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Thursday 25th May 2017 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

3: Katie Derham presents the third of four programmes featuring performances given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. With a complete performance of Haydn's The Creation given at Glasgow's City Halls in May. 2.00 Haydn: The Creation. Rowan Pierce (soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor), Matthew Rose (bass), Edinburgh Festival Chorus, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard. 3.40 Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Donald Runnicles. 3.55 William Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concerto No 2 in E flat, Op 4. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Howard Shelley (piano).

Tuesday 30th May 2017 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

1: Jonathan Swain presents the first of four programmes of concerts given by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. 2.00 Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink. 2.12 Debussy: Trois Nocturnes. Women of the Netherlands Chamber Choir, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink. 2.40 Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink. 3.47 James MacMillan: Trombone Concerto. Jorgen van Rijen (trombone), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Ivan Fischer.

Monday 11th September 2017 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Penny Gore presents a week of concerts featuring Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. In the 2016 BBC Proms Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic paired Boulez and Mahler to great effect. The same pairing return in this concert from September 2016, opening the new season at the Philharmonie in Berlin. Boulez: Eclat. Mahler: Symphony No 7. Bartok: Concerto for orchestra. Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle.

Tuesday 12th September 2017 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Penny Gore presents a week of concerts with Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. In this concert from the 2017 Lucerne Festival he presents Haydn's oratorio The Creation, which combines groundbreaking harmonies, humorous tone painting and powerful choruses to form a spectacular cosmic panorama. Haas: ein kleines symphonisches Gedicht. Haydn: The Creation. Genia Kuhmeier (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Berlin Radio Choir, Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle.

Thursday 28th September 2017 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Georgia Mann presents a concert performance of Handel's opera seria Lucia Cornelio Silla, recorded in Vienna in January 2016 at the Resonanzen Festival. Based on the real life Roman Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the plot concerns his seizing of power from his enemy Mario, and the repercussions when he proclaims himself dictator. Handel: Lucio Cornelio Silla, HWV.10. Sonia Prina, alto (Silla), Martina Belli, mezzo-soprano (Claudio), Sunhae Im, soprano (Metella), Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano (Lepido), Roberta Invernizzi, soprano (Flavia), Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, soprano (Celia), Luca Tittoto, bass (Mars), Fabio Biondi (violin), Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi. Butterworth: 2 English Idylls. BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Kriss Russman. Dickinson: 5 Diversions. BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Clark Rundell.

Tuesday 31st October 2017 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Tom McKinney showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings, including a performance of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No 2. Afternoon Concert continues its celebration of Tone Poems, and the Ulster Orchestra offer up works by Smetana, Sibelius and Janacek alongside the Szymanowski Concerto. Dvorak: Carnival Op 92. Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 2, Op 61. Smetana: Vltava. Janacek: Taras Bulba. Tasmin Little (violin), Ulster Orchestra/Courtney Lewis. Dvorak: The Noon Witch, Op 108. Ulster Orchestra/Jac Van Steen. Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47. Jennifer Pike (violin), Ulster Orchestra/Rafael Payare. Sibelius: Lemmimkainen Suite, Op 22; 3. Lemminkainen in Tuonela; 4. Lemminkainen's Return. Sibelius: Tapiola, Op 112. Ulster Orchestra/Courtney Lewis.

Monday 27th November 2017 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Tom McKinney presents a selection of the finest concerts from across Europe, celebrating 50 years of the European Broadcasting Union's music exchange - a swapping service between European broadcasters. Herbert Blomstedt conducts Mendelssohn's Symphonies Nos 3 and 4 in a concert with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic plays Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances in a concert recorded in March 2017. Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), Op 26. Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A, 'Italian'. Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor, 'Scottish'. Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt. Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11. Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op 45.

Monday 11th December 2017 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Live from Cardiff music by Elgar with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Tadaaki Otaka. Also, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with music by Haydn and Mahler. Elgar: Cockaigne (In London town) - overture Op 40. Elgar: Sea pictures Op 37 for mezzo-soprano and orchestra. Elgar: Serenade in E minor Op 20 for string orchestra. Elgar: In the south (Alassio) - overture Op 50. Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano). BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka. Haydn: Symphony No 88 in G H.1.88. Mahler: Symphony No 7. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard.

Tuesday 19th December 2017 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Penny Gore presents three cantatas by J.S. Bach recorded in 2017 in Utrecht, performed by the Netherlands Bach Ensemble, directed by Peter Dijkstra. JS Bach: Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn, BWV 119. Lobe den Herren, den machtigen Konig der Ehren, BWV 137. Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69. Miriam Feuersinger (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Netherlands Bach Society/Peter Dijkstra.

Tuesday 16th January 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Tom McKinney presents highlights from the 2017 Lucerne Festival, including Elgar and Rachmaninov played by the City of Birmingham SO with their Music Director Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla. Vasks: Cantabile. Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85. with Gautier Capucon (cello). Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 44. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla. Zimmermann: Contrasts (Kontraste), music to an imaginary ballet. Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble/Heinz Holliger. Bartok: The Wooden Prince. Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra/Matthias Pintscher. van der Aa: Hysteresis for clarinet, ensemble and soundtrack. Martin Adamek (clarinet), Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble/Matthias Pintscher.

Wednesday 17th January 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

Tom McKinney presents a concert of music by Mozart and Mahler with Bernard Haitink conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at the 2017 Lucerne Festival. Mozart: Symphony No 36 in C, K 425 (Linz). Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Bernard Haitink.

Monday 12th February 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Kate Molleson presents a week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers, including a concert the Orchestra gave at its home in Maida Vale Studios. Robin Tritschler joins as a soloist in Britten's Illuminations, and there's an award-winning recording of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, for which the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus were joined by a stellar group of soloists - Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton and David Soar. Andrew Davis conducts. Turina: La procesion da Rocio. Britten: Les Illuminations. Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements. Robin Tritschler (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Duncan Ward. Brahms: Tragic Overture. BBC Symphony Orchestra/Alpesh Chauhan. Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op 38. Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Stuart Skelton (tenor), David Soar (bass), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis. Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man. BBC Symphony Orchestra/Alpesh Chauhan.

Friday 20th April 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Tom Redmond concludes a week of performances from the BBC Philharmonic. Today's concert features Britten's Violin Concerto with soloist Julia Fischer, and Elgar's second symphony.

Monday 30th April 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Penny Gore launches a week of concerts by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers, with the Symphony Orchestra playing Brahms, Britten and Tchaikovsky on tour in Japan. Britten: Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia (Peter Grimes). Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto. Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor. Alina Pogostkina (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo. Suk: Serenade for strings. BBC Symphony Orchestra strings/Gergely Madaras.

Tuesday 1st May 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Penny Gore presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing Rachmaninov and Mahler on tour in Japan. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor. Mahler: Symphony No 5. Yu Kosoge (piano). BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo. Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher - concerto for viola and small orchestra. Eivind Holtsmark-Ringstad (viola), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Douglas Boyd.

Monday 11th June 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Kate Molleson presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performing music by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bernstein and Rebel. Plus Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts his own violin concerto. episode 1.

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, op. 132 (version for string orchestra arr. by Franz Welser-Möst)
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, op. 13 ('Winter Daydreams')
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Franz Welser-Möst

c. 3.30 pm
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Violin Concerto
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

c. 4.00 pm
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Conductor Klaas Stok

c. 4.30 pm
Jean-Féry Rebel: Les Élémens
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Robin Ticciati

Coming up later in the week:
- Tuesday's programme begins with Verdi's Requiem conducted by Riccardo Muti
- Wednesday's programme features Richard Strauss, including Also sprach Zarathustra and Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
- Thursday's Opera Matinee is Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten from the Bavarian State Opera
- Friday's programme includes Sir Simon Rattle conducting Schumann's Rhenish Symphony and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.

Monday 18th June 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Georgia Mann presents the first in a week of programmes devoted to the magic of forests, beginning with a concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican. episode 1.

Clyne: This midnight hour
Britten: Violin Concerto Op.15
Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 in F major Op.68 (Pastoral)

Vilde Frang, violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

3.30: A selection of music evoking the different moods of the forest, including works by Messiaen, Smetana and Glazunov.

In midsummer week, Radio 3 enters one of the most potent sources of the human imagination. 'Into the Forest' explores the enchantment, escape and magical danger of the forest in summer, with slow radio moments featuring the sounds of the forest, allowing time out from today's often frenetic world.

Monday 25th June 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Tom McKinney introduces a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford, including Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 and a selection of works by Aaron Copland.

Friday 29th June 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Tom McKinney concludes a week of performances from BBC Philharmonic, including Korngold: Violin Concerto with soloist Andrew Haveron and Vaughan Williams: 5th Symphony.

Monday 9th July 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Tom McKinney introduces a week of concert recordings by the Suisse Romande Orchestra including performances of the Ravel Piano Concertos and tone poems by Richard Strauss.

Including:

c14.02 Johann Strauss II: Waltz - The Blue Danube

c14.14 Edouard Lalo: Violin Concerto in F
(soloist: Renaud Capucon)

c14.54 Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

c15.35 Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto for the left hand
(piano - Alexandre Tharaud)

c16.03 Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott.

Monday 10th September 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Tom Redmond launches a week of concerts recorded in Belgium, with a performance of Handel's intensely dramatic oratorio Samson, based on Milton's tragic poem on the Biblical story of Samson which he wrote in 1741, just after he completed Messiah. Today's concert was recorded at the Baroque church of Saint-Loup in Belgium as part of Les Wallonies Festival, with the rising-star Argentinian conductor Leonardo García Alarcón. George Frideric Handel: Samson Matthew Newlin, Samson, tenor Catherine Watson, Dalila, soprano Lawrence Zazzo, Micah, countertenor Luigi di Donato, Manoa, bass Guilhem Worms, Harapha, bass Namur Chamber Choir Millenium Orchestra Leonardo García Alarcón, conductor c. 4.30 pm Felix Mendelssohn: Die Schone Melusine - overture Op.32 Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Christian Arming, conductor Recorded in Philharmonic Hall, Liège.

Wednesday 12th September 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

Tom Redmond continues this week's Belgian theme with Mahler's Ninth Symphony recorded at the Klarafestival in Brussels. Daniel Harding conducts the Orchestre de Paris. The symphony was Mahler's final completed symphonic work. Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9 Orchestre de Paris Daniel Harding, conductor.

Wednesday 26th September 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

Live from Salford's MediaCityUK, Conductor Jiri Rozen and the BBC Philharmonic perform Martinu's final symphony, his 'Fantaisies symphoniques', and one of Dvorak's most popular orchestral works, his Serenade for Strings. They are joined by Ashley Riches for Mahler's youthful song cycle, the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer). After this, Rumon Gamba conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Knight in Armour, the early tone poem of Ruth Gipps which was premiered at the Last Night of the Proms in 1942. 2.00pm Dvorak: Serenade for Strings in C major, Op 48 Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer Martinu: Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony No 6), H 343 Ashley Riches (baritone) BBC Philharmonic Jiri Rozen (conductor) Continues: c.1520 Gipps: Knight in Armour, Op 8 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Rumon Gamba (conductor).

Thursday 27th September 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Georgia Mann presents Mozart's Don Giovanni recorded this summer at the Teatro Regio, Turin starring Carlos Álvarez, Erika Grimaldi and Mirco Palazzi. Daniele Rustioni conducts. After the enormous success of The Marriage of Figaro, one of the managers of Prague's Nostitz Theatre commissioned Mozart for another work. He wanted to work with the librettist Da Ponte again who, captivated by the story of Don Juan, was happy to oblige. The action follows the adventures of the roguish, womanising Giovanni, mixing comedy, tragedy and drama with the supernatural as his acts of betrayal and even murder finally catch up with him. 2.00pm Mozart: Don Giovanni K.527 Don Giovanni, a nobleman.....Carlos Álvarez, baritone Donna Anna, a noblewoman.....Erika Grimaldi, soprano Donna Elvira, Giovanni's scorned lover.....Carmela Remigio, soprano Don Ottavio, Donna Anna's fiancé.....Juan Francisco Gatell, tenor Leporello, Don Giovanni's manservant.....Mirco Palazzi, bass Zerlina, a peasant girl.....Rocío Ignacio, soprano Masetto, Zerlina's fiancé.....Fabio Maria Capitanucci, bass Il Commendatore, Donna Anna's father.....Gianluca Buratto, bass Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Regio, Turin Daniele Rustioni, conductor This afternoon's broadcast is the second in a trilogy of Mozart's Da Ponte operas: next Thursday we'll hear Così fan tutte performed by Les Musiciens du Louvre and Marc Minkowski.

Thursday 4th October 2018 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 (3 hours long)

Mozart's satirical and sparkling opera Così fan tutte K.588 is given by Les Musiciens du Louvre and Marc Minkowski, from 2017's Enescu Festival in Bucharest. The opera wasn't particularly well-received at its premiere in 1790, and the subject matter remains divisive today as Don Alfonso tried to prove that no woman can be faithful to her lover. But romantic cynicism aside, the music brims with sublime arias and vocal fireworks, and in the end everyone agrees that's it better to laugh than to cry. It's presented by Tom McKinney. Ana Maria Labin, Fiordiligi (soprano) Giulia Semenzato, Despina (soprano) Serena Walfi, Dorabella (mezzo-soprano) Robert Gleadwo, Guglielmo (baritone) Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, Ferrando (tenor) Jean-Sébastien Bou, Don Alfonso (baritone) Les Musiciens du Louvre Marc Minkowski, conductor This afternoon's broadcast concludes our series of Mozart's Da Ponte opera trilogy. You can catch up with parts 1 and 2 via the BBC Radio Player.