Valery Gergiev © Alberto Venzago (Ausschnitt)
Mariinsky Orchestra / Matsuev / Gergiev
Sunday
18
September
2016
19:30
Großer Saal
Performers
Mariinsky Orchestra
Denis Matsuev, Klavier
Valery Gergiev, Dirigent
Programme
»Zu Ehren des 125. Geburtstags von Sergej Prokofjew«
Sergej Prokofjew
Symphonie Nr. 1 D-Dur op. 25 »Symphonie classique« (1916–1917)
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 2 g-moll op. 16 (1912–1913/1923)
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Zugabe:
Anatol Konstantinovitch Liadov
Die Spieldose op. 32 (1893)
Sergej Prokofjew
Sonate Nr. 7 B-Dur op. 83 (3. Satz: Precipitato) (1939–1942)
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Montagues und Capulets op. 64b/1 (Suite Nr. 2 aus »Romeo und Julia«) (1936)
Pater Lorenzo op. 64b/3 (Suite Nr. 2 aus »Romeo und Julia«) (1936)
Masken op. 64a/5 (Suite Nr. 1 aus »Romeo und Julia«) (1936)
Romeo an Julias Grabe op. 64b/7 (Suite Nr. 2 aus »Romeo und Julia«) (1936)
Tybalts Tod op. 64a/7 (Suite Nr. 1 aus »Romeo und Julia«) (1936)
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Zugabe:
Giuseppe Verdi
Ouverture zu »La forza del destino« (1862)
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
»Laboratory of modernism«
Born into the landed gentry on a country estate in 1891, Sergei Prokofiev demonstrated a precocious musical talent, irrepressible creative drive and unbounded self-confidence, which his family found it difficult to ignore. He moved to St. Petersburg early on, the city in which Catharine the Great founded the orchestra in 1783 which is nowadays known as the »Mariinsky Orchestra«. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, St. Petersburg was a »laboratory of modernism« attracting artists from all across Europe and for the young Prokofiev it quickly became his most important artistic home: the talented composer and pianist – a trait discernible in his virtuosic Second Piano Concerto in G-minor op. 16 (a work practically made for master pianist Denis Matsuev) – simultaneously looks back to the past and to the Viennese classics as well as to the present to Schoenberg and to Reger. His »Symphonie classique« was an instant hit, the result of his studies of Haydn and Mozart at the St. Petersburg Conservatory: a work full of unbounded vitality, wit and esprit, which instantly wins over the audience. One of the pieces which made Prokofiev world famous was his ballet »Romeo and Julia«, music to Shakespeare's play and the best-known pair of lovers in all of literature since the Renaissance – a »Modern Classic« with which the Mariinsky Orchestra under Maestro Valery Gergiev round off their guest apperance