Concert of
Anna Christensson
Piano (Sweden)
&
Annastina Malm
mezzo-soprano (Sweden)
(© Dag Hjorth Jensen)
Sigurd von
Koch (1879
− 1919, Sweden):
Exotic Songs (Exotiska sånger) for
voice and piano (1914) *
[text
by Sigurd Agrell]
In the
Month of Tjaitra (I månaden Tjaitra)
As the
evening star distant (Som aftonstjärnan
fjärran)
Of Lotus
Scent and Moonlight
(Af
lotusdoft och månens sken)
The Lotus
Flower (Lotusblomman)
Hermit's
Еveningsong (Enslingens sång i kvällen)
Moses
Pergament
(1893 − 1977, Finland/Sweden):
Who Plays in the Night? (Vem spelar i natten?)
for
voice, piano and flute ad libitum
(1943) *
[text
by Pär Lagerkvist, dedicated to Gösta Nyström]
Featuring Alexander Dzhambazov (Bulgaria) – flute
Katarina Leyman
(b. 1963, Sweden):
Embroideries for solo piano (2015) *
Silvery
Threads
Running
Stitches
Silken
Strands
Bold
Patterns
Florid
Lines
Borislava Taneva (b. 1965, Bulgaria):
Triptych of
Autumn for voice and piano (1988) **
Fall Arrives [text by Robert Bly]
Song of the Autumn [text by Ivaylo
Balabanov]
Last Autumn Evening [text by Teodor
Trayanov]
Andrea
Tarrodi (b. 1981, Sweden):
Evening Songs (Aftonsånger) for voice and piano (2006)
[text
by Pär Lagerkvist]
When You
Close My Eyes (När du sluter mina ögon)
I'm Heard As a Still Temple Song...
I'm Heard As a Still Temple Song...
(Jag
hörs som stilla tempelsång...)
Close Your
Eyes, Beloved (Slut dina ögon, kära)
* * *
Claude
Debussy
(1862 – 1918, France):
Three Songs of Bilitis (Trois chansons de Bilitis)
Three Songs of Bilitis (Trois chansons de Bilitis)
for
voice and piano (1897–98)
[text
by Pierre Louÿs]
The
Pan-Pipes
(La flûte de Pan)
The Hair (La chevelure)
The Tomb of
the Water-Nymphs (Le tombeau des Naïades)
Auroral Sculpture of the Evening for solo piano (2005) *
Gösta
Nyström
(1890 – 1966, Sweden)
Soul and Landscape: New Songs by the Sea
Soul and Landscape: New Songs by the Sea
(Själ och
landskap: nya sånger vid havet) for voice and piano (1950) *
[text by Ebba Lindqvist]
[text by Ebba Lindqvist]
White Land (Vitt land)
The Wish (Önskan)
The Wish (Önskan)
Only in the
One (Bara hos den)
__________
* Bulgarian premiere
** World premiere
* * *
This concert has been made possible
thanks to the generous support of:
* * *
Anna Christensson
has since her debut concert in 2007 established herself as one of the leading
Swedish pianists, and has toured in all the Nordic and Baltic countries,
Britain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Romania,
Russia, USA and Canada. She performs regularly as a soloist with orchestras,
but has also a deep interest for chamber music, as well as for lied
interpretation and contemporary interpretation. She has also several ongoing
projects, including collaborations with other art fields, such as dance or
literature.
Anna
studied at the Royal University College of Мusic in Stockholm with professors
Anders Kilström and Mats Widlund, but she has also been taught by a number of
other musicians, among others András Schiff, Ferenc Rados, Jiri Hlinka and Rita
Wagner.
Her
repertoire is wide and she is interested not only in the big Romantic and
Classical piano tradition, but also in composers whose music unjustly risks to
be totally forgotten. This is apparent on her debut CD (2009), a double CD with
music by Henning Mankell. Her second CD – “Hilding Rosenberg: Piano Works” –
was released on the same label (Capriccio/Naxos) and was listed as 2012's third
best release, in all categories, by a critic in Sweden’s biggest newpaper Dagens Nyheter. Her newest CD was
released in 2015 and contains two highly interesting pieces: Henning Mankell’s
Piano Concerto and Gösta Nystroem’s Concerto Ricercante. These pieces were
recorded with the German State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate, and the
recording was met with great critical acclaim in BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone.
Since
2003 a member of Curious Chamber Players,
an ensemble for contemporary chamber music, Anna has given premier performances
to almost a hundred pieces. She is also, since 2014, musical leader of
Stockholm-based opera company Kamraterna.
www.annachristensson.com
The
Swedish mezzo-soprano Annastina Malm
studied Literature and History of Theatre in Stockholm and Paris before
pursuing her vocal studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in
London.
She
made her stage debut as Rosina (Il barbiere
di Siviglia) with Opéra Studio de
Genève on an extensive tour in France and Switzerland and has since then
appeared in numerous productions at major concert venues and festivals in and
around Europe, in a broad repertoire spanning from early to contemporary music.
Recent engagements include her debut on the big screen as La Marieuse in the
franco-suisse musical feature film Noces
on Stravinsky’s Les Noces by Philippe
Béziat, the title-role in Sibyl et les
Silhouettes by Line Adam with the Royal Opera of Wallonia, Fanchon in Les Troqueurs by Dauvergne at Cité de la
Musique in Paris, La Statue in Rameau's Pigmalion
with L'Orfeo Barockorchester conducted by Michi Gaigg, Kokerskan in the opera Hjärtats Nycklar by Peter Bruun and
Yvette in Boris Christ by Marcus
Fjellström with Norrbotten NEO, Brigitte in the revival of Colin-Maillard, an opéra-comique by Aristide Hignard with Les
Frivolités Parisiennes as well as a programme of Monteverdi's operas and
madrigals with French ensemble Sagittarius
conducted by Michel Laplénie.
Annastina
Malm very much enjoys chamber music and frequently appears on the concert
stage. Curious about both the past and the present, she has participated in
several premier performances and nourishes a great passion for early music.
In
2015 she made her debut as a stage director at Vadstena Summer Festival in
Sweden with the production Les Grandes
Nuits.
www.annastinamalm.com
(© Patoche)
Alexander Dzhambazov
was born in 1991 in Ruse. He graduated from the “Prof. Veselin Stoyanov”
National School of Music (Ruse) in the class of Krasimira Velikova and from the
“Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” National Academy of Music (Sofia) in the class of
Prof. Georgi Spasov. He has participated in a number of master classes given by
Patrick Gallois, András Adorján, Matthias and Wolfgang Schulz, Philippe
Bernold, Robert Winn, Dieter Flury and others.
Dzhambazov
has won many awards from prestigious national and international competitions.
He
has been a soloist with the Ruse Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sofia Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov”
National Academy of Music and others. Since November 2016, he is a
member of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra.
