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19:00 | "Russian Winter" Arts Festival. The New Year with Yury Bashmet |
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 Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Conductor & soloist – Yury Bashmet (viola) and Viktor Kramer will perform New Year madness for orchestra, soloists and actor. Yuri Bashmet developed a highly successful international career as a violist, but then, like so many talented instrumentalists of his generation, branched out into conducting, even founding an orchestra. He has never abandoned the viola, managing to split his time in even portions between soloist and conductor, often appearing in both roles in the same concert. He has performed with the world's leading orchestras, including those in Moscow, Berlin, Paris, New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other locales. He has also collaborated as soloist and conductor with some of the most celebrated string players of his time, including Rostropovich, Stern, Kremer, Mutter, and Mintz, as well as with keyboard legends like Richter and Argerich. For all his talent, Bashmet has been surrounded by controversy in the latter half of his career, owing to last-minute cancellations and sudden changes in concert programs. Yet he remains arguably the leading violist of his time and a powerful champion of contemporary music: indeed, a spate of major composers wrote works for him, including Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Poul Ruders, John Taverner, and Mark-Anthony Turnage. Bashmet has made numerous recordings for a variety of mostly major labels, including Melodiya, DG, EMI, RCA, Sony, Onyx, and Toccata Classics. Bashmet took up conducting in 1985 and the following year founded the Moscow Soloists, a chamber orchestra that quickly developed a wide following. In 1992 he re-founded the ensemble when the original members decided to set their base of operations in France. In 1996 Bashmet became a professor of music at Moscow Conservatory, where he had taught since 1978.
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14:00 | Splashes of Champagne |
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 Irina Alyabyeva (lyric coloratura soprano), Victoria Nosovskaya (soprano), Pavel Bykov (baritone) and "The Seasons" chamber orchestra, Conductor Vladislav Bulakhov will perform popular melodies from musicals and operettas by Strauss, Lehar, Kalman, Offenbach and others. “The Seasons” Orchestra is one of the brightest orchestras among those which have appeared in Moscow at the mid-nineties. Such factors as astonishing unity of the collective which interprets the compositions from various musical epochs and styles with equally mastership, careful treatment to author’s musical niceties, the riches of sound’s palette give the Orchestra particular feature. In March, 1994 young and talented violinist Vladislav Bulakhov, the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music graduate, organized and headed new chamber orchestra. At the one of the opening performances in Great Hall of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory the Orchestra played Antonio Vivaldi' Violin Concerts which presented the name to young collective. At the same time this name has embodied orchestra' creative credo. Vladislav Bulakhov said: “The Seasons is wide conception as in life so in music. It implies the variety of impressions, themes, images, shapes; also life cycle’s stability and eternal renovation in endless course of time. It is so way out the sources and return to them”. Today “The Seasons” Chamber Orchestra consists of 20 graduates of Russia’s most prestigious musical academies and conservatoires. Each player strongly devoted to favourite vocation and could keep youthful enthusiasm and contagious energy.
MMDM Svetlanov Hall |
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19:00 | The Sylvester Concert. Vladimir Spivakov & Ildar Abdrazakov |
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 Soloist Ildar Abdrazakov,(bass) together with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Conductor Vladimir Spivakov. The annual New Year’s Concert presented by Vladimir Spivakov and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia at the Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow International Performing Arts Centre has become a good tradition for the musicians and their fans. The New Year’s Eve is a wonderful time and a great source of inspiration, thus Sylvester concerts by Vladimir Spivakov never do without a surprise. To share the entertainment of the festive event the Maestro invites major stars, including the soloists who are close partners and friends of the Orchestra, and whose performances always bring artistic satisfaction and great joy. After all, the joy, especially on the eve of the cherished holiday, is the best gift for all people. Ildar Abdrazakov has established himself as one of opera’s most sought-after basses. Since making his La Scala debut in 2001 at 25, the Russian singer has become a mainstay at leading houses worldwide, including New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and Munich’s Bavarian State Opera. His powerful yet refined voice coupled with his compelling stage presence have prompted critics to hail him as a “sensational bass…who has just about everything – imposing sound, beautiful legato, oodles of finesse” (The Independent). Also an active concert artist, he has performed at London’s BBC Proms and at New York’s Carnegie Hall, as well as with leading international orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony and Vienna Philharmonic. Abdrazakov was born in 1976 in the city of Ufa, then the capital of the Soviet republic of Bashkiria. His parents were both artists: his mother was a painter and his late father, a director. Abdrazakov began acting in his father’s stage and film productions at age four, and it was these early experiences that inspired him to pursue a career in the arts. Upon graduating from the Ufa State Institute of Arts, he joined the Bashkirian Opera and Ballet Theatre. In the late 1990s, he won a string of prestigious vocal competitions: the Moscow Grand Prix named after Irina Arkhipova, the Glinka International Vocal Competition, the Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition, and the International Obraztsova competition. His 2000 win at the Maria Callas International Television Competition in Parma thrust him into the international spotlight and led to his debut at La Scala the following year.
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