Afternoon on 3 - 26/02/2008

Presented by Penny Gore. 1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Beginning a week of performances from a series of concerts given at St George's Hall in Liverpool last autumn to mark the city's 800th anniversary. These concerts feature young artists performing British and American repertoire, reflecting Liverpool's long-standing reputation as the gateway to the New World. Korngold: Fanfare No 1 Onyx Brass Quintet Goossens: Pastorale et harlequinade InTriplicate Ives: The Innate Alasdair Beatson (piano) Doric Quartet Finzi: Let us garlands bring Simon Bailey (bass-baritone) Claire Dunham (piano) Thomson: The plough that broke the plain Onyx Brass Quintet Piston: Suite for oboe and piano Sally Richardson (oboe) Claire Dunham (piano) Howells: Violin Sonata No 3 in E minor, Op 38 Jack Liebeck (violin) Ashley Wass (piano) Ives: Halloween Alasdair Beatson (piano) Josephine Large (bass drum) Doric Quartet 2.00pm British Symphony Series: Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony Cycle Granville Bantock: Omar Khayyam, Part 2 Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano) Toby Spence (tenor) Roderick Williams (baritone) BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Vernon Handley (conductor) Peter Maxwell Davies: Symphony No 7 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor) Beethoven: Sonata in D for cello and piano, Op 102 No 2 Li-Wei (cello) Gretel Dowdeswell (piano) Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1 in C, Op 15 Cedric Tiberghien (piano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Baldur Bronnimann (conductor).