October 5, 2025 | Svetlanov Hall of te MIPAC
13th Edition of the Moscow Music Festival «Vladimir Spivakov Invites»
Opening Concert
Soloist — Vladimir Vishnevsky, piano
Conductor — Vladimir Spivakov
Grieg. «Peer Gynt» Suite, Op. 46/55
Grieg. Concerto for piano and orchestra in A minor, Op. 16
Lyadov. «The Enchanted Lake», Op. 62
Scriabin. «The Poem of Ecstasy», Op. 54
The Moscow music festival Vladimir Spivakov Invites will open traditionally in the Moscow International Performing Arts Center, which is the residence of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia. The maestro concocted first program of outstanding works by Edvard Grieg, Anatoly Lyadov and Alexander Scriabin. The NPR will be joined by a newcomer Vladimir Vishnevsky, young talented pianist and composer, student of the Moscow Conservatory, winner if the Rachmaninoff International Competition for pianists, conductors and composers, the Vladimir Krainev International Piano Competition, the Hibla Gerzmava International Competition for singers and pianists, and some other renowned contests in Russia and abroad.
Vladimir Vishnevsky will play Grieg’s Piano Concerto. The work is an exemplary specimen of the lyrical genre written after Concertos by Chopin and Schumann: a masterpiece speaking the language of Norwegian folk music and breezing the nature of the composer’s motherland. The concert will start with the not less popular opus by Grieg, namely, by the incidental music to Ibsen’s drama Peer Gynt, Vladimir Spivakov remarks that the music by the Norwegian classic blows away «with the amazing sincerity of painting the tiniest shades of human emotions» and «naturally penetrates into our souls as Bergen’s air», all filled «with the sense of sublime love for God’s world».
In Part 2, Vladimir Spivakov will present Alexander Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy in which the author strove for reaching «the supreme grandiosity in the sphere of utter subtlety», defining his opus as «a divine game», and The Enchanted Lake, a symphonic fable by Scriabin’s friend Anatoly Lyadov, a picturesque canvas by the great master of orchestral miniatures.