The Cult of Personality
With Donald Macleod. One charismatic figure made a unique contribution to 20th-century music, yet he was not a great composer, a performer, a critic or a scholar. As head of the famed Ballets Russes, impresario Sergei Diaghilev was a seminal figure, influencing composers such as Stravinsky and Falla and dancers such as Nijinsky and Massine.
Including excerpts from:
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Vienna PO, conductor Seiji Ozawa
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2 in C minor (Little Russian)
Russian National Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Pletnev
Musorgsky Boris Godunov ' Soloists, Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan Stravinsky Petrushka
Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi