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Composer of the Week: Tchaikovsky

on BBC Radio 3

With Donald Macleod.
2: 1874-6
Nikolai Rubinstein 's cataclysmic reaction to the first piano concerto, a children's ballet becomes Swan Lake, and a depressing summer.
Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor
(1st mvt) Mikhail Rudy ,
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Mariss Jansons
Waltz (Swan Lake, Act 1)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, conductor Mark Ermler
Francesca da Rimini
Russian National Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Pletnev

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Nikolai Rubinstein
Unknown:
Mikhail Rudy
Conductor:
Mariss Jansons
Conductor:
Mark Ermler
Conductor:
Mikhail Pletnev

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