28 May 2008
Wednesday 28 May 2008 13:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by Penny Gore.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007
A recital for Bank of Scotland Queen's Hall Series given by the Tokyo String Quartet, featuring a programme of quartets by Beethoven and Schumann together with a new work by Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach.
Playlist:
Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 18, No 1
Auerbach: String Quartet No 2 (Primordial Light)
Schumann: String Quartet, Op 41, No 3
2.30pm Big Noises from Down Under
A series of orchestral, chamber and choral performances given in Australia and New Zealand, with vocal ensemble the Song Company marking the imminent arrival of summer with a sequence including works by Delius, Hindemith and Kate Bush, and Janine Jansen performing Mozart in Sydney.
Edwin Carr: The End of the Golden Weather
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)
2.47pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)
3.33pm
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219
Janine Jansen (violin)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Gianluigi Gelmetti (conductor)
4.03pm
Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri: Concerto in G, Op 1, No 12 (Storm at Sea)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Hiro Kurosaki (conductor)
4.18pm
The Song Company - Summer
Schein: Die Voglein singen
Anon: Bache Bene Venies (12th century)
Hindemith: Verge; Landsknecthstrinklied
Delius: To be sung on a summer night on the water
Kate Bush: Delius (Song of Summer)
Michel Legrand: The Summer Knows
Paul McCartney: Good Day Sunshine
4.39pm
Sibelius: En Saga
Auckland Philharmonia
Christian Knapp (conductor)
