Memories of France. 12+ Automatic translate

The concert program includes masterpieces of French chamber music. The compositions of Pulenok, Debussy, Bizet, Ravel, Foret will be performed.

French music is original and recognizable among European music schools. The special grace and refinement inherent in the culture of France is combined with an exciting desire for everything new - in sounds, colors, forms. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, all musical Europe enthusiastically followed the creative searches of Debussy and Ravel, contrasting them with romantic composers. A few decades later, the nihilistic reaction of the Group of Six to impressionism that has already gone down in history was heatedly discussed.

The program “Memoirs of France” combines works by composers of a romantic, impressionistic and avant-garde direction.

Francis Pulenck - one of the most talented and bright composers of the French Six, is an unsurpassed lyricist, a brilliant melodist. In his early Sonata for Piano Four Hands (1918), written in line with the urban trends of the first decades of the twentieth century, he appears as an eccentric, mocker, mischievous person.

Next to this series, Claude Debussy’s Little Suite seems stylistically more colorful. Here is the delicate sound recording of nature (“On the Boat”), and the light ringing of rhythms (“Procession”), and the gracefully-stylized classics (Minuet), and one of the living early performances of Debussy city music in cafes, pubs and cabarets of Paris that he often visited during the "bohemian" period of his life ("Ballet").

French romanticism is represented by recognized world masterpieces: “The Swan” from the Camille Saint-Saens Animal Carnival suite, “Children’s Games” by Georges Bizet, Piano Trio in D Minor Gabriel Foret.

Amazing chamber ensembles of French composers will be performed by talented young musicians.

international competition winner Anton Andreev (cello)
St. Petersburg Piano Duet:
laureate of international competitions Alla Morozova
Laureate of international competitions Maria Pasynkova
Laureate of the All-Russian Competition Yan Tomilov (violin)
Laureate of the All-Russian Competition Roman Kiselev (cello)
Olesya Morozova (piano)

Excursion to the Kochneva House at 18 hours.

Beginning at 19 hours.