Repertoire

Grand Hall
December 2025
Mikhailovskaya st., 2
www.philharmonia.spb.ru

02 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
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

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

Presenters are employees of the Philharmonic

03 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
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

04 December, Thursday 8:00 pm
"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"; 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"; Krylatov: Music from the TV movie "The Adventures of Electronics"

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

Presenters are employees of the Philharmonic

05 December, Friday 8:00 pm
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
Concert in the Foyer | Third Concert of the Season

Mikhail Krutik - violin
Mariia Bomshtein - violin
Tatiana Bogodukhova - violin
Nataliia Sheikina - violin
Alexander Kirsanov - viola
Anton Sinyavsky - bass trombone
Nikolai Mazhara - piano
Dmitrii Petrov - comments on the program
Vieuxtemps: "Dedication to Paganini", caprice in C minor for viola solo; Chopin: Five preludes; Debussy: Three Preludes; lebedev: Concert allegro for tuba and piano; Bacewicz: Quartet for four violins, Sonata No. 4 in A minor for violin and piano

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

07 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
"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
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
conductor - Mikhail Golikov
Mozart: Overture to Die Zauberflöte; Haydn: Violin Concerto in C Major; Mascagni: Santuzza's Romance from the opera "Cavalleria Rusticana", Duet of Santuzza and Turiddu from the opera "Cavalleria Rusticana"; Babadganian: "Nocturne"; Verdi: Aria from "Rigoletto", Duet of count di Luna and Leonora from "Il Trovatore"; Vitali: Chaccona; Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Puccini: Aria of Rodolfo from the opera "La Boheme"; Lara: Granada; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No 2; Iorio: "Sagra d'Estate" for saxophone and orchestra; Legrand: Fantasy on themes from movies for violin and saxophone with orchestra

08 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Opera Gala
"Galina Vishnevskaya Festival"

Orchestra of Vishnevskaya Opera Center
Conductor - Alexander Soloviev
Albina Latipova - soprano
Svetlana Lachina - soprano
Valentina Pravdina - soprano
Julia Vakula - mezzo-soprano
Julia Shavarina - mezzo-soprano
Sergey Polyakov - tenor
Elchin Azizov - baritone
Konstantin Brzhinsky - baritone
Alexey Tikhomirov - bass
Arias, duets and scenes from operas
Verdi; Puccini; Gounod; Massenet; Saint-Sa¸ns; Leoncavallo; Cilèa; Rossini; Borodin; Tchaikovsky

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

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

10 December, Wednesday 8:00 pm
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

11 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
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

12 December, Friday 8:00 pm
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

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

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

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

Conductor - Alexander Soloviev
Aida Garifullina - soprano
Ivan Gyngazov - tenor
Semyon Antakov - baritone
Verdi: Ouverture from "La forza del destino" ("The Force of Destiny"); Puccini: Cavaradossi's aria from the opera Tosca; Verdi: Bolero di Elena, "Vespri Siciliani"; Bizet: Overture to "Carmen", Couplets of Escamillo from "Carmen"; Gounod: “Valse de Juliette” from opera “Romeo and Juliet”; Mascagni: Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana"; Puccini: Mimi's aria from the opera "La Bohème", Duet Mimi and Rodolfo from "La boheme"; Bellini: Norma, Overture, Cavatina di Norma; Verdi: Duet of Don Carlos and Rodrigo from "Don Carlos"; Tchaikovsky: Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty, Serenade, Herman Arioso from "The Queen of Spades"; Rachmaninoff: "Don't sing, beauty, in front of me"; Tchaikovsky: Robert's Aria from "Iolanta"; Adam: "O Holy Night"; Lehár: Duet of Hanna and Danilo from the operetta "The Merry Widow"

16 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
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

18 December, Thursday 8:00 pm
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"

19 December, Friday 8:00 pm
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
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

21 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
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
Conductor – Dimitris Botinis
Soloist – Alexander Ramm
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

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

22 December, Monday 8:00 pm
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

23 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
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")

25 December, Thursday 8:00 pm
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

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

Presenters are employees of the Philharmonic

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

Presenters are employees of the Philharmonic

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

Terem-Quartet
Arrangements by "Terem-quartet"
"Terem Quartet": "On the Hill," a fantasy based on the theme of "Rondino" by J. Sibelius, "Pyotr Ilyich Visiting the Peoples of the North," fantasy No. 3 based on themes from P. Tchaikovsky's album "The Seasons", "In Winter," a fantasy based on the theme of "Summertime" by J. Gershwin, "Eternal Love," a fantasy based on the music of J. Thiersen, M. Legrand, M. Tariverdiev, and V. Kosma for the films "Amelie," "Tehran-43," "The Irony of Fate," and "The Toy", "Very Black," variations in the "manouche" style based on the theme of "Dark Eyes" by F. Hermann, "New Year's Greetings," Fantasy to music by M. Tariverdiev from the film "The Irony of Fate"; Challin: Music from the films "A King in New York," "A Countess from Hong Kong," "City Lights"; Gavrilin: "Yamskaya"; Grappelli: Music from the film "Waltzing"; Reinhardt - Grappelli: Minor Swing; Zatsepin: "There is only a moment," a song from the film "Sannikov Land"; Edenroth: "Friendship"; Rota: Entrée from the film "8.5"; Gladkov: "Ostap's Dreams," music from the film "12 Chairs"; Smirnov: Finale of the suite "The Heron and the Crane"; Mokrousov - Frenkel: Music from the films

27 December, Saturday 11:30 am
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
"Tavrichesky Symphony" Orchestra

Tauric Symphony Orchestra
Concert choir "Perezvony" of the St. Petersburg Children's Art School named after M.I.Glinka
Larissa Yarutskaya - artistic director
Conductor - Mikhail Golikov
Custer: Music from the movie "James Bond"; Silvestri: Music from "Back to the Future"; Williams: Music from the movie "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", Music from the movie "Home Alone"; Kander: Music from the movie "Chicago"; Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the snowflakes from the Nutcracker; Carol of the Bells; Krylatov: The song about snowflake from the movie "Wizards"; Tariverdiev: Waltz and "Snow over Leningrad" from the movie "Irony of Fate, or With a light steam"; Petrov: The merry march from the movie "The Old, Old Tale"; Lepin: Medley from the movie "Carnival Night"; Gladkov: Medley from the movie "Gentlemen of Fortune"; Rybnikov: Movie medley

28 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
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

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

MusicAeterna orchestra

30 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
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

31 December, Wednesday 3:00 pm
"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
New Year's Concert

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