Thursday 15 Feb 07
Louise Fryer
Thursday 15 February 2007 13:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
With Louise Fryer.
BBC Radio 3's week of broadcasting the complete works of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky continues.
Playlist
Tchaikovsky: Perpetuum Mobile
(arr for pf LH of part of the Piano Sonata No. 1 by Carl Maria von Weber)
MDG 904 1397-6 Tr.5
Speech Insert: Modest Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor (op.50)
Itzhak Perlman (violin); Lynn Harrell (cello); Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
EMI CDC 7479882
Speech Insert: Donald Macleod
Speech insert: Joan Rodgers
Tchaikovsky: 7 Songs (op.47)
Was I not a little blade of grass?
Joan Rodgers (piano)
Hyperion CDA 66617
Tchaikovsky: The Maid of Orleans
This historic recording of Tchaikovsky's most ambitious opera was made in Leningrad in 1946.
Joan of Arc.... Sophia Preobrazhenskaya (mezzo-soprano)
King Charles VII.... Vitaly Kilchevsky (tenor)
Agnes Sorel.... Olga Kashevarova (soprano)
Dunois.... V Runovsky (baritone)
Lionel.... Lipa Solomiak (baritone)
Cardinal.... N Konstantiov (bass)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Kirov Theatre
Boris Khaikin (conductor)
MYTO 992H.028 (3CDs)