The final day of BBC
Radio 3's weekend festival, live from the Barbican
Hall, London.
Radoslav Kvapil (piano) Sonata (1 X 1905) In the Mists; On an Overgrown Path (Book I)
4.00 Performing Janacek David Pountney , Sir Charles Mackerras ,
Josephine Bairstow and Philip Langridge discuss performing Janacek's music.
4.30 Janacek in London
A recital re-creating a chamber concert of Janacek's music given in the Wigmore Hall in May 1926, during the composer's only visit to Britain.
Ernst Kovacic (violin)
Christopher van Kampen (cello)
Radoslav Kvapil (piano) London Winds
Lindsay Quartet
String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata) Violin Sonata
5.15 Franz Kafka lived and worked in Prague.
Vladimir Zelezny takes a walk round some locations important to the writer.
5.35 Mladifor wind sextet Pohadka for cello and piano Concertino for piano, wind and strings
6.40pm Out of the Mist
"Although I am getting on in years, I have a feeling that a new vein is beginning to grow in my work ... a new branch."
John Tyrrell ,
Vilem Tausky and Jan Smaczny talk about the late flowering of Janacek's creative life, with readings from the composer's notes and letters by David King.
7.30 Music for Chorus
BBC Singers conductor Simon Joly with John Alley (piano),
Susan Milan (flute), Sioned Williams (harp), Malcolm Hicks (organ).
Elegy on the death of my daughter Olga; Kaspar Rucky , Potulny Silenec
(The Wandering Madman) Otcenas (Moravian Our Father)
8.20 Having endured over 40 years of Communist oppression, Czech artists are free again, and Prague is once more a magnet for expatriate writers and painters. The translator Jin Josek surveys the cultural scene in Prague.
8.40 Music for Orchestra
Ernst Kovacic (violin) BBC Symphony
Orchestra/ Andrew Davis
Violin Concerto (Pilgrimage of the soul); Sinfonietta