8 August 2007
Wednesday 8 August 2007 13:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by Louise Fryer.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
A series of four concerts recorded at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Bantry.
Playlist:
2/4. West Cork violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov perform Schubert, and the young Spanish ensemble the Cuarteto Casals are joined by Irish soprano Mary Hegarty for a 20th century classic by Berg.
Schubert: Sonata in A for violin and piano
Isabelle Faust (violin)
Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Berg: Lyric Suite
Mary Hegarty (soprano)
Cuarteto Casals
2.00pm BBC Proms 2007
Kurtag's first orchestral work prefaces one the greatest of all romantic symphonies, Mahler's valedictory Ninth.
Gyorgy Kurtag: Stele
Mahler: Symphony No 9 in D
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
4.00pm From Wigmore Hall, London
Bach: Partita No 1 in B flat, BWV 825
Beethoven: Sonata No 1 in F minor, Op 2, No 1
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)