The Orchestra led by Pavel Kogan performs music of one of the greatest symphonic composers Richard Strauss during the concert at the Zaryadye Hall.

During the first part of the concert, strings and wind groups perform separately in order to play in succession “Serenade” for wind instruments (1882) and “Metamorphosen” for strings (1945). From an early Mozart-influenced piece to one of the latest ones, written during the last year of the IIWW, and informed by the War.

The second part features the full Orchestra playing one of the main Strauss tone poems – and one of the most vivid ones – “Ein Heldenleben” (“A Hero's Life”, 1898).

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Pavel Kogan was born into a famous music family. His parents, Leonid Kogan and Elizaveta Gilels, were legendary violin virtuosi, his uncle Emil Gilels was truly great world-renowned pianist. Since his very young age, the future Maestro studied both violin and conducting. Pavel Kogan debuted as conductor in 1972, and he has been busy touring and leading Russian and/or foreign orchestras ever since. In 1989, he became the music director of Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra to make it one of the most popular orchestras in Russia.

Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1943 by the order of Soviet Government. It is one of the oldest symphony orchestras in Russia. People’s Artist Lev Shteinberg was its first conductor. The Orchestra is famous for its interpretation of Soviet and Russian classical pieces; Prokofiev, Myaskovsky, and Shostakovich oeuvres were among many pieces the Orchestra premiered. With Kogan, the new era for the Orchestra started. Programmes of entire catalogues of symphonies of great composers such as Brahms, Beethoven, Mahler, Brukner etc. became its “business card”.

The concert is a part of the Year of Germany in Russia 2020/2021.

OOO “Concert Agency ‘Ruskontsert’”
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This concert is not included in discount programme of the Moscow Concert Hall “Zaryadye”