2011
MARTINŮ FESTTAGE 2011
13 November - 26 November
Artistic Director: Robert Kolinsky
Titular Patronage:
Didier Burkhalter, Federal Councillor
Václav Havel, Ex-President of the Czech Republic
Josef Suk (✝), violinist
opening concert – JAZZ
«Marti-new»
Sunday, 13 November, 7pm, the bird’s eye jazz club
Rolf Zielke/piano - Stephan Braun/cello - Jonas Schoen/sax
Adaptions of works by Bohuslav Martinů and Georg Friedrich Händel
Family concert
«MARTINŮ, the sounding biography»
Wednesday, 16 November, 6pm, Museum Tinguely
Concept and direction: Bernhard Dittmann, Narrator: Kurt Aeschbacher
Musicians: Price winner of the musical schools Basel-Land.
Chamber concert
HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD/piano
JENS-PETER MAINTZ/CELLO
Sunday, 20 November, 7pm, Stadtcasino Basel, Festsaal
(Introduction: Prof. Giselher Schubert)
Bohuslav Martinů: Sept arabesques - études rythmiques pour violoncello et piano, H.201
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke op. 73
Bohuslav Martinu: Nocturnes - four etudes for violoncello and piano, H.189
Johannes Brahms: Sonata for cello and piano n° 1 op. 38
Bohuslav Martinů: Variations on a Theme of Rossini for cello an piano, H.290
Grosse Kunst im kleinen Massstab
Basler Zeitung, 22. November 2011, Sigfried Schibli, PDF
Eine wahre Flut der Klaviertöne
Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, 22. November 2011, Rolf de Marchi, PDF
Cinema
«KEEP the rhythm»
Tuesday, 22 November, 7pm, Stadtkino Basel
"Keep the Rhythm!" (Drž Rytmus!) (OmU) (CZ/d) | Olga Sommerová
Documentary film about the Martinů piece "Spalíček" directed by Olga Sommerová with a choreography from Eva Blažíčková
final concert - orchestra
DEUTSCHE KAMMERPHILHARMONIE BREMEN
HEINRICH SCHIFF/Conductor – CHRISTIAN POLTÉRA/CELLO
Saturday, 26 November, 8pm, Martinskirche
(Introduction 7.15pm: Istvan Hajdu)
Bohuslav Martinů: Intermezzo, H. 330
Bohuslav Martinů: Konzert für Cello und Orchester Nr. 1, H. 196III
Franz Schubert: Sinfonie Nr. 9, C-Dur D 944
Basler Zeitung, 28. November 2011, Klaus Schweizer, PDF
Begeisternde Spielkultur des Orchesters
Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, 29. November 2011, CYB, PDF
