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The Sunday Play: The Death of Alexander Scriabin

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Two exciting firsts for radio as Oliver Reed stars in Ken Russell's new play about one of the 20th century's most revolutionary composers. In 1914, two men with more than a passing interest in the occult meet in St Basil's Cathedral, Moscow - the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin and the notorious English mystic Aleister Crowley.

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Contributors

Writer/Director:
Ken Russell
Producer:
Adrian Bean
Piano played by:
Dmitri Sladkowski
Aleister Crowley:
Oliver Reed
Alexander Scriabin:
James Wilby
Olga:
Hetty Baynes
Police Sergeant:
Brian Murphy
Headman:
Don Warrington
Tanya Schloezer:
Kristin Milward
Professor R.J. Stone:
Ken Russell
Ernie Gross:
Joshua Towb
Arensky:
Gavin Muir
Rimsky-Korsakov:
Don MacCorkindale
Announcer:
Donald MacLeod
Source: Radio Times

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