Summary: Joining podcast host Elliott Forrest is Spanish conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, who discusses the thematic connection between the works on this mostly Russian program — from Glinka's boisterous Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto to Debussy's Nocturnes and Stravinsky's Suite from The Firebird. Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos shares a musical exploration of the romanticism of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.
