Performers
Quasars Ensemble
Ivan Buffa conductor
Bojidara Kouzmanova violin
Program
Jozef Podprocký
Concertino for violin and strings Op. 11
Ivan Parík
A Close-up from above the Lake for a narrator and 10 instruments (lyrics: M. Haľamová)
Jana Kmiťová
Cameo for six instruments
Dušan Martinček
Coexistences for string quintet
Jozef Malovec
Two Movements for chamber orchestra
Petra Bachratá
Frozen Colours for clarinet, piano, accordion, two violins and cello
The top Slovak Quasars Ensemble, specializing in the music of 20th and 21st centuries, will add another portion of the domestic chamber music to the Year of Slovak Music. Its focus on various demonstrations of Slovak music avantgarde and postmodernism will uncover the perpetual dialogue between two distant composing generations.
The commemoration of the 80th birthday of the master of poetic miniature Ivan Parík and of the charismatic dandy of piano sound Dušan Martinček is mingling with the jubilee of Martinček’s pupil, the first lady of “music still life”, Jana Kmiťová.
