GAZPROM Germania presents Moscow Soloists & Yuri Bashmet

22 February 2012

The Berlin Philharmonic

The Moscow Soloists Chamber Ensemble performed under the baton of its artistic director and soloist Yury Bashmet as part of the world tour to mark the ensemble’s twentieth anniversary

On 22 February 2012 GAZPROM Germania presented the renowned Moscow Solists under the baton of their artistic director Yury Bashmet at the Berlin Philharmonic. The concert was part of the chamber ensemble’s world tour to mark its twentieth anniversary.

Concert-goers have had a rare opportunity to hear the musicians play on Stradivari, Guarneri, and Amati instruments borrowed from the Russian State Collection of Unique Musical Instruments in a programme that includes works by Brahms and Tchaikovsky.

Together with their founder and artistic director Yuri Bashmet, the Grammy Award winning Moscow Soloists have performed well over 1,600 concerts over the past two decades, gaining world-wide recognition for artistic excellence. Their performances in over 55 countries on five continents have been received with passionate applause by audiences in some of the world’s most prestigious festivals and concert halls including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican Centre in London, the Tivoli in Copenhagen, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome.

In the 2011/12 season the Moscow Soloists celebrate their twentieth anniversary. Their first performances took place on 19 May 1992 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and on 21 May 1992 in the Salle Pleyel, Paris, when Yuri Bashmet brought together the cream of Moscow State Conservatory graduates. The ensemble has been hailed by critics as “one of the best in the world in this genre”.

The Moscow Soloists draw on a repertoire of over 250 pieces, from masterpieces of classical music to the works of rarely-performed past and present composers, broadening listeners’ musical horizons as they introduce them to some of the finest compositions in the history of music.

As part of promoting young talents GAZPROM Germania donated the ticket takings of the concert to the Julius Stern Institute in Berlin. Vyacheslav Krupenkov presented the symbolic check in the amount of 25,000 € to the institution.