The Ostankino archive, tucked away in a Moscow suburb, contains over 400,000 tapes of music heard on Russian television and radio over the last 70 years. Telstar have secured the rights for release of this catalogue on their new label Revelation. Robert Cowan
has been listening to the first 30 releases, which include artists such as Sviatoslav Richter , Emil Gilels , Leonid Kogan and David Oistrakh.
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk