Episode 1

Louise Fryer presents a week of programmes featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in Russian repertoire and music for Holy Week. As part of Baroque Spring on Radio 3, the BBC Singers perform motets by J S Bach and his predecessors and successors in the post of Cantor at St Thomas's Church in Leipzig. The BBC Symphony play pieces by Prokofiev and his Russian forefathers and contemporaries.

Glinka: Overture to A Life for the Tsar
BBC SO,
Conductor Mikhail Agrest.

2.10pm
J S Bach: Jesu meine Freude, BWV.227
BBC Singers,
David Hill (conductor),
Stephen Farr (organ).

2.30pm
Prokofiev: The Prodigal Son - Symphonic Suite, Op. 46a
BBC SO,
Conductor Mikhail Agrest.

Sethus Calvisius: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
BBC Singers,
David Hill (conductor),
Stephen Farr (organ).

2.55pm
Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
BBC SO,
Conductor David Robertson.

3.15pm
Patric Standford: A Mass for Hildegard of Bingen
BBC Singers,
Conductor Paul Brough.

3.30pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 in B minor (Pathétique)
BBC SO,
Conductor Jiri Belohlavek.