Afternoon on 3 - 19/11/2007

Presented by Louise Fryer. 1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Sarah Walker presents a recital live from London's Wigmore Hall. Written for and dedicated to Archduke Rudolph of Austria, the B flat Trio is the most famous and largest in scale of Beethoven's works in this form. The Beaux Arts Trio pair it with a work of much chronological debate, the composer's variations on a theme by Wenzell Müller. Beethoven: Variations on Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu, Op 121a; Trio in B flat, Op 97 (Archduke) 2.00pm This week Louise Fryer looks Beyond Brahms, placing his four great symphonies within the lineage of the Austro-German tradition, from the 'pure music' of Mozart and Beethoven, through the programmatic works of Liszt and Strauss to early Schoenberg. So impressed was Schoenberg by Brahms's innovation in harmony and expression that he penned a 1933 essay entitled Brahms the Progressive. Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas, Op 95 Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68 NDR Symphony Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor) Mozart: Concerto in A for piano and string quartet Tzimon Barto (piano) Royal String Quartet Rameau: Allemande; Sarabande; Gavotte (Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin) Tzimon Barto (piano) Schnittke: Violin Concerto No 4 Vadim Repin (violin) NDR Symphony Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor) Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral) NDR Symphony Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor).