In the second half of the 97th season, together with the orchestra, conductors loved and respected in Latvia – Kristina Poska, Andris Poga, Gintars Rinkēvičs, Olari Eltss, etc. – will take care of the interest of the younger generation of listeners in the concert series. A meeting with the artistic director and principal conductor of the LNSO, the young and talented Finn Tarmo Peltokoski is scheduled.
Listeners will be able to meet LNSO’s new artistic director Tarmo Peltokoski twice in Riga. on 31 March h 19.00 in concert at the Great Guild LNSO, Peltokoski, Strauss and Schnittke a symphonic poem by Richard Strauss will be performed under the direction of the conductor Don Juan, entourage Knight of Roses and the symphonic fantasy of the work A woman without a shadow as well as Alfred Schnittke’s Third Big concert. Soloists – Darja Smirnova and Georg Sarkisyan. on April 1 at 17.00, the same concert program will be heard in the concert hall Latvia in Ventspils.
Tarmo Peltokoski will return to the Great Guild stage on Friday, May 19, at 7pm at the LNSO season finale concert. Finnish soprano Anu Komsi will join the LNSO and conductor Riharda Strauss will perform in the concert program The last four songs and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony.
Central to the concert programs of the second half of the 97th season are the performances of the greats of the Romantic era – Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius, Liszt, Rachmaninov -, as well as the music of deceased colleagues – Bartok , Shostakovich, Prokofiev and other compositions .
Saturday 4 February, 5.00 pm in the concert hall cesis a concert will be performed under the guidance of conductor Olari Elts LNSO and Sibelius Violin Concerto. The soloist is violinist Paula Schumane. The program includes compositions by Jean Sibelius, Eivind Torvund and Biel Bartok. The concert is organized by the Vidzeme Concert Hall cesis.
Friday, February 10, h At 19.00 there will be a concert in the Great Guild LNSO en route to France. The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra will tour France at the end of February 2023 to perform in Paris, Aix-en-Provence and Metz. On the evening of February 10, part of the concert tour program will take place during the concert. We will see Andri Poga at the conductor’s desk.
Friday 17 February, 19.00 Musicians of the LNSO and the best saxophonists of Latvia invite you to a concert in the Great Guild LNSO and saxophonewhich will be part of the long-running festival Saxophony programs. In it, the LNSO, Riga Saxophone Quartet and saxophonist Arvīds Kazlausks will play the works of Mārtiņš Viļums, Modest Mussorgsky and Uģ Prauliņas, including premieres. Director – Jānis Stafeckis.
Friday, March 10, h At 19.00 there will be a concert in the Great Guild LNSO, Beethoven and Dvořák under the guidance of conductor Fuad Ibrahimov. The program includes Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto and Overture Egmont, as well as Antonín Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony. On the piano – the excellent domestic pianist Daumants Liepiņš.
Friday 14 April, 19.00 The musicians of the LNSO together with old friends of the orchestra – the conductor Gintars Rinkeviča and the pianist Lukas Genuš – will delight the audience in a concert at the Great Guild LNSO, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. The musicians will play a symphony by Peter Tchaikovsky Manfredi and Sergei Rachmaninov’s First Symphony.
Friday 21 April, 7.00 pm in concert at the Great Guild LNSO, Poska and Brahms the premiere of the new work by Helena Tulve, the Cello Concerto by Witold Lutoslavsky and the First Symphony by Johannes Brahms will be performed. LNSO Principal Guest Conductor Kristina Poska will appear in front of the orchestra. The solo part will be played by cellist Kristaps Berg.
Friday 28 April, 19.00 will take place in the Great Guild Anniversary concert of the Dream Team for cello LNSO. The Dream Team of LNSO Cello Group musicians has become a well-known brand in the music world, providing listeners with diverse and bright programs for many years. In 2023, the association celebrates its tenth anniversary. At the concert, not only the Dream Team – Diana Ozoliņa, Dace Zālīte-Zilberte, Ainārs Paukšēns, etc. – but also an association of different genres will take to the stage. Equanimity Trio (EQ3 or pianist Edgars Cīrulis, bassist Jānis Rubiks and drummer Rūdolfs Dankfelds).
The LNSO musicians have ensured that chamber music lovers can also indulge in brilliant adventures until the end of the season. Thursday 30 March, h At 19.00 there will be a concert in the Great Guild LNSO Chamber Music. Tommaso Pratola and Agnese Egliņa. It will contain pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei Prokofiev, Pierre Sancan and Lowell Lieberman. We will also be able to enjoy the premiere of the work by LNSO-resident composer Krista Auznieks. On stage we will see the concertmaster of the LNSO flute group Tommās Pratola and one of Latvia’s most recognized pianists, Agnes Egliņa.
Thursday 13 April, however, at 19.00 we invite you to a concert in the Great Guild LNSO Chamber Music. NYX trio. Pianist Ieva Sarja, flautist Anete Toča and violinist Tatjana Ostrovska will play works by Agnetas Krylovas, Montas Värmanes, Marinas Vidmontes, Krista Auznieks, Rihards Dubras, Jānis Lūsēns, Aivars Kalējs, Aigars Raumans and Imantas Zemzars.
The LNSO has not forgotten even the smallest music lovers. Shortly after the New Year’s celebrations, on Monday, January 2, at 16.00 In the Big Guild, the smallest listeners are invited to watch children’s musical fairy tales Cat Paw School (5+) productions. Borrowing Herbert Dorbe’s fairy tale as a literary basis It happened on Kačpediņi Avenue, the actor Artūrs Putniņš together with the LNSO musicians will lead the children on a fun adventure through the corridors of the Cat’s Paw School. On Saturday, January 21, in the Great Guild at 11.00 (in Russian) and 14.00 (in Latvian) there will be a concert LeNeSon and Weber’s Fairy Tale World under the direction of conductor Andras Vecumnieks. Clarinetist Anna Marija Kubecka and Estonian oboist Lisette Jurgenson will take the stage with her. (Lisete Jürgenson). We will also see conductor Andri Vecumniekus on Saturday 4 March at the Great Guild at 11.00 (in Russian) and 14.00 (in Latvian) at the concert Travels of LeNeSoN and Mendelssohn.
Instead, the informative and playful cycle aimed at young people and newcomers to symphonic music is back Symphonic success with Goran Gora. Thursday 23 March, h At 19.00 there will be a concert in the Great Guild Symphonic success with Goran Gora. Brahms and Hungarian dances under the guidance of conductor Kaspars Adamsons.
Tickets for LNSO’s new season concerts can be purchased at the Great Guild Box Office, Ticket havens in retail outlets, as well as on the Internet – www.bilesuparadize.lv
