The Seventh Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, which will be interpreted by Guntis Kuzma, will end on January 21 at 7 pm at the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra (LSO), which started the popular live concert concert “Symphony Closer” started just a year ago.
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As previously reported, the concert series “Symphony Closer” is designed to introduce listeners to the cornerstones of the world’s symphonic repertoire – beautiful, classical symphonies that everyone should know.
The Seventh Symphony, composed in 1812, is a chrestomathy masterpiece, one of Beethoven’s best works – at least that is how he himself premiere it in 1813 in Vienna. In any case, it is one of his most interesting works – beautiful music with a significant slow part, which today has become almost pop music.
Music researchers call the time of the creation of this composition the happiest stage of Beethoven’s life, when the composer was mature, in love and appreciated by the audience. This is the time when Beethoven creates one masterpiece after another.
His Seventh Symphony is admired for the tremendous, vital, tumultuous energy that is embedded in it. It’s a big challenge for musicians. Peter Tchaikovsky once wrote about the structure of this symphony that it is amazing how diverse this part is.
Playing Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, LSO started this concert cycle with Guntis Kuzma, and now it will end together. Conductor and clarinetist Guntis Kuzma has clearly demonstrated his talent in front of many orchestras. He regularly collaborates with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, the Accademia Baltica, Sinfonietta Rīga, Sinfonia Concertante and others. The musician is not afraid of challenges, as evidenced by his active interest in contemporary music and the premiere of many compositions as both a clarinetist and a conductor. Guntis Kuzma received the Grand Music Award for outstanding achievements in 2018.
The “Symphony Closer” program begins with a conversation between music reviewer Orest Silabriez and the concert program’s conductor, which reveals the context of the symphony’s creation and the details of the masterpiece’s structure. After the performance of the symphony, Timur Thomson, the director of the concert hall “Lielais dzintars”, shares the impressions of the musical adventure with the regularly invited regular listeners of the orchestra.
The live broadcast of the concert will be available on the Internet as usual and will last for about an hour without a break. Free live streaming will be available for both LSO website video gallery, and the orchestra Facebook page.
All symphonies performed in the cycle so far are still freely available for viewing in the orchestra Web page video gallery.
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