The Israel Festival 2012: four weeks of performances by performers from Israel and abroad!
23.05.2012 - 14.06.2012
The Israel Festival is the largest and most important international arts and cultural festival in the land and has chosen Jerusalem as its eternal home (save for a few scattered events in other cities).
For more information about the festival and to order tickets visit the festival's official website.
Classical Music Performances:
Brahms Marathon/ conductor- Gil Shohat
25.5.2012 | 10:30 | The Henry Crown Concert Hall
No special reason is needed to celebrate the chamber-music masterpieces composed by Johannes Brahms. These pieces were written at the height of the Romantic period in music, and stand out as exemplary chamber-music pieces in the entire history of music. The Marathon will feature a range of vocal and instrument ensembles, which will perform pieces composed through Brahms' musical career.
This marathon is the sixth in a series of annual musical marathons performed at the Israel Festival: these marathons, which combine performances and explanations, go on for 5-6 hours, are broadcast live on Israel's classical music station. They are devoted to a single musical theme, and usually to a single composer, and feature Israel's most important performers. This year, the marathon is hosting four of our best-known opera singers, the country's best chamber-music players, and piano soloists who have received international recognition and lead promising careers.
Sharon Rostorf-Zamir - Soprano
Bracha Kol - Mezzo Soprano
Joseph Aridan - Tenor
Alexei Knonicob - Baritone
Nitai Zori - Violin
Asi Matathias - Violin
Matan Gilitchensky - Viola
Hillel Zori - Cello
Alexander Gurfinkel - Clarinet
Victor Stanislavsky- Piano
Tami Kanazawa and Yuval Admoni - Piano duo
Michal Tal - Piano
Gil Shohat - Piano
Duration of performance: four-and-a-half hours, with two intermissions
Arias
Classical Music in Ein Karem
25.5.2012 | 12:00 | The Eden-Tamir Music Center
"Opera Studio" of The Israel Opera
Bach - Handel: Arias
Dialogue for Flute & Harpsichord
Classical Music in Ein Karem
26.5.2012 | 12:00 | The Eden-Tamir Music Center
Dialogue for Flute & Harpsichord
Noam Buchman - flute
Netta Ladar - harpsichord
Bach: Sonatas for Flute and Keyboard and works by Mozart, Varese and Gronich
Festival of Winds
Workshop for wind instruments, directed by Mauricio Paez
of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
Bach: Trio sonata
Mozart: Divertim enti on themes from "Figaro" and "Cosi fan tutte"
Serenade for winds K. 375
& works by Beethoven, Telemann, Francaix, Tcherepnin and Dubois
The workshop for wind instruments is a project of the outstanding young players of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. The workshop is directed by bassoonist Mauricio Paez, one of Israel's leading pedagogues.
The programme comprises a wide variety of styles, ranging from works by Bach arranged by bassoonist Mordechai Rechtman, to new music of the 20th century.
Double Concerti
Classical Music in Ein Karem
2.6.2012 | 12:00 | The Eden-Tamir Music Center
Double Concerti
With Ensemble Millennium, Ensemble in residence
The Millennium Ensemble was founded, as its name suggests, in the year 2000 by graduates of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance as the Ensemble in Residence of the Ein Kerem Music Centre. Today most of the musicians are members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and Millennium has gained a reputation as one of Israel's leading chamber ensembles.
The programme comprises double concerti by Bach and Vivaldi:
J.S. Bach- Concerto for Two Cembalos in C Major, BWV 1061
Concerto for Two Violins in d minor, BWV 1043
Concerto for Oboe and Violin (Version for Violin and Viola) in c minor, BWV 1060
A. Vivaldi- Concerto for Violin and Cello in B flat Major, RV 547
The Cluj Philharmonic Choir has been performing for over four decades throughout Europe, as well as in Israel, with great success.
Its current musical director, Cornel Groza who was appointed in 1986, enriched the choir's variegated repertoire, and specifically its Romanian repertoire. The acapella program is to be performed in Jerusalem and will include a stylistically and historically wide range of works, from Purcell and Gluck to Mendelssohn and Rachmaninov, with an emphasis on Romanian composers such as Gheorge Danga, Vasile Herman, and Ludovicus Bárdos.
Program:
Jacobson/Joel(arr.A.Pop) - Vihuda l'olam teshev
Christoph Willibald Gluck - De profundis
Henry Purcell - In these delightful, pleasant groves
Serghei Rachmaninov - Bogoroditze Dievo
Ludovicus Bárdos - Libera me
Vasile Herman - Viersuri de dor (p. 1,3)
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Richte mich, Gott
Dariu Pop - Suit? coral? din ?ara Oa?ului
Randall Thompson- Ye shall have a song
Tudor Jarda - Cântecul ?i jocul miresei
Shermer/Waldman(arr.A.Pop)- Jerusalem of Gold
Sigismund Todu?? - Arhaisme
Orbán György - Daemon
Gheorghe Danga - Sârba pe loc
Jester Hairston - Elijah Rock
Walter Donaldson - My Blue Heaven
William L.Dawson - Soon Ah Will Be Done
Duration of performance: one hour, without intermission
The unique Columbian ensemble Musica Ficta, which has been performing for the past 25 years at major international venues, is perhaps the most important representative of one of the most astounding and least familiar traditions in musical history: the Baroque music of South America. This unique program features music by 17th and 18th-century Peruvian and Bolivian composers, which offer an introduction to this unique and remarkable tradition.
Participants:
Jairo Serrano percussion, baroque guitar
Julian Navarro Baroque guitar, xarana
Carlos Serrano Recorders, pipe and tabor
Sebastian Vega Theorbo
Program:
Anaustia
Bolivian anonymous (18th)
Caballero de armas blancas
Pedro Ximénez (fl. 1646-1668)
De la alta Providencia
Juan de Herrera (c. 1665-1738)
Gaitas
Santiago de Murcia (c.1682-c.1740)
Qué dulcemente que canta
José Cascante (c.1625-1702)
Desengañémonos ya
José Marín (1618-1699)
Pasacalles de primer tono
Francisco Guerau (1649-1722)
Romance a Cristo crucificado
Sebastián Durón (1660-1716)
Chaconas
Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz (c.1626-c.1680)
Un juguetico de fuego
Peruvian anonymous (c.1700)
Sólo es querer
Juan Hidalgo (1614-1685)
Diferencias sobre la gayta
Martín y Coll (17th c.)
Morenas gitanas
Colombian anonymous (17th c.)
Esa noche yo bailá
Bolivian anonymous (18th c.)
From the Reviews:
"Listeners with a taste for the lively and exotic will find this music irresistible."
)American Records Guide , USA)
"... an extremely coherent and specialized ensemble... One of the best sounds heard among the vast number of recent productions."
)Pizzicato Classics, Luxemburg)
"This is a first class production all around..."
(Audiophile Audition , USA , Steven Ritter)
Duration of performance: two hours, without intermission
This year, the Israel Festival presents an outstanding project: the production of a major oratorio by the composer Franz Liszt, which is being performed for the first time in Israel. Liszt worked on this oratorio for over ten years, and considered it to be his greatest work. Despite the great success it garnered at its premier in Weimar and its romantic, melodic and highly communicative character, this Oratorio is hardly ever performed in concert halls.
The oratorio is in fact a version of Christ's Passion, and touches upon large parts of the story of his life, crucifixion, and death. It includes Latin texts from the New Testament as well as various religious texts, hymns, and songs.endowing the entire oratorio with a melodramatic quality. The Oratorio is conducted by the Israeli conductor Meir Minsky, who recently performed at the European premier of this production.
Particpants:
Conductor - Meir Minsky
The Transylvania State Philharmonic of Cluj
The Jerusalem Synphony Orchestra, IBA
Soloists:
Roman Trekel
Talia Or
Iris Vermillion
George Oniani
Duration of performance: two-and-a-half hours
"The New Generation" of talented young pianists - a project of the Aldwell Centre
J.S.Bach - Preludes and Fugues, and works by Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Rachmaninov
The Aldwell Centre was founded by the Conservatory of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, with the aim of promoting and nurturing the future generation of young Israeli pianists through workshops, masterclasses and inspirational encounters with the great pianists of today.
Bach- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Irina Berkovich - piano
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