Nuoret muusikot Gloria Ilves ja Kosta Jakić soittivat koronaan kuolleelle ystävälleen omistetun pääsiäiskonsertin Hietsun paviljongissa 11.4.2020.
Ohjelma: César Franck: Sonaatti viululle ja pianolle A-duuri.
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Young musicians Gloria Ilves and Kosta Jakić played an Easter live stream concert at the Hietsun Paviljonki on April 11, 2020, at 7 p.m
Programme: César Franck: Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano
They dedicated their concert to their friend Siniša Jakovljević and other victims of the coronavirus.
You can still watch the live streaming on Hietsun paviljonki YouTube channel
Organized by Töölön kaupunginosat - Töölö ry. & Hietsun paviljonki.
The live streaming was watched around corona-stricken Europe, sharing the solidarity of the situation through the transformative power of music by the two young artists.
In Memory of Siniša Jakovljević and other victims of corona
“Through the sensible and transformative power of music, we would like to come together and invite you to honour the memory of our dear friend Siniša Jakovljević, who was too early taken away from his loved ones by the coronavirus. Music, being in its essence an immaterial appearance, just a passing moment, in perfect balance between existing and non-existing, it also extracts our most profound and strongest emotions. Siniša will be missed and will remain with us, through the immaterial. Our thoughts and music go to the family, to the family of all victims and to all of us worldwide facing the actual state of unknown’”
C. Frank: Piano and Violin sonata
César or, to give him his full gloriously quintuple-barrelled forename, César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck, had his early career shaped by a combination of innate musical talent, and an overbearing father – a Walloon mine superintendent. His father exploited César's prodigious talent as a pianist, sending him and his violinist brother on well-paid concert tours at the expense of his education at the Paris Conservatoire. His early compositions were showy piano pieces written for such tours, but aged twenty he wrote four piano trios, which secured his reputation as a composer. Yet, much of his life, he was compelled to earn his living in Paris as a piano teacher during the weeks and as a church organist at the weekends. He was also a much-loved teacher of the composition both individually and as professor of organ at the conservatoire. Most of his composition was for organ and, less successfully, for choirs. He did not return to writing chamber music until his later years: the piano quintet in 1879, tonight's sonata in 1886 and the string quartet in 1889. These works are of his best and established a new era of French chamber music.
Franck wrote the Violin Sonata when he was 63, as a wedding present for the 31-year- old Belgian virtuoso violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe and presented the work to Ysaÿe on the morning of his wedding. After a hurried rehearsal, Ysaÿe performed the Sonata at the wedding. He gave the first public performance later that year at the Brussels Museum of Modern Painting. By the end of a long programme, the lights were fading. Because the gallery authorities permitted no artificial light, he had to play the last three movements from his memory in virtual darkness.
The opening movement is in an incomplete sonata form. Its atmosphere is reflective, almost dreamy. The harmonies wander about, not knowing where to go, in what appears to be relentless questioning, taking us to the most unexpected places. The piece develops less by thematic opposition than by a gradual rising and falling of tension. It uses what Franck referred to as “cyclic” development: all the movements share common thematic threads. On the opposite side of the musical register, the second movement is turbulent, restless and very passionate. It is nonetheless interrupted by what appears to be a distantly related glimpse of the first movement. The third movement is the emotional climax and somewhat amorphous; Franck called it a “recitativo-fantasia.” It is the most tragic movement and ends without any light, with low F sharp minor chords. Then a surprise arrives in the cathartic Finale. It eases all pains, heals all wounds, gives hope and brings back the light to end this majestic piece with glory.
Gloria Ilves is an Estonian violinist. She has participated and won several prizes in many international competitions in Italy, Russia, Lithuania, Austria and Estonia. Spring 2019 marks her recital debut in Bonn, with pianist Hiroko Matta-Klein. Gloria has performed as a soloist with various orchestras around Estonia, among which Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Chamber Orchestra and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra.In 2016, she made her symphonic orchestra debut by performing Paganini violin concerto no 1 with Tallinn Music High School Symphony Orchestra in the prestigious Estonian National Concert Hall. Gloria Ilves performs on a Joseph (Giuseppe) Gagliano violin (1770 - 80) that was generously lent from the Estonian Foundation of Musical Instruments.
Kosta Jakić is Belgian and post-Yugoslav pianist and conductor. Since 2014, Kosta has been playing solo recitals throughout Europe - in Belgium, France, Germany, Serbia and Finland. Being present on Belgrade musical stage for several years, 2019 marked his debut in the legendary Kolorac Music Centre with a solo recital featuring the works by Schumann and Liszt. 2020 sees his concert debut in Helsinki as well as his orchestral debut, in the prestigious main venue of the Sibelius Academy. Kosta has played recitals by several festivals, among which are the Petit Festival de Musique en Tregor( Brittany/ France) in 2017 and 2018, the Antwerp Rachmaninov Marathon in 2014 and the Antwerp chamber music festival in 2019. Kosta’s repertoire is very varied and includes composers like Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin, Franck, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich and Frederic Rzewski.
In the spring of 2017, together with Miksalište, a Hosting Center for Migrants in Serbia, Kosta organised a recital jointly with Belgian pianist Catho Veltjen gathering 200 refugees from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Irak, Iran and Syria. The evening ended with a discussion with the audience, among which many were listening their very first “classical” concert. Siniša was also present that day.