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05-Feb-2016
Unique, 'Original Harmonicas' for Tchaikovsky Orchestral Suite No. 2 - Russiaby Yulia Amerikova |
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 Thanks to the initiative of Yulia Amerikova and Alexander Selivanov, there was a significant event for accordion, 17th January in the Big Hall of Perm Philharmonic and 20th January in the Concert Hall of Tchaikovsky in Moscow, when the audiences were able to listen to the Orchestral Suite No. 2 by Tchaikovsky with 'Original Harmonicas'.The 'Orchestral Suite No. 2’ is unique because in the third part – ‘Scherzo Burlesque’ – the composer for the first time in history, used diatonic harmonicas (in E) within a symphony score. Because of a special request by Alexander Selivanov, the Scandalli Factory in Italy manufactured a set of four matching harmonicas exactly to authentic specifications. The 4 diatonic accordions were played by famous Moscow accordionists and international competition winners (picture above) of Sergey Osokin, Yulia Amerikova, Maria Vlasova and Alexander Selivanov. Middle of the picture is the conductor Vladimir Jurowski, who is also the Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic. These two performances took place within the philharmonic subscription concerts "Tribute to P.I. Tchaikovsky" by the legendary State Academic Symphony Orchestra “Evgeny Svetlanov”. The artistic director of the Svetlanov Orchestra, renowned conductor Vladimir Jurowski, supported the idea to use authentic instruments and was very pleased with the musical result. This was the first time since the Tchaikovsky period, that instruments as conceived by the composer have been used. Up to now, modern concert accordions have been used and using original harmonicas has created a fundamental difference in articulation and also a special timbre. The original harmonicas aroused great interest from both the conventional and professional members of the audience and the experiment was recognized as very successful because of adding new coloring and originality to the orchestral sound. One of the musicians attending the concert in Moscow said that he finally understood why Tchaikovsky used harmonicas in the symphony score and, in his opinion, it was a brilliant godsend of the great composer! |
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