Festival program
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW
EXHIBITIONS AT 19.00
CONCERT STARTS AT 20.30
Quatuor Diotima
MAY 27
Quatuor Diotima
A. Dutilleux, M. Ravel, K. Debussy
On the first day of the festival, before the concert, there will be an exclusive preview of the exhibition route “Rejected Masterpieces. Challenge of Pavel Tretyakov”, dedicated to the 165th anniversary of the Tretyakov Gallery and revealing in a completely new way the characteristics of the personality and social position of the collector. Excursions for the guests of the festival will be conducted by leading art historians of the museum. We will also talk about the collection of Sergei Tretyakov, who had few works of Russian art. The focus of his attention was French painting, which later became part of the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin. Therefore, it is symbolic that the festival will be opened by the world-famous French quartet Diotima.
MAY 29, 19.00
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A. Arensky, S. Rachmaninov, W. Bolcom, J. Gershwin, A. Tsfasman
The duet of Lyudmila Berlinskaya and Arthur Ansel is written in superlatives: "sensational pianists", "brilliant, life-affirming" ensemble, "splendid technique", "coherence that creates the impression of solo playing" - these are the reviews of the international press. One of the “most exciting duets on the modern stage” took shape ten years ago, when professor at the Paris Conservatory Ludmila Berlinskaya and her graduate student Arthur Ansel created a wonderful tandem both in life and on stage, quickly gaining recognition and prestige in the European musical community.
MAY 30, 19.00
Alexander Sitkovetsky , violin
W. A. Mozart, I. Stravinsky, J. Suk, A. von Zemlinsky
At the center of the third festival program is Stravinsky's cult ballet The Rite of Spring, which stunned the respectable Parisian audience and revolutionized the musical theater. Before the premiere, the composer showed his daring novelty to his close friends, playing an arrangement of the ballet music for piano in 4 hands with Claude Debussy. It is this transcription that will be performed in the Vrubel Hall by a brilliant duet - Kirill Gershtein, a rare and long-awaited guest from America, and his stage partner Katya Skanavi. The decoration of the evening will also be the Elegy of Josef Suk (the student and son-in-law of Antonin Dvorak, he wrote very pleasant melodic music) and two clarinet trios: a charming piece by Mozart for amateur music-making in aristocratic houses and the work of the young Zemlinsky, which earned third prize at the competition of the Vienna Society of Musicians and approval Brahms himself! Small masterpieces will be performed by an international team of virtuosos - artists of European and world renown, combining concert activity with teaching at prestigious universities.
MAY 31, 19.00
Alexander Sitkovetsky , violin
S. Prokofiev, I. N. Hummel, C. Debussy, G. Fauré
The fourth evening of the Vivarte festival is an exciting musical journey through countries and eras. It will begin in Austria at a time when classicism was giving way to romanticism (it was during this period that the work of Hummel, a student of Mozart and Haydn, Mendelssohn's teacher), fell. It will continue during the heyday of romanticism in France, where Gabriel Faure created his quivering, restless opuses. The 20th century will present the listener with a picture of a Jewish wedding (Prokofiev used exactly wedding melodies in his Overture on Jewish Themes). Then he will present exotic images of Ancient Greece through the eyes of a French impressionist who was slightly carried away by the avant-garde (“Six Antique Epigraphs” by Debussy). And the musical voyage will end in Verona, sung by Shakespeare, then by Prokofiev and, finally, the founder of the national viola performing school Vadim Borisovsky, who arranged two suites from the ballet Romeo and Juliet for viola and piano. To perform this unusual program, the brightest European and Russian musicians will gather in Moscow - masters
chamber performance.
JUNE 4, 19.00
Sergei Nakariakov , trumpet/flugelhorn
W. A. Mozart, F. Chopin, D. Shostakovich, A. Dvorak
The headliner of the fifth festival evening will be Sergey Nakaryakov's Paganini Trumpet, which proved to the whole world that a brass instrument can compete in virtuosity with a violin. The extensive repertoire of the musician includes not only original compositions, but also his own numerous arrangements. For the Moscow audience, he offered to perform one of Mozart's most interesting chamber ensembles - the Quintet for Horn and Strings, in which he plays the horn part on the flugelhorn, an instrument related to the pipe, which he also plays brilliantly.
Another proposal from Nakariakov is an absolute rarity: fragments of Shostakovich's music for the film Girlfriends (1935), Lev Arnshtam's black-and-white film about three young defenders of revolutionary Petrograd. Seven instrumental preludes from the unique soundtrack Nakaryakov once recorded with the legendary Borodin Quartet, and now he will perform as part of an international ensemble. The program of the evening will also be complemented by Andante spianato and Chopin's Grand Brilliant Polonaise performed by star pianist Freddy Kempf and the Dvorak Drama Trio.
JUNE 5, 19.00
E. Elgar, S. Prokofiev, B. Martinou
One of the main characters of the VI Vivarte Festival, British pianist Freddy Kempf turned the heads of Russian music lovers in 1998 at the Tchaikovsky Competition. Having become the absolute favorite of the listeners, Freddie received only the III prize, which caused a flurry of indignation both in the public and in the press. Since then, however, the pianist has managed to make a phenomenal international career, establishing himself as an artist of great charm and high skill, as well as a person endowed with many other talents (for example, Freddie knows about 30 languages to varying degrees). In the final evening in the Vrubel Hall, Kempf will perform two compositions that are as contrasting as possible. This is the Quintet of the British classic Edward Elgar - a monumental opus, comparable in scale to a symphony; and the sparkling, full of humor and bright colors suite "Kitchen Revue" by Bohuslav Martinu, where jazz idioms are skillfully mixed with motives of Czech folk songs and dances. The program of the evening will also include Prokofiev's experimental Sonata for two violins, written for the opening of the progressive Parisian society of contemporary chamber music Triton.
JUNE 6
