On 16 September 2024 the Bolshoi Wind Quintet performed at the Catherine Palace as part of the Grand International Tchaikovsky Festival, Tchaikovsky. Reloaded.
The programme featured excerpts from celebrated Bolshoi operas and ballets, together with other works. Listeners heard Sergei Lysenko’s original Fantasy on Themes from Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades. The concert concluded with August Klughardt’s rarely performed nineteenth-century Wind Quintet in C major.
Performers: Nikolai Popov, flute; Sergei Lysenko, oboe; Sergei Petrov, clarinet; Andrei Rudometkin, bassoon; Alexei Raev, horn.
Part One
Tchaikovsky: Overture to The Nutcracker
Mozart: Divertimento in B-flat major; Donna Elvira’s aria Mi tradì quell’alma ingrata and Donna Anna’s Non mi dir from Don Giovanni
Tchaikovsky–Sergei Lysenko: Fantasy on Themes from The Queen of Spades
Part Two
Béla Kovács: Homage to Richard Strauss
August Klughardt: Wind Quintet in C major
Organised by the Bridge of Arts Foundation for the development of cultural projects.
