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…
Upcoming Concerts
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With Sergej Krylov in Doha
February 16/7:30 pmQatar National Convention Center Auditorium 3 -
Eroica and more in Doha
February 23/7:30 pmQatar National Convention Center Auditorium 3 -
All-Russian program in Zagreb
March 21/7:30 pmLisinski Concert Hall -
All-Russian program in Zagreb
March 22/7:30 pmLisinski Concert Hall
The Nutcracker and Divertimento from Le baiser de la fée
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 – Opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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!
Two great symphonic programs in Doha
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…
Romantic music in Doha
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…
An exciting upcoming season with a wide-stretched program
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.
Three concerts with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin
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…
Four concerts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra
The Budapest Festival Orchestra was created in 1983 by Iván Fischer and the late Zoltán Kocsis. It plays since then an important role in the musical life of the Hungarian capital and is a unique ambassador of Hungary around the world. Dimitri Kitaenko returns in November for four concerts to…
Ovations for Dimitri Kitaenko and Berlin’s Konzerthausorchester
On July 6, 7 and 8 Dimitri Kitaenko conducted three concerts in Berlin with the local Konzerthausorchester. In the Tagesspiegel, Frederik Hanssen wrote enthusiastically about the “rhythmic refinement” in Stravinsky’s ‘The Fairy’s Kiss and “grand emotions” in excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s opera Iolanta. According to the critic, Kitaenko concluded the concert…
Great Open Air Concert in Zagreb
In late May, Dimitri Kitaenko will conduct two concerts in Zagreb. On May 25 he will be at the helm of the Zagreb Philharmonic at the Lisinski Hall. The program begins with Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for strings op. 48 and will end with the Ballet Suite No 3 by Dmitri Shostakovich.…