BBC Radio 3's Russian Revolution

Looking through the schedules for this week, I note with delight how much time is being given over to Russian music and culture on BBC Radio 3. I then wonder quite how I'm supposed to listen to it all. One programme at a time, I suppose. I've made a list of everything I could, though you'll note that some of these things are now in the past. UK readers can follow the links (for 30 days) to catch up with all that Russian goodness.

Composer of the week continues next week with music from the post-Stalin period. The anniversary (calendar-corrected) of the actual Bolshevik Revolution is marked by a special afternoon discussion on Tuesday of this week.

Sunday 5^th

5pm – The Listening Service on Shostakovich’s 15^th Symphony

5.30pm – Words and Music: Russia after the Revolution

6.45pm – Sunday Feature: Emigranti – 1917 Revisited

7.30pm – Concert of Tchaikovsky from the Verbier Festival

9pm – Drama on 3 – Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons

Monday 6^th

9am – Essential Classics: interview with BBC foreign correspondent Bridget Kendall (all week)

12noon – Composer of the Week: Scriabin and Prokofiev

2pm – Afternoon Concert: Music by Tchaikovsky and Taneyev

7.30pm – Evening Concert: LPO in music by Shostakovich and Rachmaninov

10.45pm – The Essay: Ten Artists that Shook the World (all week)

Tuesday 7^th

6.30am – Breakfast: Live from the Mariinsky Theatre

12noon – Composer of the Week: Mosolov and Roslavets

1pm – Lunchtime Concert: Elisabeth Leonskaja plays Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky

2pm – Breaking Free: A century of Russia culture, live from Lenin’s London office

7.30pm – Evening Concert: Shostakovich and Rachmaninov from the RLPO

10pm – Free Thinking: Man With a Movie Camera

11pm – Late Junction: Russian Experimentalism

Wednesday 8^th

12pm – Composer of the Week: Myaskovsky and Popov

1pm – Lunchtime Concert: Alexei Vlodin

7.30pm – Evening Concert: Cedric Tiberghien plays Prokofiev and Mussorgsky

10pm – Free Thinking: Svetlana Alexievich and Stephen Kotkin

Thursday 9th

12pm – Composer of the Week: Shostakovich and Kabalevsky

1pm – Lunchtime Concert: Anna Vinnitskaya

2pm – Afternoon concert: Rimsky-Korsakov’s Golden Cockerel

7.30pm – Evening Concert: Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov from the RPO

10pm – Free Thinking: Russian Art and Exile

12.30am – Archive recordings of Kirill Kondrashin

Friday 10^th

12pm – Composer of the Week: Prokofiev and Khrennikov

1pm – Lunchtime Concert: Vadym Kholodenko

2pm – Afternoon concert: Music by Tchaikovsky

Saturday 11^th

9am – Record Review: Includes Gerard McBurney on Shostakovich’s 11^th Symphony

12.15pm – Music Matters: Discussion with Teodor Currentzis

3pm – Sound of Cinema: Russian Revolution special

6pm – Opera on 3: Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth

1am – More archive recordings of Kirill Kondrashin

Sunday 12^th

12noon – Private Passions: Interview with Simon Sebag Montefiore

2pm – The Early Music Show: Music form the court of Catherine the Great

7.30pm – Evening Concert: Music by Glazunov and Schnittke

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