Sunday, Apr. 3, at 19.00 In Ventspils, in the concert hall “Latvija” there will be a charity concert “The night cannot last forever”, whose visitors, by purchasing a ticket, will have the opportunity to donate to war-torn Ukraine and the support of its people.
The concert “Night Can’t Last Forever” will feature songs from two major cycles of different generations and different worlds. In the introduction, listeners, both in person and online, will hear the remarkable 20th and 21st century. Ukrainian composer Valentina Silvestrova (Valentyn Silvestrov) songs from the cycle ‘Silent Songs’ (‘silent songs’ jeb ‘Silent Songs‘) performed by baritone Armands Siliņš and pianist Rihards Pleshanovs. The well-known American composer David Lang (David Lang) a five-song cycle ‘Talking Death’ (‘Death Speaks‘), which will bring together soprano Beāte Zviedre, violinist Marta Spārniņa, guitarist Kaspars Vizulis and pianist Edgars Cīrulis. The concert space in the broadest sense of the word will be created by visual artists Krista and Reinis Dzudzilo.
For the series “Silent Songs”, created between 1974 and 1977, Valentin Silvestrov has used Russian and English authors, including Yevgeny Baratinsky, Alexander Pushkin, Sergei Yesenin, John Kitts and Persia Bish Shelly, and other romantic poetry. As the composer himself, whose cycle once surprised many with its unexpected “musicality”, seriousness and sad beauty as opposed to the radicalism he had experienced before, “the main character of this cycle is poetry”. Thus, Silvestrov acknowledges the need for a reverence for poetry, allowing poetry to sing itself.
“It seems that we have always known these songs, and in a way it is. The first encounter with them will not be the first, although we will remember the first surprise of their recognition, how this feeling rises in our memories… And although we are sure that we have always known it, it is not. The songs date back to a time when composers in the Soviet Union were pushing the boundaries more and more. songs ”was once said by a musician.
David Lang created the cycle “Talking Death” ten years ago under the influence of his own pre-composed passion “The Seller of Matches”, as well as thinking about Schubert and his song “Death and the Virgin”, which was inspired by the poem of the same name by Matthias Claudius.
“I remembered the structure of Schubert’s wonderful song, in which the lyrics are in two parts. The first half of the song features the voice of a young girl praying that Death passes by without touching her, and the second is Death’s comforting answer. To me, it echoed Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Seller of Matches,” which also has these opposite things: the fear of death as opposed to the peace of death, “says David Lang about the inspiration for the cycle” Talking Death. “
In the song “Pain Changes” (‘Pain Changes‘) the phrase found is chosen by the artists Dzudzilo as the leitmotif of the Ventspils concert – “The night cannot last forever” or’The night can`t last forever’.
“This phrase signifies both the night that is now at the disposal of all our minds and people, and the faith, the knowledge that it will end one day. The day will return, even though the night has been stuck for several weeks. Night is also used as a poetic sign of suffering, and we also know that when one dies, one closes one’s eyes and darkness occurs. Darkness takes over when planes block the sun, but it can’t last forever, ”says Krista and Reinis Dzudzilo, thinking about the concert.
Tickets for the charity concert “The Night Can’t Last Forever” 3. April in Ventspils, in the concert hall “Latvija”, as well as tickets for access to the live broadcast of the concert on the Internet can be purchased in the “Biļešu Paradīze” sales network. It is important to emphasize that all revenues from ticket sales and donations voluntarily added to their purchase through the charity “Ziedot.lv” will be directed to help the people of Ukraine and go where they are most needed.
Song ‘Pain Changes’ from D. Lang’s cycle ‘Death Speaks’ or ‘Talking Death’: https://youtu.be/8cgGP6xKpA0
Concert hall “Latvija” on the Internet: www.facebook.com/latvijahall www.koncertzalelatvija.lv www.instagram.lv/latvijahall
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