Presented by Susan Sharpe.

1.00 The BBC Orchestras: BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

Faure Prelude (Penelope)

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat

Saint-Saens Danse macabre

Faure Pavane

Debussy La Mer

(Given last April in the Victoria Hall, Hanley)

Fairest Isle
2.25 Best of Friends
Two poems by Walt Whitman, each set to music by both Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst.
(See also tomorrow 7.00pm)

Fairest Isle
3.00 British Cities: Norwich
As a cathedral city since Norman times, a flourishing provincial centre in the 18th and 19th centuries and, for the last 30 years, the home of the University of East Anglia, Norwich has a long cultural history in which music has played a central role. Religious traditions are represented by church music from the Reformation to the present, and the Norfolk and Norwich music festivals, growing from 18th-century roots, have made commissions reflecting developments in orchestral and choral music across the decades. Peter Aston and Christopher Smith introduce a musical portrait of the city.