As is tradition, the festival will open with a grand concert at the regional musical theater. The chamber ensemble “Moscow Soloists”, directed by Yuri Bashmet, will perform works for strings by Taneyev, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich and Schnittke, as well as romantic novels by Tchaikovsky.
The second part will be dedicated to a musical and literary performance that will combine the story “Telegram” by Konstantin Paustovsky and the music of Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Nielsen and Schnittke. The role of the reader will be actor Nikolai Chindyaykin.
Starting April 7, the festival will travel to the regions. “Moscow Soloists” will perform in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Amursk. Works for strings by Telemann, Vivaldi and Mozart will be performed. In Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, as well as in the Khabarovsk and Lazovsky regions, chamber concerts with the participation of quartets from the Moscow Soloist Ensemble are planned.
– This year the festival will delight with the line-up of participants, including the stars of the Youth Opera Program of the Bolshoi Theater Maxim Lisiin (baritone), Albina Tonkikh (soprano) and Anna Yurkus (mezzo-soprano). Great instrumentalists will come. They are Mikhail Beznosov (clarinet), Sergei Davydchenko and Ksenia Bashmet (piano), Daniil Kogan and Valeria Abramova (violin), the regional philharmonic reported.
On April 9, a permanent participant of the festival, the Far Eastern Academic Symphony Orchestra, will present a program with young soloists of the All-Russian Youth Symphony Orchestra.
An educational program and musical meetings for children are planned. Thus, as part of the festival, the seventh International Music Academy for Gifted Children will be held, where young talents will be able to learn from the country’s leading teachers.
The festival will end on April 12 in Khabarovsk. The closing gala concert program includes masterpieces of early music: Telemann’s Don Quixote Suite, Tartini’s Devil’s Trills Sonata, Vinci’s Sonata No. 1 for Saxophone and Strings, and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
