Samanvay - Melodies That Build Us

Piano Recital by Gauri Mishra, distinguished pianist, awarded the National Award-Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, All India Radio graded artist.

An immersive experience taking one through the depth of Indian classical music and the pianist’s signature fusion compositions, filled with musical surprises along the way. Accompanied by renowned artists, each performance creates a seamless blend of tradition, innovation, and harmony, promising an unforgettable and enriching musical journey.
 

Piano Recital by Balázs Fülei

Balázs Fülei, Professor at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, recipient of the Liszt Ferenc Prize, the Kodály Prize, the Artisjus Award, and the Junior Prima Award.  Since 2015, Professor Fülei has served as Head of the Chamber Music Department at the Academy

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)

SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA, BALLET AND CONCERT FILMS 
Curated and Introduced by Sunit Tandon

CONCERT
A Mozart Gala from Salzburg
(106 min; 2006; dvd)

Anna Netrebko, soprano; Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano; Patricia Petibon, soprano; Ekaterina Siurina, soprano; Thomas Hampson, baritone; Michael Schade, tenor; René Pape, bass

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Daniel Harding
Harpsichord: Anton Holzapfel
Directed by Brian Large

Mozart was born in Salzburg and, except when touring Europe as a Wunderkind, spent his formative years there. His relationship with the Salzburg was not always happy, but the city more than made amends in 2006 when it celebrated the 250th anniversary of his birth. Besides staging every one of his operas, it mounted this very special gala concert on 30th July that year, with what amounted to a United Nations assembly of distinguished Mozartians. The conductor was British, the orchestra Austrian, the singers were, in order of appearance, German (René Pape), Canadian (Michael Schade), French (Patricia Petibon); Czech (Magdalena Kožená), American (Thomas Hampson) and Russian (Ekaterina Siurina and Anna Netrebko). Yet they all spoke a common language: Mozart.

Opening with the Don Giovanni Overture, the Gala included arias from that opera, from Mitridate, re di Ponto, La Clemenza di Tito, Cosi Fan Tutte, the Overture and excerpts from Idomeneo and was rounded off with a performance of Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 in D major, K.504, which was premiered under the composer’s direction in Prague.
 

SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA, BALLET AND CONCERT FILMS 
Curated and Introduced by Sunit Tandon

OPERA
Gaetano Donizetti: La Fille du regiment
Opéra-comique in two acts
(121 min; 2005; dvd; English subtitles)

From the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa, with Patrizia Ciofi (Marie); Juan Diego Flórez (Tonio); Francesca Franci (La Marquise de Berkenfeld); Dario Benini (Hortensius); Nicola Ulivieri (Sulpice); Filippo Bettoschi (a Corporal); Maurizia Burlando (La Duchesse de Crackentorp)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Stage Director: Emilio Sagi
Costume and Set Designer: Julio Galán
Lighting: Daniele Naldi

Top bel canto tenor, Juan Diego Florez, and acclaimed Italian soprano Patrizia Ciofi lead a superb ensemble cast in Donizetti’s sparkling French language opéra-comique in a production that sets the action in the final days of World War II. Marie is the daughter of an American army captain, Tonio is a young French villager whose love for her leads him to join the American ranks. When the secret of Marie’s birth is revealed and her mother insists on an aristocratic suitor, only an appeal to the memory of young love can reunite them.

PANORAMA OF BENGAL ARTS

Dance drama - Shree Radhar Manbhanjan (Shree Radha's reconciliation) 
Shree Krishna is not only most desired by Shree Radha but by all the residents of Braja. When Chandrabali wanted to claim Shree Krishna for herself, she presented the argument that "Even if there is a difference in the flowers, is there any difference in the honey? The physical identity of a man and a woman is merely the vessel; the love that flows through it is universal." But why would Shree Radha's heart accept this? She becomes resentful and Shree Krishna also understands this. This familiar story of love and separation has been immortalized in words and music by Pranab Roy and Robin Chatterjee.

Creative Director: Sougata Kundu
Presented by BARNALI group from Krishna Nagar, West Bengal

(Collaboration: Impresario India)
 

PANORAMA OF BENGAL ARTS

Folk Songs Facets of Bengal
Bengal is widely known for its rich and vibrant folk culture and folk songs occupy a very special place in the life of its people. The dialect changes in Bengal approximately in every 30 kilometres, and with it the variety of folk songs also changes. This program will portray such different varieties of Bengali folk songs from North to South Bengal.

Concept: Mihir Basu
Presented by Mihir Basu and Bishakha Basu, New Delhi  

(Collaboration: Impresario India)
 

Civil Military Relations and National Security: An Exploration of the Changing Dynamics of Civil Military Relations in a Transformed National Security Environment

Keynote Speaker: N.N Vohra, Life Trustee, IIC, former Governor, Jammu & Kashmir, former Home Secretary and Defence Secretary, Government of India

Chair: Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Discussants: Shri Sanjay Mitra, Former Defence Secretary; Admiral Arun Prakash, former Chief of Naval Staff; Lt. General D.S. Hooda, former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Indian Army's Northern Command.

IIC DOUBLE BILL: MUSIC RECITALS

Santoor Recital

By Shantanu Gokhale from Pune, disciple of Late Pandit Shivkumar Sharma.   
Accompanist: Ujith Uday (Tabla)

At 19:00 
Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Farhan Amin from Delhi, disciple of Sh.Vijay Bhaskar and Shri Rais Ahmed Khan 
Accompanist: Mukesh Bhardwaj (Harmonium) and Sandeep Khanduri (Tabla)
 

SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA, BALLET AND CONCERT FILMS 
Curated and Introduced by Sunit Tandon

BALLET
Léo Delibes: Sylvia
Ballet in three acts
(94 min; 2005; dvd)

From The Royal Ballet, London, with Darcey Bussell (Sylvia); Roberto Bolle (Aminta); Thiago Soares (Orion); Martin Harvey (Eros); Mara Galeazzi (Diana); etc.

Choreography: Frederick Ashton
Production Realization and Staging: Christopher Newton
Original Designs: Robin Ironside, Christopher Ironside
Additional Designs: Peter Farmer
Stage Lighting: Mark Jonathan
Directed for the Screen by: Ross MacGibbon
Orchestra of The Royal Opera House
Assistant Concert Master: Melissa Forshaw
Conductor: Graham Bond

Sylvia is a mythological ballet about a nymph devoted to Diana (goddess of the hunt) who falls in love with the shepherd Aminta after being shot by Eros's arrow. She is kidnapped by the evil hunter Orion, but eventually escapes with help from Eros to reunite with Aminta.

Delibes’ brilliant score is justly admired, not least by Tchaikovsky, who enthused, “It is the first ballet in which the music constitutes not just the main but the only interest.”
 

SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA, BALLET AND CONCERT FILMS 
Curated and Introduced by Sunit Tandon

CONCERT
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
New Year’s Eve Concert 1988
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 “Classical”
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
(60 min; 1988; dvd)

Evgeny Kissin, piano
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan

The 1988 Berlin Philharmonic New Year's Eve Concert was a historic performance conducted by Herbert von Karajan at the Berlin Philharmonie, featuring the debut of 17-year-old pianist Evgeny Kissin. It was one of Karajan's final concerts before his death in 1989 and is widely regarded as a landmark event that launched Kissin's international career.