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ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

05/10/2019 - 19:30
Grazer Congress – Stefaniensaal
Oxana Omelchuk, Mikheil Shugliashvili, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Yair Klartag, Brahim Kerkour

Mikheil Shugliashvili (1941–1996) was an extremely important teacher who served as an example for an entire generation of young composers. However, many of his works created for large orchestras were never performed in Soviet Georgia. In 2019 musikprotokoll rediscovers Shugliashvili, who died in 1996, and his energetic constructivist approach, with the first-ever performance of his orchestral work Polychronia, which was published for the first time on this occasion. In this concert his music is being played in combination with premiering commissioned works by composers from the vicinity of Europe who could veritably be described as his “second-generation” students: music by the Moroccan composer Brahim Kerkour, the Belarusian composer Oxana Omelchuk, and the Israeli composer Yair Klartag. Also included in the program is a work by Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (1919–1994), who was active for many years in Israel and who could be considered the aesthetic progenitor of all these composers.

Composition: Brahim Kerkour, Oxana Omelchuk, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Yair Klartag, and Mikheil Shugliashvili | ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra | Conductor: Ilan Volkov | The composition by Brahim Kerkour was commissioned by ORF musikprotokoll. The composition by Oxana Omelchuk is an Emil Breisach composition commissioned by ORF musikprotokoll. The score for the composition Polychronia was copublished by Boosey & Hawkes and ORF musikprotokoll for the first time on this occasion.