Afternoon on 3 - 20/03/2008

Presented by Louise Fryer 1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert LSO St Luke's Beethoven Plus Continuing a series of concerts given at LSO St Luke's in East London. 3/8. In their near 30-year career, the Endellion Quartet have earned a reputation of excellence for their performances around the world and in this recital they couple an early quartet by Haydn with the last piece Beethoven wrote. Haydn: Quartet in D, Op 20 No 4 Beethoven: Quartet in F, Op 135 2.00pm San Francisco Symphony Orchestra A week of concerts from the Davies Symphony Hall, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under music director Michael Tilson Thomas and an array of guest conductors. Stravinsky: The Nightingale Olga Trifonova (soprano) Paul Groves (tenor) Catherine Cook (mezzo-soprano) Tigran Martirossian, Ayk Martirossian (basses) San Francisco Symphony Chorus San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Joshua Bell (violin/director) Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex Stuart Skelton (tenor) Michelle De Young (mezzo-soprano) Tigran Martirossian, Ayk Martirossian (basses) Bruce Sledge (tenor) San Francisco Symphony Chorus San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op 70 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Joshua Bell (conductor).