Rozhdestvensky Conducts Cinderella
Between 1978-82 the flamboyant Russian
Gennady Rozhdestvensky was Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Tonight 'Noddy' (as the orchestra knows him) rejoins them to conduct Rossini's Overture to the 1817 comic opera La Cenerentola and Act n of Prokofiev's popular ballet, Cinderella.
During the programme
Rozhdestvensky talks about Prokofiev with the famous Russian ballerina, Galina Ulanova , who danced principal roles in all of his full-length ballets, and with the composer's son
Oleg Prokofiev , a sculptor now living in London.
BBC Symphony Orchestra led by Bela Dekaney.
Narrator: Christopher Cook.