The 1960s: A New Folk Wave
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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Tikhon Khrennikov
Cabaret Song
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Rodion Shchedrin
Concerto for orchestra no1 - Naughty Limericks
Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev.- DG RECORDS : 471-136-2.
- DG RECORDS.
- 14.
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Georgy Sviridov
Time, Forward!
Conductor: Konstantin Krimets.- BEL AIR: BAM2000.
- BEL AIR.
- 1.
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Georgy Sviridov
Canticles and Prayers - Having Beheld a Strange Nativity
Orchestra: Credo Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Bogdan Plish.- Sviridov: Hymns and Prayers.
- TOCCATA CLASSICS.
- 7.
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Georgy Sviridov
Russia Cast Adrift (Extract)
Performer: Constantine Orbelian.- Delos: DE1631.
- Delos.
- 9.
Broadcast
- Tue 14 Nov 201712:00BBC Radio 3
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