Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
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Dates
17.11. 20:00
Die Glocke, Bremen
20.11. 20:00
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
29.11. 18:30
Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic, Ekaterinburg
Biography
The Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1936, is one of the best symphony orchestras in Russia today. Famous for its high quality performance culture and its flexibility in acquiring new repertoire, the orchestra consists of more than 100 musicians, performing all major Western European and Russian works from the classical and romantic period as well as works by outstanding contemporary composers.
Based in Yekaterinburg, on the border between Europe and Asia, the UPO performs up to 110 concerts with more than 70 programs per year, both at its domicile, the Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic Hall, and on its extensive international tours. The home concerts are regularly broadcast live on video into the region’s public libraries and cultural centres where music lovers from the Oblast Sverdlovsk can come together to share the experience.
Together with its Principal Conductor and Artistic Director Dmitry Liss who has led the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra since 1995, the orchestra visited Spain, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Japan and the United States on more than 20 tours, performing at venues such as the Kennedy Center Washington, Bunka-Kaikan Tokyo, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, KKL Lucerne, Salle Pleyel Paris and Tonhalle Zurich. It participated in numerous international festivals such as the Music Biennale Zagreb, the Cannes Music Festival, the Europalia Russia Festival in Belgium and repeatedly in the Music Festival Crescendo in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Kaliningrad, the Festival International de Piano à la Roque d’Anthéron and La Folle Journée in France, Spain and Japan. The UPO was especially honoured by Valerij Gergiev’s invitation to perform under his direction at the opening of the Mariinsky Theatre’s new concert hall in 2007. Meanwhile, the orchestra presents its own concert series at the Mariinsky Theatre.
Over the years, the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra has worked with many outstanding Russian and foreign guest conductors such as Dmitry Kitayenko, Vladimir Fedoseev, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Andrey Boreyko, Mikhail Pletnev, Klaus Tennstedt, Krzysztof Penderecki and many others. The UPO has made numerous recordings, including several CDs with pianist Boris Berezovsky (all four piano concertos by Sergei Rachmaninoff for Mirare as well as piano concertos by Khachaturian and Tchaikovsky for Warner Classics) as well as recordings of Symphonies by Galina Ustvolskaya and Nikolai Miaskovsky.
Touring
RACHMANINOW PUR I
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra / Nikolai Lugansky / Dmitry Liss
S. Rachmaninow: Symphonic Poem "Isle of the Death", op. 29
S. Rachmaninow: Rhapsody on Themes of Paganini, op. 43
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S. Rachmaninow: Symphonic Dances, op. 45
Available period: 06 till 21 November 2019
Between 6 and 21 November 2019 Dmitry Liss and the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra will tour Europe with a programme dedicated to the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov. As well as the symphonic poem "Isle of the Dead" and "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini", they will perform two other works central to his oeuvre: "The Bells", a masterpiece of choral symphonic writing, and the Symphonic Dances.
Joining the orcehstra as a soloist will be the internationally renowned pianist Nikolai Lugansky, whose recording of Rachmaninov's Piano Sonata was awarded an ECHO Klassik award as well as a Diapason d'Or. The pianist is also Artistic Director of the Rachmaninov Festival in Tambov, Russia.
RACHMANINOW PUR II
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra / Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir / Nikolai Lugansky / Soloists from Mariinsky Theaters Ensemble St. Petersburg / Dmitry Liss
S. Rachmaninow: Symphonic Poem "Isle of the death", op. 29
S. Rachmaninow: Rhapsody on Themes of Paganini, op. 43
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S. Rachmaninow: "The Bells" Cantata for Chorus, Orchestra and three Soloists, op. 35
Available period: 06 till 21 November 2019
Between 7 and 21 November 2019 Dmitry Liss and the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra will tour Europe with a programme dedicated to the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov. As well as the symphonic poem "Isle of the Dead" and "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini", they will perform two other works central to his oeuvre: "The Bells", a masterpiece of choral symphonic writing, and the Symphonic Dances.
Joining the orcehstra as a soloist will be the internationally renowned pianist Nikolai Lugansky, whose recording of Rachmaninov's Piano Sonata was awarded an ECHO Klassik award as well as a Diapason d'Or. The pianist is also Artistic Director of the Rachmaninov Festival in Tambov, Russia.
URAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA / OLGA PERETYATKO
Extracts from the new CD with Russian Arias
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S. Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100
Concerts in Friedrichshafen, Ludwigsburg, Essen, Berlin (Philharmonie), Linz, Wien (16-26 MAy, 2018)
News
Of love and Death
On 29 November the fifth Eurasia International Music Festival opens in Ekaterinburg with the Russian premiere of Hans Werner Henze's scenic oratorio Das Floß der Medusa. Together with Sarah Wegener (soprano), Holger Falk (baritone) and Vladimir Ognev (narrator), the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra and the Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir under Dmitry Liss will stage the work. The festival will present numerous musical highlights through 6 December.
Under the theme "Songs of Love and Death", the festival brings together internationally renowned artists such as conductors Dmitry Sinkovsky, Oliver Zeffman and Andrei Petrenko, pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Mikhail Pletnev and the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, soprano Julia Lezhneva, the baroque ensemble La Voce Strumentale and the Georgian Mdzlevari Ensemble in the city on the Urals. Among other pieces, Olivier Messiaen's Tristan Trilogy will be heard for the first time as a complete cycle in Russia. The Eurasia International Music Festival sees itself as a platform for artistic dialogue between East and West.
For the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, the festival is the second highlight of the season within a few weeks: Only shortly before the festival begins will they return from their major European tour, which focused on Rachmaninov's symphonic poem The Bells.
29.11. to 6.12.2019
Eurasia International Music Festival
First time in the Glocke
On 17 November, the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra will perform in Bremen under the baton of its principal conductor Dmitry Liss and violinist Antje Weithaas as the first evening of its European tour. The concert is co-presented by CLSX.de, a new initiative from karsten witt musik management, and by “Russian Seasons”, and features a romantic Tchaikovsky programme in the Die Glocke concert hall.
The Violin Concerto in D Major op. 35 will be heard, for which there could be no better soloist than the energetic Antje Weithaas. The second half of the evening will be rounded off with Symphony No. 4 in F minor op. 36, which has been considered one of the most popular Tchaikovsky symphonies since its premiere.
17.11.2019, 20:00
Die Glocke, Bremen
Bells on tour
Sergei Rachmaninov himself regarded it as one of his best works: the symphonic poem The Bells ("Kolokola") from 1913. The Ural Philharmonic Orchestra and the Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir, conducted by Dmitry Liss, as well as vocal soloists from the Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg, are now performing the work at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Philharmonie Luxembourg and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, among others. The tour begins with concerts in Graz on November 4 and 5.
There, however, Prokofiev's Piano Concerto, featuring soloist Nikolai Lugansky, along with works by Kodály and Bartók will be heard, before the orchestra’s Rachmaninov program is performed in Vienna on 9 November. "The sound of the church bells dominated all the Russian cities I knew. They accompany every Russian from childhood to death and no composer could escape their influence," said Rachmaninov himself about the bells. In the work, which is based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, he evokes echoes of sleigh bells, wedding bells, fire bells and death bells.
In his vespers for mixed choir a cappella, which will be heard at the concerts in Vienna and Hamburg, Rachmaninov portrays the art of making voices sound like bells. In Luxembourg, the programme also includes the symphonic poem Die Toteninsel and - also with Nikolai Lugansky - the Rhapsodie on a Theme by Paganini. At the concert in the Bremen Glocke, the orchestra, along with violinist Antje Weithaas, will undertake another repertoire excursion: the programme here will include Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and his 4th Symphony.
4. and 5.11.2019, 19:30
Musikverein Graz, Stefaniensaal
9.11.2019, 19:30
Wiener Konzerthaus
11.11.2019, 20:00
Philharmonie Luxembourg
13.11.2019, 19:30
Erholungshaus Leverkusen
17.11.2019, 20:00
Bremen, Die Glocke
20.11.2019, 20:00
Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie
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