NOVAT invites the Novosibirsk admirers of classical music to visit the concert “Beethoven-night” at Isidor Zak concert hall on May 6th. Laureate of George Solti International competition, conductor Valentin Uryupin will present a unique programme that includes widely known as well as rarely performed Beethoven’s pieces; three of them will be performed for the first time in Novosibirsk.
According to Valentin Uryupin’s idea the concert will follow the terms of a Musical Academy style – this is how the big recitals were called back in Beethoven times. This kind of concerts was popular in Vienna in XVIII-XIX centuries, and Beethoven had his own “Academies”.
“I wanted to refresh memory of the format, which was called the Beethoven academy, and to design a programme interesting to a well educated music admirer. This is why the concert will include the pieces that could have possibly been performed at that Academy – tells Valentin Uryupin – but our concert is an Academy in small, because usually they lasted a lot longer. In Beethoven times these concerts were one of the few types of entertainment, so they could go on for several hours; nowadays, there are few people even amongst the most advanced listeners, who are capable of tolerating hours long programmes”.
The programme contains Symphony No.7 considered the best one by its author, a concert aria “Ah, perfido” and an orchestra piece “Battle of Vitoria”, recognized by Beethoven’s contemporaries, however rarely performed nowadays.
Valentin Uryupin: “We decided to put these pieces together for this one concert, because we wanted to point out how relevant Beethoven’s music is to the present times and the present music. This is explained well by another piece of our programme – a concert overture for an orchestra “Con brio” by a German composer Jörg Widmann – it is a piece inspired directly by Beethoven’s Symphonies No.7 and No.8. The composer uses a reinterpreted thematic material of Beethoven’s symphonies. This way we try to build a bridge two centuries long and show to the audience that Beethoven’s music is not only valuable as it is, it may also become a fertile soil for the succeeding generations”.
The Novosibirsk concert be featured with three premiere performances – “Battle of Vitoria”, “Ah, perfido” by Beethoven and “Con brio” by Jörg Widmann; these pieces were never before performed in Novosibirsk.
“Beethoven-night”, gala concert. Isidor Zak concert hall, May 6th, 7 p.m.”
Tickets are available at the theatre box office, at novat.nsk.ru and with our partners.