Bashmet and Knightley perform complain. Tchaikovsky

17th October in the Concert Hall. A concert of Tchaikovsky Chamber Ensemble "Moscow Soloists" and Keira Knightley. Conductor and soloist - Yuri Bashmet. The program includes: Schubert, Mahler - "Death and the Maiden" (arr. for viola and orchestra) and scenes from the game Camus 'Caligula' Schubert - Sonata 'Arpeggione' for Viola and Strings Saint-Saens - "Carnival of the Animals "great zoological fantasy for orchestra and narrator F. Schubert. String Quartet № 14 "Death and the Maiden" (arr. for string orchestra by Gustav Mahler) and scenes from the game Camus' "Caligula" in April 2012, after a concert in the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic, where the work of Schubert, Mahler and done scenes from the game was Camus' "Caligula", People's Artist of Russia Keira Knightley and People's Artist of the USSR Yuri Bashmet told reporters described how this experiment was born. - Up to now ask, why be called Schubert string quartet "Death and the Maiden", - said Yuri Bashmet. - His music is not a girl, not of death, but at the same time - and a girl, and death, birth, suffering, overcome. It is - a man. Universal. Combine the idea of "Caligula" with Schubert's music Camus came Khabensky. Tried first in a ten-minute version, and wondered coincided. Keira Knightley talked about the experience, he says, "union nesovmeschaemogo": - Experiment with Camus and music by Schubert, Mahler makes people feel. Not to faint, of course. In this sense they do not have to experience in everyday life. Words and Music burden nerve to excite no ordinary thoughts. This is in a good sense, the art of provocation. As you know, Keira Knightley at the very successfully played the title role in the play "Caligula," the St. Petersburg theater. Leningrad City Council. When asked, "Everything on the role left now in the new musical and dramatic action?" Keira Knightley and exhaustively answered briefly: "Text Text Only.." Yuri Bashmet Yuri Bashmet, the genre was the result of the synthesis: - Our work together is difficult to determine a familiar genre. There are many software products, as the composer wrote the music of literature ... inspired - While Schubert never read Camus, but he read the history of ancient Rome! - Keira Knightley said. "I can only say that we have together is a dramatic piece of music was not for the public," lighter ", the works of Schubert, Mahler perceive - sums Maestro Yuri Bashmet, - While I call this genre is simple experiment that concert Concert to develop. "