Isaac Babel

From high atop Odessa, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. The role of Sadko today is being played by Max Eastman. Scooter the Wonder Dog will be played by  Vladimir Mayakovsky.   The role of the Bobbsie Twins is being played by  Yevgeni and Yevgenia Gronfein . The role of Ken Moss is being played by Benya Krik' . The role of Brian Carpenter is being played by Maxim Gorky.   In the third half of the program, the role of Lenny the Listener will  be played by Marshal Semyon Budyonny.  Our featured great Russian writer today is Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, July 13 1894 – January 27, 1940) was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry, Story of My Dovecote, and Tales of Odessa, all of which are considered masterpieces of Russian literature. Babel has also been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry" Loyal to, but not uncritical of, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Isaak Babel fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge due to his longterm affair with the wife of NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov. Babel was arrested by the NKVD at Peredelkino on the night of 15 May 15 1939. After "confessing", under torture, to being a Trotskyist terrorist and foreign spy, Babel was shot on 27 January 1940.
Red Army Ensemble. Volume 3. Angel.   Sung principally in Russian.  : La Marseillaise -- Soviet hymn -- The Variag -- Stenka razin -- Under the oak tree -- Song of Russia -- The sun goes down behind the mountain -- The song of the prisoner -- On the banks of a river --  Boris Alexandrov, conductor.
Baez, Joan. Live at Newport Vanguard Records, 1996.   Farewell, Angelina -- Long black veil -- Wild mountain thyme -- Come all ye fair and tender maidens -- Lonesome valley (duet with Mary Travers) -- Hush little baby (duet with Peter Yarrow) -- Te ador ; Te manha -- All my trials -- It's all over now, baby blue -- The unquiet grave -- Oh, freedom -- Satisfied mind (duet with Lilly Brothers) -- Fennario -- Don't think twice, it's alright -- Johnny Cuckoo -- It ain't me babe (duet with Bob Dylan) -- With God on our side (duet with Bob Dylan).   Recorded at the 1963, 64, and 65 Newport Folk Festivals.
Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998. Symphony no. 2. / The weeping babe. / Sonata for four horns.  Argo 1968  London Symphony Orchestra, with Colin Davis, conductor (in 1st work); April Cantelo, soprano, with John Alldis Choir (in 2d work); Barry Tuckwell Horn Quartet (in 3rd work)
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.  Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky choral music.  Columbia [1972]  Babel. John Colicos, narrrator; CBC Symphony Orchestra, The Festival Singers of Toronto, Elmer Iseler, director