Valery Gergiev conducts Prokofiev

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The Prokofiev repertoire, performed by the Mariinsky Orchestra and its eminent musical director Valery Gergiev during the 2012 Moscow Easter Festival, included many great performers, among which: p...

The Prokofiev repertoire, performed by the Mariinsky Orchestra and its eminent musical director Valery Gergiev during the 2012 Moscow Easter Festival, included many great performers, among which: pianist Denis Matsuev and violinist Leonidas Kavakos! In 2012, the Moscow Easter Festival (of which Valery Gergiev is the musical director) was dedicated to Prokofiev. In Moscow, the Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev performed four concerts with outstanding pianists such as Daniil Trifonov (a new revelation then!), Alexander Toradze, Alexei Volodin and Sergey Babayan. All four pianists performed piano concertos by the great composer, Sergey Prokofiev. But the iconic 3rd Concerto was still missing from the program ... Back in St. Petersburg, the Mariinsky Orchestra invited Denis Matsuev, one of the boldest and talented pianists of his generation, to play it. Denis Matsuev and Valery Gergiev have since recorded a joint album featuring Prokofiev's first two piano concertos. Valery Gergiev is a great admirer of Prokofiev, as his recordings testifies: Romeo and Juliet in 1991, the complete piano concertos with Alexander Toradze in 1997, the Scythian Suite in 2003, the complete symphonies with the London Symphony Orchestra in 2006 and six Prokofiev operas with the Kirov Opera Orchestra and the Mariinsky Orchestra (gathered in 2010 by the Decca label in a box-set) ... Valery Gergiev's discography looks like an ode to Prokofiev's music -- but also, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov and Borodin. The second part of the concert features violinist Leonidas Kavakos, who performs the composer's first violin concerto.

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