August 4th | “Concerto Grosso” with Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Ensemble Dissonance at Ljubljana Festival
Violinist and conductor Dmitry Sitkovetsky will appear at the 73rd Ljubljana Festival with the Ensemble Dissonance, a Ljubljana-based collective of internationally recognised musicians. The concert will take place at the historic Slovenian Philharmonic Hall.
Sitkovetsky, acclaimed for his multifaceted career as a violinist, conductor, arranger, and recording artist, will lead the ensemble in a programme centered around the “Concerto Grosso” format, bridging Baroque inspiration and 20th-century reinterpretation.
The evening will open with Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, composed in 1977 in the composer’s signature tintinnabuli style—a meditative series of variations built on a six-bar theme. The programme continues with Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso No. 1, a cornerstone of postmodern repertoire that fuses Baroque structure with bold, modernist language.
The concert will also feature an orchestral version of Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons, originally a piano cycle capturing the character of each month of the year in 19th-century Russia, performed here in an arrangement by Jakov Jakoulov.
Program: - A. Pärt, Fratres - A. Schnittke, Concerto Grosso No. 1 - P. I. Tchaikovsky, The Seasons (arr. Jakov Jakoulov)
