert

Presented by Ian Skelly

2.00pm

Rebel

Sonata no.2 in F

Ensemble Hesperi

Boris Blacher

Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op.26

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Hotteterre

Sonata, Op.3/3

The drowned lovers

Stanford

The blue bird

BBC Singers

Owain Park

Clara Schumann

Three Romances, Op.22

Janine Jansen, violin

Denis Kozhukhin, piano

3.00pm

Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, Op.102

Bartok

Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin

Renaud Capu瀀on, violin

Daniel Muller-Schott, cello

Shostakovich

Symphony no.9 in E flat, Op.70

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Steven Lloyd-Gonzalez, conductor

Violinist Renaud Capu\u00e7on is joined by German cellist Daniel Muller-Schott in Brahms.

Thursday, Brahms's First Symphony20230216Ian Skelly with performances by BBC ensembles and concert recordings from across Europe.

Brahms's Symphony No 1 is in the 3pm spotlight today, with Semyon Bychkov conducting the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Also, Venetian Renaissance with Concerto Palatino and sacred music by Andrea Gabrieli, the BBC Philharmonic performs Kodaly's Dances of Marosszek, and Truls Mork is the soloist in Robert Schumann's Cello Concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

Andrea Gabrieli: Usquequo Domine, a 7

Bruce Dickey, cornetto & director

Poulenc: Les Biches - suite, Rag-mazurka

Orchestre de Paris

Semyon Bychkov, conductor

Kodaly: Dances of Marosszek

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Debussy: Pr退lude

Thursday, Christian Gerhaher Sings Mahler20211007Tom McKinney with the best classical music performed by BBC ensembles and orchestras across Europe.

Yuliana Avdeeva is the soloist in today's Romantic piano concerto, Chopin's First. Also, a sparkling opener by Ravel from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Mahler's darkest song-cycle Kindertotenlieder with the baritone Christian Gerhaher, and Mozart's Symphony no.39 from Les Musiciens du Louvre. Plus there's Baroque vocal music from Capella Marianna in Prague and a highlight from last year's London International Festival of Early Music.

Including:

Ravel: Alborada del gracioso

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Carl Luython: Ricercare cromatico in E (organ)

Carl Luython: Lamentationes Hieremiae Prophetae

Jaroslav Tuma (organ)

Vojtech Semerad (conductor)

c.2.25pm

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder

Christian Gerhaher (baritone)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Robin Ticciati (conductor)

c.3pm

Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor, Op.11

Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Lahav Shani (conductor)

Gibbons: The woode so wilde

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

Arvo P䀀rt: Summa

Fretwork

Emilie Mayer: Faust Overture

BBC Philharmonic

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony No.39 in E flat, K.543

Marc Minkowski (conductor)

c. 4.30pm

Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K.165

Julia Lezhneva (soprano)

Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

Mahler's Kindertotenlieder and music by Mozart, Arvo P\u00e4rt and Emilie Mayer.

Thursday, Copland's Symphony No 320220922Penny Gore with recordings of live performances from around Europe and BBC ensembles.

Today, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, perform Copland's Symphony No 3 and Beethoven's Violin Concerto with soloist Julia Fischer. Also, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with the Polonaise from Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin; Handel's Dixit Dominus, with Joel Suhubiette conducting Choeur Les El退ments and Les Ombres; Barry Douglas performing Sean Doherty's Clandeboye Overture; and the Armida Quartet in Mozart's Adagio and fugue in C minor, K 546.

Including:

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin - Polonaise

Michael Seal, conductor

Handel: Dixit Dominus in G minor, HWV 232

Joel Suhubiette, conductor

c.2.40pm

Sean Doherty: Clandeboye Overture

Barry Douglas, piano

Mozart: Adagio and fugue in C minor, K 546

John Tavener: Love Bade Me Welcome

BBC Singers

Rupert Gough, director

c.3.00pm

Copland: Symphony No. 3

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

Artist Choice: Michael Tilson Thomas

Beethoven: Violin Concerto

Julia Fischer, violin

Also, music by Tchaikovsky, Handel, Sean Doherty, Mozart, John Tavener and Beethoven.

Thursday, David Danzmayr Conducts Beethoven20230316Presented by Fiona Talkington, with concert performances from around Europe.

This week's focus on the Ulster Orchestra continues with Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, in a new recording with the young Austrian conductor David Danzmayr, who also makes today's artist choice - music inspired by Beethoven from composer Carlos Simon. We also hear the orchestra in sea-inspired music by Arnold Bax, and Stravinsky's ballet score, Orpheus. Plus more from G怀teborg Baroque's concert at Sweden's Valle Baroque Festival, Lionel Meunier directs Vox Luminis, and Gershwin and Weill from the duo of trumpeter Simon H怀fele and pianist Frank Dupree.

Including:

Handel: Trio Sonata in G, HWV 399

Magnus Kjellson, director

Bax: On the sea-shore - tone poem (completed by Graham Parlett)

Vernon Handley, conductor

Brahms: Schicksalslied, op. 54

WDR Chorus

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Andr退s Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

Simon H怀fele, trumpet

Frank Dupree, piano

3.00

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major Op. 92

David Danzmayr, conductor

Weill: Berlin im Licht

Kuhnau: Uns ist ein Kind geboren

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Lionel Meunier, conductor

Artist choice - David Danzmayr

Carlos Simon: Fate Now Conquers

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jonathan Heyward, conductor

c.4.00

Stravinsky: Orpheus

Jac van Steen, conductor

Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 31

Elisabeth Brauss, piano

The Ulster Orchestra perform Beethoven's Symphony No 7, plus music by Bax and Stravinsky.

Thursday, David Matthews At 8020230309Penny Gore hosts an afternoon of live music making celebrating David Matthews's 80th birthday. Live in Salford, John Storgards conducts the BBC Philharmonic and baritone Marcus Farnsworth in a selection of works written and chosen by David Matthews, including his Concerto for orchestra and arrangements of Schubert songs.

Also today, the BBC Philharmonic in recordings of music by Stravinsky and Vivaldi, plus more 18th-century chamber music from Collegium Marianum.

Including:

Stravinsky: Greeting Prelude

Andrew Davis (conductor)

J.S. Bach: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E flat, BWV998

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

2.30

BBC Philharmonic LIVE - David Matthews at 80

David Matthews: Concerto for orchestra

Schubert (orch. Max Reger): Prometheus

Schubert (arr. Johannes Brahms) An Schwager Kronos

Schubert (orch. Max Reger): Erlkonig

David Matthews: Nachtgesang Op 133

Schubert (arr. Max Reger): Gesange des Harfnes I-III

Marcus Farnsworth (baritone)

John Storgards (conductor)

Blockwitz/Quantz: Suite Imaginaire in E minor

Johann Friedrich Fasch: Quartet in D FaWV N:d1

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - 'Autumn

BBC Phiharmonic

Jack Liebeck (violin/director)

Stravinsky: Symphony in C

The BBC Philharmonic play live to mark David Matthews's 80th birthday.

Thursday, Dido And Aeneas20211202Penny Gore introduces another afternoon of the best classical music, from the BBC's orchestras and from ensembles and festivals around Europe.

Today, from this year's Confidencen Opera Festival in Sweden, Purcell's first opera based on the story of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and the Prince of Troy, Aeneas. Jacob Hrusa conducts Brahms and Dvorak in Frankfurt, and Chloe Hanslip joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto.

Including:

Barber: Violin concerto, Op 14

Chloe Hanslip (violin)

Douglas Boyd (conductor)

Dvorak: Biblical Songs, op.99

Gerhild Romberger (contralto)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Jacob Hrusa (conductor)

c.3pm

Brahms: Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.68

Grieg: How Fair is Thy Face, from 'Four Psalms' Op.74

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Christian Immler (soloist)

Julia Selina Blank (conductor)

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Ida R䀀nzl怀v, mezzo (Dido)

Bernt Ola Volungholen, baritone (Aeneas)

Rupert Enticknap, countertenor (Sorcerer)

Christina Larsson Malmberg, soprano (Belinda)

Confidencen Opera & Music Festival Orchestra

Olof Boman (conductor)

Purcell's opera in Sweden and Brahms's First Symphony.

Thursday, Dvorak's Violin Concerto20230105Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert, featuring highlights from the Lucerne and Verbier Festivals. Today's programme includes Augustin Hadelich as soloist in Dvorak's Violin Concerto, and part of a Bach concert given by mandolin player Avi Avital and friends. Plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Japan with Roderick Williams singing songs from the shows.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

c.2pm

Yasushi Akutagawa Music for Symphony Orchestra - 2nd movt Allegro

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

Schubert Tantum ergo, D. 962; Intende Voci, D. 963

Golda Schultz (soprano)

Katharina Magiera (contralto)

Julian Pregardien (tenor)

Maciej Kwasnikowski (tenor)

Tareq Nazmi (bass)

Vienna Singverein

Camerata Salzburg

Franz Welser-M怀st (conductor)

Sibelius Tapiola, op. 112

German Symphony Orchestra

Robin Ticciati (conductor)

Fran瀀ois Couperin Sonade, from 'L'Imp退riale, troisi耀me ordre des Nations

Les Talens Lyriques

Christophe Rousset (director)

c.3pm

Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor, Op.53

Augustin Hadelich (violin)

Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Jakub Hr?ša (conductor)

c.3.30

Bach Excerpts from 'Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach

Avi Avital (mandolin)

Maurice Steger (recorder)

David Bergmüller (lute)

Hille Perl (viola da gamba)

Sebastian Wienand (harpsichord and organ)

Bach Concerto for 2 violins in D minor, BWV.1043

Isabelle Faust and Bernard Forck (violins)

Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin

Bernard Forck (director)

Rodgers Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific)

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Kern arr Williams Ol' Man River (Showboat)

Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43

Jae Hong Park (piano)

European Union Youth Orchestra

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Music by Schubert, Dvorak and Bach.

Thursday, Eric Lu Plays Chopin's First Concerto20230713Penny Gore presents the best concert performances from across Europe and from the BBC performing groups.

Today's featured 3pm highlight showcases pianist Eric Lu, 2018 winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition, in Chopin's Piano Concerto No.1 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Perth earlier this year. Also today, Mozart's vibrant Symphony No.35, the 'Haffner', from the 2023 Salzburg Mozart Week, Vaughan Williams's perennially popular Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Florence Price's concert overture Sinner Don't Let This Harvest Pass.

Including:

Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue

Martyn Brabbins (cond.)

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Ryan Bancroft (cond.)

John Tavener: Schuon Hymnen

BBC Singers

Sofi Jeannin (cond.)

Florence Price: Sinner Don't Let This Harvest Pass

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Michael Seal (cond.)

Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1

Eric Lu (piano)

Tito Munoz (cond.)

John Hodian: Lamentation of the Death of a Child

The Naghash Ensemble

Mozart: Symphony No.35 in D, K385 `Haffner`

Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra

Ivor Bolton (cond.)

Rachmaninov: Variations on a theme of Paganini

Clare Hammond (piano)

Lionel Bringuier (cond.)

Eric Lu plays Chopin's Piano Concerto No.1, plus Mozart's Haffner Symphony from Salzburg

Thursday, Grieg's First Piano Concerto20220519Today's concerto is Grieg's evergreen Piano Concerto in A minor, with Elisabeth Leonskaja as soloist with the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; part of a concert they gave in Saarbrucken from which we also hear both of Grieg's Peer Gynt suites. Plus the Nevermind Ensemble performs chamber music by CPE Bach, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play Musgrave's Turbulent Landscapes.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

2pm

Sibelius Oceanides, Op.73

Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

c.2.10

CPE Bach Quartet in D major, Wq.94

c.2.25

Thea Musgrave Turbulent landscapes

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

3pm

Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16

Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)

c.3.35

Janacek String Quartet No 1 (The Kreutzer Sonata)

Calidore Quartet

c.3.50

Grieg Peer Gynt Suite no.1, Op.46

c.4.10

Bach Excerpts from The Art of Fugue, BWV.1080

Contrapunctus 1, 4 & 6

c.4.30

Grieg Peer Gynt Suite no.2, Op. 55

Elisabeth Leonskaja plays Grieg, plus music by Musgrave and CPE Bach.

Thursday, Handel's Israel In Egypt - Part 220221103Penny Gore presents a week of Afternoon Concert, featuring today the second part of Handel's Israel in Egypt performed by the Zürcher Sing-Akademie and Freiburg Baroque Orchestra conducted by Ren退 Jacobs. Plus highlights of a concert accordian player Martynas Levickis gave with his ensemble Mikroork退stra, and newly recorded Jean Francaix from the BBC Singers.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Vivaldi Presto from Summer, The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G minor, RV315

Martynas Levickis (accordian)

Jean Francaix Deux Motets: i) Qui me donnera des ailes; ii) Les  mes des justes sont dans les mains de Dieu

Francesca Massey (organ)

Robert Hollingworth (conductor)

Ravel Rapsodie espagnole

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Pavel Snajdr (conductor)

Piazzolla Excerpts from ‘Five Tango Sensations

(2.Loving, 3.Anxiety, 4.Fear)

Respighi Fountains of Rome (Fontane di Roma), symphonic poem

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Juraj Val?uha (conductor)

3pm

Handel Israel in Egypt, HWV54 - Part 2: Exodus

Robin Johannsen (soprano)

Emmanuel de Negri (soprano)

Alberto Migu退lez Rouco (counter-tenor)

Jeremy Ovenden (tenor)

Neal Davies (bass)

Yannick Debus (bass)

Ren退 Jacobs (conductor)

Levickis Lithuanian folk song arrangements

(Leliumoj; Šiu namo tpru namo; Palinko Liepa šalia Kelio; Beauštanti aušrele Ruta Žalioj)

Francaix Ode

Thursday, Haydn's Drumroll From Bavaria20221201Ian Skelly continues his survey of highlights from recent Bavarina Radio Symphony concerts with a performance of Haydn's Symphony No 103 and further music inspired by the drum. Also a recording from the early music ensemble L'Acheron playing music from the English renaissance and a choral treat from Handel.

Edward Elgar: Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands op27 No 5 - `On The Alm`

London Symphony Orchestra

LSO Chorus

Richard Hickox (conductor)

Francois Joubert-Caillet: Preludium

Christopher Simpson: Improvisation on a ground in B

Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Juan Perez Florestan (piano)

City of Granada Orchestra

Josep Pons (conductor)

John Jenkins: Newark Siege

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for multiple instruments in F RV569

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Maurice Steger (director)

3.00

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No 103 `Drumroll`

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

John Coprario - Gray's Inn

John Jenkins - Fantasia in C minor

Traditional - Preludium and Improvisation upon Fortune

John Coprario - Fantasia in F

L'Ach退ron

GF Handel: Laudate pueri Dominum in D HWV237

Marie Sophie Pollack (sop)

Zurich Sing Akadamie

La Scintilla Orchestra

Florian Helgath (conductor)

Bela Bartok: Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion

Pierre-Laurent Aimard & Tamara Stefanovich (pianos)

Neil Percy (percussion), Nigel Thomas (percussion)

Pierre Boulez

Haydn's Symphony 103, 'The Drumroll', set alongside music of the English Renaissance.

Thursday, Hymn Of Praise20211104Fiona Talkington continues our week of unique recordings from the BBC Orchestras and some of Europe's best ensembles.

Today, Herbert Blomstedt conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir in Mendelssohn's 'Symphony-Cantata', the Symphony No. 2, ‘Lobgesang - Hymn of Praise'. Also, Falla's Three Cornered Hat Suite No.1 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Gesualdo's madrigals with Philippe Herreweghe and the Collegium Vocale Ghent, and JS Bach's Double Concerto with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.

Continuing this week's living composers series, music by Betsy Jolas with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

Falla: Three Cornered Hat Suite No 2

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

Melli: Il Carlino. Capriccio Cromatico

Gesualdo: Selection from Madrigali a 5 voci, libro Quinto

Thomas C. Boysen, lute

Philippe Herreweghe, conductor

Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A, op. 11/1

Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mark Kadin, conductor

Beamish: Reed Stanzas (String Quartet No. 3)

Belinfante Quartet

c.3pm

Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2, ‘Lobgesang - Hymn of Praise

Simona Houda-Šaturovက, soprano

Marie Henriette Reinhold, mezzo-soprano

Tilman Lichdi, tenor

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir

Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

Betsy Jolas: Just a minute

Betsy Jolas: Letters from Bachville

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

JS Bach: Double Concerto in D minor, BWV1043

Eva Borhi & Kathrin Troger, violins

Martin Lehmann, conductor

Piccinini: Ricercare Primo

Herbert Blomstedt conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir.

Thursday, Igor Levit Plays Beethoven20210916Presented by Ian Skelly. Gustavo Dudamel continues this week's focus on the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra by joining them to conduct Schumann's Fourth Symphony, and Igor Levit plays Beethoven's First Piano Concerto. There's music by Dorothy Howell from the Basel Sinfonietta, and recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Including:

Finzi: Prelude for String Orchestra and F minor

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins

Dorothy Howell: Koong Shee Ballet

Basel Sinfonietta, Jessica Horsley

Music by Piazzolla

Astor Piazzolla Quintet (from the 2021 Rheingau Festival)

Music by Jos退 Antonio Abreu, Modesta Bor and Antonio Est退vez

Bavarian Radio Chorus, Howard Arman

c.3pm

Schumann: Symphony No 4 in D minor, Op 120

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel

R. Strauss: Serenade in E flat for 13 Winds, op. 7

Winds of the Bavarian RSO, Karina Canellakis

Hoddinott: Taliesin

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, op. 15

Igor Levit (piano)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Minasi

Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1 with Igor Levit and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Thursday, Ivan Fischer Conducts Beethoven (2-2)20220324Ivan Fischer conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Eighth Symphony, there's more early music from the Freiberg Baroque Orchestra, and Leonard Elschenbroich is the soloist in Dvorak's Cello Concerto.

Presented by Ian Skelly

2.00pm

Jean-Fran瀀ois Dandrieu

Trio Sonata in G minor, op. 1/3

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Amandine Beyer, violin / conductor

Quintet in E flat, Op.97

Armida Quartet

Lise Bertaud, viola

3.00pm

Symphony No.8 in F, Op.93

Lully

Excerpts from 'Psych退

Mozart

Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K.525

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Grant Llewellyn, conductor

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104

Leonard Elschenbroich, cello

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

Ivan Fischer conducts Beethoven's Eighth Symphony in Munich.

Thursday, Katya Kabanova, Act 220220602Fiona Talkington introduces the second act of Leos Janacek's Katya Kabanova, from Rome Opera. Catch up with Act 1 from Wednesday's programme. Also, Sibelius' Symphony No. 3 with the BBC Philharmonic, Addison's Wellington Suite with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with soloist Simon Callaghan, Mark-Anthony Turnage's Set To, Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini.

Including:

Weber: Overture to 'Der Freischütz, op. 77

La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra

Andr退s Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Sibelius: Symphony No. 3

John Storgards, conductor

John Addison: Wellington Suite

Simon Callaghan, piano

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

3pm

Leos Janacek: Katya Kabanova - opera in 3 acts

Act 2

Sav뀀l Prokofjevic Dik j, a merchant: Stephen Richardson, bass

Boris Grigorjevi?, Dik j's nephew: Charles Workman, tenor

Marfa Ignat?vna Kabanovက (Kabanicha), widow of a rich merchant: Susan Bickley, contralto

Tichon Ivany? Kabanov, her son: Julian Hubbard, tenor

Kက?a (Katerina), Tichon's wife: Corinne Winters, soprano

Vက?a Kudrjaš, a schoolteacher: Sam Furness, tenor

Varvara, a foundling: Carolyn Sproule, mezzo-soprano

Kuligin, friend of Vကna Kudrjaš: Luk  Zeman, baritone

Rome Opera Chorus

Roberto Gabbiani, chorus director

Rome Opera Orchestra

David Robertson, conductor

Mozart: Quintet in C major, K 515

Lise Berthaud, viola

Armida Quartet

Baldwin: A Browninge of 3 voices

Van Eyck: English Nightingale

Holborne: Pavana 'The Funeral' and Galliard, a 5

Brade: Courante

Il Giardino Armonico

Giovanni Antonini, director

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini - symphonic fantasia after Dante (Op. 32)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Set To

BBC Philharmonic (brass section)

Janacek's opera in Rome, and the BBC Philharmonic plays Sibelius's Third Symphony.

Thursday, Lili Boulanger's Faust Et Hel\u00e8ne20230223Ian Skelly presents an afternoon of music from around Europe, with a focus on concert performances from the Netherlands.

Today at 3pm the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra is joined by soloists for a concert performance of Lili Boulanger's romantic short opera Faust et H退l耀ne, as well as a premiere by the Dutch 'avant pop' composer, Jacob ter Veldhuis. Les Ambassadeurs La Grande Ecurie perform more of a concert of early music recorded at the Utrecht Early Music Festival, and today's concerto is Mozart's Violin Concerto no.5 'Turkish', performed by Timothy Chooi and the Vienna Concert-Verein. Plus Dvorak's symphonic poem about a mischievous water goblin.

Including:

Jacob ter Veldhuis: Paradiddle, for large choir and orchestra

Netherlands Radio Choir

Karina Canellakis (conductor)

Christian Cannabich: Symphony no.67 in G major

Hofkapelle Munchen

Christian Heiss (conductor)

Dvorak: The Water Goblin

Ulster Orchestra

Jac van Steen (conductor)

c.3pm

Lili Boulanger: Faust et H退l耀ne

Julie Boulianne (mezzo-soprano)

Jean-Fran瀀ois Borras (tenor)

Jean-S退bastien Bou (baritone)

Les Ambassadeurs La Grande Ecurie Troisieme Suite in E major

(Jean-Philippe Rameau - Marche (from : les Fꀀtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour), Jean-Philippe Rameau - Rondeau gracieux (from : les surprises de l'amour), Jean-Philippe Rameau - Air vif (from : Hippolyte et Aricie), Henri-Montan Berton - Chaconne (air added to

Thursday, Liszt's Faust Symphony20230302Penny Gore presents an afternoon of concert performances from around Europe and from BBC orchestras.

Today, the 3pm spotlight falls on the story of Faust's doomed pact with the devil which inspired Liszt to write one of his most substantial - and least-performed - works. Gergely Madaras conducts the Liege Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance recorded in Belgium last September. Also today, Jonas Kaufmann joins the Berlin Philharmonic in operatic arias from Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Zandonai's Giulietta e Romeo, and the BBC Philharmonic continue the Romeo and Juliet story with music by Prokofiev. Plus, soprano Ailish Tynan sings Strauss' poignant Four Last Songs with the Ulster Orchestra.

Including:

Bach/Liszt: Prelude & Fugue in A minor, S 462

Khatia Buniatishvili, piano

Mascagni: 'Cavalleria rusticana' (extracts)

Jonas Kaufmann, tenor

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Kirill Petrenko, conductor

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: Suite no.2 (extracts)

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Zandonai: Giulietta! Son io! from 'Giulietta e Romeo

3.00pm

Liszt: A Faust Symphony, S.108

Gergely Madaras, conductor

R. Strauss: Four Orchestral Songs, Op.27

Ailish Tynan, soprano

Jac van Steen

Nino Rota: Excerpts from 'La Strada

Conductor Gergely Madaras leads a performance of Liszt's dramatic Faust Symphony.

Thursday, Little Symphony In F20220106With Penny Gore. An afternoon of great performances from around Europe, including Lise de la Salle rounding off this week's survey of Rachmaninov piano concertos, Fabio Luisi conducting Beethoven's Eighth Symphony, which the composer referred to as his ‘Little Symphony in F'. Also, Antje Weithaas and Mahan Esfahani play CPE Bach, new music for chorus in Latvia, and the Ulster Orchestra with Schubert's Third Symphony and Dobrinka Tabakova's tribute to Schubert.

Also, just before 3pm throughout the week, New Year New Music: Radio 3 presenters share the newest music that means the most to them.

Including:

2pm

Elisabetta Brusa Firelights

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Stefan Solyom, conductor

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F, op. 93

Danish National SO

Fabio Luisi, conductor

CPE Bach Violin Sonata in B flat, Wq. 76

Antje Weithaas, violin

Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord

c.3pm

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, op. 40

Lise de la Salle, piano

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Raimonds Tiguls: I Pray You, Lord (premiere)

Ir?na Mihailovska: Triptych (premiere)

Latvian State Chorus

M?ris Sirmais, conductor

Beethoven: Ah! perfido, op. 65, scene and aria

Christiane Karg, soprano

Christoph Eschenbach, conductor

Schubert: Symphony No.3

Robert Houlihan, conductor

Dobrinka Tabakova: Fantasy Homage to Schubert

Lise de la Salle plays Rachmaninov, plus symphonies by Beethoven and Schubert.

Thursday, Live With The Bbc Philharmonic20211111Penny Gore presents a selection of music from the BBC performing groups and from around Europe.

Today features a live performance by the BBC Philharmonic from the orchestra's home in Salford. Tom McKinney leads the star-gazing, with a space-inspired sequence of music curated by the composer Robert Laidlow and conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni. Music by Laidlow himself links works by composers as diverse as astronomer William Herschel, Missy Mazzoli and Benjamin Britten.

Then back to London with Penny and more from Jordi Savall's eightieth birthday concert celebrating the fusion between east and west, and Mozart's evergreen Clarinet Concerto.

Including:

Weber: Oberon Overture

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Rossini Introduction, theme and variations in C for clarinet and orchestra

Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)

Salzburg Camerata

Gregory Ahss (conductor)

2.30pm LIVE from MediaCity UK, Salford - Presented by Tom McKinney

Herschel: Symphony No 8 in C minor (first movement)

Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)

Robert Laidlow: Warp

Britten: Peter Grimes - Now the Great Bear and Pleiades

Robert Laidlow: Gravity (Spheres)

Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings - Sonnet

Emily Howard: sphere

Herschel: Symphony No 8 in C minor (second and third movements)

Ben Hulett (tenor)

Joseph Havlat (piano)

Vimbayi Kaziboni (conductor)

c.3.35 - with Penny Gore

Jordi Savall East meets West - A dialogue of the souls - excerpt

Jordi Savall (rebab, soprano viola da gamba and rabel)

Pedro Estevan (percussion)

c.4.pm

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622

Jorg Widmann (conductor/conductor)

Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg

Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat (Dumbarton Oaks)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

Robert Laidlow curates a concert of music by Herschel, Missy Mazzoli and Britten.

Thursday, Live With The Bbc Symphony Orchestra20211021Live from Maida Vale studios in London,

Penny Gore introduces a live performance from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Clemens Schuldt - music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Richard Strauss, and soloist Alim Beisembayev joining them for Mozart's Piano Concerto No.24. Plus music by Malcolm Arnold on the day of his centenary, and by Jessie Montgomery.

Anna Thorvaldsd ttir: Aeriality

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor, K.491

Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration

Alim Beisembayev, piano

Clemens Schuldt, conductor

Plus:

Hannah Kendall: Fundamental, for chorus and brass

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Orchestra Brass

Gabriella Teychenn退, conductor

Jessie Montgomery: Banner, for orchestra

Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D, D. 200

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Zubin Mehta, conductor

Arnold: Homage to the Queen - ballet suite

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Clemens Schuldt conducts Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Mozart and Strauss

Thursday, Loops, Spells And The New World20220728Ian Skelly with music for the afternoon including another chance to hear the Folk Connections Prom from Sage Gateshead with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Spell Songs and the Voices of River's Edge. Also in the programme the choice of Ian's Prom artist guest.

Charles Ives: America

Simon Preston (organ)

William Grant Still: Kaintuck

Richard Fields, piano

Cincinnati Philharmonic Orchestra

Jindong Cai, conductor

BBC PROM - Folk Connections from Sage Gateshead

John Adams Shaker Loops

Thursday, Mahler's First Symphony20230209Penny Gore continues her week of Afternoon Concert with a performance of Mahler's Symphony No.1 by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ivan Fischer. There are Medieval pieces from Ensemble Celadon and choral music by Schütz and Schein from the Leipzig Cantorey every day this week, and of course regular contributions from the BBC performing groups. Today, there's also music by Berwald, Gerswhin, Zemlinsky, Rhian Samuel, George Lloyd and Anna Clyne.

Overture: John Socman

BBC Philharmonic

George Lloyd (conductor)

Heinrich Schütz - Magnificat, SWV.468

Concerto Vocale Leipzig

Sachsisches Baroque Orchestra

Gotthold Schwarz (conductor)

Anna Clyne - This Midnight Hour

Ulster Orchestra

David Danzmayr (conductor)

c. 2.30pm

Franz Berwald - Konzertstuck for bassoon & orchestra, Op.2

Karen Geoghegan (bassoon)

Orchestra of Opera North

Benjamin Wallfisch (conductor)

George Gershwin - Three Preludes

Frank Dupree (piano)

Jehan de L'Escurel - Bonne amour me rent / Bietris est mes delis

3pm

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No.1 in D `Titan`

Ivan Fischer (conductor)

Rhian Samuel - Dear Night

BBC Singers

James Sherlock (conductor)

c. 4.15pm Rhian Samuel introduces her Artist's Choice: five lieder by Clara Schumann

c. 4.25pm

Alexander Zemlinsky - Sinfonietta, Op.23

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Mahler's First Symphony in Munich.

Thursday, Michelangelo Falvetti's Nabucco20170601Jonathan Swain presents a rare performance of the oratorio Nabucco by Michelangelo Falvetti from last year's Wallonie Festival in Brussels. Falvetti was born in 1642 in Palermo. He had a successful career in Messina, and was appointed maestro di cappella at the cathedral there in 1682. The conductor Leonardo Garcia Alarc n has championed this little-known composer, and brings out the unusual colours in this rare work. After that the programme ends with Dvorak from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

2.10

Agnus Dei from the Requiem

Kate?ina Kn?ž퀀kovက (soprano) ,

Cathrine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)

Richard Samek (tenor)

James Platt (bass)

BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

Ji?퀀 B?lohlကvek (conductor)

Nabucco (oratorio)

Fernando Guimar es, tenor, Nabucco

Jo o Fernandes, bass, Daniele

Christopher Lowrey, countertenor, Arioco

Caroline Weynants, soprano, Anania

Mariana Flores, soprano, Azaria

Lucia Mar퀀n-Cart n, soprano, Misaele

Matteo Bellotto, bass, Eufrate

Namur Chamber Chorus

Cappella Mediterranea

Leonardo Garc퀀a Alarc n

3.39

Dvorကk

Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70

Ivကn Fischer.

Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Michelangelo Falvetti's oratorio Nabucco.

Thursday, Missa 172420220512Penny Gore with more music from around Europe, continuing this week's focus on the Czech Republic and Poland with music by Zelenka performed by Collegium 1704 in Warsaw. There's music from the Leos Janacek International Music Festival in Ostrava, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play Tailleferre, and Dvorak in Montreal.

Including:

Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning

Ilan Volkov, conductor

Stamitz: Orchestral Quartet in F, op. 14/4

Camerata Janacek

Pavel Dolezal, director

Tailleferre: Marchand d'Oiseaux

c.3pm

Zelenka: Missa 1724

Collegium Vocale 1704

Vaclav Luks, conductor

Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte

Ulster Orchestra

Nil Venditti, conductor

c.4.05pm

Dvorak: Serenade for String Orchestra in E, op. 22

Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Rafael Payare, conductor

Zelenka's Missa 1724 with Collegium 1704 in Warsaw.

Thursday, Nielsen's Fifth Symphony20220317This week, Afternoon Concert features Scandinavian symphonic music - today it's the turn of Nielsen's Fifth Symphony, given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Thomas Sondergard. There's also British music from NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Joshua Weilerstein in the form of Benjamin Britten's Four Sea Interludes, from Peter Grimes and Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations and early music from the Max Volpers Ensemble.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Lyadov

Baba-Yaga

BBC NOW

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

Giuseppe Sammartini

Recorder Concerto in F

Max Volbers and Ensemble

Max Volbers (conductor, recorder)

Four Sea Interludes, from Peter Grimes, op.33a

Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)

Villa Lobos

12 Studies for guitar - nos. 11 & 12

Sean Shibe (guitar)

Chopin

Ballade no 4 in F minor, Op 52

Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)

Carl Nielsen

Symphony no. 5, Op.50

Domenico Scarlatti

Sinfonia a tre in G

Max Volbers (conductor, continuo)

Giovanni Battista Bononcini

Non cedero sleale, Almiro's aria from 'Almahide

Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo-soprano)

Stravinsky

Symphony of Psalms

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Prague Philharmonic Choir

Alexander Liebreich (conductor)

Charles Avison

Concerto Grosso No. 3 in D minor, after D. Scarlatti

Edward Elgar

Variations on an original theme ('Enigma'), Op.36

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Nielsen's Fifth Symphony.

Thursday, Opera Matinee20210318Today's Thursday Opera Matinee is a gigantic verismo opera and Giordano's most accomplished work. Recorded in 2019 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with the tenor Roberto Alagna in the title role of Andrea Ch退nier, inspired by the heroic poet who gave his life during the French Revolution. The soprano Sondra Radvanovsky is Maddalena de Coigny, an aristocratic lady and Ch退nier's love interest in this melodramatic tale of ill-fated romance and tragedy. Daniel Oren conducts the ROH orchestra and chorus. Plus more from this week's featured orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony, with music by Ireland and Mozart.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Giordano Andrea Ch退nier

Andrea Ch退nier - Roberto Alagna (tenor)

Maddalena de Coigny - Sondra Radvanovsky (soprano)

Carlo Gerard - Dimitri Platanias (baritone)

Bersi - Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)

Countess di Coigny - Rosalind Plowright (soprano)

Master of the Household - John Cunningham (bass baritone)

Pietro Fleville - Stephen Gadd (bass)

Abb退 - Aled Hall (tenor)

Mathieu - Adrian Clarke (baritone)

The Incredible - Carlo Bosi (tenor)

Roucher - David Stout (baritone)

Madelon - Elena Zilio (mezzo-soprano)

Dumas - German E Alacantara (baritone)

Schmidt - Jeremy White (bass)

Royal Opera House Chorus

Royal Opera House Orchestra

Daniel Oren (conductor)

c.4.05pm

John Ireland Fantasy Sonata, orch. Graham Parlett

Robert Plane (clarinet)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.4.20pm

Mozart Concerto in E flat K365 for 2 pianos

Lucas & Arthur Jussen, pianos

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Giordano's Andrea Chenier from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Beethoven's Fidelio20180111Tom Redmond presents today's Opera Matinee - a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio performed by this week's orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, on tour in San Sebastian, Spain. Stuart Skelton sings the imprisoned Florestan, and Ricarda Merbeth the brave Leonora who comes to his rescue. Then more from the BBC Philharmonic on home ground, with songs by Elgar, a tone poem by Honegger and Copland's Third Symphony.

2pm

Beethoven Fidelio

Leonora - Ricarda Merbeth (soprano)

Florestan - Stuart Skelton (tenor)

Rocco - James Creswell (bass)

Marzelline - Louise Alder (soprano)

Jaquino - Benjamin Hulett (tenor)

Don Pizarro - Detlef Roth (bass)

Don Fernando - David Soar (bass)

Orfeon Donostiarra (chorus)

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c.3.50pm

Elgar: Three Songs, Op 59

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Honegger: Pacific 231

Manoj Kamps (conductor)

c.4.15pm

Copland: Symphony No 3

John Wilson (conductor).

Beethoven's Fidelio, starring Ricarda Merbeth & Stuart Skelton with the BBC Philharmonic.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Bellini's Il Pirata20180222Penny Gore introduces a recording of Bellini's Il Pirata from the final Bel Canto at Caramoor season, held last summer in New York State, USA. Il Pirata was Bellini's breakthrough opera in Milan. It's a highly romantic tale of love and subterfuge set in 13th century Sicily, with a chorus of pirates or ladies-in-waiting never far away. Multiple award winning American soprano Angela Meade is the heroine Imogene, and Argentine bel canto tenor Santiago Ballerini is her beloved pirate chief Gualtiero.

Imogene - Angela Meade (soprano)

Gualtiero - Santiago Ballerini (tenor)

Ernesto - Harold Wilson (bass)

Itulbo - Sean Christensen (tenor)

Adele - Robyn Marie Lamp (soprano)

Goffredo - Joseph Beutel (bass-baritone)

Chorus of Caramoor's Bel Canto Young Artists

St. Luke's Orchestra

Will Crutchfield (Conductor)

Under the expert curation of Will Crutchfield, Bel Canto at Caramoor ran for twenty years at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in New York State, USA. As part of its final season last summer, the festival staged this performance of Il Pirata in the idyllic setting of Caramoor's Venetian Theatre, starring the festival's artist-in-residence, soprano Angela Meade.

Bellini's Il pirata from Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Berg's Wozzeck20180329Alban Berg's Wozzeck from Dutch National Opera, with Christopher Maltman in the title role, Eva-Maria Westbroek as Marie and Sir Willard White as the Doctor.

Georgia Mann introduces this 2017 production of Berg's opera examining the complexities of the human soul.

The hapless soldier Wozzeck has an illegitimate child with Marie. When he discovers her affair with the handsome Drum Major, it's too much for him to bear. He gradually begins to lose his grip on sanity and stabs her before drowning himself.

Wozzeck - Christopher Maltman (baritone)

Marie - Eva-Maria Westbroek (soprano)

Marie's son ... Jacob Jutte (treble)

Captain / Half-wit - Marcel Beekman (tenor)

Doctor - Sir Willard White (bass)

Drum Major - Frank van Aken (tenor)

Andres - Jason Bridges (tenor)

Margret - Ursula Hesse von d. Steinen (mezzo soprano)

First Apprentice - Scott Wilde (bass)

Second Apprentice - Morschi Franz (baritone)

Dutch National Chorus

New Amsterdam Children's Choir

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor Marc Albrecht

And at 3.40pm

Georgia Mann continues this week's focus on the 2017 Robeco SummerNights festival in Amsterdam

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro - Overture

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A major, K.488

Beethoven: Overture; Adagio; Allegro molto con brio (from The Creatures of Prometheus)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1 in C major

Ronald Brautigam (piano)

K怀lner Akademie

Conductor Michael Alexander.

Alban Berg's Wozzeck from Dutch National Opera, conducted by Marc Albrecht.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Cavalli's Erismena20171228Jonathan Swain presents today's Thursday Opera Matinee: A rare chance to hear Cavalli's Erismena in a performance from the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Very popular in its time, Cavalli's comic opera of 1655 even made it to England, and was unusual in that it dealt with humans rather than gods or ancient heroes. Then back to the 'Best of 2017' from the BBC performing groups, and a stand out performance of Bruch's Scottish Fantasy played by Jack Liebeck and the Ulster Orchestra.

2pm

Cavalli: Erismena

Erismena - Francesca Aspromonte (soprano)

Idraspe - Carlo Vistoli (countertenor)

Aldimira - Susanna Hurrell (soprano)

Orimeno - Jakub J zef Orl퀀nski (soprano)

Erimante - Alexander Miminoshvili (bass)

Flerida - Lea Desandre (mezzo-soprano)

Argippo - Andrea Bonsignore (baritone)

Alcesta - Stuart Jackson (tenor)

Diarte - Jonathan Abernethy (baritone)

Clerio Moro - Tai Oney (countertenor)

Cappella Mediterranea

Leonardo Garc퀀a Alarc n (conductor)

c.4.30pm

Bruch: A Scottish Fantasy, Op 46

Jack Liebeck (violin)

Giordano Bellincampi (conductor).

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur20180426Georgia Mann presents this week's Opera Matinee; a performance of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur from Vienna State Opera. The plot concerns a theatre group at the Comedie-Francaise in Paris. The leading actress, Adriana Lecouvreur is in love with Maurizio, the Count of Saxony. The Count loves her too, and wants to be with her instead of his former love, the Princess de Bouillon. When the Princess discovers her rival to be Adriana, she poisons her. Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala star.

2pm

Francesco Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur

Adriana Lecouvreur... Anna Netrebko (soprano)

Count of Saxony.... Piotr Beczala (tenor)

Michonnet .....Roberto Frontali (baritone)

Princess de Bouillon... Elena Zhidkova (mezzo-soprano)

Prince de Bouillon... Alexandru Moisiuc (bass)

Abb退 of Chazeuil... Raúl Gim退nez (tenor)

Quinault ....Ryan Speedo Green (bass)

Poisson....Pavel Kolgatin, (tenor)

Mlle Jouvenot ...Bryony Dwyer (soprano)

Mlle Dangeville ...Miriam Albano (mezzo-soprano)

Vienna State Opera Chorus

Vienna State Opera Orchestra

Evelino Pid  (conductor).

Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur from Vienna State Opera, with Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Delibes's Lakme20180405Penny Gore introduces L退o Delibes' Lakm退, a story of doomed love in late-19th-century British India, where Hindus were often forced to practise their religion in secret. When Lakm退 is spotted by a young officer called Gerald near the secret Brahmin temple at which her father Nilakantha is High Priest, though wary, she is immediately attracted to him. Nilakantha is furious that Gerald has profaned his temple, and in retribution he forces Lakm退 to lure him into revealing himself. When Lakm退, with her captivating voice, sings the Bell Song in the bustling marketplace, Gerald appears and Nilakantha stabs him. Gerald is tended to in a secret forest hideaway by Lakm退's servant Hadji. Once he has been nursed back to health, Lakm退 brings water from a sacred spring, so that the couple can make their love eternal. But duty calls, Gerald has second thoughts and Lakm退 poisons herself by eating a leaf from the poisonous datura tree.

In a performance from Malm怀 Opera, Philippe Auguin conducts the Malm怀 Opera Orchestra and Chorus, with a cast including Svetlana Moskalenko, Leonardo Ferrando and Taras Shtonda.

Lakm退 - Svetlana Moskalenko (soprano)

G退rald - Leonardo Ferrando (tenor)

Nilakantha - Taras Shtonda (bass)

Mallika - Matilda Paulsson (mezzo-soprano)

Ellen - Julie Mathevet (soprano)

Rose - Laine Quist (soprano)

Fr退d退ric - Jakob H怀gstr怀m (baritone)

Mistress Bentson - Maria Streijffert (contralto)

Hajdi - Eric Lavoipierre (bass)

Fortune-teller - Tobias Nilsson (tenor)

A Chinese merchant - Jacob Wistrand (tenor)

Malm怀 Opera Chorus

Philippe Auguin (conductor)

And at 4.05pm Penny Gore continues this week's focus on recent recordings by the Hamburg-based NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.

Penny Gore introduces Leo Delibes's Lakme.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Donizetti's La Favorite20180315Kate Molleson presents this week's Opera Matinee, a recording from Teatro Real, Madrid, of Donizetti's opera La Favorite, sung in French.

Alphonse XI, King of Castille - Simone Piazzola (baritone)

L退onor de Guzman - Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano)

In耀s .....Marina Monz  (soprano)

Fernand - Javier Camarena (tenor)

Balthazar - Sim n Orfila (bass)

Don Gaspar, officer of the king - Antonio Lozano (tenor)

A Lord - Alejandro del Cerro (tenor)

Teatro Real Chorus

Teatro Real Orchestra

Daniel Oren (conductor).

Kate Molleson presents this week's Opera Matinee: Donizetti's La Favorite (sung in French)

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia20171123Georgia Mann presents a concert performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia from this year's Salzburg Festival.

Set in 16th-century Venice and Ferrara, the opera tells the tale of the young nobleman Don Gennaro's encounter with one of the most infamous and deadly women of the Italian Renaissance, Lucrezia Borgia. Premiered at La Scala, Milan on 26th December 1833, and based on a play by Victor Hugo, Donizetti's opera captures the intrigue, passion and jealousy of an aristocratic dynasty tested by the arrival of a young and honest man brought up as the son of a lowly fisherman. Krassimira Stoyanova sings the title role, with Juan Diego Florez as Gennaro, and Ildar Abdrazakov as her husband, Don Alfonso D'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Then it's back to this week's featured orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, for music by Dvorak.

2pm

Donizetti Lucrezia Borgia.

Don Alfonso D'Este, Duke of Ferrara - Ildar Abdrazakov (bass)

Lucrezia Borgia - Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano)

Don Gennaro - Juan Diego Florez (tenor)

Maffio Orsini - Teresa Iervolino (contralto)

Jeppo Liverotto - Mingjie Lei (tenor)

Oloferno Vitellozzo - Ilker Arcayürek (tenor)

Apostolo Gazella - Gleb Peryazev (bass)

Ascanio Petrucci - Ilya Kutyukin (baritone)

Gubetta - Hans Peter Kammerer (bass)

Rustighello: Andrew Haji (tenor)

Astolfo - Gordon Binter (bass)

Vienna State Opera Chorus

Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg

Marco Armiliato (conductor)

16.20

The Water Goblin, Op.107

Rory Macdonald (conductor).

Georgia Mann presents a Salzburg Festival performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Donizetti's 'maria Stuarda'20180419Marlis Petersen stars as the ill-fated Mary, Queen of Scots with Alexandra Deshorties as her deadly rival Queen Elizabeth I of England in Donizetti's opera Maria Stuarda. Tom Redmond presents this performance from Vienna. The opera's based on an Italian version of Schiller's German play Mary Stuart, which has been a recent hit on the London stage starring Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams.

Maria Stuarda - Marlis Petersen (soprano)

Elisabetta - Alexandra Deshorties (soprano)

Roberto - Norman Reinhardt (tenor)

Giorgio Talbot - Stefan Cerny (bass)

Lord Guglielmo Cecil - Tobias Greenhalgh (baritone)

Anna Kennedy - Natalia Kawalek (mezzo-soprano)

Arnold Schoenberg Chorus

ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna

Paolo Arrivabeni (conductor).

Tom Redmond presents Donizetti's opera about the ill-fated Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Granados's Goyescas20180215Kate Molleson presents a performance of Granados's one-act opera Goyescas, performed by the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra. Plus a new recording of Florent Schmitt's Antony and Cleopatra Suite No 2.

2pm

Granados: Goyescas

Rosario - Nancy Fabiola Herrera (soprano)

Fernando - Gustavo Peကa (tenor)

Pepa - Lidia Vinyes Curtis (mezzo-soprano)

Paquiro - Jos退 Antonio L pez (baritone)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Josep Pons (conductor)

3.00pm

Dvorak: Wind Serenade in D minor, Op 44

Douglas Boyd (conductor)

c.3.25pm

Florent Schmitt: Antoine et Cl退op tre Suite No 2

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

3.55pm

Lily Boulanger:

D'un matin de printemps

D'un soir triste

John Storgards

c.4.15pm

Sibelius: Press Celebrations Music

Sakari Oramo (conductor).

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Handel's Lucio Cornelio Silla20170928Georgia Mann presents a concert performance of Handel's opera seria Lucia Cornelio Silla, recorded in Vienna last January at the Resonanzen Festival.

Based on the real life Roman Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the plot concerns his seizing of power from his enemy Mario, and the repercussions when he proclaims himself dictator. The circumstances surrounding the composition of Handel's little-known opera are not clear, but it contains some fabulous music, much of which was later recycled into his opera Amadigi di Gaula. Sonia Prina takes the title role, originally sung by the castrato Valentini. Then more from this week's featured ensemble - the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, for music by Butterworth and Dickinson.

2pm

Handel: Lucio Cornelio Silla, HWV.10

Silla...Sonia Prina (alto)

Claudio...Martina Belli (mezzo-soprano)

Metella...Sunhae Im (soprano)

Lepido...Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)

Flavia...Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)

Celia...Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (soprano)

Mars...Luca Tittoto (bass)

Europa Galante

Fabio Biondi (director, violin)

c.3.55pm

Butterworth: 2 English Idylls

Kriss Russman (conductor)

Dickinson: 5 Diversions

Clark Rundell (conductor).

Georgia Mann presents Handel's opera Lucia Cornelio Silla, recorded in Vienna.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Handel's Rinaldo20171005Penny Gore presents a recording of Handel's Rinaldo conducted by Christopher Hogwood.

The first opera written by Handel for the London stage, the work borrows and adapts works he composed during his recent years spent in Italy. Set in Jerusalem at the time of the First Crusade, the plot concerns the kidnapping of Rinaldo's lover, Almirena, by the sorceress, Armida, Queen of Damascus. A great success at its premiere in 1711, the opera features a succession of beautiful arias such as Almirena's 'Lascia ch'io pianga'. David Daniels takes the title role, with an acclaimed cast including Cecilia Bartoli, Gerald Finley, and Bernarda Fink.

Goffredo - Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)

Almirena - Cecilia Bartoli (soprano)

Rinaldo - David Daniels (countertenor)

Eustazio - Daniel Taylor (countertenor)

Argante - Gerald Finley (baritone)

Armida - Luba Orgonasova (soprano)

Mago cristiano - Bejun Mehta (countertenor)

Donna / Sirena 2 - Ana-Maria Rincon (soprano)

Sirena 1 - Catherine Bott (soprano)

Un araldo - Mark Padmore (tenor)

Academy of Ancient Music

Christopher Hogwood (conductor).

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Hansel And Gretel20180322Penny Gore introduces Engelbert Humperdinck's setting of Hansel and Gretel: the classic story from the Brothers Grimm, where two children get lost in a forest after dark and are charmed by a witch to enter her magical gingerbread house. The children are ensnared but manage to defeat the witch, and in a rousing happy ending they are returned home and reunited with their parents.

In a performance from the Royal Opera House, Sir Colin Davis conducts Humperdinck's fairytale opera with a cast that includes mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirschlager as Hansel and soprano Diana Damrau as Gretel.

Hansel - Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano)

Gretel - Diana Damrau (soprano)

Gertrud - Elizabeth Connell (soprano)

Peter - Thomas Allen (baritone)

Witch - Anja Silja (soprano)

Sandman and - Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)

Dew Fairy and Echo - Anita Watson (soprano)

Echo - Eri Nakamura, Simona Mihai (sopranos)

Tiffin Boys' Choir

Tiffin Children's Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Colin Davis (conductor)

And at 3.45pm

Penny Gore continues this week's focus on recent Ulster Orchestra recordings, with works by Piers Hellawell and Prokofiev.

Piers Hellawell - Wild Flow

Prokofiev - Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op 100

Rafael Payare (conductor).

Penny Gore introduces Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel from the Royal Opera House

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Jacopo Foroni's Margherita20171130Tom McKinney presents Jacopo Foroni's Margherita, recorded at Wexford Festival Opera. Wexford uncovers another rarity - Foroni was a 19th-century Italian composer who spent most of his working life in Sweden, and he tragically died of cholera aged 33. Margherita is a comedy set in the mountains, where Margherita, a pretty, rich orphan girl, is in love with the soldier Ernesto but is pestered with proposals of marriage by the well-connected Roberto.

Foroni: Margherita

Conte Rodolfo - Yuriy Yurchuk (baritone)

Ser Matteo - Matteo d'Apolito (baritone)

Margherita - Alessandra Volpe (mezzo-soprano)

Ernesto - Andrew Stenson (tenor)

Giustina - Giuliana Gianfaldoni (soprano)

Roberto - Filippo Fontana (baritone)

Gasparo - Ji Hyun Kim (tenor)

Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera

Timothy Myers (conductor)

Plus more from the Prague Spring Festival as part of this week celebrating 50 years of the European Broadcasting Union's music exchange - a swapping service between European broadcasters.

Ethel Smyth - Concerto for violin, horn and orchestra

Jan Mrကcek (violin),

Radek Baborကk (horn),

Prague Symphony Orchestra,

Conductor Jonathon Heyward.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Mozart's Don Giovanni20171026Jonathan Swain presents Afternoon Concert's Thursday Opera Matinee - a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni from the Archbishop's Theatre, Aix-en-Provence. Philippe Sly sings the sings the charismatic seducer who meets his match in the ghost of the man he kills, and Eleonora Buratto, Isabel Leonard and Julie Fuchs sing the women who get drawn helplessly into his net.

2pm

Mozart: Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni - Philippe Sly (bass baritone)

Leporello - Nahuel di Pierro (bass)

Donna Anna - Eleonora Buratto (soprano)

Don Ottavio - Pavol Breslik (tenor)

Donna Elvira - Isabel Leonard (soprano)

Zerlina - Julie Fuchs (soprano)

Masetto - Krzysztof Baczyk (bass)

Il Commendatore - David Leigh (bass)

English Voices

Le Cercle de l'Harmonie

J退r退mie Rhorer (conductor).

Mozart's Don Giovanni in a performance from Aix-en-Provence.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Puccini's 'manon Lescaut'20171012Tom Redmond presents a performance of Puccini's 'Manon Lescaut' conducted by Antonio Pappano with soprano Kristine Opolais, tenor Jonas Kaufmann and baritone Christopher Maltman.

Plus the BBC Philharmonic performs Walton's Cello Concerto with soloist Leonard Elschenbroich, and music by Prokofiev and Elgar.

2pm

Puccini: Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut..... Kristine Opolais (Soprano)

Chevalier des Grieux - Jonas Kaufmann (Tenor)

Lescaut - Christopher Maltman (Baritone)

Geronte de Ravoir - Maurizio Muraro (Bass)

Singer - Nadezhda Karyazina (Soprano)

Edmondo - Benjamin Hulett (Tenor)

Dancing Master - Robert Burt (Tenor)

Lamplighter - Luis Gomes (Tenor)

Innkeeper - Nigel Cliffe (Baritone)

Sergeant - Jihoon Kim (Bass Baritone)

Naval Captain - Jeremy White (Bass)

Royal Opera House Orchestra

Royal Opera House Chorus

Antonio Pappano (Conductor)

c. 4pm

Walton: Cello Concerto

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)

Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Prokofiev: Autumn

Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

Elgar: Grania and Diarmid: Incidental Music and Funeral March

Sir Andrew Davis (conductor).

Antonio Pappano conducts Manon Lescaut, starring Kristine Opolais and Jonas Kaufmann.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Rimsky-korsakov's The Snow Maiden20180517Penny Gore presents this week's Opera Matinee; a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden, in a production from Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre. The Snow Maiden has been raised in perpetual winter by her father, Frost and mother, Spring. Envious of the mortals in the village nearby, she yearns to experience their longings, passions and human emotions, and begs her parents to let her join them. They agree to let her be adopted by Bobyl-Bakula and his wife, with tragic consequences. A gorgeous and lyrical evocation of the natural world, Rimsky Korsakov's delightfully colourful, folk-inspired opera is based on a well-loved Russian fairy tale.

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden

The Snow Maiden, daughter of Spring and Frost - Olga Seliverstova (soprano)

Lel, a young poet - Alexandra Kadurina (contralto)

Kupava, a young maiden - Anna Nechaeva (soprano)

Mizgir, a merchant - Elchin Azizov (baritone)

Tsar Berendey - Bogdan Volkov (tenor)

Spring - Agunda Kulaeva (mezzo-soprano)

Frost - Gleb Nikolsky (bass)

Bobyl Bakula - Roman Muravitsky (tenor)

Bobylikha, wife of Bakula - Marina Lapina (mezzo-soprano)

Bermyata, confidant of the Tsar - Vladimir Komovich (bass)

Forest Sprite - Marat Gali (tenor)

First Herald - Vadim Babichuk (tenor)

Second Herald - Valery Gilmanov (bass)

Maslenitsa (Shrovetide effigy) - Nikolai Kazansky (bass)

Tsar's page - Eleonora Gvozdkova (mezzo-soprano)

Bolshoi Chorus

Bolshoi Orchestra

Tugan Sokhiev (conductor).

Penny Gore presents our Thursday Opera Matinee: Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Rossini's Moses In Egypt20180125Penny Gore presents this week's Thursday Opera Matinee: Rossini's Moses in Egypt, performed at the Bregenz Festival last summer. Telling the story of Moses and the Israelites' escape from Egypt, it's also a love story between the Pharaoh's son Amenofi and the Israelite Elcia. Followed by more from this week's featured orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with music by Haydn.

2pm

Rossini: Moses in Egypt

Pharoah - Andrew Foster-Williams (baritone)

Amaltea - Mandy Fredrich (soprano)

Osiride .....Sunnyboy Dladla (bass)

Elcia - Clarissa Costanzo (soprano)

Mambre - Taylan Reinhard (tenor)

Moses - Goran Juric (bass)

Aaron - Matteo Macchioni (tenor)

Amenofi - Dara Savinova (mezzo-soprano)

Prague Philharmonic Chorus

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Enrique Mazzola (conductor)

c.4.30pm

Haydn: Symphony No 92 in G major, 'Oxford

Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

Rossini's Moses in Egypt, performed at the Bregenz Festival in the summer of 2017.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Strauss's Salome20171102Tom McKinney introduces the 2010 production of Richard Strauss's Salome from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden - part of Radio 3's Opera Season, this is one of the seven operas featured in the current exhibition at the V&A, Opera: Passion, Power and Politics.

Salome is an opera full of characters regarding each other, unable to communicate...everyone's desire is unfulfilled , but everyone is looking all the time', says David McVicar's of Richard Strauss's Salome, as his 2008 production is resurrected in all its shocking glory at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Based on a short biblical reference to a girl dancing for King Herod, and the immortal line: 'Bring me the head of John the Baptist', Oscar Wilde's play told a lurid tale of power and corruption, depravity and obsession...and Strauss set it to music without holding back in any way.

Angela Denoke stars in the title role, Irina Mishura as Herodias and Gerhard Siegel as Herod, conducted by Hartmut Haenchen.

Narraboth - Andrew Staples (tenor)

The Page - Sarah Castle (mezzo-soprano)

First Soldier - Nicolas Courjal (bass)

Second Soldier - Alan Ewing (bass)

Jokanaan - Johan Reuter (baritone)

A Cappadocian - John Cunningham (bass-baritone)

Salome - Angela Denoke (soprano)

Herod - Gerhard Siegel (tenor)

Herodias - Irina Mishura (mezzo-soprano)

First Jew - Adrian Thompson (tenor)

Second Jew - Robert Anthony Gardiner (tenor)

Third Jew - Hubert Francis (tenor)

Fourth Jew .....Steven Ebel (tenor)

Fifth Jew - Jeremy White (bass)

First Nazarene - Vuyani Mlinde (bass)

Second Nazarene - Dawid Kimberg (baritone)

Hartmut Haenchen - Conductor

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

And at 3.45pm

Tom McKinney continues this week's focus on recent Ulster Orchestra recordings, including a tone poem by Rachmaninov as part of Afternoon Concert's continuing season.

Brahms: Symphony No.1 in C minor

Rafael Payare (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Caprice Bohemian Op. 12

Olari Elts (conductor).

Tom Mckinney presents Strauss' Salome from the Royal Opera House.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin20171207As as tribute to the great baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky who died last month at the age of 55, another chance to hear him in one of his signature roles, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. When Tatyana (Nicole Car) is introduced to the dashing young Onegin (Dmitri Hvorostovsky) from St Petersburg, she believes that he is the hero of her dreams, the man she has imagined through reading her beloved books. But Onegin coldly rejects her and leaves her devastated. Bored at Tatyana's name-day party, Onegin then flirts with her sister Olga (Oksana Volkova), outraging the poet Lensky (Michael Fabiano), Olga's fianc退 and Onegin's only friend. Lensky challenges Onegin to a duel and is killed by Onegin, who then travels the world in an attempt to escape his guilt. Onegin eventually returns to Russia to discover that Tatyana has become the elegant wife of Prince Gremin (Ferruccio Furlanetto). Onegin is overcome, and begs her to return his love ...

First broadcast in 2016. Presented by Tom Redmond.

2pm

Eugene Onegin - Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)

Tatyana - Nicole Car (soprano)

Olga - Oksana Volkova (mezzo-soprano)

Lensky - Michael Fabiano (tenor)

Madame Larina - Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano)

Filipyevna - Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)

Monsieur Triquet - Jean-Paul Fouch退court (tenor)

Prince Gremin - Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)

Zaretsky - James Platt (bass)

A Captain - David Shipley (bass)

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Semyon Bychkov (conductor).

Tom Redmond presents a performance of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.

Thursday, Opera Matinee: Vivaldi's Teuzzone20180208Georgia Mann presents this week's Opera Matinee - a rare chance to hear Vivaldi's Teuzzone, in a performance from Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu directed by Jordi Savall. The Emperor of China, Troncone dies leaving a bride, Zidiana, and a power vacuum. His son Teuzzone is the rightful heir, but Zidiana has plans not only to seize power, but to marry Teuzzone herself. Jordi Savall and his Concert des Nations set the scene for each half with a traditional Chinese folksong.

2pm

Vivaldi Teuzzone

Teuzzone - Paolo L pez (male soprano)

Zidiana - Marta Fumagalli (contralto)

Sivenio - Furio Zanasi (bass)

Cino - Roberta Mameli (soprano)

Egaro - Aurelio Schiavoni (countertenor)

Troncone - Carlo Allemano (tenor)

Le Concert des Nations

Vivaldi's Teuzzone in a performance from Barcelona directed by Jordi Savall.

Thursday, Prokofiev In Prague20230202Penny Gore introduces an afternoon of live concert recordings from European and BBC orchestras.

Today's 3pm spotlight falls again on the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, and a performance of the symphony Prokofiev composed in Soviet Russia during the summer of 1944. The orchestra also plays music by Janacek, and a piece inspired by the flight of the hummingbird by the living Czech composer Slavomir Horinka. The ensemble Los Temperamentos are at Prague's 2022 Summer Festivities of Early Music with music from Mexico, and the group's harpsichordist Nadine Remmert makes an artist choice of a cello concerto by Haydn. Plus, the BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis with Stravinsky.

Including:

Gabriel Bataille: El baxel estက en la playa

Anon.: Two works from 17th Century Mexico; i) La Ramirez, ii) La Petenera

Stravinsky: Divertimento, arr. from 'Le baiser de la fee

Andrew Davis, conductor

Rec. 22/3/22 Salford

c.2.45pm

Janacek: The Fiddler's Child, JW. 6/14

Marko Ivanovic, conductor

c.3pm

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat, op. 100

Ainars Rubikis, conductor

Anon.: Three anonymous pieces from the Codex Mart퀀nez Compaက n, ca 1788-1790:

i) Lanchas para baylar, ii) Tonala La Selosa, iii) Tonada El Congo

c.4pm

Artist choice - Nadine Remmert (from Los Temperamentos)

Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major Hob VIIb:1

Christophe Coin, cello

Academy of Ancient Music

Christopher Hogwood, conductor

c.4.40pm

Slavomir Horinka: A Pocket Guide to Bird Flight

The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra play Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.

Thursday, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra20220210This week, Afternoon Concert features performances from French orchestras - today the Radio France Philharmonic with Franck's Symphony, and a premiere performance of Peter E怀tv怀s's piano and cimbalom concerto. Plus there's more from soprano Joyce DiDonato in concert with Il Pomo d'Oro.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

c.2.05

Franz Liszt Fantasy on a Hungarian Folk Song in D minor, S. 123

Jကnos Balကzs (piano)

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Mikko Franck (conductor)

c.2.20

Leokadiya Kashperova Piano Trio, Op Posth

Gould Piano Trio

c.3pm

C退sar Franck Symphony in D minor, op. 48

c.3.40

Claudio Monteverdi S쀀 dolce 耀'l tormento

John Dowland Come again, sweet love

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)

c.3.50

Peter E怀tv怀s Cziffra Psodia, piano and cymbalum concerto (premi耀re)

Miklos Lukas (cimbalom)

c.4.35

Paul Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

Berlin Philharmonic

Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

Music by Franck, E\u00f6tv\u00f6sj and Hindemith.

Thursday, Rattle At Radio 320170914Penny Gore presents a week of concerts featuring Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic.

The climax of today's concert with Sir Simon Rattle is Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony, which stands out among the composer's monumental works with a sunny amiability. The programme opens with the premiere of a short piece by Wolfgang Rihm, followed by Gy怀rgy Ligeti's violin concerto, a work that impresses soloist Patricia Kopatchinskaja with its 'colourful, ... sometimes flickering and sometimes floating auditory impression'.

This concert is followed by a performance of an earlier, well loved violin concerto - Dvorak's - performed at the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden.

Wolfgang Rihm: Gru߀-Moment 2 (world premi耀re)

conductor Simon Rattle

Ligeti: Violin Concerto

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)

Mahler: Symphony No.4 in G major

Camilla Tilling (soprano)

Dvorak: Violin Concerto

Lisa Batiashvili (violin)

conductor Simon Rattle.

Penny Gore presents Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in Mahler's 4th Symphony.

Thursday, Ravel's Daphnis Et Chloe20220818Penny Gore presents, including another chance to hear the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Conductor Andrew Gourlay conducts Ravel's complete ballet Daphnis and Chloe and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with pianist Simone Dinnerstein. Kicking off the concert, a special commission from Hollywood legend, Danny Elfman. Plus today's Proms Artists' Choice and music by child prodigies.

2.15pm

Danny Elfman: Wunderkammer

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (orch. Grof退)

Interval

c.3.00pm

Ravel: Daphnis et Chlo退

Simone Dinnerstein (piano)

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain perform Gershwin and Ravel at the BBC Proms.

Thursday, Richard Flury (2-2)20221215Paul Mann conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Richard Flury's Fourth Symphony.

Presented by Penny Gore

Late-romantic Swiss composer Richard Flury's epic fourth symphony receives here its broadcast premiere, and there's a chance to hear the fifth symphony by American composer William Schuman with its beautiful, elegiac slow movement. There's also Handel from soprano Sophie Junker, who also introduces a recording which has especial meaning for her

2.00pm

Judith Bingham

Cloath'd in Holy Robes

BBC Singers

Owain Park, conductor

Nasconde l'usignol' in alti rami il nido, from Deidamia

Sophie Junker, soprano

Concert de l'Hostel-Dieu

Franck-Emmanuel Comte, harpsichord & conductor

Symphony no.5 `Symphony for strings`

Grant Llewellyn, conductor

Schumann

Toccata

Francesco Piemontesi, piano

Butterworth

Rhapsody: A Shropshire Lad

Sakari Oramo, conductor

3.00pm

Symphony no.4 'Liechtensteinische

Paul Mann, conductor

My father! Ah!, from Hercules

Duration of work: 06:08 min.

Sophie Junker introduces her Artist's Choice

Bloch

Suite for viola and orchestra

Timothy Ridout, viola

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Stravinsky

Symphony of Psalms

Dalia Stasevska, conductor

Paul Mann conducts Richard Flury's Fourth Symphony.

Thursday, Rimsky-korsakov's Scheherazade20210923This week Afternoon Concert features the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin performing Brandenburg concertos by Bach and symphonies by Beethoven; today's his ever-popular Fifth Symphony. Plus the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra perform Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and the BBC Singers sing motets by Bruckner.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

2pm

Luigi Cherubini Overture to 'Lodoska

Bernhard Forck (conductor)

Vladigerov Bulgarian Rhapsody Vardar, Op.16

Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mark Kadin (conductor)

3pm

Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67

c.3.35pm

Scheherazade, op. 35, symphonic suite

Varna State Opera Orchestra

Rossen Milanov (conductor)

Bruckner Os Justi

Bruckner Ave Maria

Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)

c.4.35pm

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D, BWV 1050

Tom McKinney presents the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin playing Bach and Beethoven.

Thursday, Romeo And Juliet20220120The story of Romeo and Juliet is the focus of this afternoon's music from BBC ensembles and from around Europe, presented by Ian Skelly. Prokofiev's ballet music is played by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Concert Orchestra play Bernstein's take on the classic love tale. Also in the programme, Christian Zacharias plays Bach in Granada, and Strauss' Metamorphosen in Bremen.

Unsuk Chin: Subito con forza

BBC Scottish SO

David Afkham, conductor

Bernstein Symphonic Dances from 'West Side story

Keith Lockhart, conductor

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64

Stefan Pi Jackiw, violin

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Antonio Mendez, conductor

JS Bach French Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV 813

Christian Zacharias, piano

c.3pm

Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Antheil: Chamber Concerto

Members of the German Symphony Orchestra

R. Strauss: Metamorphosen

German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen

J退r退mie Rhorer, conductor

Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet played by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Thursday, Scheherazade From The Enescu Festival 202220230126Ian Skelly with recordings from Romania. The Romanian National Radio Orchestra are conducted by Nicolae Moldoveanu in Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade, and there's more from pianist Daria Parkhomenko. Ian also offers a touch of summer warmth with a range of performances of music from Spain.

Including:

Albeniz: Asturias (Leyenda) - Suite Espanola No 1 (arr. Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos)

BBC Philharmonic

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Ravel: Don Quichotte

Thursday, Schubert's 'great' Symphony20230420Presented by Ian Skelly, with recordings by BBC orchestras and from concerts around Europe.

Today, the 80th birthday celebrations for Sir John Eliot Gardiner continue with the Vienna Philharmonic and Schubert's Ninth and final Symphony, 'The Great'. Also in the programme, Ian looks forward to Earth Day (Saturday 22 April) with music from a concert the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Dalia Stasevska gave at the Barbican in January, 'Our Precious Planet'. The family event explored the beauty and fragility of our world, and featured live projected illustrations by Gr退goire Pont, who introduces the music for us this afternoon. Plus, JS Bach in The Netherlands, and Vassily Petrenko conducts Elgar in Hong Kong.

Including:

Wannenmacher: An Wasserflüssen Babylon

Huelgas Ensemble

Paul van Nevel, conductor

R Schumann: M䀀rchenbilder, op. 113 (arr. for cello and harp)

Raphaela Gromes, cello

Anneleen Lenaerts, harp

Julian Riem, piano

c.2:30pm

Earth Day...

Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus, Concerto for birds (3rd movement)

Kaija Saariaho: L'Aile du songe, Concerto for flute and orchestra (4th movement, ‘Terreste l'oiseau dansant')

Dalia Stasevska, conductor

c.2:45pm

Berg: Seven Early Songs

Laura Aikin, soprano

MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Shelley, conductor

3pm

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great

John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

c.3.55pm

Dani Howard: Argentum

JS Bach: Cantata, In allen meinen T䀀ten, BWV.97

Marta Paklar, soprano

Franz Vitzthum, alto

Thomas Hobbs, tenor

Felix Schwandtke, bass

Netherlands Bach Society

Jos van Veldhoven, conductor

Elgar: Cockaigne Overture, op. 40 ('In London Town')

Hong Kong Philharmonic

Vassily Petrenko, conductor

Schubert's Ninth Symphony, 'The Great', conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

Thursday, Schumann In Scotland20220113This week Afternoon Concert celebrates Beethoven concertos with a different one each day at 3pm - today it's his Violin Concerto performed by Tobias Feldmann with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, who also perform music by Schumann and Musgrave. Plus Berg from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and more from Ensemble Correspondances at the Schwetzingen Festival.

Presented by Ian Skelly

c.2.20

Berg Chamber Concerto, op. 8

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Renaud Capucon (violin)

Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

c.3pm

Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major Op.61

Tobias Feldmann (violin)

David Afkham (conductor)

c.3.40

Alessandro Melani Litanie per la Santa vergine

Giacomo Carissimi Extract form 'Jephte, oratorio

S退bastien Dauc退 (conductor)

c.3.50

Schumann Symphony no.3 in E flat major (Rhenish)

c.4.25

Thea Musgrave Phoenix Rising

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Tobias Feldmann performs Beethoven's Violin Concerto. Also, music by Berg and Schumann.

Thursday, Sean Shibe Plays Rodrigo20211014Ian Skelly with recent performances from the Philharmonie concert hall in Berlin, early music from Holland Baroque, and an ever-popular concerto by Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo, featuring soloist Sean Shibe with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

JS Bach: In dir ist Freude, BWV 615; Fantasia in G minor, BWV 542

Benedictus

Thursday, Shostakovich Symphony No 620220707Ian Skelly introduces a selection of performances for the afternoon, including a new recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No 6 from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Wagner from the BBC Philharmonic, and improvisations and a choice of music from pianist Gabriela Montero.

Including:

Gabriela Montero: Improvisation on `Loreley`

Gabriela Montero, piano

Cecile Chaminade: Concertino for flute

Catriona Ryan, flute

National Symphony Orchestra

Nil Venditti, conductor

WA Mozart: String Quartet K458 ‘The Hunt

Arod Quartet

Gabriela Montero: Improvisation on `Somewhere Over The Rainbow`

3.00

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No 6

Steven Lloyd-Gonzalez, conductor

Gabriela Montero: Improvisation on `Der Mond ist aufgegangen`

Guest Artists Choice: Gabriela Montero

Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata No 2 in D minor Op14

Johann Sebastian Bach: `Wie zittern und wanken` from ‘Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht' BWV 105

Sofia Niklasson (soprano)

G怀teborg Baroque/Magnus Kjellson

Richard Wagner: Overture ‘Tannhauser

Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

Steven Lloyd-Gonzalez conducts the BBC NOW in Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony.

Thursday, Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 220220915This week in Afternoon Concert Penny Gore features music from summer festivals around Europe. Today includes a concert given by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the George Enescu International Festival; they perform Haydn and Stravinsky, and Yuja Wang joins them for Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto. Plus highlights from a concert the RIAS Chamber Chorus gave at the International Sacred Music Festival, Fribourg, with music by Sandstrom and Schnittke.

Presented by Ian Skelly

2pm

Sandstrom: En ny Himmel och en ny jord

Peter Dijkstra (conductor)

c.2.10

Haydn: Symphony no.31 in D major, H.1:31 ‘Hornsignal

Matthew Truscott (conductor)

c.2.40

Ravel: Tzigane

Rosanne Philippens (violin)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

c.3pm

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto no.2 in F major, Op.102

Yuja Wang (piano)

c.3.20

Stravinsky: Octet for Winds

c.3.40

Heinichen: Crucifixus from Mass no.9, S.5

Stephan MacLeod (baritone)

Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande ɀcurie

Alexis Kossenko (conductor)

c.4.15

Schnittke: Concerto for Choir

Music by Haydn, Stravinsky and Schnittke.

Thursday, Sibelius's Symphony No 5 With The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra20230119Penny Gore introduces repertoire by BBC ensembles as well as music by ensembles from across Europe, including Sibelius's Symphony No. 5 with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Tarmo Peltokoski, who selects a piece for today's programme in our Artist's Choice. Also, a selection of arias and chorales from JS Bach's cantatas performed G怀teborg Baroque; Christian Cannabich's Symphony No. 1 with Das Neue Mannheimer Orchester; and Gabriel Schwabe as soloist in Elgar's Cello Concerto with the Ulster Orchestra, conducted by Angus Webster.

Including,

Traditional: Pero cantigas de loor

Capella Reial de Catalunya

Hesperion XXI

Jordi Savall, director

Scarlatti: Sonata in F minor, Kk 466

Louis Schwizgebel, piano

Peteris Vasks: Concerto for oboe and orchestra: 1st mvt; Morning Pastorale

Albrecht Mayer, oboe

Latvian National Philharmonic Orchestra

Andris Poga, conductor

Johann Sebastian Bach:

Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder, from Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56

Aria (tenor), from Nur jedem das Seine, BWV 163

Sofia Niklasson, soprano

Amanda Flodin, alto

Carl Unander-Scharin, tenor

Karl Peter Eriksson, bass

Magnus Kjellson, claviorgan, leader

Christian Cannabich: Symphony No. 50 in D minor

Anders Muskens, conductor

Weber: Overture to 'Der Freischütz, op. 77

Radovan Blaktovic, horn

Munich Radio Orchestra

Ivan Repusic, conductor

Trad Ukrainian (arr. Bohdan Kryvopust): At the River Jordan

Ruslana Lotsman, singer

The Orchestra of Folk and Popular Music of Ukrainian Radio

Mykhailo Pikulskyi, conductor

3pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82

Tarmo Peltokoski, conductor

Adagio and Vivace, from 'Violin Sonata in G', BWV 1021

Sinfonia, from 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21

Chorale, from Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21

Mozart: Violin Sonata in E minor, K 304

Jennifer Pike, violin

Daniel Tong, piano

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85

Gabriel Schwabe, cello

Angus Webster, conductor

Sibelius, cantatas by JS Bach, Weber and Elgar's Cello Concerto with Gabriel Schwabe.

Thursday, Sol Gabetta Plays Dvorak20230629Penny Gore introduces recordings from around Europe and from the BBC's performing groups.

Today Penny has a recording of Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta playing Dvorak's Cello concerto, written while the composer was living in New York, and considered one of the all-time great cello concertos. Sol is joined by one of Europe's great orchestras: The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, with conductor Andris Nelsons. Also on the programme, an all-star line-up plays Robert Schumann's Concertstuck for 4 horns with the BBC Philharmonic, and the Orchestre de Paris, with Klaus M䀀kel䀀, performs the music of the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. And there's a rare chance to hear music by the Dutch composer Leo Smit, who was killed at the Sobibor concentration camp in World War 2.

Including:

Robert Schumann: Concertstuck for 4 horns in F major, Op 86

Martin Owen, Chris Parks, Alec Frank-Gemmill, Sarah Willis, French horns

John Wilson, conductor

Leo Smit: String quartet (unfinished)

Jacobien Rozemond, Marijke van Kooten, Edith van Moergastel, Doris Hochscheid

Jimmy L pez Bellido: Aino

Klaus M䀀kel䀀, conductor

c. 3pm

Dvorak: Cello concerto in B minor, Op 104

Sol Gabetta, cello

Andris Nelsons, conductor

c. 4pm

Bruckner: Te Deum

Netherlands Radio Choir

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic

Vasily Petrenko, conductor

Kaija Saariaho: Asteroid 4179: Toutatis

Chopin: Polonaise fantasie in A flat major, Op 61

Alexander Gadjiev, piano

Sol Gabetta performs Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B minor.

Thursday, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier Suite20221208Penny Gore with recordings from BBC ensembles and performances from across Europe.

Today's highlight comes from the BBC Philharmonic with Eva Ollikainen conducting Strauss' suite from his opera Der Rosenkavalier. The orchestra also plays Walton's suite from Troilus & Cressida, under the baton of John Wilson. Music by Schubert is played by pianist Arthur Jussen, from last year's Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, Austria, and Bach's Cantata No. 128 is performed by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.

Including:

Hans Krasa: Overture for Small Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Schubert: Rondo in A, D. 951

Arthur Jussen, piano

Tallis: Spem in Alium

BBC Singers

Stephen Cleobury, director

Dvorak: Carnival Overture

Philadelphia Orchestra

Yannick N退zet-S退guin, conductor

JS Bach: Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128, cantata

Petra Mullejans, violin

Vox Luminis

Leila Schayegh, concert master

Lionel Meunier, conductor

3pm

Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite

Eva Ollikainen, conductor

Artist's choice - BBC Phil player

Schubert: Impromptu in E flat, D 899/2, and Impromptu in G flat, D 899/3

Schubert: Mass No. 6 in E flat, D. 950: Credo

Golda Schultz, soprano

Katharina Magiera, contralto

Julian Pr退gardien, tenor

Maciej Kwasnikowski, tenor

Tareq Nazmi, bass

Vienna Singverein

Johannes Prinz, chorus director

Camerata Salzburg

Franz Welser-M怀st, conductor

Walton: Troilus & Cressida suite

John Wilson, conductor

The BBC Philharmonic plays Strauss. Plus, music by Schubert from 2021's Schubertiade.

Thursday, Stravinsky's Firebird20230413Penny Gore presents another afternoon of great concert performances from the BBC Philharmonic, the Ulster Orchestra and around Europe, with a focus on Latin American music.

In the 3pm spotlights today and tomorrow, the SWR Symphony Orchestra performs two of Stravinsky's best-loved ballet scores - starting this afternoon with The Firebird conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk. Also this afternoon, the BBC Philharmonic plays Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, there's EJ Moeran from the Ulster Orchestra, and Maxim Rysanov plays Gabriel Prokofiev's Viola Concerto. Plus every day this week you can hear Latin American music from guitarist Yamandu Costa and accordionist Vincent Peirani, and there are performances from The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, pianist Elisso Virsaladze and the Leipzig Cantorey.

Including:

Ginastera: Los trabajadores agricolas (Dances from Estancia)

Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra

Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

Yamandu Costa: Santuario

Yamandu Costa (guitar)

Vincent Peirani (accordion)

EJ Moeran: Rhapsody No.1 in F major

JoAnn Falletta (conductor)

c. 2.30pm

WA Mozart: Piano Sonata No.14 in C minor, K.457

Elisso Virsaladze (piano)

Fux: Intrada in C major

Freirburg Baroque Orchestra

Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)

Stravinsky: The Firebird

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart

Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor)

c. 3.45pm

Angel Cabral: Amor de mis amores

Schein: Die mit Tr䀀nen s䀀en, SWV.378

Concerto Vocale Leipzig

Sachsisches Baroque Orchestra

Gotthold Schwarz (conductor)

Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade

Ben Gernon (conductor)

c. 4.10pm

Gabriel Prokofiev - Viola Concerto

Maxim Rysanov (viola)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Dima Slobodeniouk conducts Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird.

Thursday, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra20170706Verity Sharp presents a performance of Berlioz's dramatic symphony, Romeo and Juliet. Plus another new piece from the New Music Biennial from Hull City of Culture.

2pm:

Berlioz: Rom退o et Juliette

Virginie Verrez (mezzo-soprano)

Andrew Staples (tenor)

Christopher Maltman (baritone)

Swedish Radio Chorus

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

conductor Daniel Harding.

Verity Sharp presents a performance of Berlioz's dramatic symphony Romeo et Juliette.

Thursday, Symphonic Dances20230706Ian Skelly presents the best classical music for the afternoon, including new recordings from the BBC and European orchestras.

Today has a French flavour, with the French National Orchestra performing Rachmaninov's exuberant Symphonic Dances. Clara-Jumi Kang is soloist in Britten's Violin Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic, and there's more from the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Monte Carlo.

Including:

Rachmaninov arr Lucien Cailliet: Prelude in G minor, Op.23'5

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Sergiu Comissiona (conductor)

Tallis Spem in alium

Huelgas Ensemble

Paul van Nevel (conductor)

Sibelius: Symphony no.7 in C major, Op.105

Eva Ollikainen (conductor)

Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor

Anastasia Kobekina (cello)

Elisabeth Brauss (piano)

3pm

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op.45

Cristian M?celaru (conductor)

John Adams Lollapalooza

Halle Orchestra

Kent Nagano (conductor)

c.4pm

Britten: Violin Concerto, Op.15

Clara-Jumi Kang (violin)

BBC Philhamonic

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Mozart: Serenata notturna in D major, K.239

Markus Tomasi (violin)

Sofia Herbig (violin)

Milan Radic (viola)

Brita Bürgschwendtner (double bass)

Michael Mitterlehner-Romm (percussion)

Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg

Ivor Bolton (conductor)

The French National Orchestra play Rachmaninov, plus music by Britten and Sibelius.

Thursday, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony From Copenhagen20230112Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5 in E minor, plus highlights from the combined forces of Holland Baroque and the Netherlands Bach Society.

Presented by Penny Gore

2.00pm

Traditional (Surinamese-Dutch)

Adonai

Traditional (Netherlands)

Sinte Mertensaus

Netherlands Chamber Choir

Philipp Ahmann, conductor

Ariel Ram퀀rez

Ballade to Martin Fierro

S退rgio Assad

Valseana

Cacho Tirao

Milonga de Don Taco

Anabel Montesinos, guitar

Handel

Utrecht Jubilate, HWV 279

Dorothee Mields, soprano

Alex Potter, countertenor

Christopher Ainslie, tenor

Nicholas Mogg, bass

Haydn

Trio in F sharp minor, Hob XV No 26

ATOS Trio

3.00pm

Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64

Fabio Luisi, conductor

Mozart

Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467

Marie-Ange Nguci, piano

Utrecht Te Deum in D, HWV 278

Fabio Luisi and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.

Thursday, Telemann's Orpheus20220127Penny Gore introduces Telemann's opera Orpheus conducted by Ren退 Jacobs, who rediscovered the piece 25 years ago - and has come back to this sparkling work, this time with the B'Rock Orchestra from Ghent, and a fine cast of soloists. Told in an unfamiliar way, it's the ancient Greek myth but as seen from Orasia, the widow of the King of Thrace, who murders Eurydice out of jealousy. We'll hear the opera divided in two parts, spread around the afternoon. Also today, Prokofiev's Symphony 1 'Classical', with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and John Foulds's Sicilian Aubade, with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Including:

Telemann: Orpheus - Part 1

Orpheus: Krešimir Stražanac, baritone

Orasia: Kateryna Kasper, soprano

Eurydice: Mirella Hagen, soprano

Ismene/ Priestess: Salom退 Haller, soprano

Eurimedes: David Fischer, tenor

Pluto: Christian Immler, bass

Ascalax: Benno Schachtner, countertenor

Cephisa: Gunta Smirnova, soprano

Ren退 Jacobs, conductor

Prokofiev: Symphony 1 in D 'Classical' Op 25

Bavarian Radio SO

Gustavo Gimeno, conductor

Telemann: Orpheus - Part 2

(performers as above)

With the B'Rock Orchestra under Rene Jacobs. Also, music by Prokofiev.

Thursday, Teodor Currentzis Conducts Prokofiev20221006With Ian Skelly and recordings of live performances from around Europe.

Today, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart, plays Prokofiev's Symphony No.5 with their chief conductor, Teodor Currentzis. They are also joined by Martin Helmchen for Mozart's Piano Concerto No.17, and the Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra perform a motet by Lalande.

Including:

Lalande: Nisi Quia Dominus, S. 26

Gyorgy Vashegyi, conductor

c.3pm

Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 in B flat, op. 100

Teodor Currentzis, conductor

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G, K. 453

Martin Helmchen, piano

NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Andrew Manze, conductor SM/2022/03/33/01

Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart

Thursday, The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra Live From Glasgow And The Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford20171214~Afternoon Concert's live week continues with two live performances, starting with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at Glasgow's City Halls, conducted by Ben Gernon, with Simon Wills' tone poem The Island. It's followed by Ernest Chausson's Po耀me de l'amour et de la mer, in a version for voice and orchestra, with mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge as soloist. Then comes a selection of pieces from Prokofiev's suites from the ballet Romeo and Juliet. Then we move to MediaCityUK in Salford as the afternoon continues with our second live concert, this one given by the BBC Philharmonic, under the baton of Clemens Schuldt, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat, K.449, with soloist Martin Roscoe. The concert ends with Sibelius' Symphony No. 2.

2.00pm Presented by Jamie MacDougall LIVE from City Halls, Glasgow

Simon Wills: The Island - tone poem

Ernest Chausson: Po耀me de l'amour et de la mer, Op.19

3.05pm

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - a selection of pieces

From 2nd Suite: Montagues and Capulets; Juliet - the Young Girl

From 3rd Suite: Morning Dance

From 1st Suite: Minuet; Masks; Balcony Scene; Death of Tybalt

Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)

Ben Gernon (conductor)

3.45pm Presented by Tom Redmond LIVE from MediaCityUK, Salford.

Mozart: Piano Concerto no 14 in E flat (K 449)

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Martin Roscoe (piano)

Clemens Schuldt (conductor).

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra live from Glasgow and BBC Philharmonic live from Salford.

Thursday, The Fairy's Kiss20211125Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky's delightful tribute to Tchaikovsky. Also, specially recorded works by Susan Spain-Dunk and Jessie Montgomery and the first part of a portmanteau recreation of a lavish, 16th-century Medici Florentine wedding.

Presented by Penny Gore

Susan Spain-Dunk: The Farmer's Boy

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Stephen Bell, conductor

La Pellegrina, Part One

Music for the wedding of Ferdinando de' Medici and Christine de Lorraine, Florence 1589

including music by Cristofano Malvezzi, Luca Marenzio

Voces Suaves

Cappella Amsterdam

Capriccio Stravagante

Skip Sempe, director

Susan Spain-Dunk: Two Scottish Pieces; Kentonia

c.3pm

Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Mark Bowden: Outside

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Ryan Bancroft, conductor

Mozart: Symphony no.36 in C 'Linz

Jessie Montgomery: Banner for string quartet and orchestra

Delius: On hearing the first cuckoo in spring

George Jackson, conductor

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Stravinsky's delightful tribute to Tchaikovsky.

Thursday, The 'rhenish' Symphony20211118Tom McKinney with the best classical music performed by BBC ensembles and orchestras across Europe.

Tom continues his focus on great Romantic symphonies this week with Schumann's Third, the 'Rhenish' - Antonio Mendez conducts the KBS Symphony Orchestra in a performance recorded in Seoul in February. Also, Beethoven from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Renaissance music performed by the Youth of La Capella Reial de Catalunya, new music by John Metcalf from the Vale of Glamorgan Festival and music by Albeniz, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mozart and Florence Price.

2pm

Beethoven - Egmont Overture, Op.84

Michael Seal (conductor)

Isaac Alb退niz - Sevilla

Mallorca

Capricho Catalan

Aragon

ARTIS Guitar Duo

Claudio Monteverdi - Lamento della ninfa [Madrigali Gverreri et Amorosi, SV.163 No.22]

Jove Capella Reial de Catalunya

Lu퀀s Vilamaj  (conductor)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - The Snow Maiden - Suite

Chloe Hanslip (violin)

Ulster Orchestra

Jac van Steen (conductor)

c. 3pm

Robert Schumann - Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op.97 'Rhenish

Antonio Mendez (conductor)

Mozart - Overture: The Marriage of Figaro, K.492

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Louis Langree (conductor)

John Metcalf - Dances from forgotten places

Geoffrey Patterson

c. 4.15pm

Florence Price - Ethiopia's Shadow in America

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)

Antonio Mendez conducts the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Schumann's Second Symphony.

Thursday, Variations On A Theme, By Haydn20220630Penny Gore with music played in the Low Countries: Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn, with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra conducted by Fran瀀ois Leleux, who also performs as the soloist in Haydn's Oboe Concerto. Howells's Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing and Debussy's Clair de Lune, arranged for violin, is played by Daniel Rowland, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty is played the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, plus African American spirituals, for brass band.

Including:

Schubert: Overture in the Italian Style in C major, D.591

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

Herbert Howells: Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing

Claude Debussy: Clair de lune, from 'Suite bergamasque

Daniel Rowland, violin

Marie Jaell: Concerto in F major for cello and orchestra

Xavier Phillips, cello

Brussels Philharmonic

Herv退 Niquet, conductor

JS Bach: Partita No 2 in C minor for keyboard, BWV 826

Beatrice Rana, piano

3.00pm

Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, op. 56a

Variations on the St Anthony Choral

Fran瀀ois Leleux, conductor

Haydn: Oboe Concerto in C, Hob. VIIg:C1

Fran瀀ois Leleux, oboe & conductor

Eric Whitacre: I Thank You God for This Most Amazing Day, from 'Three Songs of Faith

Charlotte Janssen, soprano

Traditional (African American): Go down Moses (arr. Peter D怀rpinghaus)

Traditional (African American): Nobody knows the trouble I've seen (arr. Boris Netsvetaev)

Salaputia Brass

Jeroen Berwaerts, trumpet, voice, conductor

Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Suite, Op 66a

Xian Zhang, conductor

Dutilleux: Aria & Scherzo (from Oboe Sonata)

Bozza: Fantaisie pastorale, op. 37 (encore)

Emmanuel Storsser, piano

Music recorded in the Low Countries, including Haydn, Schubert, Howells and Debussy.

Thursday, Vaughan Williams 150: Purcell, Inspiration20221013Ian Skelly introduces another afternoon of music as part of Radio 3's 150th anniversary celebrations of Ralph Vaughan Williams, with live recordings of music by the composers himself alongside those who influenced him, his contemporaries and students.

Today at 3pm, Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, one of the English composers most admired by Vaughan Williams. The BBC Philharmonic and Rumon Gamba present new recordings of works by one of his students at the Royal College of Music, Ruth Gipps, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play music by his contemporary Michael Tippett.

Including:

Gipps: Chanticleer Overture

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Tallis: O Sacrum Convivium

Tippett: Plebs anglica

Paul Brough, conductor

c.2.15pm

Tippett: Ritual Dances (Midsummer Marriage)

Thomas Dausgaard

Butterworth: Fantasia for orchestra (completed by Kriss Russman)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Kirss Russman, conductor

c.3pm

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

Gipps: Oboe Concerto, Op.20

Juliana Koch, oboe

Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Sofi Jeannin and the BBC Singers

Thursday, Vaughan Williams And Tippett20220721Ian Skelly introduces an afternoon focussing on the BBC Philharmonic's recent Prom at the Royal Albert Hall, featuring the fourth symphonies of Vaughan Williams and Tippett. Plus Sir Andrew Davis with today's Proms Artist choice, and recent BBC Philharmonic recordings of music by Ruth Gipps.

2.00pm

Walton: Orb and sceptre - coronation march

John Storgards, conductor

Purcell: To Arms, Heroic Prince, from 'The Libertine, Z. 600'; Excerpts from 'Bonduca, Z. 574

Anna Prohaska, soprano

Julia B怀hme, contralto

Richard Resch, tenor

Nikolay Borchev, baritone

La Folia Baroque Orchestra

Robin-Peter Müller, violin and conductor

c.2.20pm

Prom 6 (first broadcast live 19 July) - Part 1 of 2

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F minor

Sir Andrew Davis, conductor

c.2.55

Proms Artist Choice: Sir Andrew Davies

Finzi: Dies natalis Op.8 for voice and string orchestra

Wilfred Brown, tenor

English Chamber Orchestra

Chrisopher Finzi, conductor

c.3.25pm

Prom 6 (first broadcast live 19 July) - Part 2 of 2

Tippett: Symphony No. 4

c.4.00pm

Finzi: 5 Bagatelles Op.23

Mark Simpson, clarinet

Richard Uttley, piano

Gipps: Cringlemire Garden

Gipps: Ambervalia

Rumon Gamba, conductor

The BBC Philharmonic play music by Vaughan Williams and Tippett at the BBC Proms.

Thursday, Vaughan Williams' The Poisoned Kiss20180412Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the BBC NOW, Kate Molleson marks their relationship with the acclaimed conductor of British Music, Richard Hickox, and this performance recorded at the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea of Vaughan Williams' The Poisoned Kiss.

In a reworking by the librettist Evelyn Sharp of Richard Garnett's short story, The Poison Maid, Richard Hickox conducts Vaughan Williams' operatic setting of the tale of a magician and young empress whose desire to marry is outlawed by her parents. The protagonists marry others, but the jilted magician's instinct for revenge remains and is bestowed upon his daughter, with whom the empress's son is destined to fall in love. With sorcery, poisoned kisses, and the clever use of antidotes, their widowed parents' long-running differences are reconciled, everybody is married, and all live happily ever after.

Angelica (Tormentilla's Maid and Companion) - Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano)

Gallanthus (the Prince's Attendant) - Roderick Williams (baritone)

Hob (one of the Magician's Hobgoblins) - John Graham-Hall (tenor)

Gob (one of the Magician's Hobgoblins) - Richard Suart (baritone)

Lob (one of the Magician's Hobgoblins) - Mark Richardson (bass)

Dipsacus (a Professional Magician) - Neal Davies (baritone)

Amaryllus (the Prince, Son of the Empress) - James Gilchrist (tenor)

Tormentilla (the Magician's Daughter) - Janice Watson (soprano)

First Medium (one of the Empress's Assistants) - Gail Pearson (soprano)

Second Medium (one of the Empress's Assistants) - Helen Williams (soprano)

Third Medium (one of the Empress's Assistants) - Emer McGilloway (mezzo-soprano)

Empress Persicaria (Reigning Sovereign in Golden Town) - Anne Collins (contralto)

Adrian Partington Singers

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Richard Hickox (conductor)

Aidan Oliver (assistant conductor)

And at 4.10pm Kate Molleson continues this week's focus on the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th anniversary with a seminal performance made while on tour to Japan with conductor laureate Tadaaki Otaka

William Mathias - In Arcadia

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor).

Kate Molleson introduces Vaughan Williams' opera The Poisoned Kiss.

Thursday, Vivaldi To Vaughan Williams20210930Penny Gore continues this week's focus on The Netherlands with Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 5 in D conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

The BBC Philharmonic open the programme with Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. Also today, music from top ensembles and summer festivals across Europe, including Christian Zacharias playing Haydn, and Vivaldi's Nisi Dominum with the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Also, a chamber arrangement, led by violinist Renaud Capu瀀on, of the 2nd movement of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7; and part of Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert, with singer Cecile Verny and the WDR Big Band Cologne.

Including:

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Haydn: Keyboard Sonata in C, Hob. XVI:21

Christian Zacharias, piano

Vivaldi: Nisi Dominum in G minor, RV 608

Flavio Ferri-Benedetti, alto

Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble and Orchestra

Vကclav Luks, harpsichord and direction

c.3pm

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Bruckner: Symphony No.7 - 2nd movt, Adagio (arr. chamber ensemble)

Renaud Capu瀀on, violin

Christoph Koncz, violin

G退rard Causs退, viola

Julia Hagen, cello

Alois Posch, double bass

Daniel Ottensamer, clarinet

David Guerrier, horn

Ad退lade Ferri耀re, harmonium

Guillaume Bellom, piano

c.4pm

Duke Ellington (arr. Bill Dobbins): Heaven & Freedom, from 'Sacred Concert

Cecile Verny, vocals

Vivaldi's Nisi Dominum and Vaughan Williams's pastoral Fifth Symphony.

Thursday, Wagner And Weinberg20230323Ian Skelly continues this week of Afternoon Concert featuring performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic and from some of the great German orchestras.

Today Alain Altinoglu conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in excerpts from Wagner's Ring Cycle, and an orchestral suite by Mieczyslaw Weinberg. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays a selection of Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, and Voces8 sing music by Rheinberger and Schutz. Ton Koopman plays organ music by Bach and Buxtehude in Copenhagen, and Toru Takemitsu's Twill by twilight is played by the BBC Philharmonic.

Including:

Bantock: The Frogs

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Rheinberger: Kyrie (Mass in E flat, Op.109)

Takemitsu: Twill by twilight

Christian Karlsen (conductor)

Brahms: Ophelia Lieder

Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano) / Kaspar Zehnder (flute) / Andrew Marriner (clarinet) / Giovanni Guzzo & Rahel Maria Rilling (violins) / Amihai Grosz (viola) / David Adorjan (cello) / Sir Simon Rattle (piano)

JS Bach: Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV.654

Ton Koopman (organ)

Maconchy: Proud Thames

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis (conductor)

John Adams: Short ride in a fast machine

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Lahav Shani (conductor)

3pm

Wagner: Excerpts from The Ring

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

c. 3.40pm

Mozart: Chi s

Thursday, Yu Kosuge Plays Ravel20220303Presented by Ian Skelly. In today's 3pm concerto, the Japanese pianist Yu Kosuge joins the BBC SO for Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. The orchestra also play music by Piazzolla and Schumann's 'Rhenish' symphony. Plus Scarlatti and Sarri from Vienna, and Bach from Melk, and David Hill conducts the BBC Singers in new studio recording of music by Elizabeth Maconchy.

Mel Bonis: Suite Orientale

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

A Scarlatti Sinfonia Avanti la Serenata 'Clori, Dorino e Amore

Sarri: Recorder Concerto in A minor

Ensemble 1700

Dorothee Oberlinger, (recorder and direction)

Maconchy: Two Epitaphs - Our life is nothing by a winter's day ; As the tree falls

David Hill (conductor)

Piazzolla: Tangazo - variaciones sobra Buenos Aires

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

c. 3pm

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

Yu Kosuge (piano)

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Petr Wajsar: Prague Metamorphoses

Prague Symphony Orchestra

Tomas Brauner (conductor)

Smetana Hall, Municipal House, Prague 7/5/21

JS Bach: Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150, cantata

Aldona Bartnik sop

Francesca Cassinari sop

Nausicaa Nisati contralto

Raffaele Giordani tenor

Salvo Vitale bass

La Risonanza

Fabio Bonizzoni

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 ‘Rhenish' in Eb Op.97

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Japanese pianist Yu Kosuge plays Ravel's Piano Concerto in G

Thursday: Opera Matinee, Mozart's Cos\u00ec Fan Tutte K.58820181004Mozart's satirical and sparkling opera Cos쀀 fan tutte K.588 is given by Les Musiciens du Louvre and Marc Minkowski, from 2017's Enescu Festival in Bucharest. The opera wasn't particularly well-received at its premiere in 1790, and the subject matter remains divisive today as Don Alfonso tried to prove that no woman can be faithful to her lover. But romantic cynicism aside, the music brims with sublime arias and vocal fireworks, and in the end everyone agrees that's it better to laugh than to cry. It's presented by Tom McKinney.

Ana Maria Labin, Fiordiligi (soprano)

Serena Malfi, Dorabella (mezzo-soprano)

Robert Gleadow, Guglielmo (baritone)

Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, Ferrando (tenor)

Jean-S退bastien Bou, Don Alfonso (baritone)

Giulia Semenzato, Despina (soprano)

Marc Minkowski, conductor

This afternoon's broadcast concludes our series of Mozart's Da Ponte opera trilogy. You can catch up with parts 1 & 2 via the BBC Radio Player

Mozart's Cos\u00ec fan tutte K.588 given at the 2017 Enescu Festival, presented by Tom McKinney

Thursday: Opera Matinee, Verdi's Aida20180913Tom Redmond brings in the new season of Opera Matinees on Afternoon Concert with Verdi's Aida - a timeless tragedy set in ancient Egypt with themes of war, national pride, freedom-fighting and exile that are as relevant to today's Mediterranean basin as it would have been to Verdi in the 19th century. In keeping with the week's Belgian theme, this performance comes from the Th退 tre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels.

Aida - Adina Aaron (soprano)

Radames - Andrea Care (tenor)

Amonasro - Dimitris Tiliakos (baritone)

Ramfis - Giacomo Prestia (bass)

King of Egypt - Enrico Lori (bas)

High Priestess - Tamara Banjesevic (soprano)

Messenger - Julian Hubbard (tenor)

Chorus of the Th退atre de la Monnaie

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Tom Redmond presents Verdi's Aida from the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels.

Ticciati Conducts Elgar20221122Robin Ticciati conducts the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin in Elgar's Second Symphony, plus more small-scale works from Magdalena Kozena, Simon Rattle and friends.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Dedicated to the memory of the late King Edward VII, Elgar's elegiac second symphony, the composer described it as a 'passionate pilgrimage of the soul. Simon Rattle appears as both conductor and pianist in a wide range of music from Brahms and Dvorak to Ravel and Roberto Gerhard.

2.00pm

Shearing arr. Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann

Lullaby of Birdland

12 Cellists of the BPO

Scherzo capriccioso, Op.66

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Simon Rattle, conductor

Ophelia-Lieder

Chansons madecasses

Magdalena Kozena, mezzo-soprano

Kaspar Zehnder, flute

David Adorjan, cello

Giovanni Guzzo, violin

Rahel Rilling, violin

Amihai Grosz, viola

Simon Rattle, piano

3.00pm

Symphony no.2 in E flat, Op.63

German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin

Robin Ticciati, conductor

Two Songs, Op.91

Symphony No. 3 ('Collages')

Dvorak arr. Duncan Ward

A selection of songs

Christopher Richards, clarinet

Robin Ticciati conducts Elgar's Second Symphony.

Ticino Doc Festival And Ascona Festival 201920200519We're in Switzerland for this week, so from the Ticino DOC Festival 2019, we feature the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana under the baton of Elena Schwarz performing Mendelssohn and two pieces by Haydn: the overture to his opera L'isola disabitata and his Sinfonia Concertante for violin, cello, oboe and bassoon. Plus a concert by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra at another event in the same region last summer, the Ascona Music Festival.

Presented by Hannah French.

2.00pm

Haydn: Overture to 'L'isola disabitata

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64

Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante for violin, cello, oboe and bassoon in B flat, Hob. I:105

Melina Mandozzi, violin (Mendelssohn)

Gab r Barata, violin; Orfeo Mandozzi, cello; Sylvia Zabarella, oboe; Mathieu Brunet, bassoon (Haydn)

Elena Schwarz, conductor

3.00pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat, K. 595

Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B flat

Lahav Shani, conductor and piano

With music by Haydn and Mendelssohn from Brissago, and Mozart and Bruckner from Ascona.

Ticino Doc Festival And Lucerne Festival 201920200522Ending this week's celebration of Swiss summer music festivals with highlights from the 2019 festivals in Ticino and Lucerne. From the Ticino DOC Festival, Kevin Griffiths conducts the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana in a concert spotlighting three solo players of the lower-pitched string instruments: viola, cello and double bass.

Then we move to the Lucerne Festival as the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor Andr退s Orozco-Estrada performs two works by Dvo?ကk and a concerto for the highest-pitched string instrument: Leonidas Kavakos joins them in Korngold's Violin Concerto.

Presented by Hannah French.

2.00pm

Koussevitzky: Double Bass Concerto in F sharp minor, op. 3

Hummel: Pot-pourri, for viola and orchestra, op. 94 ('Fantaisie')

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor. op. 33

Jonကs Villegas, double bass

Jan Snakowski, viola

Alessandra Doninelli, cello

Kevin Griffiths, conductor

2.50pm

Dvo?ကk: The Noon Witch, op. 108

Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35

Dvo?ကk: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95 ('From the New World')

Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Andr退s Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Music by Koussevitzky, Hummel, Saint-Sa\u00ebns, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k and Korngold.

Tom Mckinney And The Suisse Romande Orchestra20180713Tom McKinney introduces the last of this week's concert recordings by the Suisse Romande Orchestra featuring music by Ravel, Brahms and Richard Strauss

Including:

c14.02 Claude Debussy: 'L'Apres midi d'une faune

c14.15 Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

(piano - Nelson Goerner)

c14.42 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 3 in F

L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott

c15.38 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No 4

(violin - Bogdan Zvoristeanu)

L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Rafael Payare

c16.02 Johann Strauss II: An Artist's Life

c16.15 Richard Strauss: Ballet - 'Schlagobers' (Whipped Cream)

L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott.

Tom McKinney and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

Total Immersion: Lili And Nadia Boulanger20190626Total Immersion: Musicians from the Guildhall School perform music by Lili and Nadia Boulanger, plus a tribute work by Nadia's last pupil and one by Stravinsky, whom Nadia revered.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Lili Boulanger: Th耀me et variations

ɀlisabeth Pion (piano)

Lili Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps

Maria W?oszczowska (violin)

Leo Popplewell (cello)

Gary Beecher (piano)

Nadia Boulanger: Soleils couchants; Heures ternes; Elle a vendu mon cœur

Michael Daub (baritone)

Lili Boulanger: Nocturne & Cort退ge

Nadia Boulanger: La mer; Le beau navire; Soir d'hiver

Alexandra Lowe (soprano)

Nadia Boulanger: Three Pieces for Cello and Piano

Nadia Boulanger: O schw怀re nicht!; Was will die einsame Thr䀀ne?; Ach, die Augen sind es wieder; J'ai frapp退; Chanson: ‘Les lilas sont en folie

Liam Bonthrone (tenor)

Stravinsky: Lied ohne Name

Daniel Plant & Rachel Hurst (bassoons)

Emile Naoumolf: In memoriam Lili Boulanger

Daniel Plant (bassoon)

Recorded at Milton Court Concert Hall on 6 April 2019 as part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion.

Total Immersion: Musicians from the Guildhall perform music by Lili and Nadia Boulanger.

Tuesday: A Symphony Of Trees20180911Tom Redmond continues with a week of concerts recorded in Belgium. Today's concert is the world premiere of the oratorio 'A Symphony of Trees' by the Belgian composer Piet Swerts, commissioned by the City of Ypres as a commemoration of the First World War. The programme also features music recorded at the Klarafestival in Brussels - Berg's Violin Concerto and Struass's Dance of the Sven Veils, performed by MusicAeterna conducted by Teodor Currentzis.

Piet Swerts: A Symphony of Trees: An Homage to Ivor Gurney and Ypres

Lee Bisset, soprano

Thomas Blondelle, tenor

Collegium de Dunis (Brugge)

Con Cuore (Waregem)

deCHORALE (Antwerpen)

Iepers Kamerkoor

Kortrijks Vocaal Ensemble

Laidos (Waregem)

Qui Vive (Desselgem)

Roeselaars Kamerkoor

Voices! (Knokke)

Canteclaer (Lo-Reninge)

Rondinella (Knokke)

Symphony Orchestra of Flanders

David Angus, conductor

Recorded in St. Maartens Cathedral, Ypres

c.3.25pm:

Alban Berg: Violin Concerto

Patricia Kopatchinskaya, violin

Teodor Currentzis, director

Recorded at the Klarafestival, Brussels

c.3.55pm:

Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils, from 'Salome

c.4.05pm:

Smetana: Vltava (The Moldau) from 'Mက Vlast (My Homeland)

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Rafael Payare, conductor

c.4.20pm:

Berio: Folk Songs

Magdalena Kozena, mezzo-soprano

A Symphony of Trees by Piet Swerts performed in Ypres to commemorate World War I

Tuesday: Bbc Philharmonic20181127Ravel, Elgar, Musgrave and Copland from live recordings by the BBC Philharmonic. An orchestration of Ravel's piano suite, Le Tombeau de Couperin, is followed by 2016 BBC Young Musician of the Year Winner, Sheku Kanneh-Mason's rendition of Elgar's Cello Concerto. We'll also hear Copland's first orchestral work to be composed, in his own words, 'along Schoenbergian lines'.

2.00pm

Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

Stravinsky

Petrushka (1947 version)

Joana Carneiro, conductor

Weber

Overture (Euryanthe)

Juanjo Mena, conductor

c. 3.30pm

Tchaikovsky

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op 35

Vasily Petrenko, conductor

Maria-Elisabeth Lott, violin

Thea Musgrave

The Seasons

Clark Rundell, conductor

c. 4.30pm

Connotations

John Wilson, conductor

Presented by Tom McKinney.

Live recordings of the BBC Philharmonic performing Ravel, Elgar, Musgrave and Copland.

Ulster Orchesta And Rafael Payare20190517This morning's Breakfast finally reached the sea as it traces the path of the Severn river and celebrates our watery heritage

The antics of Goethe's hapless Sorcerer's Apprentice unwittingly cause rivers of water to flood his master's house, while Debussy paints very different but equally evocative images of the sea. Dutilleux's music is characterised by exquisite colours and deft allusion, especially in a performance by the celebrated American cellist Alisa Weilerstein

Presented by Penny Gore

2.00pm

Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice

Dutilleux: Concerto (Tout un monde lointain ...) for cello and orchestra

Debussy: La mer

Ravel: La valse

Alisa Weilerstein, cello

Ulster Orchesta

Rafael Payare, conductor

3.30pm

Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5 in D minor Op.47

Ulster Orchestra

The Ulster Orchestra in works by Dukas, Dutilleux, Debussy, Ravel and Shostakovich.

Ulster Orchestra20160629A concert from the Ulster Hall conducted by Andrew Gourlay, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 2016. The concert includes a new work by Belfast composer, Stephen Gardner, which has been commissioned by the Somme Association and is based on Wilfred Owen's classic World War One poem, Anthem for Doomed Youth.

2pm

Stephen Gardner: No Prayers Nor Bells (World Premiere)

Andrew Gourlay, conductor

c.2.20

Butterworth: Second English Idyll

c.2.25

Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No 3)

Sarah Fox, soprano

Andrew Gourlay, conductor.

The Ulster Orchestra in a concert to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme

Ulster Orchestra (1-4)20201019Tom McKinney introduces concerts given by the Ulster Orchestra under its honorary principal guest conductor, Jac van Steen, in music foregrounding the wind and the strings. Recorded in Waterfront Hall in Belfast early last month. The programme includes:

Ryan Molloy: Beal

Richard Strauss: Suite in B flat - Praeludium and Fugue

James MacMillan: '...and they saw that the stone had been rolled away

Kurt Weill: Concerto for Violin and Winds

Giuseppe Verdi: String Quartet for Orchestra in E minor

Tamas Kocsis (violin)

Ulster Orchestra conducted by Jac van Steen

Tom McKinney introduces music-making from Ireland.

Ulster Orchestra (2-4)20201020Tom McKinney introduces more recordings from the Ulster Orchestra recorded over the summer including music by Mozart, Matthews and Mahler.

Joseph Boulogne: Symphony No 2 (Overture to L'Amant Anonyme)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No 12 in A K414

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No 36 in C K425 'Linz

Michael McHale (piano)

Ulster Orchestra conducted by Peter Whelan

David Matthews: Variations on a Bach Chorale -'Das Nacht Ist Kommen' Op40

Michael Tippett: Fantasia on a Theme by Corelli

Ulster Orchestra conducted by Honorary Principal Guest Conductor Jac van Steen

Mahler: Ruckert Lieder

Katherine Broderick (soprano)

Ulster Orchestra conducted by Jessica Cottis

Tom McKinney with music-making from Ireland.

Ulster Orchestra (3-4)20201021Tom McKinney continues his look at some of the Ulster Orchestra's summer music-making with a series of recordings with an Italian connection, featuring music by Respighi, Mozart and Stravinsky conducted by Daniele Rustioni.

Ottorino Respighi: Antiche Arie Suite No 3

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No 1 in Bb K207

Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite

Francesca Dego (violin)

Ulster Orchestra conducted by Daniele Rustioni

Tom McKinney with more music-making from Ireland.

Ulster Orchestra (4-4)20201023The week of music making from the Ulster Orchestra concludes with a live concert from Belfast featuring music by Errollyn Wallen, Mozart and Brahms. And Tom McKinney rounds up the week with the orchestra performing Mendelssohn's symphonic tribute to the Scots.

Introduced by John Toal.

Errollyn Wallen: Photography

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21 in C K467

Johannes Brahms: Variations on a theme of Haydn

Eric Lu (piano)

Ulster Orchestra conducted by Andrew Gourlay

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A 'Scottish

Ulster Orchestra conducted by Alpesh Chauhan

The Ulster Orchestra, live in concert from Belfast.

Ulster Orchestra At Ulster Hall (1-4)20200309Tom McKinney presents a week with the Ulster Orchestra.

The week begins with a concert given at the end of January in Belfast's Ulster Hall in which Gemma New conducts a programme packed full of melodic sparkle and loaded with enough rhythm to help you dance your way through the end of the winter months! Stravinsky's Danses concertantes was composed as a concert piece, but with the input of a choreographer - just listen and imagine the poses and gestures of a corps de ballet. Jacques Ibert's Concerto for Flute is one of the repertoire's great showpieces for the instrument, and Adam Walker (Principal Flautist of the London Symphony Orchestra) is the perfect agile and elegant soloist.

Taking its heritage from both medieval music and the tradition of 20th-century work such as Barber's Adagio for Strings, Aaron Jay Kernis's Musica Celestis is shimmering, hymn-like and utterly tranquil. And they close with Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony - a musical postcard from the happy, buoyant composer as he travelled in the Mediterranean. It's imbued with the sunshine of Italy and draws on traditional Italian dances such as the saltarello and tarantella for its fizzing finale.

The penultimate piece in today's programme is Richard Strauss' 1896 tone poem 'Also Sprach Zarathustra'. Inspired by Nietzsche's philosophical novel of the same name, Strauss explores the development of humankind, from the Birth of Reason in the famous opening Sunrise through to the piece's enigmatic end - the question of the balance between humanity and the universe is explored, but not resolved.

The orchestra closes with Leopold Stokowski's vibrant orchestration of one of JS Bach's most well-known organ pieces - the Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor. They're joined by the Charles Wood Singers under the baton of David Hill.

2.00pm

Stravinsky: Danses Concertantes

Ibert: Flute Concerto

Kernis: Musica Celestis

Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 `Italian`

Adam Walker (flute)

Gemma New (conductor)

3.30pm

Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra

Rafael Payare, conductor

4.10pm

Bach. orch. Stokowski: Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, BWV.582

David Hill, conductor

The Ulster Orchestra plays Stravinsky, Ibert, Kernis, Mendelssohn and Strauss in Belfast.

Ulster Orchestra At Ulster Hall (2-4)20200310Tom McKinney continues this week of performances by The Ulster Orchestra with a concert recorded last October in Belfast.

Entitled 'Songs of Love and Loss', this concert under the baton of Principal Guest Conductor Jac van Steen. It begins with Howard Skempton's first major work for orchestra, Lento - a serene, hypnotic and enigmatically simple piece based on a number of chorales.

The orchestra is then joined by soprano Katherine Broderick for a performance of Wagner's five 'Wesendonck Lieder'.. Composed in 1857 for the wife of wealthy silk merchant Otto Wesendonck, with whom Wagner embarked on a tempestuous and destructive affair. The literary and soulful Mathilde Wesendonck provided the texts for these songs, while the music shows Wagner at his most vulnerable, oscillating between exuberant euphoria and delusional distress.

Elgar's second symphony was also written in a maelstrom of emotion. There was his relationship with his muse at the time, Alice Stuart-Wortley, to whom he wrote that he had 'shewn my soul' in this music and the death of several close friends as well as King Edward VII, to whom the piece was dedicated. The resulting symphony demonstrates Elgar's absolute mastery of orchestral colour as it combines his private dreams and doubts in a vast and beautiful work.

The afternoon continues with a recording of The Ulster Orchestra joined by former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Annelien van Wauwe in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. It's followed by a work from Northern Irish composer Deirdre Gribbin - her 2004 violin concerto 'Venus Blazing', performed by soloist Lana Trotovsek under conductor David Brophy.

2.00pm

Howard Skempton: Lento for orchestra

Wagner orch. Felix Mottl: Wesendonck Lieder

Elgar Symphony No.2 in E flat, Op.63

Katherine Broderick, soprano

Jac van Steen, conductor

3.30pm

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622

Annelien van Wauwe (basset clarinet)

Jac van Steen (conductor)

4.00pm

Deirdre Gribbin: Venus Blazing

Lana Trotovsek (violin)

David Brophy (conductor)

The Ulster Orchestra plays music by Howard Skempton, Wagner, Elgar and Mozart in Belfast.

Ulster Orchestra At Ulster Hall (3-4)20200311We continue this week of programmes from the Ulster Orchestra with a concert recorded last October as part of the 2019 Belfast Festival.

Roberto Gonzကlez-Monjas joins the orchestra to conduct Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture - a magical fantasy piece, based on Shakespeare's famous tragedy. One of the composer's best-loved works, this beautiful piece is now one of the most recognisable romantic melodies in the world.

The ever-popular and emotive Concierto de Aranjuez is brought to life by guest guitarist Rafael Aguirre Miကarro. Many people's first encounter with this beautiful Spanish piece may have been linked to the 1996 film Brassed Off!

To close the concert - Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Inspired by a visit to an exhibition of the composer's friend Viktor Hartmann, each of the movements representing one of the drawings or artworks on display.

2.00pm

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez

Mussorgsky orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Rafael Aguirre Miကarro, guitar

Roberto Gonzalez-Monjas, conductor

Presented by Tom McKinney

The Ulster Orchestra plays music by Tchaikovsky, Rodrigo and Mussorgsky in Belfast.

Ulster Orchestra At Ulster Hall (4-4)20200313Tom McKinney brings this week of performances by the Ulster Orchestra to a close.

They begin with a concert recorded in Belfast last June which saw conductor Oliver Zeffman making his debut with the orchestra. The concert opens with the overture to Borodin's opera Prince Igor, which Alexander Glazunov completed from Borodin's sketches following the composer's sudden death. It's followed by an arrangement of Tchaikovsky's violin and piano piece 'Souvenir d'un lieu cher', which itself was arranged for violin and orchestra by Glazunov. This arrangement for cello and orchestra is by Daniel Müller-Schott, who is also the soloist.

This concert concludes with the orchestral suite Ravel made from his five-movement piano duet piece Mother Goose, completed in 1910.

The afternoon continues with two highlights from another concert given in Belfast last November. This time, conductor Daniele Rustioni takes to the podium for Richard Strauss's epic tone poem Don Juan. His version of the tale focuses on someone looking for, but never finding, his idealised vision of love, and the work proceeds via a series of climaxes and disappointments, ending in the protagonist's death in a duel. The orchestra's leader Tamကs Kocsis then turns soloist in a performance of Alban Berg's most popular work - his Violin Concerto. Following the death of Alma Mahler's daughter Manon, the concerto was dedicated to her - ‘to the Memory of an Angel' - and its highly wrought tragedy ultimately is not only a sublime memorial to Manon, but also Berg himself, who died before the piece was premi耀red. Bach's chorale ‘Es ist genug! Herr wenn es Dir gef䀀llt' (It is enough! Lord, if it pleases You) shapes this monument to the complexity of human life.

2.00pm

Borodin orch. Glazunov: Prince Igor Overture

Tchaikovsky orch. Glazunov: Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op.42

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite

Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)

Oliver Zeffman (conductor)

2.50pm

Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Op.20

Berg: Violin Concerto

Tamကs Kocsis (violin)

Daniele Rustioni (conductor)

The Ulster Orchestra plays music by Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Richard Strauss and Berg.

Ulster Orchestra Live In Concert20180605John Toal presents a live Ulster Orchestra concert from Ulster Hall, Belfast.

Plus music from the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra, presented by Jonathan Swain.

Eric Tanguy: Matka

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a rococo theme

with Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)

Sibelius: Symphony No 7 in C major, Op 105

Conductor Ville Matvejeff

4pm

Elgar: Symphony No 2

Conductor Edward Gardner.

Ulster Orchestra play Tchaikovsky and Sibelius live at Ulster Hall and BBC SO play Elgar.

Ulster Orchestra Performs Ives, Bernstein And Dvorak20190322To finish this week of performances from the Ulster Orchestra, Jac van Steen leads the orchestra in 2 American classics by Ives and Bernstein, finishing with Dvorak's great symphonic tribute to the New World, his Symphony No 9. For Mozart's great Piano Concerto No.24, the orchestra is joined by pianist Vikingur Olafsson.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Ives: The Unanswered Question

Bernstein: Serenade

Dvorak: Symphony No.9, Op.95, E minor (From the New World)

Baiba Skride (violin)

Jac van Steen (conductor)

3.25pm

Mozart's Piano Concerto No.24

Vikingur Olafsson (piano)

Rafael Paya (conductor)

4.00pm

Balakirev: Tamara

Ulkster Orchestra

Olari Elts (conductor)

4.25pm

Fogg: Merok

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

4.35pm

Debussy: Nuages from Nocturnes

Baldur Bronniman (conductor)

4.45pm

Norman Hay: Lament for Hugh Reynolds

Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)

Ives, Bernstein, Dvorak and Mozart performed by the Ulster Orchestra.

Ulster Orchestra Performs Prokofiev, Beethoven And Bruckner20190318Three mighty works launch this week of performances from the Ulster Orchestra. Andrew Litton conducts Beethoven's powerful 4th piano concerto with soloist Steven Osborne, followed by the second version of Prokofiev's 4th Symphony. Rafael Payare leads the orchestra in one of the most popular of Bruckner's symphonies - the 4th, known as the Romantic.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Rossini: William Tell Overture

Prokofiev: Symphony No.4, Op. 112, C Major

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op.58, G Major

Steven Osborne (piano)

Andrew Litton (conductor)

3.30pm

Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in Eb `Romantic`

Rafael Payare (conductor)

The Ulster Orchestra plays Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4 and Prokofiev's Symphony No 4.

Ulster Orchestra Performs Schoenberg And Brahms20190320Schoenberg's ultra-romantic piece for string orchestra, Verklaerte Nacht or Transfigured Night begins todays concert with the Ulster Orchestra under Rafael Payare. To finish, Brahms's evergreen 4th Symphony in E minor.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht

Brahms: Symphony No.4, Op. 98, E minor

Rafael Payare (conductor)

Schoenberg's Verklaerte Nacht and Brahms's Symphony No 4 performed by the Ulster Orchestra

Ulster Orchestra, Liszt, Dvorak20181031Two women composers flank well-known works from the 19th century in recordings made earlier this year by the Ulster Orchestra, including a concerto by Liszt, a symphony by Dvorak and works by Elisabetta Brusa and Roxanna Panufnik

2.00pm

Messidor

Piano Concerto no.1

Symphony no.8

Mariam Batsashvili, piano

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

3.10pm

Modlitwa

Andrew Gourlay, conductor

Performances of Liszt, Dvorak, Brusa and Panufnik recorded by the Ulster Orchestra.

Ulster Orchestra, Live20181210Live concerts all week from the BBC Orchestras. Today, John Toal presents the Ulster Orchestra performing Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony & Schumann's fantasia-like cello concerto live from the Guildhall in Derry.

Back in London, Penny Gore continues the afternoon with a performance by the Ulster Orchestra of Strauss's tone poem telling the story of the dastardly Don Quixote. To close the afternoon, it's the turn of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales playing music by Beethoven, Huw Watkins & Benjamin Britten.

Schumann: Cello concerto, Op.129

Mendelssohn: Symphony 5, Op.107 (Reformation)

Bruno Philippe, cello

Moritz Gnann, conductor

c.3.05pm

Strauss: Don Quixote Op.35

Rafael Payare, conductor

c.3.45pm

Beethoven: Symphony No.1

Ryan Bancroft, conductor

c.4.15pm

Huw Watkins: Spring

Britten: 4 Sea interludes from 'Peter Grimes' Op.33a

Xian Zhang, conductor

Live concerts all week from the BBC Orchestras, kicking off with the Ulster Orchestra.

Ulster Orchestra, Live From Belfast20130222Our third live 2pm concert this week comes live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast. Wilson Hermanto conducts the Ulster Orchestra in music by Dvorak, Carl Nielsen and Schumann - his cello concerto, with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Leonard Elschenbroich. And in the interval, you can hear the orchestra playing a piece by the concert's 'absent friend' or missing link, Johannes Brahms - friend of Dvorak, protege of Schumann and powerful influence on the young Carl Nielsen.

There's more Brahms after the concert, too, together with the final instalment of this week's Schumann Symphony series, as Louise Fryer presents performances by our featured orchestra, the BBC Scottish SO, with their Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles.

Presented by John Toal

Dvorak: Symphonic Variations, Op. 78

Schumann: Cello Concerto

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)

3pm

Nielsen: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 7

Wilson Hermanto (conductor)

3.40pm

Brahms: Alto Rhapsody

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

Men of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Donald Runnicles (conductor)

3.55pm

Schumann: Symphony no. 4 in D minor, Op. 120 (original version, 1841)

Donald Runnicles (conductor).

Live from Belfast, the Ulster Orchestra plays music by Dvorak, Schumann and Nielsen.

Ulster Orchestra, Mozart, Bruckner20181029Operatic drama, limpid and dramatic romance and sparkling contemporary music from the Ulster Orchestra in performances recorded earlier this year. Conductor Rafael Payare pairs Bruckner's best-known symphony with one of Mozart's darker concertos, played by Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson. There's also a rare chance to hear the delectable trumpet concerto by French composer Henri Tomasi performed by Radio 3 New Generation Artist Simon Hofele.

2.00pm

Weber

Overture: Der Freischutz

Concerto in C minor, K.491

Symphony no.4 ‘Romantic

Vikingur Olafsson, piano

Rafael Payare, conductor

3.50pm

David Matthews

Toward Sunrise

Stravinsky

Jeu de cartes

Simon Hofele, trumpet

Jac van Steen, conductor

The Ulster Orchestra in recorded performances of works by Mozart, Bruckner and Tomasi.

Ulster Orchestra, Rachmaninov, Ravel20181030French sparkle, Russian and American romance, and impressive contemporary music from The Ulster Orchestra. There's well-known and less-well-known Rachmaninov, dashing Ravel from French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, plus works by two women composers from different generations

2.00pm

Stravinsky

Dumbarton Oaks

Concerto in G

Symphonic Dances

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano

Anthony Hermus, conductor

3.15pm

The Rock

Bartok

Dance Suite

Ina Boyle

Overture

Liszt

Les Preludes

Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor

4.10pm

Nina C Young

Remnants

Hanson

Symphony no.2 `Romantic`

Tito Munoz, conductor

The Ulster Orchestra performs works by Rachmaninov. Ravel, Ina Boyle and Nina Young.

Ulster Orchestra, Schumann, Brahms20181102Schumann, Brahms, Part and Jessie Montgomery in specially recorded live recordings from the Ulster Orchestra made in Belfast earlier this year. An imaginative programme sees lesser-known works by husband-and-wife Robert and Clara Schumann and their prot退g退 Johannes Brahms. As well as Schumann's last published symphony, there's an elegiac tribute by Arvo Part and a dazzling work for strings by New York-based composer Jessie Montgomery

2.00pm

Robert Schumann

Overture, Scherzo & Finale

Piano Concerto

Serenade no.1

Irina Zahharenkova, piano

Olari Elts, conductor

3.30pm

Starburst

Stravinsky

Danses concertantes

Symphony no.4

Tito Munoz, conductor

4.30pm

Cantus in memorium Benjamin Britten

Andrew Gourlay, conductor

Schumann, Brahms, Part and Jessie Montgomery in live recordings by the Ulster Orchestra.

Unesco's World Day For Cultural Diversity, Dialogue And Development20210521In celebration of Unesco's World Day for Cultural Diversity, Dialogue and Development, Tom McKinney presents a concert of music by Jordi Savall and Orpheus XXI in a concert given at the Poblet Early Music Festival: Music for life and dignity.

Jordi Savall, the great Catalan viol player, conductor, musical archaeologist and EU ambassador for inter-cultural dialogue, is committed to the idea of a world in which different cultures and religions live peacefully with one another. He believes that this vision can be brought about by music.

Under Savall's artistic direction, `ORPHEUS XXI - Music for life and dignity` is a musical and educational action plan, designed as a replicable learning platform, for the integration of young refugees having musical knowledge or talent. Together with some of Jordi Savall's collaborators, participants on this project will perform the intercultural repertoire resulting of their work.

Part I

BANGLADESH

Sadher law

ISRAEL

La rosa enflorece (The rose flowers), traditional Sephardi

SYRIA

Mirkut, chant, traditional Kurdish

FRANCE

La Quarte Estampie Royal - Le Manuscrit du Roi (Paris, 13th cent.)

ARABIA

Ce brun

SYRIA & SUDAN

Kevokꀀ, traditional Kurdish

Part II

El Rey Nimrod, traditional Sephardi

Mouwashah Ya Gazhaly

Longa Riad (Farah Faza)

TURKEY

Sharaf-elddine, sacred chant y退zidi .

JERUSALEM

Hermoza muchachica (Beautiful young girl), traditional Sephardi

Adeila hoy

Duration of work: 21:37 min.

Part III

ARMENIA

Taksim and song

MOROCCO

Lamuny

THE WEST

Michael PRAETORIUS: Canarios (Terpsichore, 1612)

AFGHANISTAN

Dokhaler Bamiyan

Lali Dj n, song

LEBANON

Ya Mariam el bekr

‘Al maya, ‘Al maya (+ applause) .

Part IV

Introduction (+ applause)

GREECE

Apo xeno meros

ISTANBUL

܀sküdar

Improvisation

RHODES

Durme, hermosa donzella, traditional Sephardi

Ghazali tal j

Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony20230919Ian Skelly presents concert performances from across Europe and from the BBC performing groups, this week featuring the Ulster Orchestra every day at 3pm. Today, the orchestra performs Vaughan Williams's Symphony No.5. Plus, Rachel Podger is the soloist in Mozart's Violin Concerto No.1 with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, George Walker in Frankfurt, and highlights of a concert collaboration in Denmark between Nordic folk trio Dreamer's Circus and the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

Mozart: The Magic Flute - Overture

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Tarmo Peltokoski (cond.)

George Walker: Icarus in Orbit

Hugh Wolff (cond.)

Dvorak: Carnival Overture

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky (cond.)

Ale Carr: Bridge of Tears

Dreamers' Circus

Christian Oland (cond.)

Verdi: Ȁ strano! ... Ah, fors' 耀 lui (La Traviata)

Julia Muzychenko-Greenhalgh (soprano)

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen Symphony Orchestra

Alejo P退rez (cond.)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C sharp minor 'Moonlight

Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.5

Jamie Phillips (cond.)

Trad. Danish: folk medley

c.4pm

Mozart: Violin Concerto No.1

Rachel Podger (violin/dir.)

Philip Glass: The City (Akhnaten)

Takuo Yuasa (cond.)

J.S. Bach: Cantata No.174 - Sinfonia

Bach Collegium Japan

Masaaki Suzuki (cond.)

The Ulster Orchestra plays Vaughan Williams's uplifting Fifth Symphony.

Verdi's Aida With Liudmyla Monastyrska20190321Verdi's mighty Egyptian opera, Aida is a tale of jealousy, love, betrayal and patriotic fervour. This highly-strung brew of visceral passions is one of Verdi's greatest and most popular works. Starring Violeta Urmana, Liudmyla Monastyrska and Gregory Kunde this performance from the Teatro Real Madrid is conducted by Nicola Luisotti. The afternoon ends with Mendelssohn's Ruy Blas from the Ulster Orchestra under Andrew Gourlay.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Verdi: Aida

Aida.....Liudmyla Monastyrska (Soprano)

Radames.....Gregory Kunde (Tenor)

Amneris.....Violeta Urmana (Mezzo-soprano)

Ramfis.....Roberto Tagliavini (Bass)

Amonasro.....George Gagnidze (Baritone)

The King of Egypt.....Soloman Howard (Bass)

Voice of High Priestess.....Sandra Pastrana (Soprano)

Messenger.....Fabian Lara (Tenor)

Madrid Teatro Real Chorus

Andres Maspero (Chrous Director)

Madrid Teatro Real Orchestra

Nicola Luisotti (Conductor)

Act 1 2.00pm

Act 2 2.40pm

Act 3 3.25pm

Act 4 4.00pm

4.30pm

Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas

Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

Verdi's Aida starring Violeta Urmana from the Teatro Real Madrid.

Verdi's Attila20200917Opera Matinee: Penny Gore introduces Verdi's Attila, in a production from Munich.

Verdi: Attila, dramma lirico in a prologue and three acts, after Zacharias Werner's play 'Attila, K怀nig der Hunnen'.

Odabella: Liudmyla Monastyrska, soprano

Foresto: Stefano La Colla, tenor

Uldino: Stefan Sbonnik, tenor

Ezlo: George Petean, baritone

Attila: Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, bass

Leone: Gabriel Rollinson, bass

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Munich Radio Orchestra

Ivan Repuši?, conductor

Given at the Prinzregententheater, Munich, on 13/10/2019

4.20: Paavo J䀀rvi conducts the Berlin Philharmonic and Janine Jansen in the Violin Concerto by Tchaikovsky.

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, op. 35

Janine Jansen, violin

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Paavo J䀀rvi, conductor

Verdi's Attila From La Scala, Milan20190228Riccardo Chailly conducts one of Verdi's less well-known operas - Attila, based on an 1809 play by Zacharias Werner - in a performance from La Scala, Milan. Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov stars in the title role of the King of the Huns.

Presented by Tom Redmond.

2.00pm

Verdi - Attila

Attila.....Ildar Abdrazakov (Bass)

Odabella.....Saioa Hernကndez (Soprano)

Ezlo.....George Petean (Baritone)

Foresto.....Fabio Sartori (Tenor)

Uldino.....Francesco Pittari (Tenor)

Pope Leo I.....Gianluca Buratto (Bass)

La Scala Orchestra

La Scala Chorus

Riccardo Chailly (Conductor)

c.4.00pm

Grace Williams - Trumpet Concerto

Philippe Schartz (trumpet)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Owain Arwel Hughes (conductor)

Verdi's opera Attila from La Scala, Milan

Video Game Music Live In Concert20190703Games composer and designer Jessica Curry curates a concert by the BBC Concert Orchestra, including music from Final Fantasy X, World of Warcraft, and Everybody's Gone To The Rapture, recorded yesterday afternoon at the BBC Maida Vale Studios.

The concert features music from many of today's leading video games, including one for which Curry herself wrote the music; and there's also music by conductor/composer Eimear Noone.

2.00pm

Programme includes:

Yoko Shimomura: Kingdom Hearts

Olivier Derivi耀re: We're Family and Fragile Family from Get Even

Jessica Curry: An Early Harvest from Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Jason Graves: Quiet As A Mouse...With A Sword from Moss

Eimear Noone: Malach, Angel Messenger from World of Warcraft

Nobuo Uematsu: Zanarkand from Final Fantasy X

Takeshi Furukawa: The Last Guardian Suite from The Last Guardian

Inon Zur: Main Theme from Fallout 4

Koji Kondo: The Legend of Zelda

Koto Suzuki: Wind of Madness from Resident Evil 5

Eimear Noone (conductor)

Image © Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster © 2001, 2003, 2019 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved. Character design: Tetsuya Nomura

Games composer and designer Jessica Curry presents a concert by the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Viennese Connections, Ligeti, Wagner, Berg And Schubert20200103Tom McKinney rounds up his New Year week of music making from Vienna with a concert recorded late last year by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra of Ligeti, Wagner and Berg and with a masterpiece by the Viennese Franz Schubert.

From the Grand Hall, Musikverein, Vienna

Ligeti: Atmospheres

Wagner: Lohengrin - Act 1 Prelude

Berg: Violin Concerto

Brahms: Symphony No 3

Rainer Honeck (violin)

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christoph von Dohnကnyi

From the 2019 Salzburg Festival:

Schubert: Mass No 6 in E flat, D950

Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano)

Alisa Kolosova (contralto)

Michael Spyres (tenor)

Maciej Kwasnikowski (tenor)

Gianluca Buratto (bass)

Vienna State Opera Chorus,

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti

Ligeti, Wagner, Berg and Schubert from the Vienna Philharmonic.

Viennese Connections, Mozart And Schumann20191230Tom McKinney introduces music making with a Viennese connection in a week of programmes for the New Year featuring concerts and performances given by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

From the 2019 Salzburg Mozart Week, recorded in the Haus für Mozart:

Mozart: Symphony no 33 in B flat, K.319

Mozart (arr. Joseph Joachim): Violin Concerto no 5 in A, K.219 ‘Turkish

Mozart: Symphony no 39 in E flat, K.543

Janine Jansen (violin)

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Adကm Fischer

From the 2019 Salzburg Festival:

Schumann: Symphony no 2 in C

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti

Music making from the Vienna Philharmonic. Performances of Mozart and Schumann.

Viennese Connections, Opera Matinee20200102Continuing his celebration of music making from Vienna for the New Year, Tom McKinney introduces a recording made last year at the Vienna State Opera of Verdi's monumental late Shakespeare inspired tragedy, Otello.

Unlike other Verdi operas, Otello was incorporated into the repertoire of the Vienna Opera almost immediately after its world premi耀re in 1888. The Vienna State Opera has since put on nearly 500 performances of Verdi's last opera, in seven different productions. This recent production was staged by Adrian Noble and conducted by Myung-Whun Chung.

Guiseppe Verdi: Otello, opera in four acts, based on William Shakespeare's play 'Othello, or The Moor of Venice

Aleksandrs Antonenko - tenor - Otello

Olga Bezsmertna - soprano - Desdemona

Margarita Gritskova - mezzo-soprano - Emilia, wife of Iago and Desdemona's maid Vladislav Sulimsky - tenor - Iago

Jinxu Xiahou - tenor - Cassio, a captain

Leonardo Navarro - tenor - Roderigo, a gentleman of Venice

Jongmin Park - bass - Lodovico, ambassador of the Venetian Republic

Manuel Walser - bass - Montano, former governor of Cyprus

Children of the Vienna State Opera School

Vienna State Opera Chorus

Thomas Lang, chorus director

Stage Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

Vienna State Opera Orchestra

Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

Tom McKinney introduces Opera Matinee: Verdi's Otello from the Vienna State Opera.

Viennese Connections, Verdi's Requiem20191231Tom McKinney introduces a week of music making with a Viennese connection for the New Year including concerts and performances from the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Today sees conductor Riccardo Muti marking the 30th anniversary of the death of a figure who had a long association with the city.

From the 2019 Salzburg Festival:

Verdi: Messa da Requiem

Anita Rachvelishvili (mezzo-soprano)

Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano)

Francesco Meli (tenor)

Ildar Abdrazakov (bass)

Vienna State Opera Chorus Concert Association

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti

Martinu: Concerto for two string orchestras, piano and timpani

Brahms: Violin Concerto

(Julia Fischer, violin)

Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andres Orozco-Estrada

Verdi's Requiem from the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Riccardo Muti.

Viennese Connections, Weber, Beethoven And Schumann20200101Music making from Vienna. Performances of Weber, Beethoven and Schumann.
Viennese Symphonies20201117The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays Mahler's Tenth Symphony and the Chamber Symphony by his contemporary Franz Schreker. Presented by Penny Gore.

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.1

Stravinsky: Danses concertantes

Schreker: Chamber Symphony

Sir Mark Elder, conductor

Glazunov: Violin Concerto

Mahler: Symphony No.10 (Cooke)

James Ehnes, violin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Donald Runnicles, conductor

Sir Mark Elder and Donald Runnicles conduct the BBC SO in music by Schreker and Mahler.

Vilde Frang Plays Robert Schumann20230509Penny Gore presents an afternoon of live concert and studio recordings from BBC ensembles and orchestras around Europe.

Today, Vilde Frang joins the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto, and from the same concert in Würzburg the orchestra also play Mozart's 47th Symphony. We hear performances from Ensemble C退ladon at the RheinVokal Festival in Andernach, the Berlin Philharmonic play music by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and a new recording of Rachmaninov's symphonic poem Isle of the Dead from John Storgards and the BBC Philharmonic.

Including:

Handel: Sinfonia to Agrippina

Il Pomo d'Oro

Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor

Raimon de Miraval: Cel que no volh auzir chan瀀os

Paulin Bundgen, conductor

Mozart: Symphony No. 47 in D, K. 97

c.2.40pm

Wagner: Karfreitagszauber, from 'Parsifal

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Vassily Petrenko, conductor

Laura Mvula (arr. Eric Whitacre/Christopher Bruerton): Father, Father

The King's Singers

c.3pm

R Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23

Vilde Frang, violin

Raimbaut de Vaqueiras: Kalenda maia

Anon. In pro, Estampie

Giraut de Bornelh Reis glorios

Gautier de Coincy Hui matin a l´ajourn退e

c.3.55pm

Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead

John Storgards, conductor

R Strauss: Symphonic Fragment from Die Liebe der Danau

Zubin Mehta, conductor

Vilde Frang performs Schumann's Violin Concerto with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Villa-lobos, Mozart, Fobbes, Bernstein, Debussy, Rimsky-korsakov20190510Georgia Mann presents the last of four programmes featuring the S o Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, one of South America's finest ensembles.

Today, Isaac Karabtchevsky conducts the S o Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in works by H. Villa-Lobos, and Marin Alsop directs a programme of Mozart and Rimsky Korsakov.

Villa-Lobos: Allegro moderato, from 'Symphony No. 1

('The Unforeseen')' O Imprevisto

Isaac Karabtchevsky, conductor

Villa-Lobos: Andante, from 'Symphony No. 4 .

('Victory')' A Vit ria

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Symphony No. 6 .

Mozart: Overture to 'The Magic Flute, K. 620

Marin Alsop, conductor

Robert Fobbes: Fantasy on 'The Magic Flute

Emmanuel Pahud, flute

Leonard Bernstein: Halil

Debussy: Syrinx, for flute (encore) .

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade, op. 35, symphonic suite

Concluding a series of concerts by the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra.

Violinist Daniel Pioro And The Bbc Philharmonic Orchestra20210519Today's highlight, a live concert by the BBC Philharmonic and the exciting young violinist Daniel Pioro, featuring arrangements by composer Tom Coult which will take us on a journey from the world of Hildegard of Bingen, through the Baroque, to the present day.

Hildegard of Bingen (arr. Coult/Pioro)

O Ecclesia for violin and strings

Tartini (arr. Coult)

Violin Sonata in D Minor

Gymnop退dies

Biber (arr. Coult/Pioro)

The agony in the Garden

Vivaldi (arr. Coult)

La Folia

Rameau (arr. Coult/Pioro)

Tristes apprꀀts

Daniel Pioro, violin

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Ryan McAdams, conductor

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and violinist Daniel Pioro perform live.

Virtuoso20230425Virtuosity is to the fore in Ian Skelly's selection of music for this afternoon, including items from Liszt, Handel, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Vladimir Horowitz, and by default, Paganini. The 3.00 spot features a performance from Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko playing the Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody.

Bizet/Horowitz: Carmen Variations

Vadym Kholodenko (piano)

Kodaly: Dances of Marosszek

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Yan Pascal Tortellier (conductor)

Liszt: Symphonic Poem - Orpheus

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Handel: Organ Concerto in Bb Op7/1 HWV306

Magnus Kjellson (organ)

G怀teborg Baroque

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

SWR Symphony Orchestra

Dima Slobodiouk (conductor)

Florence Price: Concert Overture No 2

BBC Concert Orchestra

Jane Glover (conductor)

Beethoven: Sextet in Eb Op81b for two horns and string quartet

Freiburg Baroque

Grieg: Symphonic Dances

Ulster Orchestra

Pablo Urbina (conductor)

Trad: Two traditional songs from Italy and Syria

Katerina Papadopoulou (vocals)

Hesperion XXI

Jordi Savall

Ukranian pianist Vadym Kholodenko plays Rachmaninov's Paganini Rhapsody.

Vivaldi From Les Arts Florissants20211221A sequence of Vivaldi's sacred works, plus Haydn from Simon Rattle, Britten from tenor Ben Johnson and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite

Les Arts Florissants bring a Venetian baroque celebration of faith from Paris, with his best-loved as well as less well-known choral works. Former Radio 3 New Generation Artist, tenor Ben Johnson gives us Britten's deeply moving take on the poems of Thomas Hardy. And, in the week running up to Christmas, where would we be without Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker?

Presented by Ian Skelly

2.00pm

Winter Words

Ben Johnson, tenor

Tom Primrose, piano

Symphony no.90 in C

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Simon Rattle, conductor

3.00pm

Kyrie in G minor, RV 587

Credo in E minor, RV 591

and other sacred works

3.45pm

The Nutcracker, Suite No. 1, op. 71a

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Mikko Franck, conductor

Peter Cornelius

The Shepherds

Benjamin Appl, baritone

James Baillieu, piano

Sibelius

Tapiola

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo, conductor

A sequence of Vivaldi's sacred works, plus Haydn from Simon Rattle, Britten & Tchaikovsky.

Wagner, James Macmillan And Ravel20190522~Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington including a concert broadcast live from MediaCityUK, Salford.

Tom Redmond introduces the BBC's Philharmonic's concert with conductor Martyn Brabbins and viola soloist Lawrence Power.

James MacMillan: Viola Concerto

Wagner: Tristan and Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod

BBC Philharmonic Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Lawrence Power (viola)

followed at 3pm by more from this week's celebration of some of Paris's leading orchestras.

Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)

Live from MediaCityUK in Salford, the BBC Philharmonic plays Wagner and James MacMillan.

Wagner, Sibelius And Brahms20190617With Tom McKinney.

Today's concert:

2pm:

Wagner Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1

Sibelius Violin Concerto

Brahms Symphony no 1

BBC Philharmonic / Omer Meir Wellber (conductor) / Simone Lamsma (violin)

c.3.25pm:

Jonathan Dove Hojoki

BBC Philharmonic / Timothy Redmond (conductor) / Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor)

c.4pm:

Copland Letter from Home

BBC Philharmonic / John Wilson (conductor)

c.4.05pm:

Elgar In the South

BBC Philharmonic / Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

c.4.27pm:

Gerard Schurmann The Ceremony (suite from the film score)

BBC Philharmonic / Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Tom McKinney introduces a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic.

Wednedsay, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra20170322Penny Gore presents a week of performances from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota. Today's concert is led by the German composer and conductor, Matthias Pintscher, combining recent works with 20th-century French classics.

2pm:

Faur退: Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112

conductor Matthias Pintscher

2.15pm:

Matthias Pintscher: Celestial Object I (Part I from 'Sonic Eclipse')

Lynn Erickson (trumpet)

2.30pm:

Charles Wuorinen: Megalith

Peter Serkin (piano)

2.50pm:

Ravel: Ma M耀re l'Oye (Mother Goose)

conductor Matthias Pintscher.

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra plays music by Faure, Pintscher, Wuorinen and Ravel.

Wednesday, 21st Century European Concert Halls20170301Verity Sharp presents a week of concerts from 21st-century European concert halls, including highlights from a concert at the DR Concert House, Copenhagen. Today's programme includes Yuri Temirkanov conducting the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Dvorak's Eighth Symphony.

2pm:

Georgy Sviridov: Miniature Triptych

Conductor Yuri Temirkanov

c. 2.15pm

Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death

Alexander Vinogradov (bass)

c.2.40pm

Dvorak: Symphony No.8 in G

Conductor Yuri Temirkanov.

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra performs music by Sviridov, Mussorgsky and Dvorak.

Wednesday, Alexander Ullman Plays Liszt20220302Ian Skelly presents another afternoon of live and studio recordings from the BBC performing groups, and performances from around Europe, including Liszt's First Piano Concerto with the British pianist Alexander Ullman and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra playing in Haydn and Linda Catlin Smith with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Plus music by Muffat from Ars Antiqua Austria in Vienna.

Including:

Tarrodi: Liguria

Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

Muffat: Violin Sonata in D

Members of Ars Antiqua Austria

Haydn: Symphony No. 85 in B flat major

Sinead Hayes (conductor)

Coleridge-Taylor: Summer is Gone; The Lee Shore

BBC Singers

David Hill (conductor)

c. 3pm

Liszt: Piano Concerto No.1

Alexander Ullman (piano)

Andrew Litton (conductor)

Muffat: Blanditiae, suite No. 6 from 'Florilegium Primum

Linda Catlin Smith: Nuages

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Alexander Ullman and the BBC Symphony Orchestra play Liszt's First Piano Concerto.

Wednesday, Also Sprach Zarathustra20220615Ian Skelly introduces performances by the SWR Symphony Orchestra, including Richard Strauss's tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra. Plus there's music by Messiaen, Franck, Korngold and Ruth Gipps, alongside highlights from the recent Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival.

Ruth Gipps - Chanticleer Overture

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Olivier Messiaen - Les Offrandes oubli退es,

Alexandre Kantorow (piano)

Teodor Currentzis (conductor)

c. 2.20

Cesar Franck - Les Eolides

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Chris Hopkins (conductor)

c. 2.30

Erich Korngold - Violin Concerto in D, Op.35

Fedor Rudin (violin)

Yi-Chen Lin (conductor)

3pm

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra

Robert Trevino (conductor)

3.40

Duke Ellington / Juan Tizol arr. Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann - Caravan

12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic

The SWR Symphony Orchestra perform Richard Strauss's tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra.

Wednesday, American Ensembles And Repertoire20170419John Shea with music performed by two orchestras mixing European repertoire with music from North and South America. The Minnesota Orchestra, under its Music Director, Osmo Vanska, offer Rhapsodies by Steven Stucky, followed by Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No.1 with Pekka Kuusisto as soloist, then Rautavaara's Melancholy from his Cantus Articus. The afternoon continues with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, under the Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra, in music from the Americas - Gershwin's Cuban Overture, followed by Revueltas's Sensemayက and, to finish, Arturo Mကrquez's Danz n No. 2.

2.00pm

Osmo Vanska, conductor

2.11pm

Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, op. 19

Pekka Kuusisto, violin

2.38pm

Melancholy, from 'Cantus Arcticus

2.50pm

Alondra de la Parra, conductor

3.02pm

3.10pm

Alondra de la Parra, conductor.

Minnesota Orchestra in Stucky, Prokofiev and Rautavaara. Plus Gershwin, Revueltas, Marquez

Wednesday, Andrew Manze Conducts Beethoven20221005Presented by Ian Skelly, with recordings of live performances from around Europe.

Today's 3pm spotlight falls on Beethoven's Symphony No.2 recorded in Hanover with the NDR Radio Philharmonic and their chief conductor, Andrew Manze. Also in the programme, a beautiful motet by the French Baroque composer Michel-Richard de Lalande from the Early Music Days festival in Vac, Hungary, and performance by the period group Los Temperamentos at this year's Prague Summer Festivities of Early Music.

Including:

Lalande: O Filii et Filiae, S. 52

Purcell Choir

Orfeo Orchestra

Gyorgy Vashegyi, conductor

c.3pm

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 36

NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Andrew Manze, conductor

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Beethoven's Symphony No.2 with Andrew Manze and the NDR Radio Philharmonic

Wednesday, Bbc Concert Orchestra20170607Katie Derham presents an afternoon of music by the BBC Concert Orchestra including a new recording of the recently reconstructed ballet Callirhoe by Cecile Chaminade, and music by Hubert Clifford, a former BBC Empire Director of Music.

2pm

Chaminade Callirhoe

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates

c.3pm

Clifford Dargo: A Mountain Rhapsody

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp.

With Katie Derham. The BBC Concert Orchestra performs music by Chaminade and Clifford.

Wednesday, Bbc Concert Orchestra Live20211208This week features live and recent concerts from the BBC performing groups. Today it's the turn of the BBC Concert Orchestra, live from Watford Colosseum with a programme including Scriabin's Piano Concerto with Radio 3 New Generation Artists soloist Alexander Gadjiev.

Presented by Ian Skelly

BBC Concert Orchestra - LIVE from Watford Colosseum

Borodin: Prince Igor - Overture

Arnold: Rinaldo and Armida, Ballet for Orchestra

Maconchy: Two Dances from Puck Fair

Rawsthorne: Madam Chrysanth耀me Suite

Coleridge-Taylor: Dance Negre from African Suite

Scriabin: Piano Concerto Op.20

Alexander Gadjiev (piano)

Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

The BBC Concert Orchestra, live from Watford Colosseum.

Wednesday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20170426Penny Gore presents a week of performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including recent concerts and new CD recordings. Today features an all-French concert the orchestra gave last year at Venue Cymru, Llandudno, with soloist Adam Walker. Plus more from the orchestra's new CD of works by composer Bernard van Dieren.

2pm

Bizet: Carmen - suite, arr. Beecham

Poulenc: Flute Sonata, arr. L. Berkeley for flute & orchestra

Faure: Pavane Op.50

Ravel: Ma Mere l'Oye - ballet

Adam Walker (flute)

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

c.3.10pm

Dieren: Elegy for cello and orchestra

Raphael Wallfisch (cello)

William Boughton (conductor).

BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Bizet, Poulenc, Faure, Ravel and van Dieren.

Wednesday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20170621Verity Sharp continues the week of music played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, today from St. David's Cathedral in Wales, with music by Stravinsky, Mozart and Mendelssohn conducted by Alpesh Chauhan

2pm

Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite

BBC NOW

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

c.2.25pm

Mozart: Violin Concerto No.5 in A major, K.219, 'Turkish

Chloe Hanslip (violin)

c.3pm

Mendelssohn: Symphony No.5 in D major, 'Reformation

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor).

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs music by Stravinsky, Mozart and Mendelssohn.

Wednesday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20170927Georgia Mann presents Afternoon on 3 featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Today's programme features Mahler's mighty Sixth Symphony in a performance the Orchestra gave at Brangwyn Hall in Swansea.

2pm

Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor

Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Mahler's mighty Sixth Symphony.

Wednesday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20171018Penny Gore continues her week of performances and recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Today's programme features a concert the orchestra gave in Newtown in September. 2016 BBC Young Musician of the Year Sheku Kanneh-Mason is soloist in Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No.1, and Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade.

2pm

Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmila Overture

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No.1 in E flat major

Rimsky Korsakov: Sheherazade - symphonic suite, Op.35

Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)

BBC NOW

Michael Seal (conductor).

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales feature in a 2017 concert given in Newtown, Powys.

Wednesday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales20210217Penny Gore introduces performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with music by Wagner, Schoenberg, Schreker, Eleanor Alberga and Weill.

2.00pm

Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll

Schoenberg: Chamber symphony No 1 in E major, Op 9

Schreker: Chamber symphony for 23 instruments

Conductor Geoffrey Paterson

2.50pm

Eleanor Alberga: Succubus Moon

Steve Hudson, oboe

Conductor Ryan Bancroft

3.05pm

Weill: Lady in the dark overture

Conductor Grant Llewellyn

Wednesday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales' 90th Anniversary Celebrations20180411From the band's beginnings as the Western Studio Orchestra in the Assembly Rooms Cardiff's City Hall, through the orchestra's adventurous tour in what was, then, East Germany, to its enduring three decade-long partnership with Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka, Kate Molleson celebrates the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th Anniversary with a week of Afternoon Concerts that explore the orchestra's role in Welsh musical life and beyond.

Kate continues her journey through the orchestra's history with a this performance of Mahler made on tour at the Orchard Hall in Tokyo in May 1991. Plus we hear from Principal Conductor Mark Wigglesworth in music by Webern.

Mahler - Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor

BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra

Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

c.3.15pm

Webern - Im Sommerwind - Idyll for Orchestra

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor).

Kate Molleson celebrates the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' 90th anniversary.

Wednesday, Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales In Afternoon Concert20180124Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme continues with Smetana and Janacek, plus we hear from New Generation Artist, the soprano Fatma Said.

2pm

Smetana: Vltava from Ma vlast

Dvorak Mesicku na nebi hlubokem [O silver moon...] from Rusalka

Strauss Allerseelen from 8 Lieder aus Letzte Bl䀀tter, Op 10; Morgen, Op 27 No 4; Strauss C䀀cilie Op 27 No 2

Janacek: The Danube

Liszt: Hungaria, S103

Fatma Said (soprano)

Llio Evans (soprano)

Otto Tausk (conductor)

c. 3.10pm

Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town) - overture, Op 40

Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

Penny Gore presents a week of concerts and recordings from the BBC NOW.

Wednesday, Bbc Philharmonic20170412Penny Gore introduces performances by the BBC Philharmonic including Mozart, Elgar and Bruch's First Violin Concerto with Leila Josefowicz as soloist

2.00pm

Mozart: Symphony No.25 in G minor, K183

Ben Gernon, conductor

2.20pm

Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26

Leila Josefowicz, violin

Andrew Litton, conductor

2.45pm

Elgar: Falstaff, Op.68

Andrew Davis, conductor.

Penny Gore presents the BBC Philharmonic performing music by Mozart, Bruch and Elgar.

Wednesday, Bbc Philharmonic20171011Tom Redmond presents recordings from the BBC Philharmonic, today including a world premiere performance of Raymond Yiu's 'The World was once all miracle' and Beethoven's Eighth Symphony.

2pm

Beethoven: Symphony No 8

Raymond Yiu: The World was once all miracle

Burgess: Symphony in C

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Robin Tritschler (tenor)

Michael Francis (conductor)

c. 3.20pm

Elgar: Pleading

Sir Andrew Davis (conductor).

Tom Redmond presents as the BBC Philharmonic perform Beethoven's 8th Symphony.

Wednesday, Bbc Philharmonic20171206Tom Redmond presents a concert including Brahms's Fourth Symphony and a UK premiere performance of Caroline Shaw's 'Entr'acte'.

2pm:

Beethoven: Egmont Overture

Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte

Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98

BBC Philharmonic

Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)

c.3pm:

Webern: Five Pieces, Op 10

c.3.15pm:

Jesus Guridi: An Adventure of Don Quixote

Juanjo Mena (conductor).

Tom Redmond presents a BBC Philharmonic concert including Brahms's Fourth Symphony.

Wednesday, Bbc Philharmonic20180110Tom Redmond presents more performances from the BBC Philharmonic, including tone poems by Marx and Dukas; part of Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme, and music by Schoenberg, Webern and Berg.

c.2pm:

Schoenberg: Notturno

Webern Passacaglia, Op 1

Berg Wozzeck: Three Fragments from 'Wozzeck

Claire Booth (soprano)

Simone Young (conductor)

c.3pm:

Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Manoj Kamps (conductor)

c.3.12pm:

Coleridge-Taylor: Two Novelletes, Op 52 Nos 1 & 4

Lee Reynolds (conductor).

Tom Redmond presents more performances from the BBC Philharmonic.

Wednesday, Bbc Philharmonic Live At Mediacityuk In Salford20170614Penny Gore presents the BBC Philharmonic performing music by Copland, with conductor John Wilson, live from their home at MediaCityUK in Salford.

2.30pm

An Outdoor Overture (Saga of the prairies)

BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (conductor)

c.2.40pm

Dance Symphony (from the music for the ballet 'Grohg')

c.3.00pm

Symphony No 1

BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (conductor).

Live from MediaCityUK in Salford, John Wilson conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Copland.

Wednesday, Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk20180627Tom McKinney presents the second of this week's live concerts from the orchestra's home in Salford. Today Hungarian violinist Krist f Barကti performs Bart k's second violin concerto, followed by Brahms' second symphony.

2pm:

Bart k - Violin Concerto no 2

Brahms - Symphony no 2 in D major Op 73

Krist f Barကti (violin)

BBC Philharmonic

Ben Gernon (conductor)

c.3.20pm:

Copland - Down a Country Lane

John Wilson (conductor).

Tom McKinney with the second of this week's live concerts from the orchestra in Salford.

Wednesday, Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk In Salford20170628The orchestra is joined by conductor Martyn Brabbins and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston for a live broadcast from MediaCityUK in Salford, including a performance of Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder and Kurt Weill's Second Symphony. Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm

Richard Strauss

Four Symphonic Interludes from 'Intermezzo

BBC Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Wagner orch Mottl

Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), BBC Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.2.45pm

Symphony No 2

BBC Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

Live from Salford, BBC Philharmonic under Martyn Brabbins in Strauss, Wagner and Weill.

Wednesday, Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk, Salford20180425Andrew McGregor presents the BBC Philharmonic, live from its home at MediaCityUK Salford. Duncan Ward conducts an all French programme with Christine Rice as soloist in Ravel's Sheherazade, and a rare chance to hear Louise Farrenc's Symphony no.3

2pm LIVE from MediaCityUK, Salford

Berlioz Overture, Roman Carnival

Ravel Sheherazade

Louise Farrenc Symphony No 3

Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Duncan Ward (conductor).

The BBC Philharmonic live from MediaCityUK Salford.

Wednesday, Bbc Philharmonic Live From Salford20171122Stuart Flinders presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic at MediaCityUK in Salford, featuring music by Lyadov, Sofia Gubaidulina, Ravel and Ibert. Our live 2pm Concert opens with a 'fantastic scherzo', Kikimora, a tone poem by Lyadov depicting witches. Kikimora takes its inspiration, and name, from a legendary female figure of Slavic folklore. The dark and moody orchestral colours make this piece both mesmerisingly menacing and harmonically haunting. Sofia Gubaidulina's powerful 1996 Viola Concerto will be performed today by former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Lawrence Power, before a visit to Spain for Ravel's colourful Rapsodie espagnole. Closing this afternoon's live broadcast, and continuing the theme of sunny climes, is Ibert's Escales ('Ports of Call'). Imagine a cruise round the Mediterranean, stopping off at Palermo, Rome, Tunis and Valencia ...

Liadov: Kikimora

Sofia Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

Ibert: Escales

Lawrence Power (viola)

Ludovic Morlot (conductor).

Stuart Flinders presents the BBC Philharmonic live at MediaCityUK in Salford.

Wednesday, Bbc Philharmonic Live In Salford20180314Kate Molleson presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic at MediaCityUK in Salford featuring music by the Spanish composer Juan Cris stomo Arriaga, with soprano Berit Norbakken Solset, followed by Copland's 'Short Symphony'.

c.2pm:

Arriaga:

Overture, Los esclavos felices

Hymen! Viens dissiper (from 'M退d退e')

Erminie

Symphony in D major

Berit Norbakken Solset (soprano)

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

c.3pm:

Copland: Symphony No 2 ('Short Symphony')

John Wilson (conductor).

Kate Molleson presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic at MediaCityUK in Salford.

Wednesday, Bbc Philharmonic Live In Salford20180418Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home at MediaCityUK in Salford, featuring music by Prokofiev, Jolivet, Shostakovich and Haydn.

2pm:

Prokofiev - Symphony no 1 (Classical)

Jolivet - Concertino for trumpet

Shostakovich - Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings

Haydn - Symphony no 86

Simon Hofele (trumpet)

Federico Colli (piano)

Clemens Schuldt (conductor).

Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home at MediaCityUK.

Wednesday, Bbc Philharmonic, Live At Mediacityuk20210616Live from Salford, Jac van Steen conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Dvorak and Brahms.
Wednesday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20170503Catriona Young presents a week of performances and recordings by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme includes a concert the Orchestra gave in Ayr Town Hall in March, conducted by James MacMillan. An Ayrshire Suite by Scottish composer John Maxwell Geddes is followed by Finzi's Clarinet Concerto with New Generation Artist Annelien Van Wauwe. And this week's Beethoven theme continues with his Second Symphony.

2pm

Geddes: An Ayrshire Suite

Finzi: Clarinet Concerto in C minor, Op.31

2.50pm

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op.36

Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)

James MacMillan (conductor).

With James MacMillan conducting the BBC SSO in music by Geddes, Finzi and Beethoven.

Wednesday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20170524Katie Derham continues her week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme features a complete concert the orchestra gave at Glasgow City Halls in February. Mendelssohn's String Symphony No.10 is followed by Arnold's 2nd Clarinet Concerto with Radio 3 New Generation Artist soloist Annelien Van Wauwe. Plus Dvorak's lyrical 8th Symphony.

2pm

Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 10 in B minor

Arnold: Clarinet Concerto No. 2, Op.115

Webern: Langsamer Satz [1905] for string quartet (arr. Gerard Schwarz for string orch)

c.2.35pm

Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op.88

Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)

Alpesh Chauhan (conductor).

Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC SSO in music by Mendelssohn, Arnold, Webern and Dvorak.

Wednesday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20170920The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in works by Rossini and Sandstrom, as well as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Presented by Verity Sharp

2.00pm

Rossini: Overture - The Thieving Magpie

Sandstrom: Echoes of Eternity

Beethoven: Symphony no.5 in C minor, Op.67

Simon Johnson, trombone

Christian Lindberg, trombone/conductor

Martyn Brabbins, conductor.

Verity Sharp presents works by Rossini, Sandstrom and Beethoven.

Wednesday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20180516Penny Gore presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert at Sage Gateshead performing music by Beethoven, Ravel & Berlioz.

2pm

Beethoven: Egmont - incidental music Op.84

Ravel: Piano concerto in G major

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Op.14

Steven Osborne (piano)

Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).

Penny Gore presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert at Sage Gateshead.

Wednesday, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20210317This week features performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today's programme includes a concert given last month in City Halls Glasgow. Barry Cooper's completion of Beethoven's 10th Symphony is followed by an orchestral arrangement of Bruckner's Adagio, and Brahms' Serenade no.2.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

2pm

Mussorgsky Songs and dances of death, arr. Shostakovich for medium voice & orchestra

Sergei Leiferkus (baritone)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

2.20pm

Beethoven completed Barry Cooper Symphony No.10 (1st movt)

Bruckner Adagio from String Quintet, arr Skrowaczewski

Brahms Serenade No.2 in A major Op.16

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

With music by Mussorgsky, Beethoven, Bruckner and Brahms.

Wednesday, Bbc Singers20171025Jonathan Swain presents a concert the BBC Singers gave last month in memory of John Tavener at St Peter's Eaton Square, London. The concert was bookended by the music of Tavener himself, including the UK premiere of The Martyrdom of St Stephen alongside Requiem Fragments. Requiem Fragments is preceded by Josquin des Prez's Qui habitat, the work that influenced Tavener's Requiem composition. Alongside works by Thomas Tallis and Thomas Crecquillon are pieces by 21st-century composers Matthew Martin and Nico Muhly.

2pm

John Tavener: The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen (UK premiere), for choir, solo horn and organ

Thomas Tallis: Miserere nostri

Nico Muhly: Recordare, Domine

Thomas Creczuillon: Pater peccavi / Quanti mercenarii

Matthew Martin: Lamentations of Jeremiah

Josquin des Prez: Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi

John Tavener: Requiem Fragments, for choir, trombones and string quartet

John Tavener: Song for Athene

Ben Goldscheider (horn)

James McVinnie (organ)

London Brass

The Heath Quartet

Peter Phillips (conductor).

The BBC Singers in concert with music by John Tavener.

Wednesday, Bbc Singers And Bbc Symphony Orchestra20170517Works by Jonathan Harvey and Elizabeth Poston from the BBC Singers, plus Elgar's Violin Concerto from Rachel Barton-Pine and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Presented by Katie Derham

2.00pm

Harvey: Forms of Emptiness

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

2.10 pm

Poston: Balulalow; Laudate Dominum; The Carol of the Crown; Song of Wisdom

Richard Pearce, conductor

Stephen Farr, piano/organ

2.25pm

Harvey: How could the soul not take flight

2.35pm

Elgar: Violin Concerto, Op.61

Rachel Barton-Pine, violin

Andrew Litton, conductor.

With the BBC Singers performing music by Harvey, plus Elgar's Violin Concerto.

Wednesday, Bbc Singers At The Bbc Proms Dubai201703292.00pm

Voices from the Isles

Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Singers in the Dubai Opera House for a concert recorded last week during the BBC Singers' visit to Dubai. The programme is a geographical choral exploration of the diverse sounds and influences of music in The British Isles. The music celebrates the inspiration of traditional folk songs and musical settings of the great poets.

Stanford: Three Motets

Tippett: Four Songs from the British Isles

Jonathan Dove: It sounded as if the Streets were running

Warlock: 3 Belloc Songs

James Burton (conductor)

c 2.40pm

Cowie: Lyre Bird Motet

Grainger: Brigg Fair; Irish Tune from County Derry

Jonathan Wikeley: Everything Stops for Tea

James Burton (conductor).

BBC Singers in music by Stanford, Tippett, Dove, Warlock, Cowie, Grainger and Wikeley.

Wednesday, Bbc Singers Perform Leonard Bernstein20180131Tom McKinney introduces a concert with the BBC Singers, conducted by Ragnar Bohin and recorded last weekend at St Giles, Cripplegate, as part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion series dedicated to Leonard Bernstein. The concert starts with Hashkiveinu for solo cantor, mixed chorus and organ; it's followed by his Missa Brevis for countertenor, chorus and percussion; then we hear Simchu Na for chorus and piano, Soldier's Song from The Lark for chorus and percussion, ending with his Chichester Psalms. This concert is followed by two tone poems performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra; first, Judith Weir Heroic Strokes of the Bow, with conductor Martyn Brabbins at the helm, and then Vincent D'Indy's Istar, this time with the orchestra under the baton of Pascal Roph退.

2.00pm

Hashkiveinu, for solo cantor (tenor), mixed chorus, and organ

Missa Brevis, for chorus, countertenor solo and incidental percussion

Simchu Na, for chorus and piano

Soldier's Song from The Lark, for chorus and percussion

Chichester Psalms (chamber version)

Ragnar Bohlin (conductor)

2.55pm

Judith Weir: Heroic Strokes of the Bow

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

3.15pm

D'Indy: Istar, Op 42

Pascal Roph退 (conductor).

Tom McKinney introduces a concert with the BBC Singers performing music by Bernstein.

Wednesday, Bbc Sso20170405Catriona Young presents performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with a focus on the music of Walton and Beethoven. Plus a rare chance to hear the Piano Concerto no.4 by Roger Sacheverell Coke.

2pm:

Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Coke: Piano Concerto No.4

Simon Callaghan (piano)

c. 2.45pm:

Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A major Op.92

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor).

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Walton, Coke and Beethoven.

Wednesday, Bbc Symphony Orchestra20170712Ian Skelly introduces highlights from the BBC Symphony Orchestra's trip to the Kissinger Sommer Festival in Germany and some music from an award winning CD recording featuring the baritone Matthias Goerne

Mendelsssohn: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) - Overture, Op.26

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Recorded at the Kissinger Sommer Festival

2:10pm

Mahler/Berio: Frühe Lieder

Matthias Goerne (baritone)

Josep Pons (conductor)

2:40pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

Recorded at the Kissinger Sommer Festival.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs music by Mendelsssohn, Mahler and Tchaikovsky.

Wednesday, Bbc Symphony Orchestra20180214Kate Molleson presents a performance of Falla's El amor brujo, for which the BBC Symphony Orchestra was joined by the flamenco singer Maria Toledo. Plus the BBC Singers perform some recent choral compositions including works by Errollyn Wallen and Yumi Hara.

2pm

Falla: El amor brujo

Maria Toledo (Flamenco singer)

Josep Pons (conductor)

c.2.40pm

Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian: Ser (Love)

Ella Jarman-Pinto: Heigh-ho, the Holly!

Errollyn Wallen: PACE

James Wilson: Lullaby

James Wilson-Rhead: Sonnet 102

Philip Herbert: Sometimes I feel like a motherless Chil

Sara Mitra: The Body Windows

Shirley Thompson: Random Sequences

Yumi Hara: Fortean Songs

Wesley John (flute)

James Morgan (conductor).

The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Falla's El amor brujo.

Wednesday, Beethoven At The Enescu Festival20230125There's a Scottish flavour to Ian Skelly's programme today marking Burns Night plus Beethoven and Franck from the 2022 Enescu Festival in Romania.

Including:

Beethoven: The Lovely Lass of Inverness Op108/8

Ian Bostridge (tenor)

Vilde Frang (violin)

Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)

Antonio Pappano (piano)

Schubert: Trio (Allegro and Andante fragment) in B flat, D471

Members of the Escher String Quartet

JS Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068

Dunedin Consort

John Butt (director)

Franck: Prelude, Fugue & Variation

Daria Parkhomenko (piano)

3.00

Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C for violin, cello and piano Op 56

Valentin Serban (violin)

Jaemin Han (cello)

Yeon-min Park (piano)

George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra

Ainars Rubikis (condcutor)

Thea Musgrave: Loch Ness - A Postcard from Scotland

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Donald Runnicles (conductor)

More performances from Romania and a tribute to Burns.

Wednesday, Beethoven's Eroica20210922This week, Afternoon Concert features the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin performing Brandenburg concertos by Bach and symphonies by Beethoven; today's his mighty Third Symphony. Plus music by Paul Wranitzky, and the BBC Singers perform Brahms.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Including:

Wranitzky: Symphony in C minor, op. 31 ('La Paix')

Bernhard Forck (conductor)

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048

Brahms: 5 Songs

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

c.3pm

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 55 ('Eroica')

The Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin perform music by Bach, Beethoven and Wranitzky.

Wednesday, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony From New York20230412Penny Gore continues her week of afternoons featuring performances from the BBC Philharmonic, the Ulster Orchestra and from some of the best ensembles around Europe and beyond, with a focus on Latin American music.

The 3pm spotlight today falls on the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as they perform Beethoven's Fifth Symphony with conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin, recorded in February at a 'Concert of Remembrance and Hope' for Ukraine. Also this afternoon, the BBC Philharmonic plays Svendsen's Carnival in Paris, and there's Ruth Gipps's Horn Concerto played by Ben Goldscheider with the Ulster Orchestra. Plus, every day this week you can hear Latin American music from guitarist Yamandu Costa and accordionist Vincent Peirani, and there are performances from The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Leipzig Cantorey.

Including:

Villa-Lobos: The Little Train of the Caipira (Bachiana Brasiliera No.2)

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Jesus Lopez-Cobos (conductor)

Yamandu Costa: Franco Brasil

Yamandu Costa (guitar)

Vincent Peirani (accordion)

c. 2.20pm

Gipps: Horn Concerto, Op.58

Ben Goldscheider (horn)

Leslie Suganandarajah (conductor)

Schmelzer: Serenata con altre arie

Freirburg Baroque Orchestra

Wolfgang Newerla (conductor)

c. 2.45pm

Svendsen: Carnival in Paris

Ben Gernon (conductor)

Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67

Yannick Nezet-Seguin (conductor)

Egberto Gismonti: Frevo

Vincent Peirani (accordion & vocals)

c. 3.40pm

Schein: Gott, es ist mein rechter Ernst

Concerto Vocale Leipzig

Sachsisches Baroque Orchestra

Gotthold Schwarz (conductor)

c. 3.45pm

Smetana: Vltava from Mက vlast (My Homeland) (arr. for harp)

Anneleen Lenaerts (harp)

Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

Wednesday, Beethoven's Opening Gambit20211027Ian Skelly with more symphonic music making from Denmark, including Beethoven and Ethel Smyth and opera excerpts from Verdi.

Including:

Verdi: Overture - La Forza del Destino

Tivoli Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra

Audrey Saint-Gil (conductor)

Brahms Double Concerto for Violin and Cello

Wei Lu (violin)

Misha Meyer (cello)

German Symphony Orchestra

Tomas Hanus (conductor)

Reena Esmail: 'When The Violin

Benjamin Hughes (cello)

BBC Singers

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Ethel Smyth: The Wreckers - Prelude to Act 2 'On The Cliffs Of Cornwall

Royal Danish Orchestra

Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

3.00

Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)

Verdi: La Forza del Destino -

Act IV

'Pace, pace mio dio'

'Invano Alvaro'

Yana Kleyn (soprano)

Jonathan Tetelman (tenor)

Christoper Maltman (baritone)

The Danish National Symphony perform Beethoven's First Symphony.

Wednesday, Ben Gernon Conducts Beethoven20221207Penny Gore introduces performances by BBC's ensembles and recordings from across Europe.

Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 features as today's 3pm highlight, with Ben Gernon conducting the BBC Philharmonic, in a recent recording. Also, more recordings from L'Arpeggiata with Early Music repertoire recorded at the Baltic Sea Festival, and Louis Schwizgebel-Wang and Zhang Zuo play Brahms's 16 Waltzes, Op 39.

Including:

Khachaturian: Masquerade - waltz

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

Pietro Antonio Giramo: La Pazza

Luciana Mancini, mezzo-soprano

Christina Pluhar, musical direction, theorbo

Peter Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

Robert Jordan, bagpipes

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Ben Gernon, conductor

Schubert: Piano trio in B flat major, D 28, 'Sonatensatz

ATOS trio

Bridge: The Sea - suite H.100 for orchestra: no.1; Seascape (Allegro ben moderato)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Richard Hickox, conductor

Penderecki: Agnus Dei

RIAS Chamber Choir Berlin

Peter Dijkstra, director

Andrea Falconieri: Brando (Il spiritillo)

Alessandro Giangrande, tenor

Beethoven: Symphony 4 in B? major, Op. 60

Brahms: 16 Waltzes, Op 39

Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, piano & Zhang Zuo, piano

Ben Gernon conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Beethoven's Fourth Symphony.

Wednesday, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique20220817Penny Gore presents another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft in their recent Prom performing Gavin Higgins's Concerto Grosso, with the Tredegar Band, and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. Plus today's Proms Artists' Choice.

2pm

Gavin Higgins: Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra (BBC commission: world premiere)

c.2.35pm

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op 14

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft plus Tredegar Band.

Wednesday, Bernstein's Suite From West Side Story20220914This week in Afternoon Concert Penny Gore features music from summer festivals around Europe. Today includes a concert given by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. Daniel Hope directs the orchestra in music by Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler and Bernstein. Plus more highlights from Les Ambassadeurs - La Grande ɀcurie at the International Sacred Music Festival, Fribourg.

Presented by Ian Skelly

2pm

Schoenberg: Notturno in A flat for strings and harp

Daniel Hope (violin/conductor)

c.2.05

Schubert: Auf dem Strom D.943 for voice, horn and piano

Olena Tokar (soprano)

Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn)

Igor Gryshyn (piano)

c.2.15

Mozart: Divertimento in F major, K.138

Daniel Hope (conductor)

c.2.30

Beethoven: Cavatina from String Quartet no.13 in B flat major, Op.130

Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony no.5

c.3pm

Bernstein arr Bateman: Suite from West Side Story

c.3.20

Janacek: Capriccio for piano left hand and chamber ensemble

Yuja Wang (piano)

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Matthew Truscott (conductor)

c.3.40

Zelenka Christe eleison from Missa Die Filii, ZWV.20

Coline Dutilleul (mezzo-soprano)

Les Ambassadeurs La Grande Ecurie

Alexis Kossenko (conductor)

Music by Beethoven, Mahler and Bernstein.

Wednesday, Blomstedt Conducts Stenhammar20220309More music from women composers, as well as opera arias by Handel and Vivaldi

Presented by Penny Gore

Following on from yesterday's International Women's Day, we've a rare baroque aria from Bianca Maria Meda, as well as Vivaldi and Handel. There are two contrasting concertos: Carl Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto and a lyrical, turn-of-the-century work by Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar

2.00pm

Cari musici

Hana Blaž퀀kovက, soprano

Hathor Consort

Romina Lischka, viola da gamba and conductor

Far

Wednesday, Brahms' Double20210929Penny Gore with music from orchestras and summer festivals across Europe, and recordings from BBC ensembles.

Today, the BBC Philharmonic with Verdi, Brahms' Double Concerto for violin and cello with soloists Alexandra Soumm and Nicolas Alstaedt, Beethoven's Quintet in E flat major and Sibelius' Symphony No. 3, performed by Residentie Orkest The Hague and conductor Antony Hermus, continuing this week's focus on symphonies performed by Dutch ensembles.

Including:

Verdi: La forza del destino - overture

Edward Downes, conductor

Bassi: Fantaisie brillante on Verdi's 'Rigoletto

Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet

Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op 102

Alexandra Soumm, violin

Nicolas Alstaedt, cello

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Matthias Pintscher, conductor

c.3pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 in C, op. 52

Antony Hermus, conductor

Beethoven: Quintet in E flat major, Op 16

Alec-Frank Gemmill, horn

Maximiliano Martin, clarinet

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

Peter Whelan, bassoon

Robin Williams, oboe.

Alexandra Soumm and Nicolas Alstaedt perform Brahms' Concerto for violin and cello.

Wednesday, Brahms In Brussels20220629Penny Gore with performances captured in the Low Countries, including Brahms's Symphony No. 3 played by the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Ilan Volkov, who also play Giuseppe Martucci's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Nelson Goerner as soloist. Also in today's programme, Sweelinck's Te Deum Laudamus with the Netherlands Chamber Choir, Br怀cker's medley on 'So ist Paris', Jacques Brel's Amsterdam, and Faur退's Apr耀s un rꀀve, all arranged for brass band and played by Salaputia Brass. And Arvo P䀀rt's Silouan's Song for string orchestra, played by the Flanders Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

Louise Farrenc: Overture in E minor No.1 Op.23

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Fran瀀ois Leleux, conductor

Giuseppe Martucci: Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat minor, op. 66

Nelson Goerner, piano

Ilan Volkov, conductor

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Te Deum Laudamus

Netherland Chamber Choir

Peter Philips, director

3.00pm

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F, op. 90

Heinz Br怀cker: Medley 'So ist Paris

Jacques Brel: Amsterdam (arr. Urban Agnas)

Gabriel Faur退: Apr耀s un rꀀve, op. 7/1 (arr. Peter D怀rpinghaus)

Jeroen Berwaerts, trumpet, voice, conductor

Arvo P䀀rt: Silouan's Song, for string orchestra

Kristiina Poska, conductor

Music by Brahms, Louise Farrenc, Giuseppe Martucci, Sweelinck, Br\u00f6cker, Brel and P\u00e4rt.

Wednesday, Brahms's Second Piano Concerto20230215Ian Skelly presents an afternoon of performances by BBC ensembles and orchestras from across Europe.

Today at 3pm, Nikolai Lugansky continues this week's Brahms focus with his second Piano Concerto, joining Kent Nagano and the German Symphony Orchestra. We also make a visit to Renaissance Venice as Concerto Palatino performs sacred music by Andrea Gabrieli and Giovanni Battista Grillo, and experience a Night on Bare Mountain with Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Including:

Rossini: La Scala di seta [The silken ladder] - Overture

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

James Clark, conductor

Debussy: L'isle joyeuse

Nikolai Lugansky, piano

Mussorgsky: Night on Bare Mountain

Donald Runnicles, conductor

Mahler: Piano Quartet Movement in A minor

Amatis Piano Trio

Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad, viola

Andrea Gabrieli: Eructavit cor meum, a 6 [instrumental version]

Giovanni Battista Grillo: Exaltabo te Domine, a 8

Andrea Gabrieli: Jubilate Deo a 8

Bruce Dickey, cornetto & leader

Brahms: Piano Concerto 2 in B flat, Op 82

Kent Nagano, conductor

Nikolai Lugansky plays Brahms, plus music by Rossini, Mussorgsky and Mahler.

Wednesday, Bruckner With The Bbc Philharmonic20220720With Ian Skelly, and another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic's first appearance at the 2022 BBC Proms, in a programme featuring James MacMillan's Viola Concerto with soloist Laurence Power, and Bruckner's towering 6th Symphony. Plus today's Proms Artist Choice.

Prom 5 (first broadcast live on 18 July)

JS Bach: Musical Offering - Ricercar a 6 (orch. Webern)

James MacMillan: Viola Concerto

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A major(54 mins)

Lawrence Power (viola)

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

The BBC Philharmonic's first Prom of the 2022 season, featuring Bruckner's Sixth Symphony.

Wednesday, Capu\u00e7on Plays Kreutzer20220622French violinist Renaud Capu瀀on takes centre stage, conducting Mozart and Schubert but also performing a recent orchestral arrangement of Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata by the Australian musician Richard Tognetti. There's also rare Ruth Gipps and more from Judith Bingham's 70th birthday concert

Presented by Ian Skelly

2.00pm

Elgar

My love dwelt in a Northern land

BBC Singers

Owain Park

Death on a pale horse

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Visee

Suite in D

Elizabeth Kenny, lute

Polonaise in B flat, D.580

Orchestre National de France

Renaud Capu瀀on, violin and conductor

Schumann

Fantasiestücke, op. 73

Victor Julien-Laferriere, cello

Angela Fandeeva, piano

Bingham ‘York Service': Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis

3.00pm

Beethoven arr. Richard Tognetti

Violin Sonata in A, Op.47 ('Kreutzer')

Renaud Capucon, violin and conductor

Divertimento in F, K.138

Renaud Capucon, conductor

Renaud Capu\u00e7on in an orchestration of Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata by Richard Tognetti.

Wednesday, Concerts From Switzerland20170510Verity Sharp introduces recordings made recently in Switzerland by the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, under Markus Stenz, including Schumann's Second Symphony and Bartok's Viola Concerto with Nils Monkemeyer as soloist. The afternoon ends with the ensemble performing Dieter Ammann's most recent orchestral work, Glut.

2.00pm

Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C, Op 61

Markus Stenz, conductor

2.38pm

Bartok: Viola Concerto

Nils Monkemeyer, viola

3.00pm

Bach: Sarabande, from Cello Suite No. 1 in G, BWV 1007 (soloist encore)

3.05pm

Dieter Ammann: Glut

Markus Stenz, conductor.

Recordings made in Switzerland, with music by Schumann, Bartok, Bach and Ammann.

Wednesday, Dausgaard Conducts Nielsen20220608Penny Gore introduces a performance of Nielsen's 'Simple Symphony' from the BBC Scottish SO and Thomas Dausgaard. Plus, a bassoon concerto by Vivaldi from Frankfurt, music from John Williams's ninetieth birthday concert in Berlin, and the Latvian State Chorus perform music by the young Latvian composer Anna Kirse.

Including:

Vivaldi: Sinfonia, from 'La Fida Ninfa, RV 714

Frankfurt Radio SO

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, conductor

John Williams: Suite from 'Far and Away

Berlin Philharmonic

John Williams, conductor

JS Bach: Trio Sonata in C minor, from 'The Musical Offering, BWV 1079

JS Bach: Wenn wir in h怀chsten N怀then

Caf退 Zimmermann

Anna Kirse: Carmen Sibyllae

Sinfonietta Riga

M?ris Sirmais, conductor

c.3pm

Nielsen: Symphony No.6 ‘Sinfonia semplice

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto No. 2 in A Minor, RV 498

Theo Plath, bassoon

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Nielsen's Sixth Symphony, 'Sinfonia semplice'.

Wednesday, Dido At The Proms20220727Ian Skelly introduces music for the afternoon, including another chance to hear La Nuova Musica in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas from last Tuesday at this year's Proms. Plus music suggested by Ian's Proms guest and listeners' suggestions.

Henry Purcell: Fantasia Upon One Note Z735

Fretwork

Hector Berlioz: Royal Hunt and Storm from 'The Trojans

Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Bernard Haitink, conductor

BBC PROM

Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Alice Coote - Dido

James Newby - Aeneas

Gemma Summerfield - Belinda

Madeleine Shaw - Sorceress

Nardus Williams - Second Woman

Nicky Spence - Sailor

Tim Mead - Spirit

La Nuova Musica Choir

David Bates, harpsichord/conductor

Proms artist's choice from Alice Coote

Alice Coote and James Newby as Purcell's tragic lovers at this year's Proms.

Wednesday, Diversity In Music20220202Tom McKinney and Linton Stephens introduce a live concert from MediaCity UK in Salford with the BBC Philharmonic with friends, celebrating diversity in music. This concert represents an ongoing project with partners at the Arts and Humanities Research Council and offers a rare opportunity to enjoy performances of music by Nathaniel Dett, Margaret Bonds, Julia Perry, Ali Osman, Kikuko Kanai and Joseph Bologne. Some of this music is being presented for the first time.

The BBC Phil are conducted by Ben Gernon and the concert also features solo piano music performed by Clare Hammond and music for strings performed by the Levare and Elmore Quartets.

Joseph Bologne: Sinfonia Concertante for two violins and strings in Eb op13/1

Zoe Beyers and Midori Sugiyama, violins

Ben Gernon, conductor

Julia Perry: Prelude

Kikuko Kanai: 'Maidens Under The Moon

Clare Hammond, piano

Joseph Bologne: Concertante Quartet No 3 in C

Levare Quartet

Ali Osman: The Shepherd's Song

Jennifer Galloway, oboe

Nathaniel Dett:

'Barcarolle of Tears'

'Winter'

'Nepenthe and the Muse'

'Inspiration Waltzes'

Joseph Bologne: Concertante Quartet No 2 in G

Margaret Bonds: Montgomery Variations

See also: 'Free Thinking' BBC Radio 3 and BBC SOUNDS 25th January and 8th February

A live concert from the BBC Philharmonic and friends celebrating diversity.

Wednesday, Dvorak Symphony No 820220706The centrepiece in Ian Skelly's afternoon of music today is a performance of Dvorak's Eighth Symphony recorded especially for the programme by the BBC Philharmonic and Ben Gernon. Today's programme also includes:

Fanny Mendelssohn: Overture in C

National Symphony Orchestra

Nil Venditti, conductor

Giuseppe Tartini: Sonata in G minor `The Devil's Trill`

Alexandra Soumm (violin)

Aimo Pagin (piano)

Anna Clyne: Masquerade

Robert Schumann: Carnaval

Shai Wosner, piano

3.00

Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G

Ben Gernon, conductor

Eric Coates: `I Heard You Singing`; `By A Sleepy Lagoon`

Kathryn Rudge, soprano

Christopher Glynn, piano

Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte for strings

Ben Gernon conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Dvorak's Symphony No 8 in G.

Wednesday, Dvorak, Live With The Bbc So20221214Ruth Reinhardt conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Dvorak's Fifth Symphony, live from the BBC's Maida Vale studios. There's also orchestral music from composer Louise Farrenc and the BBC Singers perform works Stravinsky and 19th century French composer Augusta Holmes

Presented by Penny Gore

2.00pm

Four Russian Peasant Songs

Women of the BBC Singers

James Weeks, conductor

Overture no.1 in E minor

Francois Leleux, conductor

Handel

Mi parto lieta sulla tua fede, from Faramondo

Sophie Junker, soprano

Concert de l'Hostel-Dieu

Franck-Emmanuel Comte, harpsichord & conductor

Pavel Haas

Study for string orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra strings

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Bach arr. Garcia

French suite no. 2 in C minor, BWV 813

Thibaut Garcia, guitar

Memento Mei Deus

Hilary Campbell, conductor

3.00pm

Symphony no.5 in F

Ruth Reinhardt, conductor

Ruth Reinhardt conducts Dvorak's Fifth Symphony.

Wednesday, European Concert Showcase20171129Tom McKinney presents a selection of the finest concerts from across Europe this week, celebrating 50 years of the European Broadcasting Union's music exchange - a free swapping service between European broadcasters. Today's focus is on the Czech Philharmonic in concert at the 2017 Prague Spring International Music Festival, including Strauss's Symphonia Domestica.

2pm:

Arvo P䀀rt: Swan Song

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor, Op 40

Strauss: Symphonia Domestica, Op 53

Lukas Vondracek (piano)

conductor Kristjan J䀀rvi.

The Czech Philharmonic play Strauss at the 2017 Prague Spring International Music Festival

Wednesday, Fenella Humphreys Plays Sibelius's Violin Concerto20230118Penny Gore with music by BBC ensembles and also ensembles from across Europe. Today, the Ulster Orchestra performs Sibelius's Violin Concerto, with Fenella Humphrys as soloist, under the baton of David Danzmayr. Also, string quartet music by Amanda Maier-R怀ntgen; CPE Bach's Symphony No. 1 with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Egarr; and music by Beethoven and Wagner.

Including,

Ella Macens: The Lake

Angus Webster, conductor

JS Bach: Prelude and Sarabande, from Cello Suite No. 3 in C, BWV 1009

Bruno Philippe, cello

Beethoven: Musik zu einem Ritterballett

BBC Philharmonic

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Amanda Maier-R怀ntgen: Allegro, from String Quartet in A

Cecilia Zilliacus & Jannica Gustafsson, violins

Ylvali Zilliacus, viola

Kati Raitinen, cello

Haydn: 6 Original canzonettas, Set 2 (No 2, The Wanderer)

Elizabeth Watts, soprano

Mahan Esfahani, fortepiano

CPE Bach: Symphony No. 1 in D, Wq. 183/1

Richard Egarr, conductor

3pm

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

Fenella Humphreys, violin

David Danzmayr, conductor

Byrd: Quomodo cantabimus

Stile Antico

Wagner: Prelude, Act 1 'Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg

Orchestre National de France

Andris Poga, conductor

Music by Sibelius, Ella Macens, JS Bach, Beethoven, Amanda Maier-R\u00f6ntgen, Byrd and Wagner.

Wednesday, Fountains Of Rome20211006Tom McKinney with the best classical music performed by BBC ensembles and orchestras across Europe.

Liszt's Second is today's Romantic piano concerto - with Alice Sara Ott in the soloist's hot seat. Also, a Mendelssohn overture from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, a Strauss horn concerto from Madrid, a Corelli Concerto Grosso from the Netherlands Bach Society and Respighi's Fountains of Rome from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Plus, there's Baroque vocal music from Capella Marianna in Prague and a highlight from last year's London International Festival of Early Music.

Including:

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, op.26 `Fingal's Cave`

Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat

Jos退 Chanza (horn) / RTVE Symphony Orchestra

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Martinu: Na msu svatú zvonijú / Ave Maria [The Plays of Mary]

Prague Philharmonic Choir

Lukas Vasilek (conductor)

Byrd: Ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

c.3pm

Liszt: Piano Concerto No.2 in A

Alice Sara Ott (piano)

WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne

Aziz Shokhakimov (conductor)

Corelli: Concerto grosso in D, Op.6/4

Lucie Horsch (recorder)

Lidewij van der Voort (violin)

Siebe Henstra (harpsichord)

Shunske Sato (conductor)

c.3.30pm

Respighi - Fountains of Rome

John Wilson (conductor)

Respighi's dramatic tone poem, plus music by Mendelssohn, Strauss and Corelli

Wednesday, Handel With Jordi Savall20210915Ian Skelly introduces an afternoon of great music specially recorded by BBC Orchestras, and ensembles from across Europe, including Riccardo Minasi with the Bavarian Radio Symphony in Haydn's 88th Symphony, and Jordi Savall directing the Styriarte Festival Orchestra in Handel. There's music from the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra, and a piece by the contemporary Swiss composer C退cile Marti.

Including:

Foulds: Sicilian Aubade

BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp

C退cile Marti: Wave Trip, for large orchestra

Basel Sinfonietta, Jessica Horsley

Handel: Dixit Dominus in G minor, HWV 232

Styriarte Festival Orchestra, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Jordi Savall

c.3pm

Haydn: Symphony No 88 in G major, H.1.88

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Minasi

Elisabeth Brusa: Simply Largo

Ulster Orchestra, Daniele Rustioni

Jordi Savall conducts Handel's Dixit Dominus in Granada.

Wednesday, Handel's Dixit Dominus20230222Ian Skelly with more performances from the Netherlands, Sibelius from the Ulster Orchestra and Vivaldi in Franfurt.

Today's 3pm spotlight falls on the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, who are joined by soloists at The Concertgebouw for Handel's Dixit Dominus in G minor. Vivaldi's Flute Concerto in G minor, 'La Notte', is performed by the recorder player Maurice Steger with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Jac van Steen conducts Sibelius at the Ulster Hall in Belfast.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

Including:

Debussy: Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra in G major

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

A Scarlatti: Justitiae Domini rectae, motet a 4 in D

Zurcher Sing-Akademie

Florian Helgath (conductor)

Sibelius: Sc耀nes historiques Suite No. 1, Op. 25

Jac van Steen (conductor)

c.3pm

Handel: Dixit Dominus in G minor, HWV.232

Louise Kemeny (soprano)

Rosanne van Sandwijk (mezzo-soprano)

Fabio Trümpy (tenor)

Ashley Riches (bass)

Netherlands Radio Choir

Benjamin Goodson (conductor)

c.3.35

Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in G minor, RV.439 ‘La Notte

Toshio Hosokawa Nacht - Schlaf, from Singing Garden in Venice

Maurice Steger (recorder)

Maurice Steger (director)

Music by Debussy, Handel and Vivaldi.

Wednesday, Handel's Israel In Egypt - Part 120221102Penny Gore presents a week of Afternoon Concert, which over the next three afternoons features Handel's Israel in Egypt performed by the Zürcher Sing-Akademie and Freiburg Baroque Orchestra conducted by Ren退 Jacobs. Plus Dejan Lazi? peforms Mozart, and there's more from the BBC Singers' recent recording of French choral music.

Presented by Penny Gore

2pm

Maurice Ravel: Soupir (from Trois po耀mes de St退phane Mallarm退) (arranged for a cappella choir by Clytus Gottwald)

Robert Hollingworth (conductor)

Mozart Piano Sonata no.13 in B flat major, K.333

Dejan Lazi? (piano)

Stravinsky Divertimento, from 'Le Baiser de la f退e

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

3pm

Handel Israel in Egypt, HWV54 - Part 1: The Lamentation of the Israelites for the Death of Joseph

Robin Johannsen (soprano)

Emmanuel de Negri (soprano)

Alberto Migu退lez Rouco (counter-tenor)

Jeremy Ovenden (tenor)

Neal Davies (bass)

Yannick Debus (bass)

Ren退 Jacobs (conductor)

Ibert Escales, symphonic poem

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Music by Stravinsky, Handel and Ibert.

Wednesday, Haydn In London20211013Ian Skelly introduces specially recorded performances which take us from the concert halls of Berlin - Robin Ticciati and the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin with the music Haydn and Jorg Widmann, and Brahms from the Berlin Philharmonic - to the Edinburgh Festival, via Eindhoven in the Netherlands.

Including:

Copland: Fanfare for the common man

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

JS Bach: Concerto in G, BWV 592

Benedictus

Wednesday, In Seven Days20211201Penny Gore introduces more recordings from the BBC's orchestras and from ensembles around Europe.

Today, Marin Alsop conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Samuel Barber's First Symphony and Thomas Ades's Concerto for Piano with Moving Image: In Seven Days, with Vikingur Olafsson. There's more from Philippe Jaroussky and L'Arpeggiata in Utrecht, and Karen Gomyo plays Bruch and Piazzolla at the Buxton Festival.

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: The Anonymous Lover - Overture

BBC Philharmonic

Ben Gernon (conductor)

Bruch Violin Concerto No.1

Karen Gomyo (violin)

Piazzolla 6 Tango Etudes for violin - No.4

Music by Couperin and La Barre

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)

Christina Pluhar (conductor, theorbo)

Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, op. 80

Bavarian Radio SO

Aziz Shokhakimov (conductor)

c.3pm

Barber: Symphony No.1

Marin Alsop (conductor)

Thomas Ades: In Seven Days - Concerto for Piano and Moving Image

Vikingur Olafsson (piano)

Vikingur Olafsson plays Thomas Ades's Concerto for Piano and Moving Image.

Wednesday, Ingrid Fliter Plays Mozart20220126Penny Gore with music performed by BBC ensembles and groups around Europe. Today, the first symphony by the Russian composer Vasily Kalinnikov, a contemporary of Tchaikovsky, played by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Also, Ingrid Fliter as soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic. Including today as well the Baroque ensemble Arcangelo with works by JS Bach and the Latvian Radio Choir singing choral pieces by Ešenvalds and Rachmaninov.

Including:

JS Bach: Auch mit ged䀀mpften, schwachen Stimmen, from Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36, cantata

Lydia Teuscher, soprano

Jonathan Cohen, director

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A major, K.488

Ingrid Fliter, piano

Jac van Steen, conductor

Marcello Bonanno: In Quella Parte

Francesco Paolo Scola, clarinet

Ulster Orchestra

Michael Collins, conductor

Kalinnikov: Symphony 1 in G minor

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Eriks Ešenvalds: Stars

Rachmaninov: Bogoroditse Devo, from Vespers (All-Night Vigil), op. 37 - Rejoice, o Virgin (Ave Maria)

Sigvards K?ava, conductor

JS Bach: Allemande, from Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011; Ich ess mit Freuden mein weniges Brot, from Ich bin vergnügt in meinem Glücke, BWV 84, cantata

Music by Bach, Mozart, Bonanno, Kalinnikov, E\u0161envalds and Rachmaninov.

Wednesday, Katya Kabanova, Act 120220601Fiona Talkington introduces Act 1 of Leos Janacek's Katya Kabanova, from Rome Opera, with Acts 2 and 3 following on Thursday and Friday. Also, music from other ensembles from the BBC and Europe, including Edmund Rubbra Nature's Song and Elizabeth Maconchy's Piano Concertino, with soloist Simon Callaghan and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The BBC Philharmonic plays Debussy's Iberia. Also, Saint-Saens Oboe Sonata in D, with Francois Lelelux.

Including:

Edmund Rubbra: Nature's song

Simon Callaghan, piano

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Andrea Gabrieli: Maria Stabat ad monumentum

Giovanni Gabrieli: Inclina Domine

Christina Kubisch: Two movements from 'Il viaggio della voce

La Cappella Marciana

Marco Gemmani, director

Debussy: Iberia - from Images for Orchestra

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Saint-Saens: Oboe Sonata in D, op. 166

Francois Lelelux, oboe

Emmanuel Strosser, piano

3pm

Leos Janacek: Katya Kabanova - opera in 3 acts

Sav뀀l Prokofjevic Dik j, a merchant: Stephen Richardson, bass

Boris Grigorjevi?, Dik j's nephew: Charles Workman, tenor

Marfa Ignat?vna Kabanovက (Kabanicha), widow of a rich merchant: Susan Bickley, contralto

Tichon Ivany? Kabanov, her son: Julian Hubbard, tenor

Kက?a (Katerina), Tichon's wife: Corinne Winters, soprano

Vက?a Kudrjaš, a schoolteacher: Sam Furness, tenor

Varvara, a foundling: Carolyn Sproule, mezzo-soprano

Kuligin, friend of Vကna Kudrjaš: Luk  Zeman, baritone

Rome Opera Chorus

Roberto Gabbiani, chorus director

Rome Opera Orchestra

David Robertson, conductor

Elizabeth Maconchy: Piano concertino

The first part of Janacek's opera from Rome, plus music by Rubbra, Debussy and Maconchy.

Wednesday, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme20220330Fiona Talkington with music from around Europe. Today's offerings include the Dresden Philharmonic performing Richard Strauss's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme under conductor Marke Janowski, there's more early music with the Darmstadt Baroque Soloists, and Nils Lindberg sets poems by Christina Rosetti and performed by the WDR Chorus.

Carl Maria von Weber - Overture to ‘Oberon

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Fabio Luisi (conductor)

Antonio Vivaldi - ‘Sovente il sole' (Perseo's aria) from ‘Andromeda liberata

Sonia Prina contralto

Alessandro Quarta (conductor)

c. 2.20pm

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Flute Concerto No.1 in G major K. 313

Adam Walker (flute)

Ulster Orchestra

Nil Venditti (conductor)

Rosetti Suite

(1.Fly Away; 2. Remember; 3.Echo)

Stefan Parkman (conductor)

Ernst Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt

Ernst (Seriously) - Bourree - Allegro

3pm

Marek Janowski (conductor)

c. 3.35pm

Aaron Jay Kernis

Musica Celestis

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Tania Miller (conductor)

Music by von Weber, Vivaldi, Mozart, Lindberg, Richard Strauss and Aaron Jay Kernis.

Wednesday, Leif Ove Andsnes At The Bbc Proms20220810Another chance to hear Leif Ove Andsnes directing the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in a full programme of Mozart, including his Piano Concertos No 20 in D minor and No 22 in E flat.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture - The Marriage of Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is today's Prom's Artist and chooses a piece of Mozart chamber music that's dear to his heart.

Our Listeners' Choice theme this week is 'Piano Concertos', and we enjoy a request for a favourite by 'the other Mozart' - Mozart Camargo Guarnieri.

And there's a performance from the York Early Music Festival International Young Artists Competition every day this week, too. Today it's the London-based recorder ensemble with a selection of lively tarantellas.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Leif Ove Andsnes directs the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in a full programme of Mozart.

Wednesday, Levko Revutsky20220511Penny Gore presents an afternoon of recordings from around Europe, today featuring music by Ukrainian composers performed by the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, including Levko Revutsky's lyrical second symphony and music by the contemporary composer Aleksandr Shymko. Plus, Silvestrov pays homage to Bach, and the BBC Philharmonic play Dvorak.

Including:

JS Bach / Silvestrov: Hommage

Wednesday, Liszt's First Piano Concerto20220518This week Afternoon Concert features piano concertos and early music from Madrid. Today's concerto is Liszt's Piano Concerto no.1 performed by Yuja Wang with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antonio Pappano. Plus the Nevermind Ensemble plays a quartet by CPE Bach and the Ulster Orchestra performs Michelle Castelletti's completion of the first movement of Mahler's Tenth Symphony.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2pm

Dvorak Othello - Overture Op.93

Antonio Pappano (conductor)

c.2.15

Wolfgang Carl Briegel Courtly Dances

Paduana, Balletto, Couranta, Galliarda

Darmstadt Baroque Soloists

Alessandro Quarta (conductor)

c.2.25

Josquin Gloria & Sanctus, from Missa Pange l퀀ngua

Stile Antico

c.2.40

CPE Bach Quartet in A minor, Wq.93

3pm

Liszt Piano Concerto no.1 in E flat, S.124

Yuja Wang (piano)

c.3.20

Gustav Mahler [1860-1911]/Michelle Castelletti

1st Movt from Symphony No.10

Daniele Rustioni (conductor)

Music by Liszt, CPE Bach and Mahler.

Wednesday, Live Rachel Podger And The Bbc Philharmonic20221116Ian Skelly is at MediaCityUK in Salford for a live performance from the violinist Rachel Podger, as she joins the BBC Philharmonic for music by Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, his eldest son W.F. Bach, and Hasse.

c.2.30pm

Vivaldi: Concerto for strings in C minor, RV 120

W.F Bach: Sinfonia in F

J.S. Bach: Violin Concerto in E major BWV 1042

Hasse: Sinfonia in G minor Op 5 No 6; Fugue and Grave in G minor

Rachel Podger, violin/director

Violinist Rachel Podger directs the BBC Philharmonic in music by Vivaldi and Bach.

Wednesday, Martinu's First Symphony20230628Penny Gore introduces recordings from around Europe, and from the BBC's own performing groups.

Highlights today include a recording of Martinu's First Symphony, composed in the Caribbean and United States during World War 2. Czech conductor, and incoming Music Director at the Royal Opera House Jakub Hrusa takes charge of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in this recording from German radio. Also today, French horn player Martin Owen, the BBC Philharmonic and conductor John Wilson turn their attention to the music of Carl Maria von Weber. Meanwhile, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra look to the music of the baroque era, and Barbara Hannigan sings and conducts the music of Maurice Delage.

Including:

Weber: Horn concertino in E minor, Op 45

Martin Owen, French horn

John Wilson, conductor

Jacob van Eyck: Malle Symen

Yoshimichi Hamada, recorder, cornet, director

Anthonello

Delage: 4 po耀mes hindous

Barbara Hannigan, soprano, conductor

LUDWIG

Ravel: Sonatine

Steven Osborne (piano)

c. 3pm

Martinu: Symphony No 1

Jakub Hrusa, conductor

Pisendel: Concerto in D major for multiple instruments

Vကclav Luks, conductor

Jakub Hrusa conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Martinu's First Symphony.

Wednesday, Mathis Der Maler20230315Presented by Fiona Talkington, with more new recordings from the Ulster Orchestra.

Today, Angus Webster conducts the orchestra in Hindemith's symphonic prequel to his opera Mathis der Maler, and Manoj Kamps joins them for Prokofiev's popular 'Classical' symphony. Plus music by Handel and Vivaldi from countertenor Daniel Carlsson and G怀teborg Baroque at the Valle Baroque Festival, and the BBC Concert Orchestra plays the second of Florence Price's orchestral overtures.

Including:

Handel: Spero per voi, from 'Ariodante, HWV 33

Daniel Carlsson, countertenor

Magnus Kjellson, director

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 'Classical

Manoj Kamps, conductor

Vivaldi: Cessate, omai cessate, RV 684, cantata

Florence Price: Concert Overture No. 2

Jane Glover, conductor

3.00

Hindemith: Symphony, Mathis der Maler

Angus Webster, conductor

Handel: Cara sposa (Rinaldo's aria), from 'Rinaldo, HWV 7

Cecilia McDowell: Rain, steam and speed for orchestra

George Vass, conductor

The Ulster Orchestra play Hindemith's symphonic prequel to the opera Mathis der Maler.

Wednesday, Mayer's First Symphony20230104Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert, featuring highlights from the Lucerne and Verbier Festivals. Today's programme includes Mao Fujita performing Chopin and Brahms, and the MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra in Emilie Mayer's Symphony no.1. Plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Japan, performing Ravel with baritone Roderick Williams.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

c.2pm

Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 - Glory Be to God on High

MDR Rundfunkchor

Risto Joost (conductor)

Chopin Nocturnes Op.48

No.1 in C minor

Mao Fujita (piano)

Ravel Don Quichotte

Wednesday, Mendelssohn In Italy20211103Fiona Talkington introduces an afternoon of live performances from BBC orchestras and other ensembles across Europe.

Today, Fran瀀ois Leleux conducts the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana in Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4, 'Italian'. The BBC Symphony Orchestra play the music of Louise Farrenc and Samy Moussa, the latter as part of this week's focus on living composers. From Freiburg, JS Bach's motet Komm, Jesu, Komm with the Windsbach Boys' Choir, and Emmanuel Ceysson is the soloist in Ginastera's Harp Concerto with the Prague Philharmonia.

Including:

Louise Farrenc: Overture No.1, Op.23

Fran瀀ois Leleux, conductor

JS Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm, motet, BWV229

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Martin Lehmann, conductor

Berg: Violin Concerto ('To the memory of an angel')

Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alain Altinoglu, conductor

c.3pm

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op 90, ‘Italian

Dallapiccola: Piccola musica notturna

Ginastera: Harp Concerto, op. 25

Emmanuel Ceysson, harp

Emmanuel Villaume, conductor

Samy Moussa: Orpheus for piano and orchestra

Clare Hammond, piano

Geoffrey Paterson, conductor

Fran\u00e7ois Leleux conducts the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana in Mendelssohn's Fourth.

Wednesday, Mighty River20211020As part of Radio 3's focus on Black History Month, Penny Gore introduces the Ulster Orchestra in Errollyn Wallen's Mighty River and the BBC Singers in Joel Thompson's Seven Last Words of the unarmed, both in new recordings. The Ulster Orchestra also play Schubert's Fourth Symphony and Poulenc's Sinfonietta, and there's more from La Folia Baroque Orchestra.

Including:

Sullivan: Macbeth (incidental music) - overture

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Joel Thompson: Seven Last Words of the Unarmed

Owain Park, conductor

Poulenc: Sinfonietta

Jac van Steen, conductor

Purcell: O, let me weep (The Plaint), from 'The Fairy Queen, Z. 629

Anna Prohaska, soprano

Robin-Peter Müller, violin and conductor

c.3pm

Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D 417, 'Tragic

Errollyn Wallen: Mighty River

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

Errollyn Wallen's Might River and Schubert's Fourth 'Tragic' Symphony

Wednesday, Mozart's 'linz' Symphony20230419Ian Skelly presents live recordings from BBC orchestras and concerts around Europe.

Today at 3pm, from a recent concert in Budapest, John Eliot Gardiner conducts the English Baroque Soloists in the symphony Mozart wrote during a visit to the Austrian town of Linz in 1783. Also this afternoon, Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in James MacMillan's requiem based on the story of Isobel Gowdie, burnt as a witch in post-Reformation Scotland. the Latvian Radio Choir sing more Latin motets by Bruckner, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra plays Elgar.

Including:

Liszt: Ronde des lutins, from 'Two Concert Etudes, S. 145

Raphaela Gromes, cello

Julian Riem, piano

James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Bruckner: Ave Maria

Elgar: Serenade for string orchestra (Op.20) in E minor

Edward Gardner, conductor

Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C, K. 425 ('Linz')

John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Bruckner: O Justi

R Schumann: Fantasiestücke, op. 73

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Mozart's Symphony No 36 in C, 'Linz'.

Wednesday, Mozart's Symphony No 40 From Salzburg20221221Penny Gore hosts an afternoon of music from the concert halls of Europe, including Mozart's Symphony No 40 from Salzburg, conducted by Riccardo Minasi. There's also plenty of festive music to get you in the Christmas mood, including recordings from seasonal concerts by Dutch ensembles, from the Amsterdam Sinfonietta to some of the country's best youth choirs.

Including:

Offenbach - La course en traneau (Sleigh Ride)

Guido Schiefen (cello)

WDR Radio Orchestra

David de Villiers (conductor)

Hugo Alfven - Julsang (Christmas Song)

Sofia Vokalensemble

Bengt Ollen (conductor)

Hugo Alfven Dance of the Troll Girl [The Mountain King Suite]

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

c. 2.20pm

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Suite for viola & small orchestra (excerpts)

Timothy Ridout (viola)

Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne

Jamie Phillips (conductor)

Andreas Anton Schmelzer - Victori der Christen

Chouchane Siranossian (violin)

Jonathan Pesek (cello)

Leonardo Garcia Alarcon (harpsichord)

Edward Elgar - A Christmas Greeting, Op.52

National Children's Choir of The Netherlands

National Women's Youth Choir of The Netherlands

LUDWIG (ensemble)

Irene Verburg (conductor)

Sibelius - 5 Pieces for piano, Op.75 `The Trees`

Havard Gimse (piano)

3pm

Mozart - Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550

Mozarteum Orchestra

Riccardo Minasi (conductor)

Schutz - Der Herr ist mein Hirt [Psalmen Davids]

RIAS Chamber Choir

Ensemble Promena

Justin Doyle (conductor)

Ferruccio Busoni

Nuit de Noel

Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)

Penny Gore with an afternoon of festive music from the concert halls of Europe.

Wednesday, Much Ado About Shakespeare20211110Penny Gore presents a selection of music for the afternoon, from the BBC performing groups and European Broadcasting Union. Today features music inspired by Shakespeare by Sibelius, Purcell and Tchaikovsky. Plus a Swiss performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 with the young Russian pianist Alexandra Dovgan, and more from Jordi Savall's eightieth birthday concert celebrating the fusion between east and west.

Presented by Penny Gore

Including:

Sibelius: Suite No. 2 from 'The Tempest

Netherland Philharmonic Orchestra

John Storgards (conductor)

c.2.30

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.23 in A major, K.488

Alexandra Dovgan (piano)

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Francois Leleux (conductor)

c.3pm

Jordi Savall: East meets West - A dialogue of the souls - excerpt

Jordi Savall (rebab, soprano viola da gamba and rabel)

Pedro Estevan (percussion)

Purcell: Next, Winter Comes Slowly, from 'The Fairy Queen, Z. 629

Nikolay Borchev (bass)

La Folia Barockorchester

Robin-Peter Müller (director)

c.3.30

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Music by Sibelius, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.

Wednesday, Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra20180404Penny Gore introduces more recordings featuring the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.
Wednesday, Nielsen's Inextinguishable20221130Ian Skelly casts a thought towards the percussion section of the orchestra as he continues his week of great performances from Bavaria and beyond. The programme includes music from Nielsen, Rossini, Respighi and in his anniversary year from Xenakis.

Edward Elgar: Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands op27 No 3 - `Lullaby`

London Symphony Orchestra

LSO Chorus

Richard Hickox (conductor)

Iannis Xenakis: Rebonds B

Ad退lade Ferri耀re (percussion)

Ottorino Respighi: Feste Romane

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Vivaldi: Concerto for multiple instruments in F RV558

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Maurice Steger (director)

3.00

Carl Nielsen: Symphony No 4 'The Inextinguishable

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Antonio Pappano (condctor)

Gerald Finzi: Eclogue for piano and orchestra

Louis Lortie (piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis (conductor)

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with a battle of the timpani from Denmark.

Wednesday, Orchestre National De Metz20220209This week, Afternoon Concert features performances from French orchestras - today it's the turn of the Orchestre National de Metz with music by Saint-Saens and Debussy. Plus there's highlights of a concert of early music given by mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato with Il Pomo d'Oro.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

c.2.05

Reynaldo Hahn Nuit d'amour bergamasque, symphonic poem

Orchestre National de Metz David Relland (conductor) Rec 17/09/2021, Aresnal, Metz

c.2.15

Antonio Cesti Aria Oronteei „Intorno all'idol mio` din Orontea

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)

c.2.30

Benjamin Britten arr Steuart Bedford Death in Venice Suite

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.3pm

Camille Saint-Sa뀀ns Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 22

Louis Schwizgebel (piano)

c.3.30

Claude Debussy Iberia, from 'Images for Orchestra, L. 122

Music by Saint-Saens, Debussy and Britten.

Wednesday, Peer Gynt Suites20220316This week, Afternoon Concert features Scandinavian symphonic music - today it's the turn of Grieg's ever-popular Peer Gynt Suites, performed by the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Pietari Inkinen. There's also Weber's Second Clarinet Concerto played by soloist Nicholas Carpenter with the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Bramwell Tovey, and music from Delius, Purcell and Lehar.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Elizabeth Maconchy

Proud Thames - Coronation Overture

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Clarinet Concerto no.2

Nicholas Carpenter (clarinet)

Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

Chaconne in G minor, Z.730

Concentus Musicus Wien

Stefan Gottfried (conductor)

Daybreak (Florida Suite)

Franz Lehar

Lippen schweigen, closing waltz from 'The Merry Widow

Camilla Nylund (soprano)

Maximilian Schmitt (tenor)

Dresden Philharmonic

Marek Janowski (conductor)

Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2

Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

Pavane

Franz Lehar Gold and silver - waltz Op.79

Music by Grieg, Purcell, Delius and Carl Maria von Weber.

Wednesday, Petrushka20220921Presenters by Penny Gore.

Today, Stravinsky's Petrushka (1947 version) is conducted by Daniel Harding with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The BBC Philharmonic play Galina Ustvolskaya's Sports Suite, with conductor Anja Bihlmaier, as well as Schubert's Rosamund Overture under Jac van Steen; plus music by Henry Purcell, and the Elias Quartet with Haydn, and pianist Barry Douglas plays the first of Schubert's 4 Impromptus, D. 935.

Including:

Schubert: Rosamunde - overture

Jac van Steen, conductor

Purcell: Hear My Prayer, o Lord, Z 15; Praise the Lord o Jerusalem, Z 46

Choeur Les El退ments

Les Ombres

Joel Suhubiette, conductor

c.2.20pm

Galina Ustvolskaya: Sports Suite

Anja Bihlmaier, conductor

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45: IV. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, Herr Zebao

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir

Daniel Harding, conductor

Haydn: Quartet in E flat major, Op 64 No 6

c.3.00pm

Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)

Schubert: Impromptu in F minor, No. 1, from 4 Impromptus, D. 935, op. posth. 142

Barry Douglas, piano

Stravinsky's ballet music conducted by Daniel Harding

Wednesday, Pictures At An Exhibition20220119Ian Skelly introduces recordings of classical music from around Europe and from BBC ensembles. An overture from Fanny Mendelssohn begins the afternoon, played by the Ulster Orchestra who also feature in Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and music by Thomas Ades. Christopher Maltman is one of the soloists in arias by Verdi in Copenhagen, and members of the German Symphony Orchestra play Stravinsky's Octet for brass and woodwind.

Fanny Mendelssohn: Overture in C

Nil Venditti, conductor

Arias from Verdi's Rigoletto and Il Trovatore

Yana Kleyn, soprano

Jonathan Tetelman, tenor

Christopher Maltman, baritone

Tivoli Copenhagen Philharmonic

Audrey Saint-Gil, conductor

R Schumann: Fugues No. 1 and 2, from 'Six Fugues on B-A-C-H, op. 60

Kremerata Baltica/Lettonica

Gidon Kremer, conductor

- but all shall be well

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

Enescu: Allegro in F minor for cello and piano

Manuel Fischer-Dieskau, cello

Cyprien Katsaris, piano

c.3pm

Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Stravinsky: Octet

Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, orchestrated by Ravel with the Ulster Orchestra.

Wednesday, Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto20220105Presented by Penny Gore, including Kirill Gerstein in Rachmaninov's third piano concerto, a new concerto for trombone by Dani Howard, and recordings from Denmark including Peter Mattei and Chstiane Karg singing Mozart and Ravel's tribute to the waltz.

Also, just before 3pm throughout the week, New Year New Music: Radio 3 presenters share the newest music that means the most to them.

Including:

2pm

Ravel: La Valse

Danish National SO

Vasily Petrenko, conductor

Mozart: Crudel! Perch退 finora, duet from 'The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492'*; Hai gi

Wednesday, Radio France Philharmonic20171004Penny Gore presents the Radio France Philharmonic in a series of concerts and recordings. Today's 2pm concert features the orchestra with conductor Roger Norrington. Haydn Symphony No.103 caused great surprise with its unorthodox drumroll start, and today's Mozart piano concerto, No.23 in A, K.488, is performed by Japanese pianist Momo Kodama, who studied at the Paris Conservatoire. Plus the Radio France choir perform rare French choral music by Daniel-Lesur and Florent Schmitt.

Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in E flat, Hob. I/103 'Drumroll

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488

Momo Kodama (piano)

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

Sir Roger Norrington (conductor).

The Radio France Philharmonic in Haydn's 'Drumroll' Symphony No 103.

Wednesday, Rattle At Radio 320170913Penny Gore presents a week of concerts with Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. Today's performance took place last New Year's Eve at the Berlin Philharmonie.

An exciting programme and a brilliant soloist - the Berlin Philharmonic's 2016 New Year's Eve concert under Sir Simon Rattle had all the ingredients to put the audience in a party mood. Daniil Trifonov stands out as the soloist in Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3, a work of extreme virtuosity that demands truly outstanding skills of the pianist.

Kabalevsky: Overture to Colas Breugnon

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

William Walton, arr. Rattle: Orchestral Pieces from Fa瀀ade

Dvo?ကk: Slavonic Dances, Op. 72 (selection)

Daniil Trifonov (piano)

conductor Simon Rattle.

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic at 2016 New Year's Eve in Berlin.

Wednesday, Ravel's Piano Concerto In G20211124Tom Borrow is the soloist in Ravel's dazzling concerto performed with the Ulster Orchestra, with Michael Berkeley, Richard Rodney Bennett and Ravel also on the bill of fayre. There's also the final act of Emilio de' Cavalieri's early opera Portrayal of the Soul and the Body.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Ravel: Alborada del gracioso

BBC Philharmonic

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Mozart: Fantasy in C minor, K.475

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

Richard Rodney Bennett: Aubade

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Emilio de' Cavalieri: Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo: Act Three

Vox Luminis

Lionel Meunier, conductor

c.3pm

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

Michael Berkeley: Romance Of The Rose

Tom Borrow, piano

Jac van Steen, conductor

Wednesday, Rite Of Spring20220803Penny Gore introduces another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra's recent Prom, as Martyn Brabbins conducts the orchestra in Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, and they're joined by Tom Borrow for Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. The Prom begins with a tribute to Harrison Birtwistle who died in April.

Birtwistle: Sonance Severance 2000

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

Xenakis: Jonchaies

INTERVAL

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Tom Borrow, piano

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Martyn Brabbins conducts Stravinsky at the BBC Proms.

Wednesday, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra20170531Jonathan Swain continues a week of concerts from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In today's programme Antonio Pappano conducts the orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Dvorak's New World Symphony.

2.00

Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35

Lisa Batiashvili, violin

2.36

Dvorကk

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 ('From the New World')

Antonio Pappano.

The Royal Concertebouw Orchestra performs music by Tchaikovsky and Dvorak.

Wednesday, Saint-sa\u00ebns Organ Symphony20220406Featuring performance by French orchestras - today it's the turn of the French National Orchestra, joined by Olivier Latry for Saint-Sa뀀ns' mighty Organ Symphony. Plus Strauss's Metamorphosen, and the UK premiere broadcast of the 5 Klavierstucke by Johanna Muller-Hermann.

Presented by Ian Skelly

2pm

Strauss Metamorphosen

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Sascha Goetzel (conductor)

c.2.40

Johanna Muller-Hermann 5 Klavierstucke

Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano)

c.3pm

Saint-Sa뀀ns Symphony no.3 in C minor, Op.78 ‘Organ

Olivier Latry (organ)

Cristian M?celaru (conductor)

c.3.45

Nicola Fago Alla gente a dio Diletta (Il Faraone sommerso)

Jakub Jozef Orlinski (countertenor)

Il Pomo d'Oro

Zefira Valova (conductor)

Music by Saint-Sa\u00ebns, Strauss and Johanna Muller-Hermann

Wednesday, Salonen's Piano Concerto20220413Fiona Talkington introduces Yeol Eum Son and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a recent performance of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Piano Concerto, fusing French Baroque, science fiction, birdsong, jazz, and the great Romantic concertos. The Aris Quartet play Haydn, Elsa Dreisig sings excerpts from Mozart operas with the Basel Chamber Orchestra, plus music to open the programme from Anna Clyne.

Including:

Anna Clyne: Rewind

Joana Carneiro (conductor)

Haydn: String Quartet No. 27 in D, op. 20/4, Hob. III:34 ('Sun')

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No 1

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Josep Pons (conductor)

c.3pm

Esa-Pekka Salonen: Piano Concerto

Yeol Eum Son (piano)

Koana Carneiro (conductor)

Mozart: Excerpts from 'Cos쀀 fan tutte' and 'The Marriage of Figaro

Elsa Dreisig (soprano)

Louis Langree (conductor)

Yeol Eum Son plays Esa-Pekka Salonen's Piano Concerto with the BBC SSO.

Wednesday, Schoenberg's Orchestration Of Brahms's First Piano Quartet20230208Penny Gore continues her week of Afternoon Concert with a performance of Brahms's Piano Quartet No 1 in Schoenberg's orchestrated version, with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. There are more Medieval pieces from Ensemble Celadon, and choral music by Schutz and Schein from the Leipzig Cantorey, and of course regular contributions from the BBC performing groups. Today, there's also music by Ruth Gipps, Schubert, Mussorgsky, Martinu and Julia Perry.

Ruth Gipps - Song for orchestra, Op.33

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Anonymous - En mai au douz tens nouvel

Berenguier de Palazol - Tan m´abelis joys et amors et chans

Franz Schubert - Polonaise in B flat major for violin & orchestra, D.580

Paul Guggenberger (violin)

Ensemble Wien

Modest Mussorgsky - Overture: Khovanschina

Frankfurt Radio Orchestra

Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

c. 2.30pm

Julia Perry - Pastoral for flute & string sextet

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

Bohuslav Martinu - The Rock

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Petr Popelka (conductor)

Heinrich Schutz - Ich hebe meine Augen auf, SWV.31

Concerto Vocale Leipzig

Sachsisches Baroque Orchestra

Gotthold Schwarz (conductor)

Dur: 08'01 + no appl.

3pm

Johannes Brahms orch. Schoenberg - Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25

Alan Gilbert (conductor)

Schoenberg's orchestral arrangement of Brahms's First Piano Quartet.

Wednesday, Schubert's Fifth Symphony20230322Ian Skelly continues this week of Afternoon Concert featuring performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and from some of the great German orchestras.

Today the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin performs Schubert's mighty Fifth Symphony with conductor Kent Nagano, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays Dvorak's Othello. There's more Buxtehude organ music played by Ton Koopman at the Holmen Church in Copenhagan, vocal music from the ensemble Voces8 in Hattersheim, and today's piece by Toru Takemitsu features the harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani.

Including:

Foulds: Isles of Greece, Op.48 No.2

BBC Concert Orchestra

Ronald Corp (conductor)

Alfven: Aftnonen

Takemitsu: Rain dreaming

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

c. 2.15pm

Puccini: Crisantemi

La Scintilla Orchestra

Riccardo Minasi (conductor)

Buxtehude: Wie sch怀n leuchtet der Morgenstern

Ton Koopman (organ)

c. 2.30pm

Sibelius: Finlandia, Op.26

Latvian National Symphony Orchestra

Tarmo Peltokoski (conductor)

JS Bach: Concerto for oboe & violin in C minor, BWV.1060R

Leonidas Kavakos (violin)

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Eva Steinaa (conductor)

3pm

Schubert: Symphony No.5 in B flat, D.485

Kent Nagano (conductor)

Schiassi: A che si serbano

Jakub Jozef Orlinski (tenor)

Il Pomo d'Oro

Zefira Valova (conductor)

Dvorak: Othello

Nuno Coelho (conductor)

Kent Nagano conducts Schubert's Fifth Symphony in Berlin.

Wednesday, Schubert's Fifth Symphony20230712Fiona Talkington presents great concert performances from BBC ensembles and from across Europe.

Today's 3pm feature is Schubert's graceful and sparkling Symphony No.5 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, from Glasgow earlier this year. Mozart's famous Eine Kleine Nachtmusik serenade comes from the composer's home city of Salzburg, performed by the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra at the 2023 Salzburg Mozart Week festival. And there's an electrifying brass band performance from the 2022 World Band Festival in Lucerne - Paul Lovatt-Cooper's Above and Beyond with the Black Dyke Band.

Including:

Richard Rodney Bennett: Serenade - Nocturne

John Wilson (cond.)

Faure: Sicilienne

Andrei Ionita (cello), Lilit Grigoryan (piano)

Paul Lovatt-Cooper: Above and Beyond

Nicholas Childs (cond.)

Mozart: Serenade in G `Eine Kleine Nachtmusik`

Gemma New (cond.)

Siobhan Cleary: Storm in Devon

BBC Singers

Grace Rossiter (cond.)

Josef Suk: Fantastic Scherzo

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Richard Hickox (cond.)

Schubert: Symphony No.5

Teresa Riveiro Bohm (cond.)

Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte for strings

Calidore Quartet

Borodin: Prince Igor - Overture

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (cond.)

The BBC SSO play Schubert's Fifth Symphony, plus Mozart from Salzburg.

Wednesday, Schumann's Second20211117Tom McKinney with the best classical music performed by BBC ensembles and orchestras across Europe.

Tom continues his focus on great Romantic symphonies this week with Schumann's Second - Marko Ivanovic conducts the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra in a performance recorded in Prague in May. Also, Enescu from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Renaissance music performed by the Youth of La Capella Reial de Catalunya, new music by Guto Puw from the Vale of Glamorgan Festival and music by Haydn and Malcolm Arnold.

2pm

Georges Enescu - Suite No.1 in C major: Prelude a l'unison

John Wilson (conductor)

Joseph Haydn - Cello Concerto No.2 in D, Hob.VIIb:2

Luca Magariello (cello)

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

Alessandro Calcagnile (conductor)

Carlo Gesualdo - O dolce mio martire [Madrigali a 5 voci, Book I, No.8]

Jove Capella Reial de Catalunya

Lu퀀s Vilamaj  (conductor)

Malcolm Arnold - Sinfonietta No.1, Op.48

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

c. 3pm

Robert Schumann - Symphony No.2 in C, Op.61

Marko Ivanovic (conductor)

Guto Puw - Ultrasonic

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Geoffrey Patterson

Marko Ivanovic conducts the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra in Schumann's Second Symphony.

Wednesday, Shostakovich Violin Concerto20230405With Penny Gore. Today's 3pm moment falls on a recent performance of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto with soloist Karen Gomyo and the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Rome, conducted by Semyon Bychkov.

Also this afternoon, there are performances from BBC ensembles, including Wagner's prelude to Act 3 from his opera Lohengrin, and Doreen Carwithen's suite from the film Travel Royal, with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Also sacred music by Palestrina, Palestrina from Ivan Moody with The Breathtaking Collective and another piece of Holy Week music by Byrd.

Including:

Wagner: Lohengrin (Prelude to Act III)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

Palestrina: Missa Nigra sum

Ivan Moody: O Archangels and Angels [2019]

Carwithen: Travel Royal - suite from film

Gavin Sutherland, conductor

Byrd: Plorans plorabit

The Cardinall's Musick

Andrew Carwood

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 77

Karen Gomyo, violin

Semyon Bychkov, conductor

Zelenka: Lamentatio III 'Ego vir videns

Myriam Arbouz, soprano

Thomas Hobbs, tenor

Benot Arnould, baritone

Damien Guillon, countertenor and conductor

Shostakovich's Violin Concerto in Rome, plus music by Wagner, Vivaldi and Carwithen.

Wednesday, Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony In Spain20220525Ian Skelly introduces more music making from Spain, including Shostakovich and Ravel from Madrid with the RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Pablo Gonzကlez and pianist Yeol Eum Son; and from Barcelona, the Casals Quartet playing Haydn. Plus the BBC National Orchestra of Wales playing Prokofiev.

Including:

Prokofiev: Love For Three Oranges (Suite)

Thomas Sønderg倀rd, conductor

Anselm Ferrer: Lamentatio - 2. Sabbato Sancto

Cererols Choir

Marc D퀀az, conductor

Haydn: Quartet in D Op20/4

3.00

Shostakovich: Symphony No 9

Pablo Gonzကlez, conductor

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

Yeal Eum Son, piano

Pablo Gonz\u00e1lez conducts the RTVE Symphony Orchestra. Pianist Yeol Eum Son performs Ravel.

Wednesday, Sibelius And Pelleas20211215Fiona Talkington introduces performances from across Europe, including more music inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist drama of forbidden love, Pelleas and Melisande.

Debussy: Images

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Ibert: Concerto for Cello and Winds

Adele Bitter (cello)

Members of the German Symphony Orchestra

Johannes Zurl (conductor)

3.00

Sibelius: Suite - Pelleas and Melisande

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

John Storgards (conductor)

Falla: El Amor Brujo. arr. guitars

Artis Guitar Duo

Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnol

The BBC Philharmonic perform Sibelius's incidental music to Pelleas and Melisande.

Wednesday, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra20170705Verity Sharp presents a concert from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Plus a new work from the New Music Biennial as part of Hull City of Culture.

2pm:

Messiaen: Offrandes oubli退es

Conductor Daniel Blendulf

2:15pm:

Shostakovich: Symphony No.5

Conductor Daniel Blendulf.

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs music by Messiaen and Shostakovich.

Wednesday, Symphonia Domestica20230201Presented by Penny Gore, continuing this week's focus on the Czech Republic with recordings of live concert performances.

The afternoon centres on a Czech performance of Richard Strauss' tone poem Symphonia domestica, a reflection on the composer's own domestic life which he so loved. It's played by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Petr Popelka, who also bring us a symphony by Haydn, and Milhaud's rarely heard first Violin Concerto with the soloist Martina Bacova. Also today, Steven Tharp plays the organ of Prague's Basilica of St James the Greater, we hear a beautiful grand motet by the French Baroque composer Michel Richard de Lalande, and Rumon Gamba conducts the Ulster Orchestra in a new recording of Britten's Courtly Dances from Gloriana.

Including:

Berlioz Hungarian March, from 'La Damnation de Faust, op. 24

Prague Radio SO

Petr Popelka, conductor

Dupr退: Carillon, from 7 Pieces, Op. 27

Steven Tharp, organ

Rec. 25/8/22 Basilica of St James the Greater, Prague

SM/2022/09/21/01

Haydn: Symphony No. 60 in C, Hob. I:60 'Il distratto

c.2.30pm

Britten: Courtly Dances from Gloriana

Rumon Gamba, conductor

Lalande: Quare fremuerunt, S. 70

Hasnaa Bennani, soprano

Katalin Szutrely, soprano

Nicholas Scott, countertenor

Fabien Hyon, tenor

Thomas Dolie, baritone

Purcell Choir

Orfeo Orchestra

Gyorgy Vashegyi, conductor

c.3pm

R. Strauss: Symphonia Domestica

The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Strauss's tone poem Symphonia Domestica.

Wednesday, Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony From Seoul20230111Pietari Inkinen conducts the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4 in F minor. They are joined by Vadim Repin for Bruch's First Violin Concerto.

Presented by Penny Gore

Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen leads South Korea's national broadcast orchestra in much-loved works by Tchaikovsky and Bruch, and there are appearances from Spanish guitar, French baroque and a Japanese take on Debussy

2.00pm

Albeniz

Asturias, op. 47/5, from Suite espaကola No. 1

Anabel Montesinos, guitar

Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, op. 26

Duration of work: 23:59 min.

Vadim Repin, violin

Pietari Inkinen, conductor

Marais

Tempest Scene, from 'Alcyone

Rameau

Overture to 'Nas'; Tambourin, from 'Dardanus

Holland Baroque

Philipp Ahmann, conductor

Debussy / Kotaro Kobayashi

Clair de lune

Kisekino Cello Ensemble

3.00pm

Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36

KBS Symphony Orchestra, Seoul

Pietari Inkinen conducts the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony.

Wednesday, Tchaikovsky's Third Symphony20220420Penny Gore introduces music from BBC ensembles and other groups from around Europe, including Bach's cantatas performed by G怀teborg Baroque. Also today, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3 with J退r退mie Rhorer and the German Chamber Philharmonic, Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 1, with Rachel Podger as soloist, and Paul Ben-Haim's Fanfare for Israel with the BBC Philharmonic.

Including:

Paul Ben-Haim: Fanfare for Israel

Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

JS Bach: excerpts from cantatas -

Lob sei Gott, from 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62

Sofia Niklasson, soprano; Amanda Flodin, alto; Carl Unander-Scharin, tenor; Karl Peter Eriksson, bass

Willkommen, werter Schatz, from ‚Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36‘

Tausendfaches Unglück, Schrecken, from 'Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 143

Gott hat alles wohlgemacht, from 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35

Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele, from 'Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal BWV 146

Magnus Kjellson, claviorgan, leader

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat major, K 207

Rachel Podger, violin

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

R. Schumann: Marchenerzahlungen, Op. 132

Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet

Eivind Ringstad, viola

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

c.3pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony 3 in D major, Op. 29

J退r退mie Rhorer, conductor

Saint-Saens: Fantaisie No. 2 in D flat, op. 101

Nathan Laube, organ

The German Chamber Philharmonic play Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 3, plus Bach in Gothenburg.

Wednesday, The Bbc Philharmonic Live From Mediacityuk Salford20180207Tom Redmond presents the BBC Philharmonic LIVE from their home at MediaCityUK Salford. John Storgards conducts the orchestra in a programme of music by the modernist American composer George Antheil, including his 3rd Symphony, the American.

2pm

Antheil: Hot-Time Dance; Archipelago; Spectre of the Rose - waltz; Symphony No 3 (American)

John Storgards (conductor).

Wednesday, The Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20180307Jonathan Swain introduces a concert of music from Hungary given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

2pm

Kodကly: Summer evening

Bart k: Violin Concerto No 1

Bart k: Rhapsody No 2 (arr. for violin & orchestra)

Bart k: The Miraculous Mandarin

Today's afternoon concert was recorded in Glasgow last month, and featured works by two titans of Hungarian music: Zoltကn Kodကly and B退la Bart k. The Hungarian violinist Barnabကs Kelemen brings a countryman's understanding to Bart k's First Violin Concerto, with its powerful and plaintive melodies. There's also a chance to hear the orchestral arrangement of Bart k's Second Rhapsody (originally for violin and piano), and music from the score to his controversial ballet The Miraculous Mandarin.

Jonathan Swain introduces a concert by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Wednesday, The Best Of 2017, Bbc Philharmonic20171227Jonathan Swain continues the Best of 2017 from the BBC performing groups. Today features a concert the BBC Philharmonic gave on tour in Santander. Juan Floristan joins the orchestra for Rachmaninov's ever-popular Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, and the orchestra take centre stage in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.

2pm

Beethoven: Egmont - incidental music, Op 84: Overture

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43, for piano and orchestra

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op 14

Juan Floristan (piano)

Juanjo Mena (conductor).

The Best of 2017 from the BBC performing groups. Featuring the BBC Philharmonic.

Wednesday, The Emperor20220112This week Afternoon Concert celebrates Beethoven concertos with a different one each day at 3pm - today it's the Fifth, 'Emperor', with soloist Martin Helmchen and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Plus a symphony by Stravinsky's piano teacher, Leokadiya Kashperova, and Mozart arias arranged for oboe and orchestra performed by Francois Leleux and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

c.2pm

Symphony in B minor, Op 4

BBC Concert Orchestra

Jane Glover (conductor)

Beethoven Piano Concerto no.5 in E flat major, Op.73 (Emperor)

Martin Helmchen (piano)

Petr Popelka (conductor)

c.3.38

Mozart Arias from the Magic Flute and Don Giovanni

Francois Leleux (oboe)

Martin Helmschen performs Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto.

Wednesday, The Ulster Orchestra20180321Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme includes descriptive works by Dukas and Debussy and concludes with Ravel's dazzling evocation of gliding dancers, warped and transmuted into something rather more sinister in his La valse.

2pm

Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Dutilleux - Tout un monde lointain

Debussy - La mer

Ravel - La valse

Alisa Weilerstein (cello)

Rafael Payare (conductor).

Penny Gore showcases the Ulster Orchestra performing Dukas, Debussy and Ravel's La valse.

Wednesday, The Ulster Orchestra Live With Music, By Mendelssohn And Liszt20171213~Afternoon Concert continues its week of live performances from the BBC performing groups. Today live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast, the Ulster Orchestra, conducted by Olari Elts, with Mendelssohn's Overture to Camacho's Wedding, followed by two pieces by Liszt. First, his tone poem Totentanz, with pianist Lauma Skride as soloist, and then The Black Gondola, in a version orchestrated by John Adams. The concert ends again with Mendelssohn and his Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream.

2.00pmPresented by John Toal LIVE from Ulster Hall, Belfast

Mendelssohn: Overture to Camacho's Wedding

Liszt: Totentanz - tone poem

Liszt (orch. John Adams): The Black Gondola

Mendelssohn: Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61

Lauma Skride (piano)

Olari Elts (conductor).

Live from Ulster Hall, Belfast, the Ulster Orchestra with music by Mendelssohn and Liszt.

Wednesday, Thielemann Conducts Schumann And Strauss20220323Christian Thielemann conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in works by Schumann and Strauss; there's also early music from the Freiberg Baroque and a recent work by Victoria Borisova-Ollas

Presented by Ian Skelly

2.00pm

Jean de Cambefort

Excerpts from 'Ballet royal de la nuit

Nicolaus Adam Strungk

Sonata

Wednesday, Ulster Orchestra20170315Ian Skelly showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme continues Afternoon on 3's British music season with works by Butterworth and Vaughan Williams.

2pm

Haydn: Symphony No.44 in E minor, Hob.I/44: 'Trauer

Jac van Steen (conductor)

2.25pm

Mozart: Ah Lo Previdi Ah t'invola, K.272

Ailish Tynan (soprano)

2.40pm

Butterworth: Second English Idyll

Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

2.45pm

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.3, 'Pastoral

Sarah Fox (soprano)

Andrew Gourlay (conductor).

With Ian Skelly. Ulster Orchestra in Haydn, Mozart, Butterworth and Vaughan Williams.

Wednesday, Vaughan Williams 150: Ravel, Teacher20221012With Ian Skelly, in a week celebrating Vaughan Williams at 150, with music by the anniversary composer himself alongside those who influenced him, his friends, contemporaries and students. Featuring recordings of live performances from around Europe and the BBC ensembles.

Today, from this summer's Granada Festival, we hear performances of music by Ravel, Vaughan Williams' teacher in Paris - his Tombeau de Couperin and the Piano Concerto in G with soloist Martha Argerich - plus music by two other composers he admired, Elgar and D'Indy.

Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole: no. 4 Feria (arr. Peter Sadlo)

Martha Argerich, piano

Nelson Freire, piano

Peter Sadlo, percussion

Edgar Guggeis, percussion

Vaughan Williams: 5 Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Lesley Hatfield, conductor

c.2.30pm

Elgar: In the south (Alassio) - overture (Op.50)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

D'Indy: Lied Op.19 for viola or cello and orchestra

Lawrence Power, viola

Thierry Fischer, conductor

c.3pm

Ravel Piano Concerto in G

Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra

Charles Dutoit, conductor

Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin

Martha Argerich plays Ravel at the Granada Festival.

Wednesday: Bbc Philharmonic20181128Bartok, Haydn, and Tansy Davies from live recordings by the BBC Philharmonic. Presented by Tom McKinney. We'll hear Bartok's Viola Concerto, left unfinished at the time of his death, a Holst work believed to be influenced by Hinduism, and a Tansy Davies piece inspired by 'grey steam and black oil, metal teeth spinning and biting, and power forced out through circular motion'.

2.00pm

Symphony No 68 in B flat

Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad, viola

Symphony No 61 in D

Clemens Schuldt, conductor

Invocation

Andrew Davis, conductor

Guy Johnston, cello

kingpin

Antony Hermus, conductor

Live recordings of the BBC Philharmonic performing Bartok, Haydn and Tansy Davies.

Wednesday: Mahler's Ninth Symphony20180912Tom Redmond continues this week's Belgian theme with Mahler's Ninth Symphony recorded at the Klarafestival in Brussels. Daniel Harding conducts the Orchestre de Paris. The symphony was Mahler's final completed symphonic work.

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9

Daniel Harding, conductor

Mahler's Symphony No 9 in D recorded at the Klarafestival in Brussels

Weinberg Cello Concerto20230605Fiona Talkington presents concert performances from across Europe.

Today's 3pm highlight is Weinberg's Cello Concerto performed by Edgar Moreau. Also today, performances by the King's Singers at the 2022 Montpelier Festival, Mozart's youthful bassoon concerto with Camerata Salzburg, an arrangement of Bach's mighty violin Chaconne for marimba, and Sibelius's Symphony No.3 in a performance from Kiel in Germany.

Including:

Elgar: Salut d'amour

Edgar Moreau (cello), Pierre-Yves Hodique (piano)

Nielsen: Pan and Syrinx

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi (conductor)

Joby Talbot: The Wishing Tree

Mozart: Bassoon Concerto

Riccardo Terzo (bassoon)

Ton Koopman (conductor)

JS Bach arr. Vassileva: Chaconne, from Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004

Viviane Vassileva (marimba)

c3pm

Weinberg: Cello Concerto

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Andres Orozco-Estrada (conductor)

Trad. Arr. David Overton: Loch Lomond

Trad. Arr. Peter Knight: Danny Boy

c3.50

Sibelius: Symphony No.3

Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra

Emilia Hoving (conductor)

Edgar Moreau performs Weinberg's Cello Concerto, plus Mozart from Salzburg.

When Is A Symphony Not A Symphony?20200513Composed in the shadow of the Second World War, Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem opens Dalia Stasevska's first concert at the Barbican as the BBC Symphony Orchestra's principal guest conductor, recorded in October last year. She herself put together this programme of 'symphonies' in name only. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is joined by the BBC Singers in Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms - a devout musical gesture, re-imagining religious rituals on a symphonic scale. And the orchestra conclude with one of the greatest tests of the conductor's art, Rachmaninov's exhilarating Symphonic Dances; composed in America in 1940 just three years before his death, it pulses with rhythmic energy, embracing jazz, plainchant and the waltz.

2pm

Britten: Sinfonia da requiem, Op.20

Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

Dalia Stasevska's debut as principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Winter Daydreams20201221Music for Advent and winter from the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Alexander Vedernikov, featuring Tchaikovsky's First Symphony, which he called 'Winter Daydreams', as part of BBC Radio 3's Light in the Darkness season. The programme begins with an all-Russian concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alexander Vedernikov, who sadly died recently at the age of 56 as a result of Covid-19. Plus choral music for Advent by Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz performed by the BBC Singers with conductor Justin Doyle.

Sviridov: Suite from The Blizzard

Rachmaninov: Paganini Variations

with Andrei Korobeinikov (piano)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 'Winter Daydreams

c. 3.40pm

German Baroque choral music for Advent from the BBC Singers and conductor Justin Doyle

c. 4.10pm

Detlev Glanert: 4 Fantasies, Op.15

William Bracken (piano)

This series of Afternoon Concert featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers as part of BBC Radio 3's Light in the Darkness season continues tomorrow with a live BBC Singers concert of contemporary carols, while the BBC SO take us to the top of a mountain and to paradise. On Wednesday, Professor Brian Cox joins the BBC SO to explore The Symphonic Universe, and on Christmas Eve, the BBC SO and Singers celebrate the divine wonder of childhood in music by Berlioz and Finzi.

Music for Advent and winter from the BBC Singers and the BBC SO with Alexander Vedernikov

Witches, Wardrobes And Wonderlands20201211Penny Gore introduces a celebration of the BBC Orchestras.

Today, Georgia Mann presents a concert in which the BBC Concert Orchestra performs live at the Watford Colosseum.

Shirley Thompson: Wildfire

Gerald Finzi: Farewell to Arms, Op. 9

Jocelyn Pook: Wonderland

Einojuhani Rautavaara: Lintukoto (Isle of Bliss)

Gerald Finzi: Two Sonnets, Op. 12

John McCabe: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Suite

Alessandro Fisher, tenor

Anna-Maria Helsing, conductor

Followed by Malcolm Arnold's one act opera The Dancing Master, unperformed in the composer's lifetime, but described by one critic as 'an absolute zinger' of a score. John Andrews conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra.

A fantasy programme from the BBC Concert Orchestra.

With Georgia Mann20181022Georgia Mann with music by Brumel, Poulenc, Walton and Mozart

Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers in Brumel's spectacular Earthquake Mass and a performance of Poulenc's Figure humaine with jazz interpolations. After a performance of Walton's Sonata for String Orchestra with Edward Gardner, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gergely Madaras, performs works by Judit Varga, Mozart and Dohnanyi.

2.00pm

Brumel: Missa Et ecce terrae motus 'The Earthquake Mass

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

2.40pm

Poulenc: Figure humaine (with jazz interpolations)

Misha Mullov-Abbado (NGA) (bass)

Jon Scott (drums)

Sam Leak (piano)

3.20pm

Walton: Sonata for String Orchestra

Edward Gardner (conductor)

3.45pm

Judit Varga: `alles Fleisch - ` (UK premiere)

Gergely Madaras (conductor)

4.05pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K488

Mariam Batashvili (piano)

4.35pm

Dohnanyi: Symphonic Minutes

Georgia Mann with music by Brumel, Poulenc, Walton and Mozart.

With Georgia Mann20181024Georgia Mann presents music from Estonia by Tulve, Tuur and Tubin: Olari Elts conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. And pianist Louis Lortie joins the BBC SO and Sir Andrew Davis for Finzi's Grand Fantasia and Toccata.

2.00pm

Helena Tulve: Extinction des choses vues (UK premiere)

Erkki-Sven Tuur: Prophecy (UK premiere)

Tubin: Symphony No. 7

Mika Vayranen (accordion)

Olari Elts (conductor)

3.05pm

Finzi: Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op.38

Louis Lortie (piano)

Music from Estonia with the BBC Symphony Orchestra including Eduard Tubin's Symphony No 7.

Yeol Eum Son Plays Beethoven20230620Presented by Ian Skelly, including concert and studio recordings from the BBC ensembles and from orchestras around Europe.

The main work at 3pm today is Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto, with Yeol Eum Son joining the NDR Radio Philharmonic and Andrew Manze at St George's Church in Wismar. The cellist Daniel Muller-Schott plays Lalo with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, and there are two new recordings from the BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, in music by Johanna Muller-Hermann and Lili Boulanger. Fabio Luisi conducts Nielsen in Copenhagen, and soprano Elizabeth Atherton joins the BBC Philharmonic in orchestral songs by Debussy.

Including:

Nielsen: Prelude to Act 2 of 'Saul and David

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi, conductor

Muller-Hermann: Two Female Choruses with Orchestra

BBC National Chorus of Wales

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Adrian Partington, conductor

c.2.35pm

Wagner: Prelude (Act 1 'Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg')

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

Debussy: Trois Ballades de Francois Villon

Elizabeth Atherton, soprano

Ludovic Morlot, conductor

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, op. 58

Yeol Eum Son, piano

NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Andrew Manze, conductor

Lili Boulanger: Vieille pri耀re bouddhique

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

c.4pm

Lalo: Cello Concerto in D minor, op. 35

Daniel Muller-Schott, cello

Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor

Verdi: The Force of Destiny (Overture)

Xian Zhang, conductor

Yeol Eum Son plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with the NDR Radio Philharmonic.

Youth Orchestras Of The World 1-420200706Fiona Talkington launches a series of concerts by some of the world's top youth orchestras. Today not one but two National Youth Orchestras from Germany - both playing Strauss blockbusters. We begin with the 50th Anniversary Concert by the incredibly talented teenagers who make up the National Youth Orchestra (Bundesjugendorchester), and end with their student counterparts, the Young German Philharmonic (Junge Deutsche Philharmonie).

Var耀se: Am退riques

Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony)

Helmut Lachenmann: Marche Fatale

German National Youth Orchestra

Conductor Ingo Metzmacher

c. 3.15pm

Hendrik Hofmeyr: Three African Songs (world premi耀re)

Conductor Alexander Shelley

c. 3.30pm

Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Conductor Jonathan Nott

In this series you can also hear National Youth Orchestras from the Netherlands, Slovakia and Romania, plus three international youth orchestras, each formed from players who come from all over the world to take part in a summer training academy: the brand-new RCO Young orchestra under the wing Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the orchestras of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in the lowlands of northern Germany and the Verbier Festival high in the Swiss Alps.

Youth Orchestras Of The World 2-420200707Fiona Talkington presents concerts by some of the world's top youth orchestras - today featuring one of the oldest and one of the youngest, both from the Netherlands.

The National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands was founded in 1957, whereas we'll hear the very first concert given by the RCO Young, whose players are drawn from a summer academy run by Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43

with Alexander Romanovsky (piano)

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Conductor Antony Hermus

c. 3.15pm

Detlev Glanert: Idyllium (world premi耀re)

Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64

with Julian Rachlin (violin)

c. 4pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64

Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado

Fiona Talkington presents concerts by some of the world's top youth orchestras.

Yulianna Avdeeva Plays Prokofiev20230531Penny Gore presents an afternoon of recordings by the BBC performing groups, and concerts across Europe.

Today at 3pm, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 with soloist Yulianna Avdeeva, and music by Franz Schmidt. The BBC Philharmonic with Sullivan's Dance of Nymphs and Reapers, from his suite of incidental music from The Tempest, and Penny introduces Renaissance madrigals by Gesualdo and composers around his time, performed by La Compagnia del Madrigale.

Including:

Sullivan: Suite from ‘The Tempest' Op 1: Dance of Nymphs and Reapers

Richard Hickox, conductor

Schmidt: Symphony No. 3 in A major; 3rd movement

Paavo Jarvi, conductor

c.2.20pm

Gesualdo: T'amo mia vita

Luzzaschi: Cor mio bench退 lontana

d'India: Deh, poi ch'era nei fati

Beach: Romance, Op 23

Elena Urioste, violin

Michael Brown, piano

Beethoven: Septet (Op.20) in E flat major, 1st movement; Adagio - Allegro con brio

Melos Ensemble of London

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 16

Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

Andris Poga, conductor

Nenna: Merc耀 grid

Tagliavia: Io mi sento morir

Gesualdo (arr. Maletto): Piet

Zemlinksy And Mendelssohn From The Baltic Sea Festival20200211The Baltic Sea Festival. Penny Gore introduces more recordings from Stockholm summer music festival including today works inspired by Hans Christian Andersen and Goethe.

H C Andersen's story The Little Mermaid is imaginatively interpreted by Alexander Zemlinsky in his colourful and atmospheric half hour long fantasy for orchestra. Premiered in 1905, the same year as The Mermaid, Debussy's `Symphonic sketches`, as he called La Mer, is a sonorous abundance of sound gaining inspiration from Javanese music,

Presented by Penny Gore.

Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau 'The Little Mermaid,' fantasy after Andersen

Bloch: Schelomo: Rhapsodie h退braque, B. 39

Debussy: La Mer

Truls Mørk (cello),

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Klaus M䀀kel䀀 (conductor)

at approx 3.35pm

Arvo Part: Tabula rasa

Harry Traksmann and Robert Traksmann (violins)

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, T倀nu Kaljuste (conductor)

Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden, op. 13

Swedish Radio Choir,Daniel Harding (conductor)

at approx 3.50pm

Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht 'Walpurgis Night

Ingrid Tobiasson (contralto), Bernard Richter (tenor), Shenyang (baritone), Swedish Radio Choir and Swedish RSO, Daniel Harding (conductor)

Arvo Part: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten

Zemlinsky's The Mermaid and Mendelssohn's Walpurgis Night from the Baltic Sea Festival.