A.Schnittke / Yu.Bashmet – Trio Sonata for Strings
K.Bodrov – “Sunset” for Strings
L. van Beethoven / G.Mahler – “Quartetto serioso” in F Minor, Op.95
E.Grieg – “Norwegian Folk Melody” for Strings, Op.63 No.1
J.Brahms / K.Bodrov – Andante for Viola and Strings
G.Mahler – Adagietto
Concert performance “VAN GOGH. LETTERS TO HIS BROTHER”
People’s Artist of Russia Evgeny Mironov
Moscow Soloists chamber ensemble
Artistic Director and Chief Conductor – People’s Artist of the USSR and Russia Yuri Bashmet
Stage Director – Honoured Artist of Russia Marina Brusnikina
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The letters of Van Gogh from different years will be performed by People’s Artist of Russia Yevgeny Mironov. The letters to his brother Theo are a stunning, incomparable document, stretching over hundreds of pages. It is a dialogue not only with the addressee of the letters, but also with himself, with God, with the world. It is a cry of anguish of a huge dying artist.
Yevgeny Mironov: “This is the story of an artist who, despite all the circumstances, wanted to live and work to the very last, and not considering himself a great artist, to leave behind something that would somehow justify his incredibly hard life.”
