In October, a roster of great musicians will perform solo recitals on stage of the Mariinsky Concert Hall. Pianist Alexei Volodin, who will perform on Tchaikovsky Day in St Petersburg, will be playing, among other works, a Concert suite from the ballet The Nutcracker arranged for piano solo. Violinist Sergei Khachatryan will play a program of sonatas and partitas by Johann Sebastian Bach. Mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina (*) will perform songs and romances by Russian composers. Svetlana Berezhnaya, one of the top five Russian organists, will present a program of famous works for organ.

* — Olga Borodina will sing the role of Marfa in Mussorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina on October 26th at the Mariinsky Theatre, and will also perform the solo part in Verdi’s Requiem on November 6th at the Mariinsky Concert Hall. Both events will be conducted by Valery Gergiev.