LNSO digital concert hall concerts will be played LNSO on YouTube or through LNSO websiteby activating the “Digital Concert Hall” button.
“We are currently offering an alternative way to enjoy concerts, enabling a wide audience to watch concerts remotely in the country’s emergency. We want to stay in touch with our listeners and give positive emotions to everyone at home, so we decided to create LNSO digital concert hall,” says Indra LNSO director. Lūkina. “Already in the spring, on the first day of the emergency, the LNSO offered the intended concert Mahler Fifth and RIX online to the audience online.
The very first on November 7 LNSO YouTube The opening concert of the season was performed on the channel, the soloist of which was pianist Daumants Liepiņš, and the conductor – Andris Poga S. Prokofiev’s 2nd piano concert, Longing. Flashing. Bonding in playback.
On the offer of November 14 – at the festival LNSO summer house in August of this year in Ventspils concert hall Latvia a concert by LNSO, Raimonds Pauls and Gija Kančeli dedicated to the memory of the Georgian composer Gija Kančeli, who passed away on October 2, 2019. Both composers are friends of youth. In recent decades, they have also met on a joint music album. In the concert program: Raimonds Pauls miniatures from the piano cycle Moths In the performance of Jēkabs Jančevskis for piano and orchestra, symphonic opus by Gija Kančeli At the duduki, suite with Kanceli cinema themes for piano and orchestra selected by Raimonds Pauls, performed by Vilnius Schmidberg, suite Hanuma In the transformation of Rihards Zaļupe Xylem trio and the orchestra and other arrangements of Kancheli music by trio musicians.
Another LNSO summer house concert will follow on November 20 – LNSO, Glāss un Mjūlijs, in which the musicians of the LNSO and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Guntis Kuzma, performed works by the most famous contemporary American composers Philip Glass and Niko Michael.
November 28 – concert Tchaikovsky and Sibelius. Baltic Symphony Festival, conducted by Estonian conductor Kristīna Poska and soloist Kristīne Balanas. Program – Peter Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, composition by the new Estonian composer Lisa Hirsch Threshold and the Second Symphony of Jean Sibelius.
December 5 programs Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Rachmaninov In the recording, the public’s beloved pianist Vestards Šimkus and the LNSO will perform works by world-famous composers Peter Tchaikovsky, Edward Grieg and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Ainārs Rubiķis will be at the conductor’s desk, who has a career mainly as an opera conductor and since 2018 has been the musical director of the Berlin Comic Opera. Prior to that (2012–2014), A. Rubikis was the artistic director and chief conductor of the Novosibirsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. There, his production of Leonard Bernstein’s Mesa won the Russian Theater Prize Golden mask. Ainars Rubikis has conducted at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Barcelona High school theater, Chicago Lyrical Opera, etc. So often in Latvia the strict restrictions of Covid-19 time in Germany allowed to hear him.
The live broadcasts will be introduced by the narration of Oresta Silabriež, the editor-in-chief of the LNSO. LNSO podcasts will also continue in digital format, where twice a month LNSO artistic director and chief conductor Andris Poga and LNSO editor-in-chief Orests Silabriedis talk to a guest who is not connected with the world of music. The conversations are about music, art, philosophy and the world. The LNSO will visit the next podcast on November 23 Rimi Riga Marathon and Nords Event Communications director of the champagne festival Riga Wine & Champagne founder Aigars Nords
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