(1799-1837)
Long will the people hold me dear For with my lyre I stirred their better selves. (1836) Music inspired by the great
Russian poet to celebrate the forthcoming anniversary of his death.
LUDMILLA ANDREW (SOpranO) and GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) perform some of the best-known settings of Pushkin's poems; plus a rare recording of Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salien, and excerpts on record from
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Rachmaninov's Aleko