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Georg Friedrich Handel (1685 – 1759)
Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op.6, No. 5, HWV 323 (1739)
Ouverture. Larghetto
Allegro
Presto
Largo
Allegro
Menuet. Un poco larghetto

soloists:
Dmitry Borodin, viola
Artemy Savchenko, viola

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
Concerto for Four Violins in G Major, TWV 40:201 (1740–1750)
Largo e staccato
Allegro
Adagio
Vivace

soloists:
Elena Rais, viola
Elena Ivanova, viola
Olga Artyugina, viola
Aisylu Saifullina, viola

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, BWV 1051 (before 1721)
Allegro
Adagio ma non tanto
Allegro

performers:
Evgeny Shchegolev, viola
Irina Sopova / Dinara Muratova, viola
Alexander Prozorov, cello solo
Demian Gorodnichin, Maria Magieva – viol
Pavel Styopin, double bass
Ekaterina Byazrova, harpsichord

Erbarme dich, mein Gott (“Have Mercy, my God”), alto aria (Peter’s lament) from the St Matthew Passion, No. 47 (39), BWV 244 (1727–1729, second edition 1736)

soloists:
Anastasia Yerofeyeva, mezzo-soprano
Vladislav Pesin, violin

Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and basso continuo in D minor, BWV 1043 (ca. 1730)
Vivace
Largo, ma non tanto
Allegro

Soloists:
Vladislav Pesin, viola
Ilya Gaisin, viola

Andreas Moustoukis (b. 1971)
“Liturgy of St. Leontius” for mixed choir (2021)

Im Äther for mixed choir, 4 double basses, electronics, percussion and the ondes Martenot (2023, world premiere)

performers:
musicAeterna Choir and Orchestra Soloists

Conductor Vitaly Polonsky

MusicAeterna resident composer Andreas Moustoukis presents the result of his two-year work at Dom Radio. Together with the “Liturgy of St. Leontius”, fragments of which have been repeatedly heard in the concerts by the musicAeterna Choir, on June 6, the world premiere of his new composition – IM ÄTHER (“In Ether”) for mixed choir, 4 double basses, electronics, percussion and the ondes Martenot will take place. This is a micropolyphonic work based on the poems by Paul Celan interspersed with quotations from world cinema.

The author explains the essence of the new work as follows: “Im Äther (στον αιθέρα) is the need to breath out in the stratosphere were the gravitation is low and all the time is becoming one and a single moment of a crystal silence. The past, the present and the future stop to exist between then and now in a violent and compensating ‘why’, they just exist timelessly in the cosmic black as if they were small red shining dots of love, the tears of eternity.”

Photo: Selena Zhigulskaya