Cheltenham Festival and BBC Proms
Friday 27 July 2007 13:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Playlist:
Lunchtime Concert
8/8. Cheltenham Festival 2007
New members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, the Pavel Haas Quartet are quickly securing a reputation as one of the world's best young chamber groups. Featuring their recital in the Pittville Pump Room as part of this year's Cheltenham Festival.
Pavel Haas Quartet
Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546
Dvorak: String Quartet No 12 in F (American)
Janacek: String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters)
2.10pm
BBC Proms 2007
Another chance to hear last Sunday's Proms concert featuring a work by Austrlian composer Brett Dean. His witty 'sociological cantata' strikes a blow against reality TV, automated answering services, the dehumanisation of contemporary society and the warped language of corporate jargon. The work shares a social conscience with Beethoven's Symphony No 7, premiered in 1813 at a benefit concert for soldiers wounded in the Napoleonic Battle of Hanau. Presented by Christopher Cook.
Gondwana Voices
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
David Robertson (conductor)
Brett Dean: Vexations and Devotions (BBC co-commission with Perth Festival; European premiere)
Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A
4.00pm
From Bath Festival 2006
Carolin Widmann (violin)
Simon Lepper (piano)
Bach: Partita for solo violin No 2 in D minor
Xenakis: Dikhthas for violin and piano
Stravinsky arr. Stravinsky and Dushkin: Divertimento for violin and piano
