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WCPE Russian Romantics Weekend
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Wake Forest, N.C. (January 8, 2013) —WCPE Music Director William Woltz announces a weekend-long extravaganza celebrating Great Classical Music of the Russian Romantics, January 12-13, 2013. Throughout this two-day festival, WCPE will share music from Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and a host of others. On Saturday you may request your favorite composers here.
“The music of Russia embodies folk tradition, spiritualism, the ice of winter and the fire of Vodka,” says Woltz.
Here is a partial listing of the works scheduled;
12 Saturday
- 8:00 a.m. Rimsky-Korsakov: Suite from Snow Maiden
- 9:00 a.m. Glazunov: The Seasons
- 10:00 a.m. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 in B-flat Minor
- 11:00 a.m. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
- 12:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C-sharp Minor
- 5:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
13 Sunday
- 7:00 a.m. Grechaninov: “In Thy Kingdom”
- 11:00 a.m. Borodin: Symphony no. 2 in B Minor
- 12:00 p.m. Balakirev: Tamara
- 2:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no. 2 in C Minor
- 3:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Suite from Swan Lake
- 4:00 p.m. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
- 5:00 p.m. Kalinnikov: Symphony no. 2 in A
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