The Autumn Chamber Music Festival organized by VSIA “Latvijas koncerti” will be opened on October 3 in the Small Hall of Dzintari Concert Hall at 18.00 with one of the world’s most colorful programs. top for string quartets – “Belcea Quartet”, which has been at the top of the world ‘s most outstanding chamber musicians for more than 20 years. In the concert program, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 23rd Quartet, which sounds like a farewell serenade for the enjoyer of life, surprises Franz Schubert’s “Death and the Girl” with open sincerity and deeply addressing intimacy, but Polish Karol Shimanovsky’s informs “Latvian Concert” public relations specialist Rinta Bružēvica.
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From 2017 to 2020, the Belcea Quartet was the resident string quartet at the new Pierre Boulez Concert Hall in Berlin, where it still performs. Vienna’s “Konzerthaus” “Belcea Quartet” performs in concert cycles. This season, the ensemble performs at the Perelman Theater in Philadelphia, the Rudolfinum Music Temple in Prague, the Konzerthaus in Dortmund, the Elysée Country Theater in Paris, and the Tonhalle Maag in Zurich. In September this year, the Belcea Quartet gave concerts in Sweden and the United Kingdom.
“The name of the Belcea Quartet is a real intrigue of concert recorders all over the world. The main driving force of the quartet is the temperamental Romanian Korina Belča. cellist Antoine Lederlene, “says R. Bruzevica.
“The key to the magical appeal of the Belcea Quartet is an unlimited field of imagination and the range of sound colors available to musicians. The ability of incredibly different personalities to merge into music is amazing,” notes conductor Normunds Šnē.
The musicians have recorded string quartets by Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms and Britten. The quartet regularly commissions and performs new works by contemporary composers. Musicians also support the new string quartets by organizing seminars, where their experience is passed on, reports R. Bržēvica.
Concert attendees will be required to present an interoperable vaccination or Covid-19 disease certificate as well as an identity document. Tickets at “Biļešu paradīze” box offices, as well as at concert venues. “Belcea Quartet” concert starts at 18.00, while other Autumn Chamber Music Festival concerts start at 19.00.
The autumn chamber music festival will take place from October 3 to 9. The festival will feature music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Joseph Haydn, John Ivanov, Imants Zemzars. Listeners will be met by violin virtuosos Vineta Sareika and Florian Donderer, brilliant pianist Rein Zariņš, Latvian Radio Choir, Sinfonietta Rīga Chamber Orchestra and other artists. Patron of the Autumn Chamber Music Festival – composer Pēteris Vasks.
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