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19:00 | Anniversary concert of Liana Isakadze |
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 Liana Isakadze (violin), Alexander Knyazev (cello), Katya Skanavi (piano) together with Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under conduction of Gintaras Rinkevi?ius (Lithuania) will perform Brahms Concerto for Violin, Violoncello and Orchestra; Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra (Es-dur), K. 364 (version for Violin, Violonello and Orchestra) and Beethoven, Concerto for Piano, Violin, Violonello and Orchestra. Liana Isakadze (born August 2, 1946) is a Gergian violinist. Born in Tbilisi, the capital of then-Soviet Georgia, Liana Isakadze entered music school at the age of seven. Under her teacher, Professor Shiukashvili, she excelled and at the age of nine played with the State Symphonic Orchestra. In 1956 she played her first solo violin concert. In 1956 she took part in the Moscow International Festival Competition. While younger than the other participants, she performed the adult program. The chairman of the festival was the famous violinist, David Oistrach. D. Oistrakh played a big role in her life. In 1965 she was awarded the „Grand Prix“ at the Marguerite Long and Jacques Thibaud International Competition (Paris). In 1970 she participated at the Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow) and received third place. In 1970 she took part at the Jean Sibelius International Violin Competition (Helsinki) where she received first place. She has played chamber music with such noteries such as Gustav Revinius, Alexander Slobodyanik, Maxim Vengerov, Barbara Hendricks, Gidon Kremer, Franz Hummel, Natasha Gutman, Grigori Zhislin, Alexander Rudin, David Geringas, Frida Bauer, Maria Yudina, Igor Oistrakh, Dimitri Alexeev, Ivan Monighetti, Edouard Brunner, Yuri Bashmet, Alexander Kniazev, Alexei Lubimov, Justus Frantz, Arto Noras, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Viktor Tretiakov and many others. In 2009 she formed a Chamber Orchestra of Young Musicians of Southern and Eastern Europe. The German Foreign Ministry provided the support for this undertaking. After 2011, Liana formed an ensemble – orchestra „Virtuosi from Facebook“. The musicians who took part in this venture were famous musicians from various countries and they are Friends of Facebook. Its first performances took place at the Liana Isakadze Festivals of „Friends of Facebook” and „Night Serenades” in August 2011 in Batumi (Georgia).
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19:00 | Concert dedicated to the 160th anniversary of the birth of S.Taneyev |
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 State Symphony Capella of Russia, Conductor Valeriy Polyanskiy will perform Symphony No 4 and "John of Damascus", Cantata for Chorus and Orchestra. Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856-1915) was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author. Taneyev studied composition with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and piano with Nikolay Rubinstein. In 1878 he interrupted his career as a pianist to succeed Tchaikovsky as professor of harmony (and later piano and composition) at the Moscow Conservatory, where he was director from 1885 to 1889. In 1905 he resigned in protest at measures against the threatened revolution and resumed his career as pianist and composer. In 1909, after 20 years of work, he completed his two-volume study of counterpoint in the strict style. His works include the opera Oresteia (1895), four numbered symphonies, six numbered string quartets and other chamber works, and a setting for chorus and orchestra of Aleksey Khomyakov's "At the Reading of a Psalm" (1915). Taneyev was a close friend of Tchaikovsky, some of whose works he completed. He regarded counterpoint as a branch of mathematics and admired the Renaissance composers Jean d'Ockeghem and Josquin des Prez, Orlando di Lasso, and Palestrina. Taneyev was a great teacher, a popular eccentric, an intimate of the Tolstoy family, and an early member of the Bolshevik party. Valeri Polyanskiy was born in 1949 in Moscow. After completing the musical college Polyansky enters the Moscow Conservatoire, starting his studies with professor B.I.Kulikov (choral conducting). At this time Polyanky’s interests went far beyond his basic specialty: he was attracted first of all by that special powerful musical synthesis, which appears while merging choir with orchestra. Polyansky attends simultaneously two different faculties: besides taking choral conducting he attends symphonic conducting (his teacher here was the well-known musician O.Dimitriadi).
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 The Prodigy are a Braintree, Essex, UK, electronic music group (aka Prodigy), formed by Liam Howlett (composition, keyboards), in 1990. They have sold over 20 million records worldwide, which is almost unequalled in dance music history. Their music consists of various styles ranging from rave and breakbeat hardcore in the early 90s to alternative rock and big beat, with punk vocal elements in later times. The Prodigy first emerged on the underground rave scene in the early 1990, releasing their début LP Experience (1992) and have since then achieved immense popularity and worldwide renown. Some of their most popular songs include "Charly", "Out of Space", "No Good (Start the Dance)", "Voodoo People", "Firestarter", "Breathe" and "Smack My Bitch Up". Following the relative commercial and critical failure of 2004's Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned the band released a greatest hits Their Law: The Singles 1990-2005 before 2009's return to form Invaders Must Die. Early in 2015 the group announced its sixth studio album, The Day Is My Enemy. Preceded by the single "Nasty," the album featured guest appearances from Sleaford Mods and Flux Pavilion. Read more
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