Olivier Messiaen
Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus from Quatuor pour la fin du temps
for cello and piano
Alban Berg
Adagio for violin, clarinet and piano
Steve Reich
Violin Phase for four violins
Morton Feldman
Durations 1 for flute, piano, violin and cello
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Klavierstück IX for piano
Dave Brubeck
Take Five
Performers:
Author and host of the subscription series – Fyodor Sofronov
Studio for New Music soloists ensemble
Mona Khaba, piano
Natalia Cherkasova, piano
Marina Rubinstein, flute
Nikita Agafonov, clarinet
Roman Vikulov, violin
Marina Katarzhnova, violin
Ekaterina Fomitskaya, violin
Arina Minaeva, violin
Olga Galochkina, cello
Grigory Krotenko, double bass
Anton Slepchenko, percussion
A concert of the philharmonic subscription series “Aesthetics and Palette of Styles in the Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries”. In the concerts of the series the Studio for New Music ensemble will introduce listeners to phenomena of musical language that are not obvious at first glance but essential: time, space, number and gesture. In themselves these concepts may seem speculative and inaccessible to sensory perception, yet music is able to turn abstractions into sensations: after all, our memory speaks to us in the language of sounds, appealing to our emotions.
In four programmes the Studio for New Music will present the most diverse trends and techniques of the 20th and 21st centuries, including spectralism, saturalism, minimalism, stochastic music, dodecaphony, sonorism, instrumental theatre and jazz. The first concert is devoted to experiments with rhythm and with the listener’s perception of time: from the meditative quality of Messiaen and Feldman to Brubeck’s famous Take Five. Author and host of the programmes: musicologist, composer, teacher and senior researcher at the Centre for Contemporary Music of the Moscow Conservatory Fyodor Sofronov.
