Presto Music Classical Podcast,
Episode 8: The Stalin Prize with Marina Frolova-Walker
In the midst of the awards season for classical music recordings, this week I am joined by Marina Frolova-Walker, a Russian-born British musicologist and music historian, to discuss the subject of her 2016 book Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics. Marina specialises in German Romanticism, Russian and Soviet music, and nationalism in music, and is Professor of Music History and Director of Studies in Music at Clare College, Cambridge. It's a great chat, taking in some of the lesser-known Russian composers like Myaskovsky, Weinberg and Kabalevsky as well as the two titans, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
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Available Format: Book
Myaskovsky - Complete Symphonic Works Vol. 13
Russian Federation Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
Available Format: CD
Khachaturian: Piano Concerto & Violin Concerto
Mindru Katz, Cristina Ortiz, David Oistrakh (violin) London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Aram Il'yich Khachaturian, Sir Adrian Boult, Aram Il'yich Khacha, Alfred Newman
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Shostakovich: Cantatas
Aleksei Tanovitski (bass) & Kostiantin Andrejev (tenor) Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Narva Boys Choir & Estonian Concert Choir, Paavo Järvi
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
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