From the BBC website:

Conductor Leonard Slatkin grew up in a Russian-Jewish émigré family in Los Angeles, surrounded by music. Both his parents were studio musicians who were also founding members of the prestigious Hollywood String Quartet.

n the first of two special musical journeys, Slatkin returns to LA to examine his own personal links with the music of Hollywood's Golden Age and to investigate the glorious work of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, one of its greatest composers.

Korngold's cello concerto was originally performed by Slatkin's mother as part of the film Deception and the programme ends with a full performance of the work played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Slatkin's brother Frederick Zlotkin as soloist.

This cello concerto performance appears to be the one included in a free CD with BBC Music magazine (Vol. 12, No. 2). Other performances included ON THE WATERFRONT Suite(Bernstein), Tristam & Isolde Fantasy (from HUMORESQUE) (Waxman) & SPELLBOUND Concerto (Rozsa) - this may give an idea of the second programme?

And lo-and-behold looking at next Thursday it's a programme devoted to Miklos Rozsa - with SPELLBOUND being shown later that evening!! Should be good evenings viewing on both days.

I thoroughly enjoyed this programme - I particularly enjoyed the personal link between Slatkin and Korngold. It makes me look forward even more to Marco Polo's re-recording of THE ADVENTURES OR ROBIN HOOD.

For anyone interested, there is a CD release of the cello concerto featured on the programme (BBC Symphony Orchestra/Slatkin, Zlotkin/cello) that comes free with the BBC Music magazine (vol. 12 no. 2). Also featured on the CD is:

Bernstein's ON THE WATERFRONT - Symphonic Suite

Rozsa's SPELLBOUND Concerto

Waxman's Tristan & Isolde Fantasy from HUMORESQUE

Gae