Valery Gergiev
Monday 10 September 2007 13:00-16:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by John Shea.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Live from London's Wigmore Hall, Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a concert by cellist Daniel Muller-Schott and pianist Angela Hewitt. All three works in their programme provide the opportunity for real dialogue between the instruments, from the very intimate to the richly expressive.
Playlist
Bach: Sonata No 2 in D, BWV 1028
Schumann: Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in A, Op 69
2.00pm
This week one of the world's greatest conductors, Valery Gergiev, conducts a selection of 19th and 20th century masterpieces with performers from all over the world.
1/5. Some of Tchaikovsky's best-loved ballet music, and Berlioz's opera Benvenuto Cellini from the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm.
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (Act 1)
Sergey Semishkur (tenor, Benvenuto Cellini)
Nikolay Kamensky (bass, Giacomo Balducci, Papal Treasurer)
Anastasia Kalagina (soprano, Teresa, Balducci's daughter)
Alexander Gergalov (baritone, Fieramosca, the Pope's sculptor)
Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo-soprano, Ascanio, Cellini's favourite Apprentice)
Alexander Timchenko, Alexander Gerasimov (tenor and bass, Francesco and Bernardino, Cellini's other apprentices)
Sergey Romanov (bass-baritone, Pompeo, swordsman)
Andrey Popov (tenor, Innkeeper)
Mariinsky Theatre Chorus
Members of the Mikaeli Chamber Chorus
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
