International Cello Festival Vivacello 4
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October 25 through November 12, Moscow welcomed Vivacello International Cello Festival which traditionally enjoyed great success. The best concert venues of the capital city threw open their doors for musicians from across the world and for the appreciative Moscow audience. Each concert was unique and could evoke interest among the most different public. But whatever the format of various concerts, the festival, as a whole, was permeated with special sentiment and exquisite taste, winning wholehearted love of spectators. The proof could be seen in full houses and storms of applause. |
The first VIVACELLO concert was triumphantly received in Tchaikovsky Concert Hall on October 25. The Festival opened with the program called Around the Cello – classic music stars were playing pieces transcribed from original cello compositions for other instruments.
The concert was conducted by the famous Japanese musician Masahiro Izaki, who debuted with this performance in Moscow. The scene of one of the best concert venues in Moscow was taken in turn by the musicians widely known beyond Russia. The focal point
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The second festival concert was in Tchaikovsky Cultural Center on October 30. Cellist Alexander Chaushyan, violinist Andrey Baranov and piano player Vadim Kholodenko performed Borodin’s
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November 2 saw one of the most unconventional concerts at the festival. The composition performed in Moscow International Performing Arts Center was based on Joseph Brodsky’s poem Dedicated to Yalta (Story of a Murder) and cello sonata by Alfred Schnittke. Accompanied by the music played by famous performers, actors Evgenia Brik and Artur Smoliyaninov were reciting the poem.
The world has been long conquered by the grandeur of the opera, vivacious appeal of the operetta, musical and rock opera. The chamber hall of the Performing Arts Center has become a favourite place for various experimental performances, often characterized by delicate spirituality and psychological insights. The new project, combining music and theatrical performance, was presented by young talented and already renowned actors: laureates of international competitions cellist Boris Andrianov and pianist Andrey Gugnin, actress Evgenia Brik, best remembered by the public for her appearance in Valery Todorovsky’s sensational film Stilyagi (Hipsters) and Sovremennik’s theater and film star Artur Smoliyaninov.
Joseph Brodsky’s poem Dedicated to Yalta is based on the story of the murder that happened in the winter Yalta – in fact, a detective short story touched by a shade of melodrama. Thanks to the highly psychological and expressive music by Schnittke, it acquires philosophical depth. According to the plot, none of the three suspects having certain reasons of wishing the victim’s death is guilty. However, any fortuity has its causes. The one who becomes an unwilling instrument of fate embodies secret desires of others, thus confirming materiality of thought which may become as dangerous as a real action. This is the essence of the Postscriptum
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Moscow Conservatoire welcomed the following concert of VIVACELLO on November 7. Fantastic capabilities of the “four cords” were demonstrated by Moscow cellists Boris Andrianov and Alexander Buzlov as well as the touring soloists – winners of the international Paganini violin competition Ilya Gringolts and Natalia Lomeyko, professor of Royal College of Music in London Yury Zhislin.
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The festival concert which ran on November 9 in the Concert Hall in Mokhovaya Street presented the audience with both classic compositions and popular music of various genres. The experimental program From Rock to Baroque was performed by the ensemble as unusual as the program itself: string quartet, bayan and percussions.
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The final concert of VIVACELLO festival took place in the Grand Hall of Conservatoire on November 12. Accompanied by Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra,
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The artist participated already in the very first initiatives of Moscow nonconformists and this review display includes some rare canvases. The exhibition is to be visited till January 16.
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