On 30 August Valery Gergiev will be conducting this famous British ensemble at the final concert of the annual Edinburgh International Festival of music and the dramatic arts (Great Britain). The programme of the evening includes powerful and innovative works by Bartók and Stravinsky, who created a revolution in 20th century music: the orchestral versions of the ballets Le Sacre du printemps and The Miraculous Mandarin as well as Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto with soloist Yefim Bronfman.
Maestro Gergiev is currently Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra – a post he was offered in 2004 following a triumphant performance of a series of Prokofiev’s symphonies. Over the past ten years Valery Gergiev has performed over three hundred concerts with the orchestra and taken part in a whole series of recordings on the LSO Live label. Maestro Gergiev’s latest projects with the ensemble include a series of programmes dedicated to the music of Shostakovich and other Russian composers that concluded on 17 May this year with a massive open-air concert on Trafalgar Square. The Edinburgh Festival, one of the greatest performing arts festivals in the world, takes place in the Scottish capital in August each year. Its programme includes concerts of symphony and chamber music, operas, plays and dance. The festival was established in 1947 following World War II with the intent of revitalising the arts. It is attended by artistic ensembles from around the globe and at this time of year Edinburgh receives over two million visitors. Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre first performed here in 1991 and have since regularly taken part in the festival, while in 2011 Gergiev was appointed the festival’s Honorary President. Last year, declared the Year of Russian and British Culture 2014, the Mariinsky Theatre under the baton of Valery Gergiev presented Berlioz’ monumental operatic duologue Les Troyens (production by Yannis Kokkos) in Edinburgh.
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