Music and Arts Week
5: Soviet Socialist Realism
Christopher Cook visits the Print Room of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with historian David Crowley to examine how pressure to comply with Stalinist ideology affected both poster design and music written in the early years of the Soviet Union.
Shostakovich Ballet Suite: The Age of Gold BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Mosolov Songs on Newspaper
Advertisements James Rutherford (bass-baritone), William Fong (piano) Roslavets Piano Sonata No 5
AshleyWass (piano)
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1
Ilya Gringolts (violin),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Matthew Rose
Prokofiev Cantata for the 20th
Anniversary of the October Revolution (excerpt) Philharmonia Chorus,
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder
Mosolov The Iron Foundry BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins