MOSCOW, December 16 – RIA Novosti. The press service of the Philharmonic Orchestra told RIA Novosti that the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall will celebrate the 90th anniversary of the composer Rodion Shchedrin.

The program includes the “Carmen Suite”, the transcription of parts of Bizet’s opera “Carmen” for strings and percussion, “Mischievous Chastushkas” – concerto No. 1 for orchestra, the ballet suite “Little Humpback Horse”, “The Angel of the Lord”. …” “The Sealed Angel” from the Russian rite for an a cappella choir after Nikolai Leskov. Second Piano Concerto.

“Rodion Shchedrin is one of the figures who has personified the national music of several decades in his own right. An outstanding composer whose works are heard all over the world, a pianist with whom leading artists consider it an honor to play with, the author of great memoirs musicians, friends and colleagues – all these words show the scale of his personality. not enough to express.

Shchedrin wrote the music for the ballets The Little Humpback Horse, The Carmen Suite, Anna Karenina, The Seagull, The Lady with the Dog, opera Lolita, Not Just Love, and Dead Souls.

Shchedrin’s anniversary concerts are a tradition of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. It has been held every five years since 2007. Among its permanent members are the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev, the academic grand choir “Choral Singing Masters” Denis Matsuev.