| In November the Mariinsky Orchestra will be performing ten concerts at cities throughout Japan under the baton of Valery Gergiev. | |||||
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The concert programmes have been planned largely around the music of the Russian composers Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Dmitry Shostakovich. The first concert will take place at the Kenritsu Sogo Bunka Center in Oita and will feature Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto with Denis Matsuev, Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony and Lyadov’s Kikimora. Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto will also feature at a concert at the Prefectural Theatre in Kumamoto on 9 November where there will additionally be performances of Shchedrin’s Mischievous Folk Ditties and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. Almost the same programme will be performed at a concert on 10 November at the Asahi Symphony Hall in Osaka featuring works by Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich as well as Messiaen’s L’Ascension. At Harmony Hall in Fukui the Mariinsky Orchestra will be performing Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony and Hector Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique on 11 November. On 12 November at Suntory Hall in Tokyo the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Chorus of Japan and soprano Natalie Dessay will be giving a concert performance of Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor. The role of Lucia is one of the singer’s finest. In 2011 together with the Mariinsky Orchestra and maestro Gergiev, Dessay recorded Lucia di Lammermoor on the Mariinsky label. Almost immediately the disc was named “Disc of the Week” by Britain’s The Daily Telegraph. On 13 November at the Aichi Prefectual Arts Theatre in Nagoya there will be a performance of Lyadov’s Kikimora, Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and Sibelius’ Violin Concerto. Leonidas Kavakos will be performing the solo. On 14 and 15 November the Mariinsky Orchestra will return to Tokyo for two performances at NHK Hall and Suntory Hall. The programmes include works by Lyadov, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Messiaen and Sibelius. Brahms’ Second Symphony, Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique and Grieg’s suite From Holberg’s Time will be performed on 16 November at the Kitara Concert Hall in Sapporo. These same works will also feature in the final concert by the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev on 18 November in Tokorozawa. | ||||
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