CONCERT PROGRAMME

8.30 p.m FRIDAY 4 JULY in Hall

A Concert of Russian Music:

Professor Gabriel Gorodetsky (clarinet)

with Phillip Bullock (piano) playing short pieces by Tchaikovsky;

1. Slow Movement from String Quartet No. 1, Op. 11

2. Theme from the Rococo Variations for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33.

3. Valse from The Sleeping Beauty Suite, Opus 66A

4. Valse from Symphony No. 5, Op. 64

5. Canzonetta from the Violin Concerto, Op. 35

6. March from Symphony No. 6, Op. 74

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Professor Jonathan Story (Bass)

singing arias from Russian opera;

Sadko, by Rimsky-Korskov

[Sadko is preparing for a long journey, and asks the foreign
traders at Novgorod to describe their homelands.
The Viking merchant sings of the ocean, rocks and Viking bones]

and

Aria Sabakina, also by Rimsky-Korsakov

[Sabakina sings of his daughter, the fianc�e of the Tsar, who is
blessed in so many ways but suffers from a mysterious affliction,
which he is powerless to alleviate. His heart is broken]

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�Dr Polly Jones, Dr Alex Pravda,

Professor Robert Service & Jackie Willcox

singing Russian songs