Announcement of the Concert on 7th of May in Tchaikovsky Concert Hall

May 5 2015

On the birthday of P.I.Tchaikovsky 7th of May at 13:00 (Moscow time) in Tchaikovsky Concert Hall Denis Matsuev and Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under baton of Valery Gergiev perform three piano concertos of P.I.Tchaikovsky.

“It’s a great honour to perform three concerts of P.I.Tchaikovsky on his birthday. And an indescribable feeling for me because I have such an opportunity, - Denis Matsuev says, - It is my strong conviction that all his three piano concertos are jewels of equal value, not only his First Concert, as many believe.

Undoubtedly, First Concert is the most popular all over the world: even those, who have never been to a concert hall for classical music, know it. But nevertheless Second and Third concerts to my mind are not less brilliant and great pieces. We’ve just performed these three concerts in St. Petersburg in the Concert Hall of Mariinsky Theatre. We performed Second Concert a lot of times all over the world, but we performed Third Concert for the first time.

It’s a wonderful and very moving music. Despite the fact that it was written in the year of composer death, almost in a period when he was writing his Sixth Symphony, there is not a single sign of tragedy in it. And it has an original Tchaikovsky orchestration, his fantastic melancholic, ardent, lyrical melodies, arduous cadenzas for piano, including the biggest one that can be compared to the cadenza in Second Concert of Tchaikovsky and Third Concert of Rachmaninoff.

But when I play them in a row, notwithstanding their technical difficulties, I am in my element. Maestro Gergiev and I decided to present a cycle of concerts with this program in many capitals of the world in the near future”.

Live broadcast can be watched 7 of May at 13:00 (Moscow time) on three Internet channels – www.medici.tv, www.meloman.ru, www.matsuev.ru. TV Channel Kultura will broadcast the First piano concerto live, too (16:15 Moscow time). You can also watch free of charge this performance in Virtual Concert Hall all over Russia (there are more than 40 cities participating in this project). Stay tuned for the most convenient channel for you!

http://meloman.ru/concert/petr-ilich-chajkovskij175-let-so-dnya-rozhdeniya/

http://www.medici.tv/#!/valery-gergiev-denis-matsuev-tchaikovsky-concert-hall-anniversary-concert

http://tvkultura.ru/brand/show/brand_id/59378


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