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St Petersburg

Episode 4 of 6

Duration:: 1 hour, 55 minutes

First broadcast:: Tuesday 04 December 2012

The fourth of six programmes in which Mary Ann Kennedy looks at the character of an international city through its classical music. Today: St. Petersburg.

Dmitri Shostakovich Festive Overture
Artist: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Shostakovich – Symphonies 1 & 6
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov Minstrel’s Song
Artist: Andres Diaz
Russian Romantics for Cello and Piano
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 (Last Movement)
Artist: Alexander Melnikov
Tchaikovsky – Piano concerto no. 1/Suite no.3 in G
Trio Rita Kalina
The Rough Guide to the Music of Russian Gypsies
Lindsay String Quartet Notturno from String Quartet No. 2 in D
Composer: Borodin
Borodin Quartets/Sextet
Domenico Cimarosa Lux Aeterna from Requiem
Artist: Vittorio Negri
Cimerosa – Requiem/Concertante
Alexander Borodin Polotsvian Dances
Artist: Kirov Orchestra
White Nights – Romantic Russian Showpieces
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka Ruslan und Ludmilla
Artist: Kirov Orchestra
Release title: White Nights – Romantic Russian Showpieces
The Alexandrov Ensemble Down Peterskaya Street
Composer: Trad
Moonlight over Moscow
Aleksandr Grechaninov To the Mother of God
Artist: Lege Artis Chamber Choir
Songs of the Cherubim
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev Classical Symphony, First Movement (Symphony No. 1)
Artist: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Prokofiev – Symphonies No.1 ‘Classical’ and No.5
Dmitri Shostakovich Two Songs by Robert Burns: McPherson’s Farewell and Comin thro’ the Rye
Artist: Vassily Savenko
Russian Settings of Robert Burns
Frank Sinatra All By Myself
Frank Sinatra – Live at the Westchester Theatre 1976
Igor Stravinsky Firebird
Artist: London Symphony Orchestra
Stravinsky – L’oiseau de feu