On October 26, the premiere of the new themed concert of the educational project Orchestra Formula will take place in the second floor foyer of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre. The concert title The Pearls of the Neo-Baroque refers to the well-known programme The Pearls of the Baroque.

Fans of the project Orchestra Formula already know this programme that includes works by composers of the 17th and 18th centuries. In the late 19th - early 20th centuries when the pure Baroque had already left the stage, interest in this pompous genre started reviving. Works including various elements of the Baroque era appeared in architecture, fine art, and, of course, music. Soloists of the orchestra of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre will introduce such musical fragments to the spectators. But the concert won’t be limited to it!

According to music director and author of the programme, concertmaster of the orchestra Dmitri Kosolapov, works by Baroque composers will also be performed, so the audience will have the opportunity to compare the Baroque and Neo-Baroque.

“Neo-Baroque music will be represented by The Holberg Suite by Edvard Grieg, antique arias and dances by Ottorino Respighi, Prelude and Allegro by Fritz Kreisler. Our regular spectators have already heard Suite in the Old Style by Alfred Schnittke in the orchestral version at the Orchestra Formula; this time, the original version for violin and piano will be performed. As for the Baroque era, the works by Johann Sebastian Bach, his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, as well as Jean-Philippe Rameau and Johann Gottlieb Goldberg will be performed at the concert. And the concert will end with the violin sonata Il Trillo del Diavolo by Giuseppe Tartini arranged by the outstanding violinist of the 20th century Fritz Kreisler. Thus, by performing a Neo-Baroque arrangement of a Baroque sonata, we will combine two styles in one,” said Dmitri Kosolapov.