24 - 26. August, 2012
9090 Pannonhalma, Hungary
FRAGILE!
Only reality is more fragile than dreams. While shattered dreams die or return in old-new shapes, the fragments of reality (breaking in our hands or above our heads) stay and linger to remind, to hinder and to sadden us – or simply to vanish into anonymity. They can crack under our feet and our bodies knock against them. In any case, they demarcate our ever decreasing latitude, taking us on roads of both seclusion and freedom.
This year’s Arcus Temporum investigates human, social, religious and cultural fragility that has become increasingly apparent to all of us in recent years.
Igor Stravinsky and the world of the Finnish composer living in France, Kaija Saariaho mark two points of the musical time span. For Stravinsky, the meaning, boundaries and continuity of musical tradition and pathos are fundamental questions, while in Saariaho’s music we are moving in a real and a dreamlike terrain, which permeate and infuse each other – as if such wondering in borderline existence would make us strangers in both realms.
While Stravinsky is concerned with accepting or refusing a seemingly unified tradition and its historically articulate and inarticulate alternatives, Saariaho’s work is loaded with constant and complex dramatic tension as a result of the crossover between realty and vision.
This year, the “+1” concert presents one of the most radical musical compositions on the ruins of a life and the road to liberation in Carlo Gesualdo’s “Tenebrae”. Inspired by Gesualdo’s fragments, Stravinsky’s work returns here in the last concert. Saariaho‘s “secret gardens” point to another important venue of the Festival’s Sunday afternoon programme, the Abbey’s Botanical Garden, where you can hear in two consecutive evenings, this year, what the garden and its surroundings evoke in over twenty artists who have come to Pannonhalma from all over Europe.
Mátyás Varga o.s.b.
Festival Director
Festival-program:
August 24. 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Projection Room
Film screening:
Nenad Mikalački - At home (2011, 20')
August 24. 7:00 pm, Boarding School
Program:
1. Kaija SAARIAHO: Terrestre
2. Igor STRAVINSKY: Septet
3. Kaija SAARIAHO: Lichtbogen
4. Kaija SAARIAHO: Terra Memoria
5. Igor STRAVINSKY: Octet
Performers:
Mario Caroli - flute
Quasars Ensemble
Qaartsiluni Ensemble (Milan Pala - violin, Péter Bársony - viola, Ditta Rohmann - violoncello, László Borbély - piano, Horia Dumitrache - clarinet, Endre Tekula - horn, Anna Rákóczy - flute, Gábor Devacsai - trumpet, Antal Nagy - trumpet, Róbert Káip - trombone, Csaba Erdei - trombone, Attila Jankó - bassoon, Ivett Bazsinka - bassoon) Vezényel: Rozmán Lajos
August 24. 9:30 pm, Arboretum
Parkinprogress 1 - Artistic crossovers in the Park/Green (European night of young creation)
August 24. 9:00 am - 3:00 pm, Projection Room
Film screening:
Anca Miruna Lăzărescu - Silent River (2011, 30')
August 25. 11:00 am, Our Lady Chapel
Program:
1. Igor STRAVINSKY: Suite for Violine and Piano (After Themes, fragmentes and pieces by Giambattista Pergolesi)
2. Kaija SAARIAHO: Die Aussicht
3. Igor v: The Owl and the Pussycat
4. Kaija SAARIAHO: Je sens un deuxiéme coeur
5. Igor STRAVINSKY: Three Pieces for String Quartet
6. Kaija SAARIAHO: Calices
Performers:
László Borbély - piano
Milan Pala - violin
Natalia Pcsenyicsnyikova - soprano
Anna Rákóczy - flute
Ditta Rohmann - violoncello
Péter Bársony - viola
Quasars Ensemble
August 25. 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Projection Room
Film screening:
Eileen Byrne - Legal. Illegal. (2011, 25')
August 25. 4:00 pm, Our Lady Chapel
Program:
1. Igor STRAVINSKY: Three Pieces from Petrushka
2. Kaija SAARIAHO: Tocar
3. Kaija SAARIAHO: Mirrors
4. Kaija SAARIAHO: Aer
Performers:
Zoltán Fejérvári - piano
Eszter Krulik - violin
Gábor Monostori - piano
Evelin Balog - flute
Villő Oláh - violoncello
Quasars Ensemble
August 25. 7:00 pm, Boarding School
Program:
1. Kaija SAARIAHO: Couleurs du vent
2. Kaija SAARIAHO: Tempest Songbook
3. Igor STRAVINSKY: Le Sacre du Printemps (For Four Hands Piano)
Performers:
Mario Caroli - flute
Natalia Pcsenyicsnyikova - soprano
Stephan Loges - bariton
Quasars Ensemble
Gábor Csalog, András Kemenes - piano
August 25. 9:30 pm, Arboretum
Parkinprogress 2 - Artistic crossovers in the Park/Green (European night of young creation)
August 26. 9:00 am - 2:00 pm, Projection Room
Film screening:
Christoph Baumann - Amok (2011, 15')
August 26. 11:30 am, Our Lady Chapel
Program:
Carlo Gesualdo da VENOSA - Tenebrae Responsoria (extracts)
Performers:
Ensemble Energeia
August 26. 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Projection Room
Film screening:
David M. Lorenz - in the Nick of Time (2011, 14')
August 26. 3:30 pm, Library
Program:
1. Kaija SAARIAHO: Jardin Secret I.
2. Igor STRAVINSKY: Three Sacred Songs (After Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa)
3. Kaija SAARIAHO: Tag des Jahrs
4. Igor STRAVINSKY: Credo
5. Igor STRAVINSKY: Ave Maria
Performers:
St. Ephraim Male Choir
Schola Cantorum Budapestiensis
Artistic leader:
Tamás Bubnó
Tickets: HUF 1500 / Concert (For Students: HUF 1300)
In the case of ordering on-line tickets, the following discounts are offered:
Buying tickets for 5 or 6 programmes: 5 percent of the total amount
Buying tickets for 7 or 8 programmes: 15 percent of the total amount
Source: www.arcustemporum.hu
Rights for change of the programs and performers are reserved!
