On October 10 and 11, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov will be performing in the Urals largest cities, i.e. Chelyabinsk and Ekaterinburg. The collective will be hosted at the M.I. Glinka State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Chelyabinsk and in the Sverdlovsk State Academy Philharmonic Great Hall in Ekaterinburg.
The Urals audiences will be treated with one of the NPR's most exquisite and loved programs “A corner in France” played a week earlier in Moscow at the opening of the 12th edition of the “Vladimir Spivakov Invites...” Music Festival.Vladimir Spivakov describes the program as a travel to Paris, which will be possible thanks to music. ‘I am well acquainted with France and have been there many a time, also with concerts, and now I feel inclined to "bring" France into Russia. You will hear works by Ibert, Ravel. Fauré and the Carmen-Suite by Rodion Shchedrin, which had been danced by great Maya Plisetskaya… Ibert’s Paris Suite is compiled of very vivid sketches such as suburbs (faubourgs), the underground, the Île-de-France sea-liner, a restaurant in the Boulogne Forest, a Mosque and a mere street fest. Following Hemingway’s thought that Paris is a movable feast I would add that it is an eternal feast.’
The Ekaterinburg concert of Vladimir Spivakov and the NPR will complete the 7th Russian Symphony Forum, a federal scale music project started in 2010 and sponsored by the RF Ministry of Culture and by the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region. The NPR's concert within the Forum frames will go under the aegis of the Federal Program “All-Russia Philharmonic Seasons” of the RF Ministry of Culture and the Moscow Philharmonic Society.