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Front Row: Nicola Benedetti, Winchester, Reading Europe: Russia

Nicola Benedetti, Winchester, Reading Europe: Russia

02/02/2018

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Nicolas Benedetti on rewriting the cadenza of Beethoven's Violin Concerto.

Nicolas Benedetti on rewriting the cadenza of Beethoven's famous Violin Concerto. Plus Russian author Alisa Ganieva on Dagestan, her homeland in the Caucasus.

Nicola Benedetti has co-written a new cadenza for Beethoven's Violin Concerto. As she embarks on a tour with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, she talks to Kirsty Lang about the challenges of performing this classical masterpiece. 

Jason Solomons reviews Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built, which stars Helen Mirren in the first horror movie of her 50 year career and is set in the real life house that the Winchester gun heiress built to keep ghosts at bay.

As part of Reading Europe Radio 4 is dramatising 'The Bride and Groom' , a novel by the award-winning Russian author Alisa Ganieva. Kirsty talks to Alisa about the contrasting picture of tradition and modernity she presents of Dagestan, her homeland in the Caucasus. 

Grigory Ryzhakov, author of a guide to modern Russian literature, gives us an overview of what Russians are reading both in terms of literary fiction and popular novels, from crime thrillers to the classics.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Timothy Prosser.

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