Valery Gergiev conducts Shchedrin and Rimsky-Korsakov

Verbier Festival 2018

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Verbier Festival Orchestra

Valery Gergiev — Conductor

Program notes

In 2018, the Verbier Festival celebrated its 25th anniversary and welcomed its new music director of the Verbier Festival Orchestra, Valery Gergiev. In this opening concert he leads the Verbier musicians in Rimsky-Korsakov’s spellbinding Scheherazade and the Symphonic Diptych of longtime Verbier Festival-friend Rodion Shchedrin.

Photo: Valery Gergiev © Aline Paley

A closer look: featured composers

Camille Saint-Saëns

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Leonard Bernstein

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin

Further listening: featured works

Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28

Camille Saint-Saëns (Composer)

Scheherazade, Op. 35

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Composer)

Candide

Leonard Bernstein (Composer)

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