On 10 February Valery Gergiev commences a series of concerts with the Wiener Philharmoniker. Gergiev will be conducting this famous ensemble for the first time in three years. On the first day of the tour at the Gasteig Cultural Centre in Munich and later, on 12 February at the Théâtre des Champs Élysées in Paris, there will be performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Ninth Piano Concerto and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Manfred symphony. The solo will be performed by Chinese pianist Yuja Wang.
From 20 to 22 February there will be performances at the Musikverein in Vienna. The programmes of the first two concerts include the introduction to the opera Khovanshchina by Modest Musorgsky orchestrated by Dmitry Shostakovich, Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth’s work Masaot/Clocks without Hands, which is dedicated to the Wiener Philharmoniker and was first performed by that ensemble in 2015, as well as highlights from Richard Wagner’s opera Götterdämmerung. The vocal role will be performed by American singer Heidi Melton, this appearance marking her debut with the Wiener Philharmoniker. The concert on 22 February will feature a performance of the overture to Richard Wagner’s opera Der Fliegende Holländer, Claude Debussy’s La Mer and Modest Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. The same programme will be performed on 23 February at the Palace of Arts in Budapest.
The tour will continue in the USA, where the orchestra and the maestro will appear three times at Carnegie Hall in New York (26 – 28 February). The first evening will again feature the overture to Wagner’s opera Der Fliegende Holländer, Debussy’s La Mer and Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition orchestrated by Ravel. On the second evening the ensemble will repeat a programme of works from the European concerts (the composition by Olga Neuwirth being performed in the USA for the first time). At the matinee concert on 28 February the orchestra will perform highlights from Wagner’s opera Parsifal and Tchaikovsky’s Manfred symphony.
On 1 and 2 March the Wiener Philharmoniker will perform in Naples (Florida) for the first time in its history. The first day will see repeat performances of the overture to Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer, Debussy’s La Mer and Musorgsky-Ravel’s Pictures at an Exhibition while on the second there will be highlights from Wagner’s opera Parsifal and Tchaikovsky’s Manfred symphony.
Following several performances with the Mariinsky Orchestra in Mexico, Valery Gergiev will give a further three concerts with the Wiener Philharmoniker in Columbia and Brazil (5, 8 and 9 March).
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