BBC Radio 3's Discovering Music David Robertson conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a live recording of BBC Radio 3's Discovering Music, looking at Profokiev's Symphony No. 5. Conducted and presented by David Robertson

SAM HAYDEN Substratum (BBC commission: world premiere of complete version)
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major
MESSIAEN Un sourire
STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto

David Robertson conductor
Gil Shaham violin

Gil Shaham's place among today's great violinists rests secure on foundations of insightful musicianship, breathtakingly beautiful sound and irresistible panache, qualities guaranteed to illuminate Mozart's joyful Second Violin Concerto and the witty elegance of Stravinsky's Violin Concerto. He joins forces with the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor for tonight's concert. The programme opens with the world premiere of the complete version of the multi-layered Substratum, created for the BBC SO by Sam Hayden as a constantly evolving construction of kaleidoscopic sounds and orchestral textures.

Pre-concert talk, 6.00pm
Fountain Room
Sam Hayden in conversation

Elliott Carter Centenary Concert


ELLIOTT CARTER Sound Fields (UK premiere)
ELLIOTT CARTER Cello Concerto
ELLIOTT CARTER Wind Rose (BBC commission: world premiere)
ELLIOTT CARTER Mad Regales (UK premiere)
ELLIOTT CARTER Horn Concerto
ELLIOTT CARTER Boston Concerto

Oliver Knussen conductor
Anssi Karttunen cello
Martin Owen french horn

Elliott Carter’s influence as composer, writer and teacher has spanned the globe since the 1940s, ever exploring new ideas and confronting tired conventions with extraordinarily lucid inventiveness. The native New Yorker, born on 11 December 1908, has long enjoyed a fruitful partnership with tonight’s conductor, Oliver Knussen, and with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Tonight's concert, which celebrates the composer's 100th birthday, includes concertos for horn and cello, his a capella vocal sextet Mad Regales and the world premiere of a brand new piece, Wind Rose.

This is a change to the originally advertised programme Pre-concert talk, 6.00pm
Barbican Hall
The Music of Elliott Carter