Ocntober 13, 2024 | Zaryadye Concert Hall
Soloist – Daniil Kogan, violin
Conductor – Ivan Nikiforchin
Taneyev. Concert Suite for violin and orchestra in G minor, Op. 28
Gavrilin. “House on the Road”, symphonic suite No.7
2024 is marked by the 85th anniversary of composer Valery Gavrilin (1939–1999) and by 40 years since the TV premiere of his ballet “House on the Road” based on Alexander Tvardovsky's poem of the same name. Vladimir Vasilyev made the choreography of the TV production and also played the protagonist. The ballet film tells the story of a countryman who left his village at the beginning of the war with the aim to defend his home and family who in the meantime got Nazis' hostages. This tragic work is both a cry for all perished defendants of the country and an ode to the heroism and bravery of Russian people.
The “House on the Road” was the second production by Gavrilin with librettist Alexander Belinsky after the “Anyuta” ballet (later they made the not less popular ballet film “Balzaminov's Marriage”). Valery Gavrilin worked in various genres, including operas, ballets, vocal cycles, film soundtracks, chamber and choral music. He wrote several orchestral miniatures and suites, e.g. Suites No.6 and No.7, which are compiled of the music to the “Anyuta” and “House on the Road” ballets. The second of them will be the climax of the program of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia under the baton of Ivan Nikiforchin.
Ivan Nikiforchin – once a student and now a teacher at the Moscow State Conservatory and the assistant to Valery Polyansky (the conductor of the State Capella of Russia), award winner of the first edition of the S.V. Rachmaninoff Competition of pianists, composers and conductors (Second Award and Silver Medal in 2022), twice awardee of the Pure Sound Competition, founder and artistic director of the Academy of Russian Music which combines a chamber orchestra and a choir. Since 2024 /2025, Ivan Nikiforchin is leading the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra. With the NPR the conductor debuted successfully in February 2023.
Part 1 will feature the Concert Suite for Violin and Orchestra, which is Sergei Taneyev's only work in the concerto genre. It was written in 1909 in close collaboration with violinist Boris Sibor, a former pupil of Leopold Auer and professor of the Moscow Conservatory, who also participated in the People's Conservatory project initiated by Taneyev for giving 'general musical education' to all those who wished it. Taneyev dedicated the Concert Suite to Auer though wrote it for Sibor. In the work Taneyev evoked styles and models of the past: Praeludium sends us to the German Baroque and Bach's works, Gavotte – to the early French Classicism, Tarantella – to the Italian Art, while Fairy Tale and Theme and Variations – to the typical spheres of Russian music.
The soloist will be violinist Daniil Kogan, award winner of international contests such as the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in Paris, the A.I.Yampolsky and the P.I.Tchaikovsky Competitions in Russia. He studied and now teaches at the Moscow Conservatory, and is the artistic director of the Prityazhenie artistic association. It will be his first appearance with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia.