Time: 6:30PM
Venue: Piano Vertu
Address: 3830, boulevard Décarie, Montréal, Quebec
Zipcode: H4A 3J7
State: Qc
Country: Canada

A festive evening of Russian romances and piano music by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Rimsky-Korsakov in the concert hall of Piano Vertu, Montréal. The concert is in two parts with an intermission.

Part I — Pyotr Tchaikovsky

  • December (Christmas) from The Seasons — piano
  • Last Night — words by Alexei Khomiakov
  • I Opened the Window — words by K. R.
  • Gypsy Song — words by Yakov Polonsky
  • Nocturne — piano
  • I Would Like to Say It All in One Word — words by Heinrich Heine, translated by Lev Mei
  • Let the Day Reign — words by Alexei Apukhtin
  • Trepak — piano four hands (Margarita Aouslender, Victoria Mnatsakanova)

Part II — Rachmaninov, Arensky, Rimsky-Korsakov

  • Rachmaninov — Moment musical — piano
  • Rachmaninov — I’m Waiting for You — words by Maria Davidova
  • Rachmaninov — Lilacs — words by Ekaterina Beketova
  • Rachmaninov — They Answered — words by Victor Hugo, translated by Lev Mei
  • Arensky — Under the Tulle Veil
  • Rimsky-Korsakov — What I Dream of in the Silence of Nights — words by Apollon Maikov
  • Rimsky-Korsakov — It Is Not the Wind Blowing from the Heights — words by Alexei K. Tolstoy
  • Rimsky-Korsakov — The Clouds Begin to Scatter — words by Alexander Pushkin
  • Rimsky-Korsakov — Come to the Realm of Roses and Wine — words by Georg Daumer, translated by Afanasy Fet
  • Rimsky-Korsakov — Flight of the Bumblebee (arr. Rachmaninov) — piano