The International M. K. Čiurlionis Music Festival presents a special program dedicated to M. K. Čiurlionis "Sofia's Love".

Participants: Anna Szafraniec (violin, Poland), Liucilė U. Vilimaitė (harp), Daria Verovka

(dancer and choreographer, Ukraine/Klaipeda State Musical Theater)

Mikalojus Konstantinas and Sofia's friendship is one of the most outstanding Lithuanian loves of the 20th century

of stories, which in its depth and purity resembles the sea: calm and hopeful on sunny days, but

as well as a sudden change in the winds already throwing their stormy waves ashore.

Harpist Liucilė U. Vilimaitė and violinist Anna Szafraniec (Poland), as well as dancer and

choreographer Daria Verovka (Ukraine, Klaipėda State Musical Theater) invites you to immerse yourself in

a love story told through the sounds and dance of a harp and violin duet, and look at this one

an extraordinary journey of feelings through the prism of Sofia.

"I'm not afraid to drown myself, because even today I feel how full and strong the life of the soul will be.

I did not expect at all that a person can give so much to a person - and arouse thoughts and feelings."

 

Concert program:

1. Hendrik Andriessen - Intermezzo (1950, arr. for violin and harp)

2. Eduardas Balsys - Eglė and Žilvinos scene from the ballet Eglė Queen of Serpents (1960, arr.

for violin and harp)

3. Camille Saint-Säens - Fantasy for violin and harp op. 124 (1907)

4. Calliope Tsoupaki – Thin Air (2020)

5. Olivier Messiaen - Praise of the Immortality of Jesus from Quartet for the End of Time

(1940-1941, arr. for violin and harp)