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Presented by Louise Fryer. 1.00pm European Festivals: Including Janacek's opera From the House of the Dead and works by Suk, Dvorak, Novak, Zelenka and Smetana.

Presented by Louise Fryer

1.00pm European Festivals

With Janacek's opera From the House of the Dead from this summer's Aix-en-Provence Festival, directed by Patrice Ch茅reau and conducted by Pierre Boulez.

Suk: Fantastic Scherzo
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bertrand de Billy (conductor)

Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A
Martin Kas铆k (piano)
Wihan Quartet

Nov谩k: In the Tatras
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bertrand de Billy (conductor)

Zelenka: Missa votiva in E minor (excerpt)
B茅n茅dicte Tauran, Stanislava Mihalcov谩 (sopranos)
Mark茅ta Cukrov谩 (contralto)
Tom谩s Kor铆nek (tenor)
Tom谩s Kr谩l, Tobias Berndt (basses)

Smetana: String Quartet No 2 in D minor
Wihan Quartet

Suk: Fairytale Suite (Raduz and Mahulena)
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bertrand de Billy (conductor)

Janacek: From the House of the Dead
Goryanchikov ...... Olaf B盲r (baritone)
Alyeya ...... Eric Stoklossa (tenor)
Filka Morozov ...... Stefan Margita (tenor)
Skuratov ...... John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Shishkov ...... Gerd Grochowski (tenor)
Prison Governor ...... Jir铆 Sulzenko (baritone)
Big prisoner/Nikita ...... Peter Straka (tenor)
Small prisoner ...... Vladimir Chmelo (baritone)
Elderly prisoner ...... Heinz Zednik (tenor)
Cook ...... Martin Barta (baritone)
Priest ...... Vratislav Kr铆z (baritone)
Chekunov ...... Jan Galla (bass)
Drunken prisoner ...... Tom谩s Krejcir铆k (tenor)
Shapkin ...... Peter Hoare (tenor)
Prisoner/Kedril ...... Marian Pavlovic (tenor)
Prisoner/Don Juan/The Brahmin ...... Ales Jenis (bass)
Young prisoner ...... Olivier Dumait (tenor)
Prostitute ...... Susannah Haberfeld (mezzo-soprano)
Cherevin ...... Andreas Conrad (tenor)
Arnold Sch枚nberg Choir
Erwin Ortner (director)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor).

4 hours

Last on

Thu 1 Nov 2007 13:00

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  • Thu 1 Nov 2007 13:00