2004: Programme
FRIDAY 25 JUNE
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
7.30pm Opening Concert
- Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet suite for viola and piano
- Arensky: Piano Trio no.1 op.32
- Gubaidulina: ‘De Profundis’ for bayan (1978)
- Shostakovich: Piano Quintet op.57
Boyd, Clein, Drake, Faust, Gowers, Leschenko, Melnikov, Mendelssohn, Mitchell, Moser, Tamestit
12.45pm Old Russia, New Russia
- Schnittke: String Trio
- Gubaidulina: ‘In Croce’ for cello and bayan (1979)
- Borodin: String Quartet no.2 in D
Brendel, Clein, Faust, Mendelssohn, Mitchell, Mose
The Phoenix Picture House
Festival Cinema
The Return [12A] 2.00, 4.15, 6.30, 8.45
Saturday June 26
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
4.00pm Russian Song
To include works by Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rubenstein, Mussorgsky, Britten ‘The Poet’s Echo’ op.76 and Shostakovich ‘Satires’ op.109
Rodgers, Drake
Sheldonian Theatre
8.00pm Moscow to Florence
- Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no.3, BWV1048
Shostakovich: Quartet no.8 - Gubaidulina: ‘Rejoice!’ sonata for violin and cello (1981)
- Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence op.70
Boyd, Brendel, Clein, Faust, Mendelssohn, Mitchell, Poltera,Tamestit, Vaernes
The Phoenix Picture House
Festival Cinema
The Return [12A] 2.00, 4.15, 6.30, 8.45
Sunday June 27
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
10.30am Russian Brunch
11.30am Russian Miniatures
To include works by Glière, Kabelevsky, Khatchaturian, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Scriabin, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky.
Festival artists
Holywell Music Room
6.00pm Repression and Resistance
- Bach: Partita no.3, BWV826
- Readings of Pasternak’s letters and poems
- Gubaidulina: String Trio (1988)
- Shostakovich: Piano Trio no.2 in E minor op. 67
Faust, Lundh, Melnikov, Mendelssohn, Poltera, Tan, Vaernes
10.00pm Late Night Meditations
- Schnittke: ‘Stille Nacht’ for cello and violin
- Gubaidulina: Meditation on the Bach chorale ‘Vor Deinen Thron tret ich hiermit’, BWV668, for harpsichord and string quintet (1993)
- Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV988, for string trio, with words by Jeanette Winterson
Brendel, Clein, Faust, Mitchell, Tamestit, Winterson
The Phoenix Picture House
Festival Cinema
The Return [12A] 12.00, 4.15, 6.30, 8.45
Battleship Potemkin [PG] 12.15
Russian Ark [U] 2.00
Monday June 28
The Freud Café, Walton Street
7.30pm Russian Folk Jam
Festival artists
The Phoenix Picture House
Festival Cinema
The Return [12A] 4.15, 6.30, 8.45
Tuesday June 29
Holywell Music Room
8.00pm Invocation
- Bach: Viola da gamba sonata no.3, BWV1027
- Schnittke: Sonata no.1 for violin and piano
- Firsova:Invocation (Festival commission, World Premiere)
- Beethoven: Rasumovsky Quartet op.59 no.3
Brendel, Clein, Drake, Gustaffson, Kraggerud,
Leschenko, Mitchell, Poltera
The Phoenix Picture House
Festival Cinema
The Return [12A] 4.15, 6.30, 8.45
Wednesday June 30
Holywell Music Room
1.00pm Light and Darkness
Bach: Sonata in E major for flute and harpsichord, BWV1035
Gubaidulina: ‘Light and Darkness’ for organ (1976)
Prokofiev: Sonata for violin and piano no.1 in F minor op.80
Beynon, Faust, Gustaffson, Leschenko, Melnikov
7.30pm Souvenir
- Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d'un lieu cher op. 42
- Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata op.19 in G minor
- Gubaidulina: Sounds of the Forest for flute and piano (1978)
- Taneyev: Piano Quintet in G minor op.30
Beynon, Gitlis, Gustaffson, Kraggerud, Leschenko, Melnikov, Mitchell, Poltera, Schiff, Tamestit
Modern Art Oxford
10.15pm Late Night Cello Feast
- Bach: Selection of 2-part and 3-part inventions
- Britten: Solo Suite no.3
- Gubaidulina: ‘Quaternion’ for 4 cellos (1996)
Brendel, Clein, Gustaffson, Poltera
The Phoenix Picture House
Festival Cinema
The Return [12A] 4.15, 6.30, 8.45
Thursday July 1
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
1.00pm Hommage à Stravinsky
- Prokofiev: Sonata no.2 in D for flute and piano
- Stravinsky: Piano-rag, Tango and Circus Polka
- Richard Rodney Bennett: 'A Canon for Stravinsky'
- Schnittke: Canon 'In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky'
- Stravinsky: The Soldier’s Tale with actor Daniel Lundt
Beynon, Kam, Kraggerud, Leschenko, Lundh, Melnikov, Owen, Poltera
4.00pm Masterclass with Ivry Gitlis
8.00pm Skarzki - Fairy Tales
- Medtner: Fairy Tales, introduced by Philip Pullman
- Arensky: Quartet for violin, viola and two cellos op.35
- Rachmaninov: ‘Trio élégiaque’ no.2 in D minor op.9
Gowers, Gustaffson, Kraggerud, Leschenko, Melnikov, Mitchell, Owen, Poltera, Pullman
The Phoenix Picture House
Festival Cinema
The Return [12A] 4.15, 6.30, 8.45
Friday July 2
Sheldonian Theatre
8.00pm Grand Tango
- Prokofiev: Overture on Jewish Themes op.34
- Piazzolla: ‘Le grand tango’ (arr. Gubaidulina)
- Shostakovich: Sonata for cello and piano in D minor op.40
- Dvorak: Dumky Trio op.90
Gitlis, Gustaffson, Kam, Kraggerud, Leschenko, Melnikov, Mitchell, Muthelet, Poltera, Schiff
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