In his next concert with the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, on 7 March, Dmitrij Kitajenko will conduct Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante KV 364 with the soloists Lyonel Schmit, violin, and Giovanni Pasini, viola. The genre of the Sinfonia Concertante (halfway between the concerto grosso and the soloist concerto) developed characteristically…
The website drehpunktkultur.at has published a terrific review of the concert that Dmitrij Kitajenko conducted on 5 February at the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg. The critic is speaking of a triumph. Here is the link to this publication.
Dmitrij Kitajenko is the conductor of an important tour leading the Konzerthausorchester Berlin through three countries, with a total of eight concerts. The first three will take place in Berlin from 30 January to 1 February. From 5 February, the orchestra will then perform for three evenings at the Grosses…
Dmitrij Kitajenko begins the musical year 2020 with the Tonkünstlerorchester Niederösterreich, with two concerts on 18 and 19 January at the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein and a third on 20 January in the St. Pölten Festspielhaus. Two works are on the programme. Daniel Müller-Schott is the soloist in…
On 29 and 30 November Dmitrij Kitajenko will conduct the Dresden Philharmonic at Dresden’s Kulturpalast in Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony, Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto with Sergej Krylov as soloist, and excerpts from Aram Khachaturian’s Ballet Spartacus. With Manfred, Tchaikovsky created an outstanding example of the programme symphony, in which a narrative…
Music by Prokofiev and Khachaturian will be played by the Zagreb Philharmonic on November 7 & 8 at the Lisinksi Hall in the Croatian capital, under the baton of Dmitrij Kitajenko. Sergei Prokofiev’s Summer Night is an orchestral suite compiled in 1950 on the themes of his comic opera Betrothal…
Dmitrij Kitajenko conducted Prokofiev’s Symphony Classique and Scriabin’s Piano Concerto as well as his 2nd Symphony with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne. Three critics wrote about the event. Under the title “A mysterious melancholy”, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger writes about the performance of the Prokofiev Symphony: “Kitajenko made the piece transparent, clean…
As winners of an ICMA award in the category Symphonic Music, Dmitrij Kitajenko and the Gürzenich Orchestra were honoured yesterday at the Philharmonie in Cologne. Kitajenko and the Gürzenich Orchestra won the award this year for their CD with the Second Symphony by Jean Sibelius, published on Oehms Classics. ICMA…
Last season Dmitrij Kitajenko began a cycle with Scriabin’s symphonies played by the Gürzenich Orchestra at Cologne’s Philharmonie. On October 27, 28 and 29 he returns to two other works by Scriabin, the Piano Concerto and the Second Symphony, preceded by Prokofiev’s First symphony, the so-called Classical. Scriabin composed his…
The number five is a fixed point in the program that Dmitrij Kitajenko performs on October 12 with the Qatar Philharmonic at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha. It begins with Mahler’s Adagietto from the 5th Symphony which is a partly the result of his love affair and subsequent…
