Advent Calendar 12.5
- Sophia Yao
- Dec 13, 2020
- 4 min read
Image: ©Yi
An Advent calendar is a special calendar used to count the days of Advent in anticipation of Christmas.
Let's count down to Christmas!
一起倒数圣诞吧！在西方很多国家会从今天开始使用圣诞倒计时日历。从12月1日起，每天打开一份惊喜直到圣诞节。
我给大家准备了一份音乐圣诞倒计时日历，每天点卡最上方的链接会有惊喜，直到圣诞节。
祝大家在2020年的最后一个月，快乐，安康！
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43,
Variation 5: Tempo precedente
Today we talk about conductor.
Once I heard a joke, if you are not rich enough to buy a music instrument, you can be a conductor, because all you need is sticks.
That's just a joke. Because the road to be a good conductor is not easier than any player even harder.
They need excellent hearing, sense of music and the technique of chef.
I have worked with some conductors. When they stand on the stage, I feel the hidden power rising from their ordinary human body. Conducting is not just about skill and techniques, but also about charm.
Wish you can meet one and understand what I said today.
In this performance, the conductor is Alexander Alexandrovich Vedernikov (Александр Александрович Ведерников; 11 January 1964 – 30 October 2020). We can only enjoy his charm on the stage by video because he left us March this year because of COVID-19.
He was an inspirational Russian conductor. He was music director of the Bolshoi Theatre from 2001 to 2009, the Odense Symphony Orchestra from 2009 to 2018, and from 2018 he was Chief Conductor at the Royal Danish Opera. Alongside the latter position, in 2019 he also took up the musical directorship of the Mikhailovsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, and continued to appear with many major opera companies and symphony orchestras.
Born in Moscow, Vedernikov was the son of the bass Alexander Filipovich Vedernikov, who sang at the Bolshoi Theatre, and of Natalia Nikolaevna Gureeva, who was a professor of organ at the Moscow Conservatory.[1][2] He grew up with two siblings in a small apartment.[3] Vedernikov graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1988, where he studied with Leonid Nikolaev and also took classes from Mark Ermler.[4] He worked as a conductor in the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre from 1988 to 1990. He was also an assistant conductor to Vladimir Fedoseyev at the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio from 1988 to 1995. In 1995, he established the Russian Philharmonia Symphony Orchestra and served as its artistic director and chief conductor until 2004.[5]
Vedernikov became music director of the Bolshoi Theatre in 2001,[6] where he worked on modernising the company.[7] He conducted the first new production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov since 1948.[7] He conducted at the house the first production of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur in 2002, Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina, Puccini's Turandot, the original version of Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila, the first production of Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel in 2004, the first Russian performance of the original version of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and Verdi's Falstaff.[5] He conducted, on a commission from the opera house, the world premiere of Leonid Desyatnikov's The Children of Rosenthal in the 2004/05 season.[3] He led productions of Prokofiev's War and Peace and his ballet Cinderella.[5] He had a contract with the company until 2010, but in July 2009 resigned on the first day of the theater's summer tour, citing disagreements with its management.[8][9]
Vedernikov made his Covent Garden debut in 1996, where he conducted Prokofiev's Cinderella and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.[3] He conducted at the Komische Oper Berlin Smetana's The Bartered Bride, Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, Salome by Richard Strauss and Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen.[7] At the Paris Opera, he conducted Boris Godunov in 2005, directed by Francesca Zambello.[5][7] He led Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in 2011. He conducted a double bill of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavollo's Pagliacci at the Opernhaus Zürich in 2011, and made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, again with Eugene Onegin.[7] In 2013, he conducted Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring with the BBC Orchestra in a centenary concert at the Barbican in London. A critic noted that he "supplied his own wild-man choreography on the podium".[3]
He became chief conductor of the Odense Symphony Orchestra in 2009, with an initial three-year contract,[10][7] which was extended to 2014.[11] In November 2016 the Royal Danish Opera announced Vedernikov's appointment as its next chief conductor, effective from the 2018/19 season.[12] Vedernikov concluded his Odense tenure in 2018, remaining an honorary conductor.[13] In February 2019, he also became music director and principal conductor of the Mikhailovsky Theatre.[13]
在视频里除了钢琴家引人注目外，还有一位明星般的存在就是指挥家了。
今天我们就来看看视频里这位指挥家：亚历山大·亚历山德罗维奇·韦杰尔尼科夫（俄语：Александр Александрович Ведерников，1964年1月11日－2020年10月29日），俄罗斯古典音乐指挥家。他1964年生于莫斯科。1988年毕业于莫斯科音乐学院。之后在弗拉基米尔·费多谢耶夫领导的柴可夫斯基交响乐团担任助理指挥。2001年至2004年担任俄罗斯爱乐乐团首席指挥。2001年6月至2009年7月担任莫斯科大剧院首席指挥兼音乐总监。2009年后担任丹麦欧登塞交响乐团首席指挥。2019年，被任命为圣彼得堡米哈伊罗夫斯基剧场首席指挥兼音乐总监[1]。著名指挥曲目有柴可夫斯基的歌剧《叶甫盖尼·奥涅金》、芭蕾舞剧《睡美人》、《斯拉夫进行曲》、《莫斯科河上的黎明》等曲目[2]。
可惜我们再也不能现场聆听他的指挥了，今年年初的新冠病毒夺取了很多音乐人的生命，这位杰出的指挥家也是其一。
让我们再一次在视频中欣赏他的英姿吧。
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