Monday - Mendelssohn's First Symphony

Penny Gore begins another week of unique recordings from the BBC Orchestras and Choirs, and from some of Europe's best ensembles.

Thierry Fischer conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Mendelssohn's First Symphony, as Penny starts an exploration of the German composer's symphonies throughout the week at 3pm. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play Beethoven Coriolan overture and Vaughan Williams's On Wenlock Edge, featuring tenor Benjamin Hulett, and Alessandro Taverna is the soloist in Saint-Saens's Second Piano Concerto.

Plus the first in this week's series of short pieces by living composers performed by BBC orchestras: Sarah Lianne Lewis's Mind the gap.

Including:

Glinka: Valse-fantasie in B minor
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Michael Seal, conductor

JS Bach: Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, Cantata BWV33
Terry Wey, alto
Patrick Grahl, tenor
Tobias Berndt, bass
Windsbach Boys' Choir Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Martin Lehmann, conductor

Beethoven: Coriolan overture
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge
Benjamin Hulett, tenor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor

c.3pm
Mendelssohn: Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op. 11
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer, conductor

Sarah Lianne Lewis: Mind the gap, for ensemble
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Michael Seal, conductor

Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 22
Bent Sorensen: Evening Land
Alessandro Taverna, piano
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor