Afternoon on 3 - 21/03/2008

Presented by Louise Fryer 1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert LSO St Luke's Beethoven Plus 4/8. In this concert, the Henschel Quartet combine the last of Beethoven's Opus 18 quartets - his first foray into the genre - with Bartok's penultimate quartet, a study in musical symmetry. Beethoven: Quartet in B flat, Op 18 No 6 Bartok: Quartet No 5 in B flat, Sz 102 2.00pm San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Concluding a week of concerts from the Davies Symphony Hall, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under their music director Michael Tilson Thomas, and an array of guest conductors. Pickard: The Flight of Icarus San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Mark Wigglesworth (conductor) Dutilleux: Mystere de l'Instant San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Alan Gilbert (conductor) Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54 Shai Wosner (piano) San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Alan Gilbert (conductor) Strauss: Death and Transfiguration, Op 24 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Alan Gilbert (conductor) A concert for Holy Week given earlier this week at St Paul's Church, Knightstbridge, London Bach: O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid (chorale) Brahms: Prelude and Fugue on O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid Bruckner: Motets for Passiontide: Christus factus nobis es; Os Justi; Vexilla Regis Liszt: Via crucis Stephen Farr (organ) BBC Singers Paul Brough (conductor).