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Katie Derham presents a week celebrating Benjamin Britten in his centenary year, and launches a month-long Afternoon on 3 series of British symphonies. There are contributions across the week by 大象传媒 orchestras from every country in the UK, as well as the 大象传媒 Singers.

Across the week there's a particular focus on Britten's works for solo instruments and orchestra, including three of them alongside his popular Simple Symphony in a live concert by the Ulster Orchestra tomorrow. The Thursday Opera Matinee is Britten's rarely heard American operetta Paul Bunyan. The week's British symphonists include Grace Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Michael Tippett and John McCabe...

... and, to start the week, Britten himself. The 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra play his Sinfonia da Requiem, alongside music by Rachmaninov, Osvaldo Golijov and Britten's friend Shostakovich. Then the 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales perform a concerto by the teenage Britten, and an early British symphony by Samuel Sebastian Wesley.

Britten: Sinfonia da requiem
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 in E flat major
2.45pm
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
Denis Kozhukin (piano),
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Donald Runnicles (conductor).

3.25pm
Golijov: Last Round
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Joshua Weilerstein (conductor).

3.40pm
Britten, ed. Colin Matthews: Concerto for violin, viola and orchestra
Lawrence Power (viola),
Anthony Marwood (violin),
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales,
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor).

4pm
Samuel Sebastian Wesley: Symphony in C minor
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales,
Grant Llewellyn (conductor).