With Sandy Burnett.
1.00 Slava!
No Russian opera seems complete without a chorus of peasants extolling the virtue of their homeland, but the national consciousness also permeates the genre in less obvious ways. Perhaps more than any other nationality, Russian opera composers have chosen to draw upon the works of their native writers. In this four-part series, John Allison investigates the literary roots of Russian opera and explores how composers turned words into musical theatre.
3: The influence of Ostrovsky,
Dostoevsky and Bryusov. Including excerpts from Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden and Prokofiev's The
Gambler and The Fiery Angel.
2.00 Nikolai Demidenko
(piano)
Clementi Sonata in B flat, Op 24 No 2 Weber Sonata in A flat, Op 39
2.45 The BBC Orchestras
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Richard Bernas , Marco Rizzi
(violin), Fiona Kimm (soprano) Verdi Overture: Luisa Miller
Busoni Violin Concerto in D
Scelsi Chukrum (first UK performance) Berio Folk Songs
4.05 Fancies and Consorts
Music for viols by Matthew Locke and Richard Mico , performed on period instruments by Phantasm: Laurence Dreyfus (treble viol), Wendy Gillespie (treble/tenor viols), Jonathan Manson (tenor viol), Markku Luolajan-Mikkola (bass viol). Introduced by Laurence Dreyfus.