Composer of the Week - Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov - Episode 4

Donald Macleod details the period in the late 1880s, when Rimsky-Korsakov composed a series of orchestral works that would eventually make him famous across the world. But then his life was beset by tragedy and a creative block that seemed insurmountable. Denza, arr. Rimsky-Korsakov: Neapolitan Song Anthony Goldstone, Caroline Clemmow (piano duet) Russian Easter Festival Overture Philharmonia Orchestra Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor) Mlada Suite Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Donald Johanos (conductor) Sadko (Excerpt from Sc 1) Vladimir Galusin (tenor) Foma Nazarich (tenor) Gannadi Bezzubenkov (bass) Vladimir Ognovenko (bass) Nikolai Gassiev (tenor) Kirov Chorus and Orchestra Valery Gergiev (conductor).