PRESS RELEASE
Brno, October 10, 2018
After the ®evolution here comes fifty. After the phenomenal Symphony of Sirens come new impulses inspired from festivals history. Moravian Autumn turns its jubilee. That is one of the reasons why there is Preview, one year in advance, to tune the audience. The festival takes place next autumn, between 4 and 16th October.
World-famous ensemble Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin brings to Besední house a concert version of Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck on Saturday 20th October. „They are truly stars, in baroque interpretation they belongs between the best of all,“ says the Director of Filharmonie Brno Marie Kučerová. She adds musicians use an authentic instruments or their perfect replics. Well known opera by Gluck is presented under the baton of Alexander Liebreich. „The ensemble performs very rarely in Czech republic so I do believe it will be an exhilarating experience. Main parts Orfeo, Euridice and Amora are performed by Baroque elite Sonia Prina, Roberta Mameli and Marie-Sophie,“ adds Kučerová. The performance is unique to be the first one in cooperation with domestic Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir with choirmaster Terezy Válkové and the concert is both premiere and derniere. „The performance was commissioned in Katowice where it is premiered a day earlier but with a different choir. So with Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir it is exclusively in Brno,“ highlights Kučerová.
Programme of 50th years of the festival reflects its roots and looks for new impulses inside of them. Festival (originally International Music Festival Brno) was hold for the first time in 1966 and started with a brave theme: it introduced works by Bohuslav Martinů, composer established abroad, but politically suppressed in his homeland. Next years the festivals engaged in common music themes – there was old, chamber, vocal, Slavonic music and also it confronted Czech music with the European one. „By Bohuslav Martinů there are songs, choir compositions and in premiere Gida´s drama Oidipus. Martinů is connected with French music as well as with a double anniversary of French Revolution (1789 – 1799) and also there is a line with an invitation do Basiel Chamber Orchestra“, says the Programmer Vítězslav Mikeš
Festival marks other significant anniversaries: together with Martinů 60th years death anniversary the 100th one of birth anniversary of Mieczysław Weinberg, celebrated with complete six sonatas for violin and piano, double anniversary od E. R. Burian, 100th anniversary od Masaryk Univerzity, etc. Festival will feature great domestic and world´s figures as Piotr Anderszewski with Basel Chamber Orchestra, David Greilsammer and his Geneva Camerata, Peter Eötvös and Dennis Russell Davies with Filharmonie Brno, Alexandre Tharaud, Martinů Voices with Lukáš Vasilek, Tiburtina Ensemble with Barbora Kabátková (Couperin: Messe propre pour les couvents), Il Festino with Dagmar Šašková, Milan Paľa and Ladislav Fanzowitz (Weinberg: complete sonatas for violin and piano) etc.
Choice of Programme of Moravian Autumn 2019
7 I 10 I 2019 Besední house, 7 PM
WEINBERG 100 – I
MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG (MOISEJ VAJNBERG)
Sonata for violin and piano Nr. 1 op. 12
Sonata for violin and piano Nr. 2 op. 15
Sonata for violin and piano Nr. 3 op. 37
Sonata for violin and piano Nr. 4 op. 39
Milan Paľa violin
Ladislav Fanzowitz piano
During two evenings six sonatas for violin and piano by Mieczysław Weinberg (Moisej Vajnberg), Poland-Russian composer of 20th century celebrating 100years anniversary, are performed by Milan Pala and Ladislav Fanzowitz.
10 I 10 I 2019 Besední house, 7 PM
ANDERSZEWSKI And MOZART
FRANCIS POULENC
Sinfonietta
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Piano concerto Nr. 12 in A Major KV 414
ERIK SATIE / arr. CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Gymnopedie Nr. 1 and 3
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Piano concerto N. 17 in G Major KV 453
Basel Chamber Orchestr
conductor Piotr Anderszewski piano
Basel Chamber Orchestra as the berear of tradition of well known ensemble of Paula Sachera (Basler Kammerorchester), also known for a line with Bohuslav Martinů. In Brno the ensemble performs the atractive programme with famous Polish pianist and conductor Piotr Anderszewski.
12 I 10 I 2019 Besední house, 7 PM
VERSAILLES
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU (1683–1764)
Prélude
Le Rappel des oiseaux
JEAN-HENRY D’ANGLEBERT (1629–1691)
Passacaille d’Armide
Prélude de la 2ème suite
JOSEPH-NICOLAS ROYER (1705–1755)
Marche de Sythes
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER (1643–1704)
Prélude (extrait du Te Deum)
CLAUDE BALBASTRE (1724–1799)
Air de l’Ouverture des Paladins (d’après Rameau)
La Suzanne ?
FRANÇOIS COUPERIN (1668–1733)
Les Ombres errantes
Les Calotins
Les Barricades mystérieuses
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY (1632–1687)
Marche de Turcs
Passacaille d’Armide
Chaconne de Phateon
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU (1683–1764)
Les Sauvages (extrait de la Suite en Sol)
Allemande (extrait de la Suite en La)
Gavotte et doubles (extraits de la Suite en La)
Alexandre Tharaud piano
Highly regarded French pianist Alexander Tharaud prepares the extraordinary programme of composers connected with Versailles.
13 I 10 I 2019 Besední house, 7 PM
WEINBERG 100 – II
MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG
Solo sonate for violin Nr. 3 op. 126
Sonate for piano Nr. 6 op. 73
Sonate for violin and piano Nr. 5 op. 53
Sonate for violin and piano Nr. 6 op. 136bis
Milan Paľa violin
Ladislav Fanzowitz piano
14 I 10 I 2019 Mahen Theater
DANCE OF THE SUN
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, orchestral suite with new dance choreography
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Symphony Nr. 40 in g minor KV 550
Geneva Camerata
conductor David Greilsammer
Juan Kruz Díaz de Garaio Esnaola choreography
David Greilsammer captivated Moravian Autumn in 2017 as a pianist performing sonatas John Cage and Domeniko Scarlatti. In 2019 he arrives as a conductor with his chamber orchestra Geneva Camerata and with musical-dancing project Dance of the Sun. Choreography, involving musicians, is created by Juan Kruz Díaz de Garaio Esnaola, world-famous Spanish dancer and choreographer of modern dance.
16 I 10 I 2019 Besední house
DAVIES + EÖTVÖS = 150 / CLOSING CONCERT
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
The Abduction from the Seraglio, Ouverture KV 384
PETER EÖTVÖS
Dialogue with Mozart
BÉLA BARTÓK
Dance Suite
PETER EÖTVÖS
Seven fon violin and orchestra
BÉLA BARTÓK
Divertimento
Akiko Suwanai violin
Filharmonie Brno
conductors Dennis Russell Davies (Eötvös) and Peter Eötvös (Mozart, Bartók)
Conductor Dennis Russell Davies (Chiefconductor of Filharmonie Brno) and conductor and composer Peter Eötvös, two personages of contemporary world music, celebrating in 2019 the same jubilee – 75 years. Closing concert of Moravian Autumn brings their common performance with Filharmonie Brno. Besední house becomes an unique meeting place and a place of two life jubilee´s celebrations.
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