Episode 30 from the series about Benjamin Britten & Contemporaries
Sergei Prokofiev (1891 – 1953)
– music for "Alexander Nevsky" (1938), a film by Sergei Eisenstein
Yuri Temirkanov: Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra & Chamber choir
Evgenia Gorohovskaya, mezzo-soprano
[RCA Red Seal – 60867]
photo: Prokoviev & Rostropovich
Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)
– Sonata in C major, for cello and piano, op.65 (1961)
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Benjamin Britten, piano
Rostropovich & Britten
photo: RIA Novosti archive, image #25562 / Mikhail Ozerskiy / CC-BY-SA 3.0
