Repertoire

December 2025
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01 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Russian romance"

Maxim Rubtsov - flute
Peter Laul - piano
Tchaikovsky; Rachmaninoff; Rimsky-Korsakov; Taneyev; Glazunov; Glinka; Lyadov; Arensky; Alyabyev; Grechaninov

01 December, Monday 6:00 pm

Angelica Kaufman
At the crossroads between painting and music

Lyudmila Frolova - lecturer

02 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Shostakovich. Intermissions from the opera "Katerina Izmailova"
Suite from the ballet "Bolt"

Conductor - Felix Korobov
Bizet - Shchedrin: Carmen suite; Shostakovich: Festive Overture, Five orchestral interludes from the opera Katerina Izmaylova, Bolt, Suite from the ballet

02 December, Tuesday 6:00 pm

The Birth of a Masterpiece from Tragic Circumstances
The first Russian composer with world fame, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and the last concert in his life

Marina Monakhova - lecturer

03 December, Wednesday 12:00 pm
Grand Hall
Sightseeing tour of the Great Hall, visit to the "royal rooms"

Presenters are employees of the Philharmonic

03 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
Gala concert "Bass Parade"
II F.I. Chaliapin Art Festival "The Gift"

"Northern Sinfonia" Symphony Orchestra
Choir and soloists of the F.I. Chaliapin Musical Theater
Conductor - Fabio Mastrangelo
Mikhail Kolelishvili - bass
Dmitry Skorikov - bass
Alexander Bezrukov - bass
Vladimir Vaneev - bass
Mikhail Dzyudze - double bass balalaika
Ilya Finkelstein - contrabass
Arias and duets from operas
Mozart; Rossini; Gounod; Verdi; Glinka; Dargomyzhsky; Mussorgsky; Borodin; Rimsky-Korsakov; Tchaikovsky; Rachmaninoff

03 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"In the expanses of Latin America"
Jazz Music Evening

Konstantin Maminov - saxophone
Gasan Bagirov - guitar, vocals
Vladimir Kozlov - double bass
Konstantin Kuvaytsev - percussion
Jobim; Piazzolla; Joaquín

03 December, Wednesday 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

Mikhail Aleinikov - lecturer

04 December, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"Symphonic Express"
Music of Russian cinema

Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory
Conductor - Anton Gakkel
Irina Mataeva - soprano
Sergey Romanov - baritone
Dunaevsky: Music from the film "Children of Captain Grant"; Petrov: Music from the film "Beware of the Car"; Zatsepin: Music from the films "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style," "Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession," "The Diamond Arm," "Sannikov Land"; Gladkov: Music from the film "Gentlemen of Fortune"; Dashkevich: Music from the television film "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson"; Poteenko: Music from the film "Night Watch"; Doga: Music from the film "My Sweet and Tender Beast"; Pakhmutova: "Heroes of Sports"; Artemyev: Music from the films "Slave of Love," "At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own," "Legend No. 17" "Sibiriada"; Krylatov: Music from the TV movie "The Adventures of Electronics"

04 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Chamber music evening

Evgenii Ryzhkov - double bass
Dmitrii Khrychev - cello
Vera Vasileva - violin
Vsevolod Lenskikh - violin
Argine Stepanian - violin
Viktoriia Velkova - violin
Aleksei Bogorad - viola
Aleksandr Chizhov - viola
Taras Trepel - cello
Gleb Dyagilev - double bass
Bottesini: Grande Allegro di Concerto (alla Mendelssohn), Concert duet for cello and double bass with orchestra on themes from Bellini’s opera “The Puritans”; Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings

04 December, Thursday 6:00 pm

"I'm writing the story of my life..."
Music of Kiryanovo Manor by E.R. Vorontsova-Dashkova

Anastasia Alexandrova - lecturer

05 December, Friday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Sightseeing tour of the Great Hall, visit to the "royal rooms". Getting to know the organ

Presenters are employees of the Philharmonic

05 December, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Mozart. Overture to the opera "Le nozze di Figaro"
Flute and Harp Concerto

Conductor - Anatoly Rybalko
Georgii Dolgov - flute
Ekaterina Semion - harp
Mozart: Overture from The Marriage of Figaro, Flute and Harp Concerto; Beethoven: Symphony No.2

06 December, Saturday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Concert in the Foyer | Third Concert of the Season

Dmitrii Petrov - comments on the program

06 December, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Konstantin Raikin
"The most beloved"
On the anniversary of the artist

06 December, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Romance Forever" Gala Concert
Opening of the II International Festival "The World of Classical Romance"

Daria Terekhova - soprano
Alexey Tikhomirov - bass
Albert Zhalilov - baritone
Agunda Kulaeva - soprano
Joseph Nikitenko - tenor
Yaramir Nizamutdinov - tenor
Ramiz Usmanov - tenor
Georgy Migunov - piano
Maria Chernova - piano
Irina Soboleva - piano
Debussy: Pierrot; R. Strauss: "Cecilia"; Alyabyev: "Nightingale"; Dargomyzhsky: "The Old Corporal"; Rachmaninoff: "Fate"; Mussorgsky: "Serenade" from the cycle "Songs and Dances of Death", "Flea"; Glinka: "Passing song", Romance "In the blood burning fire of desire"; Rubinstein: The Night; Rachmaninoff: "Well here"; Tchaikovsky: "Was I not a blade of grass in the field?", "Does the day reign"; Schubert: "Ave Maria"; Glinka: "I remember the wonderful moment"; Rimsky-Korsakov: "The flying ridge of clouds is thinning"; Tchaikovsky: "I would like to put it in one word"; Rimsky-Korsakov: "Not the wind, blowing from the heights"

06 December, Saturday 12:00 pm

From Urban Romance to "Ode to Joy": Music in the Works of F.M. Dostoevsky

Maria Mikhnovets - lecturer

07 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
"The Golden Key"

Children's choir of TV and radio of St.Petersburg
Igor Gribkov - choirmaster
Conductor - Pavel Bubelnikov
Anna Mikhalkova - presenter
Weinberg: "The Golden Key", suite No. 4 from the ballet based on the fairy tale of the same name by A.N. Tolstoy; Tchaikovsky: Fragments from The Nutcracker

07 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
XIV St. Petersburg Embankments International Music Festival

Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad State Regional Philharmonic
Women's Chamber Choir "Rimsky-Korsakov"
Sergey Ekimov - artistic director
Maria Safaryants - violin
Vladislav Sulimsky - baritone
Chiara Taigi - soprano (Italy)
Raffaele Abete - tenor (Italy)
Mikhail Gantvarg - violin
Federico Mondelci - saxophone
Helen Egiazaryan - soprano (Armenia)
Sergey Slovachevsky - cello
Ilia Papoian - piano
Hovhannes Nersesyan - bass
Stanislav Soloviev - piano
Alexei Golovin - oboe
conductor - Mikhail Golikov
Mozart: Overture to Die Zauberflöte; J.-S. Bach: Violin Concerto in E major; Vitali: Chaccona; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No 2; Tchaikovsky: Robert's Aria from "Iolanta"; Verdi: Aria “Pace, pace mio Dio” from "La Forza del Destino" (Leonora); Mascagni: Santuzza's Romance from the opera "Cavalleria Rusticana"; Sokolik: Fantasy on themes from classical works for cello, oboe and piano with orchestra; Tariverdiev: "Snow over Leningrad"; Sobolev: Witch's Dance "Alla cubana"; Piovani: Music from the film "Life is Beautiful" for saxophone with orchestra; Legrand: Fantasy on themes from movies for violin and saxophone with orchestra; Di Marino: "Red" from the suite "Four Colors" for accordion and orchestra; Piazzolla: "Winter" from the cycle "Seasons in Buenos Aires" for violin and accordion and orchestra

07 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Voices of the Academy

Graduates and soloists of the International Academy of Music Elena Obraztsova
Vocal music by Russian and foreign composers

07 December, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Brahms. Personal motives"

Artists of the "Divertissement" Chamber Orchestra

Vyacheslav Agabekov - viola
Serafim Volkov - cello
Varvara Kastorskaya
Ilya Ioff - violin
Lydia Kovalenko - viola
Stanislav Soloviev - piano
Artem Vargaftik - author of the idea and presenter
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1, String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Selected Songs, Letters, Poems

08 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Northern Sinfonia" Symphony Orchestra

"Northern Sinfonia" Symphony Orchestra
Artistic director and conductor - Fabio Mastrangelo
Olesia Tertychnaia - flute
Dvořák: Serenade for Strings; Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1, Symphony No 36 "Linz"

09 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Teodor Currentzis
Chemberdzhi, Wagner

MusicAeterna orchestra
MusicAeterna Chior
Chamberjee: "Nur zu weinen und zu singen" ("Only to cry and sing"), an oratorio for large orchestra, mixed choir, and tenor solo, based on poems by Joseph Brodsky; Wagner: "The Ring without Words", Symphony Fantasia

09 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Evening of vocal music

09 December, Tuesday 6:00 pm

"Sounding Memory"
Leningrad Symphony in Museum Expositions and Collections

Irina Karpenko - lecturer

10 December, Wednesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Yury Temirkanov's birthday

Conductor - Nikolay Alexeev
Vadim Rudenko - piano
Lyadov: "The Enchanted Lake", 'Kikimora"; Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Paganini Theme for Piano and Orchestra; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5

10 December, Wednesday 6:00 pm

Musical tastes of the "Russian Hamlet"
Paul I and his era

Aisulu Shukurova - lecturer

11 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
Music of the Russian Guard
Dedicated to the Heroes of the Fatherland Day

Leningrad Military District Navy Admiralty Band
A.I. Krylov Academic Choir
Yana Volkonskaya
Anna Golovina
Conductor - Nikita Ignatov
Alexander Pakhmutov - baritone
Mussorgsky: The Capture of Kars; Shatrov: "On the Manchurian Hills"; Glinka: "Glory" from the opera "A Life for the Tsar"; Kozlovsky: "Thunder of victory, give yourself away!"; Arensky: "God is with us", march in memory of A.V. Suvorov; Leisek: "Prince Kutuzov", a solemn march; Andreev: "Orchid", waltz; Khalilov: "General Miloradovich", march; Tchaikovsky: The Slavic March; Anisimov: "The Varyag Cruiser", fantasy overture; Agapkin: "Farewell of the Slavs", march; Myaskovsky: Dramatic overture for brass band; Pakhmutova: "Commander Zhukov", march; Ermishev: We are the Marine Corps

11 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music

Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music
Konstantin Efimov - flute
Oleg Tantsov - clarinet
Mikhail Dubov - piano
Evgeny Subbotin - violin
Olga Diomina - cello
Evsevy Zubkov
Alexander Radvilovich - presenter
Boulez: Derive 1 for ensemble and vibraphone (1984); Furrer: Melody for solo flute (2020); Feldman: Duration # 1 for alto flute, violin, cello, and piano (1960); Radvilovich: Two Poems for clarinet and chamber ensemble ("Scardanelli Lines," "Going into the Fog," 2019, 2021); Apergiz: Graffitis for solo percussion (1981); Ekimovsky: Composition No. 2 for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (1969); Rezetdinov: "Charlie's Smile," a grotesque suite for instrumental ensemble and percussion (2025, first performance)

12 December, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Tauric Symphony Orchestra
For the anniversary of the orchestra

Tauric Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Mikhail Golikov
Mikhail Peisel - cello
Mikhail Vasiliev - cello
Beethoven: Overture "Egmont"; Elgar: Cello Concerto; Brahms: Hungarian Dances; Rossini: Overture from "The thieving magpie"; Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme; Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte; Monti: Csardas

12 December, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Concert for the Maestro's birthday

"Flautissimo" Quartet
Dmitry Terentyev - flute
Olesia Tertychnaia
Marianna Murzina - flute
Ksenia Cuellar - flute
Taneyev Quartet
Ilia Kozlov - violin
Dmitrii Koriavko - violin
Denis Gonchar - viola
Dmitry Eremin - cello
Conductor - Yaroslav Zaboyarkin
Lev Klychkov - violin
Anna Makarova - harp
Pavel Popov - violin
Ilia Kozlov - violin
Iurii Ushchapovskii - violin
Aleksei Bogorad - viola
Dmitrii Khrychev - cello
Taras Trepel - cello
Evgenii Ryzhkov - double bass
Artem Isaev - oboe
Nikita Liutikov - clarinet
Denis Sukhov - clarinet
Oleg Skrotskiy - french horn
Maksim Pankov - piano
Evgeny Izotov - piano
Schubert: Trio No.2 in E flat Major; Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 2 in F major ("Kabardinsky"); R. Strauss: Andante for Horn and Piano; Paganini: Cantabile; Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Elgar: “Salut d’amour”; Massenet: "Reflection" from the opera "Thais"; Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Tsfasman: Intermezzo for clarinet; Legrand: Music from "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg"; Glazunov: Chant du menestrele for Cello and Orchestra; Lovreglio: Fantasy on themes from Bellini's opera "Norma" for oboe, clarinet and chamber orchestra

13 December, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Nikolay Aleõeev
Soloist – Denis Matsuev
Opening of the festival
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1; Brahms: Symphony No 4

13 December, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Vadim Monastyrsky
Piano evening

Bartók: Piano Suite; R. Strauss: Stimmungsbilder for piano; Liszt: Two Petrarch Sonnets, Sonata h-moll

14 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Opera Gala
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Conductor - Alexander Soloviev
Aida Garifullina - soprano
Ivan Gyngazov - tenor
Semyon Antakov - baritone
Overtures, arias and duets from operas by Russian and foreign composers

14 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
"Inspired by romanticism"

Valentina Fedeneva - soprano
Anna Vikulina - soprano
Vladimir Tselebrovsky - baritone
Ilya Chirskov - piano
Elena Spist - piano
Alina Komarkova - piano
Alexander Galitsky - presenter
Liszt; Verdi; Tchaikovsky

14 December, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Both duet and solo"
Compositions for piano and piano ensembles

Anna Sheludko - piano
Evgeny Izotov - piano
Shostakovich: Selected Prelude, op. 34; Prokofiev: Six fragments from the suite "Romeo and Juliet"; Shostakovich: Concertino for two pianos; Prokofiev - Pletnev: Suite from the ballet "Cinderella"

15 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Invitation to dance"
Haik Kazazyan (violin)
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Haik Kazazyan - violin
Evgenij Starodubcev - piano
Mozart; Kreisler; Dvořák; Sarasate; de Falla; Bartók; Tchaikovsky; Stravinsky; Wieniawski; Brahms; Khachaturian; Ravel; Bazzini

15 December, Monday 6:00 pm

"Thunder of victory resound!"
His Serene Highness Prince G.A. Potemkin-Tavrichesky and Music

Natalia Bakhareva - lecturer

16 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Yuri Bashmet
New Russia State Symphony Orchestra
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

New Russia State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Yuri Bashmet
Vadim Repin - violin
Alexander Ramm - cello
Ekaterina Mechetina - piano
Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Symphony No.5

16 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Shostakovich. 24 Preludes and Fugues
First Evening
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Peter Laul - piano

16 December, Tuesday 6:00 pm

"My dear, wonderful orchestra..."
Alexander Glazunov at the helm of the Court Orchestra

Olga Radvilovich - lecturer

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

"Between friends sometimes, sometimes I sing with the bay..."
Musical tastes of Nikolai Alexandrovich Lvov and his circle

Natalia Sidorova - 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
Shchedrin; Shostakovich

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; Rossini; Elgar; Chaminade ; Mendelssohn; Craft

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". Getting to know 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
Vivaldi; Grieg; Bartók; Piazzolla; Jobim; Gershwin; Gladkov; Pakhmutova; Bonfá; Luchenok

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

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

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

24 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Rachmaninoff. Piano sonata No. 2
Brahms, Chopin, Tchaikovsky

Alexei Melnikov - piano
Brahms: 6 Pieces Op.118; Chopin: Nocturne Des-dur, op. 27 ¹ 1, Ballade No. 4; Tchaikovsky: Five pieces from the cycle "Eighteen Pieces for Piano"; Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2

24 December, Wednesday 6:00 pm

The musical culture of Russia during the reign of Alexander I

Mikhail Aleinikov - lecturer

25 December, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Mahler. Symphony No. 2
Conductor – Nikolay Alexeev
Closing of the festival
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Symphony Choir of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic
Andrey Petrenko
Petersburg Chamber Choir
Conductor - Nikolay Alexeev
Valentina Fedeneva - soprano
Sofia Fainberg - mezzo-soprano

25 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Blizzard & Jazz"

St. Petersburg State Governor's Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Maslov Jazz Trio
Alexander Maslov - piano
Filipp Meshcheryakov - double bass
Pavel Chizhik - percussion
Conductor - Maxim Alexeev
Sviridov: Musical illustrations to Alexander Pushkin‘s “Snowstorm”; Maslov: Two dances based on Mikhail Glinka's themes from the opera "A Life for the Tsar" (Polonaise, Cracovienne), "Jazz Pictures" based on Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" ("The Gnome," "The Old Castle," "The Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks," "The Hut on Chicken Legs"), "New Year's Fantasy"; Tchaikovsky – Maslov: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Russian Dance from the ballet "The Nutcracker"

26 December, Friday 11:00 am
Grand Hall
Sightseeing tour of the Great Hall, visit to the "royal rooms". Getting to know the organ

Presenters are employees of the Philharmonic

26 December, Friday 2:00 pm
Grand Hall
Sightseeing tour of the Great Hall, visit to the "royal rooms". Getting to know the organ

Presenters are employees of the Philharmonic

26 December, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"The Snow Carousel"

Terem-Quartet
Arrangements by "Terem-quartet"
"Terem Quartet": "On the Hill", fantasy on the theme of "Rondino" by J. Sibelius, "Pyotr Ilyich visiting the Peoples of the North", fantasy No. 3 on themes from Tchaikovsky's album "The Seasons", Winter, fantasy on the theme "Summertime" by J. Gershwin, "Eternal Love", fantasy to music by J. Tiersen, M. Legrand, M. Tariverdiyev, V. Kosma for the films "Amelie", "Tehran-43", "Irony of Fate", "Toy", "New Year's Greeting", fantasy to music by M. Tariverdieva from the movie "The Irony of Fate"; Gladkov: "Minuet in the Palace" from the animated film "The Bremen Town Musicians"; Reinhard - Grappelli: Minor swing; Schubert: "The poet's Song" from the cycle "The Winter Way"; Gavrilin: Tarantella from the ballet "Anyuta"; Roth: Antre from the film "8.5" by F. Fellini

26 December, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"The Star of Captivating Happiness"
Dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the film of the same name and the 200th anniversary of the events of December 14 (26), 1825 on Senate SquareAs part of a joint project with Lenfilm film concern

Conductor - Pavel Bubelnikov
Vladimir Tselebrovsky - baritone
Alexander Galibin - reciter
Irina Savitskova - reciter
Glinka: Waltz Fantasy; Schubert: Grand Funeral March (on the death of Alexander I), The Great heroic march to the coronation of Nicholas I; Khachaturian: Waltz from Masquerade; Sviridov: Military march from musical illustrations for A.S.Pushkin's novel "The Snowstorm"; Schwartz: Excerpts from the music for the film "The Captivating Star of Happiness", "Swing", a romance for voice and piano, "The song of the Cavalry Guard"; Pushkin; Lermontov; Odoevsky; Nekrasov; Tyutchev; Agnivtsev: Poems

27 December, Saturday 11:30 am
Grand Hall
Sightseeing tour of the Great Hall, visit to the "royal rooms". Getting to know 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 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
Piazzolla; Brahms; Dinicu; Galliano; Rota

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