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Maxim Shalygin: Songs and Duos

Saturday, 25 February 2023   |   19:30 - 21:30

Maxim Shalygin: Songs and Duos

​Five of Maxim Shalygin’s favourite musicians will come together for a full-length concert featuring two song cycles and five duos. Pieces from a sixteen-year period will be featured, as a antidote to a new-music scene that mainly focuses on premieres. For his duos, Maxim Shalygin has chosen classical combinations with which he nevertheless enters unexplored territory with an adventurous spirit.

Songs of Holy Fools are intimate songs on the edge of silence, for which Shalygin has set his own poems to music next to texts by Ossip Mandelstam and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. From the Grape of Wine is an ode to Persian mystic Omar Khayyam. In Duet for violin and piano, he explores extremes in dynamics and tempo changes. In Dolcissima, he contrasts two different musical styles, which eventually merge seamlessly. Pure magic. With Kaya, he wrote a moving tribute to his newborn daughter. Angel is a tribute to Ravel. With his Six Bagatelles, which demand the utmost from the two violinists, Shalygin astounds with the agility of his imagination.

A programme with exciting listening experiences that will not leave any visitor unmoved.

Programma

Maxim Shalygin

​​Six Bagatelles for two violins (2015)
Kaya for violin and piano (2019)
Duet for violin and piano (2008)
Dolcissima for cello and piano (2015)
Angel for violin, cello and piano (2020)
The Songs of Holy Fools (2009/10)
From the Grape of Wine, vocal cycle on lyrics by Omar Khayyam (2006-2008)

 

  • Composer(s) Maxim Shalygin
  • Title(s) of the Work(s)

    ​​Six Bagatelles for two violins (2015)
    Kaya for violin and piano (2019)
    Duet for violin and piano (2008)
    Dolcissima for cello and piano (2015)
    Angel for violin, cello and piano (2020)
    The Songs of Holy Fools (2009/10)
    From the Grape of Wine, vocal cycle on lyrics by Omar Khayyam (2006-2008)
  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Ekaterina Levental mezzo-sopran, Daniel Rowland ​violin, Emmy Storms ​violin, Lidy Blijdorp cello, Antonii Barishevskyi piano

Date

Feb 25 2023
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Time

19:30 - 21:30

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Location

The Hague, Paleiskerk
The Hague, Paleiskerk
Paleisstraat 8, 2514 JA Den Haag
Website
https://paleiskerk.nl

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Composer

Maxim Shalygin

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

His compositions include chamber, vocal, symphonic, electro-acoustic music, as well as music for theater, ballet and film. Shalygin has participated in many competitions internationally. He received a honorable mention at the Gaudeamus competition 2012 for his work “Letters to Anna” symphony for violin solo. The same year his music was selected for Gesamt project of Lars von Trier. Shalygin was a composer-in-residence in IZOLYATSIA – Platform for Cultural Initiatives (Donetsk, Ukraine) and Storioni Festival (Brabant, Netherlands). Shalygin’s works have been performed in festivals such as: Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Netherlands), Sound Ways (Russia), Musical Youth Tribune (Ukraine), GOGOLFEST (Ukraine), Spring Festival (Netherlands), International Forum of Young Music (Ukraine), Music Premieres of the Season (Ukraine), UNEVEN – mini-festival by Lonneke van Leth (Netherlands).
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‘Angel’ and ‘Blessing’ by Ukrainian-Dutch composer Maxim Shalygin in versions for the symphony orchestra will get its premieres by Muncher Symphoniker under Ukrainian conductor and singer Viktoria Vitrenko in München.
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January 30, 1985

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

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