Four Imps

PROGRAMME:
Boris Tishchenko
Ragtime from Piano Sonata No 1, Op. 3/121
Performed by Natalia Volkova

Sketch, song cycle for middle voice and piano, Op. 120
Four Imps (folk poetry)
The Young Scholar (lyrics by Vladimir Mayakovsky (Heine Imitation))
I Can’t Sleep (lyrics by Georgy Firtich)
A Kite for Two (lyrics by Kozma Prutkov (Alexei Zhemchuzhnikov))
A Song about a Lost Head (lyrics by Yakov Khamarmer (after William Shakespeare’s Richard III))
We Have Split up (lyrics by Yevgeny Baratynsky)
To the Bride (lyrics by Alexander Tvardovsky)
Performed by Gamid Abdulov (baritone) and Svetlana Nesterova (piano)

Piano Sonata No 8, Op. 99
Dedicated to Gennady Banshchikov
I. Allegro energico
II. Andantino
III. Allegro molto
Performed by Andrei Bugrinov