Maestro Valery Gergiev

conducts

 J.Brahms : Ein  Deutsches Requiem

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Solveig Kringelborn  soprano

Mariusz Kwiecien baritone

Swedisch Radio Choir

Recorded at Maestro Valery Gergiev's final concert as Music Director and Chief Conductor of the R.Ph.O. on 25 th May 2008 at the Doelen Concert Hall, Rotterdam

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          GERMANY               
DRESDEN  25 MAY 2010 

    Maestro Valery Gergiev      

 has been proclaimed the winner of the Saeculum German Music  Prize 2010                                   by the Dresden Music Festival

'YOU CANNOT START WITHOUT ME'

documentary about

Maestro Valery Gergiev

made by Allan Miller

for sale by: www.nlstore.nl / bol.com

JANUARI 2010

Maestro Valery Gergiev 

is appointed to
Honorary Consul

of Luxemburg in St.Petersburg

A medal awarded to outstanding world musicians who have links with Valencia.

The ceremony took place during the 
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra' tour of Spain , 
which started in Valencia on 7 January 2009

The Mayor of Rotterdam gives him the highest decoration of the city Rotterdam: 

de Johan van Oldebarnevelt penning

Rotterdam 25 Mai 2008.

The Queen  of the Netherlands
Koningin Beatrix 
was also present.

Maestro Valery Gergiev 
has been made an Officer of the Legion  d'Honneur on 1 April '07 in Paris.

The Maestro received the award from French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu  de Vabres in Paris after a concert at the Salle Pleyel , where the Maestro conducted the London Symphony  Orchestra in a Debussy and Stravinsky program.
Presenting the award, the Culture minister said that" he expressed admiration at this energetic artist, passionate toiler and champion of the contemporary and Classical Russian music".

 The Rotterdam Promotion Prize 2006 
                   is awarded to 

   Maestro Valery Gergiev 
         
             chief conductor of  the
    Rotterdam Philharmonisch Orchestra.
 
  The Maestro has been awarded the prize for his
   exceptional  devotion to the Gergiev Festivals.
   In the eleven years of the festivals existence
   it has developed into a well known 
   international festival.

   Moreover the festivals are known for their 
   important contributions  to the world wide  
   good name of the city Rotterdam 
 
  The award is presented to the 
  Maestro by Mayer Opstelten  on the second
  of March 2007 in the  city hall of           
              Rotterdam Netherlands 

THE HERBERT VON KARAJAN MUSIC PRIZE FOR VALERY GERGIEV

 febr. 2006

Maestro Valery Gergiev has been awarded the Herbert von Karajan Prize, which was founded by the Baden-Baden Music Festival. The artistic and General Director of the Mariinsky Theatre was named : one of the most important cultural figures of our age, and it was also stated that "Valery Gergiev has set new standards for interpreting  works by Italian, German and, first and foremost, Russian composers". The Herbert von Karajan Prize giving ceremony will take place the 12th of July in Baden-Baden.

VALERY GERGIEV HONORARY CONDUCTOR OF  SWEDISH ORCHESTRA

febr. 2006

Maestro Valery Gergiev, till August 2008 the chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonisch Orchestra, is appointed to be honorary conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, with which he works regularly since 1999.

THE SWEDISH POLAR MUSICPRIZE FOR VALERY GERGIEV

nov.2005

Together with the British hardrock group Led Zeppelin Maestro Valery Gergiev won the Swedish Polar Music prize.The prize was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, manager of the pop group ABBA, and will be awarded by the Swedish Royal Academy of Music. The globe-trotter Valery Gergiev is praised for the way his unique, brilliant musical ability  has  deepened and renewed our  relation with the great traditions.

The prize will be presented the22 nd of May 2006 in Stockholm  by King Carl Gustaaf of Sweden 

GERGIEV FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
sept. 2005

Saturday the 10th of  September 2005, after the opening concert of the10th Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam Mayer Opstelten conferred a Knighthood upon Valery Gergiev. Maestro Valery Gergiev was made  Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion, owing to the exceptional character, the international importance and the worldwide allure of his musical activities.

jubilee box 
a  collection of 4 cd's

sept. 2005

To celebrate the 10th  anniversary of the Gergiev Festival a bewitching collection of 4 cd's has been released  with Valery Gergiev's personal choice of the festival-tapes. Besides close attention for the romantic and early twenties Russian school (Tchaikovsky- Prokofjev and Shostakovich), also the mystic music of Debussy and Ravel with la Mer and the Dapfne and Cloé  suite nr.2 have their turn. That is music which is equally exclusive as the way of conducting of Valery Gergiev. Where von Karajan accentuated every instrument separately as a link in a mosaic, Valery Gergiev's recordings remind you of spontaneous accounts in a marvelous morning mist. Now and then the rising lights fight with a solar eclipse from the basses, then follows a tempest of percussion, or the sunrise with the violins. This all takes place between the limits of the famous lowering and rising hand motions, his fluttering fingers and his compelling facial expressions.

Label:RPHO 2005-1 

 time 215 minutes

You can buy the jubileebox  by:  www.gergievfestival.nl

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