Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. CAMERATA BERN

"Is exile pain and isolation or also a source of inspiration?" The exceptional Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja asks herself this question and gives her own answer: "What remains for composers, for us musicians, for us humans, is exile in art, in the unspeakable nature of music, which defies all conceptualization." Together with CAMERATA BERN, she follows in folkloristic footsteps and takes a look at interesting Eastern European composers such as Ivan Wyschnegradsky, who worked with quarter tones, the polystylist Alfred Schnittke and the Pole Andrzey Panufnik, who wrote his violin concerto for Yehudi Menuhin in 1971. With a new work by Alexey Retinsky, who lives in exile in Vienna, they are attempting to make music serve memory.

Followed by an artist talk with Anselm Cybinski in the festival center

Artists:

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Violin and conductor

Thomas Kaufmann

Violoncello

CAMERATA BERN

Program:

Ukrainian-Russian folklore
Kugikly for violin and panpipes

PatKop (*1977)
Rage for violin and string ensemble

From Moldavian folklore
Cucuşor cu pană sură

Alfred Schnittke
Sonata for Violoncello and Piano No. 1 (Arr. Martin Merker 2020)

Franz Schubert
No. 3 from the Five Minuets and Trios for
String Quartet D 89

Eugène Ysaÿe
Exil! op. 25, Poème symphonique for high strings

Andrzej Panufnik
Concerto for violin and strings (1971)

Alexey Retinsky
Die Konturen der Verlorenen (world premiere)
for string ensemble, harpsichord and voices (commissioned by Camerata Bern 2024)