TIRANA, November 25 /ATA/ The violinist Tedi Papavrami will give a concert today in context of the National Cultural Week, accompanied on the piano by Philippe Bianconi. Before the concert, the artists gave a press conference together with Minister of Culture Elva Margariti and Director of the National Theater of Opera and Ballet Abigeila Voshtina.
The concert program has significant works for the violinist and the audience, from Sonata no. 7 by Beethoven to “Ballad” by Pjetër Gaci. Thus, there are pieces of world repertoire and some Albanian ones. In one of his posts on social networks, Papavrami stated that the selection of foreign composers was logical, while the selection of the Albanian part was influenced by sentimentality.
“I don’t know what impact it can have on the public. But, it is clear that it is a work that has something very touching, somewhat naive, with elaborate folk motifs of course, coming from Shkodra of Pjeter Gaci, and this touches me, because Shkodra was a very dear city to me at that time” , said Tedi Papavrami during the press conference, referring to the “Ballad”.
At the conference, Minister of Culture stated that it is always a pleasure to have Tedi Papavrami among us. “I would not like to fall into the cliché, calling him one of our best ambassadors in the world, but the truth is that, despite his genius as an instrumentalist, despite his career, he has returned to Tirana as many times as he has been invited”, said the Minister Margariti. /j.p/r.e/p.s./
