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Damaged In A War In The Early 1990s, The Old Town Section Of Dubrovnik Has Been Utterly And Faithfully Rebuilt To Its Fairytale Persona Of Previous Centuries.
The town of Dubrovnik, located at the southernmost end of Croatia on the Adriatic coast, is aglow with the music of summer festivals. From July 10 to August. Twenty-five, the town hosted five weeks of music, theater and dance at its 62nd yearly Dubrovnik Summer Festival.
The Festival Julian Rachlin & Buddies, now in its eleventh year, has presented chamber music concerts from late August and will continue thru early September. It was founded by violinist Julian Rachlin, who selected the town as an ideal place to offer creative and colourful projects with musicians of world repute.
Damaged in a war in the early 1990s, the Old City section of Dubrovnik has been completely and faithfully rebuilt to its fairytale personality of previous centuries. Many Renaissance-era buildings are utilised as venues for musical performances. For the Festival Rachlin & Friends, the fifteenth century Rector's Palace is the primary location for this year's 13 concerts, starting with Zubin Mehta conducting the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to performing standard classical repertoire, Rachlin commissions new works from composers. In the first three days of September, three new works by French-Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon were highlighted, each one painting an entirely different and unique view of the cosmos.
Eloquent chamber music
On Sept. 1 the program included two examples of Russian romantic stock : Anton Arensky's Quartet No. Two for violin, viola and two cellos ; Alexander Glazounov's "Elegy" for viola and piano ; and Stravinsky's 20th-century "Divertimento" for violin and piano. The centerpiece of the program, though, was the world premiere of Dubugnon's "Violiana," written for Rachlin and pianist Itamar Golan. The piece saw Rachlin switching back and forth from violin to viola with split-second timing for three movements of expert playing. Exhibiting many moods and colors, most notably the beautiful muted impressionism of the slower second movement, this piece is memorable for its electrified energy level throughout and was strengthened by the kinetic performance by Rachlin and Golan. Dubugnon also dug satisfyingly deep into the velvety, varnished colour of the viola, exploring its capacity for drama more than most do.
Sept. 2's programme was dedicated to the subjects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. One of Japan's respected violin teachers, Tsugio Tokunaga, was a featured musician, as was his 18-year-old prizewinning student, Fumiaki Miura. Anchored to the evening's theme was another commission from Dubugnon : "Variations on a Japanese Folks Tune" for two violins and piano. In it, the composer took "Red Dragonflies" by Aka Tombo and created a sparkling, attractive seven-part theme with differences. It was performed by Tokunaga and Rachlin, with Sophie Rachlin ( Julian's mother ) on the piano. While the previous night's composition used a less tonal and more rhythmically focused language, this evening's work was intensely tonal and unabashedly emotional, made so particularly because it was preceded by an original poem by Golan that made use of the illusory symbol of a young girl's doll to commemorate the Fukushima disaster.
Sept. 3 was titled "Concert in White," to which everyone was requested to wear white clothing ; effectively, the crowd became a fun fashion show without the runway. The programme consisted mainly of three highly emotional compositions whose characters appeared to reflect the steamy hot weather. Dubugnon's "Three Pieces for Violin and Piano" ( delightfully played by Boris Brovstyn and Golan ) is destined to become a hot item within violin collection. It is an astoundingly tender duet, as if the piano and violin were in a lovers ' embrace. The 3 sections wandered from hallucinatory dreams to a moonlit reverie, then a delightful homage to the music of Maurice Ravel. A wispy glissando to the last, supernatural note was the final, evanescent breath of this wondrous masterwork.
The next two pieces, Brahms ' Piano Quartet in C minor and Arnold Schoenberg's string sextet "Transfigured Night" continued to increase the emotional temperature of the evening. The latter's soul searching portrait of a spirit in the procedure of transformation from deathly gloom to a glowing, heavenly resolution took everybody's breath away. Transfigured Night" was Schoenberg's first major work, drafted in 1899, and precedes the utilisation of the 12-tone language that defined his later legacy. Its thorny, complicated score was electrified by a poem of the same name and is one of the pinnacle compositions for string chamber musicians. The performance by violinists Brovstyn and Sean Avram Carpenter, violists Rachlin and David Aaron Carpenter and cellists Torleif Theden and Boris Andrianov was an elated experience of steaming intensity.
Another breathtaking aspect to this concert was the last-minute substitution of several violinists ( who learned their troublesome parts in forty eight hours ) wanted to replace the indisposed Janine Jansen. The heroes were Boris Brovstyn, Sean Avram Wood worker and the 18-year-old Miura. When I asked the teenager how he felt playing with such luminaries as Rachlin, Maisky and Golan, he claimed, "When I sat across from the amazing Maisky playing his big solos, I felt rather like a little mouse!" Thanks to Rachlin's organizational generosity, emerging artists like Miura have the advantage and valuable experience of sharing the stage with their mentors. Someday, Miura will be the older lion across from a young mouse.
From baroque to balalaika
The stunning Baroque church of St. Ignatius was the setting for a Sunday morning concert of works by Vivaldi and Bach. Later that day, Russian balalaika diva Alexey Arkhipovsky entertained with his mixture of styles from folk to funk, fugue to flamenco, making the silver-colored sound of only three strings look like a symphony. He's the modern-day Paganini of the balalaika, but with a Pat Metheny approach. The festival will continue with equal quantities of chamber music and lighter-weight fare thru to Sept. 8 as reported tagza.com.
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