Denis Matsuev to open "White Lilac" festival in Kaza

21 May 2015, Thursday

The 5th International Sergey Rachmaninov Festival "White Lilac" will be held in Kazan from May 22 to June 7. This year it will feature such stars of world music as pianist Denis Matsuev, Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Ovchinnikov and conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev.

"To Hear Each Other" is the motto of this year's festival. The "Vienna-Berlin" chamber orchestra, composed of soloists of the two leading European ensembles, will arrive in Kazan. On May 22, it will perform works by Mozart, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky in the Saydashev Grand Concert Hall. Denis Matsuev (piano) and Gabor Tarkevi (trumpet) will play the solos.

The highlight of the festival will be a performance by Mikhail Pletnev – it is not often that this outstanding conductor agrees to perform as pianist, but for "White Lilac" the musician has made an exception: on May 27, Mikhail Pletnev and the Tatarstan Symphony Orchestra will play Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and Symphony No.2, according to the press service of the Tatarstan State Symphony Orchestra.

The festival program features not only music by Rachmaninov. The audiences will also hear Serenade for String Orchestra by Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No.1 and the Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra by Shostakovich The climax of the festival will be the performance of the State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan under the baton of Maestro Vladimir Fedoseyev. This evening will feature Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky, and, of course, more music by Rachmaninov. On this high note, "White Lilac" will say "Goodbye" to all lovers of classical music until next spring.

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