Afternoon on 3 - Spotlight on the BBC Performing Groups - Spotlight on the BBC Performing Groups

As the first night of the 2009 BBC Proms approaches, Jonathan Swain throws the spotlight onto the BBC's Performing Groups, who provide the backbone of every year's Proms performances including on the first and last nights. This programme focuses on the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers. John Adams: The Chairman Dances BBC Symphony Orchestra Mikhail Agrest (conductor) Strauss: Metamorphosen BBC Symphony Orchestra Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor) Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op 76, No 1 Doric String Quartet 3.00pm Kuhnau: Tristis est anima mea Stephen Farr (organ) BBC Singers David Hill (conductor) Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op 15 Shai Wozner (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Jonas Alber (conductor) 3.55pm Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op 77, No 1 Jerusalem Quartet Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances BBC Symphony Orchestra Mikhail Agrest (conductor).