On December 17, Dom Radio will host works for solo violin created by composers of different periods. The dramatic Partita by the Lithuanian avant-garde composer Vytautas Barkauskas (performed by Dmitry Borodin) and John Corigliano’s Caprices, based on his soundtrack for The Red Violin (performed by Eugene Subbotin), came from the last decades of the 20th century. Eugène Ysaÿe created the Sonata for Two Violins in 1915 for his student, Queen Elizabeth of Belgium. Whether she performed the Sonata in public is unknown, but this virtuoso piece is worthy of any monarch. “The King of the violin”, Eugène Ysaÿe masterfully combined impressionistic and expressionistic features, remaining within the romantic tradition. On December 17, the Sonata will be performed by Vadim Teifikov and Ekaterina Romanova.
Three hundred years after J. S. Bach created his great Chaconne, it is still amazing how the maitre, as if neglecting the monophonic nature of the instrument, creates a polyphonic masterpiece of incredible complexity and depth. The Chaconne’s performing tradition is as impressive as its beauty. All the famous violinists have striven to leave a mark on its history, but there is something ever living and subtle in the Chaconne that blooms in every new performance with slightly different colours. Therefore, the desire to hear and play this music does not fade away. At Dom Radio, the Chaconne will be performed by Dmitry Chepiga.
The second concert, taking place on December 19, is unique in its focus. Robert Brem will perform 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin by Georg Philipp Telemann. A friend of Handel, godfather of Bach’s son, Telemann was recognized by his contemporaries as the best composer of his era. The Fantasias, written in Hamburg in 1735, are distinguished by an astonishing harmony of various forms: there are sarabandes and toccatas, minuets and sicilianas, bourrées, passepieds, arias, gavottes... Elegant, fast, vigorous, and heartfelt, full of melodic beauty and polyphonic counterpoints, Telemann’s Fantasias are a dive into the very heart of the Baroque tradition.
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