The programme includes works by
Johann Sebastian Bach,
François Couperin,
Julius Reubke,
Modest Musorgsky,
Philippe Sauvage and
Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély.
Performed by Philippe Sauvage, Oleg Kinyaev and Rubin Abdullin
For the start of the new season, an organ has been installed at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, and is to be played in public for the first time at today's concert.
Work to install the organ was carried out by the French company Daniel Kern (Strasbourg). The company was founded in 1953 by Daniel Kern's father Alfred Kern with the direct support and involvement of Nobel Prize for Peace recipient Dr Albert Schweitzer. Since the company was founded, it has restored many historic French and German instruments – mounting to over one hundred restored and newly built organs. The unique skills of the Daniel Kern craftsmen lie in their combination of the experience and traditions of German and French organ construction, dating back several centuries. For over one century, in Russia no new French organs have been installed, remarkable for their unique construction and the character of their sound.
