Music from Russia & Eastern Europe
Wednesday 2 May 2007 13:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by Louise Fryer.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Playlist:
Postcards from St Petersburg
2/4. Another programme of music celebrating the city and culture of St Petersburg. This concert was given at St Lawrence Jewry during last year's City of London Festival.
Arensky: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor
Shostakovich: Trio No 2, Op 67
2.00pm
Featuring more music from Eastern Europe.
Gretchaninoff: Svete tihiy (Gladsome light); Tebe odeyushchagosia (Thou who clothest thyself with light); Bog Gospod...Blagoobrazniy Iosif (The Lord is God...Noble Joseph, Strstnaya sedmitsa, Op 58)
BBC Singers
Dominic Wheeler (conductor)
Arensky: Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky, Op 35a
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)
Weber: Introduction, Theme and Variations
Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet)
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Enescu: Concertstucke for viola and piano
Lawrence Power (viola)
Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
Bartok: Divertimento for string orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dmitry Sitkovetsky (conductor)
Haydn: Cello Concerto in D
Gautier Capucon (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Ulster Orchestra
Proinnsias O Duinn (conductor)
Szymanowski: String Quartet No 2, Op 56
Royal String Quartet
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sinfonietta on Russian Themes in A minor, Op 31
Ulster Orchestra
Tuomas Ollila (conductor)
