Afternoon on 3 - Beethoven Plus - Episode 3

Presented by Fiona Talkington. 1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Beethoven Plus A run of concerts recorded at LSO St Luke's, featuring a complete series of Beethoven's string quartets coupled with masterpieces of the genre by Haydn and Bartok. 3/8. The Kuss Quartet perform two late quartets from Beethoven and Bartok. The deterioration in his hearing almost complete, Beethoven completed his Op 95 quartet at a time of great personal and professional struggle, while Bartok's Sixth Quartet was his last foray into the form. Bartók: Quartet No 3 in C sharp minor, Sz 85 Beethoven: Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1 (Razumovsky) 2.00pm British Symphony Series Featuring some of the East European and American musical enthusiasms of composer David Matthews. Plus a concerto by Graham Whettam, the British composer who died in August this year, shortly before his eightieth birthday. Janacek: Taras Bulba BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ilan Volkov (conductor) Matthews: The Doorway of the Dawn BBC Singers Bob Chilcott (conductor) Matthews: Te lucis ante terminum BBC Singers Bo Holten (conductor) Bartók: Contrasts Sara Trickey (violin) Catriona Scott (clarinet) Gretel Dowdeswell (piano) Haydn: Symphony No 85 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Garry Walker (conductor) Barber: Dover Beach Ronan Collett (baritone) Psophos String Quartet Malcolm Hayes: Alleluia, nativitas BBC Singers James Morgan (conductor) Graham Whettam: Clarinet Concerto No 1 John Bradbury (clarinet) BBC Philharmonic Alexander Shelley (conductor) Stravinsky: Mass BBC Singers Endymion Stephen Cleobury (conductor) Matthews: Symphony No 4 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Mark Wigglesworth (conductor).