For more than 50 years, the Concert Hall near Finlandsky, beloved by St. Petersburg residents and guests of our city, has hospitably opened its doors to spectators.
Address:
St. Petersburg, Arsenalnaya embankment, 13/1.
Telephone:
(812) 542-09-44
For more than 50 years, the Concert Hall near Finlyandsky has hospitably opened its doors to spectators. The Concert Hall near Finlyandsky, beloved by St. Petersburg residents and guests of our city, has been hospitably opening its doors to spectators. The building, built in 1954 according to the design of architects G.I.
Ivanova, N.V. Baranova, N.G. Ageeva, harmoniously fit into the architectural appearance of Lenin Square and Arsenalnaya Embankment. The chronicle of the Concert Hall is rich in performances by bright stars and talents. In the 60s, the philharmonic focus of concert activity was determined.
Each season opened with an original concert by the great composer Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich. The concerts were attended by the country's leading soloists, the Leningrad Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the composer's son Maxim Shostakovich was at the conductor's stand, and the best musicians performed: Boris Gutnikov and Mikhail Vaitman, Pavel Serebryakov and Ekaterina Murina. In this hall, performers who became world-famous stars began their creative lives: Elena Obraztsova, Lyudmila Zykina, Boris Shtokolov. Leading musicians, masters of artistic expression, domestic and foreign stage artists shone on this stage: Ben Benzianov, Galina Kareva, Edita Piekha, Eduard Gil, Lyudmila Senchina, Anna German, French pantomime master Marcel Marceau.
In the 70s, another direction of creative activity of the hall was determined - jazz.
Musicians who have today become classics of jazz gathered here to sell-out houses: A. Kozlovsky, D. Goloshchekin, L. Chizhik, I. Bril, the jazz orchestras of A. Kroll and O. Lundstrem. In the early 80s, spectators enthusiastically attended original concerts of Soviet composers and songwriters: Andrei Petrov, Ian Frenkel, Mark Fradkin, Mikael Tariverdiev, Veniamin Basner, Maxim Dunaevsky. Performances and literary evenings with the participation of famous theater and film actors were held with constant success: S. Yursky and A. Filippenko, Z. Gerdt, M. Kazakov, V. Smekhov;
authors-performers B. Okudzhava, A. Dolsky, A. Gorodnitsky, V. Dolina, Y. Kukin, O. Mityaev. Leading directors G. Tovstonogov, M. Zakharov, L. Dodin, M. Rozovsky, I. Vladimirov, A. Sokurov, S. Govorukhin - this list can be listed endlessly! The hall was always looking for new forms, not afraid to experiment, and strived to discover new names. Romance and Russian folk songs, bard concerts, evenings of music for button accordion and accordion, rock concerts, creative meetings with famous cultural figures, performances for children and adults, opera and operetta evenings remain to this day the main directions of the hall's repertoire policy.
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