Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Penny Gore presents a concert given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under conductor Martyn Brabbins, including Tchaikovsky's The Tempest and his Symphony No. 6; in between them, we hear Elgar's Sea Pictures with the mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill as soloist. This concert is followed by Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, the 'Leningrad', performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Semyon Bychkov, all part of Afternoon Concert's participation in Radio 3's season Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture, which continues next week.

2.00pm
Tchaikovsky: The Tempest [Burya] - symphonic fantasia, Op 18
Elgar: Sea pictures, Op 37
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor (Pathétique), Op 74
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

3.35pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 in C major (Leningrad), Op 60
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor).