Music from Russia & Eastern Europe
Tuesday 1 May 2007 13:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by Louise Fryer.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Playlist:
Postcards from St Petersburg
1/4. Celebrating another of the world's great musical capitals, another chance to hear the final four Radio 3 Lunchtime concerts in this series from last year's City of London Festival. Today's concert was given at St Michael's, Cornhill.
Stravinsky: Concertino
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 11, Op 122
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No 1 in D, Op 11
Brodsky Quartet
2.00pm
More Eastern sounds, from Russia, Poland and the Baltic states.
Chesnokov: Hvalite Ghospoda (Praise the Lord); Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts, Op 24; Da ispravitsia molitva moya (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op 42)
Sian Menna (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Singers
Dominic Wheeler (conductor)
Shostakovich: Ballet Suite No 1
Ulster Orchestra
Christian Gansch (conductor)
Granville Bantock: A Pageant of Human Life
BBC Singers
New London Children's Choir
Ronald Corp (conductor)
Lutoslawski: Little Suite
Ulster Orchestra
Tuomas Ollila (conductor)
Haydn: Piano Sonata in F
Eduard Kunz (piano)
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for string orchestra in C, Op 48
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Lesley Hatfield
Malcolm Williamson: Sonnet
BBC Singers
Ronald Corp (conductor)
Malcolm Williamson: A young girl for a capella choir
BBC Singers
Ronald Corp (conductor)
Smetana: Macbeth and the Witches
Ashley Wass (piano)
Ronald Corp: Dover Beach
New London Children's Choir
Ronald Corp (conductor)
Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G, Op 88
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
