Venue: Zellerbach Hall

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The first Russian orchestra to perform at the Vatican and in Israel, the Russian National Orchestra is a frequent guest at the world's major arts festivals including those in Edinburgh, Lucerne, Sydney and Colmar, and opened the 1996 Olympics Arts Festival in Atlanta. The orchestra's extensive discography, recorded under such acclaimed conductors as Mikhail Pletnev, Mstislav Rostropovich, Kent Nagano and Alexander Vedernikov, has garnered the ensemble extraordinary reviews. Gramophone listed the RNO recording of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique as the best in history and declared its recording of Prokofiev's Cinderella "one of the best records of the 1990s." The acclaimed ensemble returns to Cal Performances with a program that includes Gordon Getty's "dramatic, exciting, and tautly constructed tone poem"(Musical Opinion), Joan and the Bells, a cantata for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra based on the Joan of Arc story.

Program: John Adams/The Chairman Dances and Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Pletnev/When You Are Old; Gordon Getty/Joan and the Bells; Tchaikovsky/Symphony No. 6 in B Minor - Pathétique

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Program Notes: Program notes are available online, click here.

Artists links:
http://www.russianarts.org/rno