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13-638: The orchestra was founded in 1936 as the USSR State Symphony Orchestra , with Alexander Gauk as its first music director. The orchestra changed its name after the dissolution of the Soviet Union . The orchestra's longest serving music director was Evgeny Svetlanov , from 1965 to 2000. Svetlanov's tenure ended with his controversial dismissal by Russia's minister of culture, Mikhail Shvydkoi, who had accused Svetlanov of spending excessive time conducting outside of Russia. In 2005,

26-399: A Russian conductor or bandleader is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cello Concerto (Khachaturian) Aram Khachaturian wrote his Cello Concerto in E minor in 1946 for Sviatoslav Knushevitsky . It was the last of the three concertos he wrote for the individual members of a renowned Soviet piano trio that performed together from 1941 until 1963. The others were:

39-775: A new radio orchestra in 1936, which evolved into the USSR State Symphony Orchestra . During the Second World War, after escaping from Riga, he taught in Moscow, before spending two years at the Tbilisi Conservatory and reviving the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra. He helped to reconstruct Sergei Rachmaninoff 's First Symphony from the orchestral parts found in the archives of the Moscow Conservatory in 1944;

52-815: A production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 's Cherevichki at the Petrograd Musical Drama Theatre. He spent much of the 1920s as conductor for the Mariinsky Ballet . He married the ballerina Elena Gerdt. From 1930 to 1934, he was chief conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra . On 6 November 1931, he conducted that orchestra and the Academy Capella Choir in the world premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich 's Third Symphony . From 1932 he worked in Moscow and became chief conductor of

65-598: The ashoug . It has been described as more of a symphony with cello than a cello concerto. The three movements are: The opening movement contains sections of a brooding quality, and even quotes the Dies Irae . It is rhapsodic and changeable in its moods. It contains a lengthy cadenza but has little by way of thematic development. The central Andante has been described as 'introspective and melancholy', 'nocturnal and seductive', 'dramatic and stern', and 'menacing, oriental and melismatic'. The third movement

78-845: The Piano Concerto for Lev Oborin (1936); and the Violin Concerto for David Oistrakh (1940). Although the last written of the three, the Cello Concerto was the first one Khachaturian had considered writing, when he was a cello student at the Gnessin Institute. The work was premiered on 30 October 1946 (or November 1946 ), in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, with the dedicatee Sviatoslav Knushevitsky as soloist. The conductor

91-589: The Russian Ministry of Culture , Petrenko submitted a letter of resignation from the orchestra. Alexander Gauk Alexander Vassilievich Gauk ( Russian : Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Га́ук ; 15 August [ O.S. 3 August] 1893 – 30 March 1963) was a Soviet conductor and composer. Alexander Gauk was born in Odessa in 1893. He recalled his first experience as hearing army bands and his mother singing and accompanying herself at

104-481: The competition. The orchestra then demanded Gorenstein's dismissal from the orchestra, with accusations of abusive behaviour. Gorenstein was subsequently dismissed from the orchestra in September 2011. In October 2011, the orchestra announced the appointment of Vladimir Jurowski as its principal conductor, with immediate effect, for an initial contract of 3 years. Jurowski concluded his principal conductorship of

117-607: The manuscript score was lost in the 1920s. He conducted the world premiere of Aram Khachaturian 's Cello Concerto in Moscow in 1946. Gauk's own compositions include a symphony, chamber works for strings and works for piano. He left an unfinished autobiography. His discography is now only partly available; Brilliant Classics released two box sets (Vol. 1, 2008; Vol. 2, 2010) with recordings taken from broadcasts of works by Russian and other composers. His most notable students were Edouard Grikurov , Yevgeny Mravinsky , Ilya Musin , and Yevgeny Svetlanov . This article about

130-403: The orchestra in 2021. Vasily Petrenko became principal guest conductor of the orchestra in 2016. In January 2021, the orchestra announced the appointment of Petrenko as its next principal conductor, effective 1 September 2021. On 1 March 2022, Petrenko announced a suspension of his work with the orchestra, in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . Later in 2022, under duress from

143-531: The orchestra officially acquired the additional name of Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra . The orchestra now has the formal name, in English, of the 'State Academic Symphony Orchestra "Evgeny Svetlanov"'. Mark Gorenstein succeeded Svetlanov as music director from 2002 to 2011. In 2011, Gorenstein caused controversy with his remarks about Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan during the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition, which led to his removal as conductor for

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156-418: The piano. When he was seven he began piano studies and at 17 travelled to St. Petersburg and managed to gain entrance to the class of Daugover, later moving over to Felix Blumenfeld . He saw Arthur Nikisch , Claude Debussy , and Richard Strauss conduct and was particularly taken with Nikisch. Gauk's first conducting experience was in 1912 with a student orchestra, and professionally on 1 October 1917 for

169-470: Was Aleksandr Gauk . The Cello Concerto is the least known of the three concertos, and has not entered the core repertoire of cellists in the way the other two have for pianists and violinists, despite its difficulty level being comparable to the piano and violin concerti. It has received relatively few recordings. The work is said to echo Khachaturian's painful experiences of war-time. It contains many allusions to folk material and dance rhythms such as

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