1 November 2007
Thursday 1 November 2007 13:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by Louise Fryer
1.00pm European Festivals
With Janacek's opera From the House of the Dead from this summer's Aix-en-Provence Festival, directed by Patrice Chéreau and conducted by Pierre Boulez.
Playlist:
Suk: Fantastic Scherzo
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bertrand de Billy (conductor)
Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A
Martin Kasík (piano)
Wihan Quartet
Novák: In the Tatras
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bertrand de Billy (conductor)
Zelenka: Missa votiva in E minor (excerpt)
Bénédicte Tauran, Stanislava Mihalcová (sopranos)
Markéta Cukrová (contralto)
Tomás Korínek (tenor)
Tomás Král, Tobias Berndt (basses)
Smetana: String Quartet No 2 in D minor
Wihan Quartet
Suk: Fairytale Suite (Raduz and Mahulena)
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bertrand de Billy (conductor)
Janacek: From the House of the Dead
Goryanchikov ...... Olaf Bär (baritone)
Alyeya ...... Eric Stoklossa (tenor)
Filka Morozov ...... Stefan Margita (tenor)
Skuratov ...... John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Shishkov ...... Gerd Grochowski (tenor)
Prison Governor ...... Jirí Sulzenko (baritone)
Big prisoner/Nikita ...... Peter Straka (tenor)
Small prisoner ...... Vladimir Chmelo (baritone)
Elderly prisoner ...... Heinz Zednik (tenor)
Cook ...... Martin Barta (baritone)
Priest ...... Vratislav Kríz (baritone)
Chekunov ...... Jan Galla (bass)
Drunken prisoner ...... Tomás Krejcirík (tenor)
Shapkin ...... Peter Hoare (tenor)
Prisoner/Kedril ...... Marian Pavlovic (tenor)
Prisoner/Don Juan/The Brahmin ...... Ales Jenis (bass)
Young prisoner ...... Olivier Dumait (tenor)
Prostitute ...... Susannah Haberfeld (mezzo-soprano)
Cherevin ...... Andreas Conrad (tenor)
Arnold Schönberg Choir
Erwin Ortner (director)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)