Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – “A Little Night Music” (arranged by Mark Taylor)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Overture to the ballet “The Nutcracker” (arranged by Billy Strainhorn)
Pavel Ovchinnikov – “Rachmaninov Blues”
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 23 (arranged by Bill Finnegan)
Jan Sibelius – Sad Waltz (arranged by Gene Krupa)
Yuri Belzatsky – Fantasy on the Theme of J.Strauss’s Waltz “Tales of the Vienna Woods” (arranged by Maxim Rassokha)
Yovan Ivanovich – Waltz “Danube Waves” (arranged by Sergey Antishin)
Yuri Markin – Composition on the Theme of M.Glinka "Waltz-Fantasy"
Maynard Ferguson – Fantasy on the theme of “Scheherazade” by N.Rimsky-Korsakov for trumpet and orchestra
Tommy Dorsey – “Indian Song” (Song of the Indian Guest from the opera-bylina by N.Rimsky-Korsakov “Sadko”)
Edvard Grieg – “Anitra’s Dance” from the music to the drama by G.Ibsen “Peer Gynt” (arranged by Bill Strayhorn)
– “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from the music to the drama by G.Ibsen “Peer Gynt”
Giuseppe Verdi – Gypsy Chorus from the opera “Il Trovatore” (arranged by Jerry Gray)
Jerry Gray – “Russian Patrol” (based on the theme of L.Knipper “Polushko-Pole”)
Bill Finnegan – “Song of the Volga Barge Haulers” (based on the theme of the Russian folk songs “Dubinushka”)
Igor Golshteyn – Paraphrase on the theme of the song by A.Petrov “I walk around Moscow”
Modest Mussorgsky – “Pictures from an Exhibition” (arranged by Jeff Holmes)
Louis Armstrong – “Let’s My People Go”
Dmitry Smolsky – Basso ostinato on the theme of the Belarusian folk song “Why Shouldn’t I Sing?”
“JAZZ & CLASSIC”
Honored collective of the Republic of Belarus National Academic Concert Orchestra of Belarus named after M.Ya.Finberg
Artistic director and chief conductor – Maxim Rassokha
Andrey Kolosov (vocals)
Alexander Tsulygin (trumpet)
Concert conductor and host – Maxim Rassokha
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The program is designed for the most sophisticated lover of jazz and classical art. Here, popular works by Russian and foreign composers will acquire a new style of performance. Ballet melodies by Tchaikovsky, opera arias by Verdi and Rimsky-Korsakov, waltzes by Strauss, Sibelius and Ivanovich, symphonic works by Glinka, Mussorgsky, Grieg and others will sound in jazz swing rhythms. And famous Belarusian and Russian folk melodies will be presented in the form of jazz standards.
The concert is based on compositions from the repertoire of jazz orchestras conducted by Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Eddie Rosner, Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Maynard Ferguson and Mikhail Finberg.
