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Originally Posted by sniperton
Thanks! And now I recommend something: Vladimir Bortko's TV-Series based on Bulgakov's 'Master and Margherita'. 1st movement is performed and conducted there by a certain 'Johann Strauss' on the ball organized by Woland. When I fly offline, Radio Roma is broadcasting Wagner's Walküre, Act 1st, conducted by Barenboim in the Scala... I'm perverted, I know...  |
For the Soviets, certain Shostakovich and Prokofiev pieces are both contemporary and appropriate. The music is also within in the public domain.
I'm particularly fond of the Lieutenant Kije suite (and sometime fly using that as my pilot name, since it's highly appropriate for a heroic but fictitious Russian junior officer.)