Performance on 3

40 years of Radio 3 are celebrated with the second of six recordings from the archives. Stephen Plaistow joins Catherine Bott to introduce a Royal Festival Hall recital given by the great Russian pianist Emil Gilels in 1984, the year before his death. Scriabin: Sonata No 3 in F sharp minor; 5 Preludes Prokofiev: Sonata No 3 in A minor (From old notebooks) Beethoven: Sonata No 29 in B flat (Hammerklavier).