Valery Gergiev will conclude his
year as Honorary President of the Edinburgh Festival with two series of
performances, the first a four-day concert visit with the London
Symphony Orchestra.
The programme has been planned to provide contrasts;
as the festival’s website states, it combines the “dazzling majesty
of Brahms with the exoticism and fragrant passions of Szymanowski.”
16 August will see performances of Johannes Brahms’ First Symphony
and Karol Szymanowski's First Symphony and First Violin Concerto. The solo
will be performed by Ayrshire violinist Nicola Benedetti, who was named BBC
Young Musician of the Year in 2004 for her rendition of this work by
Szymanowski.
She was then aged sixteen and has, “ever since, lived with
the sensitive and mystical music of the Polish composer flowing
through her veins.” The next day will see performances of Brahms’ ragische Ouvertüreand Second Symphony
as well as Szymanowski’s Second Symphony, in which one can make out
the impressionist colours of Debussy and the influence of
the music of Mahler and Richard Strauss. On 18 August there will be
a performance of Brahms’ Third Symphony and Variations on a Theme by
Haydn for Orchestra in addition to Szymanowski’s Third Symphony, known as
the Song of the Night. At the close of
the concert series, on 19 August Gergiev will present Brahms’ Fourth
Symphony and two works by Szymanowski – the composer’s Fourth Symphony
featuringDenis Matsuev and the Second Violin Concerto
with Leonidas Kavakos.
The second series under the baton of Valery Gergiev will include
performances by the Mariinsky Theatre: Sergei Prokofiev’s balletCinderella with choreography by Alexei Ratmansky
will be staged on 30 and 31 August and 1 September.
For details about the programme please go to the festival’s
website: www.eif.co.uk
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