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19:00 | Pictures at an Exhibition |
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Osipov Russian Folk Orchestra and singers conducted by Vladimir Andropov performs "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Mussorgsky to the 175th anniversary of the composer's birth. "Pictures at an Exhibition" is a suite in ten movements (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. The suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It has become further known through various orchestrations and arrangements produced by other musicians and composers, with Maurice Ravel's arrangement being the most recorded and performed. Mussorgsky based his musical material on drawings and watercolours by artist and architect Viktor Hartmann produced mostly during his travels abroad. Locales include Poland, France and Italy; the final movement depicts an architectural design for the capital city of Ukraine. Today most of the pictures from the Hartmann exhibit are lost, making it impossible to be sure in many cases which Hartmann works Mussorgsky had in mind.
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19:00 | Wagner, Liszt, Mahler |
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Performers: Moscow City Symphony - Russian Philharmonic, Honoured Artist of Russia Alexander Ghindin (piano). Dmitri Jurowski conducts. The program includes overture to opera The Master-Singers of Nuremberg by Wagner, Concerto # 1 for piano and orchestra by Liszt, Symphony # 7 by Mahler. Works by west-european composers-romanticists will be played in this concert. "Mind may be mistaken, feelings - never", that's why they considered music ideal kind of art. Virtuoso piano concerto by the greatest composer and pianist of the 19th century F. Liszt, Overture to The Master-Singers of Nuremberg by opera art reformer R. Wagner and Symphony # 7 by G. Mahler. Soloist Alexander Ghindin is generally recognized both by critics and music-lovers as one of the most talented and distinctive pianists of his age. "His execution fascinates by wonderful combination of feeling and mind. He creates the atmosphere of stunning intensity expressing fine and incomparable virtuosity" (Les Expressions, France). At the age of 17 the musician became a Prize-winner of the X International Tchaikovsky Competition, in 1999 he received the II prize of the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition in Brussels. In 2007 he won the Cleveland International Piano Competition (USA). Alexander Ghindin performs which the leading orchestras of the world at major venues: Averifiher Hall (New York), Kennedy Center (Washington), Suntory Hall, Sumida Triphony Hall (Japan), Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), Concertgebough (Amsterdam), Salle Gaveau, Theatre de Champs Elysees, Theatre du Chatelet (Paris), Gasteig (Munich), Rudolfium (Prague), Ricksallen (Stockholm), Theatre Olimpica (Rome), Opera House (Tel Aviv), at the halls of Warsaw, Saint Petersburg, and Moscow Philharmonic Societies. The pianist recorded 17 albums on such labels as Decca Records (England), Le Chantdu Monde (France), DML (Japan), Capriccio (Germany), Ondine (Finland), Rusian season (Russia), CD ACCORD (Poland).
MMDM Svetlanov Hall |
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