Gala concert
PANTONALE FESTIVAL 2025 – ACCORDION SPRING
 

The 11th International Accordion Festival PANTONALE FESTIVAL 2025 – ACCORDION SPRING presented world premieres of works by composers Gorka Hermosa, Mikolaj Majkusiak, Vladislav Zolotaryov and Roberto Molinelli. The jazz concerto by Viktor Vlasov, originally for accordion and big band, were performed in an arrangement by Artem Nyzhnyk for accordion, horn and chamber orchestra.

The international accordion artists Radu Ratoi, Daniel Roth and Vladimir Murza were performing with top European soloists such as Anna Lipkind-Mazor (violin), Andrii Murza (violin), Dmitrii Prokofiev (cello), Arkady Shilkloper (horn), the choir Goldmund Vokalensemble under Yannick Wittmannand and the ‘Pantonale Kammerorchester’ under its conductor Miran Vaupotić.

Mikolai Majkusiak's triple concerto ‘Pictures from Darkness’ - a work for violin (Anna Lipkind-Mazor), cello (Dmitrii Prokofiev) and accordion (Radu Ratoi) were premiered with chamber orchestra, as a work for accordion (Radu Ratoi) with chamber orchestra by Roberto Molinelli.

The poem ‘Martin Eden’ after Jack London for viola and orchestra by Vladislav Zolotaryov, who died 50 years ago under tragic circumstances, were premiered with Roberto Molinelli as soloist.

Gorka Hermosa, whose composition ‘Peace Dream’ premiered at the two Pantonale Peace Festivals in 2023 and 2024, has added another work to this programme with ‘Hope’. ‘Peace Dream’ is based on the Ukrainian ‘Vesnyanka’ (Spring Song) and the Russian folk song ‘Utushka lugovaya’ (Meadow Duckling). These melodies enter into a relationship with each other, drown out and cross over each other and enter into a musical dialogue. In ‘Hope’, solo singers and a choir were complement the accordion trio and the chamber orchestra. At first, both Ukrainian and Russian melodies will appear as mystical as Neptune in the orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst and finally as solemn as Jupiter at the end.

Programme

• Mikołaj Majkusiak 
  ‘Pictures from Darkness’ for violin, cello, accordion and string orchestra.  
• Vladislav Solotaryov
  ‘Martin Eden’ Poem after Jack London for viola (Roberto Molinelli) and chamber orchestra. 
• Gorka Hermosa 
  ‘Peace Dream-Friedenstraum’
  Concerto in 3 movements for three accordions and chamber orchestra 
  ‘Hope-Hoffnung’ for singer-soloists, choir (Goldmund Vokalensemble under Yannick Wittmann), 3 accordions, chamber orchestra. 
  Text by Friedrich Schiller.
• Roberto Molinelli 
  ‘Visions from Sonnenland’ (Romance / Tarantella) for accordion (Radu Ratoi) and chamber orchestra. 
• Viktor Vlasov 
  ‘Jazz Concerto’ for accordion, horn and chamber orchestra - arrangement by Artem Nyzhnyk 
• Arkady Shilkloper 
  ‘Pilatus’ arrangement for alphorn, accordion and chamber orchestra   
  ‘PHIGA’ arrangement for horn, accordion and chamber orchestra
• Yuri Povolotsky 
  "Adios Amigo" für Violine, Akkordeon und Kammerorchester
• PANTONALE chamber orchestra under the direction of Miran Vaupotić.  

Download the concert program (PDF, in German)


Gorka Hermosa: Concerto ‘Peace Dream’ in the Berlin Philharmonie in May 2024