​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)