On 10 September Valery Gergiev will be conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra at the De Doelen concert hall.
The festival is being run for the twentieth time this year; it was founded in 1995 when Valery Gergiev became head of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. In line with tradition, music events are centred around a specific theme or a certain composer’s personality. This year there is an abundance of works by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Over three days of the festival (10 – 12 September) there will be performances of all of his symphonies, piano concerti, Symphonic Dances, Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini and works for vocals and piano. There will also be a world premiere of Vladimir Tarnopolsky’s opus Tabula Russia, a work composed “upon reading Rachmaninoff”, specially commissioned by Gergiev for the festival.
The first concert, which the organisers have titled The Beginning and the End, features the First Symphony (1895) and Symphonic Dances (1941) – works that frame the artistic career of Rachmaninoff as a symphonist. The festival will see performances by the pianists Alexei Volodin, Behzod Abduraimov, Sergei Babayan, Alexander Gavrilyuk and Dmitry Masleyev. There will be a recital by Mikhail Petrenko (bass). Other guests include the Moscow ensemble of early Russian church music Sirine (directed by Andrei Kotov), whose performance will give European audiences an idea of the famous and folkloric sources of Rachmaninoff’s music.
Valery Gergiev will be at the conductor’s stand on all three days.
For details about the festival programme please go to the official events website: http://www.gergievfestival.nl.
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