Musical Festival in Polotsk. 1988

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• Label(s): Melodiya
• Year of release: 1988

• Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Valery Poliansky
• Composer Benjamin Britten, Alfred Schnittke, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergey Rachmaninov, Modest Mussorgsky, Mikhail Glinka
• Performer Irina Arkhipova

• 1 Garden In Blossom Over The Don
• 2 I Remember The Wonderful Moment
• 3 None, But The Weary Heart
• 4 Vespers
• 5 Serenade For Strings
• 6 Suite in Early Style
• 7 Soirees musicales

M. MUSSORGSKY
1. Garden In Blossom Over The Don
(A. Koltsov)

M. GLINKA
2. I Remember The Wonderful Moment
(A. Pushkin)

P. TCHAIKOVSKY
3. None, But The Weary Heart, Op. 6 No. 6
(L. Mey, from J. W. Goethe)

S. RACHMANINOV
4. Vespers, Op. 37
No. 12 Greater Doxology
No. 13 This day of salvation (tropation)
No. 14 Christ is risen from the dead (tropation)
No. 15 Thanksgiving to the Mother of God

P. TCHAIKOVSKY
5. Serenade For Strings, Op. 48
Piece in a form of sonatina

A. SCHNITTKE
6. Suite in Early Style
Pastorale
Ballet

B. BRITTEN
7. Soirées musicales, suite after G. Rossini, Op. 9
March
Canzonetta
Tryolean Song
Bolero
Tarantello

Total time 53:20

Irina Arkhipova, mezzo-soprano (1 - 3)
Natalia Bogilova, piano (1 - 3)
Igor Boguslavsky, viole d'amour (6)
The USSR Ministry of Culture
Chamber Choir (4)
The Minsk Chamber Orchestra (5)
The USSR Bolshoi Theatre Soloists Ensemble (6, 7)
Conductors: Valeri Polyansky (4, 5), Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (7)

Recorded live at the St. Sophia Cathedral of Polotsk in April 17 - 27, 1988