Winter Daydreams

Music for Advent and winter from the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Alexander Vedernikov, featuring Tchaikovsky's First Symphony, which he called 'Winter Daydreams', as part of BBC Radio 3’s Light in the Darkness season. The programme begins with an all-Russian concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alexander Vedernikov, who sadly died recently at the age of 56 as a result of Covid-19. Plus choral music for Advent by Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz performed by the BBC Singers with conductor Justin Doyle.

Sviridov: Suite from The Blizzard
Rachmaninov: Paganini Variations
with Andrei Korobeinikov (piano)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 'Winter Daydreams'
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Alexander Vedernikov

c. 3.40pm
German Baroque choral music for Advent from the BBC Singers and conductor Justin Doyle

c. 4.10pm
Detlev Glanert: 4 Fantasies, Op.15
William Bracken (piano)

This series of Afternoon Concert featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers as part of BBC Radio 3’s Light in the Darkness season continues tomorrow with a live BBC Singers concert of contemporary carols, while the BBC SO take us to the top of a mountain and to paradise. On Wednesday, Professor Brian Cox joins the BBC SO to explore The Symphonic Universe, and on Christmas Eve, the BBC SO and Singers celebrate the divine wonder of childhood in music by Berlioz and Finzi.