There’s something dark and primaeval at the heart of Russian music that sometimes  bubbles and seethes to the surface and becomes the Songs and Dances of Death or the Rite of Spring or the Scythian Suite. It’s populated by magical beings and monsters: the evil sorcerer, Chernomor; the green-taloned ogre, Kashchei; the Firebird; the tiny infantophagic witch, Baba-yaga; the Rusalka; the

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