Paul Guinery explores the choral music of four generations of Moravian composers - from Dvorak's Songs of Nature to the music composed in exile by Bohuslav Martinu and Antonin Tucapskywho , like Janacek, was born in Brno. The programme includes specially recorded performances by the BBC Singers, conducted by Ronald Corp .
Dvorak Why Do Sweet Songs; Down in the Forest; Come Let Us Sing (In Nature's Realm, Op 63)
Novak Zvony ; Praha; Modlitba Za Vlast (Five Choruses, Op 71)BBC Singers, conductor Ronald Corp Martinu Field Mass
Ivan Kusnjer (baritone), male voices of the Czech Philharmonic Choir, Czech PO, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Martinu Romance of the Dandelions
Tucapsky Ne Forte Credas; Nunc Est Bibendum; Eheu,
Fugaces Alison Smart (soprano), Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor), BBC Singers, conductor Ronald Corp
Tucapsky The Seven Sorrows
TomasTulacek (violin), Bath Camerata, conductor Nigel Perrin