“Lebensstürme” – Works by F. Schubert, W. A. Mozart, M. Ravel a.o.

am 16.08.2022, 19:30
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VooDoo Piano Duo: Vuk Božilović and Dušan Grozdanović

The story of the duo begins at the end of 2012, at the beginning of the first year of study at the Faculty of Music and Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Associate Professor Sonja Loncar.

The piano duo has been performing very successfully in concert halls all over Serbia and abroad since 2014. At the FESTUM festival in 2015, they performed for the first time as soloists, accompanied by the orchestra (Belgrade Young Symphony Orchestra.

In October 2021, Vuk Bozilovic and Dusan Grozdanovic enrolled for doctoral studies at the Faculty of Music and Arts of the University of Belgrade in the Department of Chamber Music in the class of Associate Professor Sonja Loncar.

The duo also works intensively with young Serbian composers to encourage and confirm the creativity of the Serbian piano duo.

The concert programme is designed to make audible the evolutionary development of music for four hands. With this programme, the performers will present the path and diversity of musical language from classical to contemporary music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s popular Sonata for Two Pianos K488 is a reflection of pure texture and simplicity of expression, which is the starting point of the evolution heard in this recital. This three-movement work embodies the classicist mindset, bringing with it through its contrasting attitudes the serenity and virtuosity that represent the period in which it was composed. Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor is one of the most frequently performed compositions written for four hands at one piano. It brings philosophical thought and the inner struggle for contrast and fragmentation that is characteristic of the works of Romantic composers, especially the compositions of this author. In Maurice Ravel’s work, La Valse, there is a palpable transformation – in form, harmonic language and compositional technique that makes this work the centrepiece of the entire repertoire. This work, which epitomises the period between the two great wars, reaches its climax at the very end, which represents chaos and the point at which things take a different path, both in life and in the realms of art and music. Draško Adžić’s pieces are often inspired by the archaic, be it Balkan folklore or the old traditional style of non-tempo Slavic music in odd metres, whose characteristics he tries to transform and transpose into a more contemporary context, to use a neo-pagan phrase. With this way of composing, he does not reflect the visible, because the visible of his visual language simply does not exist. He makes visible the old layers of Balkan mythology that are still contained in our (Balkan) collective psyche. As far as sustainability is concerned, one of Adžić’s most important artistic credos has always been “Torniamo all’antico, sarà un progresso” – Let’s turn to the past: that will be progress.

The piece Euphoria by the young Serbian composer Momčilo Petrović presents a somewhat utopian view of the world. The piece was written in the year 2021, and the composer has tried to ignore, at least for a moment, the numerous problems we are currently facing as humanity and put us in a state of extraordinary, euphoric joy, to remind us of some of the better times from the past and strengthen our hope for the future, a future that will also bring a handful of such moments. The piece is rich in folkloric elements from Serbia and the entire Balkans.

 

This event is part of the Festival of Young Artists Bayreuth

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