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Performance on 3 Steel and Gold

on BBC Radio 3

Live from City Hall, Glasgow, the BBC
Scottish SO continue their series focusing on the music of Rachmaninov. Tonight's concert features two works about knights: Elgar's portrait of Falstaff and Rachmaninov's Miserly Knight.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. conductor Martyn Brabbins
Eigar Symphonic Study: Falstaff
8.30 Twenty Minutes: Poetry Revised
Christopher Ricks ponders the poet's need to revise and questions what is lost and gained as a poem develops.
8.50 Rachmaninov The Miserly Knight

Contributors

Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins
Unknown:
Christopher Ricks
The Baron Paul:
Whelan (baritone)
Albert:
Martial Defontaine (tenor)
The Duke:
Dmitri Kharitonov (baritone)
Money Lender:
Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor)
The Servant Nicholas:
Folwell (baritone)

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