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The Sixth “Baroque Art” Festival begins – 2024-03-11 22:28:47

/ world today news/ The sixth edition of the only festival of its kind in our country for old music performed on original instruments of the era is coming up.
THE ART OF THE BAROQUE /06.10. – 24.11.2012/ will present a selection of the most emblematic performances from the 18th and 19th centuries to the citizens of Sofia, but will not fail to surprise the audience with premieres, new performers – stars of the international scene and favorite Bulgarian instrumentalists.

PROGRAM AT THE FESTIVAL

JOINING

October 6 (Saturday), 19.00 h.
AULA of SU “St. Clement of Ohrid”

“Harmony in competition with Invention”
Ensemble Cordevento

Erik Bosgraaf – recorder (Netherlands)
Zefira Valova – violin
Ivan Iliev – violin
Zdenka Prohazkova – viola (Czech Republic)
Linda Mancheva – cello
Yavor Genov – lute
Alessandro Piano – harpsichord (Italy)

In the program:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concertos for recorder and strings, reconstructions
Antonio Vivaldi
Concertos for recorder and strings op. 8
“Spring Summer Autumn Winter”

The Dutch recorder player Erik Bosgraaf and the Cordevento ensemble will present for the first time to the Sofia audience reconstructions for recorder and strings of the famous Bach instrumental concertos. After the successful CD of the ensemble with these works, released in 2011, numerous concerts at important festivals in Europe followed, as well as the inspiration for a new venture – Vivaldi’s Seasons performed on the recorder!
Cordevento will present a new reading of the works, adapted to the peculiarities of the recorder, but with uncompromising fidelity to the author’s idea, carrying the magic of this musical phenomenon from the Baroque. The paintings described in words by Vivaldi himself back in 1725 and confirmed with boundless musical invention and breathtaking harmonies will come to life.
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October 7 (Sunday), 12.00 p.m.
AULA of SU “St. Clement of Ohrid”

“Tafelmusik”

Dimitar Marinkev – traverso
Rositsa Panayotova – soprano
Yazu Moizio – wallpaper (Finland)
Aapo Hakkinen – harpsichord (Finland)

In the program: arias and trio sonati for flute, obo and basso continuo from Georg Friedrich Hendel, Johan Georg Telemann, Pietro Locatelli and others.

After numerous specializations in Germany and the Netherlands, the Bulgarian flutist Dimitar Marinkev returns to Bulgaria to perform a number of concerts dedicated to the baroque chamber repertoire. On the stage of the Art of the Baroque festival, he will present his colleagues from Finland with a skillfully selected program that illustrates the strong influence of Italian fashion in the music of German composers of the 18th century. Along with the famous sonatas of Telemann and Handel, rarely performed works by Locatelli, Gallupi and Kleinknecht will be performed, as well as the soprano cantata by Antonio Lotti.
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October 8 (Monday), 19.00 h.
“Dr. Long” Evangelical Methodist Church (86 G. S. Rakovski St. – opposite the opera house)

“Inspired by Beethoven”

Vasily Ilisavski – Hamerklavier
Izhar Elias – guitar (Netherlands)
Zefira Valova – violin
Ivan Iliev – viola
Linda Mancheva – cello

In the program: chamber works by Beethoven, Diabelli, etc.

An extraordinary concert revealing the fate of some of the emblematic works of the genius Beethoven… Among them the C-minor Piano Trio from Op. 1 and the Spring Sonata for Piano and Violin inspired a number of 19th-century composers, with musical excerpts from them brought to life in various works, even in pieces for solo guitar. Vasiliy Ilisavski will present the piano originals in an exquisite interpretation, and the guitar and string variations are entrusted to the talented Izhar Elias from the Netherlands. The two soloists will illustrate the transition between the classical and romantic eras, supported by the Bulgarian instrumentalists Linda Mancheva, Zefira Valova and Ivan Iliev.
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October 30 (Tuesday), 19.00 h.
AULA of SU” St. Clement of Ohrid”

“Schubert’s Passions”

Alain Bouillet – baritone (France)
Vasily Ilisavski – Hamerklavier
Alexis Kosenko – flute (France)
Zefira Valova – violin

In the program: sonatas and songs by Franz Schubert

Schubert’s work is particularly rich in the field of the chamber vocal genre. At the center of this program are songs from the cycle “The Pretty Millwoman”, performed by one of the most valued voices in chamber music on the French and world stage – Alain Bouillet in collaboration with the Russian specialist in historic pianos Vasily Ilisavsky. The program also includes the famous variations for flute and piano on one of the song cycle’s most beautiful themes, Dry Flowers (Trockne Blumen). Virtuoso flutist Alexis Kosenko will announce the Bulgarian stage with the lovely sound of an original Viennese flute from the 19th century. Schubert’s genius will also blossom in the violin sonatas for piano and violin performed by Zefira Valova on an Italian violin from 1760.
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November 7 (Wednesday), 19.00 h.
Evangelical Methodist Church “Dr. Long” (G.S. Rakovski St. 86 – opposite the opera house)

“…For harpsichord or fortepiano…”

Galina Draganova – hammer clavier
Vasily Ilisavski – harpsichord
In the program: works for two pianos and four hands by Mozart, Bach, Muzio Clementi and Charles Burney

Even 100 years after the invention of the piano (Hammerklavier), composers continued to address their works “for harpsichord or piano”.
The two instruments, which existed in parallel for quite a long time, will be presented in combination – a rather rare genre for the 18th century – two pianos.
Galina Draganova and Vasiliy Ilisavski will perform the earliest works of this genre – a duet by the famous traveler and music historian Charles Burney and the first piano virtuoso Clementi, as well as popular works by Mozart. The program will be supplemented with one of Bach’s piano concertos.
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November 13 (Tuesday), 6:00 p.m.

Kyustendil, Regional History Museum

The Violin Virtuosos of the Baroque

Zefira Valova – violin

In the program: Telemann, Bieber, Walter

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November 14 (Wednesday), 19.00 h.
AULA of SU “St. Clement of Ohrid”

“All Roads Lead to Rome”

Baroque Orchestra of the European Union
Lars Ulrik Mortensen, dirigent

In the program: concertos grossi by Arcangelo Corelli, Georg Friedrich Handel and Georg Muffat

The Baroque Orchestra of the European Union is a unique formation that embodies in music the idea of ​​the harmony of nations. Over the years of its existence, the orchestra has visited more than 53 countries in Europe and Asia, and nearly 700 talented young musicians have started their successful careers by participating in its composition. In 2012, its members represented Germany, Spain, Hungary, Great Britain, Austria, etc. conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Riccardo Minazzi, Paul Anyu. The guest concertmasters are the Bulgarian Zefira Valova, Hugh Daniel from Wales, and for the concert on the stage of the BAROQUE ART festival – the Croatian Boyan Cicic. The program is constructed around the work of Arcangelo Corelli, who set new European standards in the instrumental music of Europe at the turn of the 18th century in Rome. Influenced by him, two Germans – Handel and Muffat surpassed their idol and gave the musical world works that became a symbol of the Baroque.
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November 15 (Thursday)

NMA “P. Vladigerov”

European Union Baroque Orchestra Workshop

for students

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November 17 (Saturday), 19.00 h.
AULA of SU “St. Clement of Ohrid”

“Apotheosis of Bach”

Aapo Hakkinen – harpsichord
Zefira Valova – violin
Alexis Kosenko – flute

In the program: solo and trio sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach is the name most often associated with Baroque music. His genius bore fruit – hundreds of vocal and instrumental works of unsurpassed compositional mastery and emotional impact. He mastered complex polyphonic genres, often denounced as old-fashioned by his contemporaries, but also pioneered new ones such as the obbligato (written) bass sonata. These are some of the sonatas selected by the three instrumentalists in the current program.
A true luxury in European musical history is that a genius has several sons of genius. Among them, Carl Philipp Emanuel stands out for combining everything he had learned from his father with the aesthetics of the gallant style coming into vogue in the mid-18th century. The gallant trios in the program reveal a full palette of affects and colors: from stormy passions and energetic Allegri to melancholic and sorrowful slow movements, presented by the three soloists with deep knowledge and wisdom.
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November 21 (Wednesday), 19.00 h.
AULA of SU “St. Clement of Ohrid”

Telemann’s Paris Quartets

The ambassadors
Alexis Kosenko – flute
Alan Rasmussen – harpsichord (Denmark)
Zefira Valova – violin
Tomasz Pokrzywinski – cello (Poland)

Telemann was one of the most prolific composers of the Baroque, and the quartets for flute, violin, cello and basso continuo are undoubtedly among the most brilliant gems of his work.
Their first edition appeared in 1730 in Paris, hence today they are known as the “Paris Quartets”. The international ensemble Les Ambassadurs, created in 2011 by the French flutist and conductor Alexis Kosenko, will perform a selection of 4 quartets in which the different instruments partner equally and reveal lovely virtuoso melodies.
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November 24 (Saturday)
“Bulgaria” hall, 7:00 p.m.

Bayaderes – opera by Charles Simon Cattel (concert performance)

Solamente naturali & Musica florea

Didier Talpin, conductor (France)

In 1810, the opera “Bayaderes” by the French composer Cattel was presented for the first time at the Paris Opera. Napoleon was also present at the premiere, but with his pretentious temperament, he forced the orchestra players to play muted throughout the performance to please his taste.
On the festival stage, this 3-act opera will be performed in concert on period instruments by two temperamental ensembles from Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The solo parts are performed by distinguished French singers, and they are accompanied by the National Philharmonic Choir “Svetoslav Obretenov”.

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November 26 (Monday), 7:00 p.m.

Veliko Tarnovo – Chitalishte “Nadezhda”

Counterpoint

Todor Petrov – harpsichord

Zefira Valova – violin

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