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Odessa Classics beim Gent Festival

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Ghent Festival, Belgium
12.09.2024 / 20:30

Odessa, the pearl of the Black Sea, was for seven years the home base of Odessa Classics, a young, world-class music festival. But the war in Ukraine put a spanner in the works and the festival could no longer take place there. For the organisers, however, giving up was not an option. The festival began a nomadic existence and since 2022 has been finding a new, temporary home each year in a series of European cities.

Ghent Festival is donating an evening to Odessa Classics. For their tenth anniversary, as well as visiting Vilnius, Zürich, Luzern and Bremen, they also come to Ghent! For a whole evening, we throw our doors wide open for our colleagues from the east, who surprise us with a unique programme.

Pianist and artistic director Alexey Botvinov has designed an evening especially for Ghent festival which offers a sample of the cultural scene in his home country. In it he unites some of the country’s leading artists, who are now living scattered all over Europe with international artists connected to Odessa Classics festival. Through music, dance, poetry and video art, we get a picture of Ukraine’s unprecedentedly rich heritage, we consider the current, painful situation, and we also dream about the future. With music by Silvestrov, Skoryk, Karamanov, Bach, Rachmaninov, Richter, Einaudi and Glass, among others.

 

New Ideas Chamber Orchestra (NICO)
Gediminas Gelgotas (artistic direction NICO)
Diana Malaya (poetry)
VJ Videomatics (video)
Inna Bilash (dance)
Burhan Öçal (percussion)
Alexey Botvinov (piano and artistic direction)

 

Program

Valentin Silvestrov Nostalghia
   
Philip Glass From Glassworks: Opening
   
Johann Sebastian Bach    From Orchestral Suite no. 3, BWV 1068, second mouvement: Air (arr. Alexey Botvinov)
   
Alemdar Karamanov Ave Maria
   
Max Richter From Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons: Winter
   
Gediminas Gelgotas Transitory
   
Gediminas Gelgotas Never Ignore the Cosmic Ocean
   
Max Richter From Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons: Summer
   
Ludovico Einaudi Nightbook
   
Gediminas Gelgotas To the Skies
   
Modest Mussorgsky From Pictures at an Exhibition, no. 9: Baba Yaga
   
Philip Glass Metamorphosis
   
Sergej Prokofiev From Piano Sonata no. 7 in B-flat Major: III. Precipitato
   
Sergej Rachmaninov 10 Preludes, op. 23 no. 5 in G minor
   
Myroslav Skoryk Melody
   
Poetry by Lesya Ukrainka, Lina Kostenko and Galina Mogilnitska
Video art by VJ Videomatics

 

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08.06.2024