Tickets for six selected concerts of Moravian Autumn 2019 are now on sale. The programme for the 50th festival reflects its roots and seeks new impulses in them. The festival (the still called the International Music Festival Brno) first took place in 1966, presenting the work of Bohuslav Martinů, a composer already recognised abroad but who was for political reasons marginalise at home. In the festival programme there will be performances for example from Piotr Anderszewski with the Basel Chamber Orchestra, David Greilsammer and his Geneva Camerata, Peter Eötvös and Dennis Russell Davies with the Brno Philharmonic, Alexandre Tharaud, Martinů Voices with Lukáš Vasilek, the Tiburtina Ensemble with Barbora Kabátková, Il Festino with Dagmar Šašková, Milan Paľa and Ladislav Fanzowitz.
As anticipated so far the greatest interest is in the closing concert, a symbolic celebration of the 75th birthday of the principal conductor of the Brno Philharmonic Dennis Russell Davies and the Hungarian conductor and composer Peter Eötvös. In their joint appearance with the Brno Philharmonic Eötvös will conduct works that influenced him and Davies pieces by Eötvös. “Besední dům will thus be the venue for a unique encounter that will not take place anywhere else,” stated the festival’s dramaturge Vítězslav Mikeš.
“From the works of Bohuslav Martinů we will hear his songs and choral works, and there will be the premiere of his original music for the play Oedipus by André Gide. The focus on French music has a distant link to Martinů, as well as to the double anniversary of the French Revolution (1789–1799), and also to the invitation to the Basel Chamber Orchestra, carriers of the tradition of the celebrated ensemble of Paul Sacher, who had a strong link to Martinů,” said Vítězslav Mikeš.
The festival will also be commemorating other significant anniversaries: alongside Martinů, whose death was 60 years ago, there is also the centenary of the birth of Mieczysław Weinberg, whose complete series of six sonatas for violin and piano will be heard, the double anniversary of E. F. Burian (1904–1959), the centenary of the founding of Masaryk University, etc. Those appearing at the festival will mostly be artistic figures from home and abroad, such as Piotr Anderszewski with the Basel Chamber Orchestra, David Greilsammer and his Geneva Camerata (Lully’s suite Le Bourgeois gentilhomme with new choreography), Peter Eötvös and Dennis Russell Davies with the Brno Philharmonic, Alexandre Tharaud, Martinů Voices with Lukáš Vasilek, the Tiburtina Ensemble with Barbora Kabátková (Couperin: Messe propre pour les couvents), Il Festino with Dagmar Šašková, Milan Paľa and Ladislav Fanzowitz (Weinberg: complete sonatas for violin and piano) and many more.
The festival will offer just under twenty events and concerts in various venues – halls, churches, cafes, cinemas and theatres. Aside from the closing concert tickets are also on sale for the concert with the title Dance of the Sun. “David Greilsammer, who received attention in the previous festival as a pianist, this time performed in the role of conductor with his chamber orchestra Geneva Camerata and the musical-dance project Dance of the Sun, which has been receiving acclaim around the world,” says festival manager Lucie Šnajdrová. The choreography which links all the members of the orchestra to the dance actions was created by Juan Kruz Díaz de Garaio Esnaola, a Spanish dancer and choreographer who is among the best in the world when it comes to modern dance. The festival will take place from 4 to 16 October 2019.
The six on offer are supplemented by an accompanying programme with the title Versailles, where the world-famous pianist Alexandre Tharaud will perform a programme made up of works by acclaimed and less well-known composers linked to Versailles. Another world-renowned pianist coming to Brno is Piotr Anderszewski with the Basel Chamber Orchestra. Tickets can already be purchased for two concerts with the title Weinberg 100, where there will be performances of all six of Weinberg’s sonatas for violin and piano by Ladislav Fanzowitz and Milan Paľa.
Tickets are available for advanced sale in Besední street, in the Dům pánů z Lipé or online.
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