Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Concerto grosso en ré majeur, op. 6 n° 4

Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Concerto pour violon en do majeur dans le style d'Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Sonate en trio "La Follia", op. 1/12, RV 63
Concerto pour 2 violons en la mineur "L'estro armonico", op. 3/8, RV 522

Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
Suite dans un style ancien (arr. A. Smietana)

Pekka Kuusisto, violon
Extra Sounds Ensemble
Alicja Smietana, violon, direction

Metamorphosis - for me - has always been a concept taken from the script of a film noir and occasionally translated into real life - or culled from a Hitchcock movie or from Alice in Wonderland. From a purely aesthetic (and artistic) point of view I have been especially interested in two things - creating the “inexistent” and transforming “worlds”, and also in consolidating what is invisible to the human eye, or what is inaudible to the human ear. But music should never be only a mirror reflecting reality just as we see it. It has ever been a window that opens up only to the artistic imagination. Besides many other factors, this window should in my view have one essential part: the everchanging Improvisation - a somewhat overlooked subject but absolutely essential in the process of creating rather than just regurgitating.