On Tuesday early evening young South Korean violinist Da Youn You, who has recently achieved success at numerous international music competitions, and the South Czech Philharmonic, which regularly appears at the festival, joined artistic forces. “It is great that South Bohemia has such an international music festival of such renown in a beautiful town as Český Krumlov, which increases the attractiveness and popularity of classical music, as well as this region, which deserves it. I believe and I hope that the festival will continue to thrive. And we will always be happy to get an invitation,” said the chief conductor of the South Czech Philharmonic Jan Talich. And how did the South Czech Philharmonic enjoy playing with the young South Korean soloist Da Youn You, with whom they performed Vivaldi’s famous cycle of four violin concertos The Four Seasons Op. 8? “He is an excellent violinist, he has a very natural expression, great control over the instrument and clear interpretation so accompanying him was a very pleasant experience. I wish him that he may continue to be successful and perhaps we will meet on stage again one day.” For Da Youn You it was the first visit to Český Krumlov, “It was a great honour and joy for me to play in such an extremely beautiful town as Český Krumlov and in such a pleasant and acoustically favourable hall known as the Masquerade Hall. I like Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons a lot. They are basically musical poems. Vivaldi added verses to the compositions, which are about the beauties of the country, and transferred them into the score.” Talich continued, “The selected program was a sort of ‘the best of Baroque’ and I mean this in the positive sense of the word. The audience heard other Baroque evergreens such as Corelli’s Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6/1, the Concerto for strings in C major by Antonio Vivaldi and the concert ended with the third of the Brandenburg Concertos – in G major by Johann Sebastian Bach.” The final tones of the concert were heard when the chief conductor touched a decoration of one of the chandeliers on the ceiling of the Masquerade Hall at the moment of the last bow stroke. “We really played today’s program with appetite. It is beautiful and lively music and I think that also the response of the audience corresponded to the energy of the music which we presented to them,” is how the chief director concluded our conversation. Based on the response of the audience we can guess that the audience was more than satisfied with the interpreters.