On my way to Irkutsk
Right now
I'm on the plane, after
a while we fly to Irkutsk,
my home town for the festival. I always have a special feeling, when I fly to this city. And twenty years passed but nothing has changed - there is a nostalgic feeling in my heart every time I go
there. But what more important right now is the opening of the festival "Stars
on Baikal", during which this year Irkutsk will welcome an unprecedented number of
well-known musicians, including our
legendary masters such as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Alexander Rudin, Harry Grodberg
and many others, as well as a pleiad of young musicians. During the festival there will be a lot of interesting events. I am going to tell you about them in my reportages from Irkutsk.
And the
most recent news. Just
10 minutes ago I
got a call from Valery Gergiev,
and we decided to play in Moscow on September 25, the birthday
of Dmitry Shostakovich, Concerto No. 1 for Piano and orchestra and Symphony
No. 8 of Dmitry Shostakovich.
See you
at our website.