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Presented by Sarah Walker. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Dvorak Prague Waltzes
Weber Seven Variations in B flat on a theme from Silvana, Op 33
8.00-9.00: Boccherini String Quintet in D minor, Op 25 No 1 Debussy Symphonie in B minor
9.00 The Tchaikovsky Experience
For the next seven days BBC Radio 3 will be broadcasting the complete works of Tchaikovsky alongside the complete works of Stravinsky, featuring some of the great performances of the last 50 years. A starry line-up of presenters and contributors includes
Valery Gergiev , Pierre Boulez ,
Vladimir Ashkenazy , Oliver Knussen , John Tavener , Simon Russell Beale and Daniel Libeskind.
9.00-1.00pm Presented by Tom Service .
Tchaikovsky Waltz (Swan Lake) Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit Scherzo a la Russe
(TwoPieces, Op I No 1) Viktoria Postnikova (piano) Stravinsky Scherzo a la Russe (jazz band version) CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle Prasha's Song (Mavra)
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Ensemble
InterContemporian, conductor Pierre Boulez Symphonies of Wind Instruments Netherlands Wind Ensemble, conductor Thierry Fischer
Tchaikovsky Night BBC Singers/Bob Chilcott Suite No 4 in G, Op 61 (Mozartiana)
Philharmonia, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Stravinsky Pulcinella Soloists, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner Tchaikovsky Night, Op 73 No 2
Ekaterina Sementchuk (mezzo), Larissa Gergieva (piano)
Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetigue) (3rd mvt) Santa Cecilia Orchestra, conductor Antonio Pappano Igor Stravinsky Three Little Songs (Recollections of My Childhood) (chamber orchestra version) Cathy Berberian (mezzo), Columbia Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the composer Tchaikovsky Suite: Nutcracker
Vienna PO, conductor Herbert von Karajan Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Columbia SO, conducted by the composer
Tchaikovsky Let My Prayer Be Set Forth (Nine Sacred Pieces, No 8) Boys' and Men's Choir of the Moscow Choral Academy/Viktor
Popov Stravinsky Anthem: The Dove Descending Breaks the Air BBC Singers, conductor Bob Chilcott Tchaikovsky Serenade in C, Op 48
USSR SO, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov
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Contributors

Presented By:
Sarah Walker.
Unknown:
Valery Gergiev
Unknown:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Unknown:
Oliver Knussen
Unknown:
John Tavener
Unknown:
Simon Russell Beale
Unknown:
Daniel Libeskind.
Presented By:
Tom Service
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit Scherzo
Piano:
Stravinsky Scherzo
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Soprano:
Phyllis Bryn-Julson
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez
Conductor:
Thierry Fischer
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Ekaterina Sementchuk
Piano:
Larissa Gergieva
Conductor:
Antonio Pappano
Conductor:
Igor Stravinsky
Unknown:
Cathy Berberian
Unknown:
Popov Stravinsky
Conductor:
Bob Chilcott
Conductor:
Tchaikovsky Serenade
Conductor:
Yevgeni Svetlanov
Conducted By:
Andre Previn

Tchaikovsky String Quartet in B flat (1865) St Petersburg Quartet
Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet (1920) Alban Berg Quartet
Concertino for 12 instruments (1952) Columbia
Chamber Ensemble, conducted by the composer Suite d'apres themes, fragments et pieces de Giambattista Pergolesi (1925)
Eudice Shapiro (violin), Ralph Berkowitz (piano) Tchaikovsky Vakula the Smith
A rare chance to hear Tchaikovsky's opera based on Gogol's tale Christmas Eve. See also Cherevichki at 1.47am
Chorus of Opera North, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Edward Downes

Contributors

Unknown:
Alban Berg
Violin:
Eudice Shapiro
Violin:
Ralph Berkowitz
Piano:
Tchaikovsky Vakula
Conductor:
Edward Downes
Vakula:
David Bender (tenor)
Solokha:
Anne Collins (mezzo)
Devil:
Donald Maxwell (baritone)
Chub:
Clive Bayley (bass)
Oxana:
Susan Roberts (soprano)
The Mayor:
Nicholas Folwell (baritone)
His Excellency:
Nicholas Folwell (baritone)
Panas:
Neil Jenkins (tenor)
School teacher:
Neil Jenkins (tenor)
Narrator:
Patricia Routledge

Conductors Vladimir Jurowski and Gianandrea Noseda join Sean Rafferty.

Stravinsky Divertimento
Itzhak Perlman (violin), Bruno Canino (piano)
Tchaikovsky Suite No 3 in G, Op 55
Russian National Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski
Slavonic March, Op 31
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda
Stravinsky Symphony in E flat, Op 1
Russian National Orchestra/Mikhail Pletnev
Concertino
Richard Rodney Bennett and Susan Bradshaw (piano duet)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty.
Conductor/Interviewee:
Vladimir Jurowski
Conductor/Interviewee:
Gianandrea Noseda
Conductor:
Mikhail Pletnev
Violinist:
Itzhak Perlman
Pianist:
Bruno Canino
Musicians:
Russian National Orchestra
Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic
Pianist:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Pianist:
Susan Bradshaw

Petroc Trelawny introduces a live concert that precedes the BBC Philharmonic's full Tchaikovsky symphony cycle, which starts tomorrow at 6pm.
Alexander Toradze (piano), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda
Stravinsky Divertimento (The Fairy's Kiss); Concerto for piano and wind instruments
8.20 Interval: Stravinsky Petrushka : Three Movements for piano Simon Trpceski
8.40 Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony

Contributors

Piano:
Alexander Toradze
Conductor:
Gianandrea Noseda
Conductor:
Stravinsky Divertimento
Unknown:
Stravinsky Petrushka
Piano:
Simon Trpceski

Stravinsky Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD annum
Columbia SO, conducted by the composer
Tres Sacrae Cantiones New London Chamber Choir, conductor James Wood
Three Songs from William Shakespeare
Cathy Berberian (mezzo), Columbia Chamber Ensemble, conducted by the composer Tchaikovsky Cantata: To Joy
Alia Ardakov (soprano), Ludmilla Shemchuck (contralto), Alexandre Naoumenko (tenor),
Dimitri Kharitov (bass), London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Derek Gleeson Stravinsky Orpheus
Philharmonia, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Tchaikovsky SymphonyNo6inBminor(Pathetigue) New York PO, conductor Leonard Bernstein
Stravinsky Two Poems of Paul Verlaine , Op 9(1910) David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone),
David Owen Norris (piano) Two Poems of Paul Verlaine , Op 9 (1951) Donald Gramm (baritone), Columbia SO, conducted by the composer Suite: The Firebird (1945)
Columbia SO, conducted by the composer

Contributors

Unknown:
Stravinsky Monumentum
Unknown:
William Shakespeare
Unknown:
Cathy Berberian
Soprano:
Ludmilla ShemcHuck
Contralto:
Alexandre Naoumenko
Bass:
Dimitri Kharitov
Conductor:
Derek Gleeson
Conductor:
Stravinsky Orpheus
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Unknown:
Paul Verlaine
Bass-Baritone:
David Wilson-Johnson
Piano:
David Owen Norris
Unknown:
Paul Verlaine
Baritone:
Donald Gramm

Presented by John Shea.

50 Russian Folk Songs (Nos 1-10) - Victoria Postnikova and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (piano)

1.08 Tchaikovsky Six Romances, Op 6 - Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano); Ljuba Kazarnovskaya (soprano), Ljuba Orfenova (piano), Nadezhda Krasnaya (soprano), Vadim Fedorovtsev (piano)

1.30 Stravinsky Ebony Concerto - Michael Collins (clarinet), London Sinfonietta/Simon Rattle

1.40 Tchaikovsky 50 Russian Folk Songs (Nos 11-20) - Victoria Postnikova, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (piano)

1.47 Tchaikovsky Cherevichki - Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Lirico di Cagliari/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

4.41 Tchaikovsky 50 Russian Folk Songs (Nos 21-30) - Victoria Postnikova and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (piano)

4.49 Tchaikovsky Piano Sonata in G, Op 21 - Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

5.21 Stravinsky Piano Sonata in F sharp minor - Martin Jones

5.50 Tchaikovsky Six Romances, Op 16 - Nadezhda Krasnaya (soprano), Vadim Fedorovtsev (piano)

6.08 Stravinsky Violin Concerto - Isaac Stern, Columbia SO, conducted by the composer

6.29 Tchaikovsky 50 Russian Folk Songs (Nos 31-40) - Victoria Postnikova and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (piano)

6.36 Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien - Oslo PO, conductor Mariss Janssons

6.50 Tchaikovsky 50 Russian Folk Songs (Nos 41-50) - Victoria Postnikova and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Shea

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