Elegies & Echoes

International top talents Elizaveta Agrafenina (soprano) and Dimitri Malignan (piano) bring the music of forgotten Jewish composers to life in Elegies and Echoes. The program highlights the expressive songs of Mieczysław Weinberg, Ignace Lilien, Felix Blumenfeld, and Samuil Feinberg – composers whose immense talent was often unjustly forgotten due to war, persecution, or geopolitical circumstances.

These works serve as symbols of a bygone era, of cities and lives destroyed, showing how music can be the only remnant of what once was. Featuring a wide range of styles and characters, the program takes the listener on a journey through half a century of hope, loss, and unforgettable beauty.

The concert includes a selection of dramatic and intimate songs, solo pieces, and chamber music, where the music serves both as an elegy and an echo of times long past.

Elizaveta Agrafenina – soprano
Dimitri Malignan – piano
Special Guest: Sára Gutvill – mezzo soprano

Sára Gutvill
Hungarian-born mezzo-soprano Sára Gutvill studied German literature and linguistics and later classical singing.
Sára is mainly interested in the crossroad of literature and music, and became a passionate interpreter of German Lied as well the Yiddish Art Song repertoire. Her programs explore 20th century Jewish vocal repertoire.
She also works as a language coach for singers at a.o. the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the Dutch National Opera.

The program Elegies and Echoes has also been released on CD. If you purchase the CD together with your concert ticket, you pay only €12.50 instead of €15!