A concert of the Tahir Atayev’s orchestra was held with a full house at the Magtymguly National Music and Drama Theater, at which the conductor once again invited listeners to board a virtual liner to travel around the world. Once again, because admirers of Tahir Atayev have already taken musical cruises around several countries.
As the maestro reminded, the audience "fastened their seat belts" for the safety of the flight, and the airliner from the sunny capital of Turkmenistan, having made a flight from one continent to another, landed in London. To the sounds of the famous song "Around the World Overture" by Trevor Jones, the audience was introduced to the sights of the capital of Foggy Albion through a video.
Then the passengers were greeted by the pretty streets of Paris, the fountains and monuments of Berlin, the Gothic architecture of Athens, Rome, Istanbul, the skyscrapers of New York and other capitals of the world. Spectators also visited Turkmenistan, where they admired the white marble Ashgabat to the tune of Nury Halmamedov's "Lullaby". The concert program included visits to 17 countries, and each of them was accompanied by music familiar and loved by the listeners.
Among the performed works were Johann Sebastian Bach's "Joke", Mikis Theodorakis' "Sirtaki", the Jewish folk song "Hava Nagila", Frank Sinatra's soundtrack to the movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", Astor Piazzolla's "Adios Nonino.
At the end of the concert, Tahir Atayev invited all the soloists to the stage – Guvancha Shammyev (accordion), Mansur Sharipov (vocalist), Aymurat Saparmuradov (prima dutar), Emir Bayramgeldyev (flute), Shirkhan Batyrov (saxophone) – and asked the audience a question: "Who do you want to hear for an encore?". And all as one answered: "Balalaika". The fact is that prima dutar, the Turkmen folk musical instrument, resembles the Russian folk instrument balalaika in appearance and sound.
Aymurat Saparmuradov repeated his performance of Mikhail Glinka's play "Kamarinskaya" due to the unanimous request of the audience.