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…
On Friday 4 October, Dmitrij Kitajenko is scheduled to conduct the Qatar Philharmonic at the Opera House in Doha. The program foresees the 7th Symphony by Sergei Prokofiev. As Svjatoslav Prokofiev, Prokofiev’s first son (from his first marriage with Lina Llubera) said in an interview: “Father never spoke about his…
On 9 and 11 May Dmitrij Kitajenko will conduct the Danish National Symphony Orchestra at the Koncerthuset in Copenhagen, the orchestra of which he was Principal Guest Conductor for several years.
On 3 May Dmitrij Kitajenko will conduct the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha. The soloist in Piotr Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations is the German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, with whom the conductor has often successfully collaborated, most recently at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig in 2016. Originally,…
Carl Maria von Weber’s Freischütz Overture, Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto op. 54 and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s dazzling orchestral suite Scheherazade are on the programme of the concert, which Dimitrij Kitajenko will conduct in Doha on 27 April. The soloist of this event organized by the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra will be the…
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…
