Afternoon on 3 - 11/06/2008

Presented by Penny Gore. Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Series of concerts given at the 2008 Guardian Hay Festival, in which baritone Thomas Allen is accompanied by Simon Over in a recital featuring songs setting French poetry from the 15th century through to the First World War. All the composers featured were involved with the Societe Musicale Independante. Faure: L'Horizon chimerique Debussy: Trois Ballades de Francois Villon Poulenc: Songs from Poemes de Ronsard Ravel: Histoires naturelles Plus a series of programmes focusing on performances by BBC orchestras, with two themes running throughout: concertos for violin and orchestra, and the symphonies of Beethoven. Berlioz: Overture (Le carnaval romain, Op 9) Milhaud: Suite Francaise, Op 248 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thierry Fischer (conductor) Dvorak: Symphony No 5 in F, Op 76 BBC Philharmonic Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) Howard Skempton: The Moon Is Flashing James Gilchrist (tenor) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Grant Llewellyn (conductor) Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor, Op 61 Philippe Graffin (violin) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thierry Fischer (conductor) Beethoven: Elegischer Gesang, Op 118 BBC Singers Stephen Betteridge (piano) Stephen Cleobury (conductor) Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68 (Pastoral) BBC National Orchestra of Wales James Judd (conductor).