25 August sees the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev perform in Stockholm at the Baltic Sea Festival. At the Berwaldhallen there will be a veritable marathon of works by Sergei Prokofiev; in the course of just one evening all five of his piano concerti will be performed. The soloists are to be musicians who regularly work with the Mariinsky Orchestra and maestro Gergiev – Olli Mustonen (First and Fifth Concerti), Alexei Volodin (Second and Fourth Concerti) and Behzod Abduraimov (Third Concerto). At the previous festival, Mariinsky Theatre musicians presented a marathon of concerti by Rodion Shchedrin.
The Baltic Sea Festival, founded in 2003 on a joint initiative of maestro Gergiev, Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and Director of Stockholm’s Berwaldhallen concert hall Michael Tydén, is being held this summer for the twelfth time. In line with the organisers’ concept, the project’s cultural focus is combined with drawing attention to the state of the environment; the festival programme will see seminars, a symposium and various exhibitions dedicated to the ecology of the Baltic region. This year the Baltic Sea Festival runs from 22 to 30 August.
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