On 6 and 9 March Gergiev will be conducting the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in Berlin and Paris. The playbills for these performances include Richard Strauss’ famous symphonic poems Also Sprach Zarathustra and Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche as well as Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with Sol Gabetta performing the solo.
The concert in Berlin is of particular significance – it is dedicated to the memory of the famed conductor Lorin Maazel (1930–2014), who today would have been eighty-five years old. From 2011 maestro Maazel was the Music Director of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. In January 2013 the city authorities of Munich and the orchestra’s management made the unanimous decision to appoint Valery Gergiev as Maazel’s successor in the post starting in the 2015-2016 season. It should be noted that maestro Gergiev will be flying to Germany on that day specially to appear at this memorial concert on the only free day between performances of Wagner’s tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Mariinsky Theatre; yesterday and the day before he conducted Das Rheingold and Die Walküre while tomorrow and the day after he will be conducting the operas Siegfried and Götterdämmerung.
On 9 March, having completed Wagner’s cycle in St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev will once again perform with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra at the new Philharmonie de Paris which opened one and a half months ago. And on 10 March maestro Gergiev will set out for Moscow for a press-conference dedicated to the XIV Moscow Easter Festival.
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