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Prokofiev's Eugene Onegin - BBC 1980
Posted by Rob Barnett on March 22, 2024, 5:41 pm Edited by board administrator March 28, 2024, 12:40 pm
Buoyed up by the generous help I received in connection with my request for the BBC Prokofiev 'Boris Godunov' I follow up with a related request. Can you help please.
Does anyone have the following on tape or download:-
Eugene Onegin by Pushkin and Prokofiev First broadcast: Fri 4th Apr 1980, 16:30 on BBC Radio 3 The world premiere of a dramatisation of Pushkin's poetic novel, with music by Prokofiev Written in 1936 for the Pushkin centenary celebrations, Prokofiev's score was withdrawn after production difficulties. A Russian edition was published in 1973 with a drastically revised dramatic format but without three apparently lost numbers. Edward Downes relocated and orchestrated these and they are included in this new adaptation for radio. English translation by SIR CHARLES JOHNSTON Adapted by IAN COTTERELL and CLIVE BENNETT BBC NORTHERN SINGERS BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Producers CLIVE BENNETT and IAN COTTERELL : Part 1 5.55* Interval Reading 6.5* Eugene Onegin , Part 2 followed by an interlude Narrated by: Richard Johnson, with: Susan Fleetwood as Tatyana: Tim Pigott-Smith as Onegin and: Lensky: Philip Sully Nurse: Peggy Paige Larina: Eva Stuart The Prince: Patrick Barr