Liepāja Symphony Orchestra with Andrejs Osokins will give concerts in Jelgava and Liepāja
Riga, September 24, LETA. On October 16 at 7 pm in Jelgava Culture House and on October 17 at 6 pm in Liepāja Concert Hall “Lielais dzintars” Liepāja Symphony Orchestra conducted by Guntis Kuzma will give concerts together with pianist Andrejs Osokins, LETA was informed by Iveta Vēvere, Head of Public Relations of Liepāja Symphony Orchestra.
The concert program will include works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Rachmaninoff, as well as the premiere of Juris Carlson’s work.
Squirrel said that the concert will be opened by Beethoven’s musically expressive overture “Egmonts”, which was created at a time when Europe was shaken by the Napoleonic Wars and the dominance of the French Empire. In this opus, the composer expresses his position against the processes taking place around him and the oppression of people.
Osokin together with the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra will be heard in one of Rachmaninov’s most frequently played opuses – the Third Piano Concerto. It is rightly called one of the most difficult piano concerts, which requires impeccable technique and musicality from the performer. Osokins, the winner of the Latvian Grand Music Prize, has won laurels in the most important piano competitions in the world. Among the highlights of the last concert seasons were a return to the Berlin Philharmonic with Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, a performance with the Kremerata Baltica at the Alte Oper Concert Hall in Frankfurt, a visit to the legendary Berlin Concerto at the Concerto in Berlin
At the suggestion of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra and conductor Guntis Kuzma, Carlson has created a suite for his 2017 ballet “Antonija # Silmači”, which was performed at the Latvian National Opera in 2018 under the direction of Aivars Leimanis. The ballet is inspired by Blaumanis ‘play “Tailors’ Day in Silmači”, and its central image is Antonija, whose thirsty heart longs for real and true fulfillment. In continuous symphonic development, the suite features fragments of both acts of ballet.
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