“Each winter since 2016, the Columbus Symphony has presented a Russian Winter Festival, usually featuring works by composers born in the vast nation spanning Europe and Asia,” writes Peter Tonguette in Thursday’s (1/14) Columbus Dispatch (OH). “This year, however, some concertgoers might scratch their heads at one of the two composers featured on the program of the first concert [at] the Ohio Theatre … recorded for free viewing beginning Jan. 29 on the symphony’s website…. The symphony will perform Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 followed by Tchaikovsky’s Orchestral Suite No. 4, which is better known under its alternate title ‘Mozartiana’—a reference to Mozart’s impact on the Russian composer, which is obvious, according to Music Director Rossen Milanov…. The Russian Winter Festival concerts come on the heels of a series of limited-capacity concerts the symphony performed—and later streamed—in the fall…. (About 50 musicians will be on hand for the first installment of the Russian Winter Festival instead of the usual 75 or so.).” A second Russian Winter Festival installment to be streamed beginning Feb. 5 will feature Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony, op. 73a, and “pianist Caroline Hong serving as the soloist on Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3.”
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