[Sunday 16. 12h30. TSC].
Concert of Cinematic Music - TICKETS
A classic of the festival returns, this time with a concert centered around incidental music in Russian cinema.
The gaze of Russian filmmaker Eldar Ryazanov permeates and transforms an original text through the incidental music of Georgy Sviridov, with the sole purpose of shifting the narrative perspective of the man considered the greatest Russian poet of all time —in his three creative dimensions: poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic movement— Alexander Pushkin (Moscow, 1799 – St. Petersburg, 1837).
Georgy Sviridov (Moscow, 1915 – 1998), a neo-Romantic composer and poetry enthusiast, infused his creative output with film and theatre scores, as in the case of the title presented here today.
The success of his song cycle based on Pushkin’s verses during his student years led to a long mentorship and friendship with Dmitri Shostakovich, the most important Russian composer of the 20th century, who once said that “Sviridov’s music rings with greater clarity when joined to poetic words.”
It is therefore unsurprising that one of Russia’s most significant filmmakers, Eldar Ryazanov (Samara, 1927 – Moscow, 2015), brought to the screen such a quintessentially Russian story —where the cold that envelops its landscape, its people, and its atmosphere seeps into the warmth of Pushkin’s prose, the vivid colours of Sviridov’s music, and the deeply rooted cinematic vision of Ryazanov himself.
