Eigenzeit-Festival: Im Osten nur Neues

In the organizer's words:

Only new things in the east

Valentin Silvestrov
Melodies of the moments, Cycle VI "25.10.1893 ... in memoriam P. I. Tsch.": II Lullaby (German premiere)
"The Messenger" (version for piano solo)

Antonín Dvořák
Songs my mother taught me/"Als die alte Mutter" (No. 4 from: "Zigeunermelodien" op. 55) arranged for violin and piano by Fritz Kreisler
Sonatina in G major op. 100

Dmitri Shostakovich
Sonata for cello and piano op. 40
Piano Quintet in G minor op.

Alissa Margulis violin
Ksenia Dubrovskaya violin
Lyda Chen Argerich Viola
Marc Coppey violoncello
Alexey Botvinov Piano

A sonorous journey through a melting pot of nations: The diverse concert looks to the East and begins with the world premiere of new "Melodies of the Moments" - a collection that the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, who has been shaken by the signs of the times, regularly continues. His second work is "The Messenger" from 1996: musically reminiscent of Mozart, it depicts a fictional conversation between different worlds. Dvořák had a special feeling for folklore and customs, as evidenced by the two pieces from 1880: the famous fourth part of his "Gypsy Melodies" revolves around the importance of passing on traditional songs - and his only violin sonata tells of his Bohemian homeland in constantly changing episodes. The program ends with Shostakovich's Piano Quintet, composed in 1940, which is caught between late Romantic nostalgia and speechlessness in the face of war and violence - and is a typical tonal creation for the composer, who always vacillated between resistance and adaptation and who once aptly said: "Only those who feel the heartbeat and the spirit of the times can truly express the thoughts of the people."