Songs
Sred shumnovo bala ('Amid the din of the ball')
(1878)
Op. 38 no.3
Part of a series or song cycle:
6 Romances (Op. 38)
Sred shumnovo bala ('Amid the din of the ball')
Amidst the din of the ball
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Composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. His works are still among the most popular music in the classical repetoire, and he is widely acknowledged as the first Russian composer to make a lasting international impression.
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Poet
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received multiple nominations for Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906, and nominations for Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 and 1910, and his miss of the prize is a major Nobel prize controversy.
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Previously performed at:
- 13 Oct 2018: Debussy & Tchaikovsky: Ilona Domnich & Sholto Kynoch
- 08 May 2018: Bethan Langford, Ashley Riches & Sholto Kynoch
- 27 Oct 2017: Tchaikovsky: Andrei Bondarenko & Gary Matthewman