BBC Philharmonic - Dvorak, Ades, Britten, Brahms

The BBC Philharmonic, with conductor Juanjo Mena in music by Thomas Adès, Dvorak, Brahms and Britten. They are joined by violinist James Ehnes and mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley.

Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Ian Skelly

Dvorak: Overture, Carnival
Thomas Adès: America - a prophecy
Britten: Violin Concerto

8.30 Interval
Sara Mohr-Pietsch discusses the way collaboration works with poet Sean O'Brien and composer Agustín Fernández, looking at their new song-cycle, Notes from Underground, which was inspired by WH Auden's love of the lead-mining landscape of the North Pennines.
Recorded in front of a Free Thinking Festival audience at Sage Gateshead last month.

8.50
Brahms: Symphony No 3

Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
James Ehnes (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena

Dvorak gave the premiere of his arresting Carnival Overture in his farewell concert in Prague in the days before he moved to America. Britten's Violin Concerto, completed and and premiered in New York during the Second World War follows Thomas Adès's apocalyptic 'America - a prophecy', commissoned by the New York Philharmonic for pieces to mark the millennium. To end the concert we return to the peace of Bohemia with Brahms's Third Symphony.