02/06/2017
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LegeArtis Festival Moscow 2017, «Red Wheel»
Asya Sorshneva (violin), Conductorless orchestra Persimfans
On April 9th a concert will take place at the Great hall of the Moscow Conservatoire within the framework of the international Festival LegeArtis and with the participation of Asya Sorshneva (violin) and the First Symphony ensemble (Persimfans). The evening is one of a number of events taking place on the LegeArtis festival tour celebrating the festival’s 5 year anniversary. The concert program focuses on music from the period surrounding the 1917 revolution, by such composers as Juliy Meitus, Sergey Prokovfiev, Sergei Lyapunov, and Daniil Kharms. The concert will be held with the support of the United Company RUSAL.
This concert will be the eighth event of the jubilee tour of the LegeArtis Festival. Preceding the event, concerts were held in Madrid, London and Dusseldorf, with the first event taking place in L**h, Austria. The next country to host the festival, will be Germany. In May 2017 the tour will reach its grand finale in Vienna. The main concept behind the festival is creating a cultural platform for the new stars of classical music, and to attract artists from other fields of art, in doing so promoting inter-cultural dialogue.
The music program at the Moscow State Conservatoire comprises a list of collected works that convey an acoustic image of the turning point of the 1917 revolutionary period. Of particular interest will be the performance of the 1932 symphonic suite, "On the Dnieper" by Juliy Meitus. This work is a powerful statement by Meitus in the field of industrial music. To date, exists only one recording one the work, made with the Paris Orchestra in 1936, which captured a small three-minute fragment of the suite. Also featured are: the Eastern symphonic poem "Hashish" (1913) by Sergei Lyapunov on the eponymous poem by A. A Golenishchev-Kutuzov, the Cantata "Salvation" by Daniil Kharms, and the lyrical-epic the First violin concerto with orchestra (1917) by Sergei Prokofiev.
These works are not only of historical significance, but also highlight the intriguing relationship of academic and non-academic music within modern sound environments.
The main participant of the upcoming program is the Persimfans ensemble. The First Symphonic Ensemble (Persimfans), known as "the world's first orchestra without a conductor", was created by violinist Lev Zeitlin in 1922, and reconstructed in 2009 on the initiative of the pianist and composer Peter Aidu. The concept of the First Symphony Ensemble implies the universality of its participants, the ability of each to change their role. The idea of social equality is expressed, successfully embodied in a kind of model of modern society within the musical collective, relevant not only in a revolutionary context, but also in contemporary performing arts. The experience of the revival of Persimfans in 2009 showed that the personal initiative of each musician and the collective responsibility, unhindered by the authority of the conductor, stimulates a special relationship for creativity, and a unique sound of the orchestra.
Since the re-birth of the ensemble, violinist Asya Sorshneva, the artistic director of the festival LegeArtis, has been one of the main participants of Persimfans. On April 9, she will not only be a participant of the ensemble as well as the event organizer, but also a soloist performing the solo in the Sergei Prokofiev concerto.
Existing either as a quartet or as a chamber ensemble, and based on the principles of equality and democracy, Persimfans’ first made its public debut in February 1922, in the Hall of Columns. This performance lead to its immediate popularity, to much heated debate from critics. Through the post-revolutionary decade up until its dissolution in 1933, Persimfans was considered as one of the best Symphony orchestras in the world, certainly the leading force in the USSR. According to contemporaries, the ensemble was the only truly communist organization in the entire Soviet State.
LegeArtis Festival Moscow 2017, «Red Wheel» Asya Sorshneva (violin), Conductorless orchestra Repsimfans On April 9th a concert will take place at the Great h...
