The 25th Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival 2022

5-10 September 2022

For tickets: 02-6250444

The next concert will start 08.09 at 20.00 (Jerusalem time)

The concerts will remain available on our YOUTUBE channel for future viewing after the live broadcast.

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Dear Festival Friends

We are extremely happy to be able to reunite with you in a musical celebration of renewal after a two-year absence. With great excitement we present you with a Festival that features the very best of chamber music, performed by many of our outstanding musicians who have expressed how much they missed playing in Jerusalem and how glad they are to be able to return. Joining them are some wonderful new faces in programmes that as usual in our Festival combine many familiar and celebrated masterpieces with fascinating and rarely performed works. Each of the eight programmes brings together these works which include great chamber music quintets, wonderful songs, and contemporary music with two exciting premieres, one international and one Israeli.

We are all so delighted to be back in Jerusalem after so long, performing together for our unique audience.

We look forward to celebrating with you in September.

PROGRAMME

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Recital 

Mischa Maisky cello

Johann Sebastian Bach

Suite for Cello Solo no. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 

Suite for Cello Solo no. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 

Suite for Cello Solo no. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011

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Johann Sebastian Bach /
Dmitry Sitkovetsky

Three-Part Inventions

  • Dmitry Sitkovetsky violin
  • Hartmut Rohde viola
  • Xenia Jankovic cello

Erwin Schulhoff  

5 Pieces for String Quartet

  • Mihaela Martin, Mark Karlinsky violins
  • Razvan Popovici viola
  • Frans Helmerson cello

Robert Schumann

Andante & Variations for 2 Pianos, 2 Cellos & Horn, WoO 10

  • Nathalia Milstein, Lahav Shani pianos
  • Mischa Maisky, Frans Helmerson cellos
  • Ben Goldscheider horn

Intermission

Jüri Reinvere  

Quartet for piano, clarinet, violin & cello (World Premiere)

  • Pascal Moraguès  clarinet
  • Mark Karlinsky violin
  • Tim Park cello
  • Nathalia Milstein piano

Robert Schumann

Piano Quintet in E flat major, op. 44

  • Marc Bouchkov, Yamen Saadi violins
  • Gérard Caussé viola
  • Mischa Maisky cello
  • Elena Bashkirova piano
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Johann Sebastian Bach /
Dmitry Sitkovetsky
 

Three-Part Inventions 

  • Dmitry Sitkovetsky violin
  • Hartmut Rohde viola
  • Xenia Jankovic cello

Arnold Schoenberg

Ode to Napoleon, op. 41

  • Dmitry Sitkovetsky conductor
  • Dietrich Henschel baritone
  • Nathalia Milstein piano
  • Yamen Saadi, Mohamed Hiber violins
  • Hartmut Rohde viola
  • Astrig Siranossian cello

Johannes Brahms

Trio for Horn, Violin & Piano in E flat major, op. 40

  • Ben Goldscheider horn
  • Clara-Jumi Kang violin
  • Nathalia Milstein piano

Intermission

Johannes Brahms

Zwei Gesänge, op. 91

  • Dorothea Röschmann soprano
  • Razvan Popovici viola
  • Sunwook Kim piano

Johannes Brahms  

Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34

  • Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Mohamed Hiber violins
  • Gérard Caussé viola
  • Tim Park cello
  • Sunwook Kim piano
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Viktor Ullmann

Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke

  • Dietrich Henschel baritone
  • Elena Bashkirova piano

Ernő Dohnányi

Sextet in C major, op. 37

  • Mihaela Martin violin
  • Hartmut Rohde viola
  • Frans Helmerson cello
  • Miri Saadon-Shani clarinet
  • Ben Goldscheider horn
  • Sunwook Kim piano

Intermission

Gustav Mahler

Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

  • Dorothea Röschmann soprano
  • Elena Bashkirova piano

Antonin Dvořák

Piano Quintet no. 2 in A major, op. 81

  • Clara-Jumi Kang, Yamen Saadi violins
  • Adrien La Marca viola
  • Astrig Siranossian cello
  • Plamena Mangova piano
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Pauline Viardot

Songs 

  • Anna Samuil soprano
  • Yulianna Avdeeva piano

Mieczysław Weinberg

Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 18

  • Anton Barakhovsky, Mark Karlinsky violins
  • Sara Ferrández viola
  • Ivan Karizna cello
  • Yulianna Avdeeva piano

Intermission

Dmitri Shostakovich  

Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok, op. 127

  • Anna Samuil soprano
  • Marc Bouchkov violin
  • Ivan Karizna cello
  • Elena Bashkirova piano

Sergei Rachmaninov

Suite no. 2 for 2 pianos, op. 17

  • Lahav Shani, Yulianna Avdeeva pianos
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Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Trio no. 3 in C minor, op. 1

  • Yamen Saadi violin
  • Astrig Siranossian cello
  • Plamena Mangova piano

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

Lieder 

  • Juliane Banse soprano
  • Elena Bashkirova piano

Felix Mendelssohn

Lieder

  • Juliane Banse soprano
  • Elena Bashkirova piano

Intermission

Ella Milch-Sheriff

Clarinet Quartet (2020 JCMF commission) 
Israeli Premiere

  • Miri Saadon-Shani clarinet
  • Mohamed Hiber violin
  • Sara Ferrández viola
  • Ivan Karizna cello

Ludwig van Beethoven

Septet in E flat major, op. 20

  • Marc Bouchkov violin
  • Razvan Popovici viola
  • Xenia Jankovic cello
  • Alexander Osipenko double bass
  • Pascal Moraguès  clarinet
  • Uzi Shalev bassoon
  • Bar Zemach horn 
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Gideon Klein

String Trio

  • Marc Bouchkov violin
  • Adrien La Marca viola
  • Ivan Karizna cello

Franz Schubert

Lieder 

  • Juliane Banse soprano
  • Sunwook Kim piano

Béla Bartók

Contrasts

  • Mohamed Hiber violin
  • Pascal Moraguès  clarinet
  • Yulianna Avdeeva piano

Intermission

Franz Schubert

String Quintet in C major, D. 956

  • Anton Barakhovsky, Yamen Saadi violins
  • Adrien La Marca viola
  • Astrig Siranossian, Xenia Jankovic cellos
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Max Bruch

4 Pieces from 8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola & Piano, op. 83 

No. 1 Andante
No. 4 Allegro agitato
No. 8 Moderato
No. 7 Allegro vivace, ma non troppo

  • Pascal Moraguès  clarinet
  • Adrien La Marca viola
  • Plamena Mangova piano

Felix Mendelssohn

2 Concert Pieces, opp. 113 & 114

  • Pascal Moraguès, Miri Saadon-Shani clarinets
  • Elena Bashkirova piano

Franz Schubert

Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, The Trout

  • Michael Barenboim violin
  • Gérard Caussé viola
  • Astrig Siranossian cello
  • Alexander Osipenko double bass
  • Elena Bashkirova piano

Intermission

Benjamin Attahir

Bayn Athnyn 

  • Michael Barenboim violin & viola
  • Sunwook Kim piano

Felix Mendelssohn

Octet for Strings in E flat major, op. 20

  • Clara-Jumi Kang, Anton Barakhovsky, Mark Karlinsky, Yamen Saadi violins
  • Gérard Caussé, Sara Ferrández violas
  • Xenia Jankovic, Ivan Karizna cellos

Gaby Shefler will perform on the YMCA carillon

before each Festival concert:

Monday 5 September 2022at 19:30
Tuesday 6 September 2022at 19:30
Wednesday 7 September 2022at 19:30
Thursday 8 September 2022at 19:30
Friday 9 September 2022at 11:30
Friday 9 September 2022at 20:00
Saturday 10 September 2022at 11:30
Saturday 10 September 2022at 20:00

Participants

Artistic Director

Elena Bashkirova

Conductor

Dmitry Sitkovetsky

Piano

Yulianna Avdeeva
Elena Bashkirova
Sunwook Kim
Plamena Mangova
Nathalia Milstein
Lahav Shani

Violin

Anton Barakhovsky
Michael Barenboim
Marc Bouchkov
Mohamed Hiber
Clara-Jumi Kang
Mark Karlinsky
Mihaela Martin
Yamen Saadi
Dmitry Sitkovetsky

Viola

Michael Barenboim
Gérard Caussé

Sara Ferrández
Adrien La Marca
Razvan Popovici
Hartmut Rohde

Cello

Frans Helmerson
Xenia Jankovic
Ivan Karizna
Mischa Maisky
Tim Park
Astrig Siranossian

Double Bass

Alexander Osipenko

Clarinet

Pascal Moraguès
Miri Saadon-Shani

Bassoon

Uzi Shalev

Horn

Ben Goldscheider
Bar Zemach

Soprano

Juliane Banse
Dorothea Röschmann
Anna Samuil

Baritone

Dietrich Henschel

Carillon

Gaby Shefler

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