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Running time:
1 part by 45 minutes, 2 part by 55 minutes
6+

Рrogramme:

I Part

Liszt–Beethoven
Fantasy on Motifs from Beethoven’s Ruins of Athens, S. 122

Liszt–Weber
Polonaise brillante, S. 367

Liszt–Schubert
Wanderer Fantasie, S. 366

II Part

Liszt
Fantasy on Hungarian Themes, S. 123

Malediction, S. 121

Piano Concerto No.2 in A major, S. 125

The programme is subject to change
16 April 2022 Saturday 18.00 Grand hall
18.00 Grand hall

Liszt-project
Alexander Ghindin, piano
Moscow State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Valentin Uryupin

Alexander Ghindin has been unanimously acclaimed by critics and music lovers as one of the most talented and original pianists of the present day. “Alexander Ghindin is not just a virtuoso, of which there are few on the stage today. He is also a true personality, a poet and a singer of the piano, an inspired lyricist and dramatist who has a subtle feel for the music and conveys the composers’ ideas” (Music Review, 2008). The pianist was born in 1977 in Moscow. He attended the Central School of Music of the Moscow Conservatoire (class of Professor M. S. Voskresensky), from which he graduated in 1994. It was also from Voskresensky’s class at the Moscow Conservatoire that he graduated with distinction in 1999, and in the same year he joined the Moscow State Philharmonic as a soloist. Before entering the Conservatoire in 1994, at the age of seventeen he became the youngest-ever laureate of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and is quickly establishing himself as one of the most sought-after pianists of his generation. Later he gained in Second prize at the International Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition in Brussels in 1999. These successes assisted the start of the pianist’s extremely intensive recital activities. 


The MSSO was founded in 1943 by the Government of the USSR and is one of the oldest symphony orchestras in Russia.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. Collaboration with Pavel Kogan has earned for the MSSO a reputation of the orchestra which has been propagating the highest standards of music proficiency, demonstrating artistic handling to programs development, having a wide range of loyal fans around the world. This wonderful tandem fully confirms its status from concert to concert. The Moscow State Symphony Orchestra never rests on its laurels and tirelessly strives for the peaks not yet conquered.