From 1 to 3 October the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev will be performing in Austria and Switzerland. The tour opens at the Brucknerhaus in Linz in Austria, which will host a performance of Shchedrin’s Fourth Piano Concerto and Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony. The solo in the Shchedrin concerto will be performed by Sergei Redkin, recipient of the 3rd prize at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition.
The Mariinsky Orchestra will present its next programme at the Abbey of St Florian near Linz. Bruckner’s life was connected with this monastery; he was born in the neighbouring village of Ansfelden and sang in the abbey’s choir as a boy, later serving as the parish organist. Following the composer’s death his remains were interred in the monastery’s church, his body in a sarcophagus beneath the organ. This is the reason that every performance by the Mariinsky Orchestra here is linked with the music of Bruckner’s artistic legacy. In May this year there was a performance of the Seventh Symphony while now the programme will include the Fourth, commonly known as Die Romantische.
The tour closes in Lugano in Switzerland, where the Mariinsky Orchestra will be appearing at the LAC Sala with a programme featuring the overture from Verdi’s opera La forza del destino, Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, the introduction to Wagner’s opera Lohengrin and Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
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