iPalpiti Festival 2025
In this 28th summer season, we bring you another interim “mini-festival” featuring our STELLAR ALUMNI Yury Revich/Austria, Svetlana Smolina/USA, Juan-Miguel Hernandez/Canada, and Francisco Vila/Ecuador, in concerts and events in Beverly Hills and beyond this July 18-22.
In 2023, after 25 seasons of local and international accolades, and, naming the festival “…one of the highlights — in some years, THE highlight — of the summer here,” iPalpiti festival transitions into biennial production.
It will allow the organization to focus on grants and awards to the artists, catalog and digitize massive historical recordings and materials, and also allow iPalpiti’s Maestro, Eduard Schmieder, to take on other summer engagements.
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Friday, July 18
Greystone Mansion, Beverly Hills
Dinner on the Terrace | Concert in the Mansion – 6:00 PM
Concert in the Mansion Only – 7:30 PM
Maurice Ravel (1875 -1937)
Celebrating the Year of Ravel
Sonata for Violin and Piano (1923 to 1927)
inspired by forms of American jazz and blues 16’
2025 is being celebrated as Maurice Ravel’s 150th birthday year by musicians and music institutions worldwide. This commemoration acknowledges the sesquicentennial of his birth in 1875 and celebrates his significant contributions to 20th-century music.
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)
Three Madrigals H 313 (1947) 16’
Poco Allegro. Poco Andante. Allegro Vivo.
Considered a violin prodigy in his Bohemian hometown, Martinů moved to Paris in 1923 to study composition. His symphonic career began when he emigrated to the United States in 1941, fleeing the German invasion of France. Three Madrigals were inspired by a performance of Mozart Duos by his friends, the brother-sister duo Joseph and Lilian Fuchs, to whom he dedicated the Madrigals.
Franz Lizst (1811-1886)
Mephisto Waltz N 1, S. 514 (1856-1861)
“Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke” (The Dance in the Village Inn)
A visionary piano superstar, Lizst composed several top-class virtuoso pieces for piano, including the four Mephisto Waltzes. No. 1 is the most famous of the four and remains one of the most frequently performed. The literary template for the program comes from the verse epic “Faust. Ein Gedicht” by Nikolaus Lenau. In the “Dance” episode, Faust and Mephisto enter a village tavern. Mephisto grabs a musician’s violin, tunes the instrument and plays a wild dance on it – while Faust disappears into the forest with a harlot. Liszt transfers this scene to piano in rich detail: violin’s voices as empty fifths, the infernal dance and finally the song of a nightingale in the forest.
Pablo de Sarasate (1844 – 1908)
Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25 12’
Violinist-composer Pablo de Sarasate gave the premiere of his hugely demanding Carmen Fantasy in Paris in 1883 – the dramatic hit tunes of Bizet’s Carmen, a tragic tale of love and jealousy.
Yury Revich (1991 – )
“Choriner Wald” (Forest of Chorin) (2023) 6’
Commissioned by Choriner Sommer Festival and Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Yury arranged the piece for the piano quartet for this US premiere.
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25 (1861)
IV. Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto 12’
In 1862, the 29-year-old composer and pianist Johannes Brahms settled in Vienna, the capital of the western musical world. He introduced himself to that city’s musical elite with his Piano Quartet in g minor, the first of his eventual three. Members of the Hellmesberger Quartet, one of Vienna’s leading chamber ensembles, read the work with the composer at the piano; at its conclusion, the violinist Joseph Hellmesberger leapt from his chair, enthusiastically proclaiming, “This is the heir of Beethoven!” Quartet will be performed in its entirety at Sunday’s concert.
Saturday, July 19, 8 PM
Rooftop Soirée @Petit Ermitage
MEMBERS or by Invitation ONLY
ANNOUNCED from stage
Yury Revich (1991 – )
Prelude 3’
The Velvet Violet 3’
Ernst von Dohnányi (1877 -1960)
Serenade in C major, Op. 10, for string trio 20’
I. Marcia: Allegro
II. Romanza: Adagio non troppo
III. Scherzo: Vivace
IV. Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto
V. Rondo (Finale): Allegro vivace
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
– Trio: Animato
Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25 (1861) 40’
I. Allegro
II. Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo
III. Andante con moto
IV. Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto
Monday, July 21, 12 PM
Rotary Club of Beverly Hills Meets iPalpiti
The Beverly Hills Hotel
MEMBERS ONLY
7 PM
Meet the Artists: Farewell Randezvous | Private Residence TBA
A chance for patrons’ social night Meet, Hear, and Hug the artists before their return to their homes.
RSVP: $100.00
*put Meet the Artists July 21
Private Estate, Beverly Hills
Address provided with paid reservation
FREE to Benefactors and Patrons, RSVP to info@iPalpiti.org before July 4th.
Beverly Hills Festival-in-residence since 1998.
THANK YOU TO THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS FOR ITS CONTINUING SUPPORT