Time Regained
The first of six programmes celebrating the careers of some great musicians through their BBC and other recordings, their own comments and those of their friends and fellow musicians.
For most of her life the Russian pianist
Tatiana Nikolaeva was not regarded as an exportable commodity by the Soviet
Union and her international career lasted barely ten years. Gordon Stewart recollects that time, in conversation with David
Crighton and Malcolm Binns , and investigates what went before. With excerpts from Bach,
Shostakovich, Haydn,
Schumann and Tchaikovsky. A Cavendish production