Afternoon on 3 - 02/01/2008

Presented by Louise Fryer. 1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert As part of the 2007 Music in the Round series, baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Iain Burnside perform a programme of Spanish-inspired songs recorded at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. Schumann: Der Hidalgo Wolf: Auf dem grünen Balkon; Dereinst, dereinst, Gedanke mein; Herz, verzage nicht geschwind (Spanisches Liederbuch) Montsalvatge: 5 Negro Songs Shostakovich: Spanish Songs, Op 100 Ravel: Don Quichotte a Dulcinée 2.00pm Bayreuth Ring Cycle 2007 Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Prelude and Act 1) Siegfried ...... Stephen Gould (tenor) Gunther ...... Ralf Lukas (baritone) Hagen ...... Hans-Peter König (bass) Alberich ...... Andrew Shore (baritone) Brünnhilde ...... Linda Watson (soprano) Gutrune ...... Edith Haller (soprano) Waltraute ...... Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano) First Norn ...... Simone Schröder (alto) Second Norn ...... Martina Dike (mezzo-soprano) Third Norn ...... Edith Haller (soprano) Woglinde ...... Fionnuala McCarthy (soprano) Wellgunde ...... Ulrike Helzel (soprano) Flosshilde ...... Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano) Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra Christian Thielemann (conductor) Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488 Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Andres Mustonen (conductor) Grieg, arr. Geirr Tveitt: Ballade in G minor, Op 24 (in the form of variations on a Norwegian melody) Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Eivind Aadland (conductor).