08 March 2020 (Sun), 19:00 Moscow Concert Hall "Zaryadye" (Grand Hall) - Stars of the Stars Concert Mozart. Takeemitsu. Bartok. Saint-Saens. Performed by Boris Berezovsky, Alexander Ghindin and National Philharmonic of Russia
Schedule for Mozart. Takeemitsu. Bartok. Saint-Saens. Performed by Boris Berezovsky, Alexander Ghindin and National Philharmonic of Russia 2022
Piano: Konstantin Yemelyanov Piano: Varvara Kutuzova Conductor: Arsenty Tkachenko
Piano soloist: Boris Berezovsky Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Orchestra: The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia Piano soloist: Alexander Ghindin Composer: Bela Bartok Composer: Camille Saint-Saens Composer: Toru Takemitsu
Program:
Mozart
Concert for two pianos and orchestra No. 10 in E Flat Major, KV 365 (316a) (1779/1782)
Takeemitsu
Quotation of Dream for two pianos and orchestra (1991)
Bartok
Concert for two pianos, percussion and orchestra, BB 121 (1937)
Saint-Saens
“Carnival of Animals” - Suite (“Zoological Fantasy”) for two pianos and chamber ensemble (1886)
Program subject to change
Honoured Artist of Russia Alexander Ghindin has been unanimously acclaimed by critics and music lovers as one of the most talented and original pianists of the present day.
His tours successfully throughout Russia and abroad.
The pianist has performed with such major Russian and international orchestras as the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Russian National Orchestra, the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the Moscow Virtuosi ensemble, the St Petersburg Camerata Orchestra of the State Hermitage, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Salzburg Camerata, the Rotterdam Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestras of London, Helsinki, Luxemburg, Liège, Freiburg, Monte Carlo and Munich, Japan’s Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and the New Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra to name but a few.
Alexander Ghindin is a regular participant at international music festivals. He has appeared at the Russian festivals Russian Winter, Stars at the Kremlin, The New Century of Russian Piano Music, Vladimir Spivakov Invites, Musical Kremlin and the International Sakharov Arts Festival as well as the Swedish Royal Festival in Stockholm, the Robert Casadesus International Piano Encounters in Lille, the Vladimir Spivakov Festival in Colmar, the Radio France Festival, Folle journée (France), Bad Kissengen Sommer (Germany), the Rising Stars festival (Poland), Days of Russian Culture in Moravia (Czech Republic), the Ruhr Piano Festival (Germany) and festivals in Echternach, La Roque-d’Anthéron, Brussels, Limoges, Lille, Cracow, Rome, Sintra and Sicily.
Boris Berezovsky has established a remarkable reputation, both as the most powerful of virtuoso pianists and as a musician of unique insight and sensitivity.
Born in Moscow in 1969, Boris Berezovsky studied at the Moscow Conservatoire with Eliso Virsaladze and privately with Alexander Satz. Following his London début at the Wigmore Hall in 1988, The Times described him as "an artist of exceptional promise, a player of dazzling virtuosity and formidable power"; two years later that promise was fulfilled when he won the Gold Medal at the 1990 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
Boris Berezovsky works regularly as concerto soloist with orchestras including the Concertgebouw, Philharmonia Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Hamburg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper, Hessischer Rundfunk, Russian National Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and with conductors such as Kurt Masur, Charles Dutoit, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alezander Lazarev, Andrew Litton, Mikhail Pletnev, Antonio Pappano etc.
Boris Berezovsky’s recent recordings of the complete Beethoven Concerti with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra with Thomas Dausgaard have been greeted with high critical acclaim. He has also made a considerable number of records for Teldec including solo discs of works by Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Medtner, Ravel, the complete Liszt Transcendental Studies and concertos by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Liszt. His recording of the Rachmaninov Sonata was awarded the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and his Ravel disc was specially recommended by Le Monde de la Musique, Diapason, BBC Music Magazine and the Independent on Sunday. He released a live DVD of Liszt’s Transcendental Studies taken from a performance at La Roque d’Antheron for Naive. Mr Berezovsky embarked on a collaboration with Warner Classics with his CD of piano trios with Dmitri Makhtin and Alexander Kniazev, and his most recent recording of the Chopin/Godowsky’s Etudes received high critical acclaim winning the instrumental category of the first BBC Music Magazine Awards.
In recital and as a chamber musician Boris Berezovsky performs regularly in recital series and festivals world-wide. His forthcoming performances include a return to the QEH International Piano Series, the Concertgebouw, La Roque d’Antheron, Ruhr Piano Festival, Les Folles Journées de Nantes, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Megaron, Athens and Symphony Hall, Birmingham amongst others. He has a noted duo partnership with violinist Vadim Repin and Brigitte Engerer, and his piano trio performs throughout Europe at the highest level.
Schedule for Mozart. Takeemitsu. Bartok. Saint-Saens. Performed by Boris Berezovsky, Alexander Ghindin and National Philharmonic of Russia 2022
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