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Presented by Penny Gore, continuing this week's focus on the Czech Republic with recordings of live concert performances.

The afternoon centres on a Czech performance of Richard Strauss' tone poem Symphonia domestica, a reflection on the composer's own domestic life which he so loved. It's played by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Petr Popelka, who also bring us a symphony by Haydn, and Milhaud's rarely heard first Violin Concerto with the soloist Martina Bacova. Also today, Steven Tharp plays the organ of Prague's Basilica of St James the Greater, we hear a beautiful grand motet by the French Baroque composer Michel Richard de Lalande, and Rumon Gamba conducts the Ulster Orchestra in a new recording of Britten's Courtly Dances from Gloriana.

Including:

Berlioz Hungarian March, from 'La Damnation de Faust, op. 24'
Prague Radio SO
Petr Popelka, conductor

Dupr茅: Carillon, from 7 Pieces, Op. 27
Steven Tharp, organ
Rec. 25/8/22 Basilica of St James the Greater, Prague
SM/2022/09/21/01

Haydn: Symphony No. 60 in C, Hob. I:60 'Il distratto'
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Petr Popelka, conductor

c.2.30pm
Britten: Courtly Dances from Gloriana
Ulster Orchestra
Rumon Gamba, conductor

Lalande: Quare fremuerunt, S. 70
Hasnaa Bennani, soprano
Katalin Szutrely, soprano
Nicholas Scott, countertenor
Fabien Hyon, tenor
Thomas Dolie, baritone
Purcell Choir
Orfeo Orchestra
Gyorgy Vashegyi, conductor

c.3pm
R. Strauss: Symphonia Domestica
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Petr Popelka, conductor