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Composer of the Week: Tchaikovsky

BBC Radio 3
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Gerard McBurney explores music either inspired by or written for the theatre. He also features some of the composer's songs and chamber and instrumental miniatures.
Overture: The Storm
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Meditation, Op 72 No 5 Oleg Kagan (violin),
Vassily Lobalov (piano)
My Genius, My Angel, My Friend; Why?, Op 6 No 5; Don Juan 's Serenade, Op 38 No 1
Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Semion Skigin (piano)
The Slippers (Act 1, scene 2)
Bolshoi Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Alexander Melik-Pashayev Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerard McBurney
Violin:
Oleg Kagan
Piano:
Vassily Lobalov
Unknown:
Don Juan
Baritone:
Sergei Leiferkus
Piano:
Semion Skigin
Conductor:
Alexander Melik-Pashayev
Vakula:
Gyorgy Nelepp (tenor)
Oksana:
Elena Kruglikova (soprano)
Source: Radio Times

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