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The Festival Julian Rachlin & Chums, Now In Its 11th Year, Has Presented Chamber music Concerts From Late Aug And Will Continue Thru Early Sep.
The town of Dubrovnik, located at the southernmost end of Croatia on the Adriatic coast, is aglow with the music of summer festivals. From July 10 to August. 25, the town hosted five weeks of music, theater and dance at its 62nd annual Dubrovnik Summer Festival.
The Holiday Julian Rachlin & Friends, now in its eleventh year, has presented chamber music concerts from late August and will continue thru early September. It was set up by violinist Julian Rachlin, who selected the town as an ideal place to offer creative and colourful projects with musicians of world repute.
damaged in a war in the early 1990s, the Old City section of Dubrovnik has been completely and faithfully reconstructed to its fairytale persona of previous centuries. Many Renaissance-era buildings are utilized as locations for musical performances. For the Holiday Rachlin & Friends, the 15th century Rector's Palace is the primary location for this year's thirteen concerts, beginning with Zubin Mehta conducting the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. As well as performing standard classical repertoire, Rachlin commissions new works from composers. In the first three days of September, three new works by French-Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon were highlighted, every one painting a totally different and unique view of the cosmos.
Eloquent chamber music
On Sept. One the programme included two examples of Russian romantic repertoire : Anton Arensky's Quartet No. Two for violin, viola and two cellos ; Alexander Glazounov's "Elegy" for viola and piano ; and Stravinsky's 20th-century "Divertimento" for violin and piano. The centerpiece of the programme, though, was the world premiere of Dubugnon's "Violiana," written for Rachlin and pianist Itamar Golan. The piece saw Rachlin switching back and forth from violin to viola with split-second timing for three movements of virtuoso playing. Exhibiting many moods and colours, most significantly the wonderful muted impressionism of the slower second movement, this piece is unusual for its electrified energy level all though and was intensified by the kinetic performance by Rachlin and Golan. Dubugnon also dug satisfyingly deep into the velvety, varnished colour of the viola, exploring its capacity for drama more than most do.
Sept. 2's programme was dedicated to the subjects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. One of japan's respected violin teachers, Tsugio Tokunaga, was a featured musician, as was his 18-year-old prizewinning student, Fumiaki Miura. Anchored to the evening's theme was another commission from Dubugnon : "Variations on a japanese Folk Tune" for 2 violins and piano. In it, the composer took "Red Dragonflies" by Aka Tombo and made a glistening, pretty seven-part theme with differences. It was performed by Tokunaga and Rachlin, with Sophie Rachlin ( Julian's mother ) on the piano. While the previous night's composition employed a less tonal and more rhythmically focused language, this evening's work was intensely tonal and unabashedly emotional, made so particularly because it was predated by an original poem by Golan that utilised the illusory symbol of a young girl's doll to commemorate the Fukushima disaster.
Sept. 3 was titled "Concert in White," to which everyone was requested to wear white clothing ; effectively, the onlookers changed into a fun fashion show without the runway. The programme consisted of three highly emotional compositions whose characters appeared to reflect the steam-laden hot weather. Dubugnon's "Three Pieces for Violin and Piano" ( exquisitely played by Boris Brovstyn and Golan ) is destined to become a hot item inside violin repertoire. It's an incredibly tender duet, as if the piano and violin were in a lovers ' embrace. The 3 sections wandered from hallucinatory dreams to a moonlit reverie, then a blissful homage to the music of Maurice Ravel. A wispy glissando to the last, supernatural note was the final, evanescent breath of this fantastic masterwork.
The following two pieces, Brahms ' Piano Quartet in C minor and Arnold Schoenberg's string sextet "Transfigured Night" continued to increase the emotional temperature of the evening. The latter's deep thought portrait of a spirit in the midst of transformation from deathly gloom to a radiant, heavenly resolution took everyone's breath away. Transfigured Night" was Schoenberg's first major work, drafted in 1899, and predates the utilisation of the 12-tone language that outlined his subsequent legacy. Its troublesome, complicated score was electrified by a poem of the same name and is one of the pinnacle compositions for string chamber musicians. The performance by violinists Brovstyn and Sean Avram Wood worker, violists Rachlin and David Aaron Wood worker and cellists Torleif Theden and Boris Andrianov was an ecstatic experience of surging intensity.
Another amazing aspect to this concert was the last-minute substitution of several violinists ( who learned their difficult parts in 48 hours ) wanted to replace the indisposed Janine Jansen. The heroes were Boris Brovstyn, Sean Avram Wood worker and the 18-year-old Miura. When I asked the teenager how he felt playing with such luminaries as Rachlin, Maisky and Golan, he said, "When I sat across from the fantastic Maisky playing his large solos, I felt rather like a little mouse!" Thanks to Rachlin's organizational munificence, emerging artists like Miura have the privilege and valuable experience of sharing the stage with their mentors. Sometime, Miura will be the older lion across from a young mouse.
From baroque to balalaika
The striking Baroque church of St. Ignatius was the setting for a Sun. morning concert of works by Vivaldi and Bach. Later that day, Russian balalaika virtuoso Alexey Arkhipovsky entertained with his fusion of styles from folk to funk, fugue to flamenco, making the silvery sound of only three strings look like a symphony. He's the latter-day Paganini of the balalaika, but with a Pat Metheny approach. The festival will go on with equal amounts of chamber music and lighter-weight fare thru to Sept. Eight as reported tagza.com.
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