Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony from the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Available for 20 days

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'.