L Live from the Barbican, London, Russian mezzo Olga Borodina sings some of her
L homeland's greatest songs, plus a masterpiece by Mahler, and Manuel da Falla 's colourful folk song settings from his native Spain.
Olga Borodina (mezzo), Dmitri Yefimov (piano)
Tchaikovsky Why?; None but the Lonely Heart; Reconciliation; It Was in the Early Spring; Lullaby; The Sun Has Set; Again, as Before, I Am Alone
Rachmaninov In the Silence of the Mysterious Night; Child, You Are Beautiful as a Flower; How Fair It Is Here; Sing Not to Me, My Beautiful One; Lilacs; I'm Waiting for You
8.15 Twenty Minutes: The Voices We Hear
"What is Hamlet to the Greeks, orthe Greeks to Hamlet?" Timberlake Wertenbaker , whose version of Euripides's Hecubacan be heard next month, finds a surprising route to the enduring influence of Greek drama.
8.35 Mahler Ruckert-Lieder
Falla Seven Spanish Folk Songs