On Sunday 17 May on one of the British capital’s central squares there will be a grandiose open-air concert of works by Dmitry Shostakovich. This concert forms the culmination of a series of programmes dedicated to the music of Shostakovich performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under maestro Gergiev.
Immediately after the conclusion of the XIV Moscow Easter Festival, unprecedented in its scale and the intensity of its events, Valery Gergiev departed for London to rehearse with the acclaimed British symphony orchestra, of which he was appointed Principal Conductor in 2004 following his triumphant performance of a series of Prokofiev’s symphonies. Over the past dozen years maestro Gergiev has conducted some three hundred orchestral concerts and featured in an entire series of recordings for the LSO Live label. On 12 May at the Barbican Hall, the London Symphony orchestra under Valery Gergiev performed works by Balakirev, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, while on 13 May he performed the First and Fifteenth Symphonies by Shostakovich at the Opera di Firenze.
This open-air concert on Trafalgar Square, a traditional venue for folk celebrations in the British capital, will take place on a specially constructed stage. The programme for the evening includes the First Symphony, the Festive Overture and highlights from the Jazz Suite and First Violin Concerto (solois – Nicola Benedetti) by Shostakovich. The monograph concerts with maestro Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra will continue into October this year at the Barbican and will be dedicated to Stravinsky and Bartók.
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