Charles Bodman Rae explores music influenced by the sound of Central European bells. Interspersed with recordings of the bells of Zagorsk and Moscow are: the coronation scene from Musorgsky's Boris Godunov ; The
Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition in both the composer's piano version and Ravel's orchestration; Lutoslawski's Dzwony Cerkiewne ; Part 4 of Stravinsky's Les Noces (1917 and 1923 versions);
Rachmaninov's Suite
No 1, Op 5 movements 3 and 4, his Etudes tableaux, Op 39 and his symphony The Bells.
Series producer ANDREW LYLE