New music days will end with new works by Mārtiņš Viļums and Linda Leimane / Article / LSM.lv

Within the framework of the festival “Latvian New Music Days 2021”, on April 17, the concert program “Ligeti. Time Waves” will be played online, but the closing concert “Leimane, Viļums, Grizē” will be performed on April 29, the Latvian Composers’ Union informed.

The concerts of the festival are called foot concerts this year, because it is possible to watch the live broadcast anywhere, also outside the home, and the composers themselves recommend places to listen to their concerts.

In the concert program “Ligeti. Waves of Time ”will be performed by Anna Ķirse, Oskars Herliņš and Armands Skuķis in the interpretation of the Sinfonietta Rīga String Quartet.

Anna Ķirse recommends listening to her composition “Mundus Invisibilis” underground to be closer to the mushroom network, from which the composer was inspired by her work. If this is not possible, the composition will also fit into a walk in the woods or at home. Oskars Herliņš encourages listening to the work “Block Buster” by splitting firewood, which inspired him to create a composition.

At the end of the festival, on April 29, the premiere of the monumental chamber music opus “Vortex Temporum” by the French composer Gerard Grisey in Latvia and new works for the orchestra by Latvian composers Mārtiņš Viļums and Linda Leimane with reflections on musical space will be performed.

Linda Leimane recommends listening to this concert in a wide and open field – not too wooded swamp or open field with a couple of oaks in the distance, feeling the ground under your feet, the rainbow shape and colors of the composition.

The core of the festival “Latvian New Music Days 2021” consists of several concert programs, the center of which is a masterpiece of the 20th century, a masterpiece that has changed the paths of music development. Steve Reich’s “Piano Phase”, Gergs Ligeti’s Second String Quartet and Gerard Grizze’s “Vortex Temporum” have been sources of inspiration for new works by Latvian composers who contextualize, refer to, meditate on the poetic and technological aspects of these works, the organizers said.

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