18 March 2008
Tuesday 18 March 2008 13:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by Louise Fryer.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Playlist:
LSO St Luke's Beethoven Plus
A new series of concerts given at LSO St Luke's in East London, featuring the complete Beethoven string quartets alongside those by Haydn and Bartok.
1/8. Former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Psophos Quartet launch the series with the third of Beethoven's Opus 18 quartets, considered a defining illustration of the composer's musical development, followed by Bartok's Quartet No 2.
Beethoven: Quartet in D, Op 18 No 3
Bartok: Quartet No 2 in A minor, Sz 67
2.00pm San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra: A week of concerts from the Davies Symphony Hall, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under their music director Michael Tilson Thomas, and an array of guest conductors.
Arr. Conlon: Three Dances based on Oscar Wilde (Schreker, Zemlinsky, Strauss)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
James Conlon (conductor)
Zemlinsky: A Florentine Tragedy, opera in one act, Op 16
Kate Aldrich (mezzo-soprano)
Kim Begley (tenor)
James Johnson (baritone)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
James Conlon (conductor)
Varese: Equatorial
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
Mahler: Symphony No 8 in E flat
Marisol Montalvo, Elza van den Heever, Jennifer Welch-Babidge (sopranos)
Elena Manistina, Stephanie Blythe (mezzo-sopranos)
Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor)
James Johnson (baritone)
Raymond Aceto (bass)
Pacific Boys' Choir
San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Girls' Chorus
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
