Rovinj Summer festival, concerts of classical music
Concerts of classical music Concert Deutsches Kammerorkester Frankfurt; soloist Karl-Heinz Schulz, violin; conductor: Ristian Savic
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The German Chamber Orchestra performed under the art leadership and conducting of Risto Savic.
With the “Suite no.2 in h-minor (Ouverture, Rondo, Sarabande, Bouree 1 and 2, Polonaise, Menuette, Badineire)“ by Johann Sebastian Bach performed by the German Chamber Orchestra under the art leadership and conducting of Risto Savic two nights ago the Rovinj Summer Festival was opened. The thirteenth edition of the concert cycle which traditionally takes place during July and August was opened in the beautiful ambient of the church of St. Euphemia. The main protagonists of the evening, the members of the German Chamber Orchestra, were joined by solo artists – a violinist (and a concert maestro) Karl-Heinz Schulz, flautist Dorota Imeninska and mezzo-soprano Katja Markotić, the art director of the Rovinj Summer Festival. The Rovinj audience and its guests, who visited in great numbers the first concert production of the Summer Festival, last time saw this valuable Frankfurt ensemble two years ago, also lead by Savica, so the great response by curious lovers of classical literature is not surprising. The German Chamber Orchestra is rightly considered one of the leading chamber orchestras in Europe. Since its foundation in 1989, it devotedly and in detail forms and presents the pieces of musical tradition dedicated to its formation, quality public performances and a serious approach to reproduction by which it honourably continues the tradition of affirmation of that segment of art creation.
The first concert block was dedicated in its entirety to J. S. Bach, and from his monumental opus of elegant forms they selected “Concert for the violin and orchestra no. 1 in a-minor (Allegro, Andante, Allegro, Assai).” The soloist was Schulz and the aria “Erbarme dich mein Gott” from “Matthäus Passiona,” the soloist was Markotić. Imeninska was a pleasant surprise with her musicianship and charming and unburdened, surprisingly easy interpretive skill of the demanding and serious Bach motives. Especially successful, and with reason, was Schulz for his appropriate and inspiring dialogue with the colleagues and the beautiful, filigree layered interpretation of the one of the most beautiful violin concerts ever written.
The aria from his “Pasija po Mateju” was also presented in a rather consistent performance of the mezzo-soprano Katja Markotić.
The second part of the concert was dedicated to F. Mendelssohn and his beautiful “Simphony in c-minor (Grave, Allegro, Andante, Scherzo, Trio piu lento La Suisse, Allegro vivace, Presto piu stretto).” The German Chamber Orchestra thrilled the Rovinj audience which gave him a long applause. They returned twice for an encore and we listened the suite from Grieg’s “Peer Gynt” and Mozart’s “Presto.”
