6th International Music Festival
10 - 23 August 2020
Concert program
10 August, 19:00
rescheduled from 8 June
Odesa Opera House
All tickets purchased for the concert on June 8 are valid
YEN HAN BALLET COMPANY ZURICH
Alexey Botvinov (solo piano)
| Mozart | "Adagio" choreography Heinz Spoerli |
| Arvo Pärt | "Blue Light" choreography Heinz Spoerli, violin - Myroslava Kotorovych |
| Bach | "Me Time" choreography Yen Han |
| Chopin | "Nocturnes" choreography Heinz Spoerli |
| Glass | "Orphee et Eurydice" choreography Filipe Portugal |
Artists
Yen Han, Filipe Portugal, Flavio Salamanka, Marcia Jacqueline, Tigran Mkrtchyan, Tara Brodin
11 August, 19:00
rescheduled from 9 June
All tickets purchased for the concert on June 9 are valid
PIETRO DE MARIA (piano)
CHOPIN
Ballade no. 1 op. 23 in G minor
Nocturne op. 55 no. 2 in E flat major
Valse op. 18 in E flat major
Valse op. 42 in A flat major
Valse op. 64 no. 1 in D flat major
Scherzo no. 4 op. 54 in E major
TCHAIKOVSKY/PLETNEV
From the Nutcracker Suite:
- March
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
- Chinese Dance
- Andante maestoso (Pas de deux)
LISZT
- From: Soirées de Vienne, 9 Valses-Caprices d'après Schubert: No. 6 in A minor
- From Années de Pèlerinage, Deuxième Année, Italie: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
- From Grandes Etudes de Paganini, S141: No. 3 in G sharp minor ("La Campanella")
12 August, 20:00
Green Theater
Special project of the Odessa Classics and the Green Theater
Alexey Botvinov (piano)
Burhan Öçal (percussion)
«Reloaded - 2»
In 2010 Alexey Botvinov and Burhan Öçal started the "Goldberg. Reloaded" project. It was a revolutionary attempt to rethink Bach’s eternal music, combining it with the ethnorhythms of the East and lighting special effects. Öçal and Botvinov played 20 concerts on the most famous stages of the world, including Istanbul, Paris, Zurich, Basel, Abu Dhabi ans Jazz Festival in Montreux. 6 concerts were performed for Ukrainian audience.
In 2018, Öçal and Botvinov teamed up again for the "Reloaded-2" project.
This time, they took cult masterpieces of Bach, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Mussorgsky.
In programm
Bach - The "Well-Tempered Clavier", Book I:
Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847
Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 851
Bach - Aria and 5 variations from the "Goldberg Variations"
Beethoven - Sonata No. 8 op.13 "Sonata Pathétique", part 1
Mussorgsky - "Pictures at an Exhibition":
"The Old Castle
"Cattle"
"Ballet of Unhatched Chicks"
"Catacombs (Roman Tomb)"
"The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga)"
Rachmaninoff - Prelude in G minor No.5 op.23
Prokofiev - Sonata No. 7, part 3
14 August, 19:00
rescheduled from 3 June
Odesa Opera House
All tickets purchased for the concert on June 3 are valid
AIR – A BAROQUE JOURNEY
Daniel Hope (violin)
Simos Papanas (violin)
Nicola Mosca (cello)
Emanuele Forni (luthe)
Naoki Kitaya (harpsichord)
Michael Metzler (percussion)
Music by Baroque Composers
Antonio Vivaldi / Diego Ortiz / Georg Friedrich Haendel /
Andrea Falconieri / Johann Paul von Westhoff / Nicola Matteis /
Jean-Marie Leclair /Marco Ucelini
15 August, 19:00
rescheduled from 5 June
Odesa Opera House
All tickets purchased for the concert on June 5 are valid
RECITAL
Daniel Hope (violin)
Alexey Botvinov (piano)
| Valentyn Silvestrov | "Pastorales 2020" | |
| (World premiere. Comissioned work for Odessa Classics and BeethovenHaus Bonn) | ||
| Edvard Grieg | Sonata No.3 in C Minor | |
| Alfred Schnittke | "Suite in the old style" | |
| Sonata No.1, parts 3 and 4 | ||
| "Congratulatory Rondo" | ||
| Tango | ||
| Polka |
16 August, 19:00
rescheduled from 4 June
Odesa Philharmonic
All tickets purchased for the concert on June 4 are valid
Daniel Hope (violin)
Alexey Botvinov (piano)
Simos Papanas (violin)
| Brahms | Scherzo "F.A.E." |
| Arvo Pärt | "Spiegel im Spiegel" |
| Tartini | "Devil's Thrill Sonata" (Simos Papanas version) |
| Bach | Concerto for 2 violins and piano D minor |
17 August, 19:00
rescheduled from 6 June
Odesa Philharmonic
All tickets purchased for the concert on June 6 are valid
Gediminas Gelgotas and NICO ensemble
| Antonio Vivaldi / Max Richter | "Winter" (I-st mov.) from "Vivaldi recomposed" |
| "Summer" (III-rd mov.) from "Vivaldi recomposed" | |
| Philip Glass | Violin Concerto No.1 (II-nd mov.) |
| Gediminas Gelgotas | "Sacred Unreligious Soul" |
| "Never Ignore the Cosmic Ocean" | |
| "To the Skies" | |
| "Transitory" | |
| Hildegard von Bingen choral | |
| "Cadenza" | |
| "Sanctifaction" | |
| "Extracadenza" | |
18 August, 19:00
rescheduled from 7 June
Odesa Philharmonic
All tickets purchased for the concert on June 7 are valid
Vadim Repin (violin)
Alexey Botvinov (piano)
Debussy Sonata for violin and piano
Prokofiev Sonata for violin and piano No.1
Bartók Romanian Folk Dances
19 August, 19:00
rescheduled from 10 June
Odesa Philharmonic
All tickets purchased for the concert on June 10 are valid
Sebastian Knauer (piano)
solo recital
J.S. Bach:
Choral Prelude "Nun komm der Heiden Heiland" BWV 659
Choral Prelude "Wohl mir dass ich Jesum habe" BWV 147
F. Mendelssohn:
Piano pieces & Songs without words (selection)
F. Schubert:
Ungarian Melody
Allegretto c Minor
Impromptus op. 90 & op. 142 (selection)
20 August, 19:00
rescheduled from 13 June
Odesa Philharmonic
All tickets purchased for the concert on June 13 are valid
Sebastian Knauer (piano)
Beethoven Piano Sonata D Minor Op.31, No.2
Piano Sonata C-sharp Minor Op.27, No.2 "Moonlight"
Arash Safaian "BEETHOVEN VARIATIONS"
parts from Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, arranged for piano solo
21 August
The concert rescheduled to 5 June 2021
ESTONIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Neeme Järvi (conductor)
22 August, 21:00
rescheduled from 12 June
Potemkin Stairs - Open-air concert
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor)
Alexey Botvinov (piano)
In program
Mozart, Bortnyansky, Berezovsky, Lysenko, Skorik
Rachmaninov Concerto No.2 for piano and orchestra (soloist Alexey Botvinov)
FREE ADMISSION
23 August, 19:00
rescheduled from 14 June
Odesa Philharmonic
All tickets purchased for the concert on June 14 are valid
Linus Roth (violin)
Alexey Botvinov (piano)
Beethoven Violin sonata No.4 in A minor, Op. 23
Franck Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano
On August 11 at 15:00 Odesa Western and Eastern Arts Museum together with Dymchuk Gallery and NT-Art Gallery invites you to the opening of the exhibition of Yuriy Yegorov. The exhibition is held within the festival Odesa classics. Curator – Anatoliy Dymchuk.
"In the sea, in the fields, in the night sky, there is already a feeling of infinity. Most in the sea. The sea is a visible image of the infinite. It is impossible for me to understand infinity, we can only know how far the stars are from us. The plastic structure of the sea – a gradually diminishing hill of waves on this giant sphere – makes it the Image of Infinity, an image of magic: with its smells of astringent freshness of algae, with the mystery and horror of its depths, the cry of seagulls and the endless frightening beauty of its inhabitants. Together, this gives rise to the image of the universe and the idea of grandeur. Not many artists were concerned with or inspired by these ideas. Perhaps this is my private feeling – in the landscapes of Cezanne and Van Gogh there is a sense of the universe. The idea of grandeur was largely created by Wagner and Shostakovich, and much by Beethoven; and both of these ideas in Bach. Again, I may be wrong, but all of Tchaikovsky's last symphonies are a drama between the Commitment and the Real, Chopin is an endless mourning of the Possible... ”
Yuriy Yegorov
Yuriy Yegorov is a key figure in Ukrainian art of the 20th century. He devoted almost all his work to Odesa, the study of its unique landscape and spirit. Bright seascapes and metaphysical still lifes by Yegorov have long been an integral symbol of the city.
Yuriy Yegorov began his artistic practice under the influence of a severe style, but moving to Odesa in 1955 completely changed his approach to painting. Plots close to socialist realism and muted shades were changed to the bright, sunny colors and the attraction to basic geometric shapes. Based on these features, Yegorov's unique style crystallized, for which a portrait or landscape is not a simple reflection of reality, but a universal sign through which the artist gets to know the world.
There is no doubt that without Yuriy Yegorov one of the most significant cultural phenomena of Odesa would not have taken place. We are talking about the Odesa nonconformism of the 60s – 80s, whose members were not only influenced by Yegorov, but also had the closest professional and personal relationships with a senior colleague. Valentyn Khrushch, Stanislav Sychov, and Viktor Maryniuk are just a few artists whose work is marked by Yegorov's influence.
An important feature that runs through all of Yegorov's work is his subtle musicality. It is infrequently manifested at the plot level, but is always present in his exceptional attention to rhythm and harmony. Infinitely repeating motifs in different variations together form the symphonic character of the body of his paintings. Harmony as an expression of completeness passed from music to Yegorov's painting as a key element of his outlook.
For Yegorov, music is an expression of the infinity of the universe. Symbolic images, which the artist creates as an expression of his own existential tension, have a single purpose: to find world harmony.
Yuriy Yegorov (1926 – 2008) was born in Stalingrad. In 1948 he graduated from the Odesa Art School, in 1952 – from the I. E. Repin Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, and in 1955 – from the Leningrad Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design. For two years he was the professor of the Odesa Art School (1955 – 1957). In the nineties, he was the rector of the Odesa non-governmental Academy of Arts. The works are stored in the collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Odesa and Mykolaiv Art Museums, the Zimmerli Museum (USA), the Tretyakov Gallery (Russia) and in numerous private collections.
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