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Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G Major, K. 525, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Elegy for String Orchestra in G ("In Memory of Ivan Samarin")

Tan Dun, Eternal Vow for Alto, Pipa and String Orchestra

Dmitri Shostakovich, Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11

Max Bruch/Achim Fiedler, Kol Nidrei, Op. 47

Franz Schubert/Gustav Mahler, String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden" (version for string orchestra)

Alfred Schnittke, Polka

Improvisation on "Happy Birthday"

Yuri Bashmet conducts and performs Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Dun, Shostakovich, Bruch, and Schubert – with the Moscow Soloists

25th Anniversary of the Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra

Cast

Belle Shiu — Pipa

Moscow Soloists

Yuri Bashmet — Conductor, violist

Program notes

This year, the Moscow Soloists celebrate 25 years of success! Led by internationally acclaimed violist Yuri Bashmet, a regular at the Verbier Festival, they perform some of classical music's greatest hits.

Under the direction of Yuri Bashmet, the musicians open the concert with Mozart's beautiful Eine kleine Nachtmusik, a lively and joyous work composed just weeks after the death of the composer's father. The evening culminates in Schubert's String Quartet "Death and the Maiden" in Mahler's arrangement for string orchestra. The program also includes several works with soloists, where we will be treated to some of Bashmet's fiery solo viola-playing!

Made possible by the support of the Tabor Foundation.
Photo: Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists © Oleg Nachinkin

A closer look: featured composers

Dmitri Shostakovich

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Max Bruch

Alfred Schnittke

Franz Schubert