conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
In a recording made at a performance at the Bolshoi: Mozart and Salieri An opera in one act Poem by PUSHKIN
Music by Rimsky -Korsakov (sung in Russian)
BOLSHOI THEATRE CHORUS
AND ORCHESTRA
Introduced by a reading of Pushkin's original poem in the translation of A. f. b. CLARK with CHRISTOPHER BIDMEAD as Mozart and JEFFREY SEGAL as Salieri
3.30* In a Soviet Radio studio recording:
White Nights
A lyric opera in one act by JURI BUZKO after the story by DOSTOEVSKY
' May you always be blessed for that moment of happiness you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Only a moment of bliss? Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life? '
An abridged version of Dostoevsky's story will be read before the opera by ROY SPENCER The opera:
GRAND RADIO AND TELEVISION
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(Soviet Radio recordings)