Episode 1

Penny Gore presents a week of programmes featuring the BBC Philharmonic including a live concert on Wednesday from MediaCity, Salford. Today, recorded on recent tours, we've Rossini's Silken Ladder from Zagreb and Bruch's sunny Violin Concerto from Pamplona with soloist Boris Belkin, plus a rare chance to hear a work by the little-known English composer Patrick Hadley. A contemporary of Moeran, Bax and Howells, Hadley was injured in the Great War and much of his music has a mournful edge. This chamber piece with mezzo-soprano sets a text by Tennyson, and exemplifies his exceptional understanding of how to set words to music. Plus Schoenberg's symphonic poem Pelleas and Melisande and Beethoven's complete incidental music to Goethe's Egmont in an English translation by the chief producer of the BBC Philharmonic, Mike George.

2pm
Rossini: Overture (The Silken Ladder)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor

2.05pm
Patrick Hadley: Mariana
Catherine Wyn Rogers, mezzo-soprano
BBC Philharmonic
Paul Daniel, conductor

2.20pm
Beethoven: Egmont (complete, in English)
Eleanor Dennis, soprano
Malcolm Raeburn, narrator
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor

3.10pm
Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1
Boris Belkin, violin
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor

3.40pm
Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor.