In this episode, you can find out more about the horn, originally a hunting instrument, and a respectable member of the orchestra nowadays, with some rarely performed solo concertos. We will tell you about the brilliant British horn player who died far too early half a century ago. You will also get to know more about Mozart's peculiar sense of humour

https://spoti.fi/2LGvj4J

The spectacular Cello concerto by Antonin Dvorak is one of the best examples of the genre. We tell about it, with some dives into Czech music of earlier and later times, a review of American economics in the the 19th century, and episodes of the Six-Day War in Israel!

https://spoti.fi/3s7IWKI

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https://spoti.fi/3hW38dK

https://spoti.fi/3ou0zSP

With this record, we dive into the mysterious and spooky world of legends and fairy tales reimagined by Russian composers on the verge of the 19th and 20th centuries.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6PYS8cm6cjtVm9XHOkOJzD?si=EKPDTl5uRMKzYqdCxSinXA

In 1957, for the 40th anniversary of the Russian revolution, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) composes his 11th symphony, and dedicates it to the first Russian revolution of 1905.

Full recording under Mariss Jansons:

https://spoti.fi/3ppKsFN

We talk about a live recording of a concert of the great Russian pianist Maria Yudina (1899-1970) at the Philharmonic Hall in Kiev in 1954. We also tell some biographical anecdotes and stories of the times

https://spoti.fi/3aLaMX8

"In the steppes of Central Asia" is a short symphonic miniature created by Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887) in 1880 that takes us to the Asian desert with a caravan joined by Russian military troops.

Here is the full Svetlanov recording:

https://spoti.fi/3aG2sI5

Today, we are recommending a recording with selected Rachmaninov songs performed by Russian baritone Sergei Leiferkus and British Pianist Howard Shelly made in 1994-1995.

https://spoti.fi/3pkGpdO

This is a link to the lyrics of all the songs on the recording:

https://bit.ly/2WMrNrv

Dumka is a short piano solo piece composed by Peter Tchaikovsky in 1886. It is a fun miniature with lots of character.

Some recordings in this episode:

https://spoti.fi/3aJ948l

https://spoti.fi/37QatIr

https://spoti.fi/3aL9Z8C