Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

A journey to Borodin's Polovtsian Dances

Sara Mohr-Pietsch sets out on a virtual journey towards the destination of Borodin's Polovtsian Dances, music from his opera Prince Igor.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch sets out on a virtual journey towards the destination of Borodin's Polovtsian Dances, music from his opera Prince Igor.

Stops along the way include Hector Berlioz, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Giuseppe Verdi, Emahoy Gebrou and Edward Elgar.

To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers), just say 'ask BBC Sounds to play Music Map'.

1 hour, 29 minutes

Last on

Sun 23 Mar 202513:30
BBC Radio 3

More episodes

Previous

A journey to Schubert's "Death and the Maiden"

Next

Boulez at 100: A journey to Mémoriale

See all episodes from Music Map

Music Played

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Indes Galantes (Overture)

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Les Indes Galantes.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Mazeppa, Opera in 3 Acts / Act 1 - No. 4: Hopak

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Tchaikovsky: Mazeppa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Alexander Borodin

    Polovtsian Dances From "Prince Igor"

    Singer: Torgny Sporsén. Choir: Göteborgs Symfoniska Kör. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Tchaikovsky: Overture "1812"; Marche slave / Borodin: In the Steppes; Polovtsian.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Träd

    Ymai

    Music Arranger: Üch-Süme-R. Ensemble: Üch-Süme-R.
    • Sketis Music.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Stranger In Paradise (from "Kismet")

    Composer: R. Wright. Composer: G. Forrest. Singer: Tony Bennett.
    • The Best Of The 50's (Fifties).
    • Sony BMG Music Entertainment.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • IMP Classics.

  • George Antheil

    Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano: II. Movement II

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Joonas Ahonen.
    • Le monde selon George Antheil.
    • Alpha Classics.

  • Edward Elgar

    Nimrod

    Music Arranger: Jon Cohen. Orchestra: The Band of the Coldstream Guards.
    • Decca (UMO).

  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Islamey

    Performer: Boris Berezovsky.
    • Russian Piano Music.
    • Teldec.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Nabucco / Act 3: Va pensiero, sull'ali dorate

    Lyricist: Temistocle Solera. Choir: Berlin Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli.
    • Verdi: Nabucco.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Albert E. Brumley

    I'll Fly Away

    Singer: Gillian Welch. Singer: Alison Krauss.
    • O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Mercury Nashville.

  • Hector Berlioz

    La captive orientale, Op. 12, H 60f

    Singer: Véronique Gens. Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Louis Langrée.
    • Impressions of Orient.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

    Homesickness

    • Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru.
    • Mississippi Records.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade: Sinbad's mighty bird, the Roc

    Performer: Lars Hjalmar Joakim. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Lazarev.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Konstantin Shvedov

    Kheruvimskaya pesn "The Cherubic Hymn", Op. 13

    Choir: Holst Singers. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Ikon, Vol. 2: Sacred Choral Music from Russia & Eastern Europe.
    • Hyperion.

Broadcast

  • Sun 23 Mar 202513:30
    BBC Radio 3