Program One: Fashioning the Russian Sound

7:30 pm Performance with commentary by Leon Botstein; with Andrey Gugnin and Anna Polonsky, piano; Önay Köse, bass-baritone; Dongfang Ouyang, violin; Mikhail Veselov, cello; The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; and others

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
   Overture to May Night (1878–79)
   Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36 (1888)
   Dubinushka, Op. 62 (n.d.)
   Le coq d’or Suite (c. 1908)
Mikhail Glinka (1804-57)
   Kamarinskaya (1848)
Alexander Borodin (1833-87)
   Three Songs (c. 1854)
César Cui (1835-1918)
   From Kaleidoscope, Op. 50 (1893)
Mily Balakirev (1837-1910)
   Islamey, Oriental Fantasy, Op. 18 (1869)
Modest Musorgsky (1839-81)
   Songs and Dances of Death (1875-77)

Program subject to change.