Afternoon on 3 - 26/05/2008

Presented by Penny Gore. Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Direct from Wigmore Hall, London, Suzy Klein introduces violinist Andrew Manze and keyboard player Richard Egarr, performing a chamber music programme of music from a later period than usual for them. Mozart: Violin Sonata in F, K376; Adagio in B minor, K540 Schubert: Duo in A for violin and piano, Op 162 Plus Big Noises from Down Under Orchestral, chamber and choral performances given in Australia and New Zealand, including a work by Brett Dean, a contemporary Australian composer familiar to British music lovers in Cheltenham, as well as a performance by celebrated young New Zealand-born bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu. Vivaldi: Concerto in D, RV 564 Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Hiro Kurosaki (conductor) Brett Dean: Amphitheatre Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Oleg Caetani (conductor) Mahler: Six Lieder - Trost im Ungluck; Revelge; Lob des hohen Verstands; Des Antonius von Padua; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?; Der Tamboursg'sell (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Matthias Bamert (conductor) John Psathas: Kartsigar New Zealand String Quartet Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Andrew Ford (narrator) Sydney Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins (conductor) Frank Nuyts: Old Airs The Song Company Roland Peelman (conductor) Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Hannu Lintu (conductor) Strauss: Tod und Verklarung Sydney Symphony Orchestra Simone Young (conductor) Donizetti: Il dolce suono...Ardon gl'incensi (Lucia di Lammermoor) Sumi Jo (soprano) West Australian Symphony Orchestra Sachio Fujioka (conductor).