BBC SSO and BBC Singers

Louise Fryer presents a week featuring recent performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers. From Wednesday to Friday the BBC SSO and their Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles perform Wagner's entire opera Tristan and Isolde - one act per day. And a theme throughout the week is twentieth century music influenced by older music - including a brand new CD of Stravinsky by the BBC SSO, Renaissance-inspired choral music from the BBC Singers, and (tomorrow) a special live concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

The week begins with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in concert in Ayr, performing music by Mozart and Haydn. Plus a first hearing for the BBC SSO's new Stravinsky CD, with their Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov. And the BBC Singers perform French composer Maurice Duruflé's motets inspired by Gregorian chant, and the beautiful neo-Renaissance Requiem written in the 1920s by the Italian Ildebrando Pizzetti - whose music features alongside Stravinsky's every day this week.

Mozart: Chaconne from Idomeneo; Symphony no. 39 in E flat major, K.543
2.40pm
Haydn: Paukenmesse
BBC Singers,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Bernard Labadie.

3.20pm
Pizzetti: Requiem
BBC Singers,
Conductor Paul Brough.

3.45pm
Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and Wind
Steven Osborne (piano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Ilan Volkov.

4.05pm
Duruflé: Quatre Motets sur des thèmes gregoriens
BBC Singers,
Conductor Paul Brough.