Repertoire

December 2025
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17 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Shostakovich. 24 Preludes and Fugues
Second Evening
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Peter Laul - piano

17 December, Wednesday 6:00 pm

Nikolai Rabinovich

Nadezhda Markaryan - lecturer

18 December, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Mozart. “Die Zauberflote”
Conductor – Philipp Chizhevsky
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

The Orchestra of the Novaya Opera Theatre
Choir of the Novaya Opera Theatre
Conductor, musical director - Philipp Chizhevsky
Nikolay Didenko - Sarastro
Yaroslav Abaimov - Prince Tamino
Antonina Vesenina - Queen of the Night
Galina Kruch - Pamina
Konstantin Suchkov - Papageno
Kristina Bikmaeva - Papagena
Anton Bochkarev - Monostatos
Boris Zhukov - orator, priest, warrior in armor
Georgy Farajev - priest, warrior in armor
Kristina Ponomaryova - lady, fairy Queen of the Night
Ekaterina Mirzoyants - lady, fairy Queen of the Night
Anastasia Lepeshinskaya - lady, fairy Queen of the Night
Artem Volchkov - magic boy
Saveliy Rodin - magic boy
Matvey Lysyakov - magic boy
Alexandra Koreneva - hammerklavier
Dmitry Gizbrecht - reciter
Anastasia Volynskaya - reciter
Mozart: "Die Zauberflöte"

18 December, Thursday 6:00 pm

"There is a nice country, there is a corner on earth..."
"Muranovo" Estate Museum

Anastasia Alexandrova - lecturer

19 December, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Valery Gergiev
In memoriam Rodion Shchedrin
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Choir of the Mariinsky Theatre
Shchedrin: "The Sealed Angel," Russian Liturgy for a cappella choir; Bruckner: Symphony No 8

20 December, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Alexander Sladkovsky
Soloist – Angel Wang (USA)
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Conductor - Alexander Sladkovsky
Angel Wang - piano
Mozart: Don Giovanni, Overture; Britten: Piano Concerto; R. Strauss: A Hero's Life (Ein Heldenleben), tone poem

20 December, Saturday 2:00 pm
Small Hall
Maestro Gorkovenko's Golden Repertoire
IV St. Petersburg Music Festival named after S.K. Gorkovenko

St. Petersburg State Governor's Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Maxim Alexeev
Elena Istratova - presenter
Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave, Italian Capriccio, Adagio from the ballet "The Nutcracker", Op. 71; Garayev: Waltz from the ballet "Seven Beauties"; Khachaturian: "Spartacus" & "Gayaneh", Excerpts from music ballets

20 December, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
The Maestro Temirkanov International Foundation for Cultural Initiatives
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Symphony Orchestra of the Special Music School of St Petersburg Conservatory
Conductor - Arkady Steinlucht
Petr Morozov - clarinet
Fedor Maksimov - cello
Anna Komarova - flute
Ivan Sendetsky - cello
Alexei Tishchenko - violin
Elizaveta Ukrainskaya - piano
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 4; Kraft: Cello Concerto; Rossini: Introduction, theme and variations for clarinet and orchestra; Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brillant; Chaminade : Flute Concertino; Elgar: Cello Concerto

20 December, Saturday 12:00 pm

"Casta diva" and more: vocal and instrumental music in the stories of I.A. Goncharov

Natalia Movnina - lecturer

21 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Sightseeing tour of the Great Hall, visit to the "royal rooms", introduction to the organ

Presenters are employees of the Philharmonic

21 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Dimitris Botinis
Soloist – Alexander Ramm
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Dutilleux: Cello Concerto “Tout un monde lointain...”; Tchaikovsky: Suite No 3

21 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
"Between Love and Rebellion"
(romanticism)

Oleg Vainstein - piano
Alexei Tishchenko - violin
Vera Chekanova - soprano
Mikhail Blekher - piano
Natalia Entelis - presenter
Schubert; Schumann; Chopin; Paganini

21 December, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Old and new"

Rastrelli Cello Quartet
Kirill Kravtsov - artistic director, cello
Mikhail Degtyarev - cello
Kirill Timopheev - cello (Germany)
Sergey Drabkin - cello
The program is subject to change
Vivaldi: La Folia; Grieg: Peer Gynt, fragments; Timopheev: "Theme with variations"; Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances; Gershwin: Clarinet Suite from the opera "Porgy and Bess"; Drabkin - Tariverdiev: "17 moments of swing"; Piazzolla: Oblivion, Fuga y Misterio, Libertango; "Dedication to Belarus" (arranged by S. Drabkin)

22 December, Monday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Ildar Abdrazakov
Vocal evening
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Ildar Abdrazakov - bass
Mzia Bachturidze - piano
Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti; Liszt: 3 Sonetti del Petrarca for voice and piano; Schubert: Three Songs for Bass and Piano; Ravel: 3 songs Don Quichotte à Dulcinée

22 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Moonlight sonnets of Russian and foreign music
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Symphony Choir of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic
Artistic director, conductor - Andrey Petrenko
Marina Prince - presenter
Whitaker: "Lux Aurumque"; Mendelssohn: "Mein Herz erhebet Gott", German Magnificat; Gounod: "La Nuit"; Schumann: "Dreams" from the cycle "Scenes from Childhood" for piano (free arrangement for choir by A. Petrenko); Rheinberger: "Abendlied", motet from the cycle "Three Spiritual Songs"; Dranitsyn: "Ave Maria zart", text and melody by Johann Georg Braun; Elgar: "Serenade"; Esenvalds: "Stars"; Gurilev: "The Bell Rings Monotonously", arrangement by A. Petrenko; Russian Folk Songs: "O, Field", arrangement by A. Novikov, "Dorozhenka", arrangement by A. Sveshnikov, "Troika", arrangement by O. Kolovsky, revised by A. Petrenko, "White Bird Cherry," arranged by M. Serkov; Dranitsyn: "Evening Bells," variations on a Russian folk song; Banevich: "On the Quiet Pipe of Love"; Falik: "Stranger"; Smirnov: "On a Quiet Night..." from the cycle "Three Intermezzo on the Poems of I. Bunin.", "Approaching Izhora..." from the cycle "Five Poems by Russian Poets."; Abaza: "Foggy Morning," arranged for chorus by A. Petrenko; Rosenfeld: "My Happiness"; Tsfasman: "Unsuccessful Date," arranged by A. Petrenko; Gordon: "At the Samovar"; Soloviev-Sedoy: "Moscow Nights," free arrangement by A. Petrenko; Gavrilin: "The City Sleeps," arranged by A. Petrenko

23 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Alexander Lazarev
Soloist – Nikolay Lugansky
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia "Evgeny Svetlanov"
Grieg: Piano Concerto; Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 ("The Year 1905")

23 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Laureates of the Hibla Gerzmava Vocal Competition
Vocal evening
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Polina Sharovarova - mezzo-soprano
Stanislav Lee - baritone
Mark Vasa - piano
Mozart: Aria of Sextus from the opera "La clemenza di Tito", Count Almaviva's aria from the opera "Le Nozze di Figaro"; Rossini: Rosina's Cavatina from the opera "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", Cavatina Figaro from the opera "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", Duet of Figaro and Rosina the opera "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"; Tchaikovsky: "Meditation", Robert's aria from the opera "Iolanthe", Don Giovanni's Serenade, "Amid the noisy ball"; Rimsky-Korsakov: Lelya's song "A cloud conspired with thunder..." from the opera "The Snow Maiden"; Medtner: Canzona-Serenade; Glier: "Night is Coming"; Rachmaninoff: "In the Silence of the Secret Night", "I'm Waiting for You", "Yesterday We Met..."; Mussorgsky: Trepak ("Songs on Death Belts"); Kalman: The aria of Mr. X from the operetta "Die Zirkusprinzessin"; Offenbach: Countess of Gerolstein's Aria from the operetta "La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein"; Chopin: Etude ("Revolutionary"); Montsalvatge: "Five Negro Songs" (Nos. 1, 4, and 5); di Capua: "O sole mio"

23 December, Tuesday 6:00 pm

Towards Victory
Music in Leningrad 1944-1945

Irina Karpenko - lecturer