"Sofia Festival Explores the Four Elements"
The 56th Sofia Music Weeks International Festival will present a unique concert themed around the four elements—water, air, fire, and earth—on Monday evening at the Military Club in Sofia, CE Report quotes BTA
According to organizers, the program will feature music from the late Renaissance and Baroque periods, including Telemann’s Water Music, Bach’s cantata Swift, swift, you swirling winds, Monteverdi’s fiery Madrigals, Rameau’s The Amorous Indies, and arias by Purcell.
A special highlight is the inclusion of a “fifth element”—ether—symbolizing unity and the philosopher’s stone in alchemy. This theme will be explored in the contemporary piece The Angel of the Four Elements by Atanas Atanasov, based on a text by Catalan poet Hector Vila.
The performance will feature a distinguished ensemble, including Oleg Chukhlib (lute), Maria Radoeva (mezzo-soprano), Plamena Girginova (soprano), Georgi Beykov (bass), and Atanas Atanassov (harpsichord), along with the Baroque Ensemble Tutti Soli under the direction of Virginia Atanassova. Ballet choreographed by Svetlin Ivelinov with stage design by Penka Kazandjieva will accompany the musical journey.
