Concerto Köln / Sergey Malov / Katowice Culture Nature Festival - concert with audience/ livestream / open-air screening - NOSPR

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The girls’ orphanage Ospedale della Pietà in Venice in the early 18th century was a place where all of musical Europe came. Everyone wanted to listen to the airy and the lively concerts of il prete rosso ("the redheaded priest") by Antonio Lucio Vivaldi. Of his 60 concertos for string orchestra, two in G minor, RV 156 and in A major, RV 158 were probably written in the 1720s.  Because the solo parts are not isolated in them, and the form of the pieces is short, they are closer to Neapolitan overtures or sinfonias.

Vivaldi’s work was extremely popular in the early 18th century. Johann Sebastian Bach’s Organ Concerto in A minor, BWV 593 is one example of an adaptation of Vivaldi’s Concerto for two violins, strings and basso continuo from the collection L’estro armonico, RV 522. Soloist Sergey Malov, however, will play this concerto in a transcription for violoncello da spalla,
a small-sized cello that is held like a violin but has the technical capabilities and the sound of the cello.

Bac’'s most popular Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 is in fact a concerto originally written for violin, which has survived to our times in a harpsichord version. The melodic figurations in the harpsichord part indicate a violin source, hence this concerto is often performed in a version close to the original BWV 1052R.

Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are probably some of the composer’s most famous orchestral works. Each of them is intended for a different, unconventional cast of a group of concertino instruments. In the Concerto No. 4 from the concertino group, the solo violin stands out, with virtuoso cadenzas frequently appearing in the part. The Concerto No. 3, on the other hand, features three groups of string instruments: violins, violas and cellos, which play with each other on the principle of opposition and combination into a whole.

Although Bach modeled many of his compositions on Vivaldi’s style, the Italian composer’s work was forgotten for many years. The renaissance of his music had to wait until the 20th century.