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May 2023
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Rachmaninoff - the 20th century's great ...

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Samira celebrates the music and life of Sergei Rachmaninoff.

With pianist Kirill Gerstein, who has released a new recording of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, Marina Frolova-Walker, Professor of Music at Cambridge, pianist Lucy Parham, who has created a Composer Portrait concert about Rachmaninoff that she is currently touring across the UK. Plus film historian and composer Neil Brand discusses the use of Rachmaninoff's music in film classics such as Brief Encounter.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Timothy Prosser

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