Eilat Chamber Music Festival 2013
Previous Festivals
Wednesday May 1st
Concert No. 1 – One-two-three
Concert No. 2 – Dance of the Soul
Concert No. 3 – Voyages
Concert No. 13 – The Infernal Comedy – Confessions of a Serial Killer (Tel-Aviv Museum of Art) , A special concert – Eilat Festival hosted at the Felicja Blumental Festival, Tel Aviv
Thursday May 2nd
Concert No. 4 – Death and the Maiden
Concert No. 5 – The Infernal Comedy – Confessions of a Serial Killer
Friday May 3rd
Concert No. 6 – Piano recital
Concert No. 7 – Virtuoso Parade
Concert No. 8 – Fantasies
Concert No. 9 – Café Vienna
Saturday May 4th
Concert No. 10 – Portraits
Concert No. 11 – Violin recital
Concert No. 12 – Tribute to Verdi
Wednesday February 4th
Concert No. 1 – Carpe Noctem (Seize the Night)
A nocturnal prorgamme exploring the night in music from the Renaissance, Baroque and until our days.
Concert No. 2 – Storie di Napoli
Among the delights of the sea and the fury of Vesuvius: a fresco on the Neapolitan music from the sixteenth century to the present day, performed by the Italian Ensemble Accordone, including ten players and singers with the Italian folk dancer Silvia Pirone.
Thursday February 5th
Concert No. 3 – Fantasies
A piano recital of the French pianist Eric Le Sage with music by Robert Schumann , following le Sage’s award winning album.
Concert No. 4 – Master-class participants concerts
Master-class participants concerts
Concert No. 5 – La Bella Noeva
La Bella Noeva’ is a programme showing all the Accordone’s musical and interpretative features. From Gregorian chant to Monteverdi, from the ancient tarantellas of Salento to music composed by Guido Morini, the voice of Marco Beasley takes the listener to rediscover a wonderful repertory.
Concert No. 6 – The Reign of the Cello
The great cellist Stephen Isserlis, in a rare visit to Israel, will be hosted by the Orchestra Geneva Camerata led by David Greilsammer. The programme will include music by Mozart, Haydn and others.
Concert No. 7 – Brassfire
Jens Lindemann, trumpets
Asaf Hachimi, bass
Gilad Dobrecky, percussion and drums
Katia Toobool, piano
Friday February 6th
Concert No. 8 – Duo Français
Concert No. 9 – Seven Last Words
The British String Quartet named after the Fitzwilliam family, will present Haydn’s monumental work “Seven Last Words of Christ”
Concert No. 10 – Out of the Darkness
An Israeli premiere to Julian Marshall’s “Out of the Darkness”, based on texts by the great Jewish German poet Gertrud Kolmar, who was murdered in the Auschwitz Death Camp during the holocaust. The programme will also include Villa Lobos Bachianas Brasilieras No. 1 and No. 5
Concert No. 11 – La Casa del Diavolo
Geneva Camerata in a programme of Mozart, Boccherini and others.
Saturday February 7th
Concert No. 12 – Portraits
Concert No. 13 – Shem-Tov Levi and a string trio
A new concert of Israel’s music icon, Shem Tov Levi, and a string trio featuring Levi’s music in new arrangements for a string trio and Levi on piano, flute and singing.
Concert No. 14 – East and West
The British Fitzwilliam hosts the Great singer Mira Awad in a programme that combines original music rearranged for a string quartet and music from the Baroque period performed by Awad.
Concert No. 15 – Flamenco al Natural
Maria Juncal, one of the leading dancers of Spain, with a big ensemble of musicians and dancers, will present a storming flamenco show that will conclude the festivals’ decade’s celebrations.
Programme - 2013
Ani Schnarch, violin
Hidemi Suzuki, cello
Leonid Gorokhov, cello
Oxana Yablonskaya, piano
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750
Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943)
Variations on a Theme of Corelli. Op. 42
Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893)
Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 50
Arie Vardi, piano and MC
Pianist Arie Vardi plays and talks about Frederic Chopin’s Mazurkas.
Doric Quartet
Alex Redington, Jonathan Stone, violin
Simon Tandree viola; John Myerscough cello
Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)
String Quartet, Op. 20, No. 1
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
String Quartet No. 2
Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
String Quartet in D minor, Death and the Maiden
Igor Tchetuev, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
Piano Sonata No.26
Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1856)
Scherzo No. 1 in B minor
Nocturne F Major, Op.15, No. 1
Ballade No. 4 in F minor
Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886)
Piano Sonata in B minor
Master-classes graduates in highly virtuoso works
Alexander Melnikov, piano
Doric Quartet
Alex Redington, Jonathan Stone, violin
Simon Tandree viola; John Myerscough cello
Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
Fantasie in C major, Op. 15, Wanderer Fantasy
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
7 Fantasies, Op. 116
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano quintet in F minor, op. 34
Gianfranco Bortolato, oboe
Ani Schnarch, violin
Mikhail Gantvarg, violin
Leonid Gorokhov, cello
Oxana Yablonskaya, piano
Julia Gurvich, piano
Camille Saint Saens (1835 – 1921)
Sonata Op. 166 for oboe and piano
Gianfranco Bortolato, oboe
Julia Gurvich, piano
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Ani Schnarch, violin
Oxana Yablonskaya, piano
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
“Tzigane” for Violin and Piano
Mikhail Gantvarg, violin
Julia Gurvich, piano
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
Suite in the Old Style, for violin and piano or harpsichord
arranged for cello and piano by Daniil Shafran
Leonid Gorokhov, cello
Oxana Yablonskaya, piano
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Trio No.2 in E minor for Piano and Strings Op.67
Mikhail Gantvarg, violin
Leonid Gorokhov, cello
Oxana Yablonskaya, piano
Valeriy Sokolov, violin
Igor Tchetuev, piano
John Myerscough, cello
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
Violin Sonata No. 5, in F major, op. 24
Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, op. 30
Piano Trio in B Flat Op. 97
Claire Meghnagi, soprano
Alexei Kanonikoff, baritone
Gianfranco Bortolato, oboe
Sonia Mazar, piano
Doric Quartet
Arias and songs by Giuseppe Verdi and contemporaries, rearranged for voice and piano, oboe and a string quartet
Duo Salamandrum
Tomer Yariv & Gilad Dobrecki
The programme “Voyages” portrays and defines different kinds of voyages: geographical, spiritual, historical and cultural. Influences of medieval Moroccan and Persian music, Jewish prayers, African traditional tunes, Middle eastern rhythms, American funk and futuristic space music will all blend yet keep their distinctive features in a surprising and exciting concert in which the audience will be stunned both by the musical and virtuoso abilities of the players, and no less by the different energies of each musical tradition.
The programme will include music by Bela Bartok, Ariel Blumental, Heitor Villa Lobos, Shem-Tov Levi, Tomer Yariv and Gilad Dobrecky
Martin Haselböck, conductor
Hidemi Suzuki, cello
Orchester Wiener Akademie
Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)
Symphony No. 103, “Drumroll”
Carl Philip Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Cello concerto in A major, Wq. 172
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Figaro Overture
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Symphony No. 38 Prague
John Malkovich, actor
Martin Haselböck, conductor
Bernarda Bobro, Claire Meghnagi, soprano
Michael Sturminger, writer & director
Orchester Wiener Akademie
A cross between chilling crime drama and Baroque opera with live orchestra on period instruments, The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer is based on the life story of twice-imprisoned serial killer Jack Unterweger (played by Malkovich). Mysteriously back from the grave for an autobiographical book tour, Unterweger oozes disconcerting charm, as he narrates his sordid and shocking history. Each chapter concludes with an aria from Gluck, Mozart, Haydn, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Boccherini and Weber, sung live by stunning sopranos—all too tempting prospects for Unterweger’s bloodlust.
