Concerts for friends of the orchestra

The Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra celebrated its first anniversary - 5 years. In two chamber concerts, the orchestra's artists will perform in unusual roles - with works for a string quartet and for a wind quintet. Friends of the ensemble will be able to get to know the musicians better, and they will have the opportunity to address the public not as part of a large orchestra, but personally on their own behalf. The concerts will take place on December 18 and 19 in the Small Hall of the Philharmonic-2.

Both programs were compiled by the performers themselves from masterpieces of Russian classics: the first, along with Borodin’s textbook Quartet No. 2, included Prokofiev’s rarely heard Quartet No. 2. The second will surprise listeners with “Scheherazade” by Rimsky-Korsakov and “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Mussorgsky in an unusual guise - arranged for wind quintet. “Eight Russian Folk Songs” by Lyadov and another rarity will also be performed: the suite “Village Day” by Evgeny Svetlanov, not only a great interpreter of Russian music, but also a wonderful composer.

The host of the concerts is the artistic director of the RNMSO Ilya Repenak. “Anyone who has ever worked with the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra will look elsewhere for precisely those feelings and meanings that live and multiply in this group,” Repenak reflects. “It is impossible to describe the meeting with every soloist, teacher, conductor: any person who comes to work with us leaves here a piece of himself and his experience, and we carefully keep this in our hands, minds and hearts.”