“Sleeping Beauty” at the Moscow International House of Music and at Tchaikovsky Concert Hall

On the threshold of a new year, the Svetlanov State Orchestra of Russia, under the baton of its Artistic Director, Vladimir Jurowski, will play music from Tchaikovsky’s second ballet, “The Sleeping Beauty,” written in 1889 after the eponymous tale by Charles Perrault.

On 29 December, the orchestra will play the first concert of the “Music on the Sand: Fantasy for Artist and Orchestra” subscription series in the Svetlanov Hall at the Moscow International House of Music. Master of sand animation Artur Kirillov will participate in the performance.

On 30 December, the “Sleeping Beauty” music will be performed at Tchaikovsky Concert Hall as part of the Moscow Philharmonic Society subscription series featuring the Svetlanov State Orchestra. The Prologue and Act I will be performed in the first part of the concert, and Acts II and III will be played after the intermission.

Says Jurowski, “Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty music will be performed in its entirety. By withholding the visual component, we make the listener concentrate solely on the music and discover that it is highly symphonically complex and experimental. The entire Act II represents Tchaikovsky’s neoclassicism, a style that later received intensive development in the music of composers of the 20th century. This is a masterpiece of orchestration, but during a fully staged performance, even if the musicians are very good, some orchestral colors disappear. I hope that we will be able to ‘restore’ the original colors as well as the intended tempi, which inevitably get distorted due to the technical demands of dance.”

Concerts start at 19:00.