From the Royal Festival Hall, London, an all-Russian programme including a rarely heard Shostakovich symphony.
Conductor Mariss Jansons
Dmitri Alexeev (piano)
Rachmaninov Vocalise;
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
8.05 The Holy Virgin of Chernobyl
"It was Alexander who first saw the Holy Virgin coming up through the Reactors 1, 2 and 3..." Strange visions after a nuclear fallout in David Zane Mairowitz 's eerie short story. Reader Struan Rodger.
8.25 Shostakovich
Symphony No 12 (The Year 1917)