A Concert of Cello Music

PERFORMERS: Members of the cello section of the Mariinsky Orchestra:
Yuri Saakian
Vladimir Gavryushov
Fyodor Kirillov
Dmitry Kirillov
Leonid Anikin
Maxim Gonchar
Tamara Sakar
Alexander Ponomarenko

Yelena Berdnikova (violin)
Vsevolod Vasiliev (violin)
Alexander Shirokov (violin)
Alena Chernokoz (violin)
Yelizaveta Vasileshnikova (viola)
Yekaterina Sinkevich (viola)
Alexander Shilo (double bass)

Angelina Bychkova (soprano)
Evelina Agabalaeva (mezzo-soprano)
Savva Khastaev (tenor)
Yaroslav Petryanik (baritone)

PROGRAMME:
François Couperin
Suite for Cello and Chamber Ensemble (arrangement by Paul Bazelaire)

Gabriel Fauré
Élégie and Après un rêve (arrangement for cello ensemble by Dominique de Williencourt)

Anton Arensky
Three Quartets:
Serenade
To the Dying Stars
The Burning Key

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Lensky’s aria from the opera Eugene Onegin
April: Snowdrop and June: Barcarolle from the cycle The Seasons

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Serenade, Op. 37

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Turkish March

Johann Strauss II
Neue Pizzicato-Polka after motifs from the operetta Fürstin Ninetta, Op. 449 (arrangement for cello ensemble by Werner Thomas-Mifune)