NOVAT Grand Symphony Concert

Mikhail Tatarnikov, Music Director and Chief Conductor of NOVAT, presents a new program of a Grand Symphony Concert dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of Dmitri Shostakovich.

The Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Symphony Orchestra will perform works by two great Russian composers, two outstanding representatives of the St. Petersburg school of composition: Dmitri Shostakovich and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. A special guest is Olga Volkova, an outstanding violinist of our time.

The program of the first part includes the brilliant Festive Overture by D. Shostakovich, written for the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution and first performed on November 6, 1954 at a festive concert at the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR; as well as his Symphony No.9 in E-Flat Major, created by the composer after the end of the Great Patriotic War in 1945 and which became one of his most unexpected and paradoxical symphonic works.

The suite Scheherazade, a famous work by N. Rimsky-Korsakov and a recognized standard of symphonic programming thinking, will be performed in the second part of the concert. The composition was written in 1888 based on the fairy tales of the Arabian literary monument One Thousand and One Nights and is still the most charming example of Russian music addressing the theme of the East.