Bolshoi Theatre Violin Ensemble Concert

PART I

Gioacchino Rossini
Overture to the opera La gazza ladra

Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria “Embarme dich” from Matthäus-Passion

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Scherzo from music to Shakespeare’s Ein Sommernachtstraum, op. 61

Georges Bizet
Entr’acte to Act III of the opera Carmen

Bedřich Smetana
Polka from the opera Prodaná nevěsta

Gabriel Fauré
Pavana, op. 50

Claude Debussy
“Clair de lune” from Suite bergamasque, L. 75

Jean Sibelius
Valse Triste, op. 44 No. 1

Pablo de Sarasate
Navarra, оp. 33


PART II

Modest Mussorgsky
“Night on Bald Mountain”

Sergei Rachmaninov
Serenade, op. 3 No. 5

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Tsaritsa of Shemakha’s Aria “Hymn to the Sun” from the opera The Golden Cockerel

Anatoly Lyadov
“A Musical Snuff Box”, op. 32

Arno Babajanian
Nocturne

Igor Stravinsky
Divertimento from Le baiser de la fée: II. Danses Suisses

Alfred Schnittke
Rondo from Concerto grosso No. 1, ор. 119

Eduard Artemiev
Music to the film “At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own”

Bolshoi Theatre Violin Ensemble:
Vladimir Kozhemyako, Olga Pervozvanskaya
Vlad Ovanesyants, Yuri Sinev
Artem Rudenko, Nadezhda Budnitskaya
Igor Svichkarenko, Bulat Ilyasov
Gulnur Kunakbaeva, Georgy Mnazakanyan
Yulia Zabavnikova, Mikhail Chumakov

Piano part: Anna Grishina Trumpet solо: Evgeny Guriev