Vilém Vlček - violoncello
Marek Kozak - piano
Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major, Op. 102/2
Nadia Boulanger: Three Pieces for Cello and Piano
Krzysztof Penderecki: Divertimento for solo cello
Bohuslav Martinů: Cello Sonata No. 3
Perhaps the biggest mystery in the programme of the concert of two unmissable instrumentalists of the youngest generation is a short, less than seven-minute piece by the French composer Nadia Boulanger. The Paris Conservatoire teacher may have studied with Aaron Copland and Philip Glass, but her own music has had to find its way onto concert stages and opera stages with difficulty. The composition by Krzysztof Penderecki, premiered in Cologne in 1994 by the Russian cellist Boris Pergamenschikov, is no less anticipated. The Leningrad native won the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1974 and emigrated to the West three years later. And all the colours of music fill the clear gallery space, thanks to sonatas by the greats Bohuslav Martinů and Ludwig van Beethoven.
