Winter Daydreams

PERFORMERS:
Soloists:
Natalia Yevstafieva
Alexander Mikhailov
Vladimir Moroz
Miroslav Molchanov
Ilya Kozlov (violin)

The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Pavel Smelkov

PROGRAMME:
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13 (“Winter Daydreams”)

Georgy Sviridov
Six romances on texts by Alexander Pushkin:
The Forest Sheds Its Crimson Dress
A Winter Road
To Nanny
A Winter Evening
Foreboding
Drawing Near to Izhory

Pavel Smelkov
Concert Paraphrase on themes from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker (World premiere)

Sergei Taneev
Winter Road, Op. 32 No. 4 (verses by Yakov Polonsky)
(orchestration by Pavel Smelkov)

Nikolai Medtner
Winter Evening, Op. 13 No. 1 (verses by Alexander Pushkin)
(orchestration by Pavel Smelkov)

Pavel Smelkov
Winter Morning (verses by Alexander Pushkin), (World premiere)
poem for voice and orchestra

Concert Master: Alexander Rubinov