1 part by 45 minutes; 2 part by 50 minutes
Рrogramme:
I part
Brahms
Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53
Schumann
Overture, Scherzo, & Finale Op. 52
II part
Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique
The programme is subject to change
MSSO. Conductor – Anton Shaburov
Agunda Kulaeva, mezzo-soprano
After winning the First prize at the 9th Jeunesses Musicales Conducting Competition in Bucharest in August 2018 Anton Shaburov is considered to be one of the most promising young Russian conductors. Other competition successes include the First prize at the 2016 Felix Mendelssohn International Conducting Competition and Grand Prix together with the special audience award at the 2013 Ilya Musin all-Russian Conducting Competition. In August 2021 Anton Shaburov became a principal conductor and artistic director of the Rostov Symphony Orchestra (Rostov-on-Don, Russia). In 2019 Tirgu-Mures Philharmonic orchestra (Tirgu-Mures, Romania) elected Anton Shaburov as its principal guest conductor. Since 2017 Anton Shaburov also holds the position of a permanent guest conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre (Primorsky Stage, Vladivostok, Russia).Starting his professional conducting career as a Principal conductor and artistic director of the Symphony orchestra of the Ural Conservatory Anton Shaburov led more than 50 concert programs and several festivals dedicated to Rachmaninov, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Shchedrin, and Zolotaryov. In August 2016 Symphony orchestra of the Ural Conservatory under the baton of Anton Shaburov faced its highest triumph in the Konzerthaus Berlin at the Young Euro Classic 2016 festival. The performance of the all-Russian program had notable success and was also very warmly met by the German and Russian musical press.
Moscow State Symphony Orchestra (MSSO) was founded in 1943 by the Government of the USSR and is one of the oldest symphony orchestras in Russia. Leo Steinberg, the People's Artist of USSR, a conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre, was the first Chief Conductor of the MSSO and led the orchestra until his death in 1945. Then the leadership of the MSSO was carried out by such famous Soviet musicians as Nikolai Anosov, Leo Ginzburg, Mikhail Terian, Veronika Dudarova, Pavel Kogan. Thanks to cooperation with them the orchestra became one of the best symphonic ensembles in the country, but was known primarily by performances of Russian and Soviet classical music, including premieres of compositions written by S.Prokofiev, N.Myaskovsky, D.Shostakovich, R.Glier. The orchestra is proud of its partnership with prominent conductors and soloists: Yevgeny Svetlanov, Kirill Kondrashin, Alexandr Orlov, Natan Rakhlin, Samuil Samosud, Valery Gergiev, David Oistrakh, Emil Gilels, Leonid Kogan, Vladimir Sofronitsky, Sergei Lemeshev, Ivan Kozlovsky, Sviatoslav Knushevitsky, Sviatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniil Shafran and many others.