Rites of Spring
Wednesday 26 March 2008 13:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by Penny Gore.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
The Wihan Quartet, the second Czech ensemble in this week of Beethoven Plus concerts, was formed in 1985 and continues to this day with its original four members.
Playlist:
Wihan Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet No 5 in D, Op 64 (The Lark)
Beethoven: Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4
Beethoven: Grosse Fuge in B flat, Op 133
2.00pm Rites of Spring
Reflecting Radio 3's Rites of Spring season through springtime music and the ideas of death and rebirth, and featuring the BBC Orchestras on tour.
J Strauss II: Voices of Spring
Ulster Orchestra
Christian Gansch (conductor)
Debussy (reconstr. Palmer): Printemps
BBC Singers
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)
Beethoven: Symphony No 6 (Pastoral)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Douglas Boyd (conductor)
Moeran: Songs of Springtime
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
Mahler: Blumine
Mark O'Keeffe (trumpet)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom (conductor)
Strauss: Four Last Songs
Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Mahler: Symphony No 1
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
