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Afternoon on 3: European Summer Festivals 2007

Afternoon Concert: European Summer Festivals 2007: Episode 9

Episode 9

European Summer Festivals 2007

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, European Summer Festivals 2007, Episode 9

Including Janacek's From the House of the Dead, from 2007's Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Presented by Louise Fryer. 1.00pm European Festivals: Including Janacek's opera From the House of the Dead and works by Suk, Dvorak, Novak, Zelenka and Smetana.

Presented by Louise Fryer

1.00pm European Festivals

With Janacek's opera From the House of the Dead from this summer's Aix-en-Provence Festival, directed by Patrice Chéreau and conducted by Pierre Boulez.

Suk: Fantastic Scherzo
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bertrand de Billy (conductor)

Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A
Martin Kasík (piano)
Wihan Quartet

Novák: In the Tatras
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bertrand de Billy (conductor)

Zelenka: Missa votiva in E minor (excerpt)
Bénédicte Tauran, Stanislava Mihalcová (sopranos)
Markéta Cukrová (contralto) 
Tomás Korínek (tenor) 
Tomás Král, Tobias Berndt (basses)

Smetana: String Quartet No 2 in D minor
Wihan Quartet

Suk: Fairytale Suite (Raduz and Mahulena)
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bertrand de Billy (conductor)

Janacek: From the House of the Dead
Goryanchikov ...... Olaf Bär (baritone)
Alyeya ...... Eric Stoklossa (tenor)
Filka Morozov ...... Stefan Margita (tenor)
Skuratov ...... John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Shishkov ...... Gerd Grochowski (tenor)
Prison Governor ...... Jirí Sulzenko (baritone)
Big prisoner/Nikita ...... Peter Straka (tenor)
Small prisoner ...... Vladimir Chmelo (baritone)
Elderly prisoner ...... Heinz Zednik (tenor)
Cook ...... Martin Barta (baritone)
Priest ...... Vratislav Kríz (baritone)
Chekunov ...... Jan Galla (bass)
Drunken prisoner ...... Tomás Krejcirík (tenor)
Shapkin ...... Peter Hoare (tenor)
Prisoner/Kedril ...... Marian Pavlovic (tenor)
Prisoner/Don Juan/The Brahmin ...... Ales Jenis (bass)
Young prisoner ...... Olivier Dumait (tenor)
Prostitute ...... Susannah Haberfeld (mezzo-soprano)
Cherevin ...... Andreas Conrad (tenor)
Arnold Schönberg Choir
Erwin Ortner (director)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra 
Pierre Boulez (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: European Summer Festivals 2007

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