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28/05/2008

Including Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007: The Tokyo String Quartet perform Beethoven and Schumann; Big Noises from Down Under: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007:

A recital for Bank of Scotland Queen's Hall Series given by the Tokyo String Quartet, featuring a programme of quartets by Beethoven and Schumann together with a new work by Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach.

Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 18 No 1
Auerbach: String Quartet No 2 (Primordial Light)
Schumann: String Quartet, Op 41 No 3

Big Noises from Down Under:

Series of orchestral, chamber and choral performances given in Australia and New Zealand, with vocal ensemble the Song Company marking the imminent arrival of summer with a sequence including works by Delius, Hindemith and Kate Bush, and Janine Jansen performing Mozart in Sydney.

Edwin Carr: The End of the Golden Weather
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219
Janine Jansen (violin)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Gianluigi Gelmetti (conductor)

Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri: Concerto in G, Op 1 No 12 (Storm at Sea)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Hiro Kurosaki (conductor)

The Song Company - Summer
Schein: Die Voglein singen
Anon: Bache Bene Venies (12th century)
Hindemith: Verge; Landsknecthstrinklied
Delius: To be sung on a summer night on the water
Kate Bush: Delius (Song of Summer)
Michel Legrand: The Summer Knows
Paul McCartney: Good Day Sunshine

Sibelius: En Saga
Auckland Philharmonia
Christian Knapp (conductor).

4 hours

Last on

Wed 28 May 2008 13:00

Broadcast

  • Wed 28 May 2008 13:00