Giorgi Gigashvili & East-West Chamber Orchestra

In the organizer's words:

18.45 Introductory talk

East-West Chamber Orchestra

Giorgi Gigashvili Piano

Rostislav Krimer Conductor

Mieczysław Weinberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2

Galina Ustvolskaya: Concerto for piano, strings and timpani

Erkki-Sven Tüür: "Leaving behind" for piano and strings (world premiere)

Dmitri Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony for Strings and Timpani op. 110a

Rostislav Krimer from Bonn sees his East-West Chamber Orchestra as a forum for international understanding. Together with the Georgian pianist Giorgi Gigashvili, audience favorite of the Beethovenfest 2024, he brings stirring music from the former Soviet Union to the Pantheon Theater. The prominent Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür has written a commissioned work for the concert, dedicated to everything that refugees have to leave behind.