On the 21st of March, he usually spends time on the bike track, and on March 22, we hope to meet him in a yoga class. On March 23, we’ll be glad to join him in walking and save other sports activities for the last day of the project, March 24.

Yes, this marathon is one of the five most unusual competitions in the world, because it features the divine-human, Johann Sebastian Bach in the main role of mentor, judge, and even winner.

Following his example, Handel turned to aqua-jogging, and Cage to meditative practices of self-discovery. Even today, we still know so little about him, and yet we know everything we need to know! The eternally young (yes, not the chubby, boring uncle you’re used to seeing in old people’s portraits) Bach will run a marathon to mark his 339th birthday.

Drop all the bureaucracy (his fluffy wig, etc.) and run to the Philharmonic. We guarantee a marathon of new and contemporary Bach art from our artists!

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In the frenzy of the rhythm of modernity, to stop for even a minute would mean regression. But there is also good news: the passage of time was probably not so reactive in the Baroque period. After all, how could Bach have managed to multitask? To write one cantata on a theme set by the biblical calendar almost every Sunday for 20 years? To write a fugue more than 300 times? And still have time to keep up with the latest in Vivaldi’s work? Obviously, Bach knew a thing or two about time management.

That’s why the second concert of the marathon, which will take place this year at the Lviv National Philharmonic, will be performed at the Vivace tempo. More than 300 years ago, this tempo symbolized a fairly moderate movement – just enough to make you feel like a full-fledged master of the situation, but nevertheless move quite dynamically in it. Sometimes, even adventurously going through the options for the development of events and changing the usual course of thought.

At a comfortable pace, the selected pieces of the program will prompt you with new solutions and insights for your own non-musical projects, or, on the contrary, help you relax in the moment. This is the music of Bach – inseparable from our reality and powerful over it even through the ages.

Artists:

• Marko Komonko, violin
• Daniel Komonko, violin
• Jan Romanowski, violin
• Stepan Syvokhip, oboe
• Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
• Jan Romanowski, conductor

Program:

Johann Sebastian Bach.

• Concerto for violin and strings in A minor, BWV 1041
• Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV 1043
• Concerto for oboe, violin and chamber orchestra in D minor, BWV 1060R
• Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042
• Suite for Orchestra No. 3 in D major, BWV 106