In its ongoing series with music by Russian composer Vyacheslav Artyomov, British-American recording group Divine Art has published several CDs with historic recordings with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by Dmitrij Kitajenko. Those releases comprise the Requiem (dda 25173), In Memoriam and Lamentations (dda 25175), Gurian Hymn (dda 25171) as well…
On 11, 12 and 13 April, Dmitrij Kitajenko will return to the Konzerthausorchester in Berlin, of which he was Principal Guest Conductor from 2012 to 2017. He conducts Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra with soloists Anna Vinnitskaya and Gábor Boldoczki.
Dmitrij Kitajenko will return to the Zagreb Philharmonic on March 21 and 22 for a beautiful Russian program starting with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s highly colourful Russian Easter Overture. Croatian-Slovenian cellist Luka Sulic (*1987) well-known as a member of the duo 2Cellos, will be the soloist in Piotr Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a…
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, the so-called Eroica, will resound at the Qatar National Convention Centre on Saturday 23 February, with the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dmitrij Kitajenko. The composer’s original idea was to dedicate it to the First Consul, Napoléon Bonaparte, but as he crowned himself Emperor…
The concert of the Qatar Philharmonic in Doha which Dmitrij Kitajenko is scheduled to conduct on February 16 opens with Adagio, Pas d’Action, panorama and Waltz from Tchaikovsky’s ballet ‘Sleeping Beauty’ op. 66.
The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announced today the Awards for 2019. In the Audio and Video categories, 19 productions are awarded a prize. In the category Symphonic Music the winner is the recording with Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2 played by the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne under the…
Dmitrij Kitajenko’s recording of the Second Symphony by Jean Sibelius with the Gürzenich Orchestra from Cologne has been awarded the famous Clé d’Or from French music magazine ResMusica, being as such comprised in ResMusica’s list of the 18 best recordings of the year 2018 The review is here.
Dmitrij Kitajenko’s recording of the Second Symphony by Jean Sibelius with the Gürzenich Orchestra from Cologne is among the finalists for the International Classical Music Awards 2019. So, it belongs to the three best recordings in the category Symphonic Music, in which, initially, 29 CDs had been nominated.
This year, Dmitrij Kitajenko is scheduled to conduct three Christmas concerts at the Kulturpalast in Dresden. It is a festive program with works by Russian composers. In the Russian music fairy-tales have an important place. This is applies to old legends like the The Legend of the Invisible City of…
During 14 years, Dmitrij Kitajenko was the principal conductor of the Bern Symphony Orchestra. Now the maestro returns to the Swiss capital for this year’s traditional Gala concert.
