The concert of second night was entitled "Dancing Viola".
Yasuhiro Suzuki of Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and Sergey Malov performed Leclair's Sonata for two violas No.4 in D major.
The original of this piece is "Sonata for two violin in A major.
Today's performance seemed to me that I was listening to the conversation between two violas.
Ehrenfellner: Concerto for violin, viola and orchestra, an homage to St.Petersburg, Op10(2010) 1st movement "From deep chasm".
It is not too much to say that the encounter with Christophe who is known for as a conductor, composer as well as a violinist and Sergey as violinist and violist has led to this concerto.
Sergey appeared on the stage with viola and violin. Then he put his viola on a chair which was set between conductor and him.
This new concerto for a soloist who plays two instruments on his own was composed out of the conversation between good friends Christophe and Sergey.
Sergey played exchanging his viola for violin in turn during his performance.
"I have given respective roles on viola and violin in order to give a shape to Sergey's idea", Christophe told.
The 1st movement of this concerto was performed at Kioi Hall for the first time in the world.
The 1st and 2nd movement are going to be performed this coming November in Vienna.
All of movements will be premiered on March 11th 2011 in Salzburg.
The orchestra of this day was Toho Gakuen Orchestra conducted by Koichiro Harada.
Sergey looked for Christophe from the stage after the performance. Christophe went up to the stage. The audience and members of orchestra gave warm applause to Sergey and Christophe, a violist and composer.
I knew that Christophe had composed music since the 1st Sendai International Music Competition. I feel great that he has become a magnificent artist.
I told Christophe "I am proud of you".
Unfortunately, taking photos was prohibited during performance. After that I couldn't take pictures with them since I had to go to a reception before they showed up.
Christophe is going to come to Japan to perform as trio. I will post the detail later on this blog.
Christophe Ehrenfellner
Kurihara, SIMC volunteer for PR
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