Vladimir Spivakov and the NPR have broken the cultural blockade

On December 2, 2024, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia directed by Vladimir Spivakov, People's Artist of the USSR and UNESCO Artist for Peace, gave the only concert in the Concert Hall of the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. This unprecedented event is of international impact. The first performance of the NPR in the Hungarian capital has become a kind of symbolic breakthrough, being the first tour of a leading Russian symphony orchestra to Europe in the period of complicated political situation and absence of inter-cultural communications. In the times when Russian collectives have lost all possibilities to appear in Europe and those foreign ones – in Russia, the NPR got and accepted a unique invitation from the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy. The tour concert was arranged with an active assistance of the RF Ministry of Culture and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Hungary.

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Tribute to Alfred Schnittke’s 90th Anniversary

November 24, 2024 | Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow International Performing Arts Center 
Subscription Series «The NPR and Maestro Vladimir Spivakov»
Concert for the 90th anniversary of the birth of Alfred Schnittke
Soloist – Timofey Vladimirov, piano
Conductor – Vladimir Spivakov
Schnittke. "Ritual" for orchestra, in memory of the victims of the 2nd World War, Op. 183
Concerto for piano and strings, Op. 136
“Sketches”, choreographic fantasia, Op. 186

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Three Nights with Tchaikovsky’s Music in Podmoskovye

This October, Vladimir Spivakov and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia will give several concerts in Podmoskovye towns – Ramenskoye (24.10), Krasnogorsk (26.10) and Sergiev Posad (27.10). The program (see Events) includes only masterworks by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. There will be performed excerpts from his ballets, the Nocturne for cello and orchestra (the author's orchestral arrangement of his piano piece from Op.19), the Polonaise from the opera “Eugene Onegin” and the Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra – a virtuoso piece which is the obligatory part of the final audition at the Tchaikovsky International Competition.

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