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Music from the Flames

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The tenth of 11 programmes from the London
Shostakovich cycle.
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY live from the Royal Festival Hall, London DMITRI ALEXEEV (piano)
JOHN SHIRLEY QUIRK (bass)
RAYMOND SIMMONS (trumpet) BRIGHTON FESTIVAL CHORUS
Shostakovich Symphony No 2 in B (To October)
Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings
8.15*
Yevtushenko in Cheltenham In 1975 Yevgeny Yevtushenko visited the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. The poems he read, with translations read by P. J. KAVANAGH , included Babi
Yar, which concerned attacks on Jews by the Germans and the Russians and also inspired Shostakovich. Mono (R)
8.35* Shostakovich Symphony No 13 in B flat minor (Babi Yar)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Griffiths
Conducted By:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Piano:
John Shirley
Unknown:
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Read By:
P. J. Kavanagh
Source: Radio Times

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