On Green Thursday, April 1, at 7 pm, the chamber musicians of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO) will present the early music program “Golden Baroque” live on Latvian Radio 3 “Klasika”.
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According to the LNSO representatives, the concert will feature harpsichordists Ieva Saliete, bassoonist Jānis Semjonovs, violinist Sandis Šteinbergs, double bassist Oskars Bokanovs, as well as flutist Maija Zandbergs. Their performance will include works by baroque music composers Teleman, Bodeker, Plati and Eclips.
The concert will feature baroque music, including opuses by Georg Friedrich Telman. Telemann is one of the most popular and well-known composers of his time, along with Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and Georg Friedrich Handel. For most of his life he lived in Hamburg, where he was responsible for the musical life of several churches. Dozens of operas, passions, concerts and also great chamber music works can be found in the composer’s works.
The participants of the concert are excellent baroque music performers. Ieva Saliete has given new life to harpsichord in Latvian concert life. She is widely known not only in Latvia, but also abroad, participating in solo and chamber music projects in Germany and Switzerland, as well as being the harpsichordist of the Bern Early Music Orchestra Les Passions de l’Ame. Ieva Saliete has received the Grand Music Award 2017 “For outstanding work in the ensemble”. Jānis Semjonovs has been the concertmaster of the LNSO bassoon group since 2009. Thanks to the performances of baroque music, Semyonov was nominated for the Grand Music Prize in 2011 in the nomination “For Outstanding Work in the Ensemble”.
Sandis Šteinbergs has been the concertmaster of the LNSO violin group I for more than 17 years. Since 2013, he has been performing as a guest concertmaster, collaborating with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Tampere Symphony Orchestra and the Norwegian ensemble Bit-20. Double bass virtuoso Oskar Bokanov has won laurels in international competitions in Holice, Wroclaw, Brno and elsewhere. His daily life is spent as a concertmaster of the LNSO double bass group. At one time, Oskars was a musician of the Latvian National Opera and Ballet Orchestra, he also played in the Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra, where he played with Gidon Kremer, Marta Argeric, Miša Maiski, Mario Brunello and many others. Flutist Maija Zandberg, on the other hand, graduated from the Maastricht Academy of Music with Professor Philip Benou, and has been performing regularly with the LNSO since 2015.
It will be possible to watch the concert recording later at the LNSO On the YouTube channel – as well as on the portal Diva.lv.
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