DANAE PAPAMATTHEOU - MATSCHKE & UWE MATSCHKE

The event is held in the framework of the thematic unit “War - Refugees - Immigration”

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E. Bloch: Baal Shem – Three Pictures of Chassidic Life, for violin and piano
B. Papandopulo: Sonata for violin and piano
J. Achron: Nigun, Hebrew melody
S. Prokofiev: Sonata for violin and piano no. 1 in F major, Op.80

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Drawing from Prokopiev’s monumental work created during the harsh years of World War II, Danae Papamattheou-Matschke (violin) and Uwe Matschke (piano) build a programme whose common element are artists whose work was influenced by the adversity of war or their own experiences as immigrants or refugees. The composers, using various compositional mediums, express or comment on situations and events that spring from the violence of war, the uprooting of nations, the hope of a new life in new, peaceful lands.
Thus, J. Achron’s Hebrew melody Nigun, which was written just after the end of World War I by an immigrant composer, becomes a bridge leading to Bloch’s Baal Shem, a narrative composition based on his experience of the wandering Jewish life. Prokofiev’s dramatically philosophical Sonata for violin and piano, Op. 80, composed in the aftermath of a global catastrophe becomes a link to the Sonata for violin and piano by our “own” Boris (Machos) Papandopulo, composer of the Greek Diaspora. It is a piece with strong multicultural elements, which allude to Balkan brotherhood.

Danae Papamattheou-Matschke will hold a string instrument seminar for MOYSA musicians