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In Belgium, on 19 December, there were two brilliant classical music concerts performed by the Mariinsky Theater’s Stradivarius Ensemble under the baton of maestro Valery Gergiev as part of the Russian Seasons international cultural project.
The group’s performances were held at the Bozar Fine Arts Center and were a continuation of the festival’s concert program in Belgium. The program traditionally included the most outstanding works of great Russian and foreign composers.
The Bozar Fine Arts Center is one of the most famous concert venues in the world. It is Bel-gium’s premier cultural site. In 1913, Queen Elisabeth and King Albert I expressed a desire to build a temple dedicated to music and the arts. Construction began after the First World War with a design by the famous Belgian architect Victor Horta. The Bozar Centre for Fine Arts opened in 1928. Since then, it has been home to most of Belgium’s cultural and artistic events.
The Mariinsky Theatre Stradivari Ensemble is a chamber orchestra whose musicians perform on instruments that are unique in their sound, created by masters of the Cremona school from the seven-teenth and eighteenth centuries. The ensemble was founded on the initiative of Valery Gergiev, Artistic Director and Director of the Mariinsky Theatre. The ensemble features the finest instrumentalists and leading soloists of the theater’s Symphony Orchestra. Despite their chamber music, their classical works sound truly bright and vast yet at the same time sensual and heartfelt thanks to the rich and incredibly beautiful timbre of instruments by Amati, Stradivari, Guarneri, Guadagnini, and Goffriller.
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