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Composer of the Week: Tchaikovsky

on BBC Radio 3

With Donald Macleod.
3: 1877-8. Life meets art as Tchaikovsky embarks on a disastrous marriage. Imagination and illusion inform his relationship with his patroness and he enjoys a holiday near Lake Geneva. Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin )
Galina Gorchakova (soprano), Kirov Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev
Scherzo; Mélodie (Souvenir d'un Lieu Chery Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Marina Gusak-Grin (piano)
Symphony No 4 in F minor (1st mvt) Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Mravinsky Violin Concerto in D (3rd mvt)
Maxim Vengerov , Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Eugene Onegin
Soprano:
Galina Gorchakova
Conductor:
Valery Gergiev
Violin:
Lydia Mordkovitch
Piano:
Marina Gusak-Grin
Conductor:
Yevgeni Mravinsky
Unknown:
Maxim Vengerov
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado

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