Presented by Sean Rafferty
Stravinsky Three Pieces Alain Damiens (clarinet)
Petrushka (Three Movements for piano) Michel Beroff
Berceuse
Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Ollie Mustonen (piano)
See also TheFirebird at 7.30pm Symphony at Six
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1 in G minor (Winter Daydreams) BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda Serenade Melancolique , Op 26 Maxim Vengerov (violin),
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mstislav Rostropovich Stravinsky Sonata
Vladimir Ashkenazy and Andrei Gavrilov (pianos)

The Tchaikovsky Experience
After 1.00pm/6.00 R3 Tchaikovsky's life was punctuated by black bouts of depression, and although there is much that is abundantly joyful in his music there are also works that reflect his melancholia. His opera Eugene Onegin has a sad and yearning heart, and is based on Pushkin's verse drama about a cynical aristocrat who comes to regret that he once spurned the love of a naive country girl, Tatyana. Today's recording features the suitably brooding Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Onegin. And in Symphony at Six there's the first of this week's complete cycle of Tchaikovsky's symphonies: Winter Daydreams. David Gillard