Maestro Gergiev will be conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra in two concerts at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, an annual event since 1986 in the region of the same name in northern Germany which is one of the world’s greatest classical music forums. This year the festival runs from 5 July to 31 August. The festival was initiated by the German pianist and conductor Justus Frantz, whose intention was not only to organise a celebration of music for the people of Schleswig-Holstein but also to introduce foreign visitors at the festival to the beauty of this region of northern Germany. This is why festival events take place throughout the region, with concerts being held in castles, mansions, churches and even wharves, stables and airport terminals. In addition to concerts of classical music, audiences are offered literary and music programmes, jazz evenings and special events for children.
This year the Mariinsky and Valery Gergiev will be giving two performances at the festival – in Hamburg on 21 August and in Lübeck on 22 August. The concert programmes include Dmitry Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto and symphonies by Johannes Brahms – the Fourth (in Hamburg) and the Third (in Lübeck). On both evenings the soloist will be Argentinean cellist Sol Gabetta, whose performances form a focal point of this year’s Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (she is appearing in seventeen festival concerts).
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