Since 2015 the Vietnam Connection Music Festival enables an intercultural exchange of artists by bringing together accomplished international musicians with outstanding Vietnamese artists in order to perform and to teach classical music in Vietnam. This year, musicians from Vietnam, China, Taiwan and the United States will join the concert at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi.

The musical performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 5” and “The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi will revive the sounds of late baroque.

The 5th Brandenburg Concerto will be presented as part of a collection of six concerts composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).

The 5th concerto is characterized by the cadenzas of harpsichord, flute and violin in accompaniment of a string orchestra.

The violin concert “The Four Seasons” is a musical portrait of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

The most well-known composition by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) is one of the first musical works of all times that contains narrative elements in the form of poems.

Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (1720)

I. Allegro

II. Affettuoso

III. Allegro

With the performance of:

Chuong Vu | Violin (Solo)

Le Thu Huong | Flute (Solo)

Elliot Figg | Harpsichord (Solo)

Zhan Shu | Viola

Yi-Wen Chao | Violin

Bronwyn Banerdt | Cello

John Moore | Double Bass

Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, Op. 8 (1723)

Spring

I. Allegro

II. Largo e pianissimo sempre

III. Allegro pastorale

Summer

I. Allegro non molto

II. Adagio e piano – Presto e forte

III. Presto

Autumm

I. Allegro

II. Adagio molto

III. Allegro

Winter

I. Allegro non molto

II. Largo

III. Allegro

With the performance of:

Zhan Shu | Violin (Solo)

Chuong Vu | Violin 1

Le Minh Hien | Violin 2

Yi-Wen Chao | Viola

Bronwyn Banerdt | Cello

John Moore | Double Bass

Elliot Figg | Harpsichord

Free Admission

Time: August 11, 8 pm

Venue: Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi