20 March 2008
Thursday 20 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
Continuing a series of concerts given at LSO St Luke's in East London.
3/8. In their near 30-year career, the Endellion Quartet have earned a reputation of excellence for their performances around the world and in this recital they couple an early quartet by Haydn with the last piece Beethoven wrote.
Haydn: Quartet in D, Op 20 No 4
Beethoven: Quartet in F, Op 135
2.00pm San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
A week of concerts from the Davies Symphony Hall, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under music director Michael Tilson Thomas and an array of guest conductors.
Stravinsky: The Nightingale
Olga Trifonova (soprano)
Paul Groves (tenor)
Catherine Cook (mezzo-soprano)
Tigran Martirossian, Ayk Martirossian (basses)
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Joshua Bell (violin/director)
Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Stuart Skelton (tenor)
Michelle De Young (mezzo-soprano)
Tigran Martirossian, Ayk Martirossian (basses)
Bruce Sledge (tenor)
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op 70
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Joshua Bell (conductor)
