TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Piano Concerto No. 1 / SHOSTAKOVICH, D.: Symphony No. 14 (Tsujii at White Nights 2012) (Tsujii, Gergiev)
Soloist:
Sergeyeva, Olga
Soloist:
Tsujii, Nobuyuki
Soloist:
Vorobiev, Yuri
Orchestra:
St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Conductor:
Gergiev, Valery
Composer:
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
Composer:
Rachmaninov, Sergei
Composer:
Tsujii, Nobuyuki
Composer:
Shostakovich, Dmitry
Venue: Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
Date of Concert: 2012
Playing Time: 01:42:16
Television Director:
Radulescu, Alexander
Catalogue Number: EuroArts5935
UPC: 880242593580
The blind up-and-coming Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, an astonishing genius on his instrument, is playing for the first time ever under the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. During the White Nights Festival ?EUR" dedicated to the season of midnight sun ?EUR" he interprets works by the Russian composers Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich, including Tchaikovsky's famous Piano Concerto No. 1 and Shostakovich's gloomy Symphony No. 14. As a bonus Nobuyuki Tsujii performs his own elegy for the victims of the tsunami in 2011, a stirring and moving piece dedicated to his home country Japan. Nobuyuki Tsujii piano, Olga Sergeyeva soprano, Yuri Vorobiev bass, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Valery Gergiev conductor. Live recording from the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, 8 July 2012.
