Playlist
Secret Bach
3/4. Baroque violinist Rachel Podger performs some of Bach's most elaborate solo violin works. Recorded earlier this year at Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh.
Bach: Sonata in A minor; Partita in D minor
2.00pm
More works conducted by Valery Gergiev.
4/5. He conducts a zany production of one of maddest operas ever written: the 20-year-old Shostakovich's tale of the Nose that got away, based on a tall tale by the great Russian short story writer Nikolai Gogol.
Shostakovich: The Nose
Vladislav Sulimsky, baritone, Kovalyov
Edem Umerov, bass, Ivan Yakovlevich
Tatiana Kravtsova, soprano, Praskov'ya Osipovna
Andrei Popov, tenor, Police Inspector
Mikhail Latyshev, Kovalyov's Servant
Sergei Semishkur, tenor, The Nose
Ilya Bannik, bass, A Newspaper Clerk
Gennady Bezzubenkov, bass, A Doctor
Larisa Shevchenko, mezzo-soprano, Podtochina
Tatiana Pavlovskaya, soprano, Podtochina's daughter
Yulia Khazanova, bass, A Vendor
Vladimir Samsonov, A Lackey
Viktor Vikhrov, tenor, Old Gentleman
Yuri Vorobyov, tenor, Porter
Yuri Monchak, tenor, Policeman
Other Policemen:
Alexander Timchenko, Pavel Shmulevich, Nikolai Kamensky, Viktor antipenko, Yuri Vorobyov, Sergei Skorokhodov, Victor Vikhrov, Sergei Melenevsky, Vladislav Uspensky
Andrei Karabanov, Employee placing advertisements
Other Employees placing advertisements:
Yuri Monchak, Alexander Gerasimov, Vladislav Uspensky, Mikhail Kornblit, Pavel Shmulevich, Nikolai Kamensky, Yuri Vorobyov
Roman Gibatov, A Traveller
Elena Gulyaeva, A woman seeing him off
Sergei Yukhmanov, A man seeing him off
Yuri Kovalenko, A Father
Tatiana Kravtsova, A Mother
Yuri Pavlov, First Son
Dmitri Kusov, Second Son
Vasily Korshkov, Piotr Fyodorovich
Alexander Gerasimov, Ivan Ivanovich
Olga Markova-Mikhailenko, An elderly lady
Olga Shakhanova, A Hanger-on
Other Hangers-on:
Elena Petrenko, Yulia Khasanova, Alina Arzamastseva, Viktoria Utekhina, Olga Semenova, Evgenia Shalamova, Elena Tilkeridi
Evgeny Strashko, Yaryshkin
Sergei Skorokhodov, A Gentleman
Other Gentlemen:
Igor Silakov, alexander Timchenko, Yuri Monchak, Timur Abdikeyev, Yuri Vorobyov, Sergei Yukhmanov
Alexander Gerasimov, A Speculator
Avgust Amonov, A respected colonel
Elena Vitman, A dignified lady
Nikolai Kamensky, 1st son of the dignified lady
Vladislav Uspensky, 2nd son of the dignified lady
Vladimir Samsonov, Khozrev Mirza
Yuri Vorobyov, A policeman on duty
Sergei Skorokhodov, The Chief of Police's doorman
Yulia Khazanova, Sirin
Yuri Pavlov, Eunuch
Alfred Belyaev, Kovalyov's double
Gennady Nikolaev, The Nose's body
Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
