Musical April

The Big and Small Halls of the Philharmonic - from a logistics point of view (that is, how to get there) - are without a doubt the most convenient concert venues in the city. You come out of the Griboyedov Canal or Gostiny Dvor metro stations, and a minute later you are already there. If we add to this the price of the issue (an entrance ticket to Virsaladze’s clavierabend cost, for example, 200 rubles, the most expensive with a seat is 500, and there are concerts with even cheaper entrance tickets), it becomes obvious that getting to know a good performance of great and simply outstanding works of academic music in our city, the most convenient places are in the Small Hall of the Philharmonic on Nevsky, 30, and in the Big Hall on the corner of Mikhailovskaya Street and Arts Square.
In April, among other things, the Great Hall of the Philharmonic decided to pamper us with large symphonic works - symphonies by Bruckner, Mahler and Brahms and masses by Mozart and Dvorak. And this music can only be fully heard in the hall, live - a huge orchestra with all the diversity and richness of timbres cannot be transferred even to a very perfect recording.
On Sunday, April 11, Gustav Mahler’s Sixth “Tragic” Symphony will be performed under the baton of Nikolai Alekseev. This is the fifth concert in the series dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Austrian composer.
On Wednesday, April 14, the Symphony Orchestra and Choir of the Mikhailovsky Theater will perform on the stage of the Great Hall of the Philharmonic. Antonin Dvořák's STABAT MATER for choir and orchestra will be performed under the baton of Peter Feranec.
On Saturday, April 24, in the Great Hall of the Philharmonic, as part of the project “German Week in St. Petersburg - 2010”, the famous MONTEVERDI CHORUS (Germany) will perform with the State Hermitage Orchestra. Conductor: Gotthart Stier. Program: Mozart - Great Mass in C minor; Bruckner, Brahms, etc.
On Sunday evening, April 25, Felix Korobov will conduct Bruckner’s “Romantic” (No. 4) Symphony, and Alexander Melnikov will be the soloist in the famous D-minor Concerto (No. 20) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
And finally, on Thursday, April 29, public favorite Alexander Titov will present Johannes Brahms' Fourth Symphony. The program will also feature two Piano Concertos by Dmitry Shostakovich. At the piano is Alexander Markovich.
All evening concerts start at 19.00.