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Chamber Orchester
The Moscow Soloists
This well-known musical group was founded in 1992
on the initiative of the great Russian musician Yuri Bashmet.
The orchestra made its debut in the Great Hall of the State Conservatory in Moscow
on May 19th 1992 and the next day in the prestigious Salle Pleyel in Paris.
The orchestra was created by Yuri Bashmet with the best graduates
of the Moscow Conservatory at that time.
Today the international press describes
the orchestra as “one of the best in the world of this type” (Davar, Israel).
An Italian newspaper has defined the group as “the voice of its country”.
The young musicians (nobody is more than 30 years old) have played in many festivals, including the Rostropovich Festival in Evian France,
the Montreux Festival in Switzerland,
the Sydney Festival in Australia, the Moscow “December evenings” Festival.
The Moscow Soloists have held concerts in many famous concert halls such as:
the Albert Hall and the Barbican in London, Salle Pleyel and
the Champs Elysées Théâtre in Paris, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam,
Santory Hall in Tokyo, the Philharmonic Hall in Berlin.
They have been applauded all over Europe, in Australia, New Zealand,
Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Israel and Turkey.
They have accompanied famous soloists such as
S. Richter, G. Kremer, M. Rostropovich, V. Tretiakov.
They have taken part, with Yuri Bashmet,
in the Russian monthly television programme “An invitation to dream”.
In the ensemble’s repertoire we find both masterpieces from classical music and
works that rarely appear in concert programmes.
In 1995 the
Moscow Soloists recorded a CD for EMI
the “Triple Concert” by the famous contemporary composer Alfred Schnittke,
with the soloists Mstislav Rostropovich, Gidon Kremer and Bashmet.
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