Episode 1

Katie Derham introduces the BBC National Chorus of Wales and the BBC Concert Orchestra in concert performances and recordings. Today features Dvorak's Mass in D major from a concert the BBC National Chorus of Wales gave last year. And Andre de Ridder conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert of contemporary music given at the Barbican last month, including film music by Jonny Greenwood and Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.

Presented by Katie Derham

2pm
Schumann: 3 Poems Op.29 (no.1 Landliches Lied; no.2 Lied)
Steven Kings (piano)
Dvorak: Mass in D major B.153, Op.86
Jane Watts (organ)
BBC National Chorus Of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor)

c.2.30pm
Loeffler: Les Veillées de l'Ukraine for violin and orchestra (2nd movement: Une Nuit de mai)
Lorraine McAslan (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Johannes Wildner (conductor)

c.2.50pm
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint
Jonny Greenwood: Suite - There Will be Blood
Gorecki: Symphony no.3 Op.36 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)
Jonny Greenwood (electric guitar, ondes martenot)
Jessica Rivera (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Andre de Ridder (conductor).