On January 27, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall will host a concert dedicated to the 270th anniversary of the birth of W.A. Mozart as part of the VII Winter Art Festival in Moscow. Together with Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists Chamber Ensemble, outstanding soloists from different countries will create Mozart’s music, which symbolizes the multicultural affiliation of the composer’s work.

For Maestro Yuri Bashmet, Mozart is a special composer. The Concert Symphony for Violin, Viola and Orchestra occupies an important place in his repertoire: his partners have always been outstanding violinists and conductors. Yuri Bashmet was one of those artists who took part in the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth in Salzburg. There is another symbolic connection: the viola by Yuri Bashmet is by the same master Paolo Testore as the viola that Mozart once played.

“I happened to play it in Salzburg, in the house of the great composer. When they gave me his viola, I automatically read the master’s name on the instrument and was surprised: Mozart’s viola and mine turned out to be siblings! They have only three years difference,” the maestro shared.

German opera singer Simone Kermes will sing arias from Mozart’s rarely performed operas Lucius Sulla, Mithridates, King of Pontus, and Idomeneus. Simone Kermes admits that she is happy to return to Russia, to Moscow.: “I am energized by your audience and taking it with me.” Simone Kermes is considered one of the brightest and most extravagant singers of our time, whose art leaves no one indifferent.

Fabrizio Meloni, the first clarinet of the Orchestra of La Scala, will perform a rare Concerto for Clarinet and orchestra, an essay written by Mozart in the last year of his life.

The Viennese classical pianist Dmitry Masleev, winner of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, who received a special prize for his performance of Mozart’s Concerto No. 20, “for the subtlety of interpretation and understanding of style,” will also take part in the celebration. And on January 27, Dmitry Masleev will once again play this great music, full of drama and sublime melancholy.

The program is framed by the overture to the opera “The Marriage of Figaro” and Mozart’s Symphony No. 40. The secret of the popularity of Symphony No. 40 lies in its profound psychologism, the elegance of classicism and the anticipation of Romanticism, as well as in the universality of human experiences, conflicts and the search for harmony, which makes it understandable and close to every listener.

Based on the materials of the Musical Life magazine

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