Tchaikovsky’s Music Night with Vladimir Spivakov

March 5, 2021 | Zaryadye Great Hall
Soloist – Sergei Dogadin, violin
Conductor – Vladimir Spivakov
Tchaikovsky. Concerto for violin and orchestra in D Major, Op. 35
Tchaikovsky. Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 48

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The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia and Vladimir Spivakov will give a monographic concert at the Zaryadye Hall featuring seminal masterpieces by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the composer whose music was to the maestro “the first genuine revelation”, by his own words, becoming later the most important constituent of his repertoire. The night will start with the Violin Concerto dedicated to Adolph Brodsky and end with the Serenade for Strings in the Mozart style.

Sergei Dogadin, whose luminous performance of the Violin Concerto in 2019 made him the winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, was invited to play the solo part in the Violin Concerto. “Tchaikovsky's Concerto runs like a golden thread through my life,” says the musician. - As I have been playing it for almost 20 years, the overall number of my performances of the work should not frighten anyone - I have played it three hundred times. Brilliant music! Each time I play it, I search for new details.” The press hears in Dogadin's playing “a magnificent noble sound: both on meaty low notes and on transparent high ones, in virtuoso passages and ardent recitatives of the violin.”

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto was inspired by the Spanish Symphony for violin and orchestra (Symphonie espagnole) by French composer Édouard Lalo. The Concerto was premiered in 1881 in Vienna, where the Philharmonic Concert Orchestra of the Society of Friends of Music was conducted by Hans Richter and young talented violinist Adolph Brodsky was the soloist. The Serenade for Strings, first performed on November 21, 1880, at the Moscow Conservatory, was written, along with the Mozartiana (Suite No. 4), at the time of the composer's passion for stylization. “In the first movement I paid tribute to my veneration of Mozart, - wrote Tchaikovsky. - This is an intentional imitation of his manner, and I would be happy if I was not too far from the model.”

 

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