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KAMIL TCHALAEV | THE CONTINUOUS THREAD

Concert · 120 min · Arno Babajanyan Concert Hall. Sonatas and Trios on Period Instruments A rare 1850 Pleyel grand piano, retaining almost all its original strings, will be brought to Babajanyan Concert Hall especially for this performance. It will be heard alongside a cello made in Mirecourt in 1862 and a replica of Stradivari’s “Hellier” violin, crafted in Cremona in 2005. Personally tuned by Tchalaev according to Serge Cordier’s method of pure fifths, the Pleyel brings a distinctive resonance to its dialogue with the strings. The instruments’ histories and individual timbres become…