Barry Douglas, Valery Gergiev and musicians of the Mariinsky Orchestra performed in Votkinsk, Tchaikovsky’s home town.
On 16 April, the fifth day of the XIV Moscow Easter Festival, under the baton of Valery Gergiev the Mariinsky Orchestra performed at the Yubileiny House of Culture in Votkinsk, the town where Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born. There were performances of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and First Piano Concerto with piano soloist Barry Douglas, winner of the VIII International Tchaikovsky Competition (1986). After the concert Valery Gergiev, Barry Douglas and musicians of the Mariinsky Orchestra visited the house where Tchaikovsky was born which is today the composer’s House-Museum. The musicians then set out for Izhevsk, where at the Axion House of Culture they performed Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony and First Piano Concerto. From Izhevsk a special train set out for Perm, where there will be two concerts today.
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