DVD and BlueRay edition of the Closing Ceremony of Annecy Classic Music Festival 2013

July 6 2014

This DVD-record was made at the closing ceremony of the classical music Annecy Classic Festival 2013, at which I’ve been working as artistic director for already four years, I am very pleased that this festival has such a powerful development during this time, and it really got into the elite of European festivals. I think that first of all it was due to the fact that we have managed to gather friends and create a great team. "Friends" and "team" are key words, as in everyday life, and in cultural, festival, concert life. Of course, one of the main factors of this success is the fact that for four years one of the most outstanding conductors Y. Temirkanov with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra has come to us, in Annecy, for these four years and that the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra is the resident orchestra of the festival. 

Of course, the presence of Yuri Khatuevich per se already raises the level of the Festival. We all are happy people, because we are contemporaries of him: he is a really unique conductor, one of the "last of the Mohicans”, the last romantics and the most devoted disciple of the great Russian Musin school of conducting. I love him, adore and happy that I have such a friend. This DVD (also there is a BlueRay version available) contains Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto #2  and ”Scheherazade” by Rimsky-Korsakov. It is available on the sites: Amazon.de and EuroArts.com 


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