杰尼斯·马祖耶夫。俄罗斯国家青年交响乐团

独奏者：
杰尼斯·马祖耶夫（钢琴）
安德烈·伊万诺夫（低音提琴）
亚历山大·辛格（鼓）
俄罗斯国家青年交响乐团
指挥：阿列克谢·鲁宾

节目：
尼古拉·里姆斯基-科萨科夫
交响组曲“西班牙随想曲”，作品34

谢尔盖·普罗科菲耶夫
芭蕾舞剧《罗密欧与朱丽叶》的第二号交响组曲，作品64

乔治·格什温
为钢琴和管弦乐队而作的《蓝色狂想曲》（带有杰尼斯·马祖耶夫的爵士华彩乐段）

About the Concert

Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol (1887) emerged from sketches for a fantasia concertante for violin and orchestra based on Spanish folk themes. The composer’s initial idea developed and expanded far beyond the realms of a fantasia or suite founded on folkloric motifs. Before us we have a dazzling orchestral concerto – one of the first such examples in Russian music. In the five movements of the Capriccio we can imagine Spain in song and dance (Rimsky-Korsakov borrowed genuine folk themes from José Inzenga’s Collection of Folk Songs and Dances).
Thanks to the varicoloured yet transparent orchestration, colourfulness and richness of flavour (in particular the castanets included in the percussion section), the score of Capriccio espagnol is a veritable encyclopaedia of orchestral mastery.
The first performance of Capriccio espagnol took place in St Petersburg on 5 December 1887 under the baton of the composer.
Iosif Raiskin

Nowadays, it’s simply astonishing and unbelievable to learn about the difficulties encountered by Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet on its way onto the stage. The score was ordered by the Mariinsky Theatre (then the Leningrad Kirov Theatre) and was ready in 1936. However, it was not performed for a number of reasons: the complexity of the stage embodiment of Shakespeare’s tragedy, the “non-danceability” of the music that bewildered the ballet company, and the librettist’s falling into political disfavor...
As it had happened more than once, Prokofiev then arranged theatrical music into an independent composition. The symphony ballet broke up into independent musical pictures united into cycles. The public especially loved orchestral Suite No. 2 containing a collection of diverse dances (including the famous Dance of the Knights), portraits of young Juliet and Friar Laurence, as well as the most heartfelt scenes of the ballet, namely Romeo and Juliet Before Parting, and Romeo at Juliet’s Tomb.

George Gershwin, the son of immigrants from Russia, created his masterpieces during the Jazz Age (that was how writer Fitzgerald dubbed the period in the 1920s and 1930s in the United States). Gershwin admired jazz culture, considering it the only truly folk music of America. Gershwin’s interest in the synthesis of jazz and classical music led him to collaborate with the famous bandleader Paul Whiteman. The King of Jazz, Whiteman was classically trained as a violinist and, like Gershwin, sought to make jazz a high art. Having heard Gershwin’s music, Whiteman realized that he had found “his” composer and commissioned a concert composition for solo piano and jazz band. The piano part was supposed to be performed by the composer himself. Thus the original piano concerto was born, subtitled Rhapsody in Blue. Its first performance was announced by the press as “An Experiment in Modern Music”, and attracted a number of famous musicians (including Rachmaninoff). Soon, Rhapsody in Blue became the hallmark of Gershwin and Whiteman’s jazz band. During the composer’s lifetime, it appeared in several versions orchestrated for various orchestras.
Nadezhda Koulygina

About the performers

The Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra – Symphony Academy is a unique musical collective and the largest youth project in the Russian orchestral field. It was created in September 2018 with the support of the Presidential Grants Foundation and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and is being developed as part of the national project Culture. The project’s curator is the Moscow Philharmonic Society.

In its creative work, the orchestra combines Russian musical traditions and international experience, solving three fundamental tasks: artistic, educational and promotional. Such combination of functions, none of which is auxiliary, has no analogues.

The orchestra consists of more than 120 performers from 42 regions of Russia. The project places high demands on the participants: a large amount of educational, rehearsal and concert work, the need for personal and professional dedication, discipline, and passion. For the development of young musicians, unprecedented conditions have been created: excellent rehearsal facilities, cooperation with the best conductors and soloists of the world, classes with concertmasters of major orchestras and professors of famous music high schools. In this way, RNYSO members become familiar with the world standards of orchestral performance and get a powerful creative motivation for personal fulfillment in the profession.

Collaboration with outstanding conductors, under whose guidance the musicians prepare concert programs covering a wide range of eras and styles, plays an important role in the development of the project participants. The orchestra has performed under the direction of Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Fedoseev, Mikhail Jurowski, Alexander Lazarev, Alexander Sladkovsky, Yuri Simonov, Alexander Vedernikov, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Kristjan Järvi, Thomas Sanderling, Antonello Manacorda, Valentin Uryupin, Alexander Anisimov, Maxim Emelyanychev, and has worked with such famous soloists as Denis Matsuev, Alexandre Kantorow, Nikolay Lugansky, Vadim Rudenko, Alexander Romanovsky, Philipp Kopachevsky, Vadim Repin. In the summer of 2021, the orchestra made its debut in the largest European halls, such as the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein, and the Lucerne Festival.

In September 2023, the orchestra turned five. Today, the RNYSO is an integral part of the concert life of the country: over five seasons, the orchestra has held more than 220 concerts, performing in 33 Russian cities and towns from Vladivostok to Pskov, from Rostov-on-Don to Salekhard. The orchestra’s performances have been attended by tens of thousands. The RNYSO has given its concerts on two main stages of the Moscow Philharmonic, in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Great and Chamber Halls of the State Kremlin Palace, Mariinsky-2 Concert Hall, and on the Red Square in Moscow; the concerts have been broadcast by Medici.tv.

The orchestra pays great attention to educational programs, especially performances at Russian universities. The first concerts of the RNYSO took place in student auditoriums of the S.A.Gerasimov All-Russian State University of Cinematography and the M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University; the ensemble has performed at other oldest universities in Russia. The orchestra participates in special projects of the Moscow Philharmonic: Mom, I’m a music lover and The Language of Music. Young conductors, prize-winners at the All-Russian Music Competition Dimitris Botinis and Alexey Rubin, as well as musicologist and host of RNYSO programs Yaroslav Timofeyev take part in educational concerts.

In the 2023/24 season, the orchestra participates in the Moscow Philharmonic’s subscription concerts: All of Stravinsky, The Language of Music, Soloist Denis Matsuev, Dialogues with Brahms, and Another Space. Continuo, where it presents Russian premieres of major works by Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Olivier Messiaen. The orchestra’s concerts are performed under the baton of Alexander Lazarev, Dmitry Jurowski, Philipp Chizhevsky, Dmitry Sinkovsky with such soloists as Denis Matsuev, Nikolay Lugansky, Sergei Davydchenko, Konstantin Emelyanov, Vadim Repin, Daniil Kogan, Dmitry Masleev, Nikolay Didenko, Natalia Muradymova, to name a few.

Age category 6+