The concert features works by leading European composers of the 17th and 18th centuries — the great masters of the Baroque era: Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, and George Frideric Handel. The evening will open with Handel’s Sonata in G Minor for Double Bass, performed by Timofey Bukhmiller.

 

A special highlight of the programme will be the introduction of two instruments making their Formula of the Orchestra debut — the theorbo (a type of lute) and the mandolin (a traditional Italian string instrument). The audience will hear Johann Kapsberger’s Prelude for Theorbo performed by Olga Kosolapova, as well as Gabriele Leone’s Sonata for Mandolin featuring Anna Averina (mandolin), Olga Kosolapova (Baroque guitar), and Alexey Yakimov (viola).

 

The concert’s music director and creator, Dmitri Kosolapov, concertmaster of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Orchestra, has chosen several of Bach’s works as the “jewels” of the programme — including Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (soloists: Svetlana Mikhaliova, harpsichord; Pavel Studennikov, flute; Dmitri Kosolapov, violin) and Three Two-Part Inventions, arranged for violin and viola (Lidia Savlyuk and Alexey Yakimov).

 

The concert will also include a movement from Vivaldi’s famous cycle The Four Seasons — naturally, Autumn, fitting for November, with Dmitri Kosolapov as soloist.

 

The programme will conclude with one of the most celebrated Baroque pieces — La Folia by Francesco Geminiani. Folia (literally “madness”) was a lively Portuguese carnival dance. In the early 18th century, Arcangelo Corelli composed a set of sonatas on this theme, and later Geminiani reworked one of them into a brilliant and virtuosic concert piece. In Jewels of the Baroque, La Folia will be performed by the Chamber Orchestra of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, with soloists Dmitri Kosolapov and Peresvet Kravchenko (violins), and Anastasia Kaigorodova (cello).