For the 100th anniversary of György Kurtág and the 145th anniversary of the birth of Béla Bartók

Programme:

György Kurtág
String Quartet No. 1 (1959)
Die Kleine Klemme for piccolo, trombone and guitar (1979)
..quasi una fantasia… for piano and ensemble (1988)

Béla Bartók
Two Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (Nos. 150 and 152, 1937) from the cycle “Mikrokosmos”, in the arrangement for ensemble by Alexandra Nesnova and Albert Korenev.
Duets for Two Violins (1931)

György Ligeti
Hungarian Rock (Chaconne) for solo harpsichord (1978)
Continuum for solo harpsichord (1968)
Six Bagatelles for wind quintet (1953)

Performers:
Soloists:
Natalia Cherkasova, piano
Ekaterina Fomitskaya, violin
Marina Katarzhnova, violin
Studio for New Music soloists ensemble

Conductor – Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation Igor DRONOV
Host – lecturer, musicologist, researcher at the Centre for Contemporary Music Fyodor
Sofronov