Breaking: Russia protest concert to be streamed worldwide tonight
mainTonight’s Berlin concert for justice and human rights in Putin’s Russia will be streamed worldwide on the Franco-German Arte TV channel. Here’s the link. And here’s Gidon’s video statement in English and Russian.
The concert involves Gidon Kremer, Daniel Barenboim, Martha Argerich, Emmanuel Pahud, Sergei Nakariakov, Katya Buniatishvili, Giya Kancheli, Nicolas Altstaedt and the Kremerate Baltica.
Programme
Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Sinfonietta Nr. 2 op. 74
3. Satz: Adagio
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite für Violoncello solo Nr. 2 d-Moll BWV 1008
2. Satz: Allemande
Sofia Gubaidulina
Sieben letzte Worte
3. Satz: „Wahrlich ich sage Dir, heute wirst Du mit mir im Paradiese sein“
Arvo Pärt
Estnisches Wiegenlied
Giya Kancheli
The angels of sorrow
Sergej Prokofjew
Sonate für Klavier Nr. 7 B-Dur op. 83
3. Satz: Precipitato
Peter Tschaikowsky
Lenskis Arie aus Eugen Onegin (arr. Guy Braunstein)
Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 op.35
(mit obligater Trompete)
4. Satz: Allegro con brio
Leonid Desyatnikov
Filmmusik aus Target
Vivaldi’s January
Does anyone know whose letter Sebastian Koch was reading?
Thanks!
It was an excerpt from a speech by Mikhail Khodorkovsky during his second trial three years ago.
Fabulous. Thanks for the alert Norman. Great music, great musicians, actors, sound, camerawork…. Exquisite, moving, poignant…..
(why t f was the principle 2nd vln jerk so obviously non-reactive after the Prokofjew barrage?)