On 12 April Valery Gergiev will be conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra with Denis Matsuev and Olga Borodina at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire for the opening of the XIV Moscow Easter Festival.
This year the festival will be dedicated to two dates of tremendous importance in international history and world music history – seventy years since victory in World War II and one hundred and seventy-five years since the birth of the great Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
To mark one hundred and seventy-five years since the birth of Tchaikovsky, the playbill includes symphony music programmes – performances by the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev in Tchaikovsky’s home town of Votkinsk, as well as in Klin, where the composer spent the last years of his life and in other towns closely linked with Tchaikovsky’s life – Izhevsk, Moscow and St Petersburg.
The concerts by the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev to mark seventy years of victory in World War II will take place in the “hero-cities” of Moscow, Smolensk and Volgograd, in the military cities Belgorod, Voronezh and Kursk as well as in Samara, Orenburg, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen and Perm. The programme features “military symphonies” by Prokofiev and Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff’s late works and pieces by Medtner.
Alongside the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, the programme of the XIV Easter Festival will feature concerts by past winners – pianists Barry Douglas, Denis Matsuev and Boris Berezovsky, opera stars Albina Shagimuratova and Mikhail Kazakov and young but already acclaimed talents. The festival’s participants also include the rising international stars of the music scene Behzod Abduraimov, Pavel Milyukov and Andrei Baranov.
In line with tradition, the festival will see rich programmes of symphony, chamber, choral and bell-ringing music.
For details please go to: http://easterfestival.ru/
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