Exiles
With Donald Macleod. Alexander
Solzhenitsyn spent eight years in labour camps in the eastern part of the USSR for some mildly disrespectful remarks about Stalin made in a letter to a friend. Even after completing his sentence, he was kept away from Moscow until success as a writer thrust him on to the world stage. Music includes: Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 5
Barbara Nissman
Shostakovich String Quartet No 10, Op 118 (3rd mvt) Shostakovich Quartet Britten Lines Written During a Sleepless Night (The Poet's Echo) Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano)
Janacek From the House of the Dead
(final scene) Soloists, Vienna PO, conductor Charles Mackerras