Anastasia Kalagina (soprano) and the <i>Renaissance Percussion</i>

PERFORMERS:
Anastasia Kalagina (soprano)
Viktor Kustov (cello)
Maria Shilo (double-bass)
The Renaissance Percussion ensemble comprising:
Dmitry Gabbasov
Grigory Zhuravlev
Dmitry Fyodorov
Vladislav Ivanov
Gleb Logvinov
Vladimir Maslov
Mikhail Vedunkin
Fyodor Khandrikov
Tatiana Cheryomukhina
Arseny Shuplyakov

PROGRAMME:
Georges Bizet
Overture from the opera Carmen (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)

Franz Liszt
Oh! quand je dors, S. 281

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Aria from Bachianas brasileiras No 5 (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)

The Terem Quartet
Pyotr Ilyich Walking along the Fontanka: fantasia No 2 on themes from the album The Seasons by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)

Franz Schubert
Ave Maria (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Gleb Logvinov)

Giuseppe Verdi
“Prayer” from the opera Otello (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Arseny Shuplyakov)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“Song of the Indian Merchant” from the opera Sadko (transcription for percussion ensemble by Anatoly Ivanov)

George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess (transcription for percussion ensemble by Nikolai Moskalenko)

Léo Delibes
Chanson espagnole - Boléro (transcription for percussion ensemble by Gleb Logvinov)

Vladislav Ivanov
Taiko Rhythms

Edward Artemiev
In the Park, music from the film Family Relations (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Arseny Shuplyakov)

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Here Is so Nice (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Arseny Shuplyakov)
Vocalise (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Hopak from the opera Mazepa (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Arseny Shuplyakov)

Gabriel Fauré
The romances Clair de lune, Berceuse (arrangements for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)

Isaak Ddunayevsky
Zazdravnaya (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Gleb Logvinov)

Andrei Petrov
Paraphrase on a theme from the song Walking the Streets of Moscow

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
October (Autumn Song) from the cycle The Seasons (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)

The Russian folk song Travushka-muravushka (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)

Edward Artemiev
The Hike, fantasia on themes from the film Sibiriade (transcription for percussion by Vladislav Ivanov)

About the performers

The Renaissance Percussion ensemble was founded in 2005 by Vladislav Ivanov and Arseny Shuplyakov. It comprises percussion musicians of the Mariinsky Orchestra. In 2005 the ensemble gave its first concert performances in Russia and abroad and won 1^st prize at the International Rachmaninoff Ensembles’ Competition in St Petersburg. In 2012, the ensemble again took 1^st prize at that competition. Today the ensemble’s repertoire includes works from various eras and styles. One of the ensemble’s priorities is performing music by Russian and European classical composers in arrangements for melodic percussion instruments written by members of the ensemble Vladislav Ivanov and Arseny Shuplyakov themselves. The ensemble’s repertoire also includes works for impact percussion, variety stage music and contemporary classical music.

Age category 6+

Anastasia Kalagina (soprano) and the Renaissance Percussion

About the performers