PROGRAMME 2025

Gidon Kremer – Pauline van der Rest – Elba Festival Orchestra Strings • Pärt, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky
Happy Birthday Arvo Pärt – 90 years

Giardino della Capitaneria di Porto | Portoferraio

Gidon Kremer violin | Pauline van der Rest violin
Elba Festival Orchestra Strings | Liana Gourdjia concertmaster

A. Pärt	Fratres for violin, percussion and string orchestra (1992)
F. Mendelssohn	Concerto in D minor for violin and string orchestra MWV 03
P. I. Tchaikovsky	Serenade for strings op. 48

Saturday, August 30 – 11.30 am

Solisti del Festival • Leclair, Rossini, Mozart, Chaplin, Gershwin, Piazzolla
160th Anniversary of the Italian Coast Guard

Tickets

Ander Bruschi, José López García, Manuel Pérez Morodo, Jesús Perogil Ostos, Juan de Dios Ruiz Racero, Anna Lilla Székely violins | Leona Kondratenko, Elena Santana de la Rosa violas | Orfeo Mandozzi cello | Amerigo Bernardi double bass | Alfonso González Barquín trumpet

J.M. Leclair	Sonata for two violins op. 3 n. 5
G. Rossini	Sonata a quattro n. 3 (1804)
W.A. Mozart	Andante from String Quintet K. 515

Transcriptions for trumpet and strings:

C. Chaplin	Smile
G. Gershwin	Someone to Watch over me
⁠A. Piazzolla	Milonga del Ángel

Saturday, August 30 – 9.30 pm

Olivia Trummer: LIKE WATER

Olivia Trummer piano, vocals

LIKE WATER

Jazz

Sunday, August 31 – 6.30 pm

Gidon Kremer – Michael Dangl – Kremerata Baltica Soloists • Fragments of life in letters

Gidon Kremer. Fragments of life in letters Italian premiere

Texts from the letters of Gidon Kremer (Italian translation by Valery Voskobojnikov)

music from Bach to Laufey

Monday, September 1 – 6.30 pm

Festival Soloists • Britten, Lutosławski, Hindemith, Beethoven
80 years since the end of World War II

Georgy Kovalev viola | Edgar Moreau cello | Akane Sakai piano

B. Britten	Lachrymae (Reflections on the song of John Dowland) op. 43 for viola and piano
W. Lutoslawski	Bucolics 5 miniatures for viola and cello
P. Hindemith	Scherzo for viola and cello
L. van Beethoven	Sonata for cello and piano n. 3, op. 69

Tuesday, September 2 – 6.30 pm

Festival Soloists – Annie Dutoit Argerich • Schönberg, Schubert
210 years since the departure of Napoleon from the Island of Elba

Cristian Budu piano | Aylen Pritchin, Issey Imai violins | David Quiggle viola | Raphael Bell cello | Amerigo Bernardi double bass
Annie Dutoit Argerich reciter

A. Schönberg	Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte (poem by Lord Byron) op. 41 for string quartet, piano and reciter
F. Schubert	Quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass D. 667 The Trout

Wednesday, September 3 – 9.30 pm

Martha Argerich – Festival Soloists – Elba Festival Orchestra Strings • Schumann, Shostakovich
50 years since the death of Dmitri Shostakovich

Teatro Flamingo | Capoliveri

R. Schumann	Quintet for 2 violins, viola, cello and piano op. 44
D. Shostakovich	Concerto for piano, trumpet and string orchestra op. 35

Thursday, September 4 – 9.30 pm

Fabrizio Bosso – Lorenzo Tucci – Daniele Sorrentino • DRUMPET

Fabrizio Bosso trumpet | Lorenzo Tucci drums | Daniele Sorrentino double bass

DRUMPET

Jazz

Friday, September 5 – 6.30 pm

Enrico Pace – Roman Simovic – Erica Piccotti • Ravel
150 years from the birth of Maurice Ravel

Chiesa dei SS. Giacomo e Quirico | Rio

Enrico Pace piano | Roman Simovic violin | Erica Piccotti cello

M. Ravel	Sonata for violin and piano M. 77
	Sonata for violin and cello M. 73
	Trio for violin, cello and piano M. 67

Sunday, September 7 – 6.30 pm

Duo Tomasi – Musso

Davide G. Tomasi guitar | Marco Musso guitar

I. Albéniz	El Puerto, Granada, Córdoba
M. Ravel	Sonatine M. 40
M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco	Fuga Elegiaca
	3 Preludes and Fugues op. 199
A. Piazzolla	Tango Suite

Monday, September 8 – 6.30 pm

Villa Romana delle Grotte | Portoferraio
Due to weather uncertainty, the concert has been moved to the TEATRO DEI VIGILANTI “RENATO CIONI” IN PORTOFERRAIO, starting at 7:30 PM.

Mario Brunello – Mauro Valli • Bach

Mario Brunello 4 string cello piccolo | Mauro Valli 5 string cello piccolo

J.S. Bach (transcriptions for keyboard of Gustav Leonhardt, version for 2 piccolo cellos)

	Sonata n. 3 BWV 1005
	Suite n. 5 BWV 1011
	Partita n. 3 BWV 1006

Tuesday, September 9 – 6.30 pm

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CANCELLED
Due to severe weather warning the concert has been cancelled and it will not be rescheduled. Refund information will be communicated as soon as possible.
All upcoming events of the Elba Musical Island of Europe Festival are currently confirmed.

Mario Brunello – Georgijs Osokins • Mahler, Pärt, Brahms

Fortezza Pisana | Marciana

Mario Brunello cello | Georgijs Osokins piano

G. Mahler	Kindertotenlieder (“Songs on the Death of Children”) 1904
Arvo Pärt	Für Alina
	Partita op. 2
	Lamentate: Fragile e conciliante (transcription for piano by G. Osokins)
J. Brahms	Vier ernste Gesänge (“Four Serious Songs”) op. 121

Wednesday, September 10 – 6.30 pm

Jacopo Taddei – Samuele Telari • ALTO RITMO 2025

Jacopo Taddei saxophone | Samuele Telari accordion

Arturo Márquez (1950)	Danzón no. 2 (arr. J. Taddei)
John Williams (1932)	from Schindler’s List (arr. J. Taddei / S. Telari):
	Jewish Town
	Theme from Schindler’s List
Roberto Esposito (1984)	Samba Adriatica
G. Gershwin / I. Frolov	Porgy and Bess
Paulo Jorge Ferreira (1967)	Nuances a 2 (arr. J. Taddei/ S. Telari)
Suite del Sur (arr. J. Taddei/ S. Telari):
	Hermeto Pascoal (1936) Viva o Rio de Janeiro
	César Camargo Mariano (1943) Curumim
	Javier Girotto (1965) Aires Tango

Thrsday September 11 – 6.30 pm

ELBA FESTIVAL PRIZE • Matteo Bussi – Oleksandr Sayko