Works
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LEPORELLO & GIOVANNI Double Concerto for Double Bass and Contrabass-Balalaika
LEPORELLO & GIOVANNI was commissioned by Artem Chirkov (St. Petersburg Philharmony). The poetic idea was found in Mozarts opera Don Giovanni: a womanizer between gallantry and brutal sexual urge, and his servant Leporello is not a secondary, but also driven by ideas of personal freedom and frivolous phantasies. - The double concerto describes the permanently changing relation between these two men... and it quotes motifs and written by the genious Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. When now the „noble“ double bass meets the „rustic-style“ contrabass-balalaika... then it strikes sparks and several surprises will be kept ready! - Thanks to the two outstanding performers Mikhail Dzyudze (= Leporello) and Artem Chirkov (= Giovanni) for their energetic musicality during the implementation of this unusual rivalry! -
KRASNOYARSK COUNTERPOINTS CD SPIRITS OF SIBERIA / LEPORELLO & GIOVANNI
"Counterpoints" in Krasnoyarsk, a Siberian centre which geographically forms almost the centre of Asia: Composition commissions for two festivals, the "Transsiberian Art Festival" in April 2019 and the festival "Asia - Siberia - Europe" in September 2019. One for chamber orchestra - one for symphony orchestra. Once the natural world of the archaic world of Siberia - once the artificial world of Mozart's opera. In the first work, the double bass from art music (played by Artem Chirkov, the soloist of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra) and the double bass balalaika, which seems almost exotic in such a context (played by Mikhail Dzyudze, a jack-of-all-trades from folklore to the electric bass of rock music) are juxtaposed. - In the other work, Reinhold Friedrich combines three highly contrasting registers of the trumpet and plays the flugelhorn, the trumpet and the high piccolo trumpet, which fathom the depths and are contrasts that can hardly be mastered from a technical point of view. BUT: the contrasts - as with the plus/minus pole of electricity - are the source of voltage and suspense. Yes, - consistently creating suspense and taking the listener on a journey marked by contrasts is the intention of this CD compilation
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New CD: KRASNOYARSK COUNTERPOINTS
With Label WERGO (Distribution: NAXOS) released in february 2020: two freshly composed Concertos, - the one with Reinhold Friedrich, who is playing extraordinary with three types of trumpets in the same composition, - the other with an usual combination of instruments in a double concerto. Artem Chirkov (Soloist of St. Peterburg Philharmony) plays his double bass from low to the highest violin-like ranges....And Mikhail Dzyudze, a multitalent beetween Folk, Rock & Classic, plays on his Contrabass-Balalaika... a gigantic and really unknown instrument. -
WORLDPREMIERE "SPIRITS OF SIBERIA"
"SPIRITS OS SIBERIA" is fascinating with a world of shamanic Power and with omnipresent siberian Spirits at the festival ASIA - SIBERIA - EUROPE. Reinhold Friedrich (Trumpet) is celebrated with standing ovations. -
CD Recordings 2019
On January 15th Naxos officially released the WERGO-CD "CLAIR-OBSCUR. THE COLORS OF SAXOPHONES" with the Saxopohone Quartet CLAIR OBSCUR and with best reviews. And immediately it continues with new CD recordings: The CD BERNARDUS recorded in Gdansk/Poland, WERGO-CD „MOZART & BEETHOVEN MEETING YIN & YANG“ in March with Jena Philharmonics and in April in Siberia Part I of "KRASNOYARSK COUNTERPOINTS"
Calendar
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11. Apr. 2019
LEPORELLO & GIOVANNI
At 11th of april 2019 in Krasnoarsk/Siberia is the world premiere of the double concert LEPORELLO & GIOVANNI for Double Bass, Contrabass-Balalaika & Orchestra. With Artem Chirkov (Double Bass), Mikhail Dzyudze (Vontrabass-Balalaaika), Siberian State Symphony Orchestra, Conduct.: Vladimir Lande. A concert in the framework of Trans Siberian Art Festival 2019 -
25. Juni 2020
Leoporello & Giovanni Double Concerto in Moskau
CANCELLED DUE TO CORONA-VIRUS - 25th of June 2020 in Moskau in the futuriustic concert hall Sarjadje will be performed: Double Concerto LEPORELLO & GIOVANNI for double bass, Contrabass-Balalaika and orchestra, with Artem Chirkov (doublebass) and Mikhail Drydudze (Contrabass-Balalaika)