Harmonie du soir | Harmony of the Evening

Concert 13.06 / sa / 18:00

Dusha grustit o nebesakh | The Soul is Sad about Heaven

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Concert 14.06 / su / 17:00

The mystery from time immemorial

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Concert 15.06 / mo / 22:00

Concert of the musicAeterna Choir: Kurtag. Pärt

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Concert 16.06 / tu / 23:30

Music for an Empty Room

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Perm Philharmonic Organ Concert Hall

Dusha grustit o nebesakh | The Soul is Sad about Heaven
concert of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre Choir

Chief Choirmaster and Conductor of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre Choir Valeria Safonova
Programme Author Vitaly Zhdanov
Choirmaster Konstantin Pogrebovsky

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The Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre Choir, conducted by Chief Choirmaster Valeria Safonova, presents a programme encompassing Russian music from Alexey Lvov to Georgy Sviridov.
The concert will feature mostly sacred music compositions. Next to fragments from Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, traditional Russian and Georgian chants are sung based on the same prayer texts. The programme also includes a spiritual chant by Baroque violinist and composer Alexey Lvov.

The secular works of Valery Gavrilin and Georgy Sviridov naturally merge into the sound palette of the concert. Their musical structure and soulful texts are filled with the same stingy but poignant colours, the same lofty aspirations that make up the essence of the compositions intended for performance in the church. It is no coincidence that the programme is titled after Sviridov's choir The Soul is Sad about Heaven.

On the programme:

Valery Gavrilin (1939–1999)
Bely bely sneghi | White, White Snows, No. 16 from choral symphony-performance Perezvony | Chimes for soloists, large choir, oboe, percussion, and reciter (1982)
Priidite, poklonimsya | O Come, Let Us Worship, a Georgian chant for a male choir

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Priidite, poklonimsya | O Come, Let Us Worship, No. 1 from Vsenoschnoye bdeniye | All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 (1915)
Bogoroditse devo radujsya | Hail Mary Full of Grace, a chant of the Voznesensky (Kremlin) Monastery for women's choir

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Bogoroditse devo radujsya | Hail Mary Full of Grace
Blagosloven yesi, Gospodi | Blessed art Thou, O Lord, No. 6 and No. 9 from the All-Night Vigil, Op. 37

Georgy Sviridov (1915–1998)
Dusha grustit o nebesakh | The Soul is Sad about Heaven set to the verses by Sergei Yesenin (1967)

Alexey Lvov (1798–1870)
Vecheri Tvoyeya tainyya | The Supper of Thy Mystery, the hymn for the Holy Thursday Liturgy

Georgy Sviridov
U berega zelyonogo | Off the Coast of Green
Chasovaya strelka blizitsya k polnochi | The Hour-hand is Nearing Midnight...
Lyubov | Love, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 from the cantata Nochnye oblaka | Night Clouds set to the verses of Alexander Blok (1981)
Prechistaya Devo | O Most Pure Virgin, a traditional Christmas carol

Sergei Rachmaninoff
V molitvakh neusypauschuyu Bogoroditsu | The Theotokos, Ever-Vigilant in Prayer, choral concert, TN 61 (1893)
Tebe poyom | We Sing to Thee, No. 12 from the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (1910)

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Perm Philharmonic Organ Concert Hall

the mystery from time immemorial
sacred music concert

On the programme:
Sacred music of Russia and Europe of the 15th-17th centuries

Performers:
Uzorika vocal ensemble

Varvara Kotova
Varvara Sinitsina
Polina Terentyeva
Evgeniya Savina
Anastasia Kotova
Vasilisa Proshina

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The Uzorika vocal ensemble was founded in 2008, and it focuses on performing Russian sacred music from pre-Petrine era and juxtaposing it to European music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The ensemble has formed its own sound aesthetics based on the combination of academic professionalism with folk vocal culture. The timbre astringency and peculiar vocal techniques return the music created before the emergence of classical singing schools to its natural sound. The uniformity of the ensemble of female voices makes it possible to harmoniously perform works from those eras when men and women did not sing together in public. The ensemble constantly collaborates with musicologists specializing in medieval music, performing unpublished transcriptions and reconstructions, and pays special attention to the Word, which is of paramount importance in both European and Russian sacred music.

At the Diaghilev Festival, Uzorika will perform a programme dedicated to the spiritual chants of Russia and Europe of the 15th-17th centuries. In both cultures, this is the heyday of vocal polyphony. The European part of the programme consists of works written mainly during the Renaissance in the technique of strict style polyphony, which is both complex and transparent. After a century of fascination with exceptionally sophisticated compositional techniques, the composers, performers and listeners returned to the word, clarity and light.

Russian music is represented by the chants of the 17th century, an era of unprecedented stylistic diversity of liturgical music. In churches and at solemn festive liturgies, harsh dissonant masculine and lowercase polyphony was juxtaposed with the latest, European-influenced part-singing arrangements of Znamenny Chant and multi-part polyphonic concerts. In the 17th century, the harmonization of ancient chants reached its peak, but disappeared from liturgical practice during the era of Peter the Great's reforms.

Today, the hymnography of Ancient Russia is very rarely heard in churches and concert venues. Thus, the concert of the Uzorika ensemble, one of the few ensembles dedicated to the study of ancient Russian singing art, is an unusual, rare, and valuable listening experience.

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House of Music

Shpagin Factory, Building A

Concert of the musicAeterna Choir: Kurtag. Pärt

On the programme:

György Kurtág (b. 1926)
Songs of Despair and Sorrow for mixed choir with instrumental accompaniment, Op. 18 (1980–1994)
So weary, so wretched to the verses by Mikhail Lermontov (1840)
Night, an empty street, a lamp, a drug-store to the verses by Alexander Blok (1912)
Blue Evening to the verses by Sergei Yesenin (1925)
Where can I go to in this January? to the verses by Osip Mandelstam (1937)
The Crucifixion to the verses by Anna Akhmatova (1939)
It's time to the verses by Marina Tsvetaeva (1941)

Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
Miserere for soloists, mixed choir, instrumental ensemble, and organ (1989)

Performers:

The musicAeterna ChoirOrchestra and choir musicAeterna

Conductor Teodor Currentzis

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The programme of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir soloists, conducted by Teodor Currentzis, consists of major works by two contemporary composers, Hungarian master György Kurtág and Estonian master Arvo Pärt.

György Kurtág is undeniably a major figure in European music of the 20th and the 21st centuries. Few of his contemporaries have managed to find the same degree of individuality of expression, as well as a similar balance of severe self-restraint and freedom in dealing with the entire legacy of European music from Machaut to Beethoven, and from Stravinsky to Stockhausen. György Kurtág's music is both expressive and ascetic, full of secret messages to friends and composers of the past, dramatic in a theatrical sense – that is the degree to which the gestures are so sharp and eloquent.

Among the composer's favourite genre titles are 'requiem', 'tombstone', 'dedication', 'farewell'. The work on the cycle Songs of Despair and Sorrow for choir and instruments was started in 1980 and completed only in 1994. Six poems by Russian poets from Lermontov to Tsvetaeva selected by Kurtág treat the same theme in different ways, but with equal desperation – a man (the author) in the face of impending non-existence. The score includes rare instrumental timbres – a celesta, two harmoniums, four bayans, and a huge percussion group.

Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classic of the 20th and the 21st centuries. Having abandoned the musical radicalism of his youth, the composer developed his own language, bringing him closer to the minimalists, but based on his own original compositional technique, which Pärt himself called tintinnabuli, 'the method of bells.'

Miserere for soloists, choir and instrumental ensemble is one of the composer's fundamental works. The half an hour piece, completed in 1989, dramatically juxtaposes the texts of Psalm 51 and eight stanzas from the medieval sequence hymn Dies irae (Day of Wrath). Psalm 51 is performed slowly and quietly by an ensemble of soloists, with pauses separating each word from another. The composer explained this principle as follows, 'There is one breath for each word, as though after pronouncing each word one has to gather one’s strength for the next word. It's a chain that intertwines breaths and exhalations, hope and despair.' In the furious middle part of the composition, the Dies irae section, Pärt creates the effect of 'structured chaos' using the medieval technique of prolation canon, where the same theme is carried out at five different tempos. Following the question from the seventh stanza of Dies irae, 'What then shall I, unhappy man, allege? Whom shall I invoke as protector? When even the just shall hardly be secure?', the penitential psalm continues. In the finale, the eighth stanza of Dies irae sounds – contrary to the centuries-old tradition, the composer interprets it as an answered prayer, a promise of reconciliation with God.

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Private Philharmonic Triumph

Music for an Empty Room
chamber concert of musicAeterna soloists

On the programme:

Part 1

Cyrille Arkhipov (b. 1987)

Work of Time for violin, cello, and piano (2020)
Ekaterina Romanova – violin
Igor Botvin – cello
Nikolay Mazhara – piano

Only Changes are Not Changeable
for solo piano (2021)
Sasha Listova – piano

Distorted for two violins, viola, cello and piano (2021)
Vadim Teifikov – first violin
Ekaterina Romanova – second violin
Dinara Muratova – viola
Igor Botvin – cello
Nikolay Mazhara – piano

Alexey Retinsky (b. 1986)

Trio for violin, cello, and piano (2007)
Vadim Teifikov – violin
Igor Botvin – cello
Sasha Listova – piano

Part 2

Andreas Moustoukis (b. 1971)

Piano Quintet with voice (2006)
Evgeniya Kashirskaya – voice
Vadim Teifikov – first violin
Ekaterina Romanova – second violin
Dinara Muratova – viola
Igor Botvin – cello
Sasha Listova – piano

Duration: approx. 120 minutes, with an
intermission

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The concert of the musicAeterna soloists will feature chamber and instrumental music composed by three resident composers of musicAeterna and Dom Radio prior to their collaboration with musicAeterna.

The author of the idea of the concert, Andreas Moustoukis, decided to present to the public works for academic instrumentation – piano solo, piano trio, and piano quintet. The programme includes three compositions by Cyrille Arkhipov, as well as a piano trio by Alexey Retinsky, and a piano quintet written by Andreas Moustoukis in memory of Alfred Schnittke.

In such a strict field as modern academic music, not only radically different compositional strategies, stylistic and linguistic features of each of the authors become particularly clear, but also what unites them. The title of the programme contains a question that will help the audience to discover the subtle settings that bring the work of the three composers closer together, 'Does music sound when there is no one else in the room?'

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