Thursday - Katya Kabanova, Act 2

Fiona Talkington introduces the second act of Leos Janacek's Katya Kabanova, from Rome Opera. Catch up with Act 1 from Wednesday's programme. Also, Sibelius' Symphony No. 3 with the BBC Philharmonic, Addison's Wellington Suite with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with soloist Simon Callaghan, Mark-Anthony Turnage's Set To, Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini.

Including:

Weber: Overture to 'Der Freischütz, op. 77'
La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor

Sibelius: Symphony No. 3
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor

John Addison: Wellington Suite
Simon Callaghan, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

3pm
Leos Janacek: Katya Kabanova - opera in 3 acts

Act 2

Savël Prokofjevic Dikój, a merchant: Stephen Richardson, bass
Boris Grigorjevič, Dikój's nephew: Charles Workman, tenor
Marfa Ignatěvna Kabanová (Kabanicha), widow of a rich merchant: Susan Bickley, contralto
Tichon Ivanyč Kabanov, her son: Julian Hubbard, tenor
Káťa (Katerina), Tichon's wife: Corinne Winters, soprano
Váňa Kudrjaš, a schoolteacher: Sam Furness, tenor
Varvara, a foundling: Carolyn Sproule, mezzo-soprano
Kuligin, friend of Vána Kudrjaš: Lukáš Zeman, baritone

Rome Opera Chorus
Roberto Gabbiani, chorus director
Rome Opera Orchestra
David Robertson, conductor

Mozart: Quintet in C major, K 515
Lise Berthaud, viola
Armida Quartet

Baldwin: A Browninge of 3 voices
Van Eyck: English Nightingale
Holborne: Pavana "The Funeral" and Galliard, a 5
Brade: Courante
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini, director

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini - symphonic fantasia after Dante (Op. 32)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson, conductor

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Set To
BBC Philharmonic (brass section)