VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on the day Europe woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. Also features Caitríona O'Leary and Eric Fraad discussing their new film Island of Saints, and pays tribute to Joseph Horovitz, Malcolm Troup and Maria Nockin.
DISCUSSION: What is a work? John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about The performing artist as co-creator, including contributions from Halida Dinova, Yekaterina Lebedeva, Béla Hartmann, David Arditti and Stephen Francis Vasta.
Russian pianist and composer Aleksey Nasedkin was born in Moscow on 20 December 1942. He won several prizes for his piano playing, was a People's Artist of the Russian Federation, president of Russia's Schubert Society, a member of the USSR (and subsequently RF) Composers' Union and a professor at the Moscow Conservatory.
He died in Moscow on 4 December 2014, aged seventy-two.