The Master and Margarita

The Russian composer Andrei Pavlovich Petrov (1930-2006) got his reputation as a movie soundtrack composer in the sixties, He won more than one prestigious prize. In the years '80 and '90 he composed various suc-cessful concerts for violin and piano and symphonic works, among which the symfonic fantasia Мастер и Маргарита (Master i Margarita) in 1984. Later the Boris Eifmans Saint-Petersburg Ballet Theatre would create a ballet on it.

Andrei Petrov was originally commissioned by Vladimir Bortko to write the soundtrack for his successful TV-series, but later the order went to Igor Kornelyuk.

    Andrei Petrov - Master i Margarita

Here you can listen to an excerpt of Andrei Petrov's symfonic fantasia.

Album
Master & Margarita (CD)

Artists
Andrei Petrov with
the Academic Symfonic Orchestra of the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic

Label
Schirmer Russian Music, 1985

ASIN
B000LSKFI8

• Introduction
• Ensemble Raro - 2010
• Małgorzata Zalewska - 2007
• David Avdysh - 2003
• Evgeny Baev - 2003
• The Pikoul Sisters - 2002
• Alexander Telnikoff - 1999
• Eduard Lazarev - 1995
• Andrei Petrov - 1985

• Introduction
• Rock & Roll
• Popular music
• The Russian bards
• Classical music
• Operas and musicals
• Soundtracks
• Other genres

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