Afternoon on 3 - 25/12/2007

Presented by Penny Gore. 1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Beethoven Plus A run of concerts recorded at LSO St Luke's, featuring a complete series of Beethoven's string quartets coupled with masterpieces of the genre by Haydn and Bartok. 5/8. Former New Generation Artists the Szymanowski Quartet perform two quartets commissioned by the wealthy Prince Lobkowitz, an amateur musician who patronised both Haydn and Beethoven, plus an arrangement of Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances made especially for the quartet by Ukrainian composer Miroslav Skoryk. Beethoven: Quartet in G, Op 18 No 2 Haydn: Quartet in F, Op 77 No 2 Bartók, arr. Skoryk: Romanian Folk Dances 2.00pm Carols from King's Another chance to hear Stephen Cleobury directing the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College, Cambridge. 3.40pm Bayreuth Ring Cycle 2007 Wagner: Die Walküre (Act 1) Siegmund ...... Endrik Wottrich (tenor) Hunding ...... Kwangchul Youn (bass) Wotan ...... Albert Dohmen (baritone) Sieglinde ...... Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano) Brünnhilde ...... Linda Watson (soprano) Fricka ...... Michelle Breedt (mezzo-soprano) Gerhilde ...... Sonja Mühlbeck (soprano) Ortlinde ...... Anna Gabler (soprano) Waltraute ...... Martina Dike (mezzo-soprano) Schwertleite ...... Simone Schröder (contralto) Helmwige ...... Edith Haller (soprano) Siegrune ...... Wilke te Brummelstroete (mezzo-soprano) Grimgerde ...... Anette Küttenbaum (mezzo-soprano) Rossweisse ...... Alexandra Petersamer (mezzo-soprano) Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Christian Thielemann (conductor).