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Louise Fryer presents the BBC SSO in music by Vaughan Williams, Butterworth and Glanert.
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Modest Mussorgsky, a troubled, radical musical genius whose life was cruelly cut short at the age of 42
5/5 Donald Macleod tells the unhappy story of Mussorgsky's final years.
First broadcast: 30 Oct 2009
4/5 Exploring Mussorgsky's song cycle, Songs and Dances of Death, and the opera Khovanshchina.
First broadcast: 29 Oct 2009
3/5 Focusing on the year 1874, when Mussorgsky produced Pictures at an Exhibition.
First broadcast: 28 Oct 2009
2/5 Donald Macleod explores the ultimate Russian opera - Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.
First broadcast: 27 Oct 2009
1/5 Charting the course from Mussorgsky's apprenticeship to the song cycle The Nursery.
First broadcast: 26 Oct 2009
5/5 Donald Macleod tells the unhappy story of Mussorgsky's final years.
Fri 30 Oct 2009 22:00 BBC Radio 3
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