DIALOGUES

 On March 2 and 3, Yumi Hwang-Williams, under the baton of Dennis Russell Davies, will present William Bolcom's Violin Concerto in D major, and in the following week (March 9 and 10) - again under the direction of the chief conductor of the Brno Philharmonic - Milan Paľa will perform as a soloist in Alfred Schnittke's Fourth Violin Concerto. All three protagonists of the aforementioned concerts, supplemented by the pianist Katarína Paľová, will meet on March 5 at a chamber concert, at which the second sonatas for violin and piano of both mentioned composers will be heard (Bolcom's performance by Yumi Hwang-Williams and Dennis Russell Davies, Schnittke's interpretation by Milan and Katarína Paľových), the violinists will take on Mieczysław Weinberg's Sonata for Two Violins and the pianists the Concerto for Two Pianos and the soundtrack Dialogue with the Unknown by Bronius Kutavičius.

MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG Sonata for Two Violins Op. 69
ALFRED SCHNITTKE Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano
WILLIAM BOLCOM Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano
BRONIUS KUTAVIČIUS Conversation with the Unknown, concerto for two pianos and soundtrack

Yumi Hwang-Williams violin (Weinberg, Bolcom)
Milan Paľa violin (Weinberg, Schnittke)
Dennis Russell Davies piano (Bolcom)
Katarína Paľová piano (Schnittke, Kutavičius)
Andrea Bálešová piano (Kutavičius)