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Friday - Katya Kabanova, Act 3

Fiona Talkington with the third and final act of Janacek's Katya Kabanova, from Rome. Also, Mozart's First Symphony, Gliere's Horn Concerto and Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet.

Fiona Talkington introduces the third and final act of Janacek's Katya Kabanova, from Rome Opera. Catch up with Acts 1 and 2 from Wednesday and Thursday's programmes. Also today, Janacek's In the Mists, in a version for string quartet; Mozart's Symphony No. 1 with German Symphony Orchestra, the ѿý Singers perform JS Bach's Komm, Jesu, Komm, Gliere's Horn Concerto in Prague with soloist Radek Baborák. Also, the ѿý National Orchestra of Wales with Arthur Benjamin's Piano Concertino, played by Simon Callaghan. And Tchaikovsky's fantasy overture Romeo and Juliet.

Including:

Mozart: Symphony No. 1 in E flat, K. 16
German Symphony Orchestra
Cornelius Meister, conductor

JS Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229
Stephen Farr, organ
ѿý Singers
Sofi Jeannin, director

Reinhold Gliere: Horn Concerto in B flat, op. 91
Radek Baborák, French horn
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Petr Popelka, conductor

3pm
Leos Janacek: Katya Kabanova - opera in 3 acts

Act 3

Savël Prokofjevic Dikój, a merchant: Stephen Richardson, bass
Boris Grigorjevič, Dikój's nephew: Charles Workman, tenor
Marfa Ignatěvna Kabanová (Kabanicha), widow of a rich merchant: Susan Bickley, contralto
Tichon Ivanyč Kabanov, her son: Julian Hubbard, tenor
Káťa (Katerina), Tichon's wife: Corinne Winters, soprano
Váňa Kudrjaš, a schoolteacher: Sam Furness, tenor
Varvara, a foundling: Carolyn Sproule, mezzo-soprano
Kuligin, friend of Vána Kudrjaš: Lukáš Zeman, baritone

Janáček: ‘In The Mists’ (arr. for string quartet)
Czech Philharmonic Quartet

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet – fantasy overture
ѿý National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Lewellyn, conductor

Arthur Benjamin: Piano concertino
Simon Callaghan, piano
ѿý National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

2 hours, 32 minutes

Last on

Fri 3 Jun 2022 14:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 1 in E flat, K. 16

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Cornelius Meister.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229

    Performer: Stephen Farr. Choir: ѿý Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.
  • Reinhold Moritzevich Glière

    Horn Concerto in B flat, op. 91

    Performer: Radek Baborák. Orchestra: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petr Popelka.
  • Lev Kogan

    Kaddish

    Performer: Radek Baborák. Orchestra: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petr Popelka.
  • Leos Janáček

    On an Overgrown Path, Book 2 (No 4)

    Performer: Charles Owen.
    • Leos Janacek: Piano music: Charles Owen.
    • Somm New Horizons.
    • 16.
  • Leos Janáček

    Kát'a Kabanová, opera - Act I

    Singer: Stephen Richardson. Singer: Charles Workman. Singer: Susan Bickley. Singer: Julian Hubbard. Singer: Corinne Winters. Singer: Sam Furness. Singer: Carolyn Sproule. Singer: Lukas Zeman. Choir: The Rome Opera Chorus. Conductor: Roberto Gabbiani. Orchestra: The Rome Opera Orchestra. Conductor: David Robertson.
  • Leos Janáček

    In the Mists

    Ensemble: Czech Philharmonic Quartet.
    • Janáček - On an Overgrown Path & In The Mists.
    • Arco Diva.
    • 16.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture [standard version of 1880]

    Ensemble: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Grant Llewellyn.
    • GBѿý.
  • Arthur Benjamin

    Piano concertino

    Performer: Simon Callaghan. Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

Broadcast

  • Fri 3 Jun 2022 14:00