EPISODE · Nov 14, 2017 · 14 MIN
6 Mosolov
from The Essay · host BBC Radio 3
Ten contemporary cultural specialists look back at the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on artists of the time - in film, theatre, poetry, dance and beyond. Musicologist Tamsin Alexander considers the music of Alexander Mosolov, which was inspired by the industrial sounds of the newly forged Soviet Union, and who was the only composer to be sent to the Gulag.Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian CultureProducer Alison Hindell BBC Cymru Wales.
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Ten contemporary cultural specialists look back at the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on artists of the time - in film, theatre, poetry, dance and beyond. Musicologist Tamsin Alexander considers the music of Alexander Mosolov, which was inspired by the industrial sounds of the newly forged Soviet Union, and who was the only composer to be sent to the Gulag.Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian CultureProducer Alison Hindell BBC Cymru Wales.
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