Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony from the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Elizabeth Alker brings you an afternoon of exclusive music-making including a performance of Tchaikovsky's dramatic and passionate Manfred Symphony. Performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Semyon Bychkov, the symphony is included as part of a week-long celebration of the composer.

Elsewhere in the programme, we will hear exclusive past chamber highlights recorded for the programme from London's Wigmore Hall. Today, pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja plays Brahms and the ORA Singers sing music by John Bennet and Jonathan Dove. There will also be two orchestral works from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Dvořák's The Wild Dove and Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges Suite.

Antonín Dvořák
The Wild Dove, Op. 110, symphonic poem
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor)

Johannes Brahms
7 Hungarian Dances
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)

John Bennet
All creatures now are merry minded
ORA Singers

Jonathan Dove
Sweet are the uses of adversity
ORA Singers

Serge Prokofiev
Love for Three Oranges Suite, Op. 33a
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Manfred Symphony
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers) just say, 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live'.