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 Vladimir Spivakov, violin; Timur Pirverdiev, violin; Victoria Blazhina, violin; Svetlana Stepchenko, viola; Anastasia Kobekina, cello; Andrei Mikhailovsky, clarinet and Zoe Abolits, piano will perform Mozart, Quintet for clarinet and strings in A Major, KV 581; Pärt. Fratres for violin and piano; Prokofiev. Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34. Vladimir Spivakov, well known to orchestras and audiences alike as one of the leading violinists of our time, equally enjoys a multifaceted career as a respected conductor and committed humanitarian. He is artistic director and principal conductor of the National Philharmonic of Russia and President of the Moscow Performing Arts Centre since 2003. From 1999 to 2002 Spivakov served as principal conductor of the Russian National Orchestra. As a chamber and symphony orchestra conductor, Vladimir Spivakov has appeared in the world’s most important concert venues and has conducted European and American orchestras, including the symphony orchestras of London, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Budapest, the La Scala Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra of the Accademia “Santa Cecilia”, the Cologne Philharmonic Orchestra, the French Radio Orchestra as well as all the leading Russian orchestras.
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 Symphony Orchestra of Radio "Orpheus", Conductor Denis Kirpaneva will feature the great waltzes by Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Glinka, Glazunov and Khacheturyan. Emblems of the genre - Strauss' "Tales from the Vienna Woods" and "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" with their refined gallant spirit of imperial pomp and Austria-Hungary, alternate here with a melancholy" Valse Triste "gloomy genius of Finnish music of Jean Sibelius. Waltz - the embodiment of plastics in the music circle image of eternity, charming plastic which captures listeners and viewers with its unique grace. For Russian art Waltz - a universal musical genre, a symbol of movement and renewal. It is no coincidence that so many truly great waltzes were written by the geniuses of Russian music. Monumental, amazing richness of Tchaikovsky leaf colors of the grand ballets - "Swan Lake", "Nutcracker" and "Sleeping Beauty", as well as the fascinating Grand Waltz from "Raymonda" by Alexander Glazunov - is the embodiment of the most musical elements of ballroom dance.
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