Culture 01 September 2024
PHOTO by Alexander DROZDOV
Great Hall of the Philharmonic
September 4 and 5 at 20:00 The Philharmonic Society of St. Petersburg will present a new musical project (6+). Its goal is to trace the development of such a genre as a piano concerto throughout the 18th – 20th centuries. And also to reveal the relationship between classical and jazz piano art in the work of modern St. Petersburg pianists.
The project is a two-day cycle, the program of which includes the performance of four classical and four jazz works for piano and orchestra.
On September 4, the first part will feature Haydn’s Concerto in D major and Hummel’s Concerto No. 2 in A minor, and the second part will feature Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Tsfasman’s Piano Concerto with Orchestra.
The next day, September 5, Mozart’s 21st Concerto and Beethoven’s 2nd Concerto will be performed, followed by Tsfasman’s Jazz Suite for Piano and Orchestra and the 2nd Concerto by Moscow jazz composer Nikolai Kapustin.
The project will feature pianists: Elizaveta Ukrainskaya, Evgeny Izotov, Oleg Vainshtein, Alexander Maslov, Miroslav Kultyshev, Petr Laul, Timofey Kalmykov and Alexander Kashpurin. All concerts will be accompanied by the St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Titov.
Sheremetev Garden
September 5 at 19:00 The second concert will take place, presenting the new project of the Museum of Musical and Theatre Arts “Music in the Garden” (6+).
The Admiralty Orchestra of the Leningrad Naval Base, the oldest musical group of the Russian Navy, will perform waltzes, tangos, and marches. The head of the Admiralty Orchestra and conductor is Captain-Lieutenant Nikita Ignatov.
Admission to the concert is free.
Philharmonic of Jazz Music
September 6 at 19.00 The opening of the 36th concert season (12+) will take place. The Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra will perform this evening. The group will perform popular melodies by St. Petersburg composers, arranged for a jazz orchestra.
“Rodina” Cinema Center
From September 7 to 11 The festival “Modern Chinese Cinema” (18+) will be held at this venue.
Viewers can expect blockbusters, detectives and one thriller – all of them have recently been released in their home country. Petersburgers will see 5 films: “Cold Detective”, “A Story Without Words”, “100 Yards”, “The Vanishing Shadow”, “Blind Sword 2”.
The film screenings will be accompanied by an educational program related to Chinese culture, including master classes in wushu and calligraphy, tea tasting, and a lecture on Chinese cinema.
Alexandrinsky Theatre
September 8 at 19.00 The premiere of Nikita Kobelev’s play “Catherine and Voltaire” (16+) will take place in the Tsar’s Foyer.
The play is based on the correspondence that Russian Empress Catherine II conducted with the French philosopher and educator Voltaire over the course of 15 years, from 1763 to 1778. The sharpness of thought, the imagery of the phrase, the elegance of flattery, the duel and friendship of the two great contemporaries – all this is preserved in the letters and has become part of the poetics of the play. As the creators of the play say, to some extent this is an homage to the French theater of the 18th century with its elegant irony and farcical nature. And at the same time, this is the story of the formation of the personality of the Russian Empress, who considered herself a student of Voltaire. The main roles are played by Era Ziganshina and Igor Volkov.
