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The Holiday Julian Rachlin & Friends, Now In Its 11th Year, Has Presented Chamber Music Concerts From Late August And Will Continue Thru Early Sep.
The city of Dubrovnik, found at the southernmost tip of Croatia on the Adriatic coast, is aglow with the music of summer festivals. From July ten to August. 25, the city hosted 5 weeks of music, theater and dance at its 62nd yearly Dubrovnik Summer Holiday.
The Holiday Julian Rachlin & Friends, now in its 11th 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 a perfect spot to supply creative and vibrant projects with musicians of international repute.
Damaged in a war in the early 1990s, the Old City section of Dubrovnik has been completely and faithfully rebuilt to its fairytale persona of prior centuries. Many Renaissance-era buildings are utilized as locales for musical performances. For the Holiday Rachlin & Friends, the fifteenth century Rector's Palace is the primary venue for this year's 13 concerts, beginning with Zubin Mehta conducting the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to performing standard classical repertoire, Rachlin commissions new works from composers. In the 1st a few days of September, three new works by French-Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon were highlighted, each one painting a totally different and unique view of the cosmos.
Eloquent chamber music
On Sept. 1 the programme included 2 examples of Russian romantic collection : Anton Arensky's Quartet No. 2 for violin, viola and 2 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 forwards and backwards from violin to viola with split-second timing for three movements of expert playing. Exhibiting many moods and colors, most notably the beautiful muted impressionism of the slower second movement, this piece is noteworthy for its electrified energy level all though and was amplified by the kinetic performance by Rachlin and Golan. Dubugnon also dug satisfyingly deep into the velvety, varnished color of the viola, exploring its capacity for drama more than most do.
Sept. 2's programme was devoted to the sufferers 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 People Tune" for two violins and piano. In it, the composer took "Red Dragonflies" by Aka Tombo and created a shimmering, attractive seven-part theme with divergences. It was performed by Tokunaga and Rachlin, with Sophie Rachlin ( Julian's mother ) on the piano. While the prior night's composition employed a less tonal and more rhythmically centered language, this evening's work was intensely tonal and unabashedly emotional, made so especially because it was predated by an original poem by Golan that used the illusory symbol of a young girl's doll to memorialize the Fukushima disaster.
Sept. 3 was titled "Concert in White," to which everyone was requested to wear white clothing ; effectively, the audience became a fun fashion show without the runway. The programme consisted mainly of three highly emotional compositions whose characters appeared to reflect the steaming hot weather. Dubugnon's "Three Pieces for Violin and Piano" ( delightfully played by Boris Brovstyn and Golan ) is destined to become a hot item within violin inventory. It's an incredibly tender duet, as if the piano and violin were in a lovers ' embrace. The three sections rambled from hallucinatory dreams to a moonlit reverie, then a delightful homage to the music of Maurice Ravel. A wispy glissando to the last, unearthly note was the final, evanescent breath of this wondrous masterpiece.
The following 2 pieces, Brahms ' Piano Quartet in C minor and Arnold Schoenberg's string sextet "Transfigured Night" continued to heighten the emotional temperature of the evening. The latter's soul-searching portrait of a spirit in the process of transformation from deathly gloom to a radiant, heavenly resolution took everybody's breath away. Transfigured Night" was Schoenberg's first major work, drafted in 1899, and predates the employment of the 12-tone language that defined his later legacy. Its thorny, complex score was inspired 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 Carpenter, violists Rachlin and David Aaron Carpenter and cellists Torleif Theden and Boris Andrianov was an elated experience of steaming strength.
Another astounding facet to this concert was the last-minute substitution of several violinists ( who learned their tricky parts in forty eight hours ) wanted to replace the indisposed Janine Jansen. The heroes were Boris Brovstyn, Sean Avram Carpenter and the 18-year-old Miura. When I asked the teen how he felt playing with such luminaries as Rachlin, Maisky and Golan, he claimed, "When I sat across from the amazing Maisky playing his large solos, I felt just like a little mouse!" Thanks to Rachlin's organizational generosity, emerging artists like Miura have the prerogative and valuable experience of sharing the stage with their coachs. Someday, Miura will be the older lion across from a young mouse.
From baroque to balalaika
The stunning Baroque church of St. Ignatius was the setting for a Sunday morning concert of works by Vivaldi and Bach. Later that day, Russian balalaika diva Alexey Arkhipovsky entertained with his fusion of styles from people to funk, fugue to flamenco, making the silvery sound of only three strings look like a symphony. He is the modern-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. 8 as reported tagza.com.