MARTINŮ FESTTAGE 2011

13 November - 26 Novemeber

Artistic Director: Robert Kolinsky

Titular Patronage:

Didier Burkhalter, Federal Councillor
Václav Havel, Ex-President of the Czech Republic
Josef Suk (✝), violinist

opening concert – JAZZ

«Marti-new»

Sunday, 13 November, 7pm, the bird’s eye jazz club

Rolf Zielke/piano - Stephan Braun/cello - Jonas Schoen/sax

Adaptions of works by Bohuslav Martinů and Georg Friedrich Händel

Family concert

«MARTINŮ, the sounding biography»

Wednesday, 16 November, 6pm, Museum Tinguely

Concept and direction: Bernhard Dittmann, Narrator: Kurt Aeschbacher

Musicians: Price winner of the musical schools Basel-Land.

Chamber concert

HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD/piano

JENS-PETER MAINTZ/CELLO

Sunday, 20 November, 7pm, Stadtcasino Basel, Festsaal

(Introduction: Prof. Giselher Schubert)

Bohuslav Martinů: Sept arabesques - études rythmiques pour violoncello et piano, H.201

Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke op. 73

Bohuslav Martinu: Nocturnes - four etudes for violoncello and piano, H.189

Johannes Brahms: Sonata for cello and piano n° 1 op. 38

Bohuslav Martinů: Variations on a Theme of Rossini for cello an piano, H.290

Cinema

«KEEP the rhythm»

Tuesday, 22 November, 7pm, Stadtkino Basel

"Keep the Rhythm!" (Drž Rytmus!) (OmU) (CZ/d) | Olga Sommerová

Documentary film about the Martinů piece "Spalíček" directed by Olga Sommerová with a choreography from Eva Blažíčková

final concert - orchestra

DEUTSCHE KAMMERPHILHARMONIE BREMEN

HEINRICH SCHIFF/Conductor – CHRISTIAN POLTÉRA/CELLO

Saturday, 26 November, 8pm, Martinskirche

(Introduction 7.15pm: Istvan Hajdu)

Bohuslav Martinů: Intermezzo, H. 330

Bohuslav Martinů: Konzert für Cello und Orchester Nr. 1, H. 196III

Franz Schubert: Sinfonie Nr. 9, C-Dur D 944