On the third advent, or on December 17, as part of Euroradio’s Christmas Day, 13 concerts will be performed in “Klasika”, and this year Latvia will offer a concert organized by the “Latvija” concert hall in cooperation with Latvijas Radio 3 “Klasika” for the BBC-monitored concert series.
At 4 p.m., listeners will have the opportunity to experience this beautiful event in person – in the Ventspils concert hall “Latvija”, on the LR3 “Klasika” wave, and on the programs of many European broadcast stations. Through “Klasikas” and Euroradio, this concert will be broadcast in 14 countries. The concert will be broadcast live in Germany (Hesse, Bavaria, West German Radio (Cologne) and Central German Radio (Leipzig)), Estonia, Denmark, Greece, Great Britain, Spain, Lithuania and, of course, Latvia, while the concert will soon be offered in recording format by German Culture Radio ( Berlin), Canada, Romania, Norway, Bulgaria, Iceland and Austria.
The State Chamber Orchestra will take part in the concert Sinfonietta Riga, organist Liene Andreta Kalnciema and pianist Daumants Liepiņš and conductor Normunds Shne. In the program – Georg Friedrich Handel’s Concerto for Organ and Chamber Orchestra op. 4 no. 6, Alfred Kalniņš’s “Christmas Lullaby” for solo organ, Franz Liszt’s “March of the Three Wise Men” and “Lighting the Christmas Tree” from the piano cycle “Christmas Tree”, Georg Friedrich Handel’s Concerto grosso from the oratorio “Alexander’s Feast” for orchestra, but the main event in this concert program will be New work by Rihards Dubras Christmas concert (“Christmas concertino”) for piano and chamber orchestra, world premiere. The soloist in this piece will be Daumants Liepiņš, but with the author of the work Rihardu Dubra we are already meeting at the “Klasikas” studio.
“I’m more interested in mysticism… We have a lot of joy, Christmas morning joy, but I’m more interested in what happens the night before – how that child is born, because there are also certain difficulties and problems… Well, a small portion of joy there will be anyway!” says Rihards Dubra about his new work, revealing more in the course of the conversation Christmas concert idea.
The composer also talks about his collaboration with the orchestra Sinfonietta Riga and Daumanta Liepiņa, about his other Christmas opus and the moods that prevail in them; about the piano music cycle created in the summer for Reinis Zariņa, which will be played during the suffering, about work in Ventspils, schoolchildren and Christmas time thoughts.
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2023-12-12 21:20:55
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