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Great soloists @ White Nights in July
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Stars of the White Nights Festival is reaching its
highest artistic attitudes as it hosts many
of the greatest soloists
from all over the world here,
in St Petersburg. Nearly every night
in the beginning of July features a remarkable event at the Mariinsky
Concert Hall.
Pianists Alexei Volodin
and Christian Blackshaw perform
in recitals of a very specially
selected works by Western European
classics. Cellist David Geringas
built a program for his recital
based on a dialogue
of two composers: Frederic Chopin
and Robert Schumann. By the way,
this year the musical world celebrates
bicentenary of the both composers. One of the highest
standards in ensemble playing will be shown by the Soloists of the Berlin Philharmonic. Probably
the most unusual solo recital will be presented
by soprano Maria Guleghina. The program
of her recital was shaped
by the audience, i.e. by those who
visited our web-site
and selected 10 vocal works
from a wide range
of more than 50 arias
and romances that Maria Guleghina
proposed to be performed. The results
of this vote are now revealed
on our web-site.
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Photo — © Mariinsky Theatre/Valentin Baranovsky
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Recital, Mariinsky Concert Hall
David Geringas cello recital
Works by Chopin, Schumann
Piano: Ian Fountain
Sunday 4 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 700…1500 rub.
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Photo — © Petra Stadler (2006)
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Recital, Mariinsky Concert Hall
Maria Guleghina vocal recital
Works chosen by audience
Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
Conductor: Alberto Veronesi
Monday 5 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 1700…4000 rub.
— Read an interview with Maria Guleghina on our web-site
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Photo — © Volker Jacoby
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Concert, Mariinsky Concert Hall
Alexei Volodin piano recital
Works by Chopin
Tuesday 6 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 700…1500 rub.
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Concert, Mariinsky Concert Hall
Berlin Philharmonic Music
Works by Chopin, Schubert
Wednesday 7 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 1100…2000 rub.
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Photo — © Herbie Knott
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Recital, Mariinsky Concert Hall
Christian Blackshaw piano recital
Works by Schumann, Mozart
Friday 9 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 700…1500 rub.
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Great orchestras @ White Nights in July
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Evenings of symphonic music
by the finest orchestras
are specially selected in order
to naturally complement performances
of the finest soloists
at the Mariinsky Concert Hall.
Esa-Pekka Salonen, composer and conductor, and
also a friend of our theatre for years, will
conduct the Symphony Orchestra
of the Mariinsky Theatre
in a concert of works
by Richard Strauss
and Hector Berlioz. Metamorphosen
and Roméo et Juliette were both
performed by our orchestra this season
and therefore it must be
even more exciting to listen
to these works once again through the interpretation of another conductor. Maestro Salonen
carefully programs
his concers. For instance, Metamorphosen
was performed in a series
of his inaugural concerts
with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London,
whilst Roméo et Juliette reflects his artistic
ambition to perform a cycle of music
about love in a number
of important European musical venues next season.
The Baltic Youth Philharmonic is an orchestra
that was assembled just
a couple years ago
and it demonstrates
a great example of a cultural investment when
large and medium businesses work together
in order to develop the region,
the culture and to support
the most
gifted musicians. Young musicians,
led by their young colleague,
conductor Kristjan Järvi,
all together work on accomplishing
their music ideas, so that they
do not need to spend their time on solving
practical problems and they could focus on achieving
only the best artistic results.
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,
one of the most famous orchestras
in the world, comes to St Petersburg
to perform under Valery Gergiev. Last time the Orchestra
was in St Petersburg in 2003,
the year
of the city tercentenary,
also performing
at the Stars of the White Nights Festival. This year
performance is quite remarkable for the Vienna Philharmonic as they
will perform
at the Mariinsky Concert Hall
for the first time. The Orchestra
is well-known for being
rather demanding to the highest
acoustic standards, but we are certain they will enjoy
the environment and the acoustics of our Concert Hall.
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Photo — © Mariinsky Theatre/Leonid Veksler
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Concert, Mariinsky Concert Hall
Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
Works by Richard Strauss, Berlioz
Mariinsky Theatre Chorus
Soloists: Ekaterina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano), Dmitry Voropaev (tenor), Yevgeny Nikitin (bass)
Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
Saturday 3 July, 9:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 900…1500 rub.
— Read an interview with Esa-Pekka Salonen on our web-site
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Concert, Mariinsky Concert Hall
The Baltic Youth Philharmonic
Works by Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Pärt, Stravinsky
Soloist: Jan Vogler (cello)
Conductor: Kristjan Järvi
Thursday 8 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 700…1500 rub.
— The Baltic Youth Philharmonic official website
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Concert, Mariinsky Concert Hall
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Works by Beethoven, Nicolai, Tchaikovsky
Soloists: Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), Ildicó Raimondi (soprano)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Saturday 10 July, 7:00PM
Learn more | Tickets: 4000…6000 rub. (less than 20 tickets left)
— Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra official web-site
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On tour: Mikkeli Festival 2010
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Traditionally, in the beginning
of July, our orchestra
goes on tour
to the Finnish town
of Mikkeli, which runs an annual
music festival under the artistic leadership of Valery Gergiev. In some way, this
festival is a “companion” festival to the Stars of the White Nights, because often
both festivals share a set
of soloists who participate
in the concerts. However, the festival
in Mikkeli is built
in a different format: a series
of concerts of symphonic music
are presented for 5-6 nights and every year they include
a set of unusual works, which
are performed by our orchestra
exclusively for this festival. Often such performances become
interesting artistic discoveries for us, and the ideas
of the festival are continued in a range of unusual
projects of our theatre
in the long term. Mikkeli Festival
is a festival full of different artistic
highlights and its program is built
on a number of the most original thoughts.
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Anika Vavić
suite
Edward Grieg
Sergei Khachatryan
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
soprano
Denis Matsuyev
Igor Stravinsky
symphony
Valery Gergiev
Rodion Shchedrin
piano
Timur Martynov
concerto
Jean Sibelius
Igor Gruppman
trumpet
Kara Karayev
ballet
Miroslav Kultyshev
Gustav Mahler
violin
Vida Mikneviciute
Aram Khachaturyan
Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
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Mikkeli Music Festival official web-site
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— composers
— performers
— works
— instruments
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Enter our prize draw
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We regret to inform that no one
of 60 participants of our sixth e-quiz
last week answered all five questions correctly.
The correct answers are as follows:
1 — b,
2 — c (źal means sorrow, sadness, grief, and also as a mazurka genre: lyric mazurka),
3 — e,
4 — to remove a and e
(the performance on 29 December 1956 was starring
Askold Makarov, Olga Moiseyeva and Ninel Petrova),
5 — b and e.
You are welcome to take part in our
seventh e-quiz, the last one this season. Send us your answers to
the questions listed below by the end of Sunday 4 July and if you answer all five questions
correctly, your name will be put into our prize draw. To enter the
prize draw you need to send us your correct answers
either by e-mail to marketing@mariinsky.ru,
or by twitting a direct personal message to either of
our twitter-accounts mariinskyen
or mariinskyru
(please quote your name and e-mail address so that
we can contact you).
Questions of our seventh e-quiz are related to the
Scandinavian connections of the Mariinsky Theatre.
Three winners will be
selected randomly by a computer program from a list of
those who correctly answer all five questions of the e-quiz and send us
their answers by the end of Sunday 4 July. Winners and prizes will be announced in our next
e-newsletter. Best of luck!
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Question 1
Name the work
by Esa-Pekka Salonen
that was performed
in St Petersburg
by the Symphony Orchestra
of the Mariinsky Theatre,
the composer himself
conducting. Which year was it performed?
(a) Insomnia
(b) Mimo II for oboe and orchestra
(c) Wing on Wing for orchestra and two sopranos
(d) Mania for cello and orchestra
(e) Helix
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Question 2
Name the Scandinavian town where our Ballet Company performed
to the greatest public acclaim this season.
(a) Tampere, Finland
(b) Tromsø, Norway
(c) Odense, Denmark
(d) Göteborg, Sweden
(e) Lahti, Finland
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Question 3
Name
the work that was performed jointly
by the Chorus of Swedish Radio and the Symphony Orchestra
of the Mariinsky Theatre this season.
(a) Roméo et Juliette by Berlioz
(b) Ein Deutsches Requiem by Brahms
(c) Requiem by Verdi
(d) Requiem by Mozart
(e) Oedipus Rex by Stravinsky
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Question 4
Which
of these works were recorded
on music CDs
by the Symphony Orchestra
of the Mariinsky Theatre
under Valery Gergiev at the Martti Talvela Hall in Mikkeli?
(a) Shekherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov
(b) Fourth Piano Concerto by Prokofiev (soloist: Alexander Toradze)
(c) Fourth Symphony by Teneyev
(d) Violin Concerto by Myaskovsky (soloist: Vadim Repin)
(e) Fifteenth Symphony by Shostakovich
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Question 5
Which three
of the seven symphonies
by Sibelius were performed
at one of the Stars of the White Nights
Festivals by the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
under Paavo Järvi, the elder brother of Kristjan Järvi?
(a) First, Second and Fourth
(b) First, Second and Seventh
(c) Second, Fourth and Fifth
(d) Second, Fourth and Seventh
(e) Second, Sixth and Seventh
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