SEASONS. VIVALDI. CHAIKOVSKY Automatic translate

October 14, 2022, 19:00.

Conductor - artistic director of the orchestra Ivan Nikiforchin.

Soloist - Anna Savkina (violin).

The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi is one of the most popular works of all time. For many, the very name "Vivaldi" is synonymous with "The Seasons" and vice versa (although he wrote a lot of other works). Even in comparison with other concertos of the same opus, these concertos demonstrate Vivaldi’s astonishing innovation in the field of the baroque concerto.

The Four Seasons by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is a kind of musical diary of the composer, capturing episodes of life, meetings and pictures of nature dear to his heart. As his brother M. I. Tchaikovsky later recalled: “Pyotr Ilyich, as rarely anyone, loved life.

The music of one of Tchaikovsky’s musical masterpieces, the piano cycle "The Seasons", is filled with this lyrical feeling of the composer, love for life and admiration for it. This cycle of 12 characteristic paintings for piano can be called an encyclopedia of Russian estate life of the 19th century, of the St. Petersburg city landscape. In his images Tchaikovsky captures the endless Russian expanses, and rural life, and paintings of St. Petersburg city landscapes, and scenes from the domestic musical life of Russian people of that time.

In a programme:

A. Vivaldi
"The Seasons", four concertos for violin and chamber orchestra

P. I. Tchaikovsky
"The Seasons", a cycle of pieces for piano (arrangement for string orchestra)