documentary Alexey Shor, The Portrait of a Maltese Composer 2018 Malta International Music Festival

2018 Malta International Music Festival

Alexey Shor, The Portrait of a Maltese Composer 2018 Malta International Music Festival

About

A portrait documentary about famous American-Maltese composer Alexey Shor on the occasion of Images from Great Siege world premiere—an orchestral work performed by the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and Armenian State Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sergey Smbatyan during the 2018 Malta International Music Festival. The film includes fascinating interviews with Shor himself and Maxim Vengerov, Ray Chen, Salvatore Accardo, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, David Aaron Carpenter, Denis Kozhukhin...

More information about Alexey Shor could be found here.

Cast

Alexey Shor

Salvatore Accardo
Nareh Arghamanyan
David Aaron Carpenter
Ray Chen
Constantine Orbelian
Andreas Ottensamer
Dmitry Sitkovetsky
Maxim Vengerov
Julia Zilberquit

Program

Alexey Shor, "Images from the Great Siege": Symphonic Cycle for Two Orchestras
Alexey Shor, "Travel Notebook", Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Alexey Shor, "Crystal Palace" Suite
Alexey Shor, Violin Concerto No. 1, "Seascapes"
Alexey Shor, The Well-Tempered Chanson
Johann Sebastian Bach / Alexander Ilyich Siloti, Prelude in B Minor (from BWV 855a)

Details

Directed by:
- John Blanch
- Agnieszka Biolik
Production date: 2018
Duration: 25 min
Production: J. Blanch productions films with the support of European Foundation for Support of Culture
Available version(s): EN