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The Moscow chamber orchestra MUSICA VIVA (Orchestra)

Musica Viva Orchestra is one of Moscow’s favorite orchestral ensembles, attracting listeners thanks to the special atmosphere of its concerts and its sophisticated programs. In its interpretations, whether of well-known masterpieces or musical rarities, Musica Viva strives to return to the original concept of the music, which is often difficult to distinguish under the thick layers of interpretive tradition. In doing so, it brings to music lovers interpretations that are strikingly new and fresh. This approach is what has caused the ensemble to give the name “Masterpieces and Premieres” to one of its most important long-term artistic projects.

For more than two decades, the orchestra has been led by Alexander Rudin, a versatile musician of international renown and Professor of the Moscow Conservatory. Rudin has exerted enormous influence on the artistic character of Musica Viva through his love of rarely played music, his mastery of many styles of interpretation and his superb taste in the choice of programs and guest artists. One direction he has taken, and a priority for the orchestra, is that of presenting great composers in their historical milieu.

Music Viva strives to master the historical stylistic demands of music of different eras – baroque, early classical, romantic and contemporary. In addition, it has devoted special attention to the programming of seldom-heard works by Russian composers such as Osip Kozlovsky, Mikhail Viyelgorsky, Stepan Degtyarev, Alexander Alyabyev and Mikhail Glinka.

Over past seasons, the orchestra has successfully participated in operas and oratorios together with outstanding foreign singers and conductors. As part of the Musica Viva’s Moscow Philharmonic Society subscription series Masterpieces and Premieres, Maestro Rudin has led the orchestra in the Russian premiere of Antonio Vivaldi’s oratorio Juditha triumphans, very rarely heard masses of Joseph Haydn, as well as his oratorios The Creation and The Seasons, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Idomeneo and the Requiems of Mozart and Robert Schumann. Together with British conductor Christopher Moulds, the orchestra has also achieved notable success in presenting the Russian premieres of George Frideric Handel’s operas Orlando and Ariodante.

Musica Viva’s annual festival Dedication, which was held for more than 10 years at the State Tretyakov Gallery, moved in 2011 to the Palace on the Yauza and the Armory of the Moscow Kremlin. In the spring of 2012, the orchestra undertook a new project titled Evenings with Alexander Rudin and in 2011 initiated a new Moscow Philharmonic Society subscription series called Silver Classics in the concert hall of the Gnessin Academy of Music.

The brilliant international reputation of Musica Viva has brought with it collaboration with some of the world’s leading musicians, such as German flautist Andras Adorian and opera prima donnas Joyce DiDonato, Annik Massis and Vivica Genaux. At the beginning of last season, the orchestra played for the first time under the baton of the highly talented maestro Vladimir Jurowski, chief conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Still another star conductor, the eminent British master of historically correct interpretation Sir Roger Norrington, has appeared as guest with the orchestra on three occasions. Maestro Norrington is scheduled to lead Musica Viva again in October 2012.

Musica Viva regularly collaborates with such world-renowned musicians as pianists Eliso Virsaladze, Denis Matsuev, Boris Berezovsky and Alexei Lyubimov, violinists Sergei Stadler and Isabelle Faust and cellist Nataliya Gutman. It also takes part in international music festivals and often appears abroad in Germany, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Slovenia, India, Turkey, Finland, Taiwan and other countries and annually tours to various cities of Russia. A particularly important event for the orchestra was its participation in 2012 in the French festival La Folle Journee, which took it to Nantes, in France, and Bilbao, in Spain, and to various cities in Japan.

The orchestra has recorded more than 20 CDs for labels such as Russian Season (Russia - France), Olympia and Hyperion (Great Britain), Tudor (Switzerland) and Melodiya (Russia). The orchestra’s latest recordings have been of works by Alyabyev, Beethoven and Glinka for the Belgian label Fuga Libera.





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