V. Fedoseyev is a familiar acquaintance with the Greek public of the Athens Concert Hall, where he appeared with the Athens State Orchestra in a Russian program consisting of music by Mussorgsky , Eshpai and Shostakovich.

The evening began with a fiery rendition of Mussorgsky’s famous orchestral showpiece “Night on the Bare Mountain”, where the orchestra had the opportunity to exhibit it’s full potentiality. Fedosseyev drew from the players a multitude of orchestral colours, ranging form fortissimo to pianissimo.

The second piece of the evening was a Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra by the inventive composer Andrei Eshpai a rather curious but highly entertaining piece with undertones of Jazz music and a strong influence of  Shostakovich.

The sax part was performed by the famous saxophonist (the only one in Greece who is a classical Saxophone player) Theodore Kerkezos, who for 26 minutes played non stop the demanding score, bringing to the surface all the underlying colours , turning from elegiac music to jazz, a real fit.

 The evening was rounded up by a superb performance of the famous Shostakovich 10th Symphony which deployed the entire orchestra, in a fiery and dramatic rendition of Russia’s great composer.