Orchestra and Chorus of the State Academic Symphonic Chapel of Russia
Music Director and Chief Conductor — Valery Polyansky

Part I

SERGEI RACHMANINOV

Spring
cantata for baritone, chorus and orchestra, op. 20
(first performance took place in 1905, with Feodor Shalyapin as soloist)

Solo: Ruslan Rozyev

Three Russian Songs
for chorus and orchestra, op. 41

Part II

SERGEI RACHMANINOV

Francesca da Rimini
opera in concert performance, op. 25
libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky based on the drama episode of V song “ The Inferno” from “Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri

Francesca — Yulia Tomina
Paolo Malatesta — Maxim Sazhin
Lanciotto Malatesta — Evgeny Liberman
Ghost of Virgil — Ruslan Rozyev
Dante Alighieri — Maxim Kalinin
Cardinal — Vadim Andreev

Conductor — Valery Polyansky