bard music festival
August 10–12 and 17–19, 2018
rimsky-korsakov and his world The Bard Music Festival was founded in 1990 to promote new ways of understanding and presenting the history of music to a contemporary audience. Each year, a single composer is chosen as the main subject. The festival explores his biography, considers his influences and the consequences of his achievement, and examines all aspects of the musical culture surrounding the time and place of his life. The festival links music to the worlds of literature, painting, theater, philosophy, and politics, and brings together two kinds of audience: those with a long history of interest in concert life, and first-time listeners who find the festival an ideal place to learn about and enjoy the riches of our musical past. In its 29th season, the Bard Music Festival explores the work of composer Nikolai RimskyKorsakov (1844–1908). Join us for an exploration of the life and times of the composer who played a central role in the definition of what we know as the Russian style in music. The most assiduous and prolific of the Russian nationalist composers called the Mighty Five— Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin, and César Cui were the other four—Rimsky-Korsakov developed and refined many of the ideas born in the hothouse of their collective creativity, forging a highly recognizable Russian style and passing it on to his many students.
fishercenter.bard.edu | 845-758-7900 Tickets $25–75. Panels are free and open to the public. SummerScape Coach from New York City, Programs One, Six, Nine, and Twelve; reservations required.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 1898, Valentin Serov, Private Collection; cover: Curtain design for Scheherazade, 1910, Valentin Serov, Tretykov Gallery, Moscow; back cover: costume design for Scheherazade, n.d., Léon Bakst. De Agostini Picture Library/G. Dagli Orti. Bridgeman Images
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Friday, August 10 at 5 pm in the Spiegeltent
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV AND HIS WORLD August 10–12 and 17–19, 2018
BARDSUMMERSCAPE
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weekend one
weekend two
Inventing Russian Music: The Mighty Five
Rimsky-Korsakov and His Followers
Friday, August 10
Program Seven Russian Folk Music in the Mirror of Art Music
Friday, August 17
An exploration of the use of folk materials in classical music, from the Lvov/Pratsch Collection
Program One Fashioning the Russian Sound
(1790/1806) to Beethoven’s “Razumovsky” String Quartets, through the Mighty Five to
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), Overture to May Night (1878–79); Russian Easter Festival,
Stravinsky’s Petrushka.
Overture, Op. 36 (1888); Dubinushka, Op 62 (1905); Le coq d’or Suite (c. 1908); Mikhail Glinka
SOSNOFF THEATER
(1804–57), Kamarinskaya (1848); Alexander Borodin (1833–87), Three Songs (c. 1854); César Cui
8 PM PERFORMANCE WITH COMMENTARY by Marina Frolova-Walker; with the Virtual Village
(1835–1918), from Kaleidoscope, Op. 50 (1893); Mily Balakirev (1837–1910), Islamey, Op. 18 (1869);
Ensemble; Monika Krajewska, mezzo-soprano; Yelena Kurdina, piano; members of the
Modest Mussorgsky (1839–81), Songs and Dances of Death (1875–77)
Daedalus Quartet, with Karen Kim, violin; Orion Weiss, piano
SOSNOFF THEATER 7:30 PM PERFORMANCE WITH COMMENTARY by Leon Botstein; with Andrey Gugnin, piano;
Saturday, August 18
Önay Köse, bass-baritone; Anna Polonsky, piano; Dongfang Ouyang, violin; The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Panel Two From the Romanovs to the Revolution: Art and Politics in Russia
Saturday, August 11
A panel discussion with noted scholars, which includes a short Q&A. OLIN HALL
Panel One Russian Music before and after the Mighty Five
10 AM – NOON
A panel discussion with noted scholars, which includes a short Q&A.
Program Eight Domestic Music Making in Russia
OLIN HALL 10 AM – NOON
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), Mozart and Salieri (1897) and songs; selections from Les Vendredis by Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931), Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914), Nicolai Sokolov
Program Two Amateurs and Professionals
(1859–1922), and Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936); arias and songs by Alexander Borodin
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), from Four Romances, Op. 2 (1866); Fugue in G Minor
(1833–87), Modest Mussorgsky (1839–81), and Mily Balakirev (1837–1910); César Cui
(1878); Mikhail Glinka (1804–57), Grand Sextet (1832); Alexander Borodin (1833–87), String
(1835–1918), from Preludes for piano, Op. 64 (1903); Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Scherzo
Quartet No. 2 (1881); Mily Balakirev (1837–1910), Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat Minor (1900);
from Piano Sonata in F-sharp Minor (1903–4)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–93), String Quartet No. 1, Op. 11 (1871); Alexander Dargomyzhsky
OLIN HALL
(1813–69), Romances
1 PM PRECONCERT TALK Christopher H. Gibbs
OLIN HALL
1:30 PM PERFORMANCE Members of the Daedalus Quartet, with Karen Kim, violin; Danny Driver,
1 PM PRECONCERT TALK Byron Adams 1:30 PM PERFORMANCE Danny Driver, piano; Monika Krajewska, mezzo-soprano;
piano; Christine Taylor Price, soprano; Gerard Schneider, tenor; Mikhail Svetlov, bass; members of the Bard Festival Chorale and The Orchestra Now, conducted by Zachary Schwartzman
Yelena Kurdina, piano; Piers Lane, piano; Parker Quartet
Program Nine The Classical, the National, and the Exotic Program Three Music under Tsarist Autocracy
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), Scheherazade, Op. 35 (1888); The Snow Maiden Suite
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), Sadko, Op. 5 (1867; rev. 1869, 1892); Piano Concerto in
(1895); From Homer, Op. 60 (1901); Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813–69), Bolero (1839);
C-sharp Minor, Op. 30 (1883); Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–93), Festival Coronation March (1883);
Alexander Borodin (1833–87), In the Steppes of Central Asia (1880); Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914),
Alexander Serov (1820–71), Selections from Judith (1863); Mily Balakirev (1837–1910),
Eight Russian Folksongs for Orchestra, Op. 58 (1905)
Tamara (1867–82); Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915), Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 12 (1901)
SOSNOFF THEATER
SOSNOFF THEATER
7 PM PRECONCERT TALK Michael Beckerman
7 PM PRECONCERT TALK Simon Morrison
8 PM ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE Serena Benedetti, soprano; Katherine Pracht, mezzo-soprano;
8 PM PERFORMANCE Orion Weiss, piano; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by
Rebecca Ringle, mezzo-soprano; members of the Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral
Leon Botstein, music director
director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Sunday, August 12
Sunday, August 19
Program Four The Legacy of Pushkin
Program Ten Russian Choral Traditions
Works by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813–69),
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–93), from the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 41 (1878); Alexander
Modest Mussorgsky (1839–81), Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–93), Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914),
Gretchaninoff (1864–1956), from the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 13, No. 1 (1897); Serge
Mikhail Gnesin (1883–1957), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–75)
Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), from Vespers (All-Night Vigil), Op. 37 (1915); Maximilian Steinberg
OLIN HALL
(1883–1946), from Passion Week, Op. 13 (1923–27); and works by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
10 AM PERFORMANCE WITH COMMENTARY by Emily Frey; with Nadezhda Babintseva,
(1844–1908), Dmitri Bortniansky (1751–1825), Alexei Lvov (1799–1870), Mily Balakirev
mezz0-soprano; Michael Katz, cello; Anna Polonsky, piano; Christine Taylor Price, soprano;
(1837–1910), Stepan Smolensky (1848–1909), and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859–1935)
Gerard Schneider, tenor; Liza Stepanova, piano; Erika Switzer, piano; Andrey Valentiy, bass
OLIN HALL 10 AM PERFORMANCE WITH COMMENTARY by James Bagwell; with the Bard Festival Chorale,
Program Five Moscow/St. Petersburg
conducted by James Bagwell
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), Piano Trio in C Minor (1897), songs; Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–93), songs; Anton Arensky (1861–1906), String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 35 (1894);
Program Eleven The Spectacular Legacy of Rimsky-Korsakov
Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936), String Quartet No. 1 in D Major (1882); Reinhold Glière
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Firebird Suite (1910; arr. Guido Agosti); Ottorino Respighi
(1875–1956), Ballade for Cello and Piano, Op. 4 (1902)
(1879–1936), from Cinque pezzi (1906); Claude Debussy (1862–1918), Symphony in B Minor, for
OLIN HALL
piano four hands (c. 1880); Lazare Saminsky (1882–1959), Hebrew Rhapsody for violin and
1 PM PRECONCERT TALK Kevin Bartig
piano, Op. 3, No. 2 (?1924); Mikhail Gnesin (1883–1957), Requiem, Op. 11, for piano quintet
1:30 PM PERFORMANCE Lysander Trio; Önay Köse, bass-baritone; Anna Polonsky, piano;
(?1914); Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953), from Ten Pieces, Op. 10 (1906–13); Alexander Tcherepnin
St. Petersburg String Quartet
(1899–1977), from Bagatelles for piano, Op. 5 (1912–18); Nicolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950), Cello Sonata No. 2 in A Minor (1948)
Program Six The Piano in Russia
OLIN HALL
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), from Four Pieces, Op. 11 (1876–77); Anton Rubinstein
1 PM PRECONCERT TALK Richard Wilson
(1829–94), Moderato from Kamennoi-Ostrow, Op 10 (1853–54); Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953),
1:30 PM PERFORMANCE Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Allegra Chapman, piano; Fei-Fei, piano;
Toccata, Op. 11 (1912); Modest Mussorgsky (1839–81), Pictures at an Exhibition (1874); Serge
members of the Daedalus Quartet, with Karen Kim, violin; Andrey Gugnin, piano;
Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), Suite No. 2, Op. 17 (1901); Alexander Scriabin (1871–1915), Piano
Piers Lane, piano
Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp Minor, Op. 19 (1897); Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951), Sonata Tragica, Op. 39, No. 5 (1919–20); Vladimir Rebikov (1866–1920), from Les feuilles d’automne, Op. 29
Program Twelve The Tsar’s Bride
(?1909); Alexei Stanchinsky (1888–1914), from Sketches, Op. 1 (1911–13)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), The Tsar’s Bride (1898)
SOSNOFF THEATER
SOSNOFF THEATER
4 PM PRECONCERT TALK Halina Goldberg
3:30 PM PRECONCERT TALK Marina Frolova-Walker
4:30 PM PERFORMANCE with pianists Danny Driver, Fei-Fei, Andrey Gugnin, Piers Lane, and
4:30 PM PERFORMANCE Lyubov Petrova, soprano; Nadezhda Babintseva, mezzo-soprano;
Orion Weiss
Efim Zavalny, baritone; Andrey Valentiy, bass; Yakov Strizhak, bass-baritone; Joel Sorenson, tenor; Gerard Schneider, tenor; Teresa Buchholz, mezzo-soprano; and others; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; designed and directed by Doug Fitch; lighting design by Anshuman Bhatia
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