Monday 12th February 2007

07:00

The Tchaikovsky Experience

Monday 12 Feb 07

Penny Gore

With Penny Gore.

BBC Radio 3's week of broadcasting the complete works of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky continues.

Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op 37b (Mar-Apr)
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

Tchaikovsky: Overture in F (1865)
Tchaikovsky Large Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Fedoseev (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat (Dumbarton Oaks)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Hamlet
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
José Serebrier (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Voyevoda
USSR SO
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

10:00

The Tchaikovsky Experience

Monday 12 Feb 07

Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan.

BBC Radio 3's week of broadcasting the complete works of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky continues.

Stravinsky: 4 Russian Peasant Songs (1917)
Women's voices of the New London Chamber Choir
Voronezh Chamber Choir
James Wood (conductor)

Stravinsky: Les Noces (1919)
Alison Wells (soprano)
Mary King (mezzo)
Nigel Rogers (tenor)
Richard Suart (bass)
Flemish Radio Choir
New London Chamber Choir
Rex Lawson (pianola)
Ictus Ensemble
James Wood (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 2 (Little Russian)
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Dumka
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

Stravinsky: Les Noces (1923)
Libuse Domaninska (soprano)
Marie Mrazova (contralto)
Ivo Zidek (tenor)
Dalibor Jedlicka (bass)
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Ancerl (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 2
Elisabeth Leonskaya (piano)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Kurt Masur (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta (exc)
Walton Groenroos (baritone)
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Orchestre de Paris
Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)

Stravinsky: Capriccio
Paul Crossley (piano)
London Sinfonietta
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

13:00

The Tchaikovsky Experience

Monday 12 Feb 07

Louise Fryer

With Louise Fryer.

BBC Radio 3's week of broadcasting the complete works of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky continues.

Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No 2
Borodin Quartet

Stravinsky: The Nightingale
In Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, a Chinese emperor is enraptured with the beautiful singing of his treasured nightingale. Completed between 1908 and 1914, Stravinsky's charming setting starts off with rich and subtly blended sonorities but soon enters a modernist world of brash and striking colours.

Nightingale ...... Reri Grist (soprano)
Cook ...... Marina Picassi (soprano)
Fisherman ...... Loren Driscoll (tenor)
Emperor of China ...... Donald Gramm (baritone)
Chamberlain ...... Kenneth Smith (bass)
Bonze ...... Herbert Beatie (bass)
Death ...... Elaine Bonazzi (mezzo)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Opera Society of Washington, DC
Igor Stravinsky (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: The Nightingale
Moscow Adademy of Choral Singing
Viktor Popov (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
Featuring one more in the long line of suffering heroines who populate Russian novels and operas, Tchaikovsky's final opera explores many of his favourite themes, including innocence, darkness and light, and forbidden love.

Iolanta ...... Galina Gorchakova (soprano)
King René ...... Sergei Alexashkin (bass)
Robert ...... Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
Vaudémont ...... Gegam Grigorian (tenor)
Ibn-Hakia ...... Nikolai Putilin (baritone)
Kirov Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)

Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Ekegy (aka A Grateful Greeting)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy

17:00

The Tchaikovsky Experience

Monday 12 Feb 07

Sean Rafferty

With Sean Rafferty.

BBC Radio 3's week of broadcasting the complete works of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky continues.

Guest is pianist Peter Donohoe.

Including:

Tchaikovsky: Overture in Cm
USSR Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Lazarev (conductor)

Stravinsky: Sonata (1924): Serenade in A
Peter Donohoe (piano)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 2 (Little Russian)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: 3 Morceaux, Op 72 Nos 4-6
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky (conductor)

19:30

The Tchaikovsky Experience

Monday 12 Feb 07

Petroc Trelawny

With Petroc Trelawny.

BBC Radio 3's week of broadcasting the complete works of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky continues.

Including the Tchaikovsky songs and piano pieces used by Stravinsky in The Fairy's Kiss.

Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss
Cleveland Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1 (Winter Daydreams) (original version; world premiere recording)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947)
North West German Radio Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky (conductor)

22:30

The Tchaikovsky Experience

Monday 12 Feb 07

Fiona Talkington

With Fiona Talkington.

BBC Radio 3's week of broadcasting the complete works of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky continues.

Including:

Stravinsky: 4 Russian Peasant Songs (Saucers)
Women's voices of the New London Chamber Choir and the Voronezh Chamber Choir
Brendan Thomas, Joanna Hensel, Robert Stroh, Lynn Jarman (horns)
James Wood (conductor)

Stravinsky: Variations (Aldous Huxley in memoriam)
London Sinfonietta
Oliver Knussen (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: 3 Cherubic Hymns
Moscow Chamber Choir
Youri Ukhov (conductor)

Stravinsky: Chorale-Variations on the Christmas Carol Vom Himmel Hoch (Bach)
Choeur Pro Arte de Lausanne
Choeur de Chambre Romande
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Neeme Järvi (conductor)

Stravinsky: Canticum Sacrum
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Stephen Roberts (baritone)
Westminster Cathedral Choir
James O'Donnell (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor)

01:00

The Tchaikovsky Experience

Monday 12 Feb 07

John Shea

With John Shea.

1.00am
Stravinsky: Scherzo à la russe
London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

1.04am
Tchaikovsky: 6 Romances, Op 28
Ilya Levinsky (tenor), Semion Skigin (piano)
Joan Rodgers (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Nina Rautio (soprano), Semion Skigin (piano)
Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Semion Skigin (piano)

1.25am
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 2 (Little Russian) (Original version)
London Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Simon (conductor)

2.05am
Tchaikovsky: 6 Romances, Op 38
Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Semion Skigin (piano)
Joan Rodgers (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Nina Rautio (soprano), Semion Skigin (piano)

2:23am
Tchaikovsky: Movements from Swan Lake
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Dmitry Yablonksi (conductor)

2.30am
Tchaikovsky: Oprichnik
Prince Zemchuznyi ...... Vassily Savenko
Natalya ...... Elena Lassoskaya
Molchan Mit'kov ...... Dmtri Ulianov
Bojarina Morozova ...... Irina Doljenko
Andrej Morozov ...... Vsevolod Grivnov
Basmanov ...... Alexandra Durseneva
Zachar'evna ...... Cinzia De Mola
Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Lirico di Cagliari
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

5.45am
Tchaikovsky: Hamlet
Janis Kelly (soprano)
Derek Hammond-Stroud (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Simon (conductor)

6.34am
Stravinsky: Petrushka (concert suite 1947)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)