19 February 2008
Tuesday 19 February 2008 13:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by John Shea.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Playlist
City of London Festival 2007
The final week of concerts given at last summer's festival began with a recital from St Andrew's Holborn, by Radio 3 New Generation Artists oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk and the Psophos Quartet.
Britten: Oboe Quartet
Debussy: Quartet for strings in G minor
Alberga: Succubus Moon (world premiere)
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)
Psophos Quartet
2.00pm The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and friends
The programme interweaves a whistlestop tour through Czech music since Dvorak with a musical recreation of a remarkable journey. Between 1465 and 1467 the Czech nobleman, diplomat and spy Leo of Rozmital made a pilgrimage from Prague to the Spanish shrine of Santiago de Compostela, travelling there and back through most of Europe.
Dvorak: Symphonic Variations
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
Anon (Czech): Melos premat hilariter; Jubilo cum carmine
Discantus
Brigitte Lesne (director)
Alla Francesca
Pierre Hamon (director)
Alta
Pierre Boragno (director)
Ostrcil: Impromptu, Op 13
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
Binchois: Salve sancta parens
Janacek: Taras Bulba
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Anon (English): Alleluia, a newe work
Kapralova: String quartet, Op 8
Kapralova Quartet
Anon (Spanish): Camini por altas torres; Ensalcemos al Apostol
Martinu: Symphony No 1
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Zdenek Macal (conductor)
Anon (Spanish and Italian): Al jorn del Judici (Sybillic prophecy); Fate d'arera
Barton: After the Sunset
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Olivieri-Monroe (conductor)
Anon (Czech): Jubilo cum carmine
