Performers
- Luka Faulisi violin, arrangements
- Quatuor Elmire
- David Petrlik I violin
- Yoan Brakha II violin
- Hortense Fourrier viola
- Rémi Carlon cello
- Karol Kinal double bass
Programme
Antonio Vivaldi Four Seasons, Op. 8 (selection)
Allegro (mov. I) from Violin Concerto in E major Spring, R.269 [3’]
Allegro non molto (mov. I) from Violin Concerto in F minor Winter, R.297 [3’]
Tempo impetuoso d’Estate (mov. III) from Violin Concerto in G minor Summer, R.315 [3’]
Gabriel Fauré Après un rêve (After a dream, No. 1) from the collection Three Melodies, Op. 7 [3’]
Camille Saint-Saëns Symphonic Poem Danse macabre [4’]
Béla Bartók Romanian Dances, Sz.68 [6’]
Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin Sevdana [5’]
Johannes Brahms Hungardian Dance No. 17 in F-sharp minor [4’]
George Gershwin Blues from Symphonic Poem An American in Paris [3’]
Hiromi Uehara Tom and Jerry Show [5’]
Leonard Bernstein West Side Story Medley [5’]
Concert description
A journey from Venice, through Paris, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, all the way to New York – it’s a crazy idea, although it begins seemingly seriously, with three-hundred-year-old Baroque concerts. But Antonio Vivaldi, although a priest, lived in Venice and was certainly not indifferent to the festivities of the carnival season. His most famous Four Seasons are full of humor, and the drama of a summer storm and a winter blizzard is highly theatrical and quickly passes. It transitions into dances – the dance of the dead in Camille Saint-Saëns, the Romanian stylizations of Béla Bartók and the Hungarian stylizations of Johannes Brahms. And in between: a brief respite in Gabriel Fauré’s wistful dream and Sevdana by Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin, a bit of nonchalant boasting in George Gershwin’s Blues, and a pinch of emotion in excerpts from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. The evening ends in pandemonium. When writing Tom and Jerry Show, Hiromi Uehara obviously had the famous cartoon in mind. In her music, a cat and a mouse do indeed chase each other around in circles. Just listening to it can leave you breathless – so how fit must the performers be?
– Dominika Micał (pisanezesluchu.pl)