Георгий Свиридов has been played on NTS shows including Jake FM, with Three Choruses from the music to Alexei K. Tolstoy's drama 'Tsar Feodor Ioannovich' first played on 31 January 2019.

Georgy Sviridov (Георгий Васильевич Свиридов, Georgij Vasil'evič Svirídov) (December 16, 1915 – January 5, 1998) was a Russian and Soviet neoromantic composer.

In 1935 Sviridov composed a cycle of lyrical romances based on the poetry of Alexander Pushkin, which first brought him critical acclaim. During his studies in Leningrad Conservatory, 1936–1941, Sviridov experimented with different genres and different types of musical composition. He completed his Piano Concerto No. 1 (1936 – 1939), Symphony No. 1…