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25/12/2007

1.00pm Lunchtime Concert. Beethoven Plus: 5/8. The Szymanowski Quartet. 2.00pm Carols from King's. 3.40pm Bayreuth Ring Cycle 2007: Act 1 of Wagner's Die Walkure.

Presented by Penny Gore.

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.

5/8. Former New Generation Artists the Szymanowski Quartet perform two quartets commissioned by the wealthy Prince Lobkowitz, an amateur musician who patronised both Haydn and Beethoven, plus an arrangement of Bart贸k's Romanian Folk Dances made especially for the quartet by Ukrainian composer Miroslav Skoryk.

Beethoven: Quartet in G, Op 18 No 2
Haydn: Quartet in F, Op 77 No 2
Bart贸k, arr. Skoryk: Romanian Folk Dances

2.00pm Carols from King's

Another chance to hear Stephen Cleobury directing the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College, Cambridge.

3.40pm Bayreuth Ring Cycle 2007

Wagner: Die Walk眉re (Act 1)
Siegmund ...... Endrik Wottrich (tenor)
Hunding ...... Kwangchul Youn (bass)
Wotan ...... Albert Dohmen (baritone)
Sieglinde ...... Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano)
Br眉nnhilde ...... Linda Watson (soprano)
Fricka ...... Michelle Breedt (mezzo-soprano)
Gerhilde ...... Sonja M眉hlbeck (soprano)
Ortlinde ...... Anna Gabler (soprano)
Waltraute ...... Martina Dike (mezzo-soprano)
Schwertleite ...... Simone Schr枚der (contralto)
Helmwige ...... Edith Haller (soprano)
Siegrune ...... Wilke te Brummelstroete (mezzo-soprano)
Grimgerde ...... Anette K眉ttenbaum (mezzo-soprano)
Rossweisse ...... Alexandra Petersamer (mezzo-soprano)
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
Christian Thielemann (conductor).

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