BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers (2/5)

The BBC Symphony Orchestra @ 90.

Penny Gore this week introduces some memorable performances from the UK's world-renowned radio orchestra recorded at its historic home studio in London's Maida Vale and at the orchestra's Total Immersion weekends at the Barbican Centre. Also today, music spanning almost five centuries from the versatile voices of the BBC Singers and a chance to hear the young Russian cellist and current Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Anastasia Kobekina. She plays Schumann's Cello Concerto, written in just two weeks but never performed in his lifetime. And the afternoon ends with Martyn Brabbins putting the orchestra's brass section through its paces in his own fearsomely virtuosic arrangements of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

Tallis: Videte Miraculum
Michael Finnissy: Videte Miraculum
Taverner: Dum transisset Sabbatum
Michael Finnissy: Dum transisset Sabbatum
Michael Finnissy: Plebs Angelica Tippett: Plebs Angelica
BBC Singers, Nicholas Kok (conductor)

Haukur Tomasson: From darkness woven
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)

at approx 3pm
R. Schumann: Cello Concerto
Anastasia Kobekina (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Dreaming
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Anders Hillborg: Duet for clarinet and violin
Cara Doyle (clarinet)
Ragnhild Kyvik Bauge (violin)
members of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

at approx 4pm
Alan Hovhaness: Symphony no. 2 Op.132 (Mysterious mountain)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Prokofiev arr Brabbins: Suite from Romeo and Juliet
Brass of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)