"Concertino" and Vera Kononova made the program memory of Shostakovich

Third April in the Concert Hall of the Russian Academy of Music is a concert of the 105th Anniversary of the birth of composer Dmitri Shostakovich host. The life and works of the great Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich - the tragedy of loneliness is not to be understood by the artist's life. "Shostakovich was defenseless, like any of us, and he had a lot to lose: for him the fate of his writings with him without hesitation deals with the fate of the gift, he did what he set out and honestly and sincerely fulfilling life, so that by his pursuers and to deceive them he could help many, many defend and support -. it remembers with gratitude, "wrote the composer's widow Irina Antonovna Shostakovich. Anna Akhmatova made commitment to his poetry: "Dmitri Shostakovich, whose age I live on the earth." The concert of the ensemble of soloists "Concertino" held, 3rd April 2011 in the Concert Hall of the Russian Academy of Music, will feature world music lover, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. And his autobiographical notes, archival documents, fragments of letters. The concert takes opera singer Vera Kononova known Russian public not only as the owner of soulful lyric-dramatic soprano, but also as the author of numerous theater musical performances. It is an excerpt of the Shostakovich opera "Katerina Ismailova" libretto conduct of N. Leskov's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk". Program: "Loneliness in public" Quartet № 8 in C Minor, soch.110 (Dedicated to the memory of the victims of fascism and war) Concertino for Two Pianos (as of the Ensemble "Concertino" for piano and strings changed) fragments of comic opera "The Big Lightning" Catherine Aria from the opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" "From Jewish Folk Poetry," the movie "Lady and the Hooligan"