PERFORMERS:
Soloist: Semyon Salomatnikov (trumpet), prize-winner of the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition, 1st prize
Narrator: Polina Malikova (Tolstun)
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Gurgen Petrosyan
PROGRAMME:
Rodion Shchedrin
Trumpet Concerto
The Adventures of a Monkey
a musical narrative based on Mikhail Zoshchenko's eponymous tale, a concerto for narrator, trumpet, horn, flute, harp and two percussionists accompanied by string orchestra and cembalo in memory of Maya Plisetskaya who dearly loved this story
(Musical materials provided by SCHOTT MUSIC GmbH & Co, Mainz, Germany)
The concert has no interval