The third of five programmes in which Hugh Canning and Andrew Clements discuss some of the new CD opera issues of the year with Michael Oliver. This week's recordings under consideration were both premiered and recorded at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. Verdi's La Forza del Destino features Galina Gorchakova , Gegan Gregorian , Nikolai Putilin and Mikhail Kit. The cast of Rimsky-
Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov also features Gorchakova, with Ludmila Rlatova and Vladimir Ognovienko.