Tedi papavrami violinist albanian people

  • Tedi Papavrami took up the task of translating into French the works of Albanian author Ismail Kadare, whom he had known as a child.
  • In the autumn of 1981, the rare talent of a small violinist was discussed in the highest offices of the Albanian state.
  • “For Albania, which he visited in 1993 to give several concerts, Tedi Papavrami has vague memories.

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    By Vasil Qesari

    Memorie.al/The overthrow of the great totalitarian edifice in Albania would leave behind, not only the change of the struktur, accompanied by lots of hopes, mirages and cries of happiness but, unfortunately, also many wounds, dramas, victims, dust, milk and disappointments from the most different. Ten years and more after that event, which deeply shook society, completely overturning many previous codes, rules and concepts, people still continue to ask themselves such questions as: What really happened in society Albanian, during the last 50 years of the dictatorship? How was it possible that the system managed to warp everything? Why did people accept it? What was the totalitarian logic of the transformation of society and the individual? How were the structures of totalitarian mechanisms conceived and functioning: propaganda, secret police and the exercise of the ideology of terror? How did it happen that among all the communist countries of Eastern europe, Alban

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    Tedi Papavrami
    Nelson Goerner

    Violinist Tedi Papavrami is an atypical and insatiable artist. A child prodigy, he left Albania, his birthplace isolated from the world, to make France his home. From the early 1990's he has embarked on an international career as a soloist and a chamber musician.

     

    Just as precocious, the Argentinian Nelson Goerner started learning piano at the age of five.  He shares other common points with Tedi Papavrami: high intellectual and artistic standards, virtuosity and depth of feelings.

     

    The two artists offer a programme of French chamber music.  In honourable line with his professor and friend Saint-Saëns, Fauré composed for small ensembles throughout his life.  Even though he was less prolific in this något privat eller personligt genre, Franck did give the posterity one of the most often performed sonatas for violin and piano, a real masterpiece. 

     

     

    Gabriel Fauré: Sonata for violin and piano n°1

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    Swiss-French filmmaker Raphaëlle Régnier’s touching documentary about the discreet artist’s musical and literary poetry premiers in Paris on June 14

    Tedi Papavrami… music lovers consider him one of the world’s most accomplished violinists, with an elegance, finesse, and technical wizardry that would bring tears to the eyes of Niccolò Paganini and Yehudi Menuhin. Literature aficionados know and appreciate him as a writer and the official translator of award-winning Albanian writer and novelist Ismail Kadaré. But who is he really? Ostinato, a feature-length documentary, lifts the curtain just wide enough to allow a discreet look into the world of this exceptional artist and his unique life story – a story where great pain and great joy become twin emotions, informing his music, his writing, and his entire being.

    The biographical data are quickly told. Born in Albania in 1971, Tedi was just 4 years old when his father, a violin player and teacher himself, discovered and nurtu