REGAL VIENEZ - EXTRAORDINARY CHRISTMAS CONCERT
UKRAINIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
December 18th, 20:00 "Sica Alexandrescu" Theatre Brasov
UKRAINIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA is well known for its national and international art. For many decades, the Orchestra's work has helped to enrich the treasure of national musical culture. The Orchestra will perform the most important repertoire of the Vienna Opera Ball, including works of the Strauss dynasty, Franz Lehar, Emmerich Kalman, Joseph Lanner and other famous Viennese composers in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Orchestra will be composed of 36 instrumentalists and ANIKO BALLET will dance on the Viennese accords.
The first public performance of the newly created Symphony Orchestra of Ukrainian Radio (Ukrainian Radio-Center that time), which was a notable even in the Ukrainian art and cultural life, happened on the 5th of October, 1929. The Orchestra was a part of the Radio-Theatre and consisted of 45 musicians. The head of the Orchestra talented conductor and Professor Yakiv Rozenshteyn. The best musicians of Kharkov, the former capital of Ukraine, were invited to the Orchestra. The Orchestra had started its first symphonic cycle with the P.I. Tchaikovsky works, which was opened with the 5th symphony and the 3rd orchestral suit on the 14th of October, 1929.
This was the beginning of the Ukrainian National Musical Radio Broadcasting history. This was followed by 80 years of the bright creative Orchestra life, full of high art and inspired labor. Due to the transfer of the Ukrainian capital to Kyiv and Republican Radio Committee reformation the Orchestra was removed to Kyiv and the number of musicians increased up to 60 persons. By the year of 1937 it becomes the only stationary Symphony Orchestra in Kyiv which practiced purely in symphony music.
Radio broadcasts and public concerts followed by the thousands of world and Ukrainian music records made by the Orchestra in favor of Ukrainian Radio Fund and the movie records has made an enormous contribution to the national culture treasury.
Musician’s hard work supervised by the best talented chief conductors has led the Orchestra to the highest level of the orchestral art. Herman Adler, Mykhailo Kanershteyn, Petro Polyakov, Kostyantyn Simeonov, Vadym Gnedash, Volodymyr Sirenko and Viatcheslav Blinov formed the collective while polishing its mastery and improving themselves together with the Orchestra.
The Orchestra was tempered in a collaboration with the prominent conductors of the 20th century: Mykola Kolessa, Nathan Rakhlin, Oleksandr Klimov, Isaac Pain, Genadiy Rozhdestvenskiy, Benjamin Tol'ba, Stefan Turchak, Fedir Gluschenko, Rikkardo Kapasso, Arild Remmerit and others. Volodymyr Sheiko has been heading the Orchestra since 2005.
The title of Honored collective and the academic status were granted to the Orchestra for special merits in the musical art development.
Tickets price: 150 ron; 120 ron.
