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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

Composer of the Week: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908): Episode 2: A Mania for Revision

A Mania for Revision

Episode 2

Episode 2: A Mania for Revision

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), A Mania for Revision

How crippling doubts plagued Rimsky-Korsakov as he began revising countless works of his.

Donald Macleod explains how crippling doubts plagued Rimsky-Korsakov as he set about revising countless works of his.

Donald Macleod continues the story of Rimsky-Korsakov's final decades, with the help of a contemporary biography written by one of the composer's most ardent fans and collaborators. Crippling doubts plague the composer as he sets about revising countless of his works. Therapy comes in the form of ambitious plan to write musical theory, and also in the sounds of Wagner whose radical operas inspire Rimsky-Korsakov to find new ways of presenting his own national stories on the stage.


The Maid of Pskov (Overture) 
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Igor Golovchin, conductor 

May Night - Act 1 Scene 6 'Hopak Scene'
Nikolaï Rechetniak, baritone (Kalenik)
Sveshnikov Academic Choir
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Andrey Chistiakov, conductor

Capriccio Espagnol: Scena e Canto Gitano 
Anthony Goldstone, piano 
Caroline Clemmow, piano 

String Quartet in F (1st movement) 
Rimsky-Korsakov Quartet

Symphonic Suite 'Antar' (2nd movement) 
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Dmitri Kitajenko, conductor 

The Snow Maiden (Act 1 conclusion)
Valentina Sokolik, soprano (Snow Maiden)
Lidya Sakharenko, soprano (Kupava)
Anatoly Moksyakov, baritone (Mizgir)
Grand Choir of the USSR Radio and TV
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Vladimir Fedoseyev, conductor 

Producer: Michael Surcombe.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod explores Rimsky-Korsakov's final years through the lens of his biographer

Donald Macleod explores Rimsky-Korsakov's final years through the lens of his biographer, Vasily Vasilyevitch Yastrebtsev

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