Afternoon on 3 - 27/06/2008

Presented by Jonathan Swain. With Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Concluding the series of concerts given at this year's Aldeburgh Festival, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs excerpts from Bach's The Art of Fugue interspersed with excerpts from Jatekol (Games) by the festival's featured composer Gyorgy Kurtag. Plus Focus on China: Li Huan Zhi: Chinese Spring Festival Overture Stravinsky: Petrushka Smetana: Vltava: Ma Vlast BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Smetana: Och, jaky zal!...Ten lasky sen (The Bartered Bride) Elena Semenova (soprano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Elgar: Cockaigne Overture BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Glazunov: Chant du menestrel Jian Wang (cello) BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Chen Yi: Chinese Myths Cantata BBC Singers Gu Feng Ensemble BBC Philharmonic Jason Lai (conductor) John Adams: The Chairman Dances BBC Philharmonic Jason Lai (conductor) Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 Jin Ju (piano) BBC Philharmonic Jason Lai (conductor) Part of Radio 3's Focus on China season.