Monday March 5th to Friday March 9th

Nicola Benedetti

Jean-Yves Thibaudet

City Halls in Glasgow

Monday March 5th 2012
Opera Gala from Stockholm Concert Hall
Joseph Calleja, tenor, and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Marcello Mottadelli
Arias and Intermezzi from Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, Macbeth, Puccini's Tosca, Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, Massenet's Werther and Le Cid
at 9pm: Nicola Benedetti, violin, and Alexei Grynyuk,piano
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.7 in C minor
Brahms: Violin Sonata No.1 in G Op.78

Tuesday March 6th 2012
From the Salle Pleyel in Paris
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Lars Vogt,piano
Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat Op.83
Schumann:Symphony No.3 in E flat Op.97 'Rhenish'

Wednesday March 7th 2012
Sligo Festival of Baroque Music 2011
Maria Christina Cleary, harp with Davide Monti, baroqueviolin
Music for the 18th century single-action harp by JB Krumpholtz, his daughter Fanny Krumpholtz and Louis Spohr
at 9pm: Orchestre National de Lyon plays Debussy
Fantaisie for piano - with Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Rapsodie for Saxophone - with Alexandre Doisy
Première Rapsodie for clarinet - with Paul Meyer, clarinet

Thursday March 8th 2012
From the City Halls in Glasgow presenter by Jamie McDougall
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Manze
Akiko Suwanai, violin
Butterworth: Two English Idylls
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 in F 'Pastoral'

Friday March 9th 2012
Live from the National Concert Hall
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alan Buribayev
Natalia Gutman, cello
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Three Wonders (The Tale of Tsar Sultan Suite Op.57)
Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante for cello and orchestra Op.125
Interval: John Finucane on 'The Three Wonders'
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E minor