The 8th Alizés Musical Spring Festival

Classical Music Festival

8th - 11th May 2008 - ESSAOUIRA

A privileged meeting of music lovers, the Alizés Musical Spring has developed a program of an exceptional density and a quality which has, now, given it access to the court of great international festivals of classical music and lyric art. It has become, in few-years time, the place where worldwide applauded virtuosos find themselves with happiness, violinists and artists among the most awarded, pianists of the first category in Europe and elsewhere, violoncellists with the uncontested worldwide authority, promising young musicians and singers. The Alizés Spring has naturally and elegantly prescribed itself as the most approved footbridge labelled by all the musical colours which are joined together in Essaouira including artists from Japan, Korea, France, Germany, Spain, America, Austria, Egypt, Russia and other.

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Thursday 8th May 2008

18:00 DAR SOUIRI
Voces intimae, dir. Christian Pariot
FEDERICO MOMPOU, Dos cantigas de Alfonso X el Sabiod
FRANZ SCHUBERT, Die Nacht
Mélanie Moussay, soprano, Marie Stoeckle, piano
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART, Lieder:
Abendempfindungan an Laura, KV523
Als Luise die Briefe, Kv 520
An die Hoffnung
Der Zauberer, K.472
Das Lied der Trennung, Kv 512
Dans un bois solitaire (In a solitary wood), K.308
L'air de Fiordilidgi (the air of Fiordilidgi) "Come scoglio"
Echo du Danube (Echo of the Danube)
Laurie Reviol, soprano, Christian Zincke, viola da gamba, Elisabeth Seitz, salterio (tympani), Johanna Seitz, harp, Michael Döcker, oud, baroque guitar
MUSIC of SPAIN, ITALY AND TURKEY
Jean-Louis Capezzali, oboe, Jae Park, violin, Hartmut Rohde, viola, Chang Cho, violoncello
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART, Quartet for oboe and strings K.370
Bruno Rigutto, piano
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN, Nocturne in flat minor si op.9 n°1
Scherzo n°2 op.31
MAURICE RAVEL, Alborada del gracioso
Bruno Rigutto, piano, Quatuor Michelangelo
ROBERT SCHUMANN, Quintet for piano and strings in flat major mi, Op. 44

20:00 - CHURCH
FRANCESCO CAVALLI, CALLISTO
Drama with Giovanni Faustini's music, Francesco Cavalli's music, with vintage costumes
Singers: Hélène Derstroff, Isabelle Tourtet, Lisa Magrini, Heike Theisohn, Thomas Theisohn, Pierre Bord.
Music: Marie Paule Nounou, harpsichord, Recorder 1, recorder 2, violin 1, violin 2, bass viol, theorbo
Direction: Vincent Recolin

Friday 9th May 2008

9:30 - ALLIANCE FRANCO-MAROCAINE
Master class
Henrik Siffert, Song

11:00 - DAR SOUIRI
Young talents festival

16:00 - CHURCH
Amira Selim, soprano, Florence Boissole, piano
CLAUDE DEBUSSY, Green: Voici des fruits, des fleurs, des feuilles (Here are fruits, flowers, leaves) (Paul Verlaine)
GUSTAVE MAHLER, Hansel und Gretel
VINCENZO BELLINI, "Eccomi in lieta vesta... Oh quante volte" extracted from "I Capuletti e i Montecchi"
LEO DELIBES, "l'air des clochettes" (the air of the small bells) extracted from Lakmé
SAYED DARWISH, Vocalise "Eh El Ebara"
Song "El Helwa di" (arrangements for song and piano done by Marcelle Matta)
LEONARD BERNSTEIN, "Glitter and Be Gay" extracted from Candide
Sawa vocal unit, Palestine

18:00 - DAR SOUIRI
Quatuor Michelangelo: Mihaela Martin, Stephan Picardy, violin, Nobuko Imaï, viola, Frans Helmerson (violoncello)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, Quartet Op. 18, n°3.
Jean-Louis Capezzali, oboe, Serguei Kouznetsov, piano
ANTAL DORATI, Concerting duet for oboe and piano
Bruno Rigutto, piano, Dong Suk Kang, violin, Hartmut Rohde, viola, Philippe Muller, violoncello, Michael Wolf, double bass
FRANZ SCHUBERT, Quintet for piano and strings in major la, "Truite", Op. 114, D.667

21:00 - DAR SOUIRI
Jean-Louis Capezzali, oboe, Olivier Gardon, piano
ROBERT SCHUMANN, Three lovesongs for oboe and piano, Op. 94
Michael Wolf, double bass, Svetlana Eganian, piano
NICOLO PAGANINI, Variations about the topic of "Moïse" for double bass and piano
Christian Rivet, guitar, Dong Suk Kang, violin, Jae Park, violin, Hartmut Rohde, viola, Philippe Muller, violoncello, Alain Huteau, castanets
LUIGI BOCCHERINI, Quintet With Guitar (known as Quintet of Fandango), op. 57, n°4, G.448
Gardon, piano, Dong Suk Kang, Jae Park, violins, Hartmut Rohde, viola, Chang Cho, violoncello
ANTONIN DVORAK, Quintet With piano in major la, Op. 81

Saturday 10th May 2008

9:00 - ALLIANCE FRANCO-MAROCAINE
Master class
Violin

11:00 - DAR SOUIRI
Young talents festival
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
"Der Schauspieldirektor" (the Impresario), K.486, comic opera in one act on a booklet of Gottlieb Stephanie le jeune (the young person)
Marie Basson, soprano (Mrs Herz)
ARIANE Wohlhuter, soprano (Miss Silberklang)
Marc Haffner, tenor (Mr Vogelsang)
Patrick Ruyters, bass (Buff)
Marie Stoeckle, piano
Henrik Siffert, Direction

16:00 - DAR SOUIRI
Melanie Moussay, mezzo-soprano, Marie Stoeckle, piano
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART, operatic arias:
aria of Fiordilidgi "Come scoglio"
aria of Comtessa "Porgi amor"
Dove sound system
aria of concert "Ch'io mi scordi di te"
Jean-Louis Capezzali, oboe, Olivier Gardon, piano
CAMILLE Saint-Saëns, Sonata for oboe and piano, op.166
Christian Rivet, guitar
VILLA-LOBOS, trois études (Three studies)
Quatuor Michelangelo, Philippe Muller, violoncello
FRANZ SCHUBERT, Quintet for two violins, viola and two violoncellos, op.163, D.956

18:00 - DAR SOUIRI
Olivier Gardon, Svetlana Eganian, Serguei Kouznetsov, Martine Kang, piano
ALBERT LAVIGNAC, Gallop-Walk for eight hands
Chang Cho, violoncello, Michael Wolf, double bass
JEAN BARRIER, Sonata with two players for violoncello and double bass
Jae Park, violin, Christian Rivet, guitar
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA, Café (Coffee) 1930
Philippe Muller, Frans Helmerson, Chang Cho, violoncello, Svetlana Eganian, piano
DAVID POPPER, Requiem for 3 violoncellos and a piano, Op. 66
Dong Suk Kang, violin, Michael Wolf, double bass, Svetlana Eganian, piano GIOVANNI BOTTESINI, Great concerting duet for violin, double bass and piano
Dong Suk Kang, Jae Park, violin, Svetlana Eganian, piano
DIMITRI CHOSTAKOVITCH, Duets for two violins and a piano
PABLO OF SARASATE, Navarra for two violins and piano
JOHANN STRAUSS, Waltz "Rose du Sud" (Rose of the South), op.38, transcription for 2 pianos (originally for piano and harmonium) and string quartet by Arnold Schoenberg

21:00 - RAHBA (GRAINS HALL)
Chœur des Trois Cultures (Chorus of the Three Cultures)
Arabic, Hebrew and Latin songs
Nayer Nagui, dir
ERICH ZEISL, hebraïco Requiem, from the Psalm 92
Michel Piquemal, dir
CARL ORFF, Carmina Burana
Michel Piquemal, dir
Christine Lajarrige, Antoine de Grolée, Florence Boissole, piano
Alain Huteau, dir, Marcel Hamon, Michel Gastaud, Seguin Jean-Baptiste, Christophe Bredeloup, percussions

Sunday 11th May 2008

10:00 - DAR SOUIRI
Echo du Danube (Echo of the Danube)
Laurie Reviol, soprano, Christian Zincke, viola da gamba, Elisabeth Seitz, salterio (tympani), Johanna Seitz, harp, Michael Döcker, oud, baroque guitar
MUSIC of SPAIN, ITALY AND TURKEY
Antoine de Grolée, piano
Maurice Ravel, Gaspard de la nuit (Gaspard of the night) (three poems for piano by Aloysius Bertrand)
Ondine (water nymph)
Le Gibet (the Gibbet)
Scarbo
Svetlana Eganian, piano
Armenian music Recital
KOMITAS SOGOMON SOGOMONIAN (1869 Turkey-1935 Paris)
Six Dances for piano:
Erangui-dance of Erevan
Ounabi-dance of Chouchi
Marali-dance of Chouchi (imitating the tambourine)
Chouchigui-dance of Vagharchapat-Etchmiadzine (imitating the tara and the daira)
Hed-Aratch-dance of Erzeroum-Garno (imitating the syrinx and the tambourine)
Choror-dance of Erzeroum-Garno (imitating the syrinx, the tambourine and the daïra)
ARNO BABADJANIAN (1921-1983)
Four parts for piano:
Prelude
Danse of Vagharchapat
Impromptu
Capriccio
Elégie to the memory of Aram Katchatourian (1978)
Humoresque
Francoise Atlan
Daylight: Liturgical and popular Armenian songs, in capella, with percussions or piano
Aravod Lousso, Matins song "daylight, sunbeam, resplendent.." (Nerses Chnornali, XIIth century)
Avedik, Popular song of the Sassoun area
Medzatsousté, Canticle of the virgin for the annunciation
OV zarmanali, Blessing of water for baptism (Gregoire Bahlavouni, XIIth century)
Aissor tsainen hayragan, baptism celebration (Hohvannes yerzgatsi, XIIth century)

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