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19:00 | Nikolai Lugansky (piano) |
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One of the world's great interpreters of the piano repertoire Nikolai Lugansky performs selected compositions by Schubert, Franck, Tchaikovsky. Nikolai Lugansky regularly works with prominent conductors of major orchestras. His concerts, recitals, and chamber music performances throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas have earned him the rapturous applause of critics as well as audiences. His numerous recordings offer further evidence of his artistry. In 1990 Nikolai was awarded Second Prize at the Rachmaninov Competition in Moscow. In 1992, at the International Summer Academy "Mozarteum" in Salzburg, Austria, Nikolai was awarded a special prize "Best pianist." Nikolai won the 1994 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition.
Moscow Conservatory Great Hall  |
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19:00 | Moscow Virtuosi: Christmas Classic |
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Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra presents a program "Christmas Classic" including compositions by Tchaikovsky, Schubert, and the Strauss dynasty. The concert will be dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the orchestra. Soloists: baritone Igor Golovatenko (Bolshoi Theatre) and prize-winner of international competitions, pianist Alexander Romanovsky. Conducted by Vladimir Spivakov. A really European manner of ensemble performance, concern for tiny details and nuances, solicitous and creative interpretation of author's concepts, bright artistic talent and love both for the pieces performed and for the audience make the "Moscow Virtuosi" Orchestra and their leader Vladimir Spivakov so different from many other chamber orchestras. The orchestra stands away from aesthetic any snobbery and arrogant attitude to listeners, some of whom might have come to the concert quite by chance. To excite the audience emotionally and to enthrall intellectually every listener, even an ignorant one, to endow him with the pleasure of enjoining music masterpieces, to evoke the desire to come to chamber music concerts again are considered by the "Moscow Virtuosi" as the most important goals.
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