“Liepāja Sounds in Rundāle Palace: A Musical Adventure with Liepāja Symphony Orchestra”

On August 5, Liepāja Symphony Orchestra invites music lovers to the annual musical adventure “Liepāja sounds in Rundāle Palace”. This year, the festival program includes three events, thematically connecting the history of culture and art from the ancient world to the present day.

In the introduction to the festival, a concert talk about the inherited and lost from the ancient world, classicism and today is expected; in continuation, the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra will perform concerts in the White Hall of Rundāle Palace, while the festival will end with a magical night concert in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Benjamin Britten.

““Sounds of Liepāja in Rundāle Palace” will start at 4 p.m In the Golden Hall of Rundāle Palace, there will be a concert talk “Ancient world and today – inherited and lost” led by music reviewer Orest Silabriež, in which art historian Imants Lancmanis will meet with philosopher Uldi Tirona. The starting point for the discussion will be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s symphony, which was arbitrarily given the name of Jupiter at the beginning of the 19th century.

In the musical interludes of the conversation, the musicians of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra – flautist Reiņas Lapa and harpist Elizabetas Lāce – will be able to hear Marcel Tournier’s preludes and François Couperin’s miniatures, as well as the premiere of Ernest Valtas Circenis’s Jaundarbs in antique style.

The musical adventure will continue at 7 p.mwhen the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Guntas Kuzmas, will conjure up the glorious world of the symphonic sounds of Johannes Brahms and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in one of the most beautiful and luxurious rooms in Rundāle Palace – the White Hall.

The concert program includes Brahms’ Concerto for Violin and Orchestra and Mozart’s 41st Symphony named after Jupiter.

As usual, a festival “Sounds of Liepāja in the Rundāle Palace” will end with a meditative concert at 10 p.m. The French Garden of Rundāle Palace will magically light up, filled with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Benjamin Britten, which will take the audience on a journey through time and space, revealing the facade of Rundāle Palace and the fountain of the French Garden in new colors and moods.

Several ambitious Liepaja Symphony Orchestra concerts are also expected in Liepaja this summer. In the concert garden “Pūt, vējini!” On July 15 at 7 p.m., the audience will be able to enjoy famous opera overtures, arias and ensembles of famous operas created by such musical greats as Giuseppe Verdi, Gioacchino Rossini, Pietro Mascagni, Gilles Massenet and Charles Gounod in a magnificent opera music concert.

Together with the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, the charming French soprano Perīna Madef, the charismatic tenor, the owner of the excellent voice Mihails Chulpajevs and the Romanian baritone Bogdans Bacu will take the stage. On the other hand, the outstanding Azerbaijani conductor Yalchins Adigezalov will take the conductor’s desk.

There, on August 26 at 7 p.m., the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, together with guitarist and composer Kaspars Zemītis, as well as singers Renārs Kauperas, Daumantas Kalniņas and Elza Rozentals, will meet in a symphonic conversation with one of the most outstanding Latvian composers – Imantas Kalniņas.

The concert will feature the original music of Kaspars Zemīš, including the upcoming premiere of the new work “Seasons”, as well as the well-known and well-loved songs of Imantas Kalniņš: “Viņi dejoja đenu vasaru”, “Akacių palags”, “Dūdieviņš”, “Elpo” and others. Ainārs Rubiķis will be at the conductor’s desk

Tickets for Liepāja Symphony Orchestra concerts are available in the “Biļešu paradīze” network https://www.bilesuparadize.lv/lv/organizer/50.

The concerts are supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, the State Cultural Capital Fund and the city of Liepāja.

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