The title “Correspondances” refers in this concert to an imaginary correspondence with Johann Sebastian Bach.

Arvo Pärt and Maxim Shalygin – two contemporary composers from different generations – enter into a quiet dialogue with Bach’s legacy. Not through external stylization or direct quotations, but through a deep understanding of structure, form, and the inner silence of Bach’s music.

The first part of the evening is centered around Bach’s organ chorales and works by Arvo Pärt from recent decades. The compositions alternate and allow us to hear how the sound and musical logic of one continue in the language of the other. This section is complemented by an organ improvisation by Christoph Schönfelder on the name Arvo Pärt. In 2025, Pärt celebrates his 90th birthday.

The second part of the concert is dedicated to the solo violin: Johann Sebastian Bach’s Chaconne from the second Partita meets Letters to Anna by Maxim Shalygin – a solo symphony shortlisted for the prestigious Gaudeamus Award in 2012 and celebrated in professional circles as one of the most outstanding works since Bach’s Partitas and Ysaÿe’s Sonatas — ranks among the most virtuosic and exquisite compositions of our time, for solo violin.

Program:

Maxim Shalygin

Letters to Anna (2009–2010)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Chaconne from Partita No. 2, BWV 1004

Musician

Andrii Pavlov, violin

Johann Sebastian Bach

Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639

O Lamm Gottes unschuldig, BWV 618

Prelude in C minor, BWV 546

Arvo Pärt

Trivium (1976)

Mein Weg hat Gipfel und Wellentäler (1989)

Annum per annum (1980)

Musician

Christoph Schönfelder, organ

Georg Philipp Telemann

Fantasy No. 7 for solo violin (1735)

Musician

Vira Zholobova, violin* Zero set