The 10th season of the public subscriptions “Music for everybody” (in memory of Nicolay Rubinstein)

“…I started feeling less of pure and hearty attitude towards music in public: the atmosphere in the concert hall was changing. We lost the youth who usually filled the gallery, people of middle age, intelligentsia. Surely, music for this category of listeners sometimes represents the only consolation in their difficult life. People who attend our concerts are true music lovers. We know that before the revolution the fifth circle of the Bolshoi Theatre was intended for students. Gratis. We understood that it is necessary to return the tradition started by Nicolay Rubenstein, the Bolshoi Theatre. Yes, today the public subscriptions are essential. And the art idea of our subscriptions “Music for everybody” is the following: to gladden, to represent both music masterpieces and non-popular compositions of the Russian and Western Europe classics and, of course, the best modern compositions”. Vladimir Fedoseyev

Thanks to Vladimir Fedoseyev the wonderful enlightener idea of Nicolay Rubinstein regenerated. Since 1997 Vladimir Fedoseyev realizes a unique action planned with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra – “Public Symphony Subscriptions”

By what do they differ from other concerts of the orchestra? Only by ticket price.

For Vladimir Fedoseyev “accessibility” doesn’t mean facilitation. And this is proved by interesting programs where the conductor proposes the audience both well-known compositions of Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and rarely performed opuses of Bruckner, Mahler, Ravel, Vladimir Rubin, and Boris Tchaikovsky…

The critics and listeners called the programs of the charitable concerts “royal concerts”. Among the most interesting programs there are series of concerts “On the verge of centuries. Beethoven – Mahler”, “Premiere”, a concert in memory of Evgeny Svetlanov, a concert consisted of the compositions of Bruckner and Hindemith …

In the charitable action of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra “Public Symphony Concerts” took part wonderful musicians such as Arabella Steinbacher, Eliso Virsaladze, Frederic Kempf, Gunter Neuhold, Dietfried Bernet, Alexander Knyazev, Nicolay Lugansky, Alexey Lyubimov, Hovard Griffits, Yustus Frantz, Moscow Chamber Choir, artistic director Vladimir Minin, the Choir of Moscow Choir Art, artistic director Victor Popov…

Enlightenment is probably the highest vocation of a musician. At “the public concerts” of the orchestra a special atmosphere reigns. Any performer dreams about such a sensitive public, a deep, devout silence during the concert.