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Live from St Petersburg

As part of Radio 3's 'Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture', Petroc Trelawny presents the breakfast show live from the historic Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, on the centenary of the October Revolution.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 7 Nov 2017 06:30

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake - ballet Op.20: Act 3; Valse: Interpolation 2 (Tempo di valse)

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Swan Lake.
    • DECCA.
    • 16.
  • Georgy Sviridov

    Piano Trio in A Minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Beethoven Trio Bonn.
    • Georgy Sviridov: Chamber Music.
    • Cavi-music.
    • 3.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Humeresques op.89 (no.5)

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta.
    • Works for Violin and Orchestra.
    • ONDINE.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations BWV 988: Variations. 3; 18; 9; 24; 10; 30

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • URANIA.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Lyudmila, Op.5 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Ruslan and Lyudmila.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

    Praise the name of the Lord (All-Night Vigil)

    Choir: Moscow Patriarch Choir of Christ the Saviour Cathedral. Conductor: Ilya Tolkachev.
    • Hidden Music of the Russian Church.
    • Christophorus.
    • 6.
  • Adolphe Adam

    Giselle (Grand pas de deux)

    Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Giselle.
    • DECCA.
    • 8.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Apollon musag猫te (Pas de deux)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Oedipus Rex & Apollon musag猫te.
    • LSO LIVE.
    • 14.
  • Vincenzo Manfredini

    Carlo Magno (A noi vivi Donna eccelsa)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Singer: Silvana Bazzoni. Choir: Radiok枚ren. Ensemble: I Barocchisti. Director: Diego Fasolis.
    • St Petersburg.
    • DECCA.
    • 11.
  • Cesar Cui

    25 Preludes Op.64 for piano: no.13 in F-sharp major

    Performer: Jeffrey Biegel.
    • 25 Preludes, Op. 64.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 13.
  • Reinhold Moritzevich Gli猫re

    Solemn Overture for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op. 72

    Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Elena Langer

    Snow

    Performer: Roman Mints. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Rodion Shchedrin

    Carmen Suite (Second Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • DG.
    • 7.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Vesnoy [In spring] Op.43 (Ne veter,veya s visoti [Not a wind high above])

    Singer: Ekaterina Sergeeva. Performer: Marina Mishuk.
    • Live performance.
  • Franz Schubert

    Sonata in A minor D.821 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Performer: Benjamin Britten.
    • Cello Sonata.
    • DECCA.
    • 3.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Alexander's Entry in Pskov (Alexander Nevsky Op.78)

    Choir: Mariinsky Chorus. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    6 Songs Op.63 (Serenada (O ditya))

    Singer: Evgeniy Akimov. Performer: Marina Mishuk.
    • Live performance.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Masquerade Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ondrej Len谩rd.
    • The Great Waltzes.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Ten Poems on texts by revolutionary poets, Op. 88 (Song)

    Ensemble: Moscow Choral Academy. Conductor: Viktor Popov.
    • Choral Music.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 10.
  • Gavriil Popov

    Symphony no. 2 Op.39 (Rodina) (The Homeland) (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Ussr Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Provatorov.
    • OLYMPIA.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Betrothal in a Monastery (Duet)

    Singer: Violetta Lukjanenko. Singer: Evgeniy Akimov. Performer: Marina Mishuk.
    • Live performance.

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