Jiří Vodička will play virtuoso baroque compositions at the St. Wenceslas Festival
The concerts take place tomorrow, September 9. in Bolatice and on Saturday 10.9. in Ostrava-Pustkovec. Jiří Vodička told us more about their program in a telephone interview.
Already the 19th year St. Wenceslas Music Festival ongoing now from 2nd of September do 28th of September and offers 33 concerts throughout the Moravian-Silesian region. He presents not only superbly interpreted spiritual and old music, in which he specializes, but also jazz. The main foreign star is this time Elina Garanča. You can read more about this year’s program here.
Violinist Jiří Vodička he is a concertmaster Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and no soloist or chamber player. In the years 2012 – 2018, he was a member Smetana’s Trio and founded in 2020 Piano Trio of the Czech Philharmonic. Teaches on University of Ostrava AND Prague conservators and plays the Italian violin Joseph Gagliano from 1774. In January 2021, he was also a guest of the program Music in the Millennium on Classic Praha.
He will play his two concerts at the St. Wenceslas Music Festival tomorrow 9th September against church of St. Stanislava in Bolatice from 18 hours and on Saturday September 10th against church of St. Cyril and Methodius against Ostrava-Pustkovcialso from 18 hours. Both of them will be accompanied by a chamber orchestra Barocco Semper Giovannei.e. “baroque still young”.
The program will include virtuosic pieces from the Baroque period, for example Violin Concerto No. 12 coming from the cycle L’arte del Violino by composer and violinist Pietro Locatelli, nicknamed the “Paganini of the 18th century”. another famous piece is the violin sonata in G minor Giuseppe Tartini called “Devil’s Trill”, which will be heard at concerts adapted to the form of a concerto grossa. According to legend, Tartini wrote this composition after the devil appeared to him in a dream and played the violin at his bedside.
Jiří Vodička told us more about baroque violin compositions and their authors, about his rare instrument from the 18th century, about the cultural scene in the Moravian-Silesian region and how composers who are violinists themselves write for the violin in a telephone interview on the morning broadcast of 9/8. at 9:30 a.m.
Photo: Ilona Sochorová