07/06/2008
Presented by Tom Service. With sitar player Ravin Shankar, a reassessment of Rimsky Korsakov's legacy 100 years after his death and a look at the phenomenon of composers' diaries.
Tom Service meets sitar virtuoso Ravin Shankar, currently on his final tour of Europe. Plus a reassessment of Rimsky-Korsakov's legacy 100 years after his death, and as a second volume of Prokofiev's diaries is published, Tom looks at the wider phenomenon of composers' diaries and what can be learnt from them.
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