NOSPR / Domingo Hindoyan / Piotr Pławner / Ivan Monighetti / Klaudiusz Baran - NOSPR

Gubaidulina’s Triple Concerto is a fruit of her enduring friendship with Elsbeth Moser, who popularised the bayan – a Russian accordion, the name of which refers to the figure of the legendary bard Boyan. Fascinated by Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, Moser asked her friend to write a work in which the part of the keyboard instrument would be given to the bayan, which would naturally help to shape the form. The circumstances surrounding the work’s first performance certainly favoured its reception more than those in which Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony was first heard. After the composer had spent four years wrestling with the musical material, the audience, annoyed at the cold, interminable programme and poor performances, gave this revolutionary work a far cooler welcome than it receives nowadays from listeners gathered in concert halls or in night clubs, where the ‘fate motif’ rebounds off the walls, boosted by an electronic bass.

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Duration of the concert (including break): approx. 90 minutes