On his birthday on 2 May, Valery Gergiev will give two performances at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire with the Mariinsky Orchestra. The matinee begins at 15.00. The programme includes Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto. The soloist will be Kristóf Baráti (violin).
The evening concert (19.00) will feature the outstanding Brazilian pianisl Nelson Freire. The programme includes Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4 and Anton Bruckner's rarely performed Eighth Symphony, composed exactly one hundred and thirty years ago. Both concerts form part of the XVI Moscow Easter Festival.
The festival opened on 16 April at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire with a concert by the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev. Immediately after the concerts in Moscow, the musicians departed for Kazan, where the next day they gave two performances at the State Bolshoi Saidashev Concert Hall. Over two weeks of the festival there have been concerts in nineteen Russian towns and cities – Moscow, Kazan, Almetievsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Orienburg, Magnitogorsk, Yekaterinburg, Surgut, Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Tomsk, Strezhevoi, Omsk, Perm, Ulyanovsk, Saransk, Nizhny Novgorod and Vladimir.
Following the Moscow concerts on 1 and 2 May, the special train of the Moscow Easter Festival will depart for the south of Russia: concerts by the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev will take place in Tula, Kursk, Novocherkassk, Vladikavkaz, Stavropol and Voronezh. In line with tradition, the festival ends in Moscow: on Victory Day on 9 May there will be an open-to-all concert by the Mariinsky Theatre on Poklonnaya Hill, and in the evening at the Great Hall of the Conservatoire there will be a grand concert to close the XVI Moscow Easter Festival.
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