Repin in Siberia

The first Trans-Siberian art festival Vadim Repin, one of the most famous natives of the city, a graduate of the Novosibirsk violin school, a student of Zakhara Bron, a miraculous reservation of the late Soviet era, which is now in the world violin elite and, seeming to become a script number one in Russia, takes place in Novosibirsk. In the fall, a decent concert hall was finally built here, giving him the name of the late conductor Arnold Katz-indecent late for the city with an old high-quality orchestra and a good audience, just Katsu for 50 years and educated. And it was decided to act quickly and very ambitious. Repin found in his schedule an empty two weeks, gathered a professional team, connected his international renom, did not forget about the love of fellow countrymen. And everything came together. Even the unforeseen Czech with the Novosibirsk political elite (one governor gave the good at the festival, and the flowers at the concert-opening were already from the acting one) did not prevent.

For six months from scratch, it was possible to collect a program in which there is decisively everything: the opera (Olga Borodina), ballet (Svetlana Zakharova), world premiere (Voice of Violin Benjamin Yusupova), cinema (documentary films about Rostropovich and Nuriev British John Bridat), social projects (cooperation with the Foundation of Natalia Naked Hearts), regional projects) (trips with concerts outside Novosibirsk), support for the younger generation (concerts with the participation of students of a local music college), a solid western team ( English Chamber Orchestra ) and a handful of worthy instrumentalists (pianists Nikolai Lugansk, cellist Mario Brunello). At the opening of the Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano conducted Kent, at the closure on the day of astronautics, April 12, will be Valery Gergiev. In ten concerts, Vadim Repin himself participates for thirteen festival days.

The festival does not have any one specific addressee, but the public official, and the enlightened music lover, the advanced hipster, and the Western journalist will find their joy there.

By the way, about journalists. Judging by the quantitative ratio and representativeness of Russian and Western colleagues (numerous journalistic landing from around the world includes Euronuz and the Mezzo channel), outside Russia this event is much more interesting than inside it. Well, or the organizers seemed to be so much more handy of it.

Indeed, the effect of the contemplation of the well -known Repin in the West in an alien and completely unpredictable Siberian landscape, I observed. Judge for yourself. You come for five time zones, having previously consulted with your family, how to be, if you suddenly, you look around cautiously, swim, swim in this sea of ​​Russian chaos - among the eternal crooked fences, dull of gradually mud, wild development in a hotel dungeon, oversized signs, even central, turning into a newspaper. ads.

And suddenly - Bulk - you emerge under an impeccable dome of a brand new planetarium. Or - in the luxurious, carefully cleaned Stalinist expanses of the Siberian Coliseum, the largest opera Theater of Eurasia. Or-on the 13th Haitec floor of the post-staff scientific happiness in the local Akademgorodok. Or - in the screaming of an indispensable establishment of the main Novosibirsk restaurant, where microscopic portions are incomprehensible from what made of and even scary to imagine how much food is laid out on different parts of a half -meter plate.

Or - in a recently rebuilt Philharmonic Hall, where on the way from Madrid to Berlin, Kent Nagano, a very strong, professional, slightly stiff orchestra, is not even the first Tchaikovsky concert, and the Spanish symphony of Lalo and fantastic Berlio, by about the middle of the Berliosis is not at a day. Visadoring both the musicians and the hall. In fairness, it is worth saying that an extremely busy Nagano sent his assistant for preliminary work ahead of time.

Or - Bulk - and you are not sailing anywhere. Around the Soviet Union, the House of Culture "Rodina" in the city of Berdsk, located near Novosibirsk, the toilet hole in the floor is thoroughly washed, but the spinger on the door is still broken, the basket with cottage cheese is proudly called the "cheeskek", Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets with a welcome word rhymes in the western consciousness with Ekaterina Furtseva from the newly watched film about Rostropovich, the pianist Andrei Korobeinikov fights with the non -eating piano Estonia, and Vadim Repin with his Guyarner Del Jesu, very conditionally sounded in unison with the second, sits in the first violin in the local Filarmonica .

But in this situation, this does not matter - the hall is almost 800 seats to failure, they go only if with young children (the program without discounts is the first piano Beethoven Sonata, the eighth of Prokofiev and the early, very rarely executed quintet of Barto), after each part they not only clap, but also carry flowers. And it is clear that any Crimea will no longer overshadow the reviews of v Rostrous Western journalists, who have long been disgusted by the educated audience in diamonds. But the festival did not even reach the middle!