On its European tour The Mariinsky Orchestra with maestro Valery Gergiev will perform in towns throughout Austria, Switzerland and Germany.
At the Linz Spring festival founded by Herbert von Karajan, the orchestra will perform twice – in Brucknerhaus and in St. Florian Monastery near Linz.
This monastery is closely linked with the life of Anton Bruckner: he was born in the neighboring town of Ansfelden, sang in the monastery choir as boy, then he was the Parish organist there and was buried in a church within the monastery, too. The programme will include Anton Bruckner’s First and Seventh Symphonies, Romeo and Juliet (overture-fantasia by Tchaikovsky) and the Seventh Symphony by Prokofiev.
Then the tour will take the orchestra to Switzerland where the musicians will perform in St. Gallen, Lucerne, Zürich and Geneva. The programme will be focused on Russian masterpieces including the Piano Concerto No.2 by Tchaikovsky and Sheherazade op. 35 by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov (St. Gallen, May 18; Zürich, May 20), Piano Concerto No.1 by Rachmaninov and Fourth Symphony by Tchaikovsky (Lucerne, May 19; Geneve, May 21). Denis Matsuev will play as a soloist. All the concerts will also feature the piece «Core» for orchestra written in 2002 by Dieter Ammann, a contemporary Swiss composer.
The tour will end in Munich were Stravinsky’s works will be performed in Munich Philharmonic hall, including Symphony in Three Movements, music from Petrushka, Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (with Denis Matsuev as a soloist, May 22), Sympnony in C, music from The Rite of Spring, Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (soloist Daniil Trifonov, May 23). Music by Stravinsky is the focus of Gergiev’s Munich concerts this year. In December 2013 he conducted the composer’s works in concerts of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, and in July the concert programmes of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under Valery Gergiev will again feature Stravinsky’s music.
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