5/5. A look at Tchaikovsky's fundamental dilemma: whether to live or to die. With Donald Macleod. Softly the Spirit Flew up to Heaven, Op 47 No 2 Nina Rautio (soprano), Semion Skigin (piano) Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathétique)
Leningrad PO, conductor Yevgeni Mravinsky None but the Lonely Heart, Op 6 No 6 Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone), Oleg Boshniakovich
(piano) Repeated on Thursday 29 December at 12 midnight