23.02.2018

Valery Gergiev’s 360 Degrees Festival to be Held in Munich from 22 February to 25 February

Munich will host Valery Gergiev’s 360 Degrees festival for the third time, from February 22 to February 25. This year’s festival is dedicated to Igor Stravinsky.

The festival will open at the Philharmonie im Gasteig on 22 February. The Munich Philharmonic under the baton of Valery Gergiev will perform Symphonies of Wind Instruments and the music from Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Pétrouchka, as well as Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with a solo from Hélène Grimaud.

The festival’s playbill for 23 February and 24 February features A Date with Stravinsky concert programmes. The 23 February event will take place at the festival’s new venue, Muffathalle of the Muffatwerk cultural hub, located in a former Munich power plant. The pianists Zarina Shimanskaya, Pavel Raikerus, Alexander Mogilevsky, Lucas and Arthur Jussen will perform piano sonatas, Ragtime, music from Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird, Sacre du printemps and Pétrouchka (arranged for piano). The evening will conclude with a performance of Igor Stravinsky’s Concerto in D for Strings and Astor Piazzolla's Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas by the Munich Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and the Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble. The performance will be conducted by Valery Gergiev.

The 24 February programme is particularly diverse. A matinee (2.30 and 4.30 pm) performance of the music from Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird by the Munich Philharmonic and the ODEON-Jugendsinfonieorchester under the baton of Valery Gergiev will take place at the Philharmonie im Gasteig. German actor and TV presenter Malte Arkona will serve as an MC.

The Munich Philharmonic under the baton of Valery Gergiev will once again perform Igor Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments and Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 (with a solo from Hélène Grimaud) at 7 pm. As for the second part of the programme, a ballet will be presented for the first time at the 360 Degrees festival. The Mariinsky Ballet performers will present the 2017/18 season premiere – Igor Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka choreographed by Vladimir Varnava. The main roles will be performed by Vladimir Shklyarov (Pétrouchka), David Zaleyev (Pétrouchka’s Death), Zlata Yalinich (the Diva), Yuri Smekalov (the Strongman). The same programme will be presented the following day at an afternoon performance (11 am).

To conclude the day, the second A Date with Stravinsky night will take place at Muffathalle (starts at 9.30 pm). The night will see the performances of vocal music for soprano and piano (Pastoral, Three Japanese Poems, Two Poems by K. Balmont, Two Poems by Paul Verlaine), Suite italienne for violin and piano from the Pulcinella ballet, Igor Stravinsky’s Concerto in D for Strings, as well as L'estate from Antonio Vivaldi's Le quattro stagioni and Astor Piazzolla's Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas. The solos are to be performed by Kristóf Baráti and Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici (violin), Alexander Mogilevsky and Zarina Shimanskaya (piano), Pelageya Kurennaya (soprano). Conductor: Valery Gergiev.

The festival’s closing performance will take place at Philharmonie im Gasteig on 25 February. The Munich Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and the Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble, as a single orchestra, will perform Antonio Vivaldi's Le quattro stagion, Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen, Igor Stravinsky’s Concerto in D for Strings and Violin Concerto under the baton of Valery Gergiev and with a solo by Kristóf Baráti.

After the festival, on 26 February, Valery Gergiev will give one more concert with the Munich Philharmonic at the orchestra’s home venue. Once again, Igor Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments and the music from Pétrouchka will be performed, as well as Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with Hélène Grimaud as the soloist.

Moreover, on 21 February it was announced that Valery Gergiev’s contract with the Munich Philharmonic had been renewed until 2025. The maestro has been the artistic director and principal conductor of the German orchestra since 2015/16 season. Valery Gergiev’s annual 360 Degrees festival was organised in 2015 as part of the collaboration between the maestro and the orchestra.

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