Afternoon Concert

Friday 8th November 2019 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Celebrating the BBC Philharmonic.

John Storgards leads the BBC Philharmonic 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 concerto's for violin played by Arabella Steinbacher. Plus, more from this week's featured composer, George Antheil, two of his symphonies. Presented by Kate Molleson. 2.00 Britten: Simple Symphony. Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2. Bruckner: Symphony No 6. Arabella Steinbacher (violin), BBC Philharmonic, conductor John Storgards. 3.45 Antheil: Symphony No 5 `Joyous"; Symphony No 6 `After Delacroix". BBC Philharmonic, conductor John Storgards.

Monday 18th November 2019 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

The Ulster Orchestra - Weber, Korngold, Hindemith.

Fiona Talkington presents the first of a week of programmes featuring recent concerts by the Ulster Orchestra, beginning with Sergey Neller conducting Weber's Oberon overture, then Korngold's Violin Concerto with soloist Jennifer Pike and ending with Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Weber. Then, Rafael Payare takes to the helm in Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, Leningrad, inspired by the siege of the city in 1941, and to end the afternoon, Szymanowski's Etude Op 4 No 3, in a version for orchestra by Grzegorz Fitelberg, conducted by Ilyich Rivas. The Ulster Orchestra. Weber: Oberon - overture; Korngold: Violin Concerto in D, Op 35; Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber. Jennifer Pike (violin), Sergey Neller (conductor). 3.05 Shostavovich: Symphony No 7 in C - Leningrad, Op 60. Rafael Payare (conductor). 4.20 Szymanowski, arr. Fitelberg: Etude Op 4 No 3. Ilyich Rivas (conductor).

Tuesday 24th December 2019 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

BBC Concert Orchestra at Snape Maltings.

The BBC 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. Presented by Hannah French. 2.00 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, The BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor). 3.20 Bernstein: On the Waterfront - suite. RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Madrid, Christian Lindberg (conductor). 3.35 Gustav Lazarus Nordqvist: Jul, jul, stralande Jul; Alice Tegner: Betlehems stjarna; Hugo Alfven: Julsang; Eriks Esenvalds: Stars; William Bergsma: Carol on Twelfth Night; Erich Korngold: Introduction from Der Schneemann; Jule Styne: Let it snow; Mendelssohn: Weihnachten, Op 79 No 1; John Francis Wade: Dagen ar kommen; Edward Pola: It's the most wonderful time of the year. Love Tronner (tenor), Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano/conductor).

Tuesday 31st December 2019 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Viennese Connections - Verdi's Requiem.

Tom 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, Riccardo Muti (conductor). Martinu: Concerto for two string orchestras, piano and timpani; Brahms: Violin Concerto. Julia Fischer (violin), Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Andres Orozco-Estrada (conductor).

Tuesday 14th January 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

BBC Philharmonic Live.

Tom 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. 2.00 Vaughan Williams: In the Fen Country; Symphony No 6 in E minor - BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson (conductor). 3.00 Elgar: Lux Aeterna. William Walton: Touch her soft lips, and part. Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei. Percy Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry; The Sussex Mummers' Carol. Sven-David Sandström: Hear my prayer. Jan Sandström: Det är en ros utsprungen. William Byrd: Ave verum corpus. Roderick Williams: Ave Verum Corpus Re-Imagined. Douglas Guest: They shall grow not old. Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending - Elodie Chousmer-Howells (violin), The BBC Singers, Sofi Jeannin (conductor). 3.50 Petra Strahovnik: Prana - RTV Symphony Orchestra, Ljubljana, Rossen Milanov (conductor). 4.00 Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major - Jack Liebeck (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Gourlay (conductor).

Monday 20th January 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Elizabeth Alker presents the beginning of a week of concerts and music featuring the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC's orchestra in the north of England, beginning with one recorded on April 13, 2019 in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. BBC Philharmonic. Bax: November Woods. Walton: Violin Concerto. James Ehnes (violin). Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4. John Wilson (conductor). Dvorak: The Wood Dove. Jac van Steen (conductor). Presented by Elizabeth Alker.

Monday 27th January 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

20 Years of Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Episode 1.

Every 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 100 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 to 2001 and has since developed a career as one of the finest pianists in the world. Leyman: Undulating Blue. 2.18 Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat. 2.50 Holst: The Planets. Paul Lewis (piano), Women of the Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor). 3.40 Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 1, Op 8 (13:11). Amatis Piano Trio. 3.55 Copland: Clarinet Concerto (17:25). Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet), Orchestre Royal de Chamber de Wallonie, Frank Braley (conductor).

Monday 10th February 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Herbert Blomstedt Conducts Bach and Mendelssohn.

Penny Gore this week introduces performances by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir recorded at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm selection. Today, nonogenarian Herbert Blomstedt conducts a joyous solo cantata by Bach and Mendelssohn's Lobgesang. Bach wrote most of his cantatas in Leipzig and Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, with its jovial soprano and trumpet parts, really is true to its title, which translates as `Shout for joy to God in all lands". Over 100 years later in the same city, Mendelssohn wrote Lobgesang, another work teeming with infectious joy, for the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing. Herbert Blomstedt, yet another former Leipzig resident, puts all of his experience and skill to realizing this optimistic, life-affirming music. Bach: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51, cantata. Simona Houda-Saturova (soprano), Gianluca Calise (piccolo trumpet), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor). Mendelssohn Symphony No 2 in B flat, Op 52 - Lobgesang. Simona Houda-Saturova (soprano), Marie Henriette Reinhold (mezzo, Tilman Lichdi (tenor), Swedish Radio Choir and SRSO, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor). Arvo Part: L'Abbé Agathon. Maria Listra (soprano), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tonu Kaljuste (conductor). Mozart: Symphony No 38 in D, K. 504 - Prague. Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Bancroft (conductor).

Tuesday 18th February 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Bernard Haitink's Farewell.

Highlights 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). 2.35 Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E major. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor). 3.50 Shostakovich: Symphony No 4 in C minor, Op 43. Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor).

Wednesday 19th February 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

Barefoot Schoenberg.

The Berlin Philharmonic and conductor Kirill Petrenko play Tchaikovsky and Schoenberg, with violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Op 36. Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Kirill Petrenko. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64. Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Kirill Petrenko.

Friday 10th April 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Music from Wales.

John Butt conducts the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales in Bach: St John Passion, from St David's Hall in Cardiff, from 2017. The St John Passion is an extravagant and emotionally charged work, often using the chorus chorales to drive the dialogue forward. It is modestly scored but with an expressive immediacy and some of the most exquisite solo flute and oboe writing of the baroque era. John Butt is one of the most respected Bach specialists of today, both as a performer and a scholar. Having recorded the St John Passion in a liturgical context, he brings his expertise to the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales in this dramatic and intimate setting of the Gospel story. 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, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor/director John Butt.

Monday 13th April 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Bach from Paris.

A celebration of highlights from recent concerts by great French orchestras and ensembles, with today's programme featuring Bach's great B minor Mass performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, along with French ballet favourites by the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France. Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232. Mariana Flores (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Paulin Bündgen (countertenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Wolf (bass), Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Leonardo García Alarcón (conductor). Recorded November 2019 in the Auditorium, Radio France Broadcasting House, Paris. Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 1; Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, Op 43, Suite No 2. Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, Fabien Gabel (conductor). Recorded in January 2019 in the Philharmonie, Paris.

Tuesday 26th May 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Enescu and Suk from the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Penny Gore introduces recent performances by Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Germany's oldest radio orchestra. Founded in 1923, the orchestra is noted for its championship of a wide variety of repertoire, and today the orchestra continues that tradition under its current Principal Conductor, Vladimir Jurowski. Britten: Violin Concerto, Op 15. Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Enescu: Symphony No 3 in C, Op 21. George Enescu Philharmonic Chorus, Berlin State Opera Children's Chorus, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). 3.30 Dvorák: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 53. Josef Spacek (violin), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jakub Hruša (conductor). 4.00 Suk: Pohádka léta, symphonic poem, Op 29 (A Summer's Tale). Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jakub Hruša (conductor).

Monday 27th July 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Summer Festivals.

Tom McKinney begins a week devoted to recordings from European summer festivals held in 2019, starting with the Ansbach Bach week in Germany and 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 there are 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 1st Piano Concerto by Nelson Goerner. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F, BWV 1046; Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D, BWV 1050; 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). c 3.20 Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11. Nelson Goerner (piano), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Alexander Rabinowitch-Barakovsky (conductor). c 4.05 Rossini: Overture to William Tell; Bellini: E' serbata a questo acciaro (I Capuleti ei Montecchi). Levy Sakgapane (tenor), Tivoli Copenhagen Phil, Patrick Lange (conductor).

Friday 7th August 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Summer Festivals. Episode 5.

Penny Gore with more great Prom concerts from recent years by BBC Orchestras and choirs. Today, Nigel Kennedy plays Elgar's Violin Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra. 2.00 Bax: The Garden of Fand. Finzi: Intimations of Immortality (Proms premiere). Andrew Kennedy (tenor), BBC Symphony Chorus. 2.55 Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op 61. Nigel Kennedy, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Paul Daniel.

Wednesday 12th August 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

Summer Festivals.

Fiona Talkington introduces a performance of Handel's oratorio Susanna, recorded at the Handel Hall, Halle, with the MDR Radio Chorus and the Basel Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Paul McCreesh. Handel: Susanna HWV 66 - Act 1. Mary Bevan (Susanna:soprano), Tim Mead (Joacim, Susanna's husband:countertenor), David Soar (Chelsias, Susanna's father: bass), Thomas Walker (First Elder:tenor), Derek Welton (Second Elder:bass baritone), Charlotte Shaw (Daniel/A servant:soprano), Jakob Eberlein (Richter:bass), MDR Radio Chorus, Leipzig, Benjamin Goodson (Chorus Director), Basel Chamber Orchestra, conductor Paul McCreesh.

Monday 14th September 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Berlin Philharmonic.

Penny Gore presents a week of highlights from the Berlin Philharmonic's 2019/20 season, beginning with Paavo Jarvi conducting the orchestra in music by Sibelius and Schumann. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Sibelius: Tapiola, Op. 112; Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op 97, Rhenish. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi (conductor). 2.50 Berio: Sinfonia. Simon Rattle (conductor). 3.30 Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G (arrangement for chamber ensemble by Erwin Stein). Christiane Karg (soprano), Kirill Petrenko (conductor).

Monday 28th September 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

All week: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Episode 5.

Penny 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 Iván Fischer. 2.00 Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust. Christian Gerhaher (baritone: Faust), Christiane Karg (soprano: Gretchen), Louise Alder (soprano), Ann Hallenberg (contralto), Werner Güra (tenor: Ariel), Tareq Nazmi (bass), Kurt Rydl (bass: Mephistopheles). Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor). 3.50 Haydn: Symphony no 102 in B flat, Hob.1:102. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Iván Fischer (conductor).

Friday 30th October 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Penny Gore closes this week of celebrations of the 90th anniversary of the BBC Symphony Orchestra with one of its chief conductors, Jiri Belohlavek, performing Janacek's The Adventures of Mr Broucek, with tenor Jan Vacik in the title role. Then, Raymond Yiu's Xocolatl with Andrew Davis conducting the ensemble. Jan Vacik (Mr Broucek: tenor), Peter Straka (Mazal/Ethereal/Kunka: tenor), Maria Haan (Malinka/Etherea/Kunka: soprano), Roman Janal (Sacristan, Lunobor, Domsik: baritone), Zdenek Plech (Wurfl/Caroskvouci/Councillor: bass), Ivan Kusnjer (The apparition of Svatopluk/Second Taborite: baritone), Lenka Smidova (Housekeeper/Kedruta: mezzo), Martina Bauerova (Young Waiter/Child Prodigy/Student: soprano), Jaroslav Brezina (Painter/Duhoslav/Vojta from the Peacocks/Voice of the Professor: tenor), Ales Briscein (Composer/Harfoboboj/Miroslav the goldsmith: tenor), Vaclav Sibera (Poet Prague/Oblacny/Vacek Bradaty: baritone), Edward Goater (Poet: tenor), Christopher Bowen (Another Poet: tenor), Charles Gibbs (First Taborite: bass), Kenneth Richardson (Director). BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, conductor Jiri Belohlavek. 4.25 Raymond Yiu: Xocolatl. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis.

Friday 20th November 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

In Memoriam Stephen Cleobury.

The BBC Singers offer a programme of choral music in memory of Stephen Cleobury, who died on 22 November last year. Presented by Penny Gore. Elgar: Go, Song of Mine. Mendelssohn: Richte mich, Gott. Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben. Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia. Vaughan Williams: 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. BBC Singers, conductor Robert Quinner. 3.15 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1 `Winter Daydreams". BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins.

Monday 11th January 2021 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Nordic Sounds (1/4).

Penny Gore introduces the first of four programmes featuring music performed by Nordic ensembles, beginning with symphonies by Sibelius and Mahler, who met in 1907 and completely disagreed about what a symphony should be. Fr 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 Bystrom. Sibelius: Symphony No 7 in C, Op 105. Oslo Philharmonic, Klaus Makela (conductor). 2.25 Britta Bystrom: Der Vogel der Nacht (world premiere); Mahler: Symphony No 3 in D minor. Monica Groop (mezzo), Adolf Fredrik Music School Boys' Choir, Women of the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor).

Monday 8th February 2021 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (1/4).

The first of four programmes featuring the Czech Philhamonic Orchestra and some of its closest musical friends, featuring pieces by Shostakovich and Dvorak. Today's concert is dedicated to the memory of the orchestra's great conductor Vaclav Neumann and was 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), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (conductor); Suk: Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale St. Wenceslas, Op 35a. Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op 4. Prague Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Brauner (conductor); Reicha: Cantata - Lenore (Lenora) Part 1. Martina Jankova (soprano), Lenora Jirii Bruckler (baritone), Vilem Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno, Petr Fiala (chorus director) Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies (conductor).

Monday 8th March 2021 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Three Centuries of Women Composers - Monday. Episode 1.

For the first time, every note in the programmes this week was written by a woman as recordings from all of the BBC orchestras and choirs celebrate female creativity spanning 300 years and traversing the globe. From the 18th-century Italian violinist & composer Maddalena Sirmen to contemporary composers Linda Catlin Smith and Onute Narbutaite from Canada and Lithuania respectively. Plus, recordings from the rich archives of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme, including Ethel Smyth's epic double concerto, written in 1927. Elfrida Andrée: Concert overture in D. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chloe van Soeterstede (conductor). c 2.15 Judith Weir: Tiger Under the Table. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgards (conductor). c 2.30 Ethel Smyth: Concerto for violin, horn and orchestra. Alec Frank Gemmil (horn), Elena Urioste (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Daniel Blendulf (conductor). c 2.55 Linda Catlin Smith: Nuages. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor). c 3.15 Ruth Gipps: Symphony No 3, Op 57. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor). c 3.55 Onute Narbutaite: La Barca. BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor). c 4.10 Maddalena Sirmen: Quartet No 5 in F minor for strings.Aris Quartet. c 4.30 Morfydd Owen: Nocturne. BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Perry So (conductor).

Monday 12th April 2021 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

European Summer Festivals 1/5.

Ian Skelly presents the first of a week of programmes celebrating music-making across Europe, including two Beethoven symphonies conducted by 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". Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85; Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67. Harriet Krijgh (cello), NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor). 3.10 Michael Gordon: A Western. Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier (conductor). 3.35 Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat - Eroica, Op 55. German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen, Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor).

Monday 11th October 2021 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Kirill Petrenko in Berlin.

Ian 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. 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, and Noah Bendix-Balgley is the soloist in Bruch's ever-popular first violin concerto. Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Bach: Trio Sonata in C, BWV 529. Holland Baroque. Ives: The Unanswered Question; Mozart: Notturno in D, K. 286. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Verdonck: Amor Jesu dulcissimus; Benedictus à Sancto Josepho: Magnificat. Holland Baroque. 3.00 Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G, op. 55. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, op. 26. Noah Bendix-Balgley (violin), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Marek Janowski (conductor).

Tuesday 12th October 2021 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Rachmaninov's Second Symphony.

Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra play Mozart's Jupiter Symphony. 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 à Sancto Josepho: Alma Redemptoris Mater. Holland Baroque. c 3.00 Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, op. 27. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alpesh Chauhan (conductor). Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551 ('Jupiter'). Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Moulds (conductor).