Repertoire

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27 December, Saturday 11:30 am
Grand Hall
Sightseeing tour of the Great Hall, visit to the "royal rooms", introduction to the organ

Presenters are employees of the Philharmonic

27 December, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"Tavrichesky Symphony" Orchestra

Tauric Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Mikhail Golikov
Williams: Music from the movie "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", Music from the movie "Home Alone"; Schifrin: Music from the movie "Mission Impossible"; Morricone: Music from "Once Upon a Time in America"; Morris: Music from the movie Dirty Dancing, Medley "Christmas in the movies"; Tariverdiev: Waltz and "Snow over Leningrad" from the movie "Irony of Fate, or With a light steam"; Lepin: Medley from the movie "Carnival Night"; Zatsepin: Medley from the films of Leonid Gaidai; Gladkov: Medley from the movie "Gentlemen of Fortune", Medley from the movie "Formula of Love"

27 December, Saturday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
"The Magic of Strauss"

State Russian concert orchestra
Conductor - Vladimir Andropov
Elena Zastavnaya - soprano
Alexander Gontsa - baritone

27 December, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Towards the virtuosos"

Maria Shalgina - violin
Dmitrii Petrov - violin, viola
Daria Shaposhnikova - piano
Ravel: "Gypsy", Rhapsody for Violin and Piano; Sarasate: "Navarra"; Glier: Duets for two violins; Bizet – Waxman: Fantasy on themes from the opera "Carmen" for violin and piano; Bacewicz: Suite for two violins; Shostakovich: Five pieces for two violins and piano; Rakov: Five pieces for two violins and piano; Halvorsen: Concert Caprice on Norwegian melodies for two violins; Handel – Halvorsen: Passacaglia for violin and viola; Frolov: Jazz pieces for two violins and piano

28 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Evening of popular piano concerts
Soloist – Alexander Ghindin

Conductor - Valery Ovsyanikov
Alexander Ghindin - piano
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23; Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2; Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1

28 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
A New Year's Tale

Chizhik Jazz Trio
Irina Chizhik - reader
Julia Labutina - sand animation
Irina Smuckul - presenter
"The Nutcracker", composition to music for Tchaikovsky's ballet; "Cinderella", composition to music for Prokofiev's ballet

28 December, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Johann Sebastian Bach
On the 500th anniversary of the birth of G. Palestrina and the 340th anniversary of J.S. Bach's birth

Festino Vocal Ensemble
Artistic director, conductor - Alexandra Makarova
Palestrina: Motet "Sicut cervus", Missa Papae Marcelli; Bach: Three motets (No. 1, 3 and 5)

29 December, Monday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Teodor Currentzis
Prokofiev. "Cinderella", ballet music

MusicAeterna orchestra

29 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Four Seasons" Concert

Chamber Orchestra
Ksenia Cuellar - flute
Tikhon Lukyanenko - violin, percussion
Nikolai Mazhara - piano
Petr Gogitidze - contrabass
Vivaldi: "Le quattro stagioni"; Tchaikovsky: "The Seasons", pieces from the cycle in jazz arrangement by Svetlana Nesterova

30 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Christmas Organ Party
Featuring video projections of the interiors of famous European cathedrals

Baptiste-Florian Marle-Ouvrard - organ
J.-S. Bach: Prelude in C major, BWV 547; Franck: Pastoral; Tchaikovsky: Fragments from The Nutcracker; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Marl-Uvar: Improvisation

30 December, Tuesday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
"Masterpieces of the Classics"
Music for duduk
Festive concert

Argishty - duduk (Armenia)
Artur Bochkivsky - guitar
Olga Pakhomova - cello
“Coolness of the Mountains”, Armenian folk melody; Tchaikovsky: "Sweet Dream", "Old French Song", Lensky's aria from the opera "Eugene Onegin"; Bach: Aria from the suite, Counterpoint, “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ”, chorale prelude; Schubert: Serenade, Ave Maria; Pachelbel: Sarabande; Purcell: Dido's Aria; Bach – Gounod: Ave Maria; Albinoni: Adagio; Harito: “The chrysanthemums have bloomed in the garden”; Caccini: Ave Maria; Fleischman: Lullaby

30 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Piazzolla
"Remolino" Ensemble

"Remolino" Ensemble
Emil Iakovlev - violin
Oleg Gulevsky - button accordion
Kirill Grigoriev - double bass
Mikhail Blekher - harpsichord
Polina Redko - flute
Piazzolla: "Summer" and "Winter" from "Four Seasons in Buenos Aires", "Michelangelo 70", Nightclub 1960, "Contrabajissimo", Maria de Buenos Aires, excerpts from tango operita, Concerto for Quartet; Brahms: Hungarian Dance No 1; Dinicu: Hora Martisorului; Rota: Fantasy on themes from film music; Kancheli: "A Little Daneliad"; Galliano: Allegro vivace, Allegro

31 December, Wednesday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
"New Year's Adventures with Olympic Brass"

Olympic Brass Ensemble
Woodward: “Ding Dong Merrily on High”; Jones: “Soul Bossa Nova”; Prado: “Ni hablar”; Ruiz: “Sway”; Jobim: "The Girl from Ipanema"; Helms: “Jingle Bell Rock”; Miller: "In the Mood"; Prima: “Sing, Sing, Sing”; Ignatiev-Larionov: Potpourri on themes from the cartoon "Well, wait!"; Zatsepin: Music from the films "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession", "The Caucasian Captive"; Gladkov: The song of wild guitars from the film "The New Year Adventures of Masha and Vitya"; Pakhmutova: "Girls"; Anderson: “Happy New Year”; Brown: “I Got You”; Jackson: "Black or White", "Billie Jean"; Parker: Music from the movie "Ghostbusters"; Edelman: Music from the movie "The Mask"

31 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
New Year's Concert

Conductor - Nikolay Alexeev
Soloists – artists of the Honored Collective of Russia
Alexander Malich - presenter

31 December, Wednesday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
New Year's concert
A. Lubyantsev (piano) and E. Lubyantseva (violin)

Tchaikovsky: Valse-Scherzo; Beethoven: Sonata No. 14; Schubert - Liszt: "Forest King" ("Erlkönig"); Liszt: Mephisto Waltz, 6 Concert Etudes after Paganini Caprices; Bach - Gounod: "Ave Maria"; Schubert - Liszt: Serenade

31 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"New Year cocktail"

Chamber Olympic Orchestra
Conductor - Alexander Golikov
Alexander Kashpurin - piano
Vivaldi; Tchaikovsky; Strauss; Gershwin; Tsfasman

01 January, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Mikhail Golikov
Soloist – Ivan Bessonov

Tauric Symphony Orchestra
Medtner: Sonata-Reminiscenza; Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major; Tchaikovsky - Pletnev: Concert suite from the ballet "The Nutcracker"; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No 2

02 January, Friday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
"And it's snowing"

Fonograf jazz band
Sergey Zhilin

02 January, Friday 12:00 pm
Small Hall
New Year's adventures of sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka

Artists of the St. Petersburg State Philharmonic Society for Children and Youth
Sergey Solovyov
Marina Alfeyeva
Anastasia Batanova
Leonid Vishnyakov
Chamber Orchestra
Artistic director and conductor - Mikhail Golikov
Andrey Maksimkov - script writer
Evgeny Zimin - director-producer

02 January, Friday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Concert of Baroque music "by candlelight"

Pushkin chamber orchestra
Ekaterina Nagornaya - violin
Tatiana Komissarova - viola
Lyudmila Gutsevich - cello
Andrey Tsarev - contrabass, lute
Georgy Kvarazchelia - harpsichord
Olga Chernova - violin
Pachelbel: Canon; Dowland: "Forlorn Hope Fancy"; Handel: "Son come navicella", "Lascia ch'io pianga"; Rameau: Fifth Concert in D minor for clavecin; J.-S. Bach: Suite for Orchestra No 3, "Joke" from Suite for Flute and String Orchestra; Telemann: Viola Concerto in G major; Corelli: Christmas Concerto; Vivaldi: Concert No. 4 in F minor "Winter"

02 January, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Music of Vienna"

Ensemble of artists of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Ilia Kozlov - violin
Elena Zastavnaya - soprano
Egor Chubakov - baritone
Mavzhida Gimaletdinova - piano
Dmitry Eremin - cello
Mozart: Overture from The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni aria from "Don Giovanni", "Eine kleine Nachtmusik", Piano Concerto No. 21, Duet (Duet Papageno and Papagena) from "Die Zauberflöte", "Turkish March" from Piano Sonata No. 11; J. Strauss II: "Voices of Spring" Waltz, "Tric-trac" Polka, Tik-Tak Polka, Pizzicato Polka, The Persian March, "Viennese Blood", Waltz, On The Beautiful Blue Danube; Haydn: Serenade; Lehár: Giuditta's aria from Operetta “Giuditta”; Lumbye: Champagne Galop