Repertoire

March 2025
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23 March, Sunday 2:30 pm
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall and a visit to the "royal rooms"

23 March, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Judas Passion

Choir of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory
Conductor - Fedor Lednev
Alexander Timchenko - tenor (Judas)
Ivan Vasiliev - baritone (Jesus)
Petr Migunov - bass (The Evangelist)
Yaroslav Timofeev - presenter
Alexei Melnikov - piano, soloist of the St. Petersburg House of Music
Radvilovich: “Judas”, passion for soloists, choir and orchestra based on texts from the Gospel of Judas and L.Andreev’s story “Judas Iscariot”; Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture; Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Paganini Theme for Piano and Orchestra

23 March, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
"The Fairy of Music"
Musical performance-fairy tale in 2 parts

Ksenia Cuellar - flute (The Fairy of music, the muse of Euterpe)
Natalia Lisanova - piano, musical director of the project
Mikhail Granov - violoncello
Daria Gavrilova - soprano (Camilla)
Nikita Chernikov - tenor (Flor)
Togriy Bazhakin - Baritone (Fawn)
Nadezhda Rogozhina - director
Hahn; J.-S. Bach; Haydn; Grieg; Gluck; Debussy; Mozart; Poulenc; Saint-Sa¸ns; Rameau; Faure; Chausson; Goncharov

23 March, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
To the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War

Divertissement Chamber Orchestra
Ilya Ioff - artistic director, violin
Vera Chekanova - soprano
Lydia Kovalenko - violin
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony; Tishchenko: "The Run of Time", vocal cycle on the poems by A. Akhmatova for soprano and string orchestra; Kancheli: "Twilight" for two violins and strings; Tariverdiev: "The Road" (from the film "Seventeen moments of spring"); Solovyov-Sedoy: "Cheerful Train", overture

24 March, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Chamber music evening

Oleg Vainstein - piano
Ekaterina Tarasova - violin
Alexei Koptev - viola
Dmitrii Khrychev - cello
Schubert: Trio for Strings in B-flat major, D.581, Adagio (Notturno) for Piano Trio in E-flat major; Mahler: Piano Quartet in A minor; R. Strauss: Piano Quartet

25 March, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Spiritual and secular music by Stalin Prize-winning composers
On the 50th anniversary of the Philharmonic being named after the composer

Petersburg Chamber Choir
Olga Shiryaeva
Elina Richter
Egor Semenkov
Yuri Vlasov
Conductor - Elena Kurnosenko
archpriest Vyacheslav Kharinov - comments on the program
Golovanov: "Now are the powers of heaven", "Lord, save and Holy God", "It is worthy to eat", "We sing to you", "We are diligently coming to the Theotokos", Exapostylary for the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, "Do not weep for me, Mother", "I am waiting for Your Palace", "Rejoice in God, our helper", spiritual concert (II part), "Melodious pipes", "Censer of golden-jet cauldrons", fragments of cycles; Alexandrov: "Blessed is the husband", "The quiet Light", "The grace of the world. I sing to you", "Praise the name of the Lord", "Our Father", "The Prudent Robber", "Have mercy on me, God", concerto for mixed choir and tenor (first performance), Seven Russian folk songs for mixed choir

25 March, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
An Italian-style evening

Olga Pudova - soprano
Boris Stepanov - tenor
Donizetti: Norina's Cavatina from the opera "Don Pasquale", Duet of Norina and Ernesto from the opera "Don Pasquale", Nemorino's romance "Una furtiva lagrima" from the opera "L'elisir d'amore", Adina's aria from the opera "The Love Potion", Duet "Prendi per me sei libero" from "L'elisir d'amore"; Verdi: Alfredo's aria from "La traviata", Aria of Gilda from Rigoletto, "La donna è mobile" from the opera "Rigoletto", Gilda and the Duke's duet from the opera "Rigoletto"; Rossini: "The Florentine Flower Girl", canzone, "The Complaint of the Aragonese", canzone; Curtis: "Torna a Surriento", “Tu, ca nun chiagne!”; Arditi: Il Bacio; Di Capua: «’O sole mio»; Proch: “Deh! Torna mio bene”, theme with variations for soprano and piano

26 March, Wednesday 1:30 pm
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall and introduction to the organ

26 March, Wednesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Shostakovich. Symphony No. 1
On the 50th anniversary of the Philharmonic being named after the composer

Conductor - Alexey Nyaga
Elizaveta Ukrainskaya - piano
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1; Shostakovich: Symphony No 1

26 March, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
St Petersburg Symphony Chamber Orchestra

St Petersburg Symphony Chamber Orchestra
Artistic director, conductor - Vladimir Altschuler
Nikolai Mazhara - piano
Mikhail Krutik - violin
Ekaterina Semion - harp
Vladimir Genttcelt - violin
Elena Gurkina - cello
Georgii Dolgov - flute
Andrei Kuniavskii - bassoon
Aleksandr Shustin - violin
Iuliia Tomilova - violin
Olga Kapustina - violin
Anton Starodubtcev - violin
Ashot Vasilev - piano
J.-S. Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor; Haydn: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G major; Saint-Sa¸ns: Concert piece for harp and orchestra, Muse and poet for violin, cello and orchestra; Corigliano: "Voyage"; Jolivet: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra; Piazzolla: Libertango

27 March, Thursday 10:30 am
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall and introduction to the organ

27 March, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"While Pushkin lasts in Russia..."
On the 105th anniversary of David Samoilov's birth

Svetlana Kryuchkova - reciter
Alexander Krychkov - guitar
Samoilov: Diaries, correspondence, Lyrics from different years, Small poems, The poem "The Gypsies"

27 March, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Young stars of the St. Petersburg stage
An evening of virtuoso violin music

Emil Ildirekov - violin
Alexei Tishchenko - violin
Inga Dzektser - piano
Tchaikovsky: Valse-Scherzo; Saint-Sa¸ns: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso; Paganini: Introduction and variations for solo violin on the theme "Nel cor piu non mi sento" from the opera by G. Paisiello "The Beautiful Miller's Wife", "La campanella"; Debussy: Moonlight from the suite bergamasque; Wieniawski: Variations on an original theme; Sarasate: "Caprice Basque"; Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concert paraphrase on the theme of Cavatina Figaro from the opera by J. Rossini's "The Barber of Seville"; Waxman: Carmen Fantasie; Zimbalist: Fantasia on themes from the opera "Golden Cockerel" by N.Rimsky-Korsakov

28 March, Friday 2:30 pm
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall and introduction to the organ

28 March, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Tchaikovsky. Piano Concerto No. 2
Sibelius. Symphony No. 1

Conductor - Ayyub Guliyev (Azerbaijan)
Andrei Korobeinikov - piano

28 March, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Soloists' Parade

State Russian concert orchestra
Lubov Mikhailova
Albert Khatmullin
Pavel Chizhik - percussion
Mikhail Tugarev
Sergey Stolyarov
Dmitry Gogolev - domra
Evgeniya Markova - domra
Inna Gladovskaya
Ksenia Novikova - domra
Semyon Sergeev
Peter Nikonov
Anna Solyanikova
Evgeny Rogachev
Conductor - Alexander Chernobaev
Monti; Tsfasman; Lokshin; Kalinin; Levashkevich; Bibergan

29 March, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Alexander Fiseysky
On the 340th anniversary of the birth of J.S. Bach
From video projections of the interiors of German churches where J.S. Bach played

J.S. Bach: Organ Mass ("Keyboard Exercise" part III), Prelude in E-flat major, "Lord, God is the Father in eternity", "The Christ of the whole world is the consolation", "Lord, God, Holy Spirit", "Glory to God alone in the highest", "These are the sacred Ten Commandments", "We all believe in one God", "Our Father who art in heaven", "Christ our Lord has appeared at the Jordan", "From the depths I cry to You", "Jesus Christ, our Savior", Fugue in E flat major

29 March, Saturday 2:00 pm
Small Hall
Anna Rychkova. Among friends and students

Students of the Secondary Special Music School of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory class of Anna Rychkova
St. Petersburg Cello Ensemble of Anatoly Nikitin
Dmitry Eremin - cello
Schumann: Novelette No 8; Liszt: Grandes études de Paganini in A minor; Scriabin: Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op. 5 No. 1, Etude Op. 8 No. 2; Lyadov: Barcarola; Rachmaninoff - Evans: "He took everything from me"; Glinka - Alyabyev: "The Nightingale"; Tchaikovsky - Pletnev: Andante maestoso from ballet "The Nutcracker",; Schumann: Adagio and Allegro; Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major; Rachmaninoff: "Tarantella"; Khachaturian: "Lullaby" from the ballet Gayane, Sabre Dance from ballet "Gayane"; Sokolov: Paraphrase on the theme from the rock opera "Jesus Christ is a Superstar"; Zatin: "Magnificat"

29 March, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Sergey Pleshak
Anniversary author's evening
On the 55th anniversary of the composer

Philharmonic Society Children Choir
Concert choir "Perezvony" of the St. Petersburg Children's Art School named after M.I.Glinka
Albert Asadullin - tenor
Viktor Korotich - baritone
The program will feature artists from the "Zazerkalye Theater", the "Buff Theater", as well as young performers from the "Chorus Theater"
Pleshak: "The Blue Bird", musical (fragments), "Hyperboloid of engineer Garin", musical (fragments), "The Mystery of the Third Planet", musical (fragments), "The Nutcracker", musical (fragments), "Boys", opera (fragments), "Biblical Wisdom", cantata on a free verse retelling of the texts of "Ecclesiastes"