12/06/2008

Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

Series of concerts given at the 2008 Guardian Hay Festival. The Gould Piano Trio perform a late piano trio by Saint-Saens and one of the earliest of Debussy's chamber pieces.

Lucy Gould (violin)
Alice Neary (cello)
Benjamin Frith (piano)

Saint-Saens: Trio No 2
Debussy: Trio

Plus a series of programmes focusing on performances by BBC orchestras, with two themes running throughout: concertos for violin and orchestra, and the symphonies of Beethoven.

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor)

Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Dvorak: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 53
Hilary Hahn (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Steve Martland: Summer Rounds
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Bob Chilcott: Weather Report
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Stravinsky: Orpheus (ballet)
Ulster Orchestra
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A, Op 92
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Howard Shelley (conductor).