From 10 to 15 December the Italian capital will be hosting a major festival of music by Sergei Prokofiev, organised by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (a State-sponsored complex of concert organisations, arts education institutions, museums and libraries in Rome) and maestro Gergiev, an untiring promoter of Prokofiev’s musical legacy. During the festival Valery Gergiev will present six concerts with the Mariinsky Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Prior to that, on 9 December, maestro Gergiev will conduct the Mariinsky Orchestra in Turin, where there will be a performance of masterpieces of Russian symphony music including Modest Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition orchestrated by Maurice Ravel and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony (Pathétique).
Over three evenings (10, 11 and 12 December) at the grand concert hall of the Auditorium Parco della Musica, a focal point for classical music in Rome, the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev will be performing a series of every symphony by Sergei Prokofiev as well as his Second Violin Concerto (soloist – Leonidas Kavakos). Also, on 13, 14 and 15 December as part of the festival maestro Gergiev will conduct three concerts by the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, each of which will feature a performance of three works by Prokofiev – Russian Overture for Symphony Orchestra, Violin Concerto No 1 (soloist – Leonidas Kavakos) and the oratorio Ivan the Terrible (together with the chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and soloists Yulia Matochkina and Roman Burdenko).
The festival in Rome adds to the series of projects by Valery Gergiev and Mariinsky Theatre performers dedicated to the works of Sergei Prokofiev. It is well-known that maestro Gergiev is today the most acclaimed interpreter of Prokofiev’s music; with the Mariinsky Theatre as well as international companies on numerous occasions he has conducted all of Prokofiev’s operas, symphonies, instrumental concerti, cantatas and most famous ballets. Many of Valery Gergiev’s interpretations of Prokofiev’s music have been released on CD or DVD (these recordings have received prestigious Russian and international awards), and several works were performed by him for the first time. In just the last few months maestro Gergiev conducted the great 20th century Russian composer’s music in Stockholm, Vienna, Dortmund and Cardiff, while last week a cycle of seven symphonies and five piano concerti by Prokofiev was performed in Beijing.
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