Metamorphoses of Myths

Part I

Claude Debussy
“Syrinx” for flute solo

Natalia Bereslavtseva (flute)

Ottorino Respighi
“Trittico Botticelliano”

I. La Primavera
II. L'Adorazione dei Magi
III. La nascita di Venere

Manuel de Falla
“Psyché” for soprano, strings, and harp, on poem by George Jean-Aubry

Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (mezzo-soprano)

Claude Debussy
“Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune”
Arrangement for chamber orchestra by Mikhail Tsinman


Part II

Benjamin Britten
“Six Metamorphoses after Ovid” for oboe solo, op. 49
№ 6. Arethusa

Sofia Belyaeva (oboe)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Adagio – Andante quasi Allegretto from the ballet “Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus”, оp.43

Cello solo: Pyotr Kondrashin

Christoph Willibald Gluck
“Orphée et Eurydice”, selections from the ballet

Dance of the Furies
Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Orphée`s Aria «Quel nouveau ciel»
Recitative and Aria of Eurydice «Fortune ennemie»
Recitative of Orphée et Eurydice
Orphée`s Aria «J'ai perdu mon Eurydice»
Trio «Tendre Amour»

Eurydice: Olga Kulchinskaya (soprano)
Orphée: Yaroslav Abaimov (tenore)
Amour: Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (mezzo-soprano)

Bolshoi Theatre Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Mikhail Tsinman