The evening will open with the String Quartet in C minor by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis – a Lithuanian artist who intertwined music and painting into one tale. His String Quartet brings together the classicising outermost movements and the expressive middle movement, whose melancholic melodies unfold against a highly chromatic accompaniment. Then we will listen to Bach’s Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 – extremely energetic, with ingenious dialogues between the soloist and the orchestra and an atmospheric Adagio as the middle movement.
At the end, we will hear the String Quartet in D minor ‘Death and the Maiden’ by Franz Schubert – a dramatic dialogue of life and death, whose final tarantella brings to mind the ‘danse macabre’.

PROGRAMME:

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911)

String Quartet in C minor [23′]
arranged by Vilhelmas Čepinskis (b. 1977)
(1901/2022)

Allegro moderato
Andante
Menuetto

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052
piano performance
(1736)

Allegro
Adagio
Allegro

*** intermission [20’]

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)

String Quartet in D minor, “Death and the Maiden” [41’]
arranged by: Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
(1824/1896)

Allegro
Andante con moto
Scherzo: Allegro molto
Presto

PERFORMERS:

Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra

Sergiej Krylov
conductor

Lukas Geniušas
piano