Program: The Sixth Qara Qaraev International Contemporary Music Festival. Baku, Azerbaijan, 20-24 April 2015

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The 6^th Qara Qarayev International Contemporary Music Festival

Baku, Azerbaijan, 20-24 April 2015

Program

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 SAARIAHO (*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 cappella
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 cappella
İsmayıl HACIBƏYOV (1949–2006)	"Memorial" by Stravinsky
John TAVENER (1944–2013)	The Lamb, for chorus a cappella (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).