BBC Symphony Orchestra at 90

Penny Gore introduces three former chief conductors of the BBC SO as the orchestra turns 90. Today's celebrations start with Pierre Boulez, at his 80th birthday gala concert in 2005, conducting Debussy's Jeux and Trois ballads de Villon, with soprano Elizabeth Atherton, and his own music, Le soleil des eaux, featuring the BBC Singers, and then Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe - joined by the BBC Symphony Chorus. Next Jessica Cottis takes to the rostrum to conduct the ensemble in Thea Musgrave's Helios, with oboist Emily Pailthorpe. Colin Davis at the 1971 Last Night of the Proms thrills with Berlioz's Trojans March, there's a Haydn Symphony with current Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo, and the afternoon ends with Gennadi Rozhdestvensky conducting Prokofiev's Ode to the End of the War - involving wind orchestra, percussion, 4 harps and 4 pianos!

2.00pm
Debussy: Jeux
Debussy: Trois ballades de Villon
Boulez: Le soleil des eaux
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloé
Elizabeth Atherton, soprano
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, conductor

3.50pm
Thea Musgrave: Helios
Emily Pailthorpe, oboe
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jessica Cottis, conductor

4.15pm
Berlioz: The Trojans March
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis, conductor

4.20pm
Haydn: Symphony No. 34 in D minor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

4.40pm
Prokofiev: Ode to the End of the War
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor