大象传媒

with James Jolly. This week performances by Jiri Belohlavek, chief conductor of the 大象传媒 SO, and our Wednesday Award-winner is pianist Emmanual Ax.

10.00
Glinka
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA 61394

10.06
Bruckner
Locus Iste
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)
Decca 453102

10.10
Wednesday Award Winner:

Haydn
Piano Sonata no.32 in G minor, Hob XVI:44
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Sony 53635

10.22
Artist of the Week:

Czech conductor Jiri Belohlavek is Classical Collection's Artist of the Week. According to Gramophone magazine, he "has become a major fixture on the international music scene - as feted at the Met in New York as he is at the helm of the 大象传媒 Symphony or in the intimate surroundings of Glyndebourne. His repertoire is broad ... but it is in the music of Central Europe that he is at his finest, shedding new light on some magnificent corners of the repertoire." Today we hear him doing just that, with a performance of the Symphony in D by Czech classical composer Jan Vaclav Vorisek - hardly a household name nowadays, but one that certainly deserves to become much more familiar than it is. Vorisek was born in the year of Mozart's death, 1791, and like Mozart, he didn't live to see his 35th birthday. One of his final works, the Symphony shows the influence of Vorisek's idol, Beethoven, but it's full of confidence and originality too. Belohlavek conducts the orchestra he founded, the Prague Philharmonia, in a thrilling performance.

Vorisek
Symphony in D, op.24
Prague Philharmonia
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
Supraphon SU 3713-2 031

10.50
Zelenka
Mass in D
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
Supraphon 11 0816-2

11.24
Janacek
The Excursions of Mr Broucek - suite from the opera
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek
Supraphon SU 3436-2 031.

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