Romance Songs of the 20th Century

Part I

Pyotr TCHAIKOVSKY

April (“Snowdrop”) from “The Seasons”, op. 37a
Vladimir Slobodyan (piano)

“My Genius, My Angel, My Friend” on poem by Afanasy Fet

Mikhail GLINKA

Aria of Vanya “The Poor Horse Fell in the Field” from the opera A Life for the Tsar (Ivan Susanin)

“Braid” a gypsy song on poem by Alexander Korsak

Nocturne “Separation”
Vladimir Slobodyan (piano)

Pyotr TCHAIKOVSKY

“Reconciliation” on poem by Nikolay Shcherbina

Arioso of Basmanov “We are Life Itself and Death Doesn’t Worry Us” from the opera The Oprichnik

Sergei PROKOFIEV

Song of Duenna “When a Tender Maid” from the opera Betrothal in a Monastery (The Duenna)


Part II

Sergei PROKOFIEV

Prelude in C major, op. 12 No. 7
Vladimir Slobodyan (piano)

“Katerina” from 12 Russian Folksongs, op. 104 No. 6

Vladimir JUROWSKI

Jig from the ballet Scarlet Sails
Vladimir Slobodyan (piano)

“The Lily Of The Valley” on poem by Sergei Gorodetsky

“Good Night” on poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley (translation by K. Balmont)

Mark MINKOV

from the vocal cycle The Guitar Weeping on poem by F. Garcia Lorca
“The Guitar”
“Landskape”

Gioacchino ROSSINI

Cavatina of Arsace from the opera Semiramide

Ilya DEMUTSKY

Solo “The King” (on poem by Arthur Rimbaud) from the ballet Nureyev


Alexandra Durseneva (mezzo-soprano)
Vladimir Slobodyan (piano)
Maria Chernikova (piano)

Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra Sextet:
Roman Denisov (violin)
Svetlana Miklyaeva (violin)
Dmitry Bezinsky (viola)
Vyacheslav Chukhnov (cello)
Pavel Stepin (contrabass)
Maria Chernikova (piano)
take part in the concert