One of the highlights of Korea’s iconic Pyeongchang Music Festival 2018 will be the concert with the local Festival Orchestra conducted by Dmitrij Kitajenko on Saturday 28 July 2018. Yeol Eum Son will be the soloist in Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto. After the interval, Maestro Kitajenko will conduct Piotr Tchaikovsky’s…
Oehms Classics has published the recording with the Second Symphony by Jean Sibelius and Edvard Grieg’s ‘Allegretto grazioso’ (Symphonic Dances op. 64/2) as well as ‘Last Spring’ (Two Elegiac Melodies op. 34/2). On this CD with the catalogue # OC457 Dmitrij Kitajenko conducts the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne.
Oehms Classics has released the recording of Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony op. 1 and the Suites Nos. 1 and 2 for chamber orchestra with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra (OC 1888).
Dmitrij Kitajenko conceived a great program with Russian choral music for a project with three concerts at the Philharmonie in Cologne. The concerts begin with the The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, a suite in four pictures which Maximilian Steinberg (1883-1946) draw from Nikolai…
Marking the 30th year of their unique collaboration the Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra and their honorary conductor Dimitri Kitaenko are releasing their 30th CD together at the end of October 2016. Once again turning their attention to Russian composers, this CD (OehmsClassics OC 448) features the complete ballet music from Tchaikovsky’s…
Iolanta is Dimitri Kitaenko and the Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra’s first opera recording. High carat soloists such as Olesya Golovneva, Alexander Vinogradov, Andrei Bondarenko, Vladislav Sulimsky and Dmytro Popov make this a real treat, meeting with national – and international – acclaim. The jewel in the crown of the Tchaikovsky cycle!
February sees Maestro Dimitri Kitaenko again at the helm of the Qatar Philharmonic, whose conductor of honor he is. Two concerts are scheduled at the opera house of Doha. On February 10 he conducts a mixed program with Paul Dukas’s tone poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, subtitled Scherzo after a Ballad…
Dmitrij Kitajenko returns for two concerts to the Qatar Philharmonic. Both concerts will take place at the Opera Ouse in Doha. The first one will feature music by Wagner, Shostakovich and Brahms, while the second concert will comprise compositions by Mozart, Grieg and Khachaturian. The first concert is scheduled for…
After a CD recording with the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne, Dimitri Kitaenko will start his concert season 2017/18 on September 21 in Zagreb with the Croatian capital’s Philharmonic Orchestra. Stravinsky’s First symphony, Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto and Ravel’s Bolero are on the program of two successive concerts.
For three concerts in 12th, 13th and 14th January Dimitri Kitaenko returns to the Konzerthausorchester Berlin whose First Guest Conductor he was from 2012 to 2017. The soloist in Sergei Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto will be the 47-year-old Italian Russian violinist Sergei Krylov. Maestro Kitaenko has often cooperated with this…
