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19/03/2008

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: The Cremona Quartet perform Beethoven's Quartet No 3 in C. 2.00pm San Francisco Symphony Orchestra: With Haydn's The Storm and Verdi's Requiem.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

LSO St Luke's Beethoven Plus

Continuing a new series of concerts given at LSO St Luke's in East London.

2/8. To compliment their choice of the third of Beethoven's quartets written for Count Razumovsky, the young Italian Cremona Quartet begin their recital with the fourth quartet by Bartok.

Bartok: Quartet No 4 in C, Sz 91
Beethoven: Quartet No 3 in C, Op 59 (Razumovsky)

2.00pm San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

A week of concerts from the Davies Symphony Hall, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under their music director Michael Tilson Thomas, and an array of guest conductors.

Haydn: The Storm
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Martin Haselbock (conductor)

Ives: Decoration Day
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1 in C, Op 15
Lang Lang (piano)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No 99 in E flat
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

Verdi: Requiem
Christine Brewer (soprano)
Stephanie Blythe (mezzo-soprano)
Frank Lopardo (tenor)
Vitalji Kowaljow (bass)
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
James Conlon (conductor).

4 hours

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