Tonight, on September 3rd, is The Night for Benjamin Ellin. The conductor and composer present in London his work “Miyabi” (violin concerto) together with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the violinist Mayuka Katsumura!
A glimpse of mutual understanding…
On November 11, 2015 Kalle Kuusava will conduct the Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra at the Sofia Gubaidulina International Contemporary Music Festival in Kazan. The announced programme:
Lutoslavsky: Cello concerto (with Henri Demarquette as the soloist)
Berg: Suite from “Lulu” opera
Dutilleux: Metaboles
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On August 31st, 2015 we can congratulate Mihhail Gerts on a new appointment as a Kapellmeister of the Theater Hagen. Bravo!
Magazine Classica,
September 2015
by Stéphane Friédérich
Inclassable
Baffling, staggering even, Evgeny Svetlanovs version defies classification. From the first notes, a sense of menacing doom, irremediable chilliness. The hardness of the orchestra, the live is excellent, is a powerful affirmation of the writing impulse. The hysterical dimension of the partition is revealed here like nowhere else. “We alternate between the most electrifying tension and the most fatalistic abandon” in an “Onslaught of violence brought on by a concertante trumpet solo”. We witness a titanic combat on which the orchestra seems to stake its very existence. A vital, irrepressible sense of urgency. The last two crescendos, separated by an immense silence, and the power of the ultimate, seemingly endless, chords “come together as a gesture in the face of an infinite horizon”. Yes, really, this is one of the greatest concerts in the history of music recordings.
You can listen to the “The Poem of Ecstasy” conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov in 1968 in London on the home page of the site.
On November 7, 2015 Samuel Burstin will make his debut in Russia and conduct the Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra at the Sofia Gubaidulina International Contemporary Music Festival in Kazan. The announced programme:
Shostakovich: Festive Ouverture, opus 96
Korngold: Violin Concerto with Laurent Korcia as the soloist
Bartok: Concerto for orchestra
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Today, on 17th of August, Andris Poga and his Latvian National Symphony Orchestra together with the pianist Evelyne Berezovsky give a concert at the piano festival “Les Pianos Folies” in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage in France.
Robert Trevino is back at La Roque d’Anthéron festival 2015 to put on a set of 6 concerts with the Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra from 2d to 10th of August. The great programmes will be presented: Ravel, Schumann, Mozart, Brahms & Beethoven.
Ticket reservations is on the website of the festival.
After two tremendous concerts given by Mihhail Gerts in June 2015 with the Orchestre National de Lille with whom he presented Bartok and Liszt piano concertos, he is invited again in Lille from 24 to 26th of February 2016 to conduct a splendid programme:
Cavana: Gennevilliers Symphony
Shostakovich: Concerto n°1 for piano, trumpet and orchestra (with Plamena Mangova et Cédric Dreger)
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathoustra
The Mariinsky Theatre invited Kalle Kuusava, the runner-up of the last year’s Competition, to conduct a new production: “The Maid of Pskov” by Rimsky-Korsakov. The premiere will take place on July 5th, 2015 during the “Stars of the White Nights” Music Festival.
Ticket reservation:
http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbill/2015/7/5/1_1900/
On 3rd, 4th and 5th of June 2015 Andris Poga stands in for Maestro David Zinman to conduct the Tonhalle-Orchestra Zurich.
