55 minutes with Conductor Valeri Gergiev
Sunday, 11 July 2010 , 16.05

Conductor Valeri Gergiev is one of the most important names in today's classical music; as a matter of fact, in April 2010 he was nominated among 100 of the most powerful figures of 2010, the only figure of nowadays classic music, by the American Time magazine.

On May 25th , at the press meeting before the concert he was going to perform with the Mariinski Theatre Orchestra at Dresden, Gergiev talked about his concern for supporting young interpreters (like in the case of the famous, now soprano, Anna Netrebko, and the pianist Denis Matsuev who performed at Dresden, Sergei Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini); about the beginnings of his conducting career, about his engagement in concerts that go beyond the music boundary, sending a social and political message (it is the case of the concerts performed in 2004 after the Beslan tragedy or in 2008 after the Ossetia – Russia conflict), about what it really means to have influence: in his case, 200 concerts conducted per year, 30-40 % without pay, or the construction of two new concert halls for the Mariinski Theatre in Sankt-Petersburg and the purchase of an impressive instruments collection for the Mariinski Theatre Orchestra.

On the 55 minutes with Valeri Gergiev transmission (Sunday, July 11, 4:05 p.m.) one can listen to two moments from the concert performed by the Mariinski Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Valeri Gergiev within the Dresden Festival: the third part of Tchaikovsky's Symphony Pathetique and Sergei Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – soloist Denis Matsuev.

Mariinski Theatre Orchestra, Valeri Gergiev and Denis Matsuev will be the protagonists of the Enescu Festival – 2011 Edition.