From 21 to 29 January Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will be performing on tour in cities in Spain, and on 30 and 31 January they will be in Budapest (Hungary) and Belbrade (Serbia).
On 21 January the tour opens with a performance at the Palau de la Musica José Iturbi in Valencia. The programme includes Olivier Messiaen's four symphonic meditations L'Ascension, Dmitry Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No 27. The soloist will be Varvara Nepomnyashchaya (piano).
On 23 January at the Euskalduna Concert Hall (Bilbao) there will be a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem under Valery Gergiev with soloists Tatiana Serjan (soprano), Olga Borodina (mezzo-soprano), Otar Jorjikia (tenor), Vladimir Feliauer (bass), the Orfeón Pamplonés chorus and the Mariinsky Orchestra.
On 24 January the Mariinsky Orchestra under will appear at the BALUARTE Palacio de Congresos y Auditorio de Navarra (Pamplona). There there will be a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Violin Concerto No 3 and Pablo de Sarasate's Introduction et Tarantelle featuring American violinist and prize-winner at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition Eric Silberger, as well as Symphony No 2 by Gustav Mahler with soloists Irina Churilova (soprano) and Yulia Matochkina (mezzo-soprano) and the Orfeón Pamplonés chorus.
On 26 January the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev will appear in the Spanish capital. At the Auditorio Nacional de Música there will be a programme of works by Russian composers: the suite from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini and Symphonic Dances and Anatoly Lyadov's The Enchanted Lake. The soloist will be Sergei Redkin (piano), prize-winner at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition.
Then the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev will give three performances at the L'Auditori concert hall (Barcelona). On 27 January the programme includes the introduction to the opera Lohengrin and Act III of the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No 1 (soloist – George Li, prize-winner at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition) and the final scene of Richard Strauss' opera Salome. The vocal roles will be performed by Eva-Maria Westbroek (soprano), Yulia Matochkina (mezzo-soprano), Mikhail Vekua (tenor), Dmitry Voropaev (tenor), Alexander Nikitin (baritone), Yevgeny Nikitin (bass-baritone) and Yuri Vorobiev (bass). On 28 and 29 January the Mariinsky Orchestra and the Orquesta Nacional de Cataluña will come together under Valery Gergiev to perform Dmitry Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
The final concert of the Spanish tour will take place on 29 January at the concert hall of the Palau de Congressos in Girona. The concert programme will be a repeat of the performance in Madrid. The solo in Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini will be performed by Sergei Redkin.
After the Spanish tour the Mariinsky Orchestra will depart for Hungary, where on 30 January it will present a concert at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall (Palace of Arts, Budapest), and then to Serbia, where on 31 January it will appear at the Sava Centar Concert Hall (Belgrade).
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