Russian folk songs, arias and romances

PERFORMERS:
Nikolay Didenko (bass)
Alexander Pokidchenko (piano)

PROGRAMME:
Part I 
Alexander Borodin
Aria of Konchak from the opera Prince Igor 

Mikhail Glinka
Aria of Ivan Susanin from the opera A Life for the Tsar (Ivan Susanin) 

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Song of the Varangian Guest from the opera Sadko

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Waltz from the opera Eugene Onegin 

Alexander Dargomyzhsky
“I Loved You” (lyrics by A. Pushkin) 

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“It Was Not the Wind, Blowing from the Heights” (lyrics by A. Tolstoy), Op. 43 No. 2 

Sergei Rachmaninoff
“A Dream” (lyrics by A. Pleshcheyev), Op. 8 No. 5
Prelude in C minor, Op. 23 No. 7

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
“I Bless You, Forests” (lyrics by A. Tolstoy), Op. 47 No. 5

Alexandre Dubuque
“A Street” (lyrics by V. Sirotin)

Part II
Russian folk songs
“How Will I Go to the Fast River”
“From the Island up to River”
“Ah You, Night”

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in E-flat major, Op. 23 No. 6

Russian folk songs
“Yo, Heave-Ho!”
“In a Village It Was, in Olkhovka”
“Ah You, Wide Steppe”
“Down the Piterskaya Road”