Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam

From high atop Voronezh, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. The role of Sadko today is being played by Joseph Ioseb Besarionis dze Jugashvili. Scooter the Wonder Dog will be played by Benedikt Konstantinovich Livshits today.   The role of the Bobbsie Twins is being played by  Vera  and Nadyezda Lyubov. The role of Ken Moss is being played by  Ossarion Belinsky .  In the third half of the program, the role of Lenny the Listener will  be played by Douglas Fairbanks.  Our featured great Russian writer today is Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam, a Russian poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets. He was arrested by Joseph Stalin's government during the repression of the 1930s and sent into internal exile with his wife Nadezhda. Given a reprieve of sorts, they moved to Voronezh in southwestern Russia. In 1938 Mandelstam was arrested again and sentenced to a camp in Siberia. He died that year at a transit camp.
Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.  Octet in F major, op. 16 Capitol, [1958].  Chamber Music Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Octet, for strings, in E-flat, op. 20. RCA Victor [1955] NBC Symphony Orchestra; Arturo Toscanini, conductor.   "Taken from the broadcast of March 20, 1947"
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971  Igor Stravinsky conducts, 1961. Columbia [1961] Octet (James Pellerite, flute; David Oppenheim, clarinet; Loren Glickman, Arthur Weisberg, bassoons; Robert Nagel, Theodore Weis, trumpets; Keith Brown, Richard Hixon, trombones)