Performance on 3 - BBC SO/Belohlavek

Presented by Catherine Bott. In a concert recorded at the Barbican in London on Saturday, celebrated Russian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their principal conductor Jiri Belohlavek in Schumann's Piano Concerto. Michael Tippett wrote his Corelli Fantasia for the 1953 Edinburgh Festival in celebration of the tercentenary of the composer's birth. Martinu called his final symphony, number 6, Symphonic Fantasies, and it was also written between 1951 and 1953 for his friend Charles Munch, conductor of the Boston Symphony. Jiri Belohlavek has long been a champion and expert on the music of his fellow countryman. Tippett: Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor Martinu: Symphony No 6 Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Followed by performances by nominees for the 2010 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, which is being held tonight at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Tonight features the nominees in the Instrumentalist category. Ravel: Sonate posthume Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Peter Nagy (piano) Franck, transcr. Hough: Troisieme Choral Stephen Hough (piano) Szymanowski: Variations I-X after Paganini's Caprice no 24 Alina Ibragimova (violin) Cedric Tiberghien (piano)