On October 28, the Grand Hall of the D. D. Shostakovich St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic, in the year of the 185th anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s birth, will host the final concert of this year’s Tchaikovsky Path project under the direction of People’s Artist of the USSR Yuri Bashmet.

A unique group, the Orchestra of Two Capitals, bringing together artists from the New Russia Orchestra and the Honored Russian Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic conducted by Maestro Yuri Bashmet, will perform three of Tchaikovsky’s great masterpieces: the Sixth Symphony, the First Piano Concerto, and the fantasy overture “Romeo and Juliet” – two of which the composer conducted in in this very hall at the last concert of his life on October 28, 1893. The performance of the united orchestra will take place on exactly the same date. The soloist in the program will be the famous Russian pianist Boris Berezovsky.

“Without exaggeration, I put my whole soul into this symphony. I love her as I have never loved any of my musical children,” Tchaikovsky wrote before the premiere of his latest Sixth Symphony, called “Pathetic.”

On October 28, 1893, at the premiere of the Sixth Symphony, Tchaikovsky made his last public appearance and stood at the conductor’s desk. The evening’s program also included the First Piano Concerto, a focus of joyful energy and joie de vivre, the opposite of a symphony on an emotional scale.

The Orchestra of Two Capitals, which unites musicians of the Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Academic Symphony Orchestra, an Honored Collective of Russia, will perform the composer’s last symphony in the Great Hall of the Philharmonic, where the final chord of his creative path sounded.

“This year, with the support of the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives, we are continuing and greatly expanding our large-scale Tchaikovsky’s Way project. In the year of the 185th anniversary of the birth of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, special concerts of the project have already been held in Klin, Votkinsk, Alapaevsk, Vladimir and Tambov regions, Moscow. On October 28, the final concert of this year’s cycle will take place in the legendary Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. I am very glad that the idea of performances by the orchestra of the Two capitals, which unites the musicians of the Honored Collective of Russia and my orchestra “Novaya Rossiya»is being continued within the framework of the Tchaikovsky Path project. Tchaikovsky is a composer incredibly connected with both St. Petersburg and Moscow. And it was in the Philharmonic hall that his last performance in his life took place. For me, the upcoming concert is a very special, creative and very personal event,” Yuri Bashmet said.

The concert will be held with the support of the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives.

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