The Fifth World Symphony Orchestra Festival in Moscow is over. True to tradition, this musical forum is dedicated to Russia Day, June 12, a Russian public holiday, Voice of Russia reports.
The Festival final was performed by the youngest participant, the Indian Symphony Orchestra headed by Russian conductor Alexander Anisimov. The musical dialogue of Europe and Asia is rooted in the concept of this year’s Moscow contest. In previous years the leading European orchestras participated in the festival along with Russian ones. This time Muscovites became acquainted with orchestras from Turkey, China, Korea and India which performed both European and their own national music.
One of the special events of the festival was the concert in which the program included Russian composer Alexey Rybnikov’s Fifth Symphony named “Resurrection from the Dead”. The performance was dedicated to outstanding Russian poet Andrey Voznesensky who recently passed away. The composer and the poet had been friends for many years, since their joint work at the rock opera “Juno and Avos”.
“A whole epoch seems to have left my life together with Andrey Voznesensky,” says Alexey Ribnikov. “This symphony is based on the texts of the Old Testament in 4 languages: Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Russian. The music is an incarnation of the idea that there is something uniting all those living on our planet, all languages and all confessions."
