With a day dedicated to creation on Sunday, where music, dance, visual arts, clowns, and video will all mingle. Slip from room to room for an unexpected day in today’s creative world. The festival also continues its invitations to the most prestigious European ensembles by inviting this year the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, conducted by the great Michael Gielen. This Saturday, a violin night dedicated to virtuosity will bring together 5 of the most brilliant violinists of the new generation for an exceptional evening where the audience will have to choose between 2 concerts.
Each year the Printemps des Arts invites the great European orchestras to Monaco. After the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, here is one of the great German orchestras conducted by one of the most internationally renowned conductors, Michael Gielen.
On the program, MAHLER (ten lieder for voice and orchestra on texts drawn from the collection of “popular” German songs) and SCHOENBERG: during a night-time walk, a woman confesses to her husband that she is expecting a child… from another man. Thus begins the famous Transfigured Night by the Viennese composer Arnold Schoenberg. This romantic and passionate work describes all the episodes of their impassioned discussion before dawn finally brings the husband’s resigned and loving forgiveness.
Michael Gielen, one of the last exponents of the high Viennese tradition (Brahms, Mahler, Schoenberg), is an absolutely unique conductor who knows how to imbue the music he conducts with both depth and lyricism.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1 | 8:30 PM | RAINIER III AUDITORIUM
MAHLER | Des Knaben Wunderhorn
SCHONBERG | Verklärte Nacht
-SWR – SINFONIEORCHESTER BADEN-BADEN UND FREIBURG
Michael GIELEN, conducting
Christiane IVEN, soprano
Hanno MULLER-BRACHMANN, baritone
VIOLIN NIGHT
Five violinists, two concerts to choose from for an exceptional evening!
Sergej Krylov, Tedi Papavrami, Elsa Grether, Julian Rachlin, Midori Seiler: here is the New Wave of violin gathered for a somewhat mad marathon presenting the main masterpieces written for this instrument. A long night dedicated to virtuosity, in a way. Because the violin can sing like a voice, move like a dancer, escape like a poet… For everyone, Johann Sebastian Bach is of course the reference, for no one before him had dared entrust this melodic instrument with such a richly constructed discourse like a cathedral. He showed that the violin could be alone like an organ, a harpsichord, or even an orchestra.
SATURDAY, APRIL 2 | 3 PM – 4 PM | METROPOLE SHOPPING CENTER
Musical intervention by Elsa GRETHER, Violin
SATURDAY, APRIL 2 | 3 PM – 6 PM | MARLBOROUGH GALLERY
To understand how violins and bows are made, come meet the luthiers:
Pierre ALLAIN, luthier in Nice, and Jean-Pierre GASQ, luthier and bow maker in Nice
Denis DECLERCK, luthier in Nice
Roberto MASINI, professor of violin-making at the Music Academy of Monaco
Free entry
SATURDAY, APRIL 2 | 6 PM | SALLE EMPIRE
MEET THE WORKS
The virtuoso violin by Emmanuel HONDRE, musicologist
CONCERT 1 :: SATURDAY, APRIL 2 | 8 PM | SALLE EMPIRE
BACH | Partita No. 1 in B minor
Elsa GRETHER, violin
BARTOK | Sonata
Tedi PAPAVRAMI, violin
BACH | Partita No. 2 in D minor
Midori SEILER, violin
YSAYE | Sonata No. 2
BERIO | Sequenza VIII
Sergej KRYLOV, violin
MOZART | Sonata No. 35, K526
Julian RACHLIN, violin
Itamar GOLAN, piano
CONCERT 2 :: SATURDAY, APRIL 2 | 8 PM | SPORTING D’HIVER
BACH | Partita No. 3
Midori SEILER, violin
PENDERECKI | Sonata No. 2
Julian RACHLIN, violin
Itamar GOLAN, piano
BACH | Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001
Sergej KRYLOV, violin
YSAYE | Sonata No. 3 “Ballade” Op. 27
TON THAT TIET | Metal-Terre-Eau
Elsa GRETHER, violin
BACH | Sonata No. 3
Tedi PAPAVRAMI, violin
SUNDAY, APRIL 3 | 2:30 PM – 7 PM | SALLE EMPIRE – SPORTING D’HIVER – MOODS
2:30 PM – Meet at the Casino Square in front of the Boulingrins Garden
Musical welcome by the brass ensemble of the Antibes Conservatory
CELLO
BERIO | Sequenza XIV
Eric-Maria COUTURIER, cello
KAGEL | Siegfried P.
KAGEL | General Bass
Christophe ROY, cello
XENAKIS | Kottos
Frédéric AUDIBERT, cello
QUARTET
Concert-lecture around the creation by Jean-Pierre DERRIEN
SRNKA | Engrams – CREATION – Commissioned by Mécénat Musical Société Générale
Quatuor DIOTIMA
ZEMLINSKY | String Quartet No. 2 in D minor
Quatuor DIOTIMA
ENSEMBLE
GLERUP | Divertimento – CREATION – Commissioned by Athelas Sinfonietta and the Printemps des Arts de Monte Carlo
Athelas Sinfonietta
Pierre André VALADE, conducting
STRINGS
BOULEZ | Livre pour cordes
Nice Philharmonic Orchestra
Philippe AUGUIN, conducting
CLOWN
JIGALOV and CSABA
CLARINET
DUSAPIN | If
DONATONI | Clair
Marie-Béatrice BARRIERE-BILOTTE, clarinet
VIDEO
L’ECLAT
DANCE
Cannes Rosella Hightower Superior Dance School
VISUAL ARTS
Higher School of Visual Arts of the City of Monaco (Bosio Pavilion)
A colorful cocktail will be served at the close of the day.
