Arditti Quartet, live from London's Purcell Room. Roslavets Music for string quartet (first perf) Sofia Gubaydulina Quartet No 2
Elena Firsova Amoroso
(Quartet No 4)
8.35 The Rediscovery of Roslavets: During the 1920s, Nicolai Roslavets held a key position in Soviet musical life. By his death in 1944 his name had been erased from the record book with many works left unfinished.
Callum MacDonald , Susan Bradshaw ,
Gerard McBurney and David Fanning discuss the present resurgence of interest in his music and the musical and political circumstances of his fall from grace.
Producer Andrew Kurowski
8.55 Roslavets Quartet No 3 (first UK perf)
Schnittke Quartet No 2