Live from the Royal Albert Hall. The BBC Philharmonic's new composer-conductor James MacMillan , who conducts his dramatic new concerto. And the orchestra's chief guest conductor, VassilySinaisky, conducts popularworks by Rimsky-Korsakov and Strauss. Presented by Petroc Trelawny . The Sixteen, BBC Philharmonic; conductors James MacMillan and Vassily Sinaisky
Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture
James MacMillan Birds of Rhiannon
(BBC commission, first performance)
8.25 Twenty Minutes: Performing Art Christopher Cook is joined by Alicia Weisberg-Roberts at the Victoria and Albert Museum to explore a pair of corner tables designed by Andre Boulle for Louis XIV's pastoral menagerie at Versailles.
8.45 Strauss Ein Heldenleben
Repeated next Monday at 2pm.