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'At the end of the day, it remains a secret why some can conduct and others can’t', Sir Georg Solti once said. CONDUCT! explores this secret. The struggle of five young artists for success at the International Conductors Competition in Frankfurt provides real-life drama that tests not only musical abilities but, above all, characters. CONDUCT! explores the secret of conducting with a unique intensity that culminates in a great showdown at Frankfurt’s Opera.
To inaugurate the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra's 2023-2024 season, Aziz Shokhakimov conducts an audacious interpretation of Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung in Lorin Maazel's version. A symphonic journey bringing together the main leitmotifs of the full tetralogy in one hour of glorious music.
Conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg presents a rare work by Camille Saint-Saëns: the Oratorio de Noël. Composed in 1858 when the composer was just 23 years old, this cantata-like work is rarely performed on stage, making its performance quite unprecedented.
To inaugurate the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra's 2023-2024 season, conductor Aziz Shokhakimov invites international pianist and soloist Kirill Gerstein for a special evening. The programme includes Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2, a romantic work dotted with octaves, thirds, leaps and glissandi.
From the Rai “Arturo Toscanini” Auditorium, pianist Vadym Kholodenko performs, for his debut with the Rai Orchestra, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, perhaps the most complex and demanding of the Russian composer’s four concertos. Conducting is Uzbek maestro Aziz Shokhakimov, who presents the final version, from 1947, of the famous ballet Petrushka, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s death.
From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov, with Seong-Jin Cho on piano, performs works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36.
Composed in 1888 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade is one of the most popular works in the Russian repertoire. Under the baton of Aziz Shokhakimov the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg performs this symphonic suite inspired by the Arabian Nights, inviting us on an enchanting journey to the Orient.
Live Opera performance of Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades. Directed by Benedict Andrews