11.06 / sa / 20:00—22:00
Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
"Metamorphosen", a symphonic study for 23 solo strings, TrV 290, AV 142 (1945)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 –1893)
Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique", B minor, Op. 74 (1893)
MusicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
The musicAeterna Orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis will perform two compositions considered the pinnacle of the symphonic tragedy genre at the opening of the Diaghilev Festival 2022.
Richard Strauss was composing the symphonic etude "Metamorphosen" in the last months of World War II and finished it in April 1945. The experience of living through a catastrophe gave impetus for the birth of one of the most exquisite symphonic adagios. "Perhaps, Strauss lived until 85 years solely to create this magnificent thing," the French critic Roland-Manuel would later write. Using centuries-old rhetorical means of expressing grief, weaving motifs in a masterful, continuously changing counterpoint, Strauss composed an elegy for the death of the former world.
Tchaikovsky in his Symphony No. 6 paves the way to the future, to the acute expression of musical psychodramas of the 20th century. Here the music's emotional charge reaches an unprecedented level. The extreme imaginative and dynamic contrasts that bewildered the first listeners still retain a shocking power of impact and inevitably throw the audience off balan.
Perm Art Gallery
18+
Private Philharmonic Triumph
The programme includes:
Georgy Sviridov (1915–1998)
"Russia Cast Adrift", a cycle for voice and piano to the lyrics by Sergei Yesenin (1976–1977)
Alexey Sioumak's version (b. 1976)
for soloist and chamber ensemble (2022)
Performers:
Andrey Nemzer – countertenor,
Elena Morozova – reciter
Praktika Chamber Ensemble:
Olga Vlasova – conductor, music director,
Daria Morozova – flute,
Sofia Safronova – clarinet,
Alexander Lebedev – trumpet,
Roman Vikulov – violin,
Alexey Govorov – cello,
Tamara Zhukova – double bass,
Nadezhda Reutova – accordion,
Natalia Sokolovskaya – piano,
Alexander Tynyanskikh, Praskovia Tynyanskikh – percussion
18+
The vocal cycle "Russia Cast Adrift" is one of Sviridov's most significant music works composed to the poems by Sergei Yesenin. The selection of texts for the cycle revealed to the listeners unfamiliar Yesenin — a mystic, a religious thinker. Upon Yesenin's lines, Sviridov wrote his own poem about Russia with a deep philosophical basis, a poetic-archaic sound and a cut-through movement from landscape lyrics through dramatic collisions to the anthemic finale.
Sviridov conceived the cycle "Russia Cast Adrift" as a symphonic opus and insisted on the genre definition of "poem", but he never got the chance to do the orchestration. This task was completed by one of the leading composers of the 40-year-old generation Alexey Sioumak, who rearranged Sviridov's cycle for the chamber ensemble.
Perm Philarmonic Organ Hall
The programme includes:
Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951)
String sextet Verklärte Nacht / Enlightened Night, ор. 4 (1899)
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
String quartet № 14 Der Tod und das Mädchen / Death and the Maiden, D 810 (1824)
Performers – the soloists of the musicAeterna orchestra:
Dmitry Borodin, first violin,
Ivan Subbotkin, second violin,
Grigory Chekmarev, first viola,
Dinara Muratova, second viola (viola in Schubert's quartet),
Vladimir Slovachevsky, first cello (cello in Schubert's quartet),
Maxim Akchurin, second cello
6+
Diaghilev House
MusicAeterna4 Vocal Ensemble Concert
Performers:
Alfia Khamidullina – soprano,
Elena Shestakova – mezzo-soprano,
Anastasia Gulyaeva — contralto,
Elena Gurchenko – mezzo-soprano,
Irina Pyzhyanova – ethno vocalist
18+
Songs are like flowers gathered in distant meadows and woven into an intricate fragrant wreath. In different languages, musicians offer hymns to blossoming, their native land, and love. The concert programme will feature folk songs in Russian, Armenian, Slovak, Hungarian, Albanian and Tatar languages, original compositions and arrangements of traditional melodies.
