The third day of the Stars on Baikal music festival was held at the Irkutsk Regional Philharmonic.

On September 3, the third day of the Stars on Baikal festival was held at the Irkutsk Regional Philharmonic, where five soloists performed with the Governor's Symphony Orchestra. The evening program united Mozart, Shostakovich and Dvorak.

On September 3, the third day of the music festival “Stars on Baikal” took place at the Irkutsk Regional Philharmonic. Five soloists performed that evening accompanied by the Governor’s Symphony Orchestra.
“Despite the fact that today is the third day of the festival, it is already the fifth concert,” noted the Philharmonic’s artistic director Marina Tokarskaya. As a reminder, on September 1 there was a charity concert for students of music schools and the official opening of the festival at the Irkutsk Musical Theater, where the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra performed. On the second day of the festival, September 2, the charity event “Music Heals” for children with disabilities and a concert dedicated to the anniversary of Leonid Utesov also took place.
The first half opened with Mozart’s Concerto No. 7 for Two Pianos. This very work opened the event at the Musical Theater, performed by Valery Gergiev, Denis Matsuev, and Alexander Malofeev, but for three pianos. “Perhaps this is a unique case when, during one festival, we can hear the same work twice in different arrangements,” Marina Tokarskaya emphasized.
This was followed by W. Mozart’s Concerto for Bassett Clarinet and Orchestra in A major. It was written in 1791, and its premiere took place two months before the composer’s death. The concerto went down in history as the finest example of clarinet music. According to Marina Tokarskaya, at that time the clarinet was not yet so developed, so Mozart wrote the concerto for bassett clarinet. The work was performed on this instrument by international competition laureate Igor Fedorov.
The second half opened with D. Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with orchestra, which was written in 1948 as a memorial to World War II and the victims of the Holocaust. For the audience, movements 3 and 4 of the concerto were performed by violinist Pavel Milyukov, who appeared in Irkutsk for the first time. The program concluded with the first movement of the cello concerto with orchestra by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, performed by international competition laureate Alexander Buzlov.