Aleksandar Yakovlev brings his candlelit programme to the Novi Sad Synagogue on September 25 at 20:00. Tickets are around 790 denars.

The Novi Sad Synagogue was built in 1909 to a design by the Budapest architect Lipót Baumhorn and is one of the most beautiful buildings in the city. Today it serves not as a place of worship but as a concert hall, and its acoustic is the reason some of the most significant chamber events in Vojvodina take place there. For a candlelit solo recital, it is hard to find a more fitting room.

Yakovlev was born in Rostov-on-Don in 1981 and has more than 500 concerts behind him on stages such as the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, the Berlin Philharmonie, Victoria Hall in Geneva and Carnegie Hall in New York. The programme includes Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and the transcriptions of Mikhail Pletnev, which rank among the technically most demanding works for piano.

The format is simple: no stage lighting, just candles and one instrument. That changes the dynamic of the audience too, because in half-darkness attention goes entirely to the sound.

The Novi Sad night is the middle of three stops in Serbia. The previous one is Belgrade on September 24, the next Vršac on September 26. Tickets through tickets.rs.