Thursday 24 July will see Valery Gergiev return once more to the annual series of BBC Proms concerts held at the Royal Albert Hall.
The evening features Valery Gergiev conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, of which the maestro was invited to become Principal Conductor in 2004 following a triumphant performance of a series of all of Sergei Prokofiev’s symphonies to commemorate one century since the illustrious British orchestra was formed. The programme for the first half of the evening includes Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No 1 in D Minor. The soloist will be internationally renowned British pianist Barry Douglas, one of the most respected interpreters of the composer’s music whose acclaim began with his victory at the VIII International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1986.
The second half of the evening features Leoš Janáček’s famous Glagolitic Mass, which is unique for the use of church Slavonic instead of Latin (it is thus also known as the “Slavonic Mass”). The work, which is filled with light and rejoicing at Nature and the greatness of Man (Janáček said that the walls of his cathedral were gigantic mountains, cupolas were the heavens, candles were tall silver firs over which stars shine, the carpeting was the green meadows and the scent of incense was the scent of the forest), will be performed by soloists of the Mariinsky Opera Mlada Khudoley, Yulia Matochkina, Mikhail Vekua and Yuri Vorobiev.
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