BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

Fiona Talkington launches a week of programmes featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra with a programme featuring the mandolin and guitar in music from Italy and Mexico. Plus choral music from the BBC Singers.

Ravel: Shéhérazade - ouverture de féerie
Avner Dorman: Mandolin Concerto
with Avi Avatal (mandolin)
Ghedini: Musica notturna (UK premiere)
with Avi Avatal (mandolin)
Respighi: Pines of Rome
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Daniele Rustioni

4pm
Ponce: Concierto del Sur
Thibaut Garcia (guitar)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Rumon Gamba

4.30pm
Walton: Partita for Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Edward Gardner

Other highlights in Afternoon Concert this week:
Tuesday - a live Ulster Orchestra concert featuring music by Tchaikovsky and Sibelius, plus Elgar's Second Symphony from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Wednesday - the BBC Symphony Chorus perform Brahms's Requiem.
Thursday - a rare chance to hear Gounod's last opera, in the month of his 200th birthday.
Friday - a BBC Symphony Orchestra concert of American music including Bernstein, Copland and Gershwin, plus Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony.