ODESSA CLASSICS TALLINN 2023. Pre-concert

Programme

Concert is presented by

Alfred Schnittke
Suite in the Old Style

Johannes Brahms
Scherzo in C Minor for Violin & Piano (From the FAE-Sonata)

Edvard Grieg
Violin Sonata No. 3, II and III movement

Claude Debussy
Clair de Lune

Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne Op. 48 No. 1 in C minor

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Suite No. 1 Op. 5, III and IV movement (arr. Alexey Botvinov)

The second Odessa Classics Tallinn festival will begin on the 25th of May. Before that, however, there will be a pre-concert of the festival, during which the supporters of the previous year’s festival will be thanked and the program for this year will be introduced. Violinist Hans Christian Aavik and pianists Karolina Aavik and Alexey Botvinov will take the stage.

In June 2015, the Odessa Classics music festival was held in Odessa, Ukraine for the first time. Its founder, pianist Alexey Botvinov’s mission was to create a festival that would help Ukraine move closer to Europe and resist Russian-initiated military aggression. Odessa Classics has been associated with Estonia since its first days, through our musicians, festival guests and supporters.

In order not to break the tradition of the festival, Odessa Classics will have a temporary home in Estonia and will be called Odessa Classics Tallinn. We hope you will join us in supporting the festival in these turbulent and difficult times.