Maestro Gergiev will present the programme Russian Masterworks in Philadelphia
On 12 and 13 February Valery Gergiev will be conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra – a symphony orchestra that makes up one of the five foremost American ensembles (the so-called “Big Five”). The maestro will present the programme Russian Masterworks at the Verizon concert hall – one of the world’s largest venues constructed in the early 21st century. The playbill for the concerts includes symphonic masterpieces by Igor Stravinsky (Symphony in C (1940)), Dmitry Shostakovich (Symphony No 9 (1945)) and Sergei Prokofiev (Symphony No 5 (1945)). The combination of these works in one programme is no chance occurrence – all three symphonies were written by the composers under impressions of events of World War II and they offer various views of these events.
On numerous occasions Valery Gergiev has spoken of how he considers it one of his most important missions to promote the music of Russian composers internationally. The maestro’s appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra will conclude a major tour of the USA in January and February 2015 during which Valery Gergiev has conducted ballets and the opera The Enchanted Wanderer at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Russian concerts with the Mariinsky Orchestra in nine American cities and the premiere of the one-act operas Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle at the Metropolitan Opera featuring lead soloists of the Mariinsky Opera in the lead roles.
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