Mélange Oriental

Friday 30 July 2010

Begin: 7:30 pm

The Styrian Chambermusic Festival again becomes a musical meeting point of the orient and the occident. A remake of the successful project “Mélange Oriental” with cdpresentation brings a scent of Jerusalem to Styria. Styrian musicians are the bridge-builders and create together with Arab masters of their instruments an exotic wall of sounds.

Program

PARTS of the PROGRAM

Anonymus Italy 13th cent.
SALTARELLO

Stefan Heckel
BAB AL-AMUD
(the Damaskus gate (arab. Bab al-amud) leads into the Suq of the muslim quater)

Riad Sunbati
LONGA RIAD

El Hariri
SAMAI NAWAND part 1

Johann Sebastian Bach
SARABANDE from the cellosuite no. 5 in c-minor, BWV 1011

SAMAI NAWAND part 2

Datevik Hovanisian
Any Song

Makar Yekmalian
GOVEA JERUSAGHEM
(from the Armenian Easterliturgy; praise to Jerusalem)

Gomidas Vartabed
KRUNK
(Song of emigrants about the crane (Krunk) coming from homeland)

Anonymus from Spain
IRME KERO MADRE YERUSHALAIM
(Sefardic folk song about the longing for peace and the arrival in Jerusalem)

Ernest Bloch
JEWISH PRAYER
(from the collection „From Jewish Life“ for cello and piano)

John Zorn
MAHSHAV

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
JERUSALEM
(from the oratorio „Paulus“, „Jerusalem, die du tötest die Propheten...“)

Artists

Eid Ahmed
Heckel Stefan
Huetter Erich Oskar
Jungwirth Christian
Taiseer Elias

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