BBC Radio 3

Building a Library (on Record Review)

Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake (11 April 2015)

Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 (Op. 74), ‘Pathétique’ (4 June 2016)

Professor Frolova-Walker discusses the making of this podcast here

Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 3 (6 May 2017)

Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (16 June 2018)

Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto No. 2 (2 January 2019)

Prokofiev, Symphony No. 1 'Classical' (21 September 2019)

Schumann, Symphony No. 3, 'Rhenish

(3 October 2020)

Composer of the Week

Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture: Soviet Russia (1917-1953)

10 November 2017
In the first of two-podcasts, Donald Macleod and Marina Frolova-Walker explore the lives and works of Soviet musicians working in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

17 November 2017
Donald Macleod and Marina Frolova-Walker look at the lives and masterpieces of Soviet musicians working in the second half of the twentieth century.

Other podcasts and radio broadcasts

The Guardian, 'Reverberate, episode 4: the bloody symphony of Leningrad' (17 February 2021)

In this podcast for The Guardian's 'Reverberate' series, Marina Frolova-Walker joins Russian music journalist and academic Artemy Troitsky, to discuss the story behind Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony. 

The Stalin Prize with Marina Frolova-Walker, Presto Music podcast (2021)

Paul Thomas talks to Marina Frolova-Walker about her book Stalin's Music Prize 

‘Music of the Russian Revolution’, ‘The Music Show’, ABC Radio (5 November 2017)

Professor Marina Frolova-Walker and pianist Peter Donohoe talk about the changes in music before, during and after the Russian Revolution.

Eugene Onegin, Glyndebourne (30 April 2014)

Marina Frolova Walker and Glyndbourne dramaturg Cori Ellison discuss Tchaikovsky’s tale of love and loss, Eugene Onegin (1879)

‘Russianness in Music’, Podcast for The Hedgehog and the Fox (2008)