Wednesday 14 Feb 07
Fiona Talkington
Wednesday 14 February 2007 22:30-1:00 (Radio 3)
With Fiona Talkington.
BBC Radio 3's week of broadcasting the complete works of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky continues.
Duration:
2 hours 30 minutes
Playlist
Stravinsky: 2 Poems of Balmont, 1954
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano)
Ensemble InterContemporain
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
Recorded at IRCAM, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1980
DG 431 751 2 t.4-5
Speech Insert: Pierre Boulez
Stravinsky: Petrushka, 1947
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky (conductor)
Recorded in Hollywood, CA, 12th-16th February 1960
Sony SMK 46293 t.1-11
Tchaikovsky: 6 Sacred Pieces, Nos. 4 & 6
No.4: "Blessed are They Whom thou hast Chosen"
Moscow Chamber Choir
Yuri Ukhov (conductor)
Recorded in 1979
Chant Du Monde LDC 278728 t.18 & 20
Speech Insert: Steven Walsh
Stravinsky: Septet
Piano, 4 hands version, World Premiere recording
Greg Allen, Ezra Bartz (piano)
Stravinsky: A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer
Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano)
Loren Driscoll (tenor)
John Horton (speaker)
CBC Symphony Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky (conductor)
Recorded in Toronto, Canada, 29th April 1962
Sony Classical SM2K 46301 CD2 t.8-10
Tchaikovsky: Gaudeamus igitur
BBC Singers
Bob Chilcott (conductor)
BBC Recording
Tchaikovsky: Festival Cantata
For tenor, choir and symphony orchestra
Dedicated to the opening of the polytechnical exhibition in Moscow, in memory of Tsar Peter the Great's 200th anniversary
Words by Sergei Gorodecky
Lev Kuznetsov (tenor)
Large Choir of Moscow Radio
Kavdiy Ptitsa (conductor)
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Kozhukhar (conductor)
Recorded live recording 1982
Regis RRC 1182 tr.7
Speech Insert: Oliver Knussen
Stravinsky: The Flood
Lucifer Peter Hall (tenor)
God/Noah's Sons David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone)
Stephen Richardson (bass)
Speaking parts:
Narrator Michael Berkeley
Noah Bernard Jacobson
Noah's wife Lucy Shelton
Caller Peter Hall
London Sinfonietta
Oliver Knussen (conductor)
DG 447 068-2 t.1-7
Tchaikovsky: Three Choruses
1. Tis not the cuckoo in the damp pinewood
2. Why did the merry voice grow silent?
3. Without time, without season
BBC Singers
Bob Chilcott (conductor)
BBC Recording
