The Viano Quartet’s Monday night concert offered strongly contrasted music that still suggested ... But the third movement, a set of variations on a Russian folk tune, dances, and the finale ...

Sofronitsky performed Beethoven, Chopin ... Singing Valenki, one of the greatest and best-loved performers of Russian folk songs, Lidiya Ruslanova.” ...

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major ... It is based on gorgeous harmonisation of a particularly beautiful Russian folk song - one of those archetypal Russian tunes that seems poised ...