St. Petersburg Governor's Symphony Orchestra: Rimsky-Korsakov. Rachmaninov. Khachaturian

Watch the recording of the concert of the St. Petersburg Governor's Symphony Orchestra Rimsky-Korsakov on the Orpheus media platform. Rachmaninov. Khachaturian" from the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory.

Conductor: Anton Lubchenko

Soloist: Philip Kopachevsky, laureate of international competitions, piano

In the program:

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

"Night on Mount Triglav", symphonic suite from the music to Act III of the opera and ballet "Mlada", Op. deest 34b

Initially, the writing of an unusual work in the genre, including detailed dance and vocal scenes, based on a mythological plot about the life of the Western Slavs, was distributed among four composers: Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Kui and Borodin. However, later Rimsky-Korsakov became the main author, a great master of orchestration, whose talent was vividly manifested in creating the fabulous flavor of "Young".

Sergei Rachmaninov

Concerto No. 4 in G Minor for piano and orchestra, Op. 40 (1941 edition)

Rachmaninoff returned to the score of the Fourth Piano Concerto on several occasions. In the final edition (1941) of the composition, in which one of the most famous Russian pianists of his generation, Philip Kopachevsky, will perform the solo part, the composer's thoughts about the impending world catastrophe and the lost light prevail. The dominant intonations of anxiety and ominous tragedy are set off in the Concert by nostalgic moods and gentle lyrics, as if shrouded in a haze of the past.

Aram Khachaturian

Symphony No. 2 in E minor ("With the Bell"), Op. 56

Khachaturian's second symphony is a wartime creation. In addition to heroic and tragic images, the monumental composition also contains echoes of hope and faith in a bright future, although the composer noted: "I did not want listeners to look here for specific illustrations to paintings of inhuman suffering caused by fascist monsters. But I can't help but admit that when I was writing Andante (Part III), I had tragic pictures of German atrocities in front of me."

The performance of the Second Symphony, in which images of war and peace are fused together, is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.

Moscow. The Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. June 28, 2025