Petroc Trelawny with music and arts news, including a review of ENO's new production of Wagner's Parsifal directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff , which opened on Saturday. Music includes at 6.30 Elgar's Serenade for Strings performed by the BBCSO, conductor Andrew Davis ; after the news at 7.00 Sibelius's Andante Festivo played by the Gothenburg SO, conductor Neeme Jarvi; and at about 7.45
Mendelssohn's Serenade and Allegro Giocoso with Stephen Hough (piano) and the CBSO, conductor Lawrence Foster. After the 8.00 news, Bach's motet Lobet den Herrn, BWV230, is performed by the Stockholm Bach Choir with the Vienna Concentus Musicus conducted by Nikolaus Hamoncourt.