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26-Nov-2021
Ghenadie Rotari Performs at Meridian International Festival - Romaniaby Dr Herbert Scheibenreif Manager of Friedrich Lips Productions |
 Video: Ghenadie Rotari performing his program entitled “Terra Incognita”.The 16th edition of Meridian International Festival organized by the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists (UCMR) and the ISCM Romanian Section took place this month in a format adapted to the present pandemic situation in Romania. For 2021, the proposed theme was Planetarium – exploring the infinite sonic cosmos of human imagination, as well as paying homage to the great musicians that contributed to the affirmation of Romanian avantgarde music scene. Each concert was organized after the model of an imaginary celestial body. Ghenadie Rotari featured in his online concert called “Terra Incognita” accordion solo works by Krzysztof Olczak, Diana Rotaru, Rebecca Saunders, Gabriel Malancioiu, Erkki Jokinen and Natalia Prokopenko. Krzysztof Olczak‘s “Phantasmagorien” (1984) was the winner of the 1984 composition competition “Città di Castelfidardo”. Written by the Polish accordionist and composer Krzysztof Olczak, the work explores the sound capabilities of the accordion through the use of a pervading impulse of the bellows, ample chords, clusters and percussive noises. Rebecca Saunders‘ “Flesh” (2018) is dedicated to Krassimir Sterev with whom Ghenadie worked closely investigating this very particular palette of sounds for the accordion combined with the voice. The text explores a particularly explicit fragment of Molly Bloom ´s interior monologue, the final chapter of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”. Gabriel Malancioiu’s “Paramita” (2011) is a buddhist term meaning “that which goes beyond”, pointing toward the transcendental realm. The main idea of the work is attaining a state of dynamic equilibrium between the relentless character of the first movement and the static character of the second one. Erkki Jokinen‘s “Alone” (1978), dedicated to Matti Rantanen, is the only work that Jokinen wrote for accordion solo. It is a very impressionistic piece that uses modern techniques like clusters, glissandi non-temperati, stereophony, etc. The title probably refers to the creative process of an artist, in this case a composer, sitting in front of a blank sheet of paper on which he is supposed to create, alone. Natalia Prokopenko’s “El mar donde desaparecian los tiempos” (2014) (the sea where times disappeared) was written in 2014 under the impression of the prose of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and is dedicated to the memory of the great writer. Diana Rotaru “Some reeds and some air moving them” (2019) was written for the accordionist Klemen Leben and commissioned by DocMus, Sibelius Academy of Uniarts Helsinki. The frenetic, Balkan rhythms of the beginning gradually transform into a bizarre lamento that grows more and more dramatic. |