The concert on January 12 at the Grand Hall of St. Petersburg Philharmonia by Yuri Temirkanov, German baritone Matthias Goerne and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra will be dedicated to the memory of outstanding conductor Mariss Jansons, who passed away on December 1.

The St. Petersburg Philharmonia and Mariss Jansons had tight relationship throughout the last forty years, even while he mainly performed abroad, collaborating with the world’s best orchestras, leading the legendary Royal Concertgebouw orchestra for over ten years, directing The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra for over fifteen years.

The history of these relations began long before the first concert of Mariss Arvidovich at the Grand Hall which took place on March 9, 1968: already in the mid-1950s he was closely linked with the Philharmonia, as his father – conductor Arvid Jansons – worked here. In total, over fifty years since a 25-year-old Mariss first appeared at the Grand Hall of The Leningrad Philharmonia up to February 9, 2019, at the concert devoted to the 100 anniversary of Daniil Granin’s birthday, when the St.Petersburg audience last saw Mariss Arvidovich, he conducted almost two hundred programs at the Grand and Small Halls of the Philharmonia.

The concert dedicated to the memory of Mariss Jansons will feature Gustav Mahler’s "Songs on the Death of Children". The key to understanding the vocal cycle, written on Friedrich Rückert’s poems, who tried to find solace in the grief that overtook him, is the melody that appears at the very end of the final part of Mahler's Third Symphony, which the composer entitled "What Love Tells Me". Also that evening, Brahms' Fourth Symphony will be performed – the last-in-the- genre piece by one of the greatest German symphonists.