Prizewinners’ Festival
Fanny Mendelssohn Förderpreis – »Celebrating Life! Departure into New Worlds«
The Fanny Mendelssohn Förderpreis for Young Classical Artists has been awarded since 2015 – the internationally renowned prize not only evaluates the technical virtuosity of the applicants, but also places special emphasis on innovative concepts and visionary design. The young talents are given absolute freedom in their musical projects. The programme of the »Festival der Preisträger«, which takes place for the fifth time in the Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall, is also designed entirely according to the ideas and visions of the Fanny Mendelssohn Artists. The Elbphilharmonie provides the musicians with a prominent stage on which they can live out their artistic creativity and showcase their extraordinary musical talent in front of a large audience.
The Fanny Mendelssohn Artists featured in the Prizewinners’ Festival are composed of this year’s winner Philipp Schupelius (violoncello), the first Fanny Mendelssohn Förderpreis winner Tamás Pálfalvi (trumpet) as well as Dorothea Schupelius on violin and as host of the evening, Jelizaveta Vasiljeva on piano, Matthias Well on violin, Vera Karner on clarinet and Joséphine Olech on flute.
Departure and new beginnings is the motto of the concert programme that the Fanny Mendelssohn Artists have conceived especially for this concert. Not only do Hamburg and the Elbphilharmonie stand for new beginnings, but also the Fanny Mendelssohn Förderpreis in particular. Manuel de Falla, Astor Piazzolla, Pablo Casals, Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven – each of the composers chosen by the young artists has a special connection to the theme »Celebrating Life! Departure into New Worlds«. Unfortunately, this is not always a positive theme: often the experiences cast in music come from wars and catastrophes. But they show that even the greatest suffering is followed by a new beginning and that life does go on. And that is what this evening is all about: about experiencing and about life itself – a shared musical celebration of life.
Performers
Dorothea Schupelius violin, moderation
Matthias Well violin
Philipp Schupelius violoncello
Tamás Pálfalvi trumpet
Vera Karner clarinet
Joséphine Olech flute
Jelizaveta Vasiljeva piano
Programme
Manuel de Falla
Spanischer Tanz Nr. 1 / aus »La vida breve« (Bearbeitung für Violine und Klavier von Fritz Kreisler)
Erwin Schulhoff
Allegro moderato & Scherzo: Allegro giocoso / aus: Sonate für Flöte und Klavier
Pablo de Sarasate
Navarra für zwei Violinen und Klavier op. 33
László Dubrovay
Libero (Lento) und Allegro–Presto / aus: Solo Nr. 11 für Trompete Solo
Franz Waxman
Carmen-Fantasie (Bearbeitung für Violoncello und Klavier) / Bearbeitung für Violoncello und Klavier
– Interval –
Astor Piazzolla
Inviemo porteno und Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (Vier Jahreszeiten von Buenos Aires) / Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (Vier Jahreszeiten von Buenos Aires) (Bearbeitung für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier)
Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Waltz und Barrel-Organ-Waltz / aus: 4 Walzer für Flöte, Klarinette und Klavier (Arrangement: Levon Atovmyan)
Pau Casals
Cant dels ocells (Lied der Vögel) / Bearbeitung für Violoncello und Klavier
Ludwig van Beethoven
Finale. Presto / aus: Sonate für Violine und Klavier A-Dur op. 47 »Kreutzer-Sonate«
Béla Bartók
Sebes. Allegro vivace / aus: Kontraste für Klarinette, Violine und Klavier Sz 111
Manuel de Falla
Nana / aus: Siete canciones populares españolas
Jerry Bock
To Life aus dem Musical »Fiddler on the Roof« / Bearbeitung für Violine, Klarinette und Klavier von Demian Martin (Libretto: Sheldon Harnick)