Repertoire

December 2025
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04 December, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"Symphonic Express"
Music of Russian cinema

Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory
Conductor - Anton Gakkel
Irina Mataeva - soprano
Sergey Romanov - baritone
Dunaevsky: Music from the film "Children of Captain Grant"; Petrov: Music from the film "Beware of the Car"; Zatsepin: Music from the films "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style," "Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession," "The Diamond Arm," "Sannikov Land"; Dashkevich: Music from the television film "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson"; Poteenko: Music from the film "Night Watch"; Doga: Music from the film "My Sweet and Tender Beast"; Pakhmutova: "Heroes of Sports"; Krylatov: Music from the TV movie "The Adventures of Electronics"

04 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Chamber music evening

Evgenii Ryzhkov - double bass
Dmitrii Khrychev - cello
Vera Vasileva - violin
Vsevolod Lenskikh - violin
Argine Stepanian - violin
Viktoriia Velkova - violin
Aleksei Bogorad - viola
Aleksandr Chizhov - viola
Taras Trepel - cello
Gleb Dyagilev - double bass
Bottesini: Grande Allegro di Concerto (alla Mendelssohn), Concert duet for cello and double bass with orchestra on themes from Bellini’s opera “The Puritans”; Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings

04 December, Thursday 6:00 pm

"I'm writing the story of my life..."
Music of Kiryanovo Manor by E.R. Vorontsova-Dashkova

Anastasia Alexandrova - lecturer

05 December, Friday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Sightseeing tour of the Great Hall, visit to the "royal rooms", introduction to the organ

Presenters are employees of the Philharmonic

05 December, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Mozart. Overture to the opera "Le nozze di Figaro"
Flute and Harp Concerto

Conductor - Anatoly Rybalko
Georgii Dolgov - flute
Ekaterina Semion - harp
Mozart: Overture from The Marriage of Figaro, Flute and Harp Concerto; Beethoven: Symphony No.2

06 December, Saturday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Concert in the Foyer | Third Concert of the Season

Mikhail Krutik - violin
Mariia Bomshtein - violin
Tatiana Bogodukhova - violin
Nataliia Sheikina - violin
Alexander Kirsanov - viola
Anton Sinyavsky - bass trombone
Nikolai Mazhara - piano
Dmitrii Petrov - comments on the program
Vieuxtemps: "Dedication to Paganini", caprice in C minor for viola solo; Chopin: Five preludes; Debussy: Three Preludes; lebedev: Concert allegro for tuba and piano; Bacewicz: Quartet for four violins, Sonata No. 4 in A minor for violin and piano

06 December, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Konstantin Raikin
"The most beloved"
On the anniversary of the artist

06 December, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Romance Forever" Gala Concert
Opening of the II International Festival "The World of Classical Romance"

Daria Terekhova - soprano
Alexey Tikhomirov - bass
Albert Zhalilov - baritone
Agunda Kulaeva - soprano
Joseph Nikitenko - tenor
Yaramir Nizamutdinov - tenor
Ramiz Usmanov - tenor
Georgy Migunov - piano
Maria Chernova - piano
Irina Soboleva - piano
Debussy: Pierrot; R. Strauss: "Cecilia"; Alyabyev: "Nightingale"; Dargomyzhsky: "The Old Corporal"; Rachmaninoff: "Fate"; Mussorgsky: "Serenade" from the cycle "Songs and Dances of Death", "Flea"; Glinka: "Passing song", Romance "In the blood burning fire of desire"; Rubinstein: The Night; Rachmaninoff: "Well here"; Tchaikovsky: "Was I not a blade of grass in the field?", "Does the day reign"; Schubert: "Ave Maria"; Glinka: "I remember the wonderful moment"; Rimsky-Korsakov: "The flying ridge of clouds is thinning"; Tchaikovsky: "I would like to put it in one word"; Rimsky-Korsakov: "Not the wind, blowing from the heights"

06 December, Saturday 12:00 pm

From Urban Romance to "Ode to Joy": Music in the Works of F.M. Dostoevsky

Maria Mikhnovets - lecturer

07 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
"The Golden Key"

Children's choir of TV and radio of St.Petersburg
Igor Gribkov - choirmaster
Conductor - Pavel Bubelnikov
Anna Mikhalkova - presenter
Weinberg: "The Golden Key", suite No. 4 from the ballet based on the fairy tale of the same name by A.N. Tolstoy; Tchaikovsky: Fragments from The Nutcracker

07 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
XIV St. Petersburg Embankments International Music Festival

Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad State Regional Philharmonic
Women's Chamber Choir "Rimsky-Korsakov"
Sergey Ekimov - artistic director
Maria Safaryants - violin
Vladislav Sulimsky - baritone
Chiara Taigi - soprano (Italy)
Raffaele Abete - tenor (Italy)
Mikhail Gantvarg - violin
Federico Mondelci - saxophone
Helen Egiazaryan - soprano (Armenia)
Sergey Slovachevsky - cello
Ilia Papoian - piano
Hovhannes Nersesyan - bass
Stanislav Soloviev - piano
conductor - Mikhail Golikov
Mozart: Overture to Die Zauberflöte; Haydn: Violin Concerto in C Major; Mascagni: Santuzza's Romance from the opera "Cavalleria Rusticana", Duet of Santuzza and Turiddu from the opera "Cavalleria Rusticana"; Babadganian: "Nocturne"; Verdi: Aria from "Rigoletto", Duet of count di Luna and Leonora from "Il Trovatore"; Vitali: Chaccona; Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Puccini: Aria of Rodolfo from the opera "La Boheme"; Lara: Granada; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No 2; Iorio: "Sagra d'Estate" for saxophone and orchestra; Legrand: Fantasy on themes from movies for violin and saxophone with orchestra

07 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Voices of the Academy

Graduates and soloists of the International Academy of Music Elena Obraztsova
Vocal music by Russian and foreign composers

07 December, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Brahms. Personal motives"

Artists of the "Divertissement" Chamber Orchestra

Vyacheslav Agabekov - viola
Serafim Volkov - cello
Varvara Kastorskaya
Ilya Ioff - violin
Lydia Kovalenko - viola
Stanislav Soloviev - piano
Artem Vargaftik - author of the idea and presenter
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1, String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Selected Songs

08 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
Opera Gala
"Galina Vishnevskaya Festival"

Orchestra of Vishnevskaya Opera Center
Conductor - Alexander Soloviev
Albina Latipova - soprano
Svetlana Lachina - soprano
Valentina Pravdina - soprano
Julia Vakula - mezzo-soprano
Julia Shavarina - mezzo-soprano
Sergey Polyakov - tenor
Elchin Azizov - baritone
Konstantin Brzhinsky - baritone
Alexey Tikhomirov - bass
Arias, duets and scenes from operas
Verdi; Puccini; Gounod; Massenet; Saint-Sa¸ns; Leoncavallo; Cilèa; Rossini; Borodin; Tchaikovsky

08 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Northern Sinfonia" Symphony Orchestra


Artistic director and conductor - Fabio Mastrangelo
Olesia Tertychnaia - flute
Dvořák: Serenade for Strings; Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1, Symphony No 36 "Linz"

09 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Teodor Currentzis
Chemberdzhi, Wagner

MusicAeterna orchestra
MusicAeterna Chior
Chamberjee: "Nur zu weinen und zu singen" ("Only to cry and sing"), oratorio for large orchestra, mixed choir and tenor solo based on poems by J. Brodsky, Concert piece for flute and orchestra; Wagner: "The Ring without Words", Symphony Fantasia

09 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Evening of vocal music

Soloists of Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center
Valeria Petrova - piano
Georgy Migunov - piano
Tchaikovsky; Rimsky-Korsakov; Rachmaninoff; Rubinstein; Shostakovich; Sviridov

09 December, Tuesday 6:00 pm

"Sounding Memory"
Leningrad Symphony in Museum Expositions and Collections

Irina Karpenko - lecturer

10 December, Wednesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Yury Temirkanov's birthday

Conductor - Nikolay Alexeev
Vadim Rudenko - piano
Lyadov: "The Enchanted Lake", 'Kikimora"; Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Paganini Theme for Piano and Orchestra; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5

10 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Russian romance"

Maxim Rubtsov - flute
Peter Laul - piano
Tchaikovsky; Rachmaninoff; Rimsky-Korsakov; Taneyev; Glazunov; Glinka; Lyadov; Arensky; Alyabyev; Grechaninov

10 December, Wednesday 6:00 pm

Musical tastes of the "Russian Hamlet"
Paul I and his era

Aisulu Shukurova - lecturer