Continuing Radio 3's series to mark the Mussorgsky Centenary, a performance of his comic opera after Gogol, completed and orchestrated by Nikolai Tcherepnin
English version by ERNEST WARBURTON
Traders, Jews, Gypsies, Cossacks, town and country folk
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS chorus-master
STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conducted by GEORGE BADACSONYI Repetiteurs
JOHN CONSTABLE and ROBERT KEYS Producer
ERNEST WARBURTON
Act 1: The market place at Sorochintsy