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Radio 3,56 mins

Borodin: Symphony No. 2

Discovering Music

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Stephen Johnson is joined by conductor Andre de Ridder and the BBC Philharmonic to explore some of the many musical ideas that inspired Alexander Borodin's Second Symphony, a work composed by a professional Russian chemist who put pen to paper whenever he felt he had time to spare.

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