Saturday 10 Feb 07
Tom Service
Saturday 10 February 2007 9:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
BBC Radio 3 devotes the next week to broadcasting the complete works of Tchaikovsky alongside the complete works of Stravinsky, arguably the greatest Russian composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. A stellar line-up of presenters and contributors includes Valery Gergiev, Pierre Boulez, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Oliver Knussen, John Tavener, Simon Russell Beale and Daniel Libeskind.
Tom Service starts the week.
Playlist
Tchaikovsky: Waltz (Swan Lake)
Montreal SO
Charles Dutoit (conductor)
Decca 436 212-2 D1
Tchaikovsky: Scherzo a la russe
Viktoria Postnikova (piano)
Erato 2292-45966-2
Speech Insert: Stephen Walsh
Stravinsky: Scherzo a la russe (jazz band version)
City of Birmingham SO
Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 5 85538-2
Stravinsky: Prasha's Song (Mavra)
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano)
Ensemble InterContemporain
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG 431 751-2
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947)
Netherlands Wind Ensemble
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
CHAN 9488
Tchaikovsky: Night
BBC Singers
Bob Chilcott (conductor)
Tchaikovsky: Suite No.4 Op. 61 (Mozartiana)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
CHAN 8777
Speech Insert: Pierre Boulez
Stravinsky: Pulcinella
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Robert Lloyd (bass)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)
EMI 5 74305-2
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 (Pathetique) (3rd mvt)
Santa Cecila Orchestra
Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 3532582 D2
Tchaikovsky: Night
Ekaterina Sementchuk (mezzo)
Larissa Gergieva (piano)
HMN 911881
Speech Insert: Donald MacLeod
Stravinsky: 3 Little Songs (Recollections of my Childhood) (chamber orchestra version)
Cathy Berberian (mezzo)
Columbia CO
Igor Stravinsky (conductor)
Sony SM2K 46 298 D2
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite
Vienna PO
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Decca 417 700-2
Speech Insert: Collage
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Columbia SO
Igor Stravinsky (conductor)
Sony SM3K 46 291 D2
Tchaikovsky: Let my prayer ascend (Nine Sacred Pieces)
Boys' and Men's Choir of the Moscow Choral Academy
Viktor Popov (conductor)
Le Chant du Monde LDC 278 728
Stravinsky: Anthem ("The dove descending breaks the air")
BBC Singers
Bob Chilcott (conductor)
Speech Insert: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C
Strings of the USSR Symphony Orchestra
Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
Melodiya 7432117101-2
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