Radio 3 in Concert: The BBC Philharmonic in Stoke-on-Trent

Live from the Victoria Hall in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Presented by Tom McKinney. Conductor Leslie Suganandarajah returns to the BBC Philharmonic for a visit to one of the orchestra's favourite audiences and venues, the Victoria Hall in Hanley. This engaging and tuneful programme ends with the warming melody of Saint-Säens's Symphony No.3, his "Organ Symphony". Organist Jonathan Scott joins the orchestra for this luscious music, which is almost exactly contemporary with the organ and the hall; all three completed within two years in the 1880s. Three knocks at the door open our concert as we launch into Mozart's overture to The Magic Flute and a lone timpanist paves the way for the lyricism and dance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto; Tobias Feldmann makes a welcome return to the orchestra as soloist. Mozart: The Magic Flute, Overture. Beethoven: Violin Concerto. 8.15 Music Interval (CD). Saint-Säens: Symphony No.3 (Organ). Tobias Feldmann (violin). Jonathan Scott (organ). BBC Philharmonic. Leslie Suganandarajah