Afternoon on 3 - 26/06/2008

Presented by Jonathan Swain. Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert In a concert given at this year's Aldeburgh Festival, soprano Carolyn Sampson and pianist Jonathan Papp perform rarely-heard songs from Debussy and Poulenc, alongside Britten's settings of Verlaine and Hugo. Debussy: Ariettes oubliees Bizet: Adieux de l'hotesse arabe; Ma vie a son secret; La coccinelle Poulenc: Airs chantes (1927) Barber: Three songs, Op 45 Britten: Quatre chansons francaises Walton: Three songs Plus China Focus Including: Musheng Chen: A Dream in the Peony Garden Yili Shen Kun (opera singer) Muhai Tang (conductor) Beethoven: Egmont - incidental music, Op 84 Ulster Orchestra Josep Caballe-Domenech (conductor) Beethoven: Concerto No 3 in C minor for piano and orchestra, Op 37 Edward Kunz (piano) Ulster Orchestra Josep Caballe-Domenech (conductor) Leonard Bernstein: Halil Nocturne for flute, string orchestra and percussion Sharon Bezaly (flute) Ulster Orchestra Josep Caballe-Domenech (conductor) Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op 34 Ulster Orchestra Josep Caballe-Domenech (conductor) Chen Yi: Chinese Folk Songs (Diu diu deng; Mountain Song and Dancing Tune; The Flowing Stream; Spring Dreams) BBC Singers Odaline de la Martinez (conductor) Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante Danjulo Ishizaka (cello) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Michal Dworzynski (conductor) Part of Radio 3's Focus on China season.