live from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Soloists of the Moscow Conservatoire conductor Yuri Bashmet (viola)
Schubert, arr Mahler
String Quartet in D minor (Death and the Maiden)
8.10 Dissidents Now
"At times, the principal export of Brezhnev's Russia appeared to be Nobel Prize laureates."
The historian John Klier , of University College,
London, reflects on the role of yesterday's dissidents at the present moment of moral crisis.
8.30 Schnittke Monologue for viola and orchestra
Tchaikovsky Serenade in Cfor strings