Moscow to host 9th International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival
By Laman Ismayilova
Russian capital Moscow will host the 9th International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival from March 27 to April 3.
Concerts as part of the festival will take place in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatoire and the State Kremlin Palace.
The festival's opening ceremony will feature works by Sergey Prokofiev, including the Symphony Concerto for cello and orchestra, dedicated to the great cellist and close friend of the composer.
Symphony No. 7 and symphonic Suite "Love for Three Oranges" will be performed by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by conductor Thomas Sondergaard (Denmark).
The solo part of the cello in the symphony-concert e-moll will be performed by the winner of numerous awards and competitions Pablo Ferrandes (Spain).
Symphony No. 10 and No. 29, as well as the Serenade of G-dur by WA Mozart, will be performed by the Chamber Orchestra "Vienna-Berlin" on March 29.
The Russian audience will hear one of the leading contemporary cellists Gauthier Capuson (France), works by Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Mozart.
State Chamber Music Theatre "St. Petersburg-Opera" will delight the audience on March 31.
Russian National Orchestra will perform Fantasy-Overture "Romeo and Juliet" by P. Tchaikovsky, symphonic suite "Scheherazade" by N.Rimsky-Korsakov and Concerto for pianoforte and orchestra fis-moll by Alexander Scriabin on April 1.
Klang Verwaltung Orchestra, KlangVerwaltung Choir and Munich Boys Choir will perform on the stage on April 2.
The Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra will perform at the festival's closing ceremony on April 3.
Born in Baku, Mstislav Rostropovich was internationally recognized as a staunch advocate of human rights, and he was awarded the 1974 Award of the International League of Human Rights.
Rostropovich was a huge influence on the younger generation of cellists. Many have openly acknowledged their debt to his example. In the Daily Telegraph, Julian Lloyd Webber called him "probably the greatest cellist of all time."
He inspired and premiered over 100 pieces and formed long-standing artistic partnerships with such prominent composers as iDmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Henri Dutilleux, Witold Lutosławski, Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Norbert Moret, Andreas Makris and Benjamin Britten.
A five-time Grammy Award winner, he has become one of the West leading conductors.
He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966.They performed together regularly.
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