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October 2025
www.philharmonia.spb.ru

01 October, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Violin and piano music evening

Ryu Hee Yoon - violin (South Korea)
Lee Som Seung - piano (South Korea)
J.-S. Bach: Sonata for violin and harpsichord; Messiaen: Fantaisie for Violin and Piano; Grieg: Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano; Tchaikovsky: Valse-Scherzo; Mendelssohn: Sonata for Violin and Piano

01 October, Wednesday 6:00 pm

Russian musical culture in the era of Peter the Great

Mikhail Aleinikov - lecturer

05 October, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Mozart. Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"

Conductor - Vyacheslav Valeyev
Dmitrii Khrychev - cello
Mozart: Symphony No. 41; Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Suite No. 4 "Mozartiana"

05 October, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Gypsy Strings Time

Gypsy Strings Time
Gasan Bagirov - guitar, vocal
Victor Rapotikhin - violin
Vladimir Kozlov - double bass
Ildar Kazakhanov - artistic director and soloist (guitar)

05 October, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Unusual instruments"

Impulse Percussion
Bizet: Overture to "Carmen"; O. Petrova: "Fa salt" for kitchen utensils; Nazarko: "Fantasy on Russian themes"; Grig: "In the Cave of the Mountain King" for big drum; Joplin: "Ragtime" for washboard; Vivaldi: "Le quattro stagioni" for scythe, tape recorder, wind machine and thunder; Semenov: "Concertino for Big drum"; J. Strauss: Polka "Blacksmith", Polka "Champagne", Polka"In the Pavlovsky forest", Polka "Hunting", Polka"Anna", Polka "Railway"; Anderson: "Piece for Typewriter", Polka "Plasterer"

06 October, Monday 6:00 pm

"Music is the sister of painting"
Images of music in Italian Renaissance painting

Olga Maho - lecturer

07 October, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Symphonic arrangements of The Beatles songs
On the 85th anniversary of John Lennon's birth

Conductor - Alexey Nyaga
Maria Zaisteva - cello, laureate of the International ARD Competition (1st prize, 2024)
Alexander Malich - presenter
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1, Cello Concerto; Symphonic arrangements of The Beatles songs

07 October, Tuesday 6:00 pm

"Concerts without music"
Ferenc Liszt and the first solo piano concert in Russian history

Olga Radvilovich - lecturer

09 October, Thursday 6:00 pm

"Entertained with music and dancing"
The musical life of the Russian nobility

Natalia Sidorova - lecturer

10 October, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Ravil Islyamov (violin)

Ravil Islyamov - violin
Svetlana Ponomareva - piano
Dvořák: Sonatina for violins and piano in G major; Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances; Islyamov: Three romances for violin and piano; Rimsky-Korsakov - Zimbalist: Fantasy on themes from the opera "The Golden Cockerel" for violin and piano; Chausson: Poème for violin and orchestra; Saint-Sa¸ns: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso; Sibelius: "Souvenir" for violin and piano, Novelette for Violin and Piano; Bizet - Waxman: Fantasy on the themes of “Carmen”

11 October, Saturday 12:00 pm

"There are few of us, the chosen ones, the idle happy ones..., the only beautiful priests"
Music in the lives of the heroes of A.S. Pushkin's works

Nadim Aidarov - lecturer

12 October, Sunday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Shostakovich. Symphony No. 9

Conductor - Valery Ovsyanikov
Anna Denisova - soprano
Natalia Entelis - presenter
Khachaturian: "Masquerade", Suite from music for Lermontov's drama; Glière: Concerto for Coloratura soprano and orchestra; Shostakovich: Symphony No.9

12 October, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
"He's a genius, just like you and me."


Evgenia Chernysheva
Anna Puchkova

Ruslan Tleubaev
Polina Lapteva - soprano
Ivan Vasiliev - baritone
Valery Kaula - bass
Elena Spist - piano
Alexander Galitsky - presenter
Mozart; Glinka

12 October, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"PRO legacy"

Divertissement Chamber Orchestra
Ilya Ioff - violin, artistic director
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 7, Sonata for Violin and Piano; Raskatov: "Seasons-Digest"; Tchaikovsky: Serenade for string orchestra

14 October, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Songs without words"

Valery Kuleshov - piano
Mendelssohn; Schubert – Liszt: Song transcriptions; Rachmaninoff – Wild: Song transcriptions

14 October, Tuesday 6:00 pm

"Breathing the same breath as Leningrad"
Philharmonia in 1941-1945

Julia Kantor - lecturer

15 October, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Rock hits

15 October, Wednesday 6:00 pm

"There was a great concert from the Italian capella"
Music at the court of Empress Anna Ioannovna

Natalia Bakhareva - lecturer

16 October, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Rachmaninoff. Piano Concerto No. 3
Sviridov. Poem in Memory of Sergei Esenin

Mikhailovsky Theatre Choir
Conductor - Alexander Soloviev
Ivan Bessonov - piano
Sergey Kuzmin - tenor

17 October, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Liszt. Piano Concerto No. 1
Brahms. Symphony No. 2

Conductor - Vladimir Altschuler
Valery Kuleshov - piano
Weber: Der Freischütz Overture; Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1; Brahms: Symphony No.2

18 October, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Cello Concertos

Chamber Orchestra
Dmitrii Khrychev - cello
J.-S. Bach; Vivaldi; Boccherini

19 October, Sunday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
"The Golden Cockerel"

Conductor - Mikhail Leontiev
Anna Mikhalkova - presenter
Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Golden Cockerel", Suite; Tcherepnin: "The Tale About the Fisherman and the Fish"

19 October, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
"There is music above us"
(Baroque era)

"Tempo di barocco"
Elena Serova - chembalo
Nadezda Khadzheva - mezzo-soprano
Anastasia Kaneeva - flute
Polina Udalova - violin
Lan Chi Pham - violin
Elizaveta Berezhnova - viola
Dmitry Kirillov - cello
Sergey Bliznetsov - oboe
Julia Gorbatova
Nikolai Stranatkovsky - trumpet
Natalia Entelis - presenter
J.-S. Bach; Handel; Purcell; Vivaldi

19 October, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Offering to St. Petersburg": from Peter the Great's Kants to the present day

Optina Pustyn Male Choir
Alexander Semyonov - artistic director

20 October, Monday 6:00 pm

"You know that I love you..."
"The young man playing the lute" and the echoes of Caravaggio's art in 17th-century Italian painting

Olga Maho - lecturer

21 October, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Music of Wanderings"

Peter Laul - piano
J.-S. Bach: Capriccio on the Departure of the Beloved Brother; Beethoven: Sonata No. 26; Mendelssohn: Fantasie; Schubert - Liszt: "The Wanderer", "Aufenthalt", "Wasserflut", "Der Lindenbaum"; Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy

21 October, Tuesday 6:00 pm

"Here they carry such a fire in their chest that they forget both snow and frost"
Hector Berlioz and the first solo piano concert in Russian history

Valeria Velichko - lecturer

22 October, Wednesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Rachmaninoff in jazz style

"Phonograph-Jazz-Quintet"
Sergey Zhilin

23 October, Thursday 6:00 pm

"God preserves everything"
Musical Theater of Kuskovo and Ostankino estates

Anastasia Alexandrova - lecturer

24 October, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Shostakovich. Symphony No. 4
Conductor – Nikolay Alexeev

25 October, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
New Chamber St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

New Chamber St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor - Yaroslav Zaboyarkin
Georgy Kovalevsky - presenter
Haydn: Symphony No. 13, Symphony No. 53 "L'impériale"

25 October, Saturday 12:00 pm

"And the sound of his song in the young soul remained - without words, but alive..."
Heroes of M.Y. Lermontov's works and music in their lives

Nadim Aidarov - lecturer

26 October, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Shostakovich. Ballet suites

Conductor - Petr Maximov
Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from the "Sleeping Beauty", Excerpts from "Swan Lake"; Shostakovich: Ballet suites

26 October, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Heroes of fairy tales in music
The Ugly Duckling, the Nutcracker, Cinderella, the Dwarf, Baba Yaga, Snow White and other characters


Anna Vikulina - soprano
Elena Spist - piano
Marina Beschastnykh - violin
Yuri Polosmakov - piano
Irina Smuckul - presenter
Prokofiev; Grieg; Tchaikovsky; Mussorgsky; Slonimsky

26 October, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninov

Julian Semenov-Bridey - piano
Chopin: Two mazurkas, Waltz, Nocturne, Five preludes, Ballade No. 4; Debussy: "Estampes"; Rachmaninoff: 6 Musical Moments

27 October, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Olesya Petrova
Vocal evening

Olesya Petrova - mezzo-soprano
Anastasia Rogalyova - piano
Romances
Medtner; Taneyev; Sviridov; Dunaevsky

28 October, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Violin music evening

Petr Fedotov - violin
Stanislav Soloviev - piano
Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano; Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3; Wieniawski: Brilliant Polonaise in A major, Polonaise de concert in D major, Op. 4; Ysaÿe: Elegic Poem for Violin and Piano; Gershwin - Frolov: "Porgy and Bess" Fantasia

28 October, Tuesday 6:00 pm

"Breathing the same breath as Leningrad"
Philharmonia in 1941-1945

Nadim Aidarov - lecturer

29 October, Wednesday 6:00 pm

"The century of songs" — music during the reign of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna

Aisulu Shukurova - lecturer

31 October, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Ilya Papoyan
Piano Evening
Opening of the XVI International Chamber Performance Festival “Silver Lyre”

J.-S. Bach; Rachmaninoff