Composer of the Week

Donald Macleod looks at how, as a teenager, Rimsky-Korsakov was nicknamed 'beautiful child' by his colleagues in the loose collective of composers known as 'The Mighty Handful' and was seen by many of them as the brightest hope for the future of Russian music. Song of the Grain (The Snow Maiden) Bolshoi Chorus and Symphony Orchestra Alexander Lazarev (conductor) Concertstuck for clarinet and military band Solve Kingstedt (clarinet) Stockholm Concert Band Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor) Fantasy on Serbian Themes The USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor) Symphony No 2 (Antar) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Dmitri Kitajenko (conductor).