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Live from the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Maida Vale Studios, Ben Gernon conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Tonight we hear two famous song cycles featuring British singers, the UK premiere of British composer Anna Clyne’s Abstractions (in which five contemporary artworks are re-imagined in music) and Tchaikovsky’s symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini – she was the tragic beauty immortalized in Dante's Divine Comedy.

And in a week of Radio 3 in Concert that highlights some of Britten’s works with orchestra, tonight we hear Les Illuminations for which the young composer set surreal and evocative texts by Arthur Rimbaud - soprano Sally Matthews is the soloist. ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artist James Newby sings Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, which sprang into life in the wake of an unhappy love affair. Mahler wrote the four poems himself: they and the music reflect his emotional journey.

Presented by Martin Handley

Anna Clyne: Abstractions, UK Premiere
Gustav Mahler: Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen

8.05pm
Interval. Ravel from former ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Aleksey Semenenko

Ravel: Violin Sonata No.2 in G
Aleksey Semenenko (violin)
Inna Firsova (piano)

Part 2 8.20pm
Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

Sally Matthews (Soprano)
James Newby (Baritone) - ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artist
´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Ben Gernon (Conductor)