Democracy in Africa
Paul Guinery introduces a Prague Weekend edition. Zelenka
Litaniae Lauretanae
7.30 Anonymous Fugue in F
7.35 Haydn
Symphony No 93 in D
8.05 Vanhal Fugue in B flat
8.10 Edmund Rubbra
Piano Trio No 2, Op 138
8.25 Brixi Pastorella in C
8.30 Telemann Cantata:
Du aber Daniel gehe hin
Francine Stock opens the day at the studio of Radio Vltava in Prague.
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Czech Philharmonic
Orchestra/Zdenek Kosier Igor Ardasev (piano) Josef Suk (violin) Martlnu
Piano Concerto No 4
Janacek Violin Concerto
Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra
To Mozart and his contemporaries, "II divino Boemo" was the opera composer Myslivecek, but the nickname is surely also deserved by the many other Czechs who gave Europe much of its musical daily bread. Ivan Hewett celebrates the heritage of Bohemia at the end of the 18th century.
Roger Savage introduces a BBC Invitation Concert given in the Nostic Palace, Prague, by the Prague Wind Harmonie and Stamic String Quartet.
Myslivecek Octet in B flat Kozeluh String Quartet in C, Op 33 No 1
Krommer Octet-Partita in E flat (La Chasse)
Francine Stock takes a look at some of the issues in the city's musical life in the wake of political and economic changes.
Micky Won't Eat by Daniela Fischerova , translated by Norah Hronkova. Coming back from a night out with her new boyfriend, Anna doesn't need trouble from her daughter over the pet dog.
from the Convent of St
Agnes, Prague.
Panocha Quartet
Jan Panenka (piano)
Smetana String Quartet No 2 in D minor
Sommer String Quartet No
Dvorak Piano Quintet in A, Op 81
Prague has undergone a series of shocks in the last five years, beginning with 1989's Velvet Revolution.
Max Easterman reports on how the new politics has affected the life of Prague's citizens, and John Tusa chairs a discussion.
Karel Janovicky introduces a selection of Czech music, including works by Suk,
Novak, Jezek and Kalabis.
New Czech Writing Czech culture has a wonderful, rich literary past, and writers have for many years had a central public role. Julian Duplain asks if there are classic novels of freedom being written as there were of oppression?
Where should President
Havel direct his influence?
John Tusa considers the possibilities.
from the Rudolfinum.
Berlin Symphony Orchestra, conductor Libor Pesek
Antje Weihaas (violin) Blacher Concertante
Musik, Op 10
Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor
7.45 Dvorak's Summer Home
Julian Duplain visits Vysoka with Dvorak's grand-daughter and finds a treasure-trove of memorabilia, from the composer's piano to his pigeon-loft.
8.05 Mahler
Symphony No 1
Audience by Vaclav Havel. First broadcast in 1977, this production stars
Harold Pinter as the writer who works in a brewery.
Peter Vaughan is the Head Maltster who tries to get him to write his own report for the authorities who have sent him there.
Translated and adapted by Vera Blackwell
plays music by Cemohorsky, Seger, Vanhal and Kuchar on the 1741 organ of the Clementinum, Prague.
Invited by Schoenberg to join his class in Vienna, the Moravian composer Alois Haba refused, Instead he spent his long life treading a different path to the future: microtones. Haba's music is now being revived, and Ivan Hewett meets
Czech musicians who play it and who worked with him.
1: The Demon Barber of Prague Written in 1912 by Jaroslav Hasek , translated by Alan Menhennet , and performed by Jonathan Tafler.
2: One Man's Monologue Over Another Man 's Skull by llja Hurnik, translated by James Naughton , and performed by Jonathan Adams.
Karel Janovicky explores the interrupted development of Czech music with the help of musicians who lived through the upheaval of Dubcek's "Prague Spring".
John Tusa and Francine Stock bid goodnight from Prague. Prague Weekend editors: Brian Barfield ,
Richard Bannerman , Tony Cheevers. Producers: Kate Bolton ,
Elizabeth Burke. Mark Burman , Claire Campbell -Smith, Tim Dee. Julian Duplain. Adam Gatehouse , Lucy Hackney, Patrick Lambert , Fiona McLean. Nicholas Morgan , David Perry
