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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.

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Composer of the Week: Soviet Russia (1953-1991)

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Episode 2: The 1960s: A New Folk Wave

Soviet Russia (1953-1991)

The 1960s: A New Folk Wave

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Soviet Russia (1953-1991), The 1960s: A New Folk Wave

Donald Macleod explores the appearance of folk culture in the Soviet music of the 1960s.

Folk culture finds its way into Soviet music as Donald Macleod and Marina Frolova-Walker explore the cultural legacy of the Russian Revolution.

One theme from the 1917 October lingered long into the Soviet era: the spirit of the proletarian revolutionary. Donald Macleod is joined once again by Marina Frolova-Walker to explore how folk culture found its way into art music following Stalin's death, including one composer's controversial reimagining of Bizet's famous Carmen. 

Shchedrin:
Concerto for Orchestra no.1 'Naughty Limericks'
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

Carmen Suite (excerpts)
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

Sviridov:
Time, Forward!
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Konstantin Krimets (conductor)

Canticles and Prayers - Having Beheld a Strange Nativity
Credo Chamber Orchestra
Bogdan Plish (conductor)

Russia Cast Adrift (last 4 movements)
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra
Constantine Orbelian (conductor).

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Donald Macleod unravels the masterpieces of the musicians from the USSR

Donald Macleod unravels the lives and masterpieces of the musicians who shaped musical life from the USSR's inception in 1917 through to its dissolution in 1991

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