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BBC Proms Composer: Mussorgsky with Jonathan Cross and Andrew McGregor

Jonathan Cross picks five key recordings by BBC Proms Composer: Mussorgsky, plus some of the week's new releases

Jonathan Cross picks five key recordings by BBC Proms Composer: Mussorgsky, plus some of the week's new releases

Presented by Andrew McGregor

2.30pm
BBC Proms Composer
Jonathan Cross joins Andrew with five indispensable recordings by this week's BBC Proms Composer, Mussorgsky

3.30pm
Proms Recording
A recent Building a Library recommendation from a composer featured in this year's BBC Proms
Beethoven
Piano Trio in B flat 'Archduke'
Sitkovetsky Trio

1 hour, 59 minutes

Last on

Sat 13 Sep 202514:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le tombeau de Couperin (Toccata)

    Orchestrator: D. M. Soriano. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru.
    • Naive.

  • Deborah Pritchard

    Light Enkindled

    Performer: Matilda Lloyd. Performer: Richard Gowers.
    • Chandos.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.1 in C Major Op.21 (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Shai Wosner. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 1 / Op. 70, No. 1 "Ghost" / Op. 11 "Gassenhaue.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.4 'Autochthonous' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Still & Bonds - Symphonies & Variations.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and fugue no.1 in C major BWV.846 (The Well-Tempered Klavier bk.1)

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier I.
    • Hyperion.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Boris Godunov (Long Live Tsar Boris!)

    Singer: Maxim Paster. Choir: GöteborgsOperans Kör. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (1869 Version) [Live].
    • BIS.
    • 5.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Boris Godunov (My Soul Is Grieving)

    Singer: Alexander Tsymbalyuk. Choir: GöteborgsOperans Kör. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (1869 Version) [Live].
    • BIS.
    • 6.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures from an Exhibition (Promendade: Con mortuis in lingua mortua)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition / Liszt: Piano Works.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures from an Exhibition (The Hut on Fowl's Legs [Baba-Yaga])

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition / Liszt: Piano Works.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures from an Exhibition (The Great Gate of Kiev)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition / Liszt: Piano Works.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Khovanshchina (Dawn Over the Moscow River)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Borodin: Symphony No. 2 & Polovtsian Dan.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 21.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Bez solntsa [Sunless] (V chetiryokh stenakh [Between four walls])

    Singer: Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya. Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • Galina Vishnevskaya: Songs & Opera Arias.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Bez solntsa [Sunless] (Okonchen prazdniy, shumniy den' [The idle, noisy day is ended])

    Singer: Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya. Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • Galina Vishnevskaya: Songs & Opera Arias.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    St John's Night on the bare mountain (extract)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Onyx.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    5 Mazurkas Op.7 (no.1 in B flat major)

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • Linn.

  • Marie Jaëll

    Cello concerto in F major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Anna Rakitina.
    • Sony.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Violin concerto in D minor Op.15 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ida Haendel. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • Britten, Brahms, Elgar & Sibelius: Violin Concertos.
    • ICA Classics.
    • 5.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Rapsodie Espagnole (Feria)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru.
    • Naive.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano trio no.7 in B flat major Op.97 'Archduke' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Sitkovetsky Trio.
    • Beethoven: Piano Trios, Vol. 2.
    • BIS.
    • 5.

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  • Sat 13 Sep 202514:00
    BBC Radio 3

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