In the vivid concert program, listeners will have the opportunity to look into various manifestations of musical modernism. The central event of the evening – Steve Reich Desert music performance for choir and orchestra. This impressive composition is recognized as one of the strongest works of American Austin minimalism and has acquired the status of an icon of this musical direction.
premiered in 1984 Desert music with motifs from the poetry of William Carlos Williams, places light at the center, embodying the creative spirit, imagination and love. The opposite symbol is the bomb, which reflects not only the atomic threats that were actualized at that time, but also the general tendency of the destruction of humanity. In the lines of poetry, Williams mentions the orchestra, which is a metaphor for civilization, and calls its destructive tendencies “wrong notes. Musically, too, this is considered one of the most dissonant Reich scores.
The piano work of the internationally recognized Santa Ratniece Muqarnas the listeners will be led into oriental flexible moods, touching the fragile and magnificent forms of Arab and Persian architecture – mukarnas – in the soundscape. Ratniec is considered by many to be one of the brightest composers of the Baltic States. For the first time, the composition came to wider attention in 2004, when her composition Sens nacre got I place UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in the category of young composers.
The brilliant piece Sequenza VII for oboe, composed in 1969 by the Italian intellectual and connoisseur of life Luciano Berio, will allow you to enjoy the virtuosity and musicality of Latvia’s leading oboist Egils Upatnieks. In the composer’s words, to play this work, one must be “not only a technically skilled musician, but also intellectually virtuoso”.
On the other hand, the Hungarian composition of Đerģ Ligeti etudes for piano will surprise you with the most unimaginable rhythm games. Ligeti is one of the most important modernists of the second half of the 20th century.
Egils Upatnieks has been concertmaster of the LNSO oboe group since 2009, winner and laureate of international competitions. Woodwind quintet residing in Denmark since 2009 Carion participant. This chamber music ensemble has gained international recognition by interpreting perhaps the most complex opuses of contemporary music, regularly playing them by heart and with stage performances. Carion performs regularly in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Latin America and elsewhere.
Pianist Rihards Plešanov gives solo concerts in Switzerland, Italy, France, the Netherlands and elsewhere. As a soloist performs with Kremerata Baltica, Sinfonietta Riga, Liepāja SO and LNSO cooperate with the Latvian Radio Choir. He premiered the new works of many Latvian composers. Piano Quartet Quadra and ensemble Arcandela musician.
In the fall of 2022, Guntis Kuzma will end his work as the conductor of the LNSO (in this position since 2014) and from the beginning of the next season will be the artistic director and chief conductor of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra. The programs staged by Gunta Kuzma have repeatedly earned high evaluations. The recordings of the symphonic music of Tālivalds Kēniņas and Jānis Ivanovs made by Kuzma and the LNSO in cooperation with record companies have received international recognition. Ondine and Delicious. Received the Grand Music Award 2018 in the category For an excellent interpretation as a solo clarinetist and as a conductor.
LNSO Summer Camp is the summer festival of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, where academic and non-academic elements of music meet together. The main idea of the festival is to move away from the capital closer to the listeners of the regional concert halls of Latvia. Summer house it has previously pleased the audience both in Cēsis and Rēzekne, but in its eighth year, it returns to Ventspils, where the festival took place in 2020 as well. LNSO Summer Camp is a festival for family and friends, independent listeners of the LNSO and everyone who is ready to enjoy a beautiful, at the same time, unusual and researched musical program.
This year, the special guests of the event will be the Canadian opera diva Emily D’Angelo and the world-famous pianist Andrei Korobeinikov, as well as Sean Nicholas Savage, known as the prince of pop music. The concerts will be conducted by Andris Poga, Guntis Kuzma and Ainārs Rubiķis. Traditionally, the festival also plans a special program for children and young people: LNSO invites the youngest listeners to a musical master class, as well as fairy tales for the family Cat’s Paw School, on the other hand, a special new production has been prepared for young people – a contemporary dance performance On the net with music by composer Rihardas Zaļupes, dramaturgy by Artūrs Dīčas and choreography by Liene Gravas.
Festival LNSO Summer Camp 2022 hosted by the LNSO and Concert Hall Latvia.
The full festival program can be found at: https://www.lnso.lv/vasarnica.
Tickets can be purchased Ticket paradises cash registers and www.bilesuparadize.lv.
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