Rachmaninov: Ilona Domnich & Sholto Kynoch
27 October 2017, 10:00pm 22 December 2024 - 5:12am
The wonderful Russian soprano Ilona Domnich gives a late-night, candle-lit performance of songs by Rachmaninov. Rachmaninov was a prolific song composer, setting texts by numerous authors, but he left Russia on the eve of the Revolution and never wrote another song.
This event is part of a day exploring Russian song in the centenary of the Russian Revolution. The schedule for the day is as follows:
11.30am - 12.15pm - Revolution In Russia: Russian Music in the Twilight of the Russian Empire (Rebecca Mitchell, speaker)
1.10pm - Russian Romances Lunchtime recital (Katherine Broderick & Sergey Rybin)
2.45pm - 3.30pm - Revolution In Russia: Russian Music in the Age of Revolution (Pauline Fairclough, speaker)
4pm - 4.45pm - Revolution In Russia: Russian Song in the Age of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov (Philip Ross Bullock, speaker)
5.30pm - 6.20pm - Rush-Hour Recital: 1917: The Last Flowering (Alexander Karpeyev)
7.30pm - 9.30pm - Evening Recital: Tchaikovsky (Andrei Bondarenko & Gary Matthewman)
10pm-11pm - Late-Night: Rachmaninov (Ilona Domnich & Sholto Kynoch)
Programme
- Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
- U mojego okna (1906) Op. 26 no.10
- Kak mne bol'no (1902) Op. 21 no.12
- Jeshchjo v poljakh belejet sneg, 'Spring waters' (1896) Op. 14 no.11 from Twelve Romances
- Son, 'A dream' (1893) Op. 8 no.5
- Melodija (1902) Op. 21 no.9
- Oni otvechali (1902) Op. 21 no.4
- Krysolov (1916) Op. 38 no.4
- Margaritki, 'Daisies' (1916) Op. 38 no.3 from Six Songs
- Ne ver' mne drug, kogda v izbytke gorja (1896) Op. 14 no.7 from Twelve Romances
- Zdes' khorosho, 'How fair this spot' (1902) Op. 21 no.7
- Vocalise (1910) Op. 34 no.14 1910-1912
- Son, 'Dreams' (1916) Op. 38 no.5 from Six Songs
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