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BBC Radio 3
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The first of four programmes of familiar and unfamiliar
Russian orchestral music, each including one of Tchaikovsky's fantasy overtures. Presented by Gerard McBumey.
Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
Leningrad PO/
Yevgeny Mravinsky
Une Nuit d'été a Madrid
USSR SO/
Yevgeny Svetlanov
Overture: A Life for the Tsar Sofia Festival
Orchestra/Emil Tchakarov Kamarinskaya
USSR SO/Svetlanov
Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini Leningrad PO/
Yevgeny Mravinsky

Contributors

Presented By:
Gerard McBumey.
Unknown:
Yevgeny Svetlanov
Unknown:
Tchaikovsky Francesca
Unknown:
Yevgeny Mravinsky
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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