Episode 1

Katie Derham profiles the recent music-making of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the concert hall and in the recording studio. Today's music ranges from an anguished late symphony by Dylan Thomas's friend Daniel Jones to the perfumed oriental world of Rimsky Korsakov's Scheherazade. Also today, Llyr Williams plays William Matthias's extrovert Second Piano Concerto and Arturo Pizarro uncovers a seldom-heard piano concerto from late nineteenth-century Brazil.

Alun Hoddinott
Jack Straw - Overture Op 35
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

William Matthias
Piano Concerto No 2, Op 13
Llyr Williams (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

c 2.30pm
Daniel Jones
Symphony No 10
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

c. 2.50pm
Handel
Aria: Cara sposa from Rinaldo
Christine Rice (mezzo soprano),
BBC NOW, Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

c. 3.05pm
Rimsky Korsakov
Scheherazade - symphonic suite, Op 35
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Nicholas Collon (conductor)

c. 3.50pm
Henrique Oswald
Piano Concerto No 10 (1890)
Artur Pizarro (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins (conductor).