Valery Gergiev
Tuesday 11 September 2007 13:00-16:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by John Shea.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Playlist:
Secret Bach
1/4. Cellist Danjulo Ishizaka performs music by Bach, recorded at the mysterious Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh.
Bach: Cello Suites Nos 4 and 5
2.00pm
More works conducted by Valery Gergiev.
2/5. He conducts Tchaikovsky's underrated First Symphony, and reaches the denouement of Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini.
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1 (Winter Daydreams)
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (Act 2)
Benvenuto Cellini ...... Burkhard Fritz (tenor)
Giacomo Balducci, Papal Treasurer ...... Brindley Sheratt (bass)
Teresa, Balducci's daughter ...... Maija Kovalevska (soprano)
Fieramosca, the Pope's sculptor ...... Laurent Naouri (baritone)
Ascanio, Cellini's favourite Apprentice ...... Kate Aldrich (mezzo-soprano)
Francesco and Bernardino, Cellini's other apprentices ...... Xavier Mas, Roberto Tagliavini (bass)
Pompeo, swordsman ...... Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Innkeeper ...... Sung-Keun Park (tenor)
Pope Clement VII ...... Mikhail Petrenko (bass)
Vienna State Opera Chorus Concert Association
Vienna Philharmonic
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
