11th International Pharos Chamber Music Festival

Growing steadily over the years, the International Pharos Chamber Music Festival is considered nowadays one of the most renowned festivals of its kind in the eastern-Mediterranean region. The Festival, which has established itself as the highlight of the Pharos Arts Foundation's Concert and Recital series, has achieved to make chamber music more accessible, with performances of the highest standard, stimulating programmes and affordable tickets. Guided by a visionary spirit and dedicated to artistic excellence and innovation, the Festival attracts over 2.000 visitors every year. The Festival maintains also a strong tradition of community service, with educational concerts organised for primary education students of the surrounding areas.

Now in its 11th year, the International Pharos Chamber Music Festival will open with a piano recital at The Shoe Factory in Nicosia with Paavali Jumppanen performing Beethoven Sonatas. It will continue with five exciting concerts in the magnificent Royal Manor House in Kouklia/Palaipaphos, one the finest surviving monuments of Frankish architecture on the island, and will feature some of the most celebrated musicians in the world, including the concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Daishin Kashimoto and the renowned flutist Emmanuel Pahud. There is some mouthwatering music to look forward to, including Mozart's Flute Quartet in D major, Arensky's String Quartet No. 2, and the string trio arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations. The Festival will conclude with another piano recital at The Shoe Factory with Philippe Cassard performing works by Liszt, Schubert and Debussy.

Programme

Tuesday 24 May 2011

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Serenade in D major, Op. 25 for flute, violin, and viola (1801)
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) / Daishin Kashimoto (violin) / Diemut Poppen (viola)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Flute Quartet No. 1 in D major, K. 285 (1778)
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) / Maja Avramovic (violin) / Diemut Poppen (viola) / Alexander Chaushian (cello)

Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899)
Le Colibri Op. 2, No. 7 / Le Charme Op. 2, No. 2 / Serenade Italienne Op. 2, No. 5

Gabriel Faure (1845 - 1929)
Les roses d' Ispahan Op. 39 No. 4 / Automne 18 No.3 / Fleur jetee Op.39 No.2
Margarita Elia (soprano) / Ashley Wass (piano)

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César Franck (1822 – 1890)
Piano Quintet in F minor (1880)
Vahan Mardirossian (piano) / Daishin Kashimoto (violin) / Tamaki Kawakubo (violin) / Diemut Poppen (viola) / Alexander Chaushian (cello)

Wednesday 25 May 2011

Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)
London Trio No. 1 in C Major, Hob.IV:1 (1795)
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) / Maja Avramovic (violin) / Timothy Park (cello)

Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Fantasia in F minor, D.940 for piano four-hands (1828)
Vahan Mardirossian (piano) / Ashley Wass (piano)

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Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
String Quintet in C major, D. 956 (1928)
Daishin Kashimoto (violin) / Tamaki Kawakubo (violin) / Amihai Grosz (viola) / Timothy Park (cello) / Alexander Chaushian (cello)

Thursday 26 May 2011

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet in C major, K. 285b. (1778)
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) / Daishin Kashimoto (violin) / Amihai Grosz (viola) / Timothy Park (cello)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Trio in E-flat, Op.1, No.1 (1795)
Ashley Wass (piano) / Daishin Kashimoto (violin) / Alexander Chaushian (cello)

Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
Flute Sonata (1957)
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) / Ashley Wass (piano)

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Jean Sibelius (1865 – 1957)
Men min fogel märks dock icke, Op.36 No.2 / Var det rn dröm?, Op.37 No.4 / Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte, Op.37 No.5 / Der Norden, Op.90 No. 1, Kaiutar, Op. 72 No.4, Små flickorna

Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849)
Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 8 (1829)

Friday 27 May 2011

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Quartet in E flat major Op. 16b (1796)
Ashley Wass (piano) / Daishin Kashimoto (violin) / Diemut Poppen (viola) / Alexander Chaushian (cello)

Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
Notturno in E-flat major, D.897 (1827)
Vahan Mardirossian (piano) / Daishin Kashimoto (violin) / Timothy Park (cello)

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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943)
Ne poy krasavitsa Op. 4 No. 4 / Zdes khorosho Op. 21 No. 7 / The pied piper Op. 38 No. 4 / A-oo Op.38 No. 6
Margarita Elia (soprano) / Vahan Mardirossian (piano)

Anton Arensky (1861 – 1906)
String Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.35 (1895)
Daishin Kashimoto (violin) / Amihai Grosz (viola) / Alexander Chaushian (cello) / Timothy Park (cello)

Saturday 28 May 2011

Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)
Le sacre du printemps (1912)
Vahan Mardirossian (piano) / Ashley Wass (piano)

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Goldberg Variations (arranged for string trio by D. Sitkovetsky)
Daishin Kashimoto (violin) / Diemut Poppen (viola) / Alexander Chaushian (cello)