PROGRAMM

The Great Hall of the Perm Philharmonic

Chamber concert
Performers:
Pavel Milyukov, violin
Vadim Rudenko, piano

On the programme:
César Franck (1822–1890)
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, FWV 8 (1886)
Allegretto ben moderato
Allegro
Recitativo-Fantasia (ben moderato)
Allegretto poco mosso
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Sonata for Violin and Cello No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108 (1886–1888)
Allegro
Adagio
Un poco presto e con sentimento
Presto agitato

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Violinist Pavel Milyukov and pianist Vadim Rudenko will perform a programme of two compositions, the crown jewels of late Romanticism chamber music. Technically sophisticated and compositionally complex, the violin sonatas of César Franck and Johannes Brahms accommodate a wide range of images and emotional states and set high demands on both performers and listeners.


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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
The St Matthew Passion

a sacred oratorio for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra with libretto by Picander (Christian Friedrich Henrici), BWV 244 (1727–1729/1736)

MusicAeterna Choir and Orchestra
Alexander Ponomaryov "Vesna" Children's Choir

Guest soloists

Conductor – Teodor Currentzis

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One can hardly imagine now that Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion – this cornerstone of all European music of the 18th–21st centuries – had to be rediscovered by twenty-year-old Felix Mendelssohn in 1829. In his native Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church, the oratorio was performed not only during Bach’s lifetime, but also for another half century after (until 1800). However, this masterpiece gained European and later world fame thanks to romanticists – at the time when the principles of music organization and the instruments of the Baroque era themselves fell, as it seemed then, into oblivion. The St Matthew Passion (followed by the Mass in B Minor and other works by Bach) proved to have overcome the stylistic, technological, and ideological gap and speak to the people of the new age in their language. Since then, each epoch has comprehended and interpreted this spiritual oratorio in its own way.

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On the programme: overtures, arias, suites from operas by Mozart, Rossini, Offenbach, Wagner, and Puccini arranged for brass ensemble, and miniatures of various genres.

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A brass ensemble has been added to the musicAeterna family: the artists from the brass section of the orchestra united under the leadership of trumpeter Pavel Kurdakov. The first big concert of musicAeterna Brass will take place at the Diaghilev Festival.
Its first part will feature music from famous operas arranged for brass ensemble.
The second part of the concert will remind the audience about the origins of brass ensembles.
As a rule, the broad repertoire of brass ensembles is based on popular, recognizable, and typically dance music. The second part of the musicAeterna Brass presentation concert will be in line with this tradition.
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Perm Philharmonic Organ Concert Hall

Performers:
Petr Glavatskikh, marimba, percussion, arrangements
Amir Khataee (Iran), santoor, tombak

On the programme:
Intro
Andrew Thomas (b. 1939)
Beyond the Faint Edge of the World for marimba solo
Segah, traditional Persian dastgah, santoor solo
Osnat Netzer (b. 1979)
Taksim, a paraphrase by Petr Glavatskikh for marimba and tombak
Keiko Abe (b. 1937)
Dream of the Cherry Blossoms for marimba solo
Shur, traditional Persian dastgah, santoor solo
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Arabian Dance from the ballet The Nutcracker, paraphrase and improvisation on a given theme by Petr Glavatskikh and Amir Khataee for marimba and santoor
Hossein Alizadeh (b. 1951)
Nowruz 62 for santoor and percussion
Nebojsa Jovan Zhivkovic (b. 1962)
Ilijaš, paraphrase and improvisation on a given theme by Petr Glavatskikh and Amir Khataee for marimba and santoor

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A new project by the regular participant of the Diaghilev Festival, Moscow multi-percussionist, composer and producer Petr Glavatskikh is dedicated to the summer solstice.
The Solstice project is focused on not just proximity, but the interaction of modern works for percussion instruments and Persian classical music. Along with Petr Glavatskikh, the project is co-authored by Amir Khataee, an Iranian composer, improviser, master of performing on traditional Persian instruments tombak (wooden drum in the shape of a cup) and santoor (a type of dulcimer known since Assyria and Babylon times).
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Private Philharmonic Triumph


THESIS TRIO (Greece)
Alpha F
vocal chamber music of the contemporary Greek composers

Irini Tsirakidis, mezzo-soprano
Yiorgos Kaloudis, cello, classical Cretan lyra, arrangements
Dimitra Kokkinopoulou, piano

Yiannis Constantinidis (1903–1984)
Songs from The Twenty Songs of the Greek People (1937–1947)
I grab stones and rocks
Castle of Monemvasia
It is hardly dawn, to be weaken up
Late last night, I came
Yesterday, I set off to come
Nikos Skalkottas (1904–1949)
Tender Melody for cello and piano, AK 65 (1949)
Stathis Giftakis (b.1967)
O Mistress mine, poetry of William Shakespeare
Amé desde hace tiempo, poetry of Pablo Neruda
Yiorgos Kaloudis (b.1973)
Trikymia for solo classical Cretan Lyra
Valerio Matola (b.1975)
Songs on the poetry of Angelos Sikelianos
The Suicide of Adjesivano
Anadyomenê
Returning
Vangelino Currentzis (b.1973)
Enigma composition

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Thesis Trio is a project by three friends, a mezzo-soprano Irini Tsirakidis, a pianist Dimitra Kokkinopoulou and a cellist, composer and Classical Cretan Lyra virtuoso Yiorgos Kaloudis. Established in 2018, the trio is focusing on the performance of chamber compositions by modern Greek composers.
The programme Alpha F represents a collection of songs by major Greek composers of the 20th century, as well as music pieces by our contemporaries.
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The Great Hall of the Perm Philharmonic

On the programme:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Sonata No. 13 in E flat major (Sonata quasi una Fantasia), Op. 27, No. 1 (1801)
Andante. Allegro. Andante
Allegro molto e vivace
Adagio con espressione
Allegro vivace
Mily Balakirev (1837–1910)
Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, BM. 108 (1900)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata No. 15 in D major (Pastoral), Op. 28 (1801)
Allegro
Andante
Scherzo, Allegro vivace
Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo
Sergei Lyapunov (1859–1924)
Lezghinka, No. 10 from the cycle 12 Transcendental Études for piano, Op. 11 (1897–1905)
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31 (1835–1837)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata No. 17 in D minor (The Tempest), Op. 31 No. 2 (1802)
Largo — Allegro
Adagio
Allegretto
Mily Balakirev
Scherzo No. 3 in F sharp major, BM. 117 (1901)
Islamey: Oriental Fantasy, Op. 18, BM. 62 (1869)

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Pianist Boris Berezovsky offers a programme that spans exactly one hundred years of musical history, from 1801 to 1901. Parallels and unexpected rhymes arise between the works performed in the concert, making it possible to see a single, dynamically developing whole in the piano music of the 19th century.
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Perm Philharmonic Organ Concert Hall

On the programme:
Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931)
Six Sonatas for solo violin, Op. 27 (1923)

Sonata No. 1 in G minor, dedicated to Joseph Szigeti
Grave
Fugato
Allegretto poco scherzoso
Finale; Con brio

Sonata No. 2 in A minor, dedicated to Jacques Thibaud
Obsession; Prelude
Malinconia
Danse des Ombres; Sarabande
Les furies

Sonata No. 3 in D minor, 'Ballade', dedicated to Georges Enescu
Lento molto sostenuto – Allegro in tempo giusto e con bravura
Sonata No. 4 in E minor, dedicated to Fritz Kreisler
Allemande (Lento maestoso)
Sarabande (Quasi lento)
Finale (Presto ma non troppo)

Sonata No. 5 in G major, dedicated to Mathieu Crickboom
L'Aurore
Danse rustique
Sonata No. 6 in E major, dedicated to Manuel Quiroga
Allegro giusto non troppo vivo

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Ysaÿe composed six solo violin sonatas in July 1923, in just a month, in a fit of inspiration. He was 65 years old, he was a maitre of the violin and, looking around him, summed up his life journey. The sonatas were a reflection on himself and his place in the history of violin playing.

The complexity of the sonatas is phenomenal. Ysaÿe expands the possibilities of the violin to the limit forcing the performer to play chords of six sounds on four strings, making inaudible vibrations and resonances of the instrument part of the music, and as if trying to convey to the audience the inner bodily experience of the violinist. The cycle requires the performer to have perfect technique and abilities for acting, however, the technical skill is not needed per se, but so that the creative spirit of the musician could express itself without hindrance.
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Perm Philharmonic Organ Concert Hall

On the programme:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
The Overture in the French style, BWV 831 (1735)
Overture
Courante
Gavotte I/II
Passepied I/II
Sarabande
Bourrée I/II
Gigue
Echo
Sergey Akhunov (b. 1967)
Two Sketches (2023) 
Pavel Karmanov (b. 1970)
Shumanniana (2018)
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Ballades for piano, Op. 10 (1854) 
I. Andante in D minor
II. Andante in D major
III. Intermezzo. Allegro in B minor
IV. Andante con moto in C major
Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951) 
Sonata-Reminiscenza, No. 1 from the cycle Forgotten Melodies, Op. 38 (1919–1922)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Preludes No. 7, No. 4, No. 10 from the cycle Ten Preludes for piano, Op. 23 (1901–1903)
Prelude No. 8 from the cycle Thirteen Preludes for piano, Op. 32 (1910)

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Varvara Myagkova is a remarkable phenomenon of the recent times. It was the pianist Boris Berezovsky who 'discovered' Varvara Myagkova and invited her to perform at his festival Summer Evenings in Yelabuga. Since 2019, her solo career has seen a rapid progress.
The programme will open with The Overture in the French style by Johann Sebastian Bach
Two miniatures created in 2023 by composer Sergei Akhunov, in his signature dreamy spirit gently avoiding any stylistic restrictions, will become the core of the first part of the concert.
It will be completed by the opus of the contemporary Moscow composer Pavel Karmanov Schumanniana – a sort of collage assembled of fragments from the Piano Sonata No. 3 by Robert Schumann
In the second part of the concert, Varvara Myagkova focuses on the piano classics of mature and late Romanticism.
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Perm Philharmonic Organ Concert Hall


Hymns and Lamentations
A Chamber Concert

Performers:
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME)

On the programme:
Arthur-Vincent Lourié (1891–1966)
The Lament of the Virgin. Fragment of a Pious Song of the 13th Century | Pleurs de la Vierge Marie. Fragment d'une chanson pieuse du XIII siècle for voice, violin, viola and cello, Op. 26 (1915).
Translation from the Old French by Mikhail Kuzmin
Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998)
Hymns for chamber instrumental ensemble (1974–1979)
Hymn No. 1 for cello, harp and timpani
Hymn No. 2 for cello and double bass
Hymn No. 3 for cello, bassoon, harpsichord and bells
Hymn No. 4 for cello, bassoon, harpsichord, harp, timpani, bells and double bass
Alexey Sysoev (b. 1972)
  Sirotinochka | The Little Orphan for soprano, chamber ensemble and electronics set to the lyrics of the folk lamentation of the Russian North

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Within the programme ‘Hymns and Lamentations’ of the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, three generations of the Russian avant-garde composers enter into a dialogue, exploring the innermost world of deep human experiences: ritual suffering, euphoria, and spiritual experience.
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