Maestro #2

Thursday, 20 May 2010

two fantasies and one arpeggione

Schubert's wonderful Arpeggione Sonata in the pastoral valley between two peaks of fantasy and fairytales

Zvi Carmeli, violist

Eli Kalman, pianist

Carl Reinecke (1824-1910)

Three fantasy pieces for viola and piano, op. 43

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Sonata in A minor for arpeggione and piano, D. 821

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Fairy Tale Pictures for piano and viola, op.113

Janco Dada Museum, 10:30 ticket at NIS 85

Pierrot the Clown

Commedia dell'arte for children

The sad clown-poet Pierrot, his beautiful loved one Columbine, and the trouble-maker joker Arlecchino, are all turned into dolls by an evil magician's curse. The doll Pierrot sets on a search for Columbine all over the world: Spain, France, Iraq, the Amazonas, and even in Africa.

An enchanting show with actors, musicians, man-size dolls and a special festive Renaissance and Baroque theatre performance

Michal Yanai, narrator

"Coincidence" Marionette theatre

Neta Gover, director and marionette builder

Uri Dror, recorder player

Alexander Fein, bassoonist

Marina Mirkin, harpsichord player

Together with Lauda Ensemble from the Jezreel valley comprising seven musicians

who are playing Arab and Western instruments

Ein Hod Theatre, 11:00 ticket at NIS 55

About Riddles, Solutions and Stories

A meeting with the artist Dan Chamitzer

A glace into the meaning of riddles and trying to resolve them.

Our world as a riddle, each individual has his own resolution and only God has all the answers

Beit Tarbut, 11:30 ticket at NIS 50

Joseph meets Felix

The two geniuses from Vienna and Leipzig, Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn in a concert

where the Classic and the Romantic touch

Moshe Epstein, flutist

Adiel Smidt, cellist

Arnon Erez, pianist

Gil Shohat, pianist

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Piano Sonata in F major, Hob. 16/23 (Shohat)

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Trio No. 39 in G major for flute, cello and piano, Hob. XV/25

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Trio no. 1 in D minor for flute, cello and piano, op. 49

Janco Dada Museum, 12:00 ticket at NIS 85

Felix meets Sergey

A meeting between the first German Romantic and the last Russian Romantic.

Rachmaninov's music lovers would swear that his cello sonata is the apex of the Russian chamber music

Adiel Schmidt, cellist

Eli Kalman, pianist

Gil Shohat, pianist

Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

Preludes:

In C-sharp minor, op. 3 no. 2 (Bells of Moscow)

In G minor, op. 23 no. 5

In C minor. Op. 23 no. 7

In B minor, op. 32 no. 10

In G-flat minor, op. 32 no. 12

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Rondo Capriccioso for piano solo (Kalman)

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

Sonata in G minor for cello and piano, Op. 19

Janco Dada Museum, 14:30 ticket at NIS 85

World Music Workshop

The encounter of young musicians with the variety of styles in world music, concentrating on experiencing the characteristic elements – unique scales, various rhythms, imitating and playing without scores, and improvising

Hagit Rosemarin, Gil Bohadna, flutists

Magal House, 16:00, free entrance

Improvisation workshop

with Composer Prof. Moshe Zorman, Maestro fellowship Music Director

Did you always wish to improvise? You did not know how to begin?

Composer Moshe Zorman, in an open session for the public, with a lecture and live presentations

will demonstrate improvisation techniques on the piano, while hosting young pianists from the audience

(early registration needed). No need for any prior knowledge.

Gertrud Krous House, 16:00, free entrance

Flutes Around the World

A dynamic and sweeping show with a vast variety of exotic flutes and sounds from close and faraway places,

Indian flutes from the Andes to North America, flutes the Balkans and Ireland, wood and bamboo flutes from the Far East and the Middle East, and more

Ein Hod Theatre, 18:00, free entrance

The night's main event

The virtuosos in Shalotte Castle

Mozart's genius Flute Quartet optimism meets with the lively Flute Sonata by the French composer Poulenc. In the middle, Israeli optimism: the World Premiere of Moshe Zorman's work.

The second part will feature some of the most virtuoso piano works ever composed

Part I

Moshe Epstein, flutist, Eckhart Lorenzen, violinist, Zvi Carmeli, violist, Adiel Schmidt, cellist

Eli Kalman, pianist, Benni Hendel, narrator

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Sonata for flute and piano

Moshe Zorman (b. 1952)

The Lady from Shalot Castle, for narrator and chamber ensemble (World Premiere)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Quartet for Flute Quartet No. 3 in C major, K. 171 (258b)

Part II

Dorel Golan, pianist, Victor Stanislavsky, pianist, Gil Shohat, pianist

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Tarantella (Golan)

Transcendental Etude No. 12 in B flat minor for piano ("Chasse-Neige") (Shohat)

La leggierezza ("lightness") etude for piano (Golan)

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Don Giovanni Variations for two pianos (Golan, Shohat)

György Ligeti (1923-2006)

Capriccio (Stanislavsky)

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Etude (Golan)

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Scherzo No.4 in E major, Op. 54 (Stanislavsky)

Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888)

32 variations for piano (Golan)

Fazil Say / Arcadi Volodos

Paraphrases on Mozart's "Turkish March" (Golan, Shohat)

Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

Preludes: (Shohat)

In G minor, op. 23 no. 5

In G-sharp minor, op. 32 no. 12

In C minor, op. 23 no. 7

Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

Finale from Piano Concerto no. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 (Golan)

Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

Romanza for piano in six hands (Golan, Stanislavsky, Shohat)

Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

Suite no. 1 for two pianos, op. 5 (Shohat, Stanislavsky)

Ein Hod Theatre, 21:00 ticket at NIS 130

White Night at the Theatre

Theatrical drawing and photographing into the dead of night

"The Theatrical Body", directed by Batia Eisewasser-Jancort – drawing;

Prof. Boat Tal – photographs

Nude drawing directed by Dror Carta

Arma House for Theatre, 23:00