"Tsar BO-GO and Gorbachev's Grammy": Mussorgsky & Prokofiev

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🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

"YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD MAKE CLASSICAL MUSIC INFINITELY BETTER? MIKHAIL GORBACHEV." We know you've been thinking this for ages and quite frankly we agree with you. In this marvellous new episode of That Classical Podcast, we head back over to Mother Russia to discuss things like bus stop graves, weirdly tonk chicken legs and, naturally, Gorbachev's foray into classical music. Enjoy!

Music Featured in this Episode:

"Pictures At An Exhibition: Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga)" - Modest Mussorgksy

"Boris Godounov / Act 4: Odnazhdy, v vecherniy chas" - Modest Mussorgsky

"Peter and the Wolf Opus 67" - Sergei Prokofiev

"Piano Concerto No 3 in C Major, Op.26: 1. Andante-allegro" - Sergei Prokofiev

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 24 of that classical podcast this time Morsorgsky and Prokofiev.
0:08.0	Hey!
0:09.0	Moscow, Monskau, Monskau, if you there's a handivant,
0:12.0	whose son is insured as a nun. If you're there's a hundibund, loose and
0:12.8	distinction is meant ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!
0:15.6	Hello!
0:17.1	My name's Chris Bland.
0:18.1	My name's Kelly Harlock.
0:19.1	And you're listening to episode 24 of that classical podcast.
0:22.3	Yes indeed you are, Chris Chris what have we got on the
0:24.5	cards today? Well today we're going to be talking about two composers
0:27.8	modest mrsorsky try saying that three times quickly, Modest Musorgsky and Sergei Prokofiev.
0:36.0	But before we get on with the episode we just want to say a massive thank you once again to the
0:40.9	South Bank Center who hosted us for a talk recently about
0:44.8	Schubert and thank you very much to everyone who came and watched.
0:48.0	I'd love to our terrible jokes about bonking. Thank you. We appreciate you guys.
0:52.4	They were the MVPs. Absolutely. So we're
0:55.2	going to crack right on with the episode and we're going to start off with you talking
0:58.8	about Modest, Morsalski. Modeste Morsorgsky. Which means it's time for.
1:04.0	A 50 second show.
1:07.0	Yes indeed.
1:08.0	So as our regular listeners will know, we now have to condense a composer's life and times and works down into 60 seconds or more
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