Bard Music Festival
Program Eight: Domestic Music Making in Russia
August 18, 2018
Bard Music Festival
August 18, 2018
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs
1:30 pm Performance
Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova (1848–1919)
Scherzo (n.d.)
Danny Driver and Anna Polonsky, piano
From Les Vendredis (1899–1903)
Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931)
Sarabande in G Minor
Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914)
Mazurka in D Major
Members of the Daedalus Quartet
with Karen Kim, violin
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
Song of the Varangian Guest, from Sadko (1896)
Alexander Borodin (1833–87)
Prince Galitsky’s Aria, from Prince Igor (1887/1890)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839–81)
Varlaam’s Drinking Song, from Boris Godunov (1869/1872)
Mikhail Svetlov, bass
Anna Polonsky, piano
César Cui (1835–1918)
From 25 Preludes, Op. 64 (1903)
No. 1 in C Major
No. 9 in E Major
No. 21 in B-flat Major
Danny Driver, piano
From Les Vendredis
Nikolai Sokolov (1859–1922)
Canon a 3 voci in D Major
Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936)
Courante in G Major
Members of the Daedalus Quartet
with Karen Kim, violin
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Scherzo, from Piano Sonata in F-sharp Minor (1903–4)
Danny Driver, piano
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
My dreams, Op. 40, No. 3 (1897) (Maykov)
The swift parade of clouds, Op. 42, No. 3 (1897) (Pushkin)
Mily Balakirev (1837–1910)
Spanish song, from 3 Forgotten Songs (1855) (Mikhailov)
Christine Taylor Price, soprano
Anna Polonsky, piano
From Les Vendredis
Nikolai Sokolov
Mazurka in A Minor
Lyadov/Sokolov/Glazunov
Polka in D Major
Members of the Daedalus Quartet
with Karen Kim, violin
Intermission
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Mozart and Salieri (1897) (Pushkin)
Gerard Schneider, tenor as Mozart
Mikhail Svetlov, bass as Salieri
Members of The Orchestra Now
Members of the Bard Festival Chorale
Zachary Schwartzman, conductor
Estimated run time: 57 minutes (first half); 50 minutes (second half).