Cembalo Leopolis

XX Lviv Early Music Festival event

On her initiative, the newest history of the harpsichord in Ukraine began, and key musicians in the field of historically informed performance were taught by her.

He is the founder and conductor of the most important Polish ensembles specializing in the performance of baroque music.

Do not expect a competition of titles or a match for the glory of the most professional harpsichordist: do these two have equal competitors at all? No, this is a musical meeting of old friends, passionate apologists of their high art and researchers of the secret depths of antiquity. We are sure that it will lead to a new stage in the formation of harpsichord performance in Lviv: just as the name of the concert is aimed at the future, so we all expect the performance at exceptional heights. The program of the performance of Svitlana Shabaltina and Marek Toporowski includes the best examples of music that hides the memory of the noble times of the European dawn.

Artists:

• Svitlana Shabaltina, harpsichord
• Marek Toporowski, harpsichord

Program:

• Three dances from the Lviv tabulature of the 16th century
• Antoine Forqueray (1672–1745). “La Morangis or La Plissay”
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue BWV 903
• Michal Cleofas Oginski (1765–1833). Two polonaises No. 1 (F major) and No. 8 (F minor) (arr. for 4 hands by Marek Toporowski)
• Maksym Berezovskyi (1745–1777). Sonata for violin and harpsichord (arr. for harpsichord by Marek Toporowski)
• Jacques Duphly (1715–1789). “La Forqueray”
• Joseph-Nicolas-Pancras Royer (1705–1755). “Le Vertigo” (1746)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Sonata in D major K.381/123a in 4 hands