Afternoon on 3 - Concertgebouw Matinee - Episode 2

Presented by Penny Gore. Series of matinee concerts from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, plus more in a survey of Haydn String Quartets. Featuring Haydn's Lark Quartet - considered to have one of the most joyous openings the composer ever wrote for quartet. That's followed by a rarely-performed, Bach-inspired work by Charles Koechlin, a pupil of Faure in Paris, and then a cantata by Bach himself. The programme concludes with a work by Mozart performed by period performance specialists La Stagione Frankfurt. 2.15pm Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op 64, No 5 (The Lark) Quatuor Ebene 2.30pm Koechlin: L'Offrande musicale sur le nom de BACH, Op 187 Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Ed Spanjaard (conductor) 3.20pm Bach: Cantata, BWV 198 (Lass. Furstin, lass noch einen Strahl) Ilse Eerens (soprano) Iestyn Davies (alto) Andreas Welle (tenor) Philip Cutlip (bass) Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Frans Bruggen (conductor) 3.55pm Haydn: String Quartet in B minor, Op 64, No 2 Arcanto Quartet Debussy: Danses Sacre et Profane Lavinia Meijer (harp) Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra Marco Boni (conductor) 4.35pm Mozart: Symphony No 21 in A, K134 La Stagione Frankfurt Michael Schneider (conductor).