AZG Armenian Daily #226, 25/11/2006
New record
SHOSTAKOVICH’S 1ST AND 2ND CONCERTS FOR VIOLIN PLAYED
BY SERGEY KHACHATRIAN
At 8.00 pm on Sunday, November 26, the Radio Symphony
Berlin (RSB) headed by Artistic Director Marek
Janowski will perform in Berlin. The concert is
dedicated to leading German composer Aribert Reimann’s
70th and Dmitri Shostakovich’s 100th anniversary.
Reimann’s "Cloudless Christian Holiday" requiem
performed by world famous Hungarian cellist Miklos
Perenyi and baritone Detlef Roth will open the
concert.
The 1st violin concert of Shostakovich will be played
by winner of the Queen Elizabeth’s international award
of 2005, Sergey Khachatrian. The great composer wrote
this work in 1948 and dedicated it to violinist David
Oistrakh who first performed it in 1955 after Stalin’s
death.
In late October a new recording of Shostakovich’s
First and Second violin concerts played by the
National Orchestra of France and soloist Sergey
Khachatrian and conducted by Kurt Masur was released.
In early December the Armenian young musician living
in Frankfurt-upon-Mein will play the First and Second
violin concerts in Brussels together with the local
national symphonic orchestra.
On November 29, 30 and December 1 Sergey Khachatrian
will perform in Munich with the city’s symphonic
orchestra and will play Sibelius’s Concerto. At the
conductor’s stand will be famous James Conlon.
As to Sergey’s sister, pianist Lusine Khachatrian will
play the works of Mozart, Schubert, List, Debussy and
Schumann at the international theatre in Frankfurt on
December 17.
By Anahit Hovsepian in Germany