PERFORMERS:
Narrator: Polina Malikova (Tolstun)
Timur Martynov (trumpet)
Alexander Afanasiev (horn)
Sofia Viland (flute)
Sofia Kiprskaya (harp)
Sergei Buranov (percussion)
Gleb Logvinov (percussion)
Eduard Kiprsky (cembalo)
Fedor Uhatov (artistic whistling)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
PROGRAMME:
Rodion Shchedrin
Highlights of the I and II suites from the ballet The Little Humpbacked Horse
The Adventures of a Monkey
a musical narrative based on Mikhail Zoshchenko's eponymous tale, a concerto for narrator, trumpet, horn, flute, harp and two percussionists accompanied by string orchestra and cembalo in memory of Maya Plisetskaya who dearly loved this story
(Musical materials provided by SCHOTT MUSIC GmbH & Co, Mainz, Germany)