
Shostakovich. Kuryokhin
The IV St. Petersburg Music Festival named after S.K. Gorkovenko is held in the Northern Capital from November 24 to December 23. Each year, the festival introduces listeners to new and little-known musical genres, inspiring a rethinking of familiar works.
This year, the program of the IV St. Petersburg Music Festival named after S.K. Gorkovenko is dedicated to several significant dates: the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 80th anniversary of the Governor's Symphony Orchestra, founded on May 10, 1945; the 100th anniversary of composer Veniamin Basner and theater and film actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky; the 120th anniversary of directors Grigory Kozintsev, Alexander Faintsimer, and Leo Arnshtam; and the 185th anniversary of Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
On November 28, the newly reopened Sergei Kuryokhin Center for Contemporary Art will host the concert "Shostakovich. Kuryokhin."
The program will feature music by two outstanding composers: Sergei Kuryokhin, an avant-garde musician, from the films "The Master Designer," "Two Captains 2," "Prison Romance," "Three Sisters," music for the play "Capriccio," and "Tibetan Tango." Dmitri Shostakovich, in the restored version by composer Vadim Bibergan for the 1936 animated film "The Tale of the Priest and Balda the Worker," based on Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale by the distinguished Soviet artist and animation director Mikhail Tsekhanovsky.
Reciter: Andrei Urgant.
PROGRAM:
Dmitri Shostakovich. The Tale of the Priest and the Worker Balda, music for the animated film (restored version by V. Bibergan), Op. 36 (1934)
Sergey Kuryokhin. Roof from the film "Mr. Designer" (1988);
"Micro-Aphasia Effect" from the film "Two Captains - 2" (1992)
"Tibetan Tango" (1983);
Excerpt from the music for the film "Prison Romance" (1993);
Excerpt from the music for the film "Three Sisters" (1994);
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra from the music for the play "Capriccio" (1986);
"Donna Anna" from the film "Mr. Designer" (1988).
PERFORMERS:
Governor's Symphony Orchestra
Conductor — Anton LUBCHENKO
Reader: Andrey Urgant.
Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, November 28







