Direct from the Royal Albert Hall
50th anniversary of Janacek's death

Salvatore Accardo (violin)
Lorna Haywood (soprano)
Ameral Gunson (mezzo-sop)
John Mitchinson (tenor)
Don Garrard (bass)
Roy Massey (organ)
BBC Singers, director John Poole
BBC Symphony Chorus, conductor Brian Wright
BBC Symphony Orchestra, led by Maurice Brett, conducted by Norman Del Mar

Janacek Rhapsody: Taras Bulba

Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor

8.36* During the interval Bernard Keeffe, Antonin Tucapsky and Daniel Jones discuss some of the general characteristics of Czech music and demonstrate how Janacek's, Glagolitic Mass is central to this tradition.

8.50* Proms 78 Part 2
Janacek Glagolitic Mass (sung in Old Slavonic)

Feature p12
(A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2)
(Stereo)

(Strains of Moravia: Sunday 10.15 pm Radio 4; Omnibus: Wednesday 10.55 pm BBC1)