Online broadcast of the concert of Soviet and Russian organist Garry Grodberg ended in Kaliningrad international music festival "Bogosluzhebnye". About this TASS was reported by Veronika Nikolaeva – head of the information Department of the Kaliningrad regional Philharmonic society. Svetlanov, serving as the organizer of the festival.
"Harry Grodberg – people’s artist of Russia, laureate of the State prize of the Russian Federation, a recognized interpreter of Johann Sebastian Bach for many years a solo concert on July 28, in commemoration of this famous German composer of the Baroque period, completed the festival "Bogosluzhebnye". Although today he is not with us (Grodberg died 10 November 2016), we decided not to depart from tradition and to provide admirers of his talent once again hear organ music performed by a consummate Maestro," she said.
The interviewee of the Agency stressed the fact that Grodberg belonged to 20 years ago the idea of holding the year 2000, UNESCO declared the year of Johann Sebastian Bach, Kaliningrad "Bogosluzheniyah", which has since become an annual event.
For the online broadcast of the selected anniversary concert, which Grodberg gave in Kaliningrad, in love to which has admitted publicly, 25 April 2014 in the year of its 85th anniversary. The works of Bach, and other famous composers sounded on the organ – it "the king of musical instruments" that is installed in the concert hall of the Philharmonic in 1982 at the initiative and with direct participation of Grodberg, it was the first concert organ in the region.
In addition to the two online concerts, the first of which in explanation "Coffee" and "Peasant" Bach cantatas opened "Bogosluzhebnye-2020", in the framework of this year’s festival was organized three musical tours in the concert hall, but with the limitation of the number of listeners because of the pandemic coronavirus. Three nights under the arches of an old historical building of the Philharmonic sounded suites, arias, and cantatas performed by laureates of international competitions Maria Gavrilyuk, Anahit Mkrtchyan, Hiroko Inoue, other soloists and musicians. A soloist of the Philharmonic society, laureate of international and all-Russian competitions Alexander Rudnicki at the festival, playing the role of "most" by Bach, conducted tours. Twenty-year history of the Kaliningrad festival was dedicated to the exhibition and the film.
The Director of the Philharmonic, people’s artist of Russia Viktor Bobkov in an interview with a TASS correspondent noticed that "Bogosluzhebnye-2020", despite its unusual format this year aroused great interest: broadcast in the social networks of the festival’s opening concert and other videos, to coincide with the festival of organ music, have looked more than 10 thousand people. "the Onlytively, regret – not able to place everyone in the hall during musical tours, but precautions in the situation with coronavirus, the health care of our students first," he said, adding that "festival "Bogosluzhebnye" will continue next year, and, therefore, there will be new meetings with the magic world of music".
