On 1 October the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev performed in Yerevan. The soloist was Pavel Milyukov, Honoured Artist of Russia and a prize-winner of major international violin competitions. The performance took place at the city’s main venue, the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall, as part of the 17th Yerevan International Music Festival.
The evening opened with the Festive Overture by the renowned Armenian composer Alexander Arutiunian, a work distinguished by its emotional intensity and distinctive national colour. This was followed by Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, completed in 1948 but premiered only seven years later to great acclaim. Pavel Milyukov appeared as soloist in this monumental and dramatic score. The programme concluded with Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, one of the Austrian composer’s most enigmatic and refined works.
On 2 October Valery Gergiev returned to the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall to lead the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra. The programme featured Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Ravel’s Boléro.
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