Afternoon on 3 - European Summer Festivals 2007 - Episode 9

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).