Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Part 1 | 20091120 | From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Presented by Petroc Trelawny. The BBC Philharmonic under chief guest conductor Vassily Sinaisky perform music by Shostakovich and Brahms, featuring young Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan. The concert opens with orchestral interludes taken from Shostakovich's opera Katerina Ismaylova (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk). Written at the height of Stalin's purges in the 1930s, it was popular with audiences, but was condemned in an anonymous article in Pravda and banned in the Soviet Union for almost 30 years. The composer extracted these interludes from his 1962 reworking of the piece. It is followed by Sibelius's First Symphony, which introduces the colourful tones and creative harmonies which were to become the hallmark of all his orchestral works. Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) Shostakovich: Orchestral Interludes (Katerina Ismaylova) Sibelius: Symphony No 1. The BBC Philharmonic under Vassily Sinaisky perform music by Shostakovich and Sibelius. Performance on 3 has been replaced by Radio 3 Live in Concert. |
| 02 | Part 2 | 20091120 | From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Presented by Petroc Trelawny. The BBC Philharmonic and chief guest conductor Vassily Sinaisky's concert concludes with Brahms's Violin Concerto, which brought mixed reactions when it was new - one critic declared that it was a wasn't so much a concerto for the violin but rather one 'against the violin', while it had a favourable public reception. Sergey Khachatryan (violin) Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) Brahms: Violin Concerto in D. The BBC Philharmonic in Brahms's Violin Concerto in D, with soloist Sergey Khachatryan. Performance on 3 has been replaced by Radio 3 Live in Concert. |