On Sunday 14 September the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev will be performing in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). The concert programme includes Danza ritual del fuego from Manuel de Falla’s ballet El amor brujo, the Symphonic Fantasy on themes from Richard Strauss’ opera Die Frau ohne Schatten, three highlights from Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck (with soloist Angela Denoke), Anatoly Lyadov’s symphonic tableau From the Apocalypse and Dmitry Shostakovich’s Twelfth Symphony (The Year of 1917).
The concert will take place as part of the XIX Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Music Festival. This year the festival runs from 12 to 14 September and commemorates one century since the start of the First World War. In accordance with the commemorative dedication, each of the three days of the festival has its own thematic heading: The Western Front (12 September), The Eastern Front (13 September) and Revolution (14 September). Aside from his appearance with the Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev will be conducting two concerts with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; these concerts are to feature works by Edward Elgar, Maurice Ravel, Béla Bartók, Sergei Prokofiev, Leoš Janáček and Nikolai Myaskovsky which were composed either shortly before the outbreak of or during WW I.
From 1995 to 2008 Valery Gergiev was Principal Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 1996 – together with the ensemble – he founded the Rotterdam Music Festival.
For the festival’s official site please go to: www.gergievfestival.nl.
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