This coming weekend, 22 and 23 January, Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will be appearing at the “Zaryadye” concert hall in Moscow, presenting three programmes of symphony music. The concerts are to feature the pianists Boris Berezovsky and Denis Matsuev.
One of these concerts is included in the playbill of the Scriabin-Fest, organised by Boris Berezovsky to mark one and a half centuries since the composer’s birth. Two other programmes will serve as an expanded musical commentary on the first “congratulatory” part of the tour to Moscow: here there will be fin de siècle music which nourished the ears of Alexander Scriabin.
In the programme dedicated to the composer, maestro Gergiev has included Le Poème de l'extase, one of the repertoire works that is most indicative with regard to the composition style of Scriabin, the mystic and the philosopher, as he is often described. Also to be performed by Boris Berezovsky and the musicians from St Petersburg will be Piano Concerto in F Sharp Minor. This same programme additionally includes the orchestral prelude Reverie.
The following two appearances by the Mariinsky Orchestra at the “Zaryadye” hall (concerts of the eponymous festival delayed from autumn) offer a marvellous opportunity to hear the musical context of the turn of the 19th-20th centuries when Scriabin was producing his oeuvres. These are emblematic opuses of the era and, at the same time, majestic key works in the repertoire of Valery Gergiev’s orchestra: the introduction to Wagner’s Parsifal, Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben, Debussy’s symphonic sketches La Mer and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. Denis Matsuev will be performing the solo in Brahms’ grandiose Piano Concerto No 2, also included in the concert programme.
The concert schedule may be accessed on the “Zaryadye” website:
22 January, 15.00
Marking 150 Years since the Birth of Alexander Scriabin
22 January, 19.00
Wagner, Debussy, Strauss
23 January, 11.00
Mahler, Brahms
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