Program
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
Details
In two evenings, the soloists and the string group of the musicAeterna Orchestra will perform a programme dedicated to the highest achievements of the Baroque era in the genre of instrumental concert. Bach’s Brandenburg concertos, Handel’s Concerti grossi, and numerous Telemann’s concertos represent a universal style which synthesizes the peculiarities of Italian, French, and German compositional thinking of the first third of the 18th century.