Peter Vasks wrote his Second Violin Concerto to Swedish violinist Hugo Titchati in Sweden, about whom the composer says: “We have a long kinship, and Hugo also believes that music will help keep the world in balance.
Violet concert In the evening light the clients are an orchestra O/MODƏRNT, State Chamber Orchestra Sinfonietta Riga, The Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Danish National Youth Ensemble and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra and its world premiere took place on 16 June 2021 in Stockholm, where Hugo Titchati played with his own orchestra. O/MODƏRNT.
Pēteris Vasks was looking forward to the performance of the new work in Latvia, which we experienced yesterday in the Concert Hall Cesis and live Latvian radio 3 Classic. Violin concert in Cesis In the evening light, sounded in Hugo Ticati’s own reading, but this time with our excellent chamber orchestra Sinfonietta Riga conducted by Normunds Šnē.
In the first part of the concert, the chamber orchestra sparkled with brilliant mastery and felt performance Sinfonietta Riga, playing works by Arvo Pert, Jan Sibelius and Henrik Gureck. In the second part, the listeners in the concert hall and on the radios experienced the emotional and fulfilled Pēteris Vasks In the evening light a performance after which the hall was shaken by undivided joy and excitement, greeting the composer, soloist and orchestra again and again with standing statues.
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