The Pushkin Museum to them. A.S. Pushkin opens the music season 2019

In 2019, the thematic cycle “Years of Wanderings of Svyatoslav Richter” will end, including concert programs and exhibitions. The family subscription for children and adults “Slovo. Music. The Game ”, as well as the series of lectures“ Legends of Performing Art ”, which makes it possible to hear unique recordings from the collection of vinyl records by Svyatoslav Teofilovich, will resume. The Überbrettl. Cabaret evening. "

In 2017, in the Memorial apartment of S.T. Richter opened a three-year concert and exhibition cycle "The years of wanderings of Svyatoslav Richter", associated with the creative biography of the pianist and, at the same time, providing an opportunity for a more free, metaphysical interpretation of the plot of wanderings. The first season was devoted to the musical culture of France and Italy (2017), the second - to England and America (2018).

The new project introduces the public to the music and art of Austria and Germany. Each program is unique. Especially for the Svyatoslav Richter Memorial Apartment, musicians find rare musical texts, make arrangements, perform modern compositions and forgotten masterpieces of old masters for the first time. Musical evenings are accompanied by a story about the historical era, the creation of works and the fate of the authors.

The concerts will be attended by famous performers - Yuri Martynov, Lyudmila Berlin, Alexander Gindin, Jacob Katznelson, Peter Laul, Peter Aidu, Ekaterina Derzhavina, Alexey Kurbatov, Alexey Lundin, Roman Mints, Sergey Poltavsky, Rustam Komachkov, Marina Katarzhnova, Evgeni Rumyantsev, Yana Ivanilova, Ksenia Vyaznikova, Arthur Ansel, Masaya Tanaka, the ensembles of ancient and modern music “Volkonsky Consort”, “Santo Vivo”, “IASM”, “Rusquartet” and others.

Head of the Department of Musical Culture of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkina Julia De-Clerk: “Concert programs inspired by S.T. Richter and his creative contacts with German and Austrian musicians will combine the rare-sounding and iconic compositions of the Baroque era, the masterpieces of the "Viennese classics" with the radical experiments of the composers of the "New Viennese school", the masters of the counterpoint of the Reformation era with polyphonic compositions of the "neoclassical" of the XX century, as well as with authentic pearls of instrumental and vocal music of German romantics and legends of classical Viennese operetta. "Portraits of Austrian and German composers will alternate with musical evenings dedicated to various genres and styles, tradition and modernity will appear in a lively, relevant dialogue."

In November, the exhibition "The years of wanderings of Svyatoslav Richter. Austria - Germany. " The project is based on a collection of archival documents, paintings and drawings by S.T. Richter, funds the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, as well as collections of other museums and archives, including foreign ones. The exposition will feature rare materials: letters from artists O. Kokoschka and H. Hartung, musicians F. Diskau and E. Schwarzkopf, actress M. Dietrich, photographs and musical manuscripts. The exhibition will also include graphic materials related to the famous productions of the 1920s-1930s operas by Austrian composers F. Schrecker and E. Kshenek in Russia, which influenced the tastes of the young musician and his interest in the opera genre.

In addition to projects in the Memorial Apartment of Svyatoslav Richter, the Department of Musical Culture of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin is preparing programs dedicated to the landmark exhibitions of 2019, as well as the traditional XXXIX International Music Festival “December Evenings of Svyatoslav Richter”, dedicated to English music.

Department of musical culture of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin was created in 1999. This event as a result of many years of friendly and creative contacts of I. A. Antonova with the great pianist S.T. Richter is on a par with the organization of the international festival “December evenings of Svyatoslav Richter”, as well as the transfer of the musician’s collection bequeathed to the museum and, finally, the creation of the Svyatoslav Richter Memorial Apartment in 1997. I.A. Antonova was the first who decided to implement the idea of synthesizing the arts in the space of the museum, thus reflecting the main vector of the development of culture of the 20th century. Today the department of musical culture is preparing a wide variety of programs and projects: research, educational, exhibition and concert, both in the Memorial Apartment of Svyatoslav Richter and in the halls of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin.

State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin is a museum complex, which has one of the largest art collections of foreign art in Russia, storing artifacts created by masters of different eras - from Ancient Egypt and ancient Greece to the present day. Today, the museum has about 700 thousand works. The pearl of the collection is one of the most famous collections of works by French impressionists and post-impressionists in the world.