This week Penny Gore features excerpts from Gluck's operas. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Balakirev Overture on Russian
Themes Philharmonia, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov Mahler Piano Quartet
Oleg Maisenberg (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin),
Veronika Hagen (viola), Clemens Hagen (cello) Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice) Academy of St Martin in the Reids, conductor Neville Marriner
8.30-10.00: Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in Eflat, K364 Gidon Kremer (violin),
Kirn Kashkashian (viola), Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt Gluck L 'Innocenza Giustificata,
Act 2 Scenes 5-8 Maria Bayo and Veronica Cangemi (sopranos), RuhrChorwerk, Cappella Coloniensis, conductor Christopher Moulds Bartok Concerto for orchestra Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer