Yekaterinburg – Seen and Heard International

A tremendous celebration of the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninov’s birth in Yekaterinburg

05/04/2023 by Gregor Tassie

Russian Federation Rachmaninov. Visible Music Festival: Soloists, Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir /Andrei Petrenko (conductor), Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra / Andrei Petrenko (conductor). Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Hall, from Virtual Concert Hall relay, 30.3.2023. (GT)

After the *Aleko* performance at the *Rachmaninov.* *Visible Music* Festival

Historically informed Bach and Telemann brings solace and relief from the war

18/06/202216/03/2022 by Gregor Tassie

Russian Federation Bach, Telemann: Pratum Integrum (leader: Sergey Filchenko). Streamed by Digital Concert Hall from the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Hall, Yekaterinburg, 9.3.2022. (GT)

Overshadowed by world events, Yekaterinburg’s Bach Fest opens with stirring performances

16/03/202203/03/2022 by Gregor Tassie

United Kingdom Bach, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns: Taras Baginets (organ), Konstantin Tyulkin, Platon Gazeliridi (pianists), Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir, Urals Youth Symphony Orchestra / Aleksey Dorkin (conductor). Streamed live on Digital Concert Hall from Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Hall, 1.3.2022. (GT)

Aleksey Dorkin conducts the Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir and Urals Youth Symphony Orchestra

Music by twentieth-century English composers wows the Russians in Yekaterinburg

10/05/202217/02/2022 by Gregor Tassie

Russian Federation Birtwistle, Vaughan-Williams, Walton: Daniel Müller-Schott (cellist), Urals Philharmonic Orchestra / Oliver Zeffman (conductor). Grand Hall of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic, 27.1.2022. (GT)

Yekaterinburg’s Myaskovsky. Dialogues closes on a stirring note with the great tragic Sixth Symphony

14/05/202115/03/2021 by Gregor Tassie

Russian Federation Myaskovsky. Dialogues – A Dialogue with Fate: Alexander Ramm (cellist), Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Choir, Ural Academic Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Liss (conductor). Livestream on the Virtual Concert Hall from the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Hall, Yekaterinburg, 13.3.2021. (GT)

Myaskovsky. Dialogues opens up the friendship of Prokofiev and Myaskovsky in music and words

14/05/202112/03/2021 by Gregor Tassie

Russian Federation Myaskovsky. Dialogues – Myaskovsky and Prokofiev: A Lifelong Dialogue: Maria Ostroukhova (mezzo-soprano), Yury Favorin (pianist), Konstantin Tyulkin (pianist), Boris Zyranov (actor as Prokofiev), Nikolay Rotov (actor as Myaskovsky), Livestreamed on the Virtual Concert Hall from Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Hall, Yekateringburg, 11.3.2021. (GT)

Tremendous performances of rarely-performed works in the opening concert of Myaskovsky. Dialogues

12/05/202110/03/2021 by Gregor Tassie

Russian Federation Myaskovsky. Dialogues – A Dialogue with Epoch: Klavdia Bashkirtseva (soprano), Alexander Trofimov (tenor), Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Quartet, Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Choir, Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Rudin (conductor). Livestreamed on the Virtual Concert Hall from the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Hall, 9.3.2021. (GT)

Myaskovsky. Dialogues in the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Hall

Myaskovsky. Dialogues (9-13 March 2021) celebrates the composer’s 140th anniversary

12/05/202105/03/2021 by AUTHOR

Myaskovsky. Dialogues – 9 to 13 March 2021

For the first time in its history, the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic hosts a festival entirely dedicated to the personality and work of Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881-1950). [For an essay on ‘Nikolay Myaskovsky – the Conscience of Russian Music’ by Seen and Heard International‘s Gregor Tassie click here.] Despite his great creative heritage, the composer, cared for and shunned by the Soviet regime, is one of the least known, understood and recognized figures of Russian music of the 20th century. The Festival has a form of dialogues – with the epoch, fate, counterparts – shedding light on the humble personality of Nikolay Yakovlevich Myaskovsky, whom his contemporaries called ‘the artistic conscience of music.’