CONCERTO GROSSO

Ensemble Dissonance
Dmitri Sitkovecki, conductor

4. August 2025
8.00 pm
Academia Philharmonicorum
19 €, 29 €, 34 €, 39 €

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Soloists: 

Benjamin Ziervogel, violin
Janez Podlesek, violin

Programme: 

Arvo Pärt: Fratres
Alfred Schnittke: Concerto grosso  no. 1

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Peter Iljič Čajkovski, arr. Dmitri Sitkovecki: The Seasons, op. 37a

Dmitry Sitkovetsky is renowned as an exceptionally versatile musician, excelling as a violinist, conductor, arranger, and recording artist. His successful solo career is documented in an extensive discography of over forty recordings, covering an extraordinarily diverse musical repertoire. At the 73rd Ljubljana Festival, he will appear as a conductor with Ensemble Dissonance, a group of internationally acclaimed musicians from Ljubljana dedicated to the performance and development of chamber music at the highest artistic level.

Two members of the ensemble will perform as soloists. Benjamin Ziervogel is an accomplished chamber musician, concertmaster, and soloist, regularly performing with orchestras such as the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Cathedral Orchestra, Camerata Hamburg, the China National Symphony Orchestra, and others. Janez Podlesek teaches at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana and, as a soloist, is devoted to performing works by Slovenian composers. A significant part of his musical life is his long-standing collaboration with the Slovenian Philharmonic Chamber String Orchestra, with which he has been regularly performing for over a decade.

The first part of the program will be dedicated to 20th-century music. One of the leading figures of musical minimalism, Arvo Pärt, composed Fratres in 1977 in his characteristic tintinnabuli style as a sequence of variations on a six-bar theme. That same year, Alfred Schnittke wrote his Concerto Grosso No. 1, the first of six compositions based on the Baroque principle of alternating soloists and orchestra. The Seasons by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is a cycle of twelve piano pieces, each capturing the essence of a month of the year as seen through the lens of his native Russia. The suite, also popular in orchestral arrangements, will be performed in Sitkovetsky’s adaptation.

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