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After making his London debut with
the Royal Philharmonic in 1977, Mr.
Temirkanov was appointed its principal
guest conductor and from 1992 to 1998
was principal conductor. He was also the
principal guest conductor of the Dresden
Philharmonic Orchestra and the Danish
National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
He frequently conducts the major
orchestras of New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, San
Francisco and Los Angeles as well as
leading European orchestras, including
the Berlin and London philharmonics,
London Symphony and the UK-based
Philharmonia Orchestra.
Mr. Temirkanov’s numerous recordings include collaborations with the St.
Petersburg Philharmonic, New York
Philharmonic and Danish National Radio
Symphony orchestras, and the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he
recorded the complete Stravinsky ballets
and Tchaikovsky symphonies.
Yuri Temirkanov last appeared with the
BSO in October 2006, conducting Shostakovich’s Tahiti Trot and Tenth Symphony.
Denis Matsuev
Denis Matsuev has
enjoyed a stellar career
since his victory in
the 11th International
Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in
1998. He has appeared with the major
orchestras of New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, London, Philadelphia, London,
Paris, Berlin, Moscow and St. Petersburg,
and with such distinguished conductors
as Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, Kurt
Masur, Mariss Jansons, Zubin Mehta,
and Yuri Temirkanov.
For many years Mr. Matsuev has
collaborated with the Sergei Rachmaninoff Foundation. He was chosen by
the Foundation to perform and record
Rachmaninoff’s unknown pieces on the
composer’s own piano at the Rachmaninoff
house in Lucerne. He introduced two
lost Rachmaninoff works, the D Minor
Fugue and the piano version of the Suite for
Orchestra; both appeared on Mr. Matsuev’s
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2008 RCA recording Unknown Rachmaninoff. He was appointed artistic
director of the Foundation in 2008.
Mr. Matsuev, a laureate of the prestigious “Shostakovich’s Prize” in music, is a
“People’s Artist of Russia” and a member
of the Presidential Council for Culture
and Art. In February 2014, Mr. Matsuev
was awarded the honor of performing at
the Closing Ceremony of the XXII
Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
Mr Matsuev was born in Irkutsk,
Russia in 1975. His father was a composer and pianist and his mother was
a piano teacher.
Denis Matsuev last appeared with
the BSO in April 2004, performing
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2,
with Roberto Abbado, conductor.
About the concert:
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor,
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Born in Oneg, Russia, April 1, 1873; died in
Beverly Hills, California, March 28, 1943
In 1909, Sergei Rachmaninoff signed a
contract to undertake his first American
tour. Eight years before the Russian
Revolution, he could not have guessed
he would one day be a U.S. resident, but
he did know he wanted to make a strong
impression in the lucrative American
market. He decided that a new concerto
was required.
He composed his Third Piano Concerto in D Minor the summer before the
tour at his country estate, Ivanovka. He
practiced the new concerto on a dummy
keyboard on the boat to America.
Although the Third Concerto scored a
success at its premiere on November 28,
1909 with the New York Symphony (now
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