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Radio 3 in Concert: Russian Heart, Soviet Steel

Russian Heart, Soviet Steel

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Russian Heart, Soviet Steel

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC SO in works by Mosolov, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich.

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC SO in Mosolov and Rachmaninov. Pianist Marie-Ange Nguci and trumpeter Philip Cobb are the soloists in Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto.

From the unsettling vantage point of the 1920s and 30s three Russian composers reflect on their homeland. Dmitri Shostakovich’s outlandish Piano Concerto No.1 is performed by young Albanian Marie-Ange Nguci, with its standout part for trumpet, played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Trumpet Philip Cobb. Rachmaninov, who had fled the Soviet Union to America, in his final Symphony No.3 pines in broad melodies, and astonishing orchestral sounds, for pre-Soviet Russia. The shock of the new begins it all with the heat of Soviet futurism in Alexander Mosolov’s The Iron Foundry, a punch of a piece in which the whole orchestra  literally imitates the sounds of a factory floor.  

During the interval of this live broadcast from the Barbican Hall, the BBC Symphony Chorus with Chorus Director Neil Ferris perform Russian and Russian-inspired works live from the Maida Vale Studios.

Presented by Hannah French

Alexander Mosolov: The Iron Foundry (1927)                   
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 (1933)

8.05pm Interval live from Maida Vale Studio 1. 

Rachmaninov: Priiditye, poklonimsia 
Rachmaninov: Bogoroditse Dyevo 
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Bogoroditse Dyevo 
Galina Grigorjeva: In Paradisum
Schnittke: Three Sacred Hymns 

BBC Symphony Chorus
Neil Ferris (conductor)

8.25pm
Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 (1935-36)           

Marie-Ange Nguci (piano)
Philip Cobb (trumpet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

Photo (c) Jarmo Katila

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