The Jerusalem Quartet
Monday 26 March 2007 13:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by Penny Gore.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Introduced by Stephanie Hughes, live from London's Wigmore Hall. Former BBC New Generation Artists The Jerusalem Quartet bring together the radiant world of Haydn's Sunrise with the restless 12th Quartet of Shostakovich, a work haunted by a funeral march based on the composer's own initials.
Playlist:
Haydn: Quartet in B flat, Op 76, No 4 (Sunrise)
Shostakovich: Quartet No 12 in D flat (Op 133)
2.00pm New Generation Artists
Featured all this week are recordings by current Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
Haydn: Symphony No 85
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Garry Walker (conductor)
Beethoven: Trio in B flat (Op 11)
Trio Ondine
Varese: Integrales
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jacques van Steen (conductor)
Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening
Colin Currie, Sam Walton (percussion)
Simon Crawford Philips, Philip Moore (pianos)
Beethoven: Piano Sonata (Op 10)
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
Elgar: Symphony No 2
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)