“Casting a spell over your audience as a violin virtuoso is remarkable enough,” writes Thomas May in Sunday’s (10/15) Seattle Times. “Dmitry Sinkovsky, who guests with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra this month to launch the ‘Vivaldi Project’ … will play [violin] in ‘The Four Seasons’ [and] conduct an ensemble of SSO musicians. And for one of Vivaldi’s exquisite vocal works [“Cessate, omai cessate”], Sinkovsky will again take the spotlight, this time as a nimble, bright-toned countertenor. The role changeovers are no circus stunt. They’re a way of experiencing and performing the music from the 17th and 18th centuries…. Sinkovsky [says,] ‘In Baroque times, they … could write music and also play their instruments so incredibly well. Vivaldi himself was also a virtuoso violinist.’ … Sinkovsky … never grows tired of ‘The Four Seasons.’ … One goal of the ‘Vivaldi Project’ is to bridge the gap between fans of instrumental and vocal music…. ‘Singing is a direct expression of your thought,’ Sinkovsky says…. As for conducting, Sinkovsky is drawn to its collaborative focus: ‘It’s more metaphysical, because you have to transform your energy and direct it to the orchestra.’ ”
Posted October 18, 2017
