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Martha Argerich Stephen Kovacevich Martha Argerich Stephen Kovacevich 27 mar 2019 © dr 27 MARÇO Ciclo Grandes QUARTA Intérpretes 20:00 — Grande Auditório Martha Argerich Piano Stephen Kovacevich Piano Sergei Rachmaninov Danças Sinfónicas, op. 45 Non allegro Andante con moto. Tempo di valse Lento assai – Allegro vivace intervalo Claude Debussy En blanc et noir Avec emportement (A mon ami A. Kussewitzky) Lent. Sombre (Au lieutenant Jacques Charlot tué à l’ennemi en 1915, le 3 mars) Scherzando (A mon ami Igor Stravinsky) Lindaraja Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune mecenas mecenas mecenas mecenas mecenas mecenas principal música e natureza estágios gulbenkian para orquestra concertos de domingo ciclo piano coro gulbenkian gulbenkian música Duração total prevista: c. 1h 40 min. Intervalo de 20 min. 03 Semyonovo, 1 de abril de 1873 Sergei Rachmaninov Beverly Hills, 28 de março de 1943 Danças Sinfónicas, op. 45 composição: 1940 duração: c. 34 min. Sergei Rachmaninov foi o último grande citação da sua 1.ª Sinfonia (1897). A segunda representante do Romantismo tardio russo, dança, de caráter fantasmagórico, pretende autor de uma obra vasta e marcada desde cedo simbolizar os anos que antecederam a Revolução por um idioma bastante pessoal. O seu estilo Russa, num ambiente reminiscente do seu distingue-se particularmente pela intensidade Concerto para Piano n.º 3 (1935), bem como expressiva do melodismo, bem como pela de La Valse de Ravel (1920). Inicia-se num ritmo sua sumptuosidade harmónica. As Danças de valsa lenta e num ambiente deprimido Sinfónicas, op. 45, obra escrita originalmente e amargurado. Após um momento em que a para orquestra, foi a sua última composição, música se torna mais hesitante e incerta, retorna concluída em 1940 e estreada a 3 de janeiro de o tema de valsa, agora mais ansioso e impaciente. 1941, com a Orquestra de Filadélfia regida por O andamento atinge um ponto culminante e Eugene Ormandy. Trata-se de uma suite em conclui de forma desalentada. A última dança três andamentos, uma obra bem representativa representa um confronto entre as ideias de Morte do seu último período estilístico, marcado e de Ressurreição. Inicia-se de modo pausado e sobretudo pelo tratamento harmónico, pela tranquilo, mas com o surgimento do tema do Dies grande vitalidade rítmica, pela exuberância irae o tempo acelera e a música afasta-se de um melódica e ainda pelo destaque dado às cores ambiente fúnebre. Depois de se atingir um ponto instrumentais. A primeira dança abre com culminante, há uma suspensão num estado um motivo vibrante de três notas. Inicialmente etéreo. As texturas tornam-se então mais densas, calmo, este motivo terá posteriormente até que o tema do Dies irae regressa majestoso, influência no dinamismo rítmico que conduzindo a um novo ponto culminante. caracteriza este andamento. Numa secção No entanto, o compositor rejeita um final central lenta surge uma melodia expansiva pessimista e ameaçador, citando o tema do nono e calorosa. Regressa o material do início e o andamento das suas Vésperas, op. 37, o qual é compositor encerra esta 1.ª dança com uma referente ao episódio da ressurreição de Cristo. sergei rachmaninov © dr 05 Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 22 de agosto de 1862 Claude Debussy Paris, 25 de março de 1918 En blanc et noir Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune composição: 1915 composição: 1892-1894 / 1895 duração: c. 16 min. duração: c. 10 min. Lindaraja Claude-Achille Debussy foi um compositor composição: 1901 duração: c. 5 min. marcante para o século XX, pelas inovações que realizou e pelos caminhos que desvendou, tendo-se assumido como um dos pilares do Modernismo francês. Inspirado pelo poema Claude Debussy compôs Lindaraja, a sua L’après-midi d’un faune, de Stéphane Mallarmé, primeira peça concebida para dois pianos, em Debussy empreendeu a composição de uma obra abril de 1901, mas esta apenas seria publicada orquestral que inicialmente previa três partes postumamente, em 1926. Com um título que (Prélude, Interlude e Paraphrase finale), mas que evoca um dos jardins de Alhambra, a peça acabaria por concretizar num único andamento. baseia-se no ritmo característico da habanera, Em 1894 fazia estrear em Paris o Prélude à apresentando-se como uma interessante l’après-midi d’un faune, que vários anos mais tarde precursora de La soirée dans Grenade (das seria adaptado ao bailado numa produção dos Estampes). Por sua vez, En blanc et noir, uma Ballets Russes. Trata-se de uma obra que, dado o suite para dois pianos composta em 1915, seu caráter inovador a vários níveis, constituiu foi uma das últimas obras que o compositor um ponto de viragem na história da música, pôde terminar. O primeiro andamento, Avec tendo exercido uma influência profunda nas emportement, sugere uma valsa vigorosa em gerações subsequentes. O próprio compositor que se sucedem as sonoridades contrastantes. considerava que tinha realizado “uma ilustração O segundo andamento, Lent. Sombre, é um livre do poema de Mallarmé”, das sucessivas momento trágico e misterioso, em memória de cenas que evocam os desejos e sonhos do fauno um amigo falecido na Grande Guerra. Por fim, que, no calor da tarde, cansado de perseguir as o terceiro andamento, Scherzando, com a sua ninfas em vão, se entrega a um sono intoxicante, jocosa e ambígua corrente de ideias, conduz pleno de visões. O Prélude inicia-se com uma esta suite a um encerramento surpreendente. sinuosa e exótica melodia, um tema que surge recorrentemente sob diferentes revestimentos harmónicos, de grande riqueza textural e tímbrica. Após uma secção contrastante, o tema principal regressa com novas transformações, notas de luís m. santos que reiteram a atmosfera sonhadora da obra. l’après-midi d’un faune, por léon bakst (1866-1924) ballets russes, 1912 © dr 06 Martha Argerich Stephen Kovacevich Piano Piano © dr © david thompson Martha Argerich nasceu em Buenos Aires, craveira artística como os pianistas Alexandre Natural de Los Angeles, Stephen Kovacevich de Washington, o Festival de Piano de na Argentina. Começou a estudar piano aos Rabinovitch, Daniel Barenboim e Nelson Freire, começou a estudar piano em 1948 com Lev Singapura, o Beijing National Centre for cinco anos de idade com Vincenzo Scaramuzza. o violoncelista Mischa Maisky ou o violinista Schorr. Em 1959 viajou para Inglaterra para Performing Arts e o festival Les Rencontres Em 1955 viajou para a Europa, tendo Gidon Kremer. Segundo as palavras da pianista: estudar com Myra Hess, pianista e pedagoga Musicales d’Évian. Em 2019, a sua agenda de prosseguido os seus estudos em Londres, “Esta harmonia no seio de um grupo de artistas que reconheceu e encorajou a afinidade de recitais inclui digressões ao Extremo Oriente, em Viena e na Suíça. Foi aluna de Bruno desperta-me um sentimento forte e pacífico”. Kovacevich com a música de Beethoven, à Austrália e à Nova Zelândia. Em concerto Seidlhofer, Friedrich Gulda, Nikita Magaloff, Martha Argerich realizou inúmeras gravações em particular com as obras do período tardio apresenta-se, entre outras orquestras, com Madeleine Lipatti e Stefan Askenase. Em merecedoras dos principais prémios do compositor alemão. a Filarmónica de Los Angeles e a maestrina 1957 venceu o Concurso Internacional de internacionais, incluindo Gramophone, “Choc” Stephen Kovacevich estreou-se no Wigmore Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla,. a Aurora Orchestra Genebra e o Concurso Internacional de Piano do Le Monde de la Musique, Deutscher Schallplatten Hall, em Londres, em 1961. Desde então, e Nicholas Collon, a Filarmónica de Belgrado Ferrucio Buzoni, em Bolzano. Em 1965 atraiu Kritik, BBC Music Magazine e Grammy. Desde apresentou-se com muitas das principais e Eiji Oue, a Sinfónica de Montreal e David definitivamente a atenção internacional 1998, é a Diretora Artística do Festival de orquestras mundiais, sob a direção de maestros Zinman, a Yomiuri Nippon Symphony e ao vencer o Concurso Chopin de Varsóvia. Beppu, no Japão. Em 1999 fundou o Concurso como Hans Graf, Bernard Haitink, Kurt Sylvain Cambreling, a Filarmónica da Malásia Afirmando-se inicialmente no repertório Internacional de Piano e Festival Martha Masur, Simon Rattle, Georg Solti ou Yannick e Jacek Kaspszyk, a Orquestra de Câmara de virtuosístico do séc. XIX e início do séc. XX, Argerich de Buenos Aires. Em 2002 fundou Nézet-Séguin, com destaque para a sua longa Paris e John Nelson, e a Sinfónica de Sydney Martha Argerich foi alargando sucessivamente o Progetto Martha Argerich, em Lugano. relação profissional com o maestro Colin e Vladimir Ashkenazy. o âmbito dos seus programas e gravações, Ao longo da sua carreira, foram-lhe atribuídas Davis, com quem realizou muitas gravações Dedicado músico de câmara, Stephen abrangendo um vasto repertório que se prestigiosas distinções: Officier de l’Ordre des marcantes. Para além das apresentações a dois Kovacevich colaborou com Jacqueline du estende de J. S. Bach a Messiaen. Como solista, Arts et Lettres (1996) e Commandeur de l’Ordre pianos com Martha Argerich (Walt Disney Pré, Martha Agerich, Steven Isserlis, Nicola é uma convidada regular de prestigiadas salas des Arts et des Lettres (2004), pelo Governo Hall de Los Angeles, Philharmonie de Paris, Benedetti, Nigel Kennedy, Lynn Harrell, de concertos e de importantes festivais de Francês; Accademica di Santa Cecilia (Roma, Concertgebouw de Amesterdão, Victoria Hall Gautier e Renaud Capuçon, Kyung-Wha Chung, música em todo o mundo, nomeadamente em 1997); Musician of the Year (Musical America, de Genebra e Fundação Gulbenkian), os mais Truls Mørk, Emmanuel Pahud, Anna Larsson, colaboração com orquestras e maestros de renome 2001); Ordem do Sol Nascente, pelo Imperador recentes compromissos de Stephen Kovacevich Alina Ibragimova, Philippe Graffin, Joseph Suk internacional. Dedicando também um espaço do Japão, e Praemium Imperiale, pela Japan Art incluem, entre outros palcos, o Festival de e os quartetos Amadeus, Belcea e Cleveland. importante da sua atividade à música de câmara, Association (2005); Kennedy Center Honnors, Piano do Teatro Mariinsky, o Bridgewater No domínio discográfico, gravou um atua em parceria com outros artistas de grande pelo Presidente Barack Obama, em 2016.
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