Baltic Nights on 91热爆 Radio 3
Starting on
Sunday 17 February, 91热爆 Radio 3 presents Baltic Nights - over one
week of music, features and discussion, including two dedicated
evenings, celebrating some of the best of Baltic cultural life today
and from over the last century.
Broadcasters
Christopher Cook, 91热爆 World Affairs Editor John Simpson, Radio 3
presenters Fiona Talkington and Andy Kershaw among others present
a cultural guide to the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia,
and Lithuania and the sea from which they take their shared name.
Baltic
Nights includes:
路
Sunday 17 February
Choirworks
8.20-9.50pm
Paul Guinery presents a special Baltic edition of Choirworks, featuring
the Latvian Radio Choir.
路
Monday 18 February
Baltic Nights presented by Christopher Cook
7.30-11.00pm
Christopher Cook introduces an evening of performance, discussion
and documentaries exploring the ancient and new cultural identities
of the Baltic States. Highlights include a discussion chaired by
Cook with the novelists Dan Jacobson, Howard Jacobson and literary
critic Stephen Greenblatt which considers "the Jewish Baltic
and the legacy of Collaboration". Throughout the evening, Lavinia
Greenlaw presents short features to include the Riga Song Festival,
Amber - the Baltic Gold - and Tallinn, city of the Eurovision Song
Contest and supermodels. Music by Latvia聮s leading composers
Petris Vasks and the Lithuanian composer Mindaugas Urbaitis is included.
路
Monday 18 - Thursday 20 February
Late Junction
10.15pm-12.00 midnight
Fiona Talkington features music from the Baltic region, including
Litany by Arvo Part, Rautavaara's Harp Concerto and folk songs from
Estonia.
路
Tuesday 20 February
Performance On 3 - Baltic Nights
7.15-9.30pm
The famous Estonian composer Rudolf Tobias (1873-1917) conceived
his mammoth oratorio Jonah's Mission as an allegorical portrayal
of the repression of Estonians over countless centuries. Although
written under the regime of Tsarist Russia, the work resurfaced
in 1989 when it was resurrected by Vardo Rumessen. Fiona Talkington
travels to the Estonian capital Tallinn to meet Rumessen, whilst
introducing a performance given in December 2001 at the Champs-Elysees
Theatre, Paris.
路
Wednesday 21 February
Performance On 3 - Baltic Nights
7.30-9.30pm
Fiona Talkington introduces this evening聮s Performance On 3
by conductor Petri Sakari and the 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales.
The programme includes Bruckner聮s 7th Symphony, and Pedro Carneiro
(marimba) is the soloist in the world premiere of Erkki-Sven T眉眉r聮s
concerto for marimba and orchestra Ardor.
路
Wednesday 21 February
Twenty Minutes - An A-Z of Kaliningrad
8.00-8.20pm
Andy Kershaw, guided by the Russian exile and writer Zinovy Zinik,
visits Kaliningrad to uncover the land that time forgot. The Russian
enclave of Kaliningrad is the least known territory around the Baltic
Sea. With Poland to the south and Lithuania to the north, the city
is Russian by an accident of the turmoil at the end of the Second
World War.
路
Thursday 22 February
Performance On 3 - Baltic Nights
7.30-9.30pm
Fiona Talkington travels to the Estonian capital Tallinn for a concert
given by one of the world's leading vocal ensembles. The Estonian
Philharmonic Chamber Choir, under its new artistic director Paul
Hillier, performs music from around the Baltic basin, including
works by Sandstr枚m, Rautavaara, Tormis, Rautavaara and P盲rt.
路
Thursday 22 February
Twenty Miutes - Touching Estonia
8.25-8.45pm
Philip Gross offers a poetic exploration of the country that his
father left at the end of the Second World War and with the help
of Estonian writers and poems and the sounds of the forest, the
sea and the city gets as close as he can to this elusive place.
路
Friday 23 February
Baltic Nights presented by John Simpson and Fiona Talkington
7.00-11.30pm
John Simpson recalls the dramatic events of 1991 that restored independence
to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania after nearly 50 years of Soviet
occupation. Called the Singing Revolution because of the significance
of Baltic song festivals in shaping and sustaining the three countries聮
identities, the small nations overcame the might of the Soviet Union
with very little bloodshed - and a lot of songs. Among the live
line-up from the Estonian capital Tallinn, tonight聮s evening
also features music by the Tallinn Boys Choir, the Tallinn Atring
Quartet with pianist Peep Lassmann, and a concert by the period
ensemble Hortus Musicus from Tallinn聮s towering St Nicholas
Church. Later on, listeners have the chance to listen to Estonia聮s
eclectic contemporary music ensemble NYYD Ensemble, and the Raivo
Tafenau Quintet perform jazz from one of Tallinn聮s liveliest
night-spots, the Von Krahli Theatre Bar. There is also a feature
on Estonia聮s best known poet Jaan Kaplinski聮s summer garden.
|
