"Ida Rubinstein succeeded not only in mounting more original works than any independent impresario in living memory, but also in starring in each and every one of them herself -
Michael de Cossart.
The Ida Rubinstein Legacy The first of four programmes in which Roger Nichols examines the colourful life of the dancer and the music she commissioned. With
Madeleine Milhaud and the late William Chappell. Reader Neville Jason.
Including
Rlmsky-Korsakov Night on Mount Triglav (Mlada) Glazunov Bacchanale
(The Seasons)
Musorgsky Persian Dances (Khovanshchina)
Pizzetti Suite: La Pisanella and excerpts from
Rlmsky-Korsakov Suite: Scheherazade
Debussy Le Martyre de St Sebastien (excerpts)
An Arthur Johnson production