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December
  1. 3/9. John Shea features music recorded in Germany, Hungary and Romania.
  2. 2/9. John Shea introduces music from the Stockholm Early Music Festival and Salzburg Festival.
  3. 1/9. John Shea introduces music from Finland, Norway and the Czech Republic.
  4. 4/4. Richard Hickox conducting music by Humperdinck, Vaughan Williams, Bridge and Walton.
  5. BBC Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with a performance of Hercules.
  6. 3/4. The late Richard Hickox conducts the BBC NOW in music by Britten and Elgar.
  7. 2/4. Richard Hickox conducting music by Grainger, Holst, L Berkeley, M Berkeley, Mendelssohn.
  8. 1/4. The late Richard Hickox conducts music by Elgar, Bach, Rubbra, Ravel and Vaughan Williams.
  9. 5/5. BBC Philharmonic in music by Pierne and Bartok. Plus Handel Operas 2009: Semele (Act 3).
  10. 4/5. Louise Fryer presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Semele. Plus BBC Performing Groups.
  11. 3/5. BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Bax, Alan Bush, Vaughan Williams, Warlock and Finzi.
  12. 2/5. From Manchester: BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena in Saint-Saens, Mozart and Haydn.
  13. 1/5. BBC SSO in Christmas works by Arnold, Rutter and John Williams. Plus Ravel, Tchaikovsky.
  14. 5/5. Act 3 of Handel's opera Deidamia. Plus Salzburg and Vienna: Beethoven and Bruckner.
  15. BBC Radio 3's cycle of Handel operas continues with Acts 1 and 2 of Deidamia.
  16. 3/5. Jonathan Swain presents music by Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov and Wolfgang Rihm.
  17. 2/5. Jonathan Swain presents music from Salzburg and Vienna, by Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert.
  18. 1/5. Jonathan Swain presents music by Schubert, Dvorak, Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov and Beethoven.
  19. 5/5. The late conductor Edward Downes in music by George Lloyd, Elgar and Maxwell Davies.
  20. 4/5. Handel Operas 2009: Imeneo. Plus Louis Glass's Symphony No 5 conducted by Edward Downes.
  21. 3/5. The late conductor Edward Downes and the BBC Philharmonic in Verdi and Wagner opera music.
  22. 2/5. The late Edward Downes conducting Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich.
November
  1. 1/5. The late Edward Downes conducting Rimsky-Korsakov, Respighi, Verdi, Korngold and Bruckner.
  2. Penny Gore presents music by Bartok, Delius, Saariaho, Shostakovich, Hughes and Nielsen.
  3. With Penny Gore. BBC Radio 3's series of the complete Handel operas continues with Serse.
  4. 3/4. Penny Gore presents music by MacMillan, Britten, Maxwell Davies and Shostakovich.
  5. 2/4. Penny Gore with music by Korngold, Copland, Ives, Frisell/Gibbs, Villa-Lobos, Stravinsky.
  6. 1/4. Penny Gore with music by Britten, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Bantock, Delius and Walton.
  7. 4/4. Apollo's Fire in Fasch and Bach. Plus Cleveland Orchestra in Janacek, Bartok, Tchaikovsky.
  8. Louise Fryer presents a performance of Handel's opera Faramondo.
  9. 3/4. Apollo's Fire perform Mozart. Plus the Cleveland Orchestra in Telemann, CPE Bach, Haydn.
  10. 2/4. Alfred Brendel performs Beethoven. Plus the Cleveland Orchestra in Brahms and Bartok.
  11. 1/4. Apollo's Fire in music by Mozart and Bach, plus the Cleveland Orchestra in Mozart.
  12. 4/4. Penny Gore presents music by Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Liszt and Tchaikovsky.
  13. Penny Gore presents a performance of Berenice, Queen of Egypt from 1994.
  14. 3/4. Penny Gore presents music by Verdi, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Chopin and Brahms.
  15. 2/4. Music marking of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
  16. 1/4. Music marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, including Beethoven.
  17. 5/5. Act 3 of Handel's opera Giustino, plus the Ulster Orchestra in music by Faure and Debussy.
  18. 4/5. With Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Giustino, plus music by Deirdre McKay and John Field.
  19. 3/5. The Ulster Orchestra in works by Milhaud, Agnew, Harty and Massenet.
  20. 2/5. The Ulster Orchestra in works by Ibert, Stravinsky, Franck, Lalo, Roussel, White, Debussy.
  21. 1/5. The Ulster orchestra performs music by Mozart, Faure, Ravel, Schmitt, Poulenc and Ravel.
October
  1. 4/4. Louise Fryer with music by Dalbavie, Prokofiev, Lutoslawski, Weir, Shchedrin and Brahms.
  2. Louise Fryer presents a performance of Handel's opera Arminio.
  3. 3/4. Louise Fryer presents music by Kabelac, Korngold, Ullmann and Vorisek.
  4. 2/4. Louise Fryer with music by Danielpour, Palestrina, Britten, Brahms and Elgar.
  5. 1/4. With Khachaturian, Kilar, Tchaikovsky, Bingham, Piazzolla, Wigglesworth, Vaughan Williams.
  6. Featuring the inaugural recording by the BBC Philharmonic of Elgar's The Crown of India.
  7. Ian Skelly presents a performance of Handel's opera Atalanta.
  8. 3/3. Ian Skelly presents music by Elgar, Poulenc, Lalo, Mozart and Schubert.
  9. 2/3. Ian Skelly presents music by Elgar, Ginastera, Mozart, Sibelius, Grondahl and Beethoven.
  10. 1/3. Ian Skelly presents music by Arnold, Dvorak, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Haydn and Bach.
  11. 4/4. Jonathan Swain presents Act 3 of Handel's Alcina. Plus music by Beethoven, Dvorak, Mahler.
  12. Jonathan Swain presents Acts 1 and 2 of Alcina, seen as possibly Handel's greatest opera.
  13. 3/4. Jonathan Swain presents music by Dvorak, Sibelius and Frank Martin.
  14. 2/4. Ravel: Mother Goose. Dutilleux: Le temps l'horloge. Plus Berlioz, Debussy and Dvorak.
  15. 1/4. Jonathan Swain with music by Mozart, Dvorak, Dukas, Ligeti, Rachmaninov, Rossini, Vivaldi.
  16. 3/4. Act 3 of Handel's opera Ariodante. Plus music from the Baltic Sea Festival 2009.
  17. Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with Acts 1 and 2 of Ariodante.
  18. 2/4. Music from the 2009 Baltic Sea Festival, by Martin, Tamulionis, Mozart and Shostakovich.
  19. Jonathan Swain with music by Debussy, Rimsky Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Stravinsky.
  20. 1/4. Music from the 2009 Baltic Sea Festival in Sweden. Including Penderecki, Verdi and Mahler.
  21. 5/5. John Shea presents Act 3 of Handel's opera Oreste. Plus Dance: Poulenc, Lambert and Enescu
  22. 4/5. Music inspired by dance, by Handel and Bartok; Handel Operas 2009: Oreste (Acts 1, 2).
September
  1. 3/5. John Shea with music inspired by dance, by Coates, Ravel, Haydn and Roussel.
  2. 2/5. John Shea with music inspired by dance from Barber, Dvorak, Janacek, Martinu and Ravel.
  3. 1/5. John Shea presents music inspired by dance from Gershwin, Beethoven and Brahms.
  4. 4/4. Penny Gore presents Act 3 of Handel's opera Arianna in Creta. Plus BBC Concert Orchestra.
  5. The series of Handel operas continues with Acts 1 and 2 of Arianna in Creta.
  6. 3/4. BBC CO in Stravinsky: Scherzo a la russe. Plus Chopin, Gershwin, Stravinsky and Spoliansky
  7. 2/4. Music from the 2009 Chester Festival. Plus BBC CO/David Lloyd-Jones in Delius and Cliffe.
  8. 1/4. Owain Arwel Hughes conducts his father's opera, Menna. Plus Vaughan Williams and Elgar.
  9. 5/5. Penny Gore presents Act 3 of Handel's Orlando. Plus music by Bernstein, Rubbra and Finzi.
  10. Penny Gore presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's Orlando. Plus Leeds Pianothon 2009 highlights
  11. 3/5. Penny Gore presents music inspired by philosophy. Works by Monteverdi, Lutyens and Tipett.
  12. 2/5. Penny Gore presents music focusing on Nietzsche, from Wagner, Mahler, Delius and Strauss.
  13. 1/5. Penny Gore with music from Finzi, Haydn, Britten, Beethoven. Plus the 2009 Leeds Pianothon
  14. BBC SO/David Robertson performs Stravinsky's Agon and Tchaikovsky's Concerto Fantasia. (R)
  15. BBC SSO/Donald Runnicles performs Adams, Mozart and Strauss. (R)
  16. Michael Nyman performs his well-known works. Anu Komsi (soprano), Michael Nyman Band. (R)
  17. OAE/Sir Roger Norrington perform Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn. (R)
  18. LSO/Valery Gergiev in Schnittke: Nagasaki. Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 in C minor. (R)
  19. The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vanska perform Haydn, Szymanowski and Brahms. (R)
  20. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performs Liszt's Les Preludes, plus Wagner and Berlioz. (R)
  21. Members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Mendelssohn: Octet. Berg: Chamber Concerto. (R)
  22. BBC Proms 2009: BBC Symphony Orchestra in Detlev Glanert, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov. (R)
August
  1. Ivan Fischer conducts his Budapest Festival Orchestra in Prokofiev, Bartok and Dvorak. (R)
  2. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia in music by Falla, Andriessen and Ravel. (R)
  3. BBC Proms 2009: Ravel: La valse. Stravinsky: Rite of Spring. Unsuk Chin: Cello Concerto. (R)
  4. A Prom featuring Stravinsky's ballet Orpheus and Beethoven's Choral Symphony. (R)
  5. The BBC Symphony Orchestra in works by Jonny Greenwood, Stravinsky and Birtwistle. (R)
  6. Harry Christophers and The Sixteen in Handel choral hits, including Coronation Anthems. (R)
  7. A Prom with the Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits in Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Khachaturian (R)
  8. Britten Sinfonia and three piano duos in Faure, Mozart, Meredith, Lutoslawski, Saint-Saens (R)
  9. Jonathan Swain with the finale of Proms 2009 Piano Day: Antheil, Adams, Bartok, Stravinsky (R)
  10. NYO in Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 (with Stephen Hough), plus Lutoslawski, Respighi. (R)
  11. BBC Philharmonic Italian tribute: featuring Mendelssohn, Rossini, Maxwell Davies, Respighi (R)
  12. BBC Philharmonic. Stravinsky: Scenes de ballet. Mozart: Bassoon Concerto. Plus Mahler. (R)
  13. BBC SO/Knussen in Respighi, Helen Grime, Stravinsky, Knussen and Balakirev (orch Casella). (R)
  14. BBCNOW in Mendelssohn: Symphony No 1; Violin Concerto. Plus Holliger and Prokofiev. (R)
  15. Another chance to hear a Prom with the BBCNOW in Berlioz, Michael Jarrell and Beethoven. (R)
  16. A Prom featuring Ben Foskett: From Trumpet; Beethoven: Symphony No 4 and Berlioz: Te Deum. (R)
  17. Proms 2009: Stravinsky: Pulcinella. Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5. Schumann: Piano Concerto. (R)
  18. Another chance to hear the Halle in a Prom featuring works by Berlioz and Mendelssohn. (R)
  19. Another chance to hear the Bamberg SO performing music by Widmann, Bruckner and Mozart. (R)
  20. Another chance to hear Andris Nelsons' Proms debut. With Casken, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky. (R)
July
  1. Presented by Penny Gore. A Prom featuring Holst's Choral Symphony, plus Delius and Elgar. (R)
  2. Presented by Penny Gore. A Prom celebrating the music of Elgar, Delius and Holst. (R)
  3. A Prom featuring music by Smetana, Bartok, Martinu and Stravinsky. (R)
  4. Another chance to hear a Prom which traces East/West musical cross-fertilisation. (R)
  5. Presented by Penny Gore. A Prom with the BBC Philharmonic in lesser-known English works. (R)
  6. Including Vaughan Williams: The Wasps; Five Mystical Songs. Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3. (R)
  7. Haydn: The Seven Last Words. James MacMillan: Seven Last Words. Elgar: Piano Quintet.
  8. Bernard Haitink conducts the LSO in a performance of Mahler's 9th Symphony. (R)
  9. Haydn's Creation from the BBC Proms. Gabrieli Consort and Players under Paul McCreesh. (R)
  10. The opening concert of the 2009 Proms. (R)
  11. 4/4. Focusing on the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers. Plus Haydn String Quartets.
  12. Handel's Fernando, Re di Castiglia, featuring Lawrence Zazzo and Veronica Cangemiunder.
  13. 3/4. Focusing on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers. Including Haydn Quartets.
  14. 2/4. BBC Philharmonic in Haydn String Quartets, and a Rachmaninov opera and symphony.
  15. 1/4. Including works by Chagrin, Phillips, Beethoven and Haydn String Quartets.
  16. 4/4. Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Handel's Ezio. Plus music from international orchestras.
  17. Louise Fryer presents a performance of Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's forgotten masterpiece Ezio
  18. 3/4. Louise Fryer presents Respighi's The Birds, plus music by Haydn and Tippett.
  19. 2/4. Louise Fryer presents music by Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Vaughan Williams, Berg and Sibelius.
  20. 1/4. Louise Fryer presents music by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Rachmaninov.
  21. 4/4. Penny Gore presents Act 3 of Handel's Poro - re dell'Indie. Plus Haydn, Birtwistle, Bach.
  22. Radio 3's cycle of Handel operas continues with a performance of Poro, re dell'Indie.
  23. 3/4. Penny Gore presents a concert from the Concertgebouw. Music by Haydn, Ravel, Part and Bach
June
  1. 2/4. Penny Gore with a concert from the Concertgebouw: Haydn, Koechlin, Bach, Debussy, Mozart.
  2. 1/4. Penny Gore presents music by Schumann, Beethoven, Bach, Debussy and Haydn.
  3. 5/5. Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Handel's Partenope. Plus music by Maxwell Davies and Elgar.
  4. 4/5. Louise Fryer presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's Partenope. Plus music by Maxwell Davies.
  5. 3/5. Louise Fryer with music by Birtwistle and Elgar. Plus Haydn's String Quartet (The Razor).
  6. 2/5. Louise Fryer presents music by Weir, MacMillan and Britten. Plus a Haydn string quartet.
  7. 1/5. Louise Fryer presents music by Vaughan Williams, Musgrave, MacMillan, Elgar and Haydn.
  8. 5/5. Jonathan Swain presents music by Ravel, Haydn, Rimsky-Korsakov, Copland and Bernstein.
  9. 4/5. Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with a performance of Lotario.
  10. 3/5. Jonathan Swain presents music by Alwyn, Arnold, Gruber, Haydn, Rossini and Liszt.
  11. 2/5. Jonathan Swain presents music by Berlioz, plus the Belcea and Endellion Quartets in Haydn.
  12. 1/5. Jonathan Swain presents music by Beethoven, Strauss and Bizet, plus Haydn String Quartets.
  13. 4/4. Penny Gore presents Act 3 of Handel's opera Tolomeo. Plus Smetana, Haydn and Strauss.
  14. Penny Gore presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Tolomeo.
  15. 3/4. Penny Gore with music inspired by foreign travel, from Montague Phillips and Mendelssohn.
  16. 2/4. Penny Gore with music inspired by foreign travel from Elgar, Ibert, Bainton and Strauss.
  17. 1/4. Penny Gore with music inspired by travel, including Dvorak's New World Symphony.
  18. 4/4. Louise Fryer presents Haydn: String Quartets Op 20, Nos 3, 6, plus two Austrian orchestras
  19. Louise Fryer presents Handel's opera Siroe, with Ann Hallenberg and Capella Coloniensis.
  20. 3/4. Louise Fryer presents Haydn: String Quartet. Plus Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra.
  21. 2/4. Louise Fryer presents Haydn: String Quartet, plus leading groups from Austria.
  22. 1/4. Louise Fryer presents Haydn: String Quartets, Op 20 Nos 1, 4, plus leading Austrian groups
May
  1. 5/5. Ian Skelly presents Act 3 of Handel's Riccardo Primo. Plus Smetana, Bliss, Rubbra, Elgar.
  2. 4/5. Ian Skelly presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Riccardo Primo. Plus music by Beethoven
  3. 3/5. Ian Skelly presents music by Harty, Shostakovich, Holst and Smetana.
  4. 2/5. Ian Skelly presents music by German, Saint-Saens, Haydn and Smetana.
  5. 1/5. Ian Skelly presents music by Smetana, Dyson, Mozart, Brahms and Grieg.
  6. 4/4. Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Handel's Admeto. Plus Symphonic Poems: Liszt, Nielsen.
  7. Louise Fryer presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's Admeto, starring countertenor Rene Jacobs.
  8. 3/4. Louise Fryer explores tone poems. With music by Berlioz, Chausson, Strauss and Bizet.
  9. 2/4. Louise Fryer explores tone poems. With Bridge, Shostakovich, Metcalf, Sibelius and Grieg.
  10. 1/4. Louise Fryer explores tone poems. With Debussy, Rachmaninov, Barber, Dvorak and Bernstein.
  11. 5/5. Act 3 of Handel's opera Alessandro. Plus Looking East: With McPhee, Britten and Messiaen.
  12. 4/5. Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Alessandro. Plus Liszt: Petrarch Sonnet No 123.
  13. 3/5. Music inspired by Asia and by poetry. With Ravel, Jensen, Messiaen, Rameau and Dalbavie.
  14. 2/5. Music inspired by Asia and by poetry. With Debussy, Trojahn, Vicentino and Roussel.
  15. 1/5. Music inspired by Asia and by poetry. With Kreisler, Dvorak, Szymanowski and Sibelius.
  16. 5/5. Penny Gore presents Act 3 of Handel's opera Scipione. Plus Mendelssohn: Magnificat.
  17. 4/5. Penny Gore with Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Scipione. Plus Mendelssohn Symphony No 6.
  18. 3/5. Penny Gore presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Mendelssohn's oratorio St Paul.
  19. 2/5. Penny Gore presents Mendelssohn's Symphony No 1 and Te deum, plus Brahms and Strauss.
  20. 1/5. Penny Gore presents Mendelssohn's Symphonies No 8 and No 2, plus music by Brahms and Elgar
  21. 5/5. Handel: Rodelinda (Act 3). Plus St Petersburg Conservatory: Shostakovich and Verdi.
April
  1. 4/5. Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Rodelinda. Plus St Petersburg Conservatory: Shostakovich.
  2. 3/5. Louise Fryer presents music by Britten, Elgar, Glazunov, Sculthorpe and Bernstein.
  3. 2/5. Louise Fryer presents music by Poulenc, Tchaikovsky and Deshevov.
  4. 1/5. Louise Fryer presents music by Shchedrin, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Rimsky-Korsakov.
  5. 5/5. Handel: Tamerlano (Act 3). Plus Shakespeare and McCabe: John McCabe: Arthur Pendragon.
  6. 4/5. Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Tamerlano. Plus music celebrating Shakespeare's birthday.
  7. 3/5. Penny Gore presents John McCabe's Mangan Triptych, plus music by Prokofiev and Haydn.
  8. 2/5. Penny Gore presents John McCabe's Concerto No 1 for piano and orchestra. Plus Respighi.
  9. 1/5. Penny Gore presents John McCabe's Horn Concerto, and music by Berlioz, Mozart and de Souza
  10. 4/4. Act 3 of Handel's most popular opera, Giulio Cesare in Egitto. Plus Exile: Chopin, Bartok.
  11. Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Acts 1 and 2.
  12. 3/4. Jonathan Swain presents music by Smetana, Britten, Rachmaninov, Martinu and Milhaud.
  13. 2/4. Jonathan Swain with music by Sibelius, Martinu, Stravinsky, Britten and Walton.
  14. 1/4. Jonathan Swain with music by Stravinsky, Weill, Hindemith, Vaughan Williams and Prokofiev.
  15. 4/4. The Monteverdi Choir in Bach's St John Passion at the 2008 Proms. Plus a Liszt tone poem.
  16. Louise Fryer presents Handel's tragi-comic opera Flavio.
  17. 3/4. The BBC Philharmonic perform music by Haydn, Mozart, Berlioz and Liszt.
  18. 2/4. The BBC Philharmonic in music by Haydn, Liszt, Wolf-Ferrari, Schubert, Ravel and Mozart.
  19. 1/4. The BBC Philharmonic in Haydn, Berlioz, Liszt, Mozart, Borodin, Smetana, Berg and Bingham.
  20. 5/5. Act 3 of Ottone, re di Germania. Plus Berlin Philharmonic: Bruckner: Symphony No 8.
  21. 4/5. Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's Ottone, re di Germania. Plus the Berlin Philharmonic in Mozart.
  22. 3/5. Penny Gore presents the Berlin Philharmonic in Marquez, Bach, Mendelssohn and Bruckner.
March
  1. 2/5. The Berlin Philharmonic perform music by Ginastera, Bach, Zimmermann, Schumann and Mozart.
  2. 1/5. Penny Gore presents the Berlin Philharmonic in Chavez, Mozart, Bach, Villa-Lobos and Elgar
  3. 4/4. Penny Gore presents music by Tang Jianping, Guo Wenjing, Tan Dun and Mozart.
  4. American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato sings Elmira in Floridante.
  5. 3/4. Penny Gore presents music by Sam Hayden, Mozart, Messiaen, Stravinsky and Weir.
  6. 2/4. Penny Gore presents music by Marx, Kernis, Rachmaninov, Bennett and Adams.
  7. 1/4. Penny Gore presents music by Turnage, Vivancos, Debussy, Poulenc and Bruckner.
  8. Louise Fryer with music by Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Bartok, Ravel, Mozart and Stravinsky.
  9. Bononcini's Act 2 and Handel's Act 3 from Muzio Scevola. Plus 2008 Lucerne Festivals.
  10. Louise Fryer presents music by Wagner, Benjamin and Brahms.
  11. Louise Fryer presents music by Schubert, Benjamin, Dvorak, J Strauss II, Chopin and Brahms
  12. Louise Fryer presents music by Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen, Schumann and Berlioz.
  13. Act 3 of Handel's Radamisto followed by a special concert in aid of Comic Relief.
  14. Jonathan Swain presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's Radamisto.
  15. 3/4. BBC SSO under chief conductor Ilan Volkov in Debussy, Walton, Rameau and Stravinsky.
  16. 2/4. BBC SSO under chief conductor Ilan Volkov in Stravinsky, Britten, Harvey and Berlioz.
  17. 1/4. BBC SSO under chief conductor Ilan Volkov perform Haydn, Ades, Schumann and Mahler.
  18. 5/5. Ian Skelly presents the BBC Philharmonic in Mozart, Wolf-Ferrari and Tchaikovsky.
  19. 4/5. Ian Skelly presents Handel's Acis and Galatea. Plus music from the RCNM brass festival.
  20. 3/5. BBC Philharmonic in Mozart, Beethoven, Wolf-Ferrari; BBC SSO in Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5
  21. 2/5. Ian Skelly presents the BBC Philharmonic in Mozart, Wolf-Ferrari, Mozart, Liszt and Rozsa.
  22. 1/5. Ian Skelly presents the BBC Philharmonic in music by Mozart, Wolf-Ferrari and Liszt.
February
  1. 4/4. Penny Gore presents music by Weill, Saint-Saens, Tartini, Dvorak and Mahler.
  2. Penny Gore presents a performance of Handel's mythical 'opera seria' Amadigi di Gaula.
  3. 3/4. Penny Gore presents music by Ives, Carter, Stravinsky, Schmidt, Gershwin and Ginastera.
  4. 2/4. Penny Gore presents music by Bach, Schubert, Franck and Faure.
  5. 1/4. Penny Gore presents music by Stravinsky, Ravel, Mozart, Strauss, Liszt and Charpentier.
  6. 5/5. Penny Gore presents viola music by Bruch, Schubert and Hindemith.
  7. 4/5. Penny Gore presents Handel's Silla, followed by music centring on the viola.
  8. 3/5. Penny Gore presents music focusing on the viola, with works by Elgar, Tabakova and Liszt.
  9. 2/5. Penny Gore presents viola music, by Berlioz, Sibelius and Mendelssohn.
  10. 1/5. Presented by Penny Gore. With viola music by Walton, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven.
  11. 5/5. Louise Fryer presents music by Mendelssohn, Szymanowski, Rameau, Schubert and Roussel.
  12. 4/5. Louise Fryer presents music inspired by ancient Greek myths, from Britten and Szymanowski.
  13. 3/5. Louise Fryer presents music by Beethoven, Monteverdi, Satie, Haydn, Roussel and Nielsen.
  14. 2/5. Music focusing on the myth of Phaedra. With Szymanowski, Rameau and Pizzetti.
  15. 1/5. Louise Fryer presents music by Vaughan Williams, Gluck, Charpentier, Beethoven and Liszt.
  16. 5/5. Penny Gore presents the BBC SSO in Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 and Hebrides Overture.
  17. 4/5. Penny Gore presents the BBCNOW performing Mendelssohn: Symphony No 2.
  18. 3/5. Penny Gore presents the BBCNOW under Rumon Gamba in Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4.
  19. 2/5. Penny Gore presents the BBCNOW under Richard Hickox performing Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5.
  20. 1/5. BBCNOW/Richard Hickox in Mendelssohn: Symphony No 1. Plus Bach, Haydn and Berlioz.
January
  1. Louise Fryer presents music by Sibelius, Saariaho, Rachmaninov and Mustonen.
  2. Including Mozart's Symphony No 36, plus works by Sibelius, Webern and Kaipainen.
  3. Including the Fifth Symphony and works by Mozart, Beethoven and Lindberg.
  4. Including works by Sibelius, Chausson and Rautavaara, plus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto.
  5. Presented by Penny Gore. BBCNOW in Respighi: Pines of Rome, plus Elgar and Grace Williams.
  6. The BBCNOW in Lully, Mathias and Stravinsky. Plus works by Tippett and Chopin.
  7. BBCNOW under Mariss Janssons in Debussy; under Richard Hickox in Holst. Plus Mozart, Ravel
  8. BBCNOW/Thierry Fischer in Berlioz, Stravinsky. Plus Guto Puw, Haydn, Adams and Grieg.
  9. 5/5. A collection of performances conducted by Vernon Handley including works by Bax and Bliss.
  10. 4/5. Presented by Louise Fryer. Malcolm Arnold: Water Music, Op 82b. BBC CO/Vernon Handley.
  11. 3/5. A tribute to Vernon Handley, with music by Walton, Bowen, Delius and Moeran.
  12. 2/5. Louise Fryer presents a tribute to Vernon Handley, with music by Dvorak, Vaughan Williams.
  13. 1/5. Louise Fryer presents a tribute to Vernon Handley, with works by Bax, Bliss and Brahms.
  14. Jonathan Swain presents Hummel: Concerto for trumpet and orchestra, plus a work by Mahler.
  15. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Czech music, including Smetana, Suk, Zemlinsky and Dvorak.
  16. Jonathan Swain with Czech music, including Smetana, Dvorak, Bartok, Widman and Bruckner.
  17. 5/5. Performances from the 2008 Salzburg Festival and by the Vienna Philharmonic.
  18. 4/5. A performance of Gounod's Faust given at Vienna State Opera in October 2008.

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