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Presented by Martin Handley.

Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in a programme including two pieces at the very heart of British 20th-Century music: Vaughan Williams's 'A London Symphony' - his own personal view of the English capital and its inhabitants, and Elgar's Violin Concerto - performed almost exactly a hundred years after its premiere by Danish virtuoso Nikolaj Znaider who plays the very violin, a 1741 Guarnieri del Gesu, used on that occasion by Fritz Kreisler. Recorded at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester,

DELIUS: Idylle de Printemps
ELGAR: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No.2, 'A London Symphony'

Nikolaj Znaider, violin
Hallé Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder, conductor

Followed by a continuing week long focus on classical music as seen through the eyes of Venezuelan performers. Today the early music ensemble Camerata Renacentista de Caracas, conducted by its founder and director Isabel Palacios, with the Baroque legacy of Latin America, including music collected by Bishop Baltasar Martínez Compañón y Bujanda in 18th-Century Peru.

Anon: Cachua a duo; Cachua a voz y bajo; Tonada ‘El Congo’; Baile del Chimo
Camerata Renacentista de Caracas
Isabel Palacios, director