Each day this week presenter Penny Gore focuses on the composers and performers of a European country. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Balakirev Overture on Russian Themes (Russia) Philharmonia, conductor Lovro von Matacic Schumann Papillons, Op 2 Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Musorgsky The Lad's Dream: Sorochintsy Fair Viko Obnosov (tenor), Russian State Symphonic Cappella and SO, conductor Valeri Poliansky Borodin Polovtsian
Dances (Prince Igor) Kirov Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Valeri Gergiev
8.30-10.00: Beethoven String Quartet in C, Op 59 No 3 (Razumovsky) Borodin Quartet Tchaikovsky Overture: 1812, Op 49
New York PO, conductor Leonard Bernstein