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Composer of the Week: Glinka

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

With Gerard McBurney.
Today's programme includes the first of Glinka's musical postcards from his holidays in Spain and the stirring climax and the choral epilogue from A Life for the Tsar, which has almost become a Russian national anthem.
La Jota Aragonesa
USSR Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov Nocturne in E flat
Olga Tverskaya (fortepiano) The Night Review
Boris Christoff (bass),
Alexander Lahinsky (piano)
A Life for the Tsar (excerpts)
Boris Christoff (bass), Belgrade
Opera Chorus, Lamoureux Orchestra, conductor Igor Markevitch
Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerard McBurney.
Conductor:
Yevgeni Svetlanov
Unknown:
Olga Tverskaya
Bass:
Boris Christoff
Piano:
Alexander Lahinsky
Bass:
Boris Christoff
Conductor:
Igor Markevitch
Source: Radio Times

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