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Running time:
2 parts by 30 minutes
6+
30 January 2021 Saturday 13.00 Grand hall
13.00 Grand hall

Prokofiev
“Peter and the Wolf” and Other Stories

Bolshoi Theatre Chamber Orchestra


Conductor - Mikhail Tsinman

Anastasia Lerman, soprano
Julia Mazurova, mezzo-soprano
Set Designer - Maria Tregubova
Video artist - Ilya Starilov

The concert of the Bolshoi Theater Chamber Orchestra will feature works by Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev for children. 

“A wonderful page in the creativity of our great contemporary (Prokofiev) was his music for children and youth. Many, almost all composers have composed for young music lovers, but few have paid so much attention to this area of ​​creativity, so much serious thought and heartfelt warmth, as did Prokofiev, "wrote composer and teacher D. B. Kabalevsky. 

Prokofiev's "symphonic fairy tale for children" "Peter and the Wolf" is the world's most famous musical composition for children. Generations and generations of young listeners began their acquaintance with classical music with "Peter and the Wolf".

In Zaryadye Hall "the images of the Flute Bird, Oboe Duck, Clarinet Cat and other characters will become even more visible thanks to the video sequence created by artists Maria Tregubova and Ilya Starilov. The text will be read by Yevgeny Redko, actor of the RAMT theater.

"Piglets" and the tongue-twister song "Chatterbox" on the verses of Barto are vocal compositions, where the composer's amazing sense of humor was manifested.

The suite “Summer Day” (“Twelve Light Pieces”, as the author has designated it) arranged for orchestra is a musical sketch by Prokofiev about a child's summer day. “In the summer of 1935, simultaneously with Romeo and Juliet, I composed light plays for children, in which my old love for sonatinism awakened, which, as it seemed to me, reached complete childhood,” the composer said in his autobiography. "Morning", "Walk", "Fairy Tale", "Tarantella", "Repentance", "Waltz", "Procession of Grasshoppers", "Rain and Rainbow", "Fifteen", "March", "Evening" and "A month is walking over the meadows "..." The most important thing that always attracts in this music both those who play it and those who listen to it, - wrote Kabalevsky, - is that light coming from the sun, which shines through all of Prokofiev's work. I am sure that, falling under the life-giving rays of this light, young musicians will immediately fall in love with the music of Sergei Prokofiev, a wonderful composer, whose art brings joy to everyone who comes into contact with him. "