St. Petersburg Philharmonic /
Yuri Temirkanov

Torna a Firenze Jurij Temirkanov con l'Orchestra Filarmonica di San Pietroburgo: il direttore, che abitualmente usa soltanto le mani e non la bacchetta, è un punto di riferimento nell'interpretazione del grande repertorio sinfonico russo.

Program

Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij
Romeo and Juliet, Ouverture-fantasia in b minor
Concert for violio and orchestra in d major op. 35

Interval

Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov
Shahrazād (Шехерезада), symphonic suite op. 35

Artists

Direttore
Yuri Temirkanov

Violin
Leticia Moreno

St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

YURI TEMIRKANOV
Born in 1938 in Nalchik in the Russian Caucasus. Following viola and violin lessons at the school for gifted children in Leningrad, he graduated from the city’s conservatory first in purple and in 1965 he conducted the orchestra. In 1967 he made his debut with the Leningrad Philharmonic, becoming chief conductor the following year. In 1976 he was appointed music director of the Kirov Opera and Ballet. He was principal conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 1992 to 1998, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 2000 to 2006 and the Teatro Regio di Parma from 2009 to 2013. In 2002 he was awarded the Abbiati Prize as Best Conductor and recently became Honorary Academician of Santa Cecilia. In Florence he has directed numerous concerts - the last one in 2014 for the 77à Maggio Musicale fiorentino - and Il matrimonio al convento by Prokofiev (1982).

LETICIA MORENO
Born in Madrid, she began studying violin and piano at the age of three. After attending the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía and the Musikhochschule Köln, she became a pupil of Mstislav Rostropovich. She has appeared with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Jesús López-Cobos, Ivor Bolton and John Axelrod. In 2005 the Spanish composer Francisco Lara dedicated to her the composition Capriccio for Leticia. For the 2013-2014 season she was nominated one of the ‘Rising Stars’ by the European Concert Hall Organisation, and played his violin in Florence conducted by Yuri Temirkanov.

ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC
Founded in 1888 by Tsar Alexander III as Chorus Music of the Court, it is the oldest symphony orchestra in Russia. It become a State Orchestra after the Revolution and has worked with people such as Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter and Sergei Prokofiev. For the forty years since 1938 the head of the Orchestra was Yevgeny Mravinskij, who was succeeded in 1988 by Yuri Temirkanov. They have recorded, directed by the same Temirkanov and Mariss Janson, works by Tchaikovsky, Prokof’ev, Rachmaninov and Šostakovič.