20 April 2015
12:00 Qara Qarayev Central School of Arts
WORKSHOP
Christoph JÄGGIN (guitar, Switzerland)
19:00 Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall
OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL
"A Sad Night", symphony concert
Prologue
Qara QARAYEV (1918–1982) Introduction from the ballet "Path of Thunder"
1st part
Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI (1913–1994) Les espaces du sommeil (Robert Desnos)
Kaija SA
ARIAHO (*1952) Grammaire des rêves (Paul Eluard)
Edison DENISOV (1929–1996) Chant d'automne (Charles Baudelaire)
2nd part
Friedrich CERHA (*1926) Requiem für Rikke (Carl Zuckmayer)
Vladislav SOYFER (*1961) Cancion con movimiento (Federico Garcia Lorca)
Alban BERG (1885–1935) The Wine (Le vin), concert aria (Charles Baudelaire)
U.HAJIBEYLI Azerbaijan State Symphonic Orchestra
Conductor Rauf ABDULLAYEV
Soloists: Ekaterina KICHIGINA (soprano, Russia), Farida MAMEDOVA (soprano, Azerbaijan), Nadiya ZELYANKOVA (mezzo soprano, Russia-Germany), Sergey MALININ (tenor, Russia), Andrey KAPLANOV (baritone, Russia).
21 April 2015
12:00 Museum Centre
LECTURE AND VIDEO-PRESENTATION OF THE OPERA
Salvatore SCIARRINO (1947) – Luci mie traditrici (1998)
Presenter Marianna VYSOTSKAYA (Russia)
19:00 Chamber and Organ music Hall (Deutsche Kirche)
AROUND LAUT KÄFIG
Niccolò CASTIGLIONI (1932–1996) sic (1992) for flute and guitar
Younghi PAGH-PAAN (*1945) Noch… (2002) version for mezzo soprano and guitar
Rufat KHALILOV (*1974) Labyrinth Fot Two (2014) for flute and guitar. WP
Alfred ZIMMERLIN (*1950) "Aufgang" (2014) WP of the version for mezzo soprano, flute and guitar
Turkar GASIMZADE (*1988) 9 Rubai (2014) for flute and guitar
Jürg WYTTENBACH (*1935) Laut Käfig – cycle of 17 haiku by Issa and other Japanese poets (1995/97) for soprano and guitar
between the compositions:
Istvàn ZELENKA (*1936) "…es ist eine schöne Sache um die Zufriedenheit…" – seam pieces for musicians (2002)
ensemble écoute (Switzerland)
Avital Cohen – flute, Asako Motojima – soprano (Japan), Christoph Jäggin – guitar
22 April 2015
12:00 Museum Centre
LECTURE AND VIDEO-PRESENTATION OF THE OPERA
Harrison BIRTWISTLE (1934) – The Minotaur (2008)
Tatiana TSAREGRADSKAYA (Russia)
19:00 International Mugam Centre
STORIES OF LOVE
In program: A.SCHÖNBERG, A.WEBERN, A.BERG, F.SCHREKER, H.PFITZNER, A.ZEMLINSKY
Soloists: Farida MAMEDOVA (soprano, Azerbaijan) and Gulshan ANNAGIYEVA (piano, Azerbaijan)
23 April 2015
12:00 Museum Centre
CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Moderator: Dr. Rauf FARKHADOV
Ekatherine OKUNEVA (Petrozavodsk, Russia): Trilogy 'Brief an Gösta Oswald' by Bo Nilsson in the Context of the Avant-garde Artistic Quests of 1950-1960s. Tatiana TSAREGRADSKAYA (Moscow, Russia): Phonetics in the Composing Means of Vocal Music: Mauricio Kagel and Luciano Berio. Vladislav TARNOPOLSKY (Moscow, Russia): Opera 'Beyond the Shadow' by Vladimir Tarnopolsky in the Context of a New Genre of Musical Theater. Raya ABBASOVA (Baku, Azerbaijan): Interaction of Verbal and Musical Beginnings in Opera 'Intizar' by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh. Marianna Vysotskaya (Moscow, Russia): Poetic Structure as a Composing Invariant: Mono-opera 'Journey to Love' by Faradzh Karaev.
19:00 Azerbaijan State Theatre of Young Spectators
A MULTIMEDIA OPERA
Vladimir TARNOPOLSKY (1955) – Beyond the Shadow (2006)
Studio for New Music (Russia)
Conductors Igor DRONOV and Fuad IBRAHIMOV
24 April 2015
19:00 Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall
CLOSING OF THE FESTIVAL
"Preaching, Prayer, Deluge — Contrasts?", symphony concert
1st part – Preaching
Beat FURRER (*1954) Enigma, for chorus a ca****la
Bo NILSSON (*1937) Brief an Gösta Oswald
2nd part – Prayer
Alexander WUSTIN (*1943) Credo
Agnus Dei
Igor STRAVINSKY (1881–1971) Veruyu (Credo), for chorus a ca****la
İsmayıl HACIBƏYOV (1949–2006) "Memorial" by Stravinsky
John TAVENER (1944–2013) The Lamb, for chorus a ca****la (William Blake)
Arnold SCHÖNBERG (1874–1951) A Survivor from Warsaw
Conductor Philipp CHIZHEVSKY
EPILOGUE – Deluge
Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI (1913–1994) Trois poemes d'Henri Michaux
Conductors Rauf ABDULLAYEV and Philipp CHIZHEVSKY
U.HAJIBEYLI Azerbaijan State Symphonic Orchestra
Questa musica ensemble (Russia)
Soloists: Ekaterina KICHIGINA (soprano, Russia), Farida MAMEDOVA (soprano, Azerbaijan), Nadiya ZELYANKOVA (mezzo soprano, Russia-Germany), Andrey KAPLANOV (baritone, Russia). Christoph Jäggin, a Swiss guitarist presents a master class at the Qara Qaraev Central School of Arts in the afternoon of April 20 for the music school pupils as a kind of a prelude to the Festival. Magomayev Philharmonic on the same day. The U. Hajibeyli Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra under direction of its chief conductor Rauf Abdullayev performs compositions by Q. Qarayev, W. Lutoslawski, K. Saariaho, E. Denisov, F. Cerha, V. Soyfer and A. Berg. The name of one of the parts "A Sad Night" of a not accomplished symphony by Qara Qarayev has been taken as the epigraph to the concert. The highlight of the program of the 6th Festival is a multimedia opera "Jenseits der Schatten" ("Beyond Shadows") by Vladimir Tarnopolsky, that will be presented on the stage of the Azerbaijan State Theatre of Young Spectators performed by the Studio for New Music (Moscow) and conducted by Igor Dronov (Russia) and Fuad Ibrahimov (Azerbaijan). The two operas belonging to the best examples of the genre and composed in the late XX century will be shown as a video recording at the Museum Center. Marianna Vysotskaya, a Professor of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory tells about the opera by the Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino "Oh My Betraying Eyes" on April 21. The second opera by the English composer Harrison Birtwistle "The Minotaur" will be shown on April 22, reports the Doctor of Arts Tatiana Tsaregradskaya. The program "Around Laut Käfig" starts in the Chamber and Organ Music Hall with the Swiss ensemble écoute and soprano-solo Asako Motoshima from Japan. The performance is built around the eponymous vocal cycle by J. Wyttenbach and merges the names of Y. Pagh-Paan, A. Zimmerlin, N. Castiglioni, I. Zelenka and Azerbaijani composers. The Azerbaijani-Russian project "Love Stories" includes compositions of A. Schönberg, A. Webern, A. Berg, A. Zemlinsky, H. Pfitzner and F. Schreker, will be presented as a kind of a "variation" on the theme of vocal composition of the XX century. It focuses on one of the "leitmotifs" of art at all times, including vocal and opera art. The performance takes place on April 22 in the International Mugam Centre with Farida Mamedova, soprano solo(Azerbaijan) and Gulshan Annagiyeva, piano Azerbaijan. The idea of the project belongs to Rauf Farhadov, video director Rauf Mamedov (both — Russia). The final concert of the Festival takes place in Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall on April 24 with compositions by B. Furrer, B. Nilsson, A. Wustin, I. Stravinski, I. Hajibeyli, D. Tavener, A. Schoenberg and W. Lutoslawski, united by a common idea "The Sermon, the Prayer, the Flood". We hope that the varied and extensive program of the Festival reveals to the Baku audience unusual features of the vocal genre and opens the new composers' names and compositions.
