Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Theatre Dmitri Yurovsky took the conductor’s stand of the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra. The event took place in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the main venue of the Moscow Philharmonic Society.

The large-scale concert was dedicated to the 95th birthday of Eugeny Svetlanov. In the first part of the concert, the symphonic poem Kalina Krasnaya (Red Cranberries) was performed: the legendary Soviet maestro composed this piece reinterpreting the impressions of the Vasily Shukshin’s eponymous film.

“With great success, the Svetlanov Orchestra conducted by Dmitri Yurovsky performed this bright, beautiful, very deep, emotionally rich piece in memory of Svetlanov,” music critic, Ph.D. in History of Arts Natalia Lagina shared her impressions.

In the second part of the concert, Dmitri Yurovsky performed Dmitri Shostakovich’s vibrant Tenth Symphony along with the State Orchestra.

“The orchestra and its maestro fully managed to convey the special confessional, autobiographical nature of the concept of this symphonic canvas. The dominance of slow tempos (clearly and convincingly presented by Yurovsky) powerfully, even grandiosely emphasized the growth of a very serious conflict driving the entire contrasting music action ... It applies to each of the four parts of this work. And in large-scale tutti, and in amazing flute solos, and - which is very important! – in the amazing coherence of the orchestral groups, and in the unexpectedly quiet pre-coda with echoes of Dies Irae, in the explosion at the very end of the piece: the symphony was very good. The whole concert was very good. And the image of Svetlanov brought by his music is truly eternal,” Natalia Lagina analyzes the work of Dmitri Yurovsky.