Afternoon on 3 - 27/02/2008

Presented by Penny Gore. 1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Continuing a week of concerts given at St George's Hall in Liverpool last autumn to mark the city's 800th anniversary, featuring young artists performing British and American repertoire that reflects Liverpool's long-standing reputation as the gateway to the New World. MacDowell: To a Wild Rose Ashley Wass (piano) MacDowell: Five Songs, Op 47 Simon Bailey (bass-baritone) Claire Dunham (piano) Clarke: Midsummer Moon Jack Liebeck (violin) Ashley Wass (piano) Thomson: Family Portraits Onyx Brass Quintet Rawsthorne: Sonatina for flute, oboe and piano InTriplicate Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge Andrew Kennedy (tenor) Alasdair Beatson (piano) Doric Quartet Copland: Corral Nocturne; Hoe-Down (Rodeo) Onyx Brass Quintet 2.10pm British Symphony Series: Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony Cycle Bantock: Omar Khayyam, Part 3 Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano) Toby Spence (tenor) Roderick Williams (baritone) BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Vernon Handley (conductor) Maxwell Davies: Symphony No 8 (Antarctic) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor) Barber: Sonata for cello and piano, Op 6 Li-Wei (cello) Gretel Dowdeswell (piano) Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge for string orchestra, Op 10 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Elizabeth Layton (conductor).