Radio 3's series in honour of St Petersburg's tercentenary concludes with a celebration the great Russian conductor
Yevgeni Mravinsky , who was born 100 years ago, with some of the recordings he made with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. Presented by Stephen Johnson.
7.32 Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Lyudmila
7.38 The Unrepentant
Bourgeois Stephen Johnson travels to St Petersburg to talk to the people who knew him, including his widow and fellow musicians.
8.06 Musorgsky Dawn on the Moscow River (Khovanshchina, Prelude to Act 1)
8.12 What Was the Key to Mravinsky's Art? Rob Cowan and David Nice join Stephen Johnson to discuss some of Mravinsky's classic recordings.
8.29 Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat
9.00 Mravinsky and Shostakovich. Interviews, extracts from diaries and archive recordings charting the relationship that resulted in the first performances of many of Shostakovich's most important symphonic works.
9.30 Shostakovich Symphony No 8
10.35 Mravinsky the Composer
Russian pianist Andrei Ivanovitch plays some of Mravinsky's shorter piano pieces.
10.40
Tchaikovsky Mravinsky as an interpreter of Tchaikovsky.
10.45 Tchaikovsky, arr Mravinsky Ballet Suite: The Nutcracker
11.18 Stephen Johnson , David Nice and Rob Cowan offer some final thoughts on Mravinsky with comments from those who knew and worked with him.
11.27 Wagner Prelude, Act 3: Lohengrin Producer Paul Hindmarsh