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FESTIVAL TOUR OF THE
A C C O R D I O N V I R T U O S I O F R U S S I A
Yuri Smirnov, Artistic Director and Conductor
Vladimir Smirnov, Conductor
Alexander Yakushev, electric violin
Ilya Yakushev, piano soloist
(Accordion Virtuosi of Russia founded by Pavel Smirnov)
Program I
Overture to the opera Russlan and Ludmilla GLINKA
March from The Love for Three Oranges PROKOFIEV
Intermezzo from the opera Cavalleria rusticana MASCAGNI
Trepak from the ballet Nutcracker TCHAIKOVSKY
Perpetuum Mobile, Op. 257 J. STRAUSS
Nocturne (Ilya Yakushev, soloist) ARNO BABADJANIAN
Overture to the opera Carmen BIZET
Czardas (Alexander Yakushev, soloist) VITTORIO MONTI
“Sabre Dance” from the ballet Gayane KHACHATURIAN
Intermission
Program II
Excerpts from West Side Story BERNSTEIN
“The Ragtime Dance” JOPLIN
Russian folk song “In the Valley” arr. MATVEEV
“Flurries” (Ilya Yakushev, soloist) ALEXANDER TSFASMAN
Improvisations on a theme “Lonely accordion” VLADIMIR CHERNIKOV
“Hoe-down” from the ballet Rodeo COPLAND (arr. Emerson)
“Over the Rainbow” (Alexander Yakushev, soloist) ARLEN
“Train to Odessa” (Alexander Yakushev, soloist) VLADIMIR SMIRNOV
Russian folk song “Barinya” arr. A. SEREBRYAKOV
