BBC Concert Orchestra

Perhaps the most versatile of all BBC orchestras, the BBC CO is at home just as much in film scores, musicals and popular classics as in more heavyweight repertoire and new commissions. Today's programme showcases that unique versatility with music that ranges from the contemporary classical composer Dobrinka Tabakova, though Jonny Greenwood, Jerome Kern and Burt Bacharach, to Malcolm Arnold whose music the orchestra has championed for many years at the annual International Malcolm Arnold Festival.

Introduced by Hannah French.

Dobrinka Tabakova: Tectonic
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

Jonny Greenwood: Popcorn Superhet Receiver
BBC Concert Orchestra
Robert Ziegler (conductor)

Jerome Kern (arr Guy Barker): The Folks who live on the Hill (from High, Wide and Handsome)
Clare Teal (singer)
BBC CO/Stephen Bell

Wayne Shorter (arr Barker) Nefertiti
BBC CO/Bramwell Tovey

Burt Bacharach (arr Barker) Say a little Prayer
Vanessa Haynes (singer)
BBC CO/Stephen Bell

Kuljit Bhamra: Raga Mela
Kuljit Bhamra (tabla)
Kartik Raghunathan (violin)
Jonathan Mayer (sitar)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Robert Ziegler (conductor)

Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No. 4, Op. 71
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)