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| Appian Way | ...Broadcaster, writer and former director of ENGLISH National Opera DENNIS MARKS takes a journey from Rome to Brindisi along the first super-highway of the Western world. In the company of politicians, historians, writers, musicians and the ancient Latin poet Horace, he follows the ancient road into an Italy almost unknown to the casual traveller.... |
| Berlioz The Outsider | ...""My whole life...has been one long, ardent pursuit of an ideal formed in my own imagination."" (Hector Berlioz) For Berlioz, that pursuit set him apart from the outset. As a child he was taught by his father and soon lapping up Virgil. As a student in Paris, he broke with his family in refusing to follow a career in medicine, and was at odds with the authorities at the Conservatoire. As a composer he broke all moulds and in his own country became isolated from the society he sought to espouse. Was Berlioz a visionary ahead of his time or a flawed genius who rejected all attempts at conformity? DENNIS MARKS looks for answers in the company of Sir Colin Davis, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, David Cairns, Steve Martland, Graham Vick, Norman Rosenthal and Remy Stricker. / Berlioz The Outsider "My whole life...has been one long, ardent pursuit of an ideal formed in my own imagination." (Hector Berlioz) For Berlioz, that pursuit set him apart from the outset. As a child he was taught by his father and soon lapping up Virgil. As a student in Paris, he broke with his family in refusing to follow a career in medicine, and was at odds with the authorities at the Conservatoire. As a composer he broke all moulds and in his own country became isolated from the society he sought to espouse. Was Berlioz a visionary ahead of his time or a flawed genius who rejected all attempts at conformity? DENNIS MARKS looks for answers in the company of Sir Colin Davis, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, David Cairns, Steve Martland, Graham Vick, Norman Rosenthal and Remy Stricker. Evening Morning... |
| Brno | ...DENNIS MARKS follows Janácek's life in Moravia's largest city: his education at the Augustinian monastery, his marriage to his very young piano pupil Zdenka Schulzova, his burgeoning career and the slow development of his own musical voice, and the tragic deaths of his two children.... |
| End Of The World, The | ...DENNIS MARKS, former general director of the English National Opera and long-time lover of Vienna, goes in search of the diverse roots of Vienna's cultural history.... |
| Faultline - A Journey Through Middle Europe | ...DENNIS MARKS takes a journey across the Hapsburg Empire from the Adriatic to the Black Sea, and the Danube to the Carpathians.... |
| Final Steps | ...DENNIS MARKS retraces the final tragicomic steps of Janácek's life. For the first time, he persuaded Kamila Stosslova to join him in Hukvaldy - and within a fortnight he was dead.... |
| Friday Documentary, The [world Service] | ...... |
| Hukvaldy | ...In 1921 Janácek bought a cottage in his native village. John Tusa meets descendants of family and friends in Hukvaldy, and DENNIS MARKS tells the story of Janácek's developing obsession with Kamila Stosslova, married and less than half his age.... |
| Janacek Day | ...A celebration of the 150th birthday of the Czech composer Leos Janácek, born July 3rd 1854, presented by DENNIS MARKS and John Tusa, and beginning with the compsoer's Fanfares from Sinfonietta.... |
| Lilian Baylis - A Portrait Of The Lady | ...Radio 2 Arts Programme. Sir Donald Sinden celebrates the life of the manager of the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells Theatres. With contributions from Dame Ninette de Valois, Dame Alicia Markova, Sir Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn, Ian Albery, DENNIS MARKS and Sir Anthony Dowell.... |
| Opera On 3 | ...Presented by John Tusa in conversation with DENNIS MARKS, the opera's performers, and director David Pountney.... |
| Prague | ...DENNIS MARKS visits Prague's cultural hotspots to tell the story of Janácek's vexed - but ultimately victorious - relationship with the Czech capital.... |
| Private Passions | ...Next in series: DENNIS MARKS... |
| Proms Plus | ...Susan Hitch presents a programme recorded in front of an audience in which writer and film-maker DENNIS MARKS, and professor of modern German literature Karen Leeder, explore the literary legacy of fin-de-siecle Vienna - the world that surrounded Gustav Mahler.... |
| Search For Sepharad, The | ...Broadcaster and film-maker DENNIS MARKS travels across the Mediterranean in the footsteps of the Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492.... |
| Verdi Day - Introduction | ...Former general director of ENO DENNIS MARKS presents a day of programmes and music to mark the centenary of Verdi's death. Oberto (exc). Carlo Bergonzi, tenor (Riccardo), Munich Radio Orchestra/Lamberto Gardelli. 9.15 Nabucco (exc). Yevgeni Nesterenko, bass (Zaccaria), Piero Cappuccilli, baritone (Nabucco), Placido Domingo, tenor (Ismaele), Ghena Dimitrova, soprano (Abigaille), Lucia Valentini Terrani, mezzo (Fenena), Chorus and Orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin/Giuseppe Sinopoli. 9.40 I due Foscari (exc). Piero Cappuccilli, baritone (Doge), Katia Ricciarelli, soprano (Lucrezia), Austrian RSO/Lamberto Gardelli.... |
| Verdi Day - Verdi And The Theatre Of Politics | ...DENNIS MARKS investigates how Verdi's fascination with and involvement in politics rubbed off on many of his operas. With contributions from directors David Pountney and Jonathan Miller, conductor Mark Elder, diplomat Rodric Braithwaite and historian Norman Stone ... |
| Walton And The Sitwells | ...DENNIS MARKS explores Walton's life with the Sitwell family - poet Edith, with whom he collaborated on `Facade', and her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell.... |
| Walton Day - Walton And The Sitwells | ...DENNIS MARKS explores Walton's life with the Sitwell family - poet Edith, with whom he collaborated on `Facade', and her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell.... |
| Walton Day - Walton In Perspective | ...DENNIS MARKS hosts a live discussion drawing on the strands of the day with Richard Hickox, Humphrey Burton, Michael Kennedy and Gillian Widdicombe.... |
| Wednesday Documentary, The [world Service] | ...DENNIS MARKS travels to New York to discover what has become of Yiddish and how much of.... |
| Yiddish: A Struggle For Survival | ...DENNIS MARKS sets out to discover what has become of Yiddish, a language which at its height is estimated to have been spoken by more than ten million people. He travels to New York and hears from the publisher of The Forward, once the world's most popular Yiddish newspaper but now in seemingly terminal decline. And he explores the enormous influence of Yiddish culture on American life, its literature and comedic tradition.... |