Bach / Pärt
Goldberg Variations & Stabat Mater
STRING TRIO & THREE VOICES
Two works separated by nearly three centuries, brought together through a shared sense of structure, simplicity, and reflection.
Bach's Goldberg Variations, heard here in Dmitry Sitkovetsky's arrangement for string trio, reveals the individual voices within an extraordinary architecture of variation. In Arvo Pärt's Stabat Mater, three singers join the strings in music of remarkable restraint, where silence becomes as expressive as sound.
Together, the works invite a different kind of listening — one shaped by space, stillness, and the unfolding of musical time.
PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685–1750
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
arr. Dmitry Sitkovetsky
Aria, Variations 1–15, Variation 30 (Quodlibet), and Aria da capo
Performed without repeats
Arvo Pärt
b. 1935
Stabat Mater
1985 · For soprano, alto, tenor, and string trio
MUSICIANS
Nathan Olson — violin
Lydia Umlauf — viola
Joseph Kuipers — cello
Soprano · Alto · Tenor