Between now and next Saturday Radio 3 highlights the music of the great Czech composer Leos Janacek. Dismissed as "a scrap-by-scrap composer'afterthe British premiere of Katya Kabanova in 1951, he is now recognised as one of the great operatic composers of ourtime. As a prelude to the opening concert of this season, Chris de Souza talks to director David Pountney and conductor Richard Armstrong about Janacek's rise from obscurity to fame.
7.45 Janacek Katya Kabanova Scottish Opera's current production - sung in English -a moving story of one woman's struggle forfreedom in an oppressive world. Love, betrayal, power and guilt combine in a conflict which can only be resolved in death.
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Richard Armstrong