Episode 4

Louise Fryer continues the week's celebration of the BBC Philharmonic's 75th birthday, including a great showpiece for them, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. Plus a live concert by the BBC Singers from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge in London: Richard Coles introduces a programme of modern British sacred music for Maundy Thursday.

Haydn: Symphony no. 26 in D minor "Lamentatione"
BBC Philharmonic
Nicholas Kraemer (conductor)

2.15pm
LIVE from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, in London, Richard Coles presents a concert of modern British sacred music for Maundy Thursday.

BBC Singers
David Hill - conductor
Stephen Farr - organ

Kenneth Leighton: Crucifixus pro nobis

Matthew Martin: Quadraginta annis

Gabriel Jackson: O sacrum convivium

Alan Ridout: movements from The Seven Last Words

Patric Standford: motets from Tenebrae Responsories

Giles Swayne: movements from The Stations of the Cross

Francis Pott: My song is love unknown

3.30pm
Chopin orch. Stravinsky: Nocturne in A flat
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic
Cornelius Meister (conductor)

4.15pm
Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3 in C minor "Organ"
Jonathan Scott (organ)
BBC Philharmonic
Ludovic Morlot (conductor).