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Composer of the Week:Sergei Rachmaninov

BBC Radio 3
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(1873-1943) With Donald Macleod.
Rachmaninov and his family left Russia in 1917 neverto return. In these years of exile Rachmaninov composed little, but reinvented himself as a virtuoso pianist. Sing Not, 0 Lovely One Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Howard Shelley (piano) Piano
Concerto No 4 in G minor Arturo Benedetti
Michelangeli.Philharmonia Orchestra. conductor Ettore GracisLiebesfreud
(Kreisler, arr Rachmaninov) The Composer (piano) Three Russian Songs, Op 41
Russian State Capella and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Valeri Polyansky Producer Andrew Lyle

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Baritone:
Sergei Leiferkus
Baritone:
Howard Shelley
Unknown:
Arturo Benedetti
Conductor:
Ettore Gracisliebesfreud
Conductor:
Valeri Polyansky
Producer:
Andrew Lyle
Source: Radio Times

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