PROGRAMME
April 26 at 18:30
Main Hall, Cultural Centre
Free admission for audiences under 25
Tickets: CHF 20.– or CHF 50.– for all three concerts
Concert for two pianos, performed by the Masters and Guest Musicians.
Witold Lutosławski – Variations on a Theme of Paganini
(Prisca Benoit and Mladen Tcholitch)
Carlos Guastavino – Tres romanzas argentinas: Las niñas
(Adrian Kreda and Alan Kwiek)
Francis Poulenc – Embarquement pour Cythère
(Mladen Tcholitch and Prisca Benoit)
Frank Martin – Foxtrot
(Adrian Kreda and Mladen Tcholitch)
Alexander Borodin – Polovtsian Dances
(Rena Shereshevskaya and Michail Markov)
Astor Piazzolla – Suite from the ballet Porteña
(Adrian Kreda and Alan Kwiek)
Michel Runtz – French Souvenir – Let’s Go! – Spiral for eight hands
(Adrian Kreda, Alan Kwiek, Mladen Tcholitch, Michail Markov)
Laureates’ Concert
April 28 at 18:30
Main Hall, Cultural Centre
Free admission for audiences under 25
Tickets: CHF 20.– or CHF 50.– for all three concerts
Joachim Raff – Piano Piece, Op. 55 No. 5
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Étude-tableau, Op. 33 No. 8
Manuel de Falla – Pieza española No. 4 “Andaluza”
(Sergey Druzhinin)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971, III movement
Franz Liszt – Forgotten Waltz No. 1
Frank Martin – Prelude No. 2 “Allegretto tranquillo”
(Alexander Jovanovic)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Partita No. 1
Christian Favre – Instantanés Nos. 11 and 12
(Naïma Pfiffer)
Johannes Brahms – Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35, Book I
Michel Runtz – Clair-obscur
(Angela Yixuan Miao)
Ludwig van Beethoven – 32 Variations in C minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Meditation, Op. 72 No. 5
(Thales Chan)
Frédéric Chopin – Variations on “Là ci darem la mano”, Op. 2
Julien-François Zbinden – Suite brève, Op. 1: Tarantella in the form of an étude
(Shuailin Li)
Closing Concert
April 30 at 18:30
Main Hall, Cultural Centre
Free admission for audiences under 25
Tickets: CHF 20.– or CHF 50.– for all three concerts
Concert for two and four pianos with Masters, Guest Musicians, Laureates and Orchestra, combining music and visual arts.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Fantasy on “The Magic Flute”
(Prisca Benoit and Mladen Tcholitch)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 365
Allegro (Thales Chan and Michail Markov)
Andante (Angela Yixuan Miao and Adrian Kreda)
Allegro (Shuailin Li and Alan Kwiek)
Daniel Schnyder – Mountain in the Night
(Solistes de Neuchâtel)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Concerto for Four Pianos and Orchestra, BWV 1065
Allegro (Michail Markov, Alan Kwiek, Sergey Druzhinin and Alexander Jovanovic)
Largo (Angela Yixuan Miao, Prisca Benoit, Rena Shereshevskaya and Naïma Pfiffer)
Allegro (Angela Yixuan Miao, Prisca Benoit, Mladen Tcholitch and Naïma Pfiffer)
Camille Saint-Saëns – The Carnival of the Animals (version for two pianos and orchestra), accompanied by an original visual creation by Sandra Albukrek.
(All musicians)