The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia and its artistic director and principal conductor will traditionally spend the beginning of June touring Russia in large regional centers where the maestro has organized editions of the Vladimir Spivakov Invites… Festival as a continuation of its Moscow presentation. On June 1-3 the project will have its first Novosibirsk edition where the NPR and the maestro will perform on the stage of the A.M. Katz State Concert Hall. Then the musicians will travel to Omsk for its 14th edition there in the Regional Philharmonic Hall (June 5-8).
The concerts will feature outstanding masterpieces of Russian and Western composers from Schubert and Bellini to Shostakovich and Prokofiev (see EVENTS): monumental symphonic canvases and poetic miniatures, complex works in concert genre and opera classics.
The NPR will share the stage with bright soloists such as People’s Artist of Russia Hibla Gerzmava, her younger colleagues – rising opera stars Polina Shabunina (The Bolshoi’s soloist) and Polina Sharovarova (a soloist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Theater and a guest star at the Mariinsky Theater), young pianist, the Moscow Conservatory’s student Vladimir Vishnevsky (the winner of the 2nd edition of the S.V.Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition, the Vladimir Krainev Foundation Moscow Competition and the Hibla Gerzmava International Competition of Singers and Accompanists), and virtuoso-trumpetist Kirill Soldatov (a former grant-holder of the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation, earlier the NPR’s first trumpet, winner of international competitions).
The apex of the Omsk Festival will be the musical-patriotic program «I Love You, Life!» dedicated to the memory of victims of Fascism and the War. The program got its name from the legendary song by Eduard Kolmanovsky based on the verse by Konstantin Vanshenkin, one of the symbols of the Soviet Era. Hibla Gerzmava will sing immortal melodies by Yan Frenkel, Alexandra Pakhmutova, Bulat Okudzhava, Veniamin Basner, David Tukhmanov — evidences of the war days and masterpieces written in peaceful times. The songs will be merged into the symphonic program of Russian classics (from Tchaikovsky to Sviridov) and superb examples of film scores, thus making a dramatic narrative. The program will also use a video sequence with excerpts from documentary chronicles of the Great Patriotic War.
The tour is part of the All-Russia Philharmonic Seasons program of the Moscow Philharmonia and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation with the support of the Novosibirsk Region Ministry of Culture and the Government of the Omsk Region.