Friday - Malcolm Arnold

Penny Gore introduces the BBC Philharmonic performing music by Malcolm Arnold in the week of the composer's centenary, including his Concerto for clarinet with Michael Collins, and the tone poem Larch trees. Plus Purcell from La Folia Baroque, the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy.

Plus more Radio 3 commissions for the BBC orchestras. Pieces by Perivolaris, Usui and Vibrans.

Including:

Anna Clyne: Masquerade for orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor

Mendelssohn: Trumpet Overture
BBC Philharmonic
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Henry Purcell: Since the Toils and Hazards of War, from 'The Prophetess, Z. 627'
Henry Purcell: Aeolus, You Must Appear, from 'The Tempest, Z. 531'
Henry Purcell: See, Nature, Rejoicing, from 'Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323'
Anna Prohaska, soprano
Julia Böhme, contralto
Richard Resch, tenor
Nikolay Borchev, baritone
La Folia Baroque Orchestra
Robin-Peter Müller, violin and conductor

Scriabin: Le Poeme de l'extase for orchestra, Op 54
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

Giuseppe Tartini: Sonata in G minor, 'Devil's Trill' (arr. F. Kreisler)
Alexandra Soumm, violin
Aimo Pagin, piano

c.3pm
Malcolm Arnold: Concerto no. 1 Op. 20 for clarinet and [string] orchestra
Malcolm Arnold: Larch trees - tone poem Op.3
Michael Collins, clarinet
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba, conductor

Carl Nielsen: Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 13
Danish String Quartet

Electra Perivolaris: A Forest Reawakens
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth, conductor

Shiori Usui: Particles
BBC SSO
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Oliver Vibrans: Treading Water
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor

Verdi: Laudi alla Vergine Maria, from 'Four Sacred Pieces'
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Zubin Mehta, conductor