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Music from the Flames

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

live from the Royal Festival Hall
The first of eleven programmes featuring the complete cycle of Shostakovich symphonies, broadcast from London's Shostakovich festival. CRISTINA ORTIZ (piano)
FELICITY PALMER (soprano) JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (bass)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY Shostakovich
Symphony No 1;
Piano Concerto No 2
8.10*pm Death of a Dogma Dr Julie Curtis of Robinson
College, Cambridge, examines the impending demise of 'Socialist Realism' as Glasnost spreads to the Soviet literary establishment.
8.30*pm
Shostakovich Symphony No 14

Contributors

Piano:
Cristina Ortiz
Soprano:
Felicity Palmer
Bass:
John Shirley-Quirk
Unknown:
Barry Griffiths
Conducted By:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Unknown:
Dr Julie Curtis
Source: Radio Times

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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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