Russia / Ukraine

Lake Rasliv - Mukhina Art School - Russian Museum, St. Petersburg / Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow / Mountains and Lanscape - Foros Church, Crimea

Ukraine

Nikitsky Botanic Gardens, Crimea / Landscape and Sunset, Odessa

Ukraine / Russia

Belgorod Castle - Arcades - Monument to the Sailor Vakulinchuk - Potemkin Steps - Harbour, Odessa / River Nera, St. Petersburg

Russia

Seaside, St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg / Moscow (winter nights)

Russia / Ukraine

Pushkin Theatre, St. Petersburg / Opera, Odessa

Date of Production: 2015-04-24

Playing Time: 00:59:29

Catalogue Number: 2.110293

UPC: 747313529353

The Places

The places visited include St. Petersburg, Peter the Great's new westward-looking capital, and the traditional capital, Moscow. In Ukraine we see Odessa with the famous Potemkin Steps and something of the surrounding countryside of a region that for long offered holiday resorts to those living in Moscow or St. Petersburg.

The Music

The music of the Russian composer Tchaikovsky has come to enjoy
wide popularity throughout the world. He lived at a time when composers were creating a new national form of Russian music, and this element of national inspiration he was able to combine with a sound and acceptable command of technique and particularly of colourful orchestration. His Symphony No. 6, Pathetique, was the last of his symphonies, first performed a few days before his sudden and unexpected death in 1893, which it seemed to portend. Other music consists of two dances from his opera Eugene Onegin, elements that have a poignant part to play in the drama.