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Rodion Shchedrin’s 80th birthday

Dec 10, 2012

“Shchedrin’s works are classics of contemporary music, and we cannot fail to honour his jubilee properly.  We play a great deal of Shchedrin’s music— and almost all of his theatrical pieces.  And I believe that it has been an incredible blessing and extremely instructive for the Mariinsky artists to work with a composer who lives right alongside us.  This is a tradition at the Mariinsky Theatre. The Shchedrin Jubilee is a cause for rejoicing and a great event for all Russian musicians.”

Valery Gergiev

On December 24th and 25th in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev will offer concerts in honour of Rodion Shchedrin’s 80th birthday.  These concerts will be part of the “Russian Winter” Festival.  Two concerts are given in homage to Rodion Shchedrin, an outstanding composer of our time who will celebrate his 80th birthday in December.  Rodion Shchedrin’s works have long been classics of contemporary music in Russia and all over the world.  He is one of the most eagerly sought out composers of our age and one of the most performed and most published.  In recent years Shchedrin has been a “composer with a special affinity for the Mariinsky Theatre” in that so many of his works have been performed on the concert and opera stage by Maestro Valery Gergiev, some of them for the first time.

The Moscow concerts duplicate two concerts in Saint Petersburg that the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra with Valery Gergiev conducting will present on the 22nd and 23rd of December.  In the dramatic scene “Cleopatra and the Snake” Veronika Dzhioeva will take the solo part.

Programme:

24 December
Rodion Shchedrin
Music for Strings, Oboes, Horns and Celesta
“Cleopatra and the Snake” (Russian premiere)
A dramatic scene for female voice and symphony orchestra based on the text of the final scene of Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” in the Boris Pasternak translation
Soloist—Yekaterina Goncharova (soprano)
Oboe Concerto
Soloist—Aleksei Ogrintchouk (oboe)
Parabola Concertante for cello solo, string orchestra and timpani
Soloist—Alexander Buzlov (cello)
Fragments from the ballet “The Little Humpbacked Horse”

25 December
Rodion Shchedrin
Piano Concerto No.1
Soloist—Alexei Volodin (piano)
Piano Concerto No.2
Soloist—Denis Matsuev (piano)
Piano Concerto No.3  “Variations and Theme”
Soloist—Yol Eum Son (piano)
Piano Concerto No.4 “Sharp Keys”
Soloist—Olli Mustonen (piano)
Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Conductor—Valery Gergiev

 

 

 

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