Isabel Bayrakdarian soprano; Anthony Marwood violin; Steven Isserlis cello; Connie Shih piano

Performers

Isabel Bayrakdarian

soprano

Anthony Marwood

violin

Steven Isserlis

cello

Connie Shih

piano

Programme

Borodin

Songs with cello obbligato and piano

Tavener

Akhmatova Songs

Prokofiev

Cello Sonata in C Op. 119

Taneyev

Canzone for voice and piano trio

Shostakovich

Seven Poems of Alexander Blok Op. 127

About this concert

The first programme in this mini-series is Russian and will lead naturally from a set of Borodin songs with cello obbligato to a canzone by Taneyev and Shostakovich’s late masterpiece setting poems by Alexander Blok. In such a context, Sir John Tavener’s Akhmatova Songs will fit in perfectly, while the centrepiece of the programme is the Cello Sonata Prokofiev composed for his friend Mstislav Rostropovich.