Live concert from the BBC Philharmonic

Linton Stephens showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

This week on Classical Live, we will hear music inspired by the Arts including Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending based on poetry by George Meredith, a suite from Rameau's ballet Les Boréades and Korngold's musical take on Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing'. Plus there is a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Jack Sheen encompassing this theme with music by Respighi, Gipps and Rachmaninov.

Elsewhere, there's chamber music from sold out concerts at the Hay Festival, recorded exclusively for BBC Radio 3 in May this year. Today the Mithras Trio perform a piece composed by one of the most important female composers from France, Mélanie Bonis.

Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Nathaniel Anderson-Frank (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

Mélanie Bonis
Soir et Matin, Op 76
Mithras Trio

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Suite - Les Boréades
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Biondi (conductor)

BBC Radio 3: 25 FOR 25
Oyvind Torvund
Among the Clouds
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Gabriella Teychenne (conductor)

Robert Schumann
Kinderszenen, Op 15
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
'Much Ado About Nothing' Suite, Op 11
Geneva Lewis (violin)
Llyr Williams (piano)

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Live with the BBC Philharmonic

Ottorino Respighi
Trittico Botticelliano

Ruth Gipps
A knight in armour

Sergei Rachmaninov
The Isle of the Dead

BBC Philharmonic
Jack Sheen (conductor)

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