2022m. May 5, 7 p.m. St. Catherine’s Church (Vilniaus St. 30, Vilnius)
In St. Catherine’s Church, known for its special atmosphere and acoustics in Vilnius, on May 5 this year, the concert by the Vilnius City Municipality St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra (artistic director and chief conductor Modestas Barkauskas) and the world-famous pianist Daumantas Kirilauskas will take place.
The concert program will reflect the synthesis of baroque, 20th century, and contemporary (especially Lithuanian) academic music, responding to the performances and sympathy of the performers’ repertoire.
The concert will feature a somewhat melancholic, but playful piano concerto No. 5, F minor, BWV 1056.
The concert will be continued by the chamber orchestra with a work by Vytautas Laurušas for the string orchestra “Pragiedrėjimas”, which reflects the composer’s creative style – this music is like an emotional score full of dramatic tensions and thought.
This is how the whole program of this concert can be described. Similar features of music will be reflected when pianist D. Kirilauskas returns to the stage and performs the 20th-century concerto for piano and strings by composer Alfred Schnittke, representing an inner conflict of the soul in which stable melodic elements are exchanged with the aggression of dissonances. At the end of the concert, St. The Christopher Orchestra will perform two related works by contemporary composers for the string orchestra – the melodic, mediative work “Silent Music” by Valentin Silvestrov from Ukraine and Arvydas Malcys “Kite of Hope”, which critics describe as a respectful look at the past, a touch on the selectivity and tonality of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music.
Admission to the concert is free for Ukrainian families who have taken refuge in Lithuania ❗️❗️❗️
Soloists:
Kirilauskas (grand piano)
Vilnius City Municipality St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra (artistic director and chief conductor Modestas Barkauskas).
Program:
J. S. Bach piano concerto no. 5, F minor, BWV 1056
V. Laurušas “Clarification”
A. Schnittke – concerto for piano and strings
V. Silvestrov “Silent Music”
A. Malcys “Kite of Hope”
