Vivaldi, the red heart of the Baroque. Concert Maxim Belciug (guitar) & Consonanțe Quartet

 November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM

Dalles Hall Bucharest

Vivaldi is a name that needs no introduction. His music, full of pathos and spirit, enchanting, colorful and sparkling, sometimes abrupt, sometimes heartbreakingly tender, is simply sonic magic of noble essence. The more you listen, the better you know it, the more you like it. It's like an ambrosia that you never get enough of.

But what happens when a modern instrument, such as the guitar, appears in the recipe of such well-known and beloved works? How does the rich, baroque velvet fabric of Vivaldi's music behave? What iridescences does it get in the new light reflected by the majestic sound of the guitar?

Guitarist Maxim Belciug and the four wonderful instrumentalists who make up the Consonanțe quartet of the Mihail Jora Philharmonic in Bacău: Andrei Onofrei (violin I), Ștefan Epuran (violin II), Iulian Bolog (viola) and Alexandra Elefterescu Tăbăcaru (cello) have set out to answer this challenge. Choosing to knowingly bypass the emblematic Seasons, the musicians opened the vast treasure chest of the red priest and drew up a program that has in its center the Concerto RV 93 in D major, in an arrangement for guitar and string quartet, and the Trio sonata RV 82 in C major, to which are added other pages from Vivaldi's creation, from exuberant works to deeply lyrical, disturbing compositions. A program in which the guitar, with its solar and imposing sound through the richness of nuances, pulsates, sometimes dramatic, sometimes melancholic, sometimes dancing, in the lively landscape drawn by the stringed instruments, with their moving rhythms and harmonies.

Sung in this way, the scores reveal new energies and open up stirring, intimate and exhilarating dialogues that highlight Vivaldi's genius for creating music that is not only impressive in form, but above all deeply human. Music with a heart. The red heart of the Baroque.

A project of the Lyra Kripto Association (formerly Kitarodia) in partnership with the Metropolitan Center for Education and Culture "Ioan I. Dalles".