Season ticket №6

The subscription “Around the World with German Musicians” presents to the audience the performing elite of Germany and the German-speaking space. Over the years, the subscription has acquired a loyal audience interested not only in meeting new European names. The programs include the most interesting, but rarely performed works of classics and romanticism, original conductor’s interpretations of well-known works, “hits” of contemporaries. The new season will delight listeners with meetings with already familiar musicians and brightest young talents storming the musical Olympus.

German percussionist and composer Alexey Gerasimets bewitches audiences of any age with his art. Together with the charming maestro Felix Mildenberger, they will present a concert-extravaganza by Kalevi Aho (Finland), in which practically all existing percussion instruments will “speak”. Among the undoubted highlights of the subscription is the composition by Kurt Atterberg (Sweden) for the solo French horn with orchestra.

Jörg Brueckner, highly appreciated by Petersburgers, is a true knight of his instrument, capable of reflecting with his playing all the emotional richness of this score. Sicilian temperament and German quality of the highest standard are combined in the creative manner of clarinetist Ralph Manno. The concert of Aaron Copland, a composer who plays in music with an abundance of styles, combining classics with elements of jazz, is performed by the musician with a unique passion.

Among the symphonic works of the subscription are Beethoven’s large-scale 4 and 7 symphonies interpreted by Alexander Chernushenko and Felix Mildenberger, the famous Coriolanus overture, the great score of F. Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony in a solid German reading by the native of Saxony Eckehard Stir. The conductor also included in the program a piece by a forgotten German with a “Russian destiny” by Eugene Reiche – a concert for trombone and orchestra.

And the March program will satisfy the listener’s eternal desire for beauty and harmony of the highest order. Felix Renggli, the creative heir to the legendary flutist Aurel Nicolet, invites you on an interesting journey through the Mozart era. The panorama of the offered works is impressive: the concert symphony of the gallant I.K. Bach, F. Danzi’s virtuoso Double Concerto and Mozart’s “pearl” – Concerto for flute, harp and orchestra.