Afternoon on 3 - 28/05/2008

Presented by Penny Gore. Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007: A recital for Bank of Scotland Queen's Hall Series given by the Tokyo String Quartet, featuring a programme of quartets by Beethoven and Schumann together with a new work by Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach. Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 18 No 1 Auerbach: String Quartet No 2 (Primordial Light) Schumann: String Quartet, Op 41 No 3 Big Noises from Down Under: Series of orchestral, chamber and choral performances given in Australia and New Zealand, with vocal ensemble the Song Company marking the imminent arrival of summer with a sequence including works by Delius, Hindemith and Kate Bush, and Janine Jansen performing Mozart in Sydney. Edwin Carr: The End of the Golden Weather Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Werner Andreas Albert (conductor) Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Werner Andreas Albert (conductor) Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219 Janine Jansen (violin) Sydney Symphony Orchestra Gianluigi Gelmetti (conductor) Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri: Concerto in G, Op 1 No 12 (Storm at Sea) Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Hiro Kurosaki (conductor) The Song Company - Summer Schein: Die Voglein singen Anon: Bache Bene Venies (12th century) Hindemith: Verge; Landsknecthstrinklied Delius: To be sung on a summer night on the water Kate Bush: Delius (Song of Summer) Michel Legrand: The Summer Knows Paul McCartney: Good Day Sunshine Sibelius: En Saga Auckland Philharmonia Christian Knapp (conductor).