Divertimento
PHOTO: DARIA UZHENTSEVA
Elena Revich & Polina Osetinskaya
Language: Nonverbal
Duration: 90 min
Kühlhaus
03 Oct, 20:00
Igor Stravinsky Divertimento
for violin and piano (1934)

Leonid Desyatnikov
Wie der alte Leiermann… for violin and piano (1997)

Alfred Schnittke
Sonata No. 2 (Quasi una Sonata) for violin and piano (1968)

Valentin Silvestrov
Post scriptum
for violin and piano (1990)
Passed
Das Duo-Recital von Polina Osetinskaya und Elena Revich entfaltet ein breites Spektrum von musikalischen Dekonstruktion der klassischen Formmodelle in einer Bandbreite zwischen Strawinsky und Silvestrov. Jedes der gespielten Stücke korrespondiert mit einem anderen Segment der Musiktradition. Strawinskys Divertimento (1934) basiert auf der Musik zu seinem Ballett Le Baiser de la fée, das seinerseits von den großen Balletmusiken von Tschaikowski inspiriert wurde. Der in Kharkiv geborene und Israel lebende Komponist Leonid Desyatnikov zerlegt in «wie der alte Leiermann…» (1997), das finale Lied aus Schuberts Winterreise in mehrere fragile und zum Verschwinden neigende Fragmente. Die 1990 von ukrainischen Klassiker Valentin Silvestrov komponierte Violinsonate Post Scriptum erforscht die musikalische Dauer im Geiste der vom Komponisten begründeten Philosophie der Meta-Musik, die die sämtliche Musiktradition als Feld einer schöpferischen Einfühlung und Interpretation betrachtet. Schlieslich markiert die zweite Violinsonate (1968) von Alfred Schnittke die Schnittstelle zur Postmoderne, das Gerüst der klassischen Sonate wird dank dem expressiven Material nur erahnt, Das Stück hört sich wie eine Aneinnaderreihung von Fragmenten, die zugleicht aber durch die strukturelle Klaheit eine dramaturgische Stringenz vermitteln.
Performers:
Elena Revich, violin
Polina Osetinskaya, piano
Elena was born in Moscow into a family of musicians. She graduated from Moscow State Conservatory in 1997. A year later, she became a laureate of the 11th International Tchaikovsky Competition. Elena is the creator of numerous innovative ideas in the field of music, and the art industry. She has performed in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Grand Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, the Beethoven Hall in Bonn, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Duisburg Opera House, the Verdi Hall in Milan, the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, the Nice Opera Theatre, the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, and other renowned venues. Numerous leading young composers from Russia and abroad have composed concertos and chamber works specially for her, including Sergej Newski with the "Cloud Ground" concerto for violin and orchestra (2017), which she performed with the MusicAeterna Orchestra under the direction of Teodor Currentzis. She is a laureate of the Triumph youth award, and the American critics' prize for her album "Les Fleurs du Mal" (2015).
ELENA REVICH
violin
Born in Moscow, Polina began playing piano at the age of five, performing her first solo concert at the Vilnius Conservatory at the age of just six years, thus achieving the status of the most gifted young pianist in the Soviet Union. Later, she worked with mentors Marina Wolf in St. Petersburg and Vera Gornostaeva in Moscow, both of whom were successors to Heinrich Neuhaus's performing school. Polina maintains an active concert schedule, performing such classic composers as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin, and Sergei Rachmaninoff, as well as such contemporaries as Valentin Silvestrov, Leonid Desyatnikov, Vladimir Martynov, Georgs Pelēcis, and Pavel Karmanov. Polina has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, Vienna's Musikverein, London's Barbican, Rome's Teatro Argentina, as well as at major concert venues and festivals all around the world.
POLINA OSETINSKAYA
piano