Bolshoi Opera Soloists Concert

I part

Vladislava Malakhovskaya
“We don’t need pity”,
Cantata for Soloists and Chamber Ensemble
1. “October 1941” on poem by Sergei Orlov
2. “You must” on poem by Yulia Drunina
3. “Cuckoo” on poem by Sergei Orlov
4. “Before the attack” on poem by Semyon Gudzenko
5. " Ivan’s Willow" on poem by Arseny Tarkovsky
6. “My generation” on poem by Semyon Gudzenko

Elena Manistina (mezzo-soprano)
Pyotr Migunov (bass)

Kirill Filatov (violin)
Roman Denisov (violin)
Dmitry Bezinsky (viola)
Vyacheslav Chukhnov (cello)
Evgeny Roshchin-Ivanov (oboe)
Alexei Korniliev (trumpet)
Margarita Petrosyan (piano)

II part

Rodion Shchedrin
Four Choruses to lyrics by Alexander Tvardovsky for unaccompanied mixed chorus
“How dear is the friend”
“The war is over”
" I was killed near Rzhev"
“To you, the fallen”

Bolshoi Theatre Chorus
Chief Chorus Master — Valery Borisov
Pyotr Migunov (bass)

Georgy Sviridov
“Soldier’s overcoat” on poem by Alexander Tvardovsky
Pyotr Migunov (bass)

Valery Gavrilin
“Rowan trees” on poem by Albina Shulgina
(from the vocal-symphonic poem “War Letters”)
Elena Manistina (mezzo-soprano)
Pyotr Migunov (bass)

Valery Gavrilin
“Two brothers” on poem by Victor Maximov
Pyotr Migunov (bass)
Nikolai Kazansky (bass)

Valery Gavrilin
“Attack” on poem by Yakov Gordin
Nikolai Kazansky (bass)

Anatoly Novikov
Arioso of the Mother from the cantata “We need peace” on poem by Yakov Gordin
Svetlana Belokon (mezzo-soprano)

Kirill Molchanov
Zhenya’s romance “Wait for Me” on poem by Konstantin Simonov
from the opera “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”
Elena Manistina (mezzo-soprano)

Piano part — Margarita Petrosyan