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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

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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 4: Lightning Strikes

Lightning Strikes

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Episode 4: Lightning Strikes

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), Lightning Strikes

How the ancient Greek and Roman worlds provided inspiration for Rimsky-Korsakov's music.

Donald Macleod explains how the ancient Greek and Roman worlds provided inspiration for Rimsky-Korsakov's music.

The ancient world provides inspiration for Rimsky-Korsakov's music, with trips to both the Greek and Roman worlds. For Rimsky-Korsakov it turns out to be a liberating experience, not least because his audience had so little knowledge of what music from classical times might have sounded like that he could do pretty much what he fancied. With Donald Macleod.

The Rainy Day has Waned, Op 51 No 5 
Mikhail Lanskoy, baritone 
Ilya Scheps, piano 

From Homer 
Moscow Academy of Choral Singing
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Ziva, conductor 

Servilia: Tsveti moi! 
Renée Fleming, soprano 
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
Valery Gergiev, conductor 

The Tsar's Bride (Act 3 Scene 4) 
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone (Graznoy 
Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor 

Suite: The Tale of Tsar Saltan 
Seattle Symphony
Gerard Schwarz, 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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