"Music of the great:
Bach and Handel"

Sunday 17 July, 4 p.m.

Bach and Handel in one concert. This makes it possible to travel back to the era of the titans - when the sky spoke with the earth the language of music… the organ sounded like an orchestra… the orchestra sounded like an organ…

Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Handel never met. This is all the more strange since they were born in the same year, 80 miles apart. And in the future, until Handel left for England, they were constantly within mutual territorial proximity - Germany was not so great. Both, of course, knew and appreciated each other’s work. Both are ingenious composers. But… did not work out. However, history has long put everything in its place. Bach sounds in a concert next to Handel. And there is no element of competition in this. Rather, on the contrary, it is precisely such a comparison that makes it possible to get the most voluminous idea of that great era. The era, glorified by unattainable artistic breakthroughs - when the sky spoke the earth with the language of music, when the organ sounded like an orchestra, and the orchestra sounded like an organ, when fashionable secular music did not hide its spiritual sources, and the composers were universal. The era in which the life paths of the two greatest contemporaries have never crossed paths. Sorry. They would have something to talk about.

Laureates of international competitions:

Marina Omelchenko organ

Tatyana Lanskaya soprano

Honored Artist of Russia

Alexander Chernov violin

Program: I.S. Bach, G.F. Handel