January 22, 2019 | The Moscow Performing Arts Centre, Svetlanov Hall
Soloists: Mikhail Voskresensky, piano
Alexander Ghindin, piano
Conductor – Mihhail Gerts (Estonia)
Mozart. Overture to the opera “Don Giovanni”
Mozart. Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in E flat major, KV 365 / 316a
Schubert. Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944
January 17, 2019 | Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
Subscription Series No. 33: Great Piano Concertos
Soloist – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano (France)
Conductor – Mihhail Gerts (Estonia)
R. Strauss. “Don Juan”, Symphonic Poem, Op. 20 (1889)
Bartok. Concerto No.3 for piano and orchestra in E Major, BB 127 (1945)
Dvořák. Concerto for piano and orchestra in G minor, Op. 33 (1876)
December 28, 2018 | Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow Performing Arts Center
Soloist – Dmitry Korchak, тенор
Conductor – Vladimir Spivakov
Bellini, Donizetti, Bizet, Massenet, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Gounod, Rossini, Puccini, Flotow
December 22, 2018 | Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
Subscription Series No.19: National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia
To Evgeny Svetlanov's 90th birth anniversary
Soloist – Alexander Ramm, cello
Conductor – Vladimir Spivakov
Tchaikovsky. “Romeo and Juliet”, Overture-Fantasy
Tchaikovsky. Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra, Op. 33
Lyadov. “The Enchanted Lake”
Scriabin. “The Poem of Extasy”, Op. 54
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December 16, 2018 | Svetlanov Hall of the MIPAC
To the 100th Birthday Anniversary of A. I. Solzhenitsyn
The Academic Grand Choir “Masters of Choral Singing”
Artistic Director and Chief Conductor - Lev Kontorovich
The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia
Soloist – Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano (USA)
Conductor – Vladimir Spivakov
Falik. “A Prayer for Russia” to the text by A. Solzhenitsyn
Beethoven. Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra in B-flat major, Op.19
Shostakovich. Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
Early in December the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia will give three concerts under the baton of its permanent artistic partner Ken-David Masur, the principal guest conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony.
The first musical encounter on December 5 will be part of the NPR's Philharmonic Subscription Series at the S.V. Rachmaninoff Concert Hall in Mitchurin Avenue and will include works by Austrian composers. The 9 December concert at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall is a tribute to Leonard Bernstein whose 100th Birthday Anniversary is widely celebrated in 2018. The Suite from his immortal "West-Side Story" will be played. On December 10 the programme will be repeated at the Zaryadye Concert Hall which will be the NPR's debut at this venue. Along with Bernistein's Suite there will be performed masterpieces by Poulenc and Scriabin (see below).
The concerts will also feature bright young pianists Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolayev (the winner of the A.N.Scriabin International Competition and an awardee of international competitions in the USA, Norway and Australia) and Timofei Vladimirov (the winner of the Vladimir Kraynev International Pianists Competition, an awardee of the Astana Piano Passion contest and others).
Das "Gipfeltreffen" wurde den Erwartungen mehr als gerecht
Mit der Russischen Nationalphilharmonie unter der Leitung ihres Chefdirigenten Vladimir Spivakov hatten die "MPDV-Classics" am Samstagabend erneut einen der renommierten Klangkörper weltweit nach Mosbach geholt. Der aus China stammende Starpianist Haiou Zhang komplettierte das musikalische "Gipfeltreffen" in der Alten Mälzerei. Mosbach.
Noch nie zuvor hat die Alte Mälzerei ein so großes Orchester beherbergt. Mit der Russischen Nationalphilharmonie unter der Leitung ihres Chefdirigenten Vladimir Spivakov hatten die "MPDV-Classics" in diesem Jahr erneut einen der renommierten Klangkörper weltweit nach Mosbach geholt. Ein durch und durch russischer Abend versprach es zu werden, mit der 5. Sinfonie von Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski (1840-1893) und seinem berühmten Klavierkonzert Nr.1 mit dem Ausnahmepianisten Haiou Zhang als Solisten, der bereits im vergangenen Jahr mit seinem phänomenalen Soloprogramm in der Mälzerei für Aufsehen gesorgt hatte.
“Have ye heard?..”
Vladimir Spivakov Interprets Eugene Onegin
The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov has released a recording of P.I.Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin under the ‘Spivakov Sound’ label.
“The lyricism of lyricisms”, that’s how Boris Asafiev, a renowned composer and musicologist, called Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, whereas an aficionado of the genre could say “The opera of operas”. The opera was written in the Romantic 19th century, the apogee of emotion and lyricism in the arts. The Romanticism ideas with their exploration of human feelings were central to Tchaikovsky. He wrote to Taneyev “I am looking for an intimate but powerful drama, based on the conflict of circumstances, such as I myself have experienced or witnessed, and which could move me to the core”. Almost by accident he found just what he needed in Pushkin's masterpiece.
From October 27 to November 22, 2018, Vladimir Spivakov and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia will tour Europe. The tour route, encompassing 24 concerts in different cities, runs through Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The Orchestra's performances will take place at such famous houses as the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Kölner Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, the deSingel in Antwerp, the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf and others (see Events).
Internationally renowned artists such as pianists Hayou Zhang, Nikolai Tokarev, Lucas Debargue, Ivan Bessonov (a winner of the Junior Eurovision), violinists Sergei Dogadin and Valery Sokolov, conductor Mihhail Gerts have been invited to take part in the concerts most of which will be conducted by Vladimir Spivakov.
The main event of the European tour is to be the performance of the NPR under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov in the famous Verdun Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Verdun) at the Saar Music Festival on November 11. The musical night, called the “Peace Concert” (Friedenskonzert), is dedicated to the centenary of the end of World War 1 and the signing of the Compiègne Armistice between the Allies and Germany. The concert will be attended by prominent European political figures and heads of states (the French authorities have already sent invitations to the Celebrations to 80 leaders). Notably, Vladimir Putin’s visit to Verdun is foreseen.
The concert program has a symbolic meaning: two famous Requiems, a “German” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a “French” by Camille Saint-Saëns, will be performed to emphasize the unity of the European Countries and to commemorate the millions of casualties of one of the largest armed conflicts in the history of mankind. In particular, the German and the French Armies lost about half a million people in the so-called “Verdun Meatgrinder”, one of the bloodiest operations of the First World War, so the place chosen to celebrate peace is essential.
The memorial concert will also feature the joined choir of the Radio Saarbrücken and the Saar Festival and a multinational quartet of soloists singing in the best European theatres: Sofia Fomina (soprano, Russia), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano, Germany), Ian Storey (tenor, United Kingdom) and Wolfgang Schöne (bass, Germany). The German-French ARTE Group will provide international broadcasting of the concert.
The Peace Concert is held under the auspices of French President Emmanuel Macron, President of the European Commission, Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker, Saar Minister-President Tobias Hans, German Federal Minister of Economics and Energy Peter Altmeier, the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, supported by Walloon Minister of Agriculture and Tourism René Kollen.
The young conductor Anton Torbeev, who first appeared with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia on September 29 and 30, 2018, (he conducted the “Fairy Tales with Orchestra. Favourites” Concerts with Daniil Spivakovsky), has been accepted by the NPR Management as eligible to join the NPR Conductor-Trainee Group.
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