On 23 July Valery Gergiev, Denis Matsuev and Daniil Trifonov will be performing with the orchestra of the internationally acclaimed Swiss festival
This major festival of classical music, held each year in the very heart of the Swiss Alps, always eagerly anticipates the arrival of guests from the Mariinsky Theatre. Two years ago the finest opera singers under the baton of maestro Gergiev commemorated the Year of Verdi and Wagner at the festival with performances of the operas Otello (featuring Anna Netrebko, Alexei Markov, Aleksandrs Antonenko and Francesco Demuro) and Die Walküre (featuring Bryn Terfel, Eva-Maria Westbroek and Iréne Theorin).
This time Valery Gergiev and two internationally acclaimed Russian pianists – Denis Matsuev and Daniil Trifonov – will be presenting a programme of works by Mozart, Ravel and Pyotr Tchaikovsky, whose anniversary is being celebrated this year.
As part of the symphony concert, maestro Gergiev will conduct the Verbier Festival Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Pathétique Symphony and Ravel’s Boléro, thus paying tribute to Maya Plisetskaya, the great Russian ballerina and friend of the Mariinsky Theatre who died in May this year.
The main intrigue of the evening will be a performance of Mozart’s Triple Piano Concerto, in which Valery Gergiev will be appearing not just as a conductor but also as a piano soloist together with his colleagues Denis Matsuev and Daniil Trifonov.
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