Repertoire

December 2025
www.philharmonia.spb.ru

15 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Invitation to dance"
Haik Kazazyan (violin)
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Haik Kazazyan - violin
Evgenij Starodubcev - piano
Mozart; Kreisler; Dvořák; Sarasate; de Falla; Bartók; Tchaikovsky; Stravinsky; Wieniawski; Brahms; Khachaturian; Ravel; Bazzini

15 December, Monday 6:00 pm

"Thunder of victory resound!"
His Serene Highness Prince G.A. Potemkin-Tavrichesky and Music

Natalia Bakhareva - lecturer

16 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Yuri Bashmet
New Russia State Symphony Orchestra
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

New Russia State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Yuri Bashmet
Vadim Repin - violin
Alexander Ramm - cello
Ekaterina Mechetina - piano
Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Symphony No.5

16 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Shostakovich. 24 Preludes and Fugues
First Evening
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Peter Laul - piano

16 December, Tuesday 6:00 pm

"My dear, wonderful orchestra..."
Alexander Glazunov at the helm of the Court Orchestra

Olga Radvilovich - lecturer

17 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Shostakovich. 24 Preludes and Fugues
Second Evening
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Peter Laul - piano

17 December, Wednesday 6:00 pm

Nikolai Rabinovich

Nadezhda Markaryan - lecturer

18 December, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Mozart. “Die Zauberflote”
Conductor – Philipp Chizhevsky
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

The Orchestra of the Novaya Opera Theatre
Choir of the Novaya Opera Theatre
Conductor, musical director - Philipp Chizhevsky
Nikolay Didenko - Sarastro
Yaroslav Abaimov - Prince Tamino
Antonina Vesenina - Queen of the Night
Galina Kruch - Pamina
Konstantin Suchkov - Papageno
Kristina Bikmaeva - Papagena
Anton Bochkarev - Monostatos
Boris Zhukov - orator, priest, warrior in armor
Georgy Farajev - priest, warrior in armor
Kristina Ponomaryova - lady, fairy Queen of the Night
Ekaterina Mirzoyants - lady, fairy Queen of the Night
Anastasia Lepeshinskaya - lady, fairy Queen of the Night
Artem Volchkov - magic boy
Saveliy Rodin - magic boy
Matvey Lysyakov - magic boy
Dmitry Gizbrecht - reciter
Anastasia Volynskaya - reciter
Mozart: "Die Zauberflöte"

18 December, Thursday 6:00 pm

"Between friends sometimes, sometimes I sing with the bay..."
Musical tastes of Nikolai Alexandrovich Lvov and his circle

Natalia Sidorova - lecturer

19 December, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Valery Gergiev
In memoriam Rodion Shchedrin
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Shchedrin; Shostakovich

20 December, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Alexander Sladkovsky
Soloist – Angel Wang (USA)
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Conductor - Alexander Sladkovsky
Angel Wang - piano
Mozart: Don Giovanni, Overture; Britten: Piano Concerto; R. Strauss: A Hero's Life (Ein Heldenleben), tone poem

20 December, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
The Maestro Temirkanov International Foundation for Cultural Initiatives
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Students of St. Petersburg State Conservatory Secondary Special Music School

20 December, Saturday 12:00 pm

"Casta diva" and more: vocal and instrumental music in the stories of I.A. Goncharov

Natalia Movnina - lecturer

21 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Dimitris Botinis
Soloist – Alexander Ramm
XXV International Festival "Arts Square"

Dutilleux: Cello Concerto “Tout un monde lointain...”; Tchaikovsky: Suite No 3

21 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
"Between Love and Rebellion"
(romanticism)

Oleg Vainstein - piano
Alexei Tishchenko - violin
Vera Chekanova - soprano
Mikhail Blekher - piano
Natalia Entelis - presenter
Schubert; Schumann; Chopin; Paganini

21 December, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Old and new"

Rastrelli Cello Quartet
Kirill Kravtsov - artistic director, cello
Mikhail Degtyarev - cello
Kirill Timopheev - cello (Germany)
Sergey Drabkin - cello
Vivaldi; Grieg; Bartók; Piazzolla; Jobim; Gershwin; Gladkov; Pakhmutova; Bonfá; Luchenok