Pizzicato e Cantabile | THE FOUR SEASONS & JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

PERFORMERS:

Marta Hereha – violin
Olena Matseliukh – organ
Melaniia Makarevych – piano
Olha Striletska – harpsichord
Olha Kuts – live painting

PROGRAMME:

Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Fantasia, BWV 86
Fantasia, BWV 87
Chaconne (arr. Ferruccio Busoni)

Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons

Among Vivaldi’s 500 concertos, Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons) holds a special place. This is the first truly programmatic cycle in music history, accompanied by a poetic layer — twelve sonnets written by the composer himself. In this performance, the audience is guided through the year’s musical imagery by the authorized Ukrainian translation of the sonnets by Borys Kotyuk.

The orchestral transcription for violin and organ was created by Vitalii Pivnov — a leading figure of Lviv’s organ tradition and a master organ builder. Vivaldi’s music and poetic word will be complemented by live painting from artist Olha Kuts, who will interpret the cycle’s emotional and seasonal palette on canvas in real time.