Program
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
String sextet “Souvenir de Florence”, D minor, Op. 70 (1890, 1892)
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
Fratres (1977)
solo violin – Olga Volkova
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Chamber Symphony (String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, arranged for chamber orchestra by Rudolf Barshai, Op. 110a, 1967)
Gia Kancheli (1935 – 2019)
“A Little Daneliad” for violin, piano, percussion (ad libitum), and string orchestra (2000)
Details
The chamber composition of the musicAeterna orchestra will perform works of the 19-20th centuries arranged into a single plot. The beginning of the story is Tchaikovsky’s late masterpiece where at the core there lies the motif of memories of a beautiful, but bygone time. It is answered by the opus of the modern classic Arvo Pärt – a melancholic “memory” of the classics as such. Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony sums up the author’s entire life – not in a nostalgic, but rather in a tragic way. In Gia Kancheli’s “Little Daneliade” based on the music for the films “Kin-dza-dza” and “Tears Dripped”, both the tragedy of human existence and longing for the past are overcome by irony, so appreciated by Shostakovich.