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19/06/2008

Including Lunchtime Concert: The Florestan Trio and mezzo-soprano Susan Gritton perform piano trios by Haydn and Schubert. Plus The Alps: With Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Act 1).

Presented by Penny Gore.

Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:

A concert from 2007's Cheltenham Festival, with the Florestan Trio performing in the Pittville Pump Room with mezzo-soprano Susan Gritton in a programme featuring piano trios by Haydn and Schubert, as well as Shostakovich's settings of Alexander Blok's poetry.

Haydn: Piano Trio No 1 in E flat, H XV 10
Shostakovich: Seven Romances on Verses by Blok, Op 127
Schubert: Piano Trio no 2 in E flat, D929

Plus The Alps: Continuing a week of music with an Alpine connection, including orchestral and choral works.

Honegger: Pacific 231
Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich
Heinz Holliger (conductor)

Martin: Songs of Ariel
Swedish Radio Chorus
Peter Dijkstra (conductor)

Poulenc: Concerto for 2 pianos
Lilya Zilberstein, Alexander Gurning (pianos)
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Christian Zacharias (conductor)

Peng Xiuwen: Flowing Water
China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra
Pang Ka-Pang (conductor)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Act 1)
Cast includes: Ian Storey (tenor), Matti Salminen (bass), Waltraud Meier (soprano), Gerg Grokowski (baritone), Will Hartmann (tenor), Michelle de Young (soprano)

La Scala Chorus and Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor).

4 hours

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Thu 19 Jun 2008 13:00

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  • Thu 19 Jun 2008 13:00