Festival calendar

About the festival

Wednesday, December 28

Opening of the Festival
ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conductor - Maxim SHOSTAKOVICH
Soloist - Ignat SOLZHENITSYN
SHOSTAKOVICH
Five entr'actes from Katerina Izmailova
Piano Concerto No.1
Symphony No.1

Thursday, December 29

SHOSTAKOVICH
Seven Romances on Poems of A.Blok for soprano,
violin, cello and piano
Barbara HENDRICKS, soprano
Christian BERGQVIST, violin
Glaes GUNNARSSON, cello
Love DERWINGER, piano
SHOSTAKOVICH
Quintet for two violins, viola, cello and piano
Dmitry MAHTIN, violin
Lev KLYCHKOV, violin
Andrei DOGADIN, viola
Aleksandr KNIAZEV, cello
Ignat SOLZHENITSYN, piano

Friday, December 30

ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conductor - Yuri TEMIRKANOV
Soloist – Vadim REPIN
SVIRIDOV
Triptych
PROKOFIEV
Violin Concerto No.1
KHACHATURIAN
Music from the ballets Spartak and Gayane

Saturday, December 31

New Year’s Eve concert
ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conductor - Nikolai ALEXEEV
SHOSTAKOVICH
Jazz Suites
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN-DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Balda, a fairy-booth show
Production and choreography - Vladimir Vasiliev
Author of idea - Yuri Borisov

Monday, January 2

THREE ONE-ACT BALLETS
SHOSTAKOVICH
"Seismographs", Choreographed by Felix Dumeril
"Wedding Cortege", Choreographed by Leonid Yakobson
"Klop" ("Bedbug"), Choreographed by Leonid Yakobson

Tuesday, January 3

Shostakovich
“Two years of Strife” – a program of poetry readings with trio
Narrator – Leonid MOZGOVOY
Sayaka SHOJI, violin
Nina KOTOVA, cello
Alexander KOBRIN, piano

Wednesday, January 4

ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conductor - Yuri TEMIRKANOV
Soloist - Sayaka SHOJI
KABALEVSKY
Overture for Colas Breugnon
KHACHATURIAN
Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No.6

Thursday, January 5

MOSCOW VIRTUOSI Chamber Orchestra
Artistic Director and conductor -
Vladimir SPIVAKOV
SCHNITTKE
Suite in Ancient Style
Sonata for violin and chamber orchestra
SHOSTAKOVICH
Prelude and Scherzo
Chamber Symphony

Friday, January 6

BORODIN STRING QUARTET
GALYNIN
Quartet No.2
MIRZOYAN
Quartet
SHOSTAKOVICH
Quartet No.1
Quartet No.8
Marble Palace
of State Russian Museum

Glinka State Academic Cappella Choir
Artistic director and chief conductor -
Vladislav TCHERNOUSHENKO
Soloists-vocalists to be announced
Vladimir BELOMESTNYKH, piano
SHOSTAKOVICH
Arrangements of the Russian folk songs
SVIRIDOV
Songs

Saturday, January 7

Closing of the festival
ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conductor - Yuri TEMIRKANOV
Soloist - Dmitri HVOROSTOVSKY
SHOSTAKOVICH
Suite on Verses by Michelangelo
for bass - baritone and orchestra
Symphony No.5

Thursday, December 28

December 28 Gala reception in honor of the opening of the festival,
Grand Hotel Europe

Thursday, December 29

State Russian Museum Opening of an exclusive exhibition for the festival and reception.

Thursday, December 31

Maestro Temirkanov’s New Year’s Eve Ball in Yusupov Palace.

Saturday, January 7

Gala reception in honor of the closing of the festival in the Grand Foyer of the Philharmonic Hall following the concert.