In February 2022, the artists of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO) will leave their home – the Grand Guild – for two years due to the reconstruction of the building. Therefore, the audience is invited to seven special LNSO concerts, which will take place in the Grand Guild by the end of February.
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According to LNSO representatives, the first of them, “Sibelius the First and Rachmaninov the Second”, will take place on January 14 at 7 pm. and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto.
Conductor Tarmo Peltokoski has already become a world-famous rising star at the age of 21. In 2018, the Pro Musica Foundation named Peltokoski the Young Musician of the Year. Several foreign media outlets have indicated that his name is recorded in the future of classical music. In his first meeting with the LNSO, Tarmo will be delighted with the overture to Wagner’s opera “Tannheiser” and Sibelius’ First Symphony.
The first part of the concert will feature Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto. The soloist will be the favorite Russian pianist Antons Lahovskis living in London.
The LNSO has not forgotten about the latest listeners. January 16 at 6 pm LNSO musicians together with the theater association “It’s art“will introduce young people to the events of William Shakespeare’s famous play” Otello “using everyday objects. The actors will give objects a different meaning, inviting them to use their imagination and look differently at seemingly ordinary objects. This will be a show postponed from October 26, 2021. Director of the show Elmars Senkovs, composer Ernests Mediņš.
On January 20, at 7 pm, the LNSO invites to the concert “Portraits. Oskars Bokanovs and Tommaso Pratola”, where the concertmasters of two LNSO instrument groups, who have agreed in chamber ensembles with master pianists, will meet. In the first part we will watch the meeting of flutist Tommāso Pratola with pianist Agnes Egliņš, while in the second part we will play a match between double bassist Oskars Bokanovs and pianist Rihards Plesšanovs. The opuses of the LNSO resident composer Andris Dzenītis will also delight the audience’s ears.
On February 10 at 7 pm in the concert “Four Shots”, LNSO musicians together with the authors of the concert idea Elīna Bērtiņi will enchant the audience with contrasts. Elīna’s concert program is described as follows: four contrasts, four contrasts, four personalities and four languages. The musicians promise to captivate the audience with Berg’s mysticism, Britten’s philosophy, Demeng’s freshness and Rota’s Italian charm.
On February 11, at 7 pm, the LNSO invites the audience to indulge in the melodies of the Russian romantic Peter Tchaikovsky, the French impressionist Claude Debussy, as well as the 20th century Hungarian-American composer Miklos Ros in the concert “Tchaikovsky, Debussy and Rubik”. The musical conversation of three knowledgeable and intelligent composers will be performed by LNSO and three world-renowned outstanding Latvian musicians – violinist Eva Bindere, cellist Kristīne Blaumane and conductor Ainārs Rubiķis.
The last concert before the reconstruction will take place on February 17 at 7 pm in the Grand Guild. In it, listeners will be able to look at the music page, which introduced people around the world to the unique values of Norwegian culture.
We remind you that on December 30, 2021, the audience of the LNSO will be greeted at the turn of the year with a broadcast of the New Year’s concert. It will be broadcast live at 7 pm on the LNSO “Youtube” channel, as well as heard on LR3 “Klasika” live. On New Year’s Eve, 31 December at 11.15 pm, the concert can be enjoyed on TV4.
Tickets for the LNSO’s new season concerts can be purchased at the box office of the Grand Guild, at the box offices of “Biļešu paradīze” and bilesuparadize.lv.
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