Music and words - 08.11.2025

Irina Vardeli, piano
Johann Sebastian Bach Präludium und Fuge D-Dur
1685-1750 BWV 532
Präludium und Fuge b-Moll BWV 867
Olivier Messiaen from 'Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus’
1908-1992 -Première communion de la Vierge
-Regard des prophètes, des bergers
et des Mages
Johann Sebastian Bach Präludium und Fuge c-Moll BWV 847
Josef Bardanashvili 'Postlude' (1993)
*1948
Johann Sebastian Bach Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge d-Moll
BWV 903
READINGS:
Candido Matasci; Dorothea Wiehmann
The Georgian-Israeli composer Joseph Bardanashvili on his work Postlude:
The title of the piece, “Postlude” (= after the performance), points to its content. It is about the endless wandering of thoughts, free from all kinds of boundaries and frameworks, a fantasy in space and time. My musical language is the language of signs.
The 1990s in Georgia were full of complex political and social conflicts, a time of difficult decisions. In 1995 I moved to Israel. It may be that the dramatic tension in my piece reflects my inner world at that time.
If the question is whether there is anything specific from Georgian folk music in the piece, the answer is “No.” If, however, the question is posed differently – whether there is something specific that is characteristic of the Georgian nation, such as the search for spirituality in everything, natural artistry, extreme temperament, longing for multicultural art and at the same time devotion to conservative traditions – the answer is “Yes.”
My musical style? It is very personal and individual, a mixture of two cultures and traditions – Georgian and Jewish – and has developed in my own creative, artistic way.

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