A broad spectrum of musical deconstructions of classical formal models can be heard in this duo recital: Stravinsky's Divertissement (1934) is based on the music to his ballet Le Baiser de la fée, which in turn was inspired by Tchaikovsky's great ballet music. In Wie der alte Leiermann... (1997), composer Leonid Desyatnikov, who was born in Kharkiv and lives in Israel, dissects the last song from Schubert's Winterreise, which disintegrates into fragile and vanishing fragments. The violin sonata Post Scriptum was written in 1990 by the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov in the spirit of his philosophy of metamusic, which regards the entire musical tradition as a field of creative identification and interpretation. Finally, the second violin sonata Quasi una sonata by Alfred Schnittke (1968) marks the composer's transition to postmodernism and can be heard as a sequence of fragments which, despite their departure from traditional form, convey dramaturgical rigor through their structural logic.
VOICES Festival: DIVERTIMENTO
programme
Igor Stravinsky
Divertimento (1934)
Leonid Desyatnikov
Like the old lyre-man... (1997)
Alfred Schnittke
Violin Sonata No. 2 Quasi una Sonata (1968)
Valentin Silvestrov
Post scriptum (1990)
Elena Revich, violin
Polina Osetinskaya, piano
Elena Revich
Polina Osetinskaya
Born in Moscow, Polina Osetinskaya began playing the piano at the age of five and gave her first solo concert at the Vilnius Conservatory at the age of six, which earned her the status of the most talented young pianist in the Soviet Union. She later worked with her mentors, Marina Wolf in St. Petersburg and Vera Gornostaeva in Moscow, who followed in the footsteps of the great pianist and music teacher Heinrich Neuhaus. Polina Osetinskaya maintains a busy concert schedule, performing classical composers such as Mozart, Chopin and Rachmaninoff as well as contemporaries such as Valentin Silvestrov, Leonid Desyatnikov, Vladimir Martynov, Georgs Pelēcis and Pavel Karmanov. Polina has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Vienna Musikverein, London's Barbican Centre, the Teatro Argentina in Rome and at festivals all over the world.
