The music magazine Pizzicato has awarded the Supersonic Award to Dmitrij Kitajenko’s new recording of Rachmaninov’s The Bells and Taneyev’s John of Damascus with the Gürzenich Orchestra. Here is the link to the review.
New CD: Rachmaninov’s The Bells & Taneyev’s John of Damascus
Oehms Classics is releasing a new CD on which Dmitrij Kitajenko conducts Rachmaninov’s symphonic poem The Bells and Taneyev’s cantata John of Damascus. Inspired by the American poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), the symphonic poem The Bells was written in 1913. Its four parts describe different features of bell ringing:…
Zagreb concerts are cancelled
Both of the concerts Dmitrij Kitajenko was scheduled to conduct in Zagreb on April 3 and 4 have been cancelled due to the Corona Virus.
Rebellion and Fatum: Dimitrij Kitajenko conducts Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky
Works by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky are on the programme of the concert that Dmitrij Kitajenko will conduct with the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra at the Doha Opera House on 14 March. As a child, Prokofiev was one of the most attentive listeners to his mother, a pianist. The son began composing…
Two composers, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, break new ground
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…
Terrific review of the first concert in Salzburg
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.
On tour with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin
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…
With melodic élan into the year 2020
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…
Two concerts at the Kulturpalast Dresden
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…
When Prokofiev gave the audience a ‘right slap’ in the face…
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…